3 Buddhist Strategies for When the News is Overwhelming | Kaira Jewel Lingo
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A former nun explains how to deal with doom-scrolling, despair, and rage in the face of world events.
Kaira Jewel Lingo spent fifteen years as a monastic in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition. She is now a lay dharma teacher and is the author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to stop doom-scrolling and what to do instead
- Why it's more important, not less, to take care of yourself in times of crisis
- How to take concrete action that reduces suffering
- Stories and lessons from the life of Thich Nhat Hanh
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, a lot of people have been wondering how to keep it together in the face of the relentless and really horrifying headlines out of the Middle East. |
| 0:27.0 | Never mind all the other headlines coming at us from all over the world. |
| 0:31.0 | So on our side during this period of time, we've been wondering |
| 0:34.9 | how we can help you deal with all of this. So today we're going to do a kind of experimental |
| 0:41.1 | episode where we're going to lay out three Buddhist |
| 0:43.2 | strategies for handling all of the doom scrolling and despair. |
| 0:47.2 | You're going to be hearing from a great meditation teacher by the name of Kyra-Jule-Lingo, |
| 0:52.0 | who spent 15 years as a nun in the Tichnathan Plum Village tradition. |
| 0:56.8 | She's been on this show before, so you might be familiar with her. |
| 0:59.6 | You're also going to hear from DJ Kashmir, our senior producer on the show, |
| 1:03.6 | and it's all coming up after this quick break. |
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| 1:15.6 | How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills? |
| 1:26.0 | I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears, the need to know. |
| 1:30.0 | How do I know? |
| 1:32.0 | Because I'm living with cancer too. |
| 1:34.0 | That's why I join the McMillan online community. |
| 1:37.0 | And we can help people like you, whatever you need to ask. |
| 1:41.0 | To join us, search Macmillan online community. |
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