gentle—noise

This episode explores the gap between understanding an idea and actually embodying it. Through the lens of meditation and Buddhist practice, we explore why we can intellectually understand things like impermanence, attention and suffering for years before they begin to change how we live. A reflection on practice, repetition, and the slow movement from information into lived experience.

Tracey Ryans helped build the rooms New York goes out in: La Esquina, The Box, NeuHouse, the relaunch of Soho House. He also had a life changing experience in Vipassana and would eventually go on to become a teacher. We talk about losing his mother young and treating that loss as fuel rather than something to hide, the years he spent fluent in the language of practice without doing the practice, how the same bad moment can play as comedy or horror, and why Coltrane's "Olé" still makes him cry.

The gentle—noise podcast. Conversations on how we live, what we believe, and what gives our lives meaning - in this crazy, beautiful, and brave world. Hosted by Manoj Dias.  10.20, wherever you listen. Video @okdeonEditor @osment.movCreative Director @manojdias_Music @ericvanthyne