290: The Immense Power of Giving a Crap | Election Sanity Series | Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Do you remember that band, The Shins? They had a popular song that appeared on the soundtrack for that Zach Braff movie Garden State. Anyway, they also had a song called “Caring is Creepy.” I always thought that was kinda funny. In this episode, however, we’re going to establish that not only is caring not creepy, it’s also not — as many people fear— a sign of weakness. Caring, or having compassion, for other people— or for yourself— is a baller move. It takes courage, and it gives you courage. Particularly during this dumpster fire of a presidential election. This is part two of our special “election sanity” series. The series is built around a classic Buddhist list, called the Four Brahma Viharas. These are four allegedly heavenly states of mind. Don’t worry about the seeming grandiosity; it’s all, as I said last week, very down to earth. You can think of these four mind states as mental skills that are powerful correctives against the vitriol that characterizes the modern political scene. Last week, we talked about the first Brahma Vihara, called metta, or loving kindness— or, as I prefer, friendliness. This week, it’s compassion. My guest is the Rev. angel Kyodo williams. She’s the second black woman to be recognized as a teacher in the Japanese Zen lineage and author of such books as Radical Dharma and Being Black. Where to find Rev. angel Kyodo williams online: Website: https://angelkyodowilliams.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zenchangeangel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zenchangeangel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenchangeangel/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZenChangeAngel To help you get the most out of this series, we're launching an email guide. It will recap all of the podcast episodes each week. It’ll include helpful tidbits such as key terms and concepts; highlights from the immense wisdom our guests bring us around concepts like compassion, equanimity, kindness... and we’ll link to relevant meditations and talks in the TPH app. Just like the podcast, this guide is free. You can sign up for it at tenpercent.com/guide. May you find it fruitful. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/rev-angel-290 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Okay, before we get started with today's episode, I want to let you know about some very
0:05.2	cool programming cool, at least in my opinion, that we're going to run during the month of
0:09.3	May.
0:10.5	Every Monday, during the month of May, we're going to talk to a bold face name, a famous
0:15.4	person about what their inner lives are like.
0:19.2	Really all the people you're going to hear from are willing to spill their guts and say
0:22.6	some fascinating things that are both fascinating and also, I think, useful.
0:27.8	So the series starts on Monday, May 1st.
0:29.7	We're going to kick it off with the actor and long time Buddhist practitioner Michael
0:34.0	Imperioli, who you might remember from the sopranos and the white lotus.
0:38.1	He's quite a serious Buddhist practitioner and I would even say teacher.
0:42.1	Then the following Monday on May 8th, it's Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, author
0:45.9	and speaker who's going to talk about having a cosmic perspective on life.
0:51.5	After that, it's Mike D from the Beastie Boys, one of my all time favorite human beings and
0:55.9	artists and he really comes to play.
0:58.0	Then we finish it all up with May and the Alec, actor, neuroscientist and co-host of
1:02.9	Jeopardy.
1:04.4	So it's a big month.
1:05.6	However, if you're not the type of person who likes celebs, we've got you covered because
1:10.3	on Wednesdays during the month of May, we're going to go deep Dharma.
1:14.5	We're going to be digging into a classic foundational Buddhist list called the Eightfold Path.
1:21.6	This is kind of like the Buddha's eight-step recipe for a good life and we're going to divide
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