Being with Being

About Being with Being

Philosophy, contemplative practice, and the physics of nature's flow — for finding your own way. For those who don't need the added pressure of another's way, but are curious about ways of understanding, perceiving, and living that mesh with each other — and that only you can make your own. Each episode is a complete live recording — typically around two hours — opening with a 15-30 minute inquiry into the session's theme, moving into an hour-long guided practice, and closing with comments and discussion. These explorations grew from years of my own searching — trying to fit into practices that promised relief, never quite finding home in any tradition, and stumbling upon a rational basis for getting traction on ways I don't have to try. As your fellow explorer, I'm Mackenzie Hawkins — researcher in philosophy of physics, contemplative practitioner, and co-author of several books with physicist and Tai Chi Master Dr. Wonchull Park. Drawing from his nowflow philosophy, these series-based explorations use philosophy and physics as ways of understanding and perceiving what's here already. Not ways to follow, but ways that might help you find your own — for anyone looking to explore beyond the pressures we put on ourselves.

Publisher

Mackenzie Hawkins

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Aug 2025

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Hot and cold flavors - Expeditions into Boredom

   For the first two sessions, I was really, really wanting to embrace the uninterestingness of boredom. Give us a chance to get good and thoroughly bored. And I think today my curiosity is just a little bit getting the better of me. So this might be a little bit of an exploration of types of boredom. As I’ve often said, boredom is not quite the right word for this, and yet it’s pointing at something — pointing at the constancy, the way we can often relate to something that is ever-present. Con...

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   16 Oct 2026

   Before, during, after same - Expeditions into Boredom

   As I thought about today’s session, I realized that I was a little bit nervous about being boring. Even though it’s expeditions into boredom, like, well, what if, what if today I’m actually boring? So setting that aside, I felt like — well, we never step exactly into the same river twice. That part of letting ourselves more fully soak in the monotony, soak in the unconditionedness of these underlying qualities of nature, can be that we actually just repeat as much as possible what we did las...

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   8 Oct 2026

   Unconditional peace is so monotonous - Expeditions into Boredom

   Expeditions into Boredom Series Let's explore our personal frontiers of un-drama in the monotony of nature's flow. Over the course of an hour, how might I attain a depth of boredom that's a new personal record? What if we got really curious about what's ongoing, ever-present, and seemingly... boring? Monotonous can feel boring. If I'm curious about boredom, can I actually *be* bored? Let's see! [Recorded live in 2025 - one that I return to in my own practice] Thank you for Being w...

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