#19 The Mind of Skill, Part 5: Skill in Buddhism - Jay L. Garfield on ethics, perception, and spontaneity in Buddhist practice

The present podcast is the fifth and last episode in a podcast-series, which we have named ‘The Mind of Skill’. As the name indicates, this series investigates the more mental dimensions of skill—it does so by interviewing a line of current experts. Besides being of interest in itself, the nature of skill is related to more general questions of human existence. For example, many of the ancient Greek philosophers saw a clear link between virtue and skill: according to them, virtuou...