Feed Drop: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness from Ten Percent Happier
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
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4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment of a five-part audio documentary series, something we’ve never done before now. Over the course of the episodes, we talk to His Holiness about practical strategies for thorny dilemmas, including: how to get along with difficult people; whether compassion can cut it in an often brutal world; why there is a self-interested case for not being a jerk; and how to create social connection in an era of disconnection. We also get rare insights from the Dalai Lama into everything from the mechanics of reincarnation to His Holiness’s own personal mediation practice.
In this first installment, Dan watches as a young activist directly challenges His Holiness: In a world plagued by climate change, terrorism, and other existential threats, is the Dalia Lama’s message of compassion practical — or even relevant?
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| 0:00.0 | To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji. |
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| 1:11.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Meta. I'm Lily Cushman and I'm the producer for this podcast. |
| 1:35.8 | And we're excited today to bring you a little different something instead of the usual episodes, |
| 1:43.6 | usual interviews. Today we're sharing an episode from |
| 1:48.3 | a different podcast altogether, and that is Dan Harris's 10% happier podcast. So Dan is someone |
| 1:58.8 | that's been a close friend and colleague of Sharon's for many years. |
| 2:04.1 | And she's been interviewed on this podcast many times, which I highly recommend because |
| 2:09.5 | Dan's a really incredible interviewer. |
| 2:13.5 | But the reason we're sharing this episode today is that Dan has put together this pretty |
| 2:20.2 | incredible series that's called the Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness. |
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