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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Enough-ness and the Hungry Ghost, Narayan Liebenson

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Most kids are not spending their time in solitude exploring the abilities of the mind. In that way, Narayan Liebenson was not like most kids. Fascinated with the mind since a young age, she has led a life studying meditation in different traditions. Her training over the past forty years includes study with meditation masters in the Theravada, Zen, and Tibetan traditions. In 1985, Liebenson co-founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, which describes itself as "an urban refuge and teaching center for all who seek inner peace through the liberating practice of Insight Meditation." She is also the author of the recently released book, "The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation." In it, and in our discussion, she describes how to move from the "constant squeeze" of suffering to a direct experience of what she calls "enough-ness." We also discuss how that concept relates to the Buddhist teaching of "Hungry ghosts," creatures with huge stomachs and tiny mouths, who always remain hungry. Plug Zone New Book "The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation" https://www.amazon.com/Magnanimous-Heart-Compassion-Grief-Liberation/dp/1614294852 Cambridge Insight Meditation Center: https://cambridgeinsight.org/about/teachers/ To donate to the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center: https://cambridgeinsight.org/generosity/unrestricted-gift-dana/ Ten Percent Happier Meditation – Oren Jay Sofer's Practicing Kindness: https://10percenthappier.app.link/3nu2IRiOiX ***VOICEMAILS*** Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail: 646-883-8326 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get started with today's episode, if you've been around TPH land for any

0:05.4

length of time, you've probably heard me name drop Joseph Goldstein.

0:10.1

He started out as my meditation teacher then became my friend and then we teamed up to

0:15.9

help start the 10% happier meditation app.

0:19.6

And I just wanted to remind you that there is a ton of content featuring Joseph and his

0:26.2

humor and wisdom over on the app where he's the lead teacher on six different courses.

0:31.4

I'd recommend you start with the basics, which features your truly and Joseph talking

0:37.1

about how to achieve perfect imperturbability and bulletproof bliss.

0:41.6

Actually, just kidding.

0:43.6

It's just about how to get 10% happier through basic meditation.

0:47.3

It's free.

0:48.3

If you want to check it out, I encourage you to do so.

0:51.4

Download the 10% happier app today wherever you get your apps now on with the show.

0:56.8

Well done.

1:01.2

You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

1:06.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

1:10.9

In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte

1:17.3

Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

1:21.0

And that's just a few.

1:22.8

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

1:26.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent, sweat appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

1:32.9

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

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