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Dr Mark Westmoquette: Zen, Astrophysics and Pop-Up Planetaria
From Astrophysics to Mindfulness — Dr Mark Westmoquette
What happens when a scientist trained to understand the universe turns his attention inwards?
Astrophysicist, then Zen teacher and author Mark Westmoquette joins MEATSUITS to talk about a life that has moved through academia, astronomy, Zen practice, pilgrimage and back into the everyday world.
We talk about the cosmos and how we are IN the stars, rather than looking up at them. We discuss what happens when intellectual understanding is no longer enough, and hear about Mark’s extraordinary experience of walking through the UK in monk’s robes with a begging bowl and nowhere booked to sleep.
At the heart of it is a question that runs throughout MEATSUITS: what happens when what you know begins to change how you actually live?
About Mark
Mark Westmoquette is an astrophysicist, Zen teacher and author of The Mindful Universe. His work brings together scientific curiosity, contemplative practice and our capacity for wonder — from exploring the night sky to exploring the nature of our own experience.
Mark hosts Mindful Stargazing events and retreats, all of which are available via his website.
Find Mark:
Website: markwestmoquette.co.uk
Instagram/socials: @mindfulstargazing
Read Mark:
The Mindful Universe
Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers
Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People
Look Up at Bedtime
18 Sept 2026
6: WELLBEING is ADAPTATION!
What happens to well-being when life refuses to cooperate?
Health changes.
Happiness fluctuates.
Relationships fracture.
Meaning can disappear overnight. Some changes we accommodate; others are seismic enough to break the life we thought we had.
In the final episode of our Being Well series, we explore Adaptation — not as relentless resilience or another demand to “cope better”, but as our ability to respond to what has actually happened, including the things we would never have chosen.
The action of life IS ADAPTATION !
Because if well-being only works when life is going well, what use is it?
THE BEING WELL TOOLKIT
After six episodes investigating health, pleasure, happiness, meaning, connection and adaptation, we don’t want to give you our answer to what it means to be well.
Instead, we’ve created a framework for having that conversation with yourself.
Start analytically: How do I measure this area of my life? What evidence am I using? Are those measures still valid? What is within my influence — and what simply isn’t?
Then make it personal. What is my relationship with this part of my life now? How has it changed? What contributed to that? What does it need from me now? And what relationship would I like to have with it going forward?
Finally, take it to the journal. What assumptions am I carrying? What have I outgrown? What am I resisting? What am I learning? And, if I’m completely honest with myself, what most needs to be said today?
Use it once a year. Use it every six months. Use it when something changes.The point isn’t to arrive at our conclusions. It’s to examine your own.
11 Sept 2026
WELLBEING & Meaning
Wellbeing isn’t a single ‘thing’. POWERFUL YOU is a combination...
YES your Health improves.
YES your life fills with pleasure.
YES your happiness flows freely..
YES you increase confidence via connection.
In this deep dive series, we have seen that contentment and peace expands in our lives through a more detailed examination of the word wellbeing.
This episode takes us to the realm of meaning. The deepest of our inner beliefs, so deep in fact, it requires a bit of digging to find.
There is a real wellbeing access point in getting to know your self: accepting what is real for you and where culture and social pressures dictate what you ‘ideally’ or ‘ought’ to value.
Listen in and find out how meaning might be at the root of change. Awakening to who you really are is a gift that should not be judged. Allow yourself to be the brilliant person you are!
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