Pema Wangel became a Buddhist monk in Nepal at seventeen. Twenty years later, he sometimes still catches himself comparing his life to the people running countries and companies.

In this conversation: what the monastic life actually teaches you, the Buddhist principles, about luck, purpose, the reason an ex-monk in Kathmandu chose to leave for love, and a surprisingly simple answer to what it takes to live a meaningful life.

(0:00) Intro

(2:04) The Monk Whose Path Began With Revenge

(5:32) Why He Became a Monk at Seventeen

(13:11) Monklife: More Peaceful, More Responsibility

(15:27) Buddhism, a way of living

(20:02) Why Isn't One Life Enough?

(31:56) The Trap of Comparison

(38:35) Is Comparison Ego?

(42:10) Karma, Explained

(55:23) When Do I Know If My Mind Is Broken?

(1:06:01) Buddhism Built the World's First Universities

(1:09:11) Becoming the Bridge Between Two Worlds

(1:12:38) One Question for the Universe

(1:16:09) What It Takes to Live a Meaningful Life

Recorded at Tergar Osel Ling Monastery, Kathmandu.

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Most people have never met an Aghori. The few who have heard the word know it through the scary version: ash, cremation grounds, eating human flesh. So I went to Varanasi and asked Sadhu Ji to tell it in his own words.

He was born in this city and started his spiritual path at an early age, renouncing society and living on the streets for years to detach from everything

In this episode:

• What an Aghori actually is and how life can be like.
• What he believes happens when we die, and why he is not afraid of it
• The teaching he lives by and his daily routine that

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Thank you to the Agor Foundation for making this possible.

Du kannst reflektiert sein, „viel gemacht haben“ — und trotzdem innerlich allein bleiben.

In dieser Folge bringt Magdalena Salvato genau dafür Sprache — und eine klare These: Oft ist es nicht die nächste innere Schraube. Oft fehlt Gemeinschaft.

Wir sprechen über Super-Autonomie (die oft wie Stärke aussieht, aber einsam macht), über die Scham, Hilfe zu brauchen, und darüber, wie man Gefühle wirklich fühlt, ohne von ihnen überrollt zu werden.

3 Dinge, die du aus der Folge mitnimmst

• Warum „Ich sollte glücklich sein, aber etwas fühlt sich off an“ oft ein Hinweis auf fehlende Verbindung ist.

• Ein pragmatisches Bild für Emotionen: Du bist das Flussbett, nicht die Flut.

• Eine andere Definition von Stärke: nicht alles allein, sondern getragen, ehrlich, in Kontakt

Gast: Magdalena Salvato — https://www.salvato-seminare.de/ | https://www.instagram.com/magdalena.salvato/
Host: Robin Leo Hoffmann — https://www.instagram.com/robinlehoff/ | https://substack.com/@robinlehoff
Ort: Finca Argayall, La Gomera — https://www.instagram.com/finca.argayall/

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