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Interview · André Duqum · 2025Former Monk: “Stop Missing Your Life!” Here’s the Key To Lasting Happiness | Cory Muscara

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Interview

Former Monk: “Stop Missing Your Life!” Here’s the Key To Lasting Happiness | Cory Muscara

A two-hour conversation on the Know Thyself podcast in which Muscara traces his six months as a Theravada monk in Burma and what it taught him about presence, self-worth and the limits of self-improvement.

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Mindfulness After the Monastery

Cory Muscara

Former Theravada monk who spent six months in silence in Burma and now teaches mindfulness in plain language to a very large audience, from Columbia lecture halls to corporate boardrooms.

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