Rev Syd is joined by Tanny Jiraprapasuke, a Thai Buddhist chaplain, to explore how loneliness might be a practice of liberation. The host reads Amir Rabiyah’s poem “Grand Design” to frame liberation as moments of awe and spaciousness beyond language. Tanny describes loneliness across various life stages, including grief, and reframes loneliness as a doorway to connection and acceptance of nature’s cycles. They discuss form and not-form, non-attachment, chaplaincy as accompaniment without bypassing suffering, the loneliness “epidemic,” and practicing liberation locally through ripple effects, ending with the poem reread.

• The wisdom to be found in befriending nature
• Loneliness as a ‘Both-And’ experience
• Spaciousness As Liberation
• Chaplaincy Without Bypassing
• Liberation Amid Global Suffering
• Choosing Stillness Over Fixing

About Tanny Jiraprapasuke

Rutdow "Tanny" Jiraprapasuke is an ordained Buddhist Chaplain, writer, documentary filmmaker, and educator who holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Her published work includes "Hyphenated-American" in The Buddhist Door and "How I Transformed Rage into Compassion" in Lion's Roar, and she writes "The Third Ear Journal" on Substack, exploring Buddhism, identity, and storytelling. A second-generation Thai-American, she offers spiritual care through Happy Turtle Creative and has produced numerous short films centering the Asian-American experience. She teaches mindful meditation across communities in Los Angeles, where she remains close to her Thai-Buddhist roots, using writing and film to tell stories that bring us closer to the human experience.

The poem “Grand Design” by Amir Rabiyah can be found in Writing Down the Walls: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices (ed. Amir Rabiyah, Helen Klonaris) 2015

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