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10% Happier with Dan Harris

How to Catch Unhelpful Thoughts Before They Take Over with Bhikkhu Bodhi | Staff Picks

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We’re bringing you some of our favorite gems from the archives, as chosen by our staff. This week, we’re hearing from Buddhist scholar and teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi, as chosen by Tara Anderson, one of our podcast producers. We’re getting a little meta today, as Dan and his guest talk about paying attention to what your own mind is doing.

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0:00.0

This is the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

0:18.5

Hey, happy Friday to you all this month on Fridays.

0:22.6

We are highlighting some of our favorite moments from past episodes as selected by members of the team here at 10% happier.

0:31.9

I have wanted to call this feature staff infection, but my staff doesn't think that's funny.

0:37.2

I think it's funny. Anyway,

0:38.6

last week, you heard a little bit of our 2024 interview with Bill Hader, the comedian. That little

0:43.9

chunk of Bill's interview was introduced by our digital media manager, Hayden Broom. Today,

0:49.4

we're veering into straight-up Dharma with the venerable Bikubodi, a Buddhist monk and teacher who was on the show

0:55.6

back in 2022. You'll hear a short introduction from our producer Tara Anderson, why this

1:02.6

interview had such an impact on her. And then you'll hear the moment from the interview that she

1:06.9

is specifically referencing. Before we do that, though, I just want to tell you that if you sign up over on Dan Harris.com, you will get bespoke companion meditations that now come

1:15.9

with every Monday and Wednesday episode of this podcast. And Don Maricio is our teacher of the

1:21.0

month. She is crafting meditations for all the Monday-Wndesday episodes. We'll announce our

1:25.7

teacher of the month for next month very

1:27.9

soon. But in the meantime, head on over to Dan Harris.com to sign up for those guided meditations.

1:33.1

Coming up after a quick ad break, we're going to hear from Tara, one of our producers, then

1:37.6

Bikubodi. Keep it here.

1:41.9

This is Tara Anderson. I'm a producer on the podcast team, and I want to share part of an interview with Bikyu Bodie. This episode came out in September of 2022 when I had just started my job with 10% happier, and I was asked to listen to a chunk of it for a quality check.

2:05.6

That's the last step we go through before publishing an episode just to make sure everything sounds okay.

2:06.9

I didn't know anything about the guest, but I did know a little bit about the topic,

2:12.0

the four foundations of mindfulness.

2:14.7

This episode was part of a series on those four foundations, and this one was about mindfulness of mindfulness. This episode was part of a series on those four foundations, and this one was about

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