From Ten Percent Happier: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness | Part 1
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
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🗓️ 7 January 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Here's a preview of another podcast we love, Ten Percent Happier. Host Dan Harris 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. Over the course of the episodes, Dan talks 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. He also gets rare insights from the Dalai Lama into everything from the mechanics of reincarnation to His Holiness’s own personal meditation 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 Dalai Lama’s message of compassion practical — or even relevant? Want more of The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness? Listen to the Ten Percent Happier podcast here.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled episode next week. |
| 0:13.4 | But today, I wanted to share another podcast that I enjoy and think you will too. |
| 0:17.8 | It's called 10% Happier, hosted by my friend Dan Harris. |
| 0:22.0 | You heard Dan on the Happiness Lab before. He joined me for a conversation on being happier at work |
| 0:27.0 | and using meditation to deal with some of the not-so-great aspects of work life. |
| 0:31.0 | Dan recently traveled to India to sit down with the Dalai Lama. |
| 0:35.0 | Now, inspired by his trip, he's created the Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness, |
| 0:39.0 | a five-episode series that pairs ancient wisdom with modern science |
| 0:43.0 | to share practical takeaways to truly make our lives better. |
| 0:47.0 | Here's the first episode from the series. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 0:51.0 | Check out the rest on the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 1:05.0 | He gang its New Year's and we're making a pretty radical departure from our usual format. |
| 1:14.0 | I recently flew with a small team to Durham, Sala, India, home to his holiness, the Dalai Lama. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm sitting on board a giant plane that we're about 13 hours into our flight. |
| 1:30.0 | Here's the backstory. I went because I got this incredible opportunity. |
| 1:35.0 | The Dalai Lama agreed to do a course for the meditation app that I co-founded, |
| 1:41.0 | which is also called 10% Happier. |
| 1:44.0 | The plan was I would interview him on camera about how we can all get happier |
| 1:48.0 | and then my team and I would edit that down and serve up the learnings to our users. |
| 1:53.0 | Now, to be clear, I had actually interviewed his holiness before. |
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