This is the 10% happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Hey gang, one of the most consistent requests we get from listeners is to explore non-buddhist

forms of meditation.

So that's what we're going to do today.

In fact, we're going to get what I've been calling Hinduism 101.

We talk so much about Buddhism on this show, but I'm pretty embarrassed to admit that

I know or knew until now, next to nothing about Hinduism, the tradition out of which Buddhism

emerged.

So that changes, or at least starts to change today.

My guest is Swami Tiagananda, who has been among since 1976 and is now the Hindu

Jacqueline, both at MIT and Harvard.

In this interview, we talk about the basics of Hinduism, including the history and the

approach to both prayer and meditation.

We talk about letting go, karma, rebirth, and how and why to escape it.

The deep connections between Buddhism and Hinduism, his contention that all prayers are

answered, a recipe for reducing stress and anxiety, his thoughts about all the ways in which

we scramble to deal with our sense of not enoughness or incompleteness or emptiness, and

his argument that the answer is a kind of simplicity, which I have been somewhat globally

calling deep decluttering.

And we talk about a new way to think about perhaps the trickiest, slipperyest of all Buddhist

concepts, a natta or selflessness.

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