Half Life Show
9: Sampath Krishna: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Adventure
Sampath Krishna takes Subu and Vikram on a story-telling trip to the Arctic and back, describing his encounters on the way, and explains what it means to take on a motorcycle ride of massive proportions. Always a traveler, and never a tourist - Sampath talks about the solitude of long rides, the journey into the inner self, and about exploration and discovery - in foreign lands, or within oneself.
Chapters
00:00 Intro and Follow-up from The Giving Tree
03:41 Motorcycle ride to the Arctic Ocean
08:04 Avenging the last journey to the Arctic
11:59 Being rescued and de-risking the ride
15:50 How Sampath got into Motorcyle rides
20:15 Planning vs Overplanning Travel
26:15 Long way round, Long way down
31:07 What is Vipassana, how does it work?
34:49 Role of Silence in Vipassana
39:23 Meditation and Influence on the Self
41:52 Managing conditioned responses
44:05 Retaining realization of the Self
50:12 Finding the balance
56:34 Wrap up
Links
- Full Transcript
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
- Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their Bike Adventures
- Long Way Up
- Long Way Round
- Long Way Down
- Adventure Rider
- Horizons Unlimited
- Vipassana Meditation
- 17 minutes of meditation
- Bullet Journal
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Sampath Krishna takes Subu and Vikram on a story-telling trip to the Arctic and back, describing his encounters on the way, and explains what it means to take on a motorcycle ride of massive proportions. Always a traveler, and never a tourist - Sampath talks about the solitude of long rides, the journey into the inner self, and about exploration and discovery - in foreign lands, or within oneself.
Chapters
00:00 Intro and Follow-up from The Giving Tree
03:41 Motorcycle ride to the Arctic Ocean
08:04 Avenging the last journey to the Arctic
11:59 Being rescued and de-risking the ride
15:50 How Sampath got into Motorcyle rides
20:15 Planning vs Overplanning Travel
26:15 Long way round, Long way down
31:07 What is Vipassana, how does it work?
34:49 Role of Silence in Vipassana
39:23 Meditation and Influence on the Self
41:52 Managing conditioned responses
44:05 Retaining realization of the Self
50:12 Finding the balance
56:34 Wrap up
Links
- Full Transcript
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
- Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their Bike Adventures
- Long Way Up
- Long Way Round
- Long Way Down
- Adventure Rider
- Horizons Unlimited
- Vipassana Meditation
- 17 minutes of meditation
- Bullet Journal
Let's Get Social
Let's Get Social