In this episode, meditation teacher and composer Jason Campbell shares profound insights on breath, presence, and true mastery. With over 100 meditation albums and decades of teaching experience, Jason reframes meditation—not as "mindfulness practice," but as the art of presence, releasing suffering, and transmuting energy into power.
We explore the roots of suffering through resistance and attachment, the Zen philosophy of creating space, and why breath is the foundation of all mastery. Jason also reveals how polarity drives both business models and human struggle, why disease is about coexistence rather than opposition, and the single practice that transforms everything.
Key Timestamps
0:00 – Why meditation matters for entrepreneurs
3:30 – Gut wisdom vs. monkey mind
5:00 – Buddha's definition of enlightenment: removal of suffering
7:00 – Resistance, attachment, judgment – the roots of suffering
10:00 – The Zen riddle of the sword: cutting to create space
12:30 – Before and after enlightenment: chop wood, carry water
14:30 – Impermanence and ownership
16:00 – Consciousness, matter & energy – the Holy Trinity
20:00 – God, polarity, and the danger of extremes
23:00 – Why opposition creates business models (and suffering)
25:00 – Disease, coexistence, and the immune system
29:30 – Breath as the foundation of mastery
34:00 – Good meditation vs. bad meditation: only presence
38:30 – Emotional mastery: anger, joy, and transmutation
42:00 – Vibration, manifestation, and attraction
47:00 – Mastery: the one practice that changes everything
50:00 – Advice Jason would give his younger self
52:00 – Mastery in entrepreneurship: speed vs. perfection
"The point of meditation isn't to work harder at being mindful—it's simply to be present. Presence doesn't happen tomorrow. It only happens now." - Jason Campbell
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