Editor’s note: This episode comes from Office PantrySeason 2, Episode 24, first released on July 24, 2023.

1. What is “quiet quitting”?

2. Reflections on the film Chang’an San Wan Li

3. What is university actually for, and what did your professors teach you?

4. When people say they have finally “made it ashore,” what shore have they reached?

5. How can Buddhist thought help ease anxiety?

6. The final class: a few heartfelt words from the teachers

Nina: HR at Pfizer China

Duan Zhiqiang: associate researcher at Fudan University’s National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and one of the writers of Vistopia’s series A Global History from China, and presenter of A History of Travel in the Silver Age

Cheng Qing: associate professor in the Department of History at Shanghai University and presenter of Vistopia’s Life’s Troubles, Answered: 40 Lessons on Buddhism