The Person You Want to Be, with Eric Teplitz

Ep. 22: Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, and "Practicing Human", Cory Muscara

April 18, 2023 Eric Teplitz / Cory Muscara Season 2 Episode 22
The Person You Want to Be, with Eric Teplitz
Ep. 22: Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher, and "Practicing Human", Cory Muscara
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As a college student, Cory Muscara was headed toward a career in business/finance.

One day, however, he had an experience that stopped him in his tracks and made him question not only his career path but the point of life itself.

Around the same time, he stumbled into experimenting with meditation.

This eventually led to a serious deep dive in which he meditated for 14 hours every day for over six months straight in a Buddhist monastery in Burma.

When he returned home, he had to figure out how to integrate all he had learned into the myriad challenges and complexities of everyday life in the modern world.

Please enjoy my interview with the thoughtful, articulate, and wise Cory Muscara!

Cory Muscara Links:
Instagram: @corymuscara (https://www.instagram.com/corymuscara/)
Podcast ("Practicing Human"): https://practicinghuman.buzzsprout.com/
Book ("Stop Missing Your Life"): https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Missing-Your-Life-Present/dp/0738285307/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1681327012&sr=8-1
Website: https://corymuscara.com/

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The Person You Want to Be intro
Introducing Cory Muscara
Childhood inclinations
An encounter at the NYSE sparks an existential crisis
"The spiritual waiting room"
An entryway into meditation
How Cory ended up in Burma
The appeal of difficulty
Gaining admittance to the monastery
A detailed account of the training
The challenge of bringing what was learned in Burma back into the "real world"
What Cory learned from many additional modalities and trainings
A hypothetical elevator pitch for mindfulness
Distinguishing between the soul's voice and the ego's
Cory's answer to who he wants to be now