495: Why Is Everyone Talking About the Enneagram? And What the Hell Is It? | Susan Piver

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

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the last couple of years, many people have been extolling the virtues of something called the "Enneagram" but—what the hell is it?

On today’s show, longtime dharma teacher, Susan Piver, is here to demystify it. As she explains, the Enneagram is a tool that allows people to figure out their personality type and says it has been one of, if not the most important, tool in her personal development.

Piver has been a student of Buddhism since 1995, graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004 and was authorized to teach meditation in 2005. In 2012, she founded The Open Heart Project— the world’s largest online-only meditation center. She’s written ten books including her latest called The Buddhist Enneagram: Nine Paths to Warriorship.

In this episode we talk about:

What the Enneagram is and why Piver finds it so helpful
What she means by warriorship
The nine personality types, which she views as maps of our blind spots
Why, unlike other personality systems, there is no test for the Enneagram (at least in Susan’s view)
And we talk about why Susan thinks the Enneagram and Buddhism mix so well even though on first blush it would seem to contradict the dharmic emphasis on the self being an illusion

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Dan Harris.
0:09.0	Hey, everybody.
0:11.8	Just in the last couple of years, I've been hearing so many people in my personal and
0:16.7	professional lives.
0:18.4	I'm talking about friends, colleagues, meditation teachers.
0:21.2	I've been hearing so many people extol the virtues of something called the Enneagram.
0:27.4	These are serious people who I trust and respect, and they've been telling me that the Enneagram,
0:31.2	whatever that is, has genuinely changed their lives.
0:35.2	In these conversations, I would often nod along genuinely intrigued, but too embarrassed
0:39.8	to admit that I actually had no idea what they were talking about.
0:43.6	Now I do, though.
0:44.6	TPH fan favorite Susan Piver, a long time Dharma teacher, has a new book about the overlap
0:49.9	between Buddhism and the Enneagram, and she's here to explain.
0:54.9	So what the hell is the Enneagram?
0:56.8	You may be asking.
0:58.1	I'm going to let Susan explain it in detail, but basically it's a tool with a mysterious
1:02.9	and murky history that allows people to figure out their personality type.
1:08.1	I'm definitely not doing it justice, but Susan will.
1:10.6	In fact, she says the Enneagram has been one of, if not the most important tools in her
1:14.9	own personal development, and that is saying something.
1:18.1	For those of you who don't know, Susan has been a student of Buddhism since 1995.
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