The Way Out is In podcast series features conversations between journalist and lay friend Jo Confino and Plum Village monastic Brother Phap Huu, alongside other guests. These meditations conclude each episode with practice contemplations on the theme.
Music: From the song "Be Still" by Plum Village friend Joe Holtaway - find out more about Joe here: joeholtaway.com. Joe is happy to hear from you :).
#48 Humility In Service: In this instalment, Brother Phap Huu and Jo discuss humility. What price do we pay for our fame-obsessed societies? Can humility be a great power? How do we show up in the world? What is it "to be enough" in the world? And how did Thay handle fame and other famous people?
These dimensions are discussed with help from Buddhist teachings; Thich Nhat Hanh’s practices and the hosts’ personal life stories, giving us a flavour of experiences of fame, but also the power of humility in service to life.
Among other subjects, Brother Phap Huu delves further into inferiority, superiority, and equality complexes and Jo examines humility in leadership.
The episode ends with this short meditation guided by Brother Phap Huu:
"Breathing in, I see myself as a drop of water letting go into this river...breathing out, I am one with the river".