Relatively Nobody
Conversations in service of representing the underrepresented. Hosted by chosen sisters, activists, artists, and anti-racists Zulaikha and Gia, Relatively Nobody gives voice to people, ideas, and art that have been erroneously dismissed. The conversations center around the experience of universal human emotions, hard truths, paradoxes, and a call to remain open to new understandings. Music credit: Eliot Johnson
Relatively Nobody
Bonus: Mudita (Joy)
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Relatively Nobody
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Season 1
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Episode 5
Zulaikha and Gia talk about mudita, or sympathetic joy, in the context of how we are socialized into an individualistic culture. Mudita, which is delighting in the happiness of others, is one of the four immeasurables (or limitless qualities) in Buddhist psychology, which are qualities you can cultivate through concentration. These qualities allow you to expand and grow inward, and include equanimity, compassion, loving kindness, as well as mudita.