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Free Thinking: Festival 2017

Haemin Sunim

Christopher Harding

Rana Mitter

Luke Mulhall

Free Thinking: Festival 2017: Episode 12: An interview with Haemin Sunim

An interview with Haemin Sunim

Episode 12

Episode 12: An interview with Haemin Sunim

Festival 2017

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Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist meditation teacher, on calm in a fast-paced 21st-century world.

Before an audience at Sage Gateshead, Rana Mitter explores east and west, and calm in a fast-paced world with author Haemin Sunim and New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding.

'Is it the world that's busy, or is it my mind?'

Haemin Sunim, the multi-million selling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, discusses East and West and calm in a fast-paced world with New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding and presenter Rana Mitter. 

Born to Korean-American parents and educated at Harvard, Haemin Sunim is known for books, podcasts and a popular YouTube series exploring Buddhism in the 21st century. He studied at UC Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton before receiving formal monastic training in Korea and teaching Buddhism at Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. He has more than a million followers on Twitter and Facebook and now lives in Seoul.

Christopher Harding, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, is a cultural historian of modern Japan, India and the UK with a particular interest in religion and spirituality, philosophy and mental health, based at the University of Edinburgh. He also runs a blog, The Boredom Project.

Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

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Series of events from the 2017 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the speed of life'

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