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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Improving Your Relationships - Buddhist Style | Martine Batchelor

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This great deep-Dharma episode is all about using an ancient, fascinating, and readily-accessible Buddhist concept as a way to improve your interactions with other human beings. The concept in question is called vedana, or "feeling tone." Our guest, Martine Batchelor, will explain. She was a Buddhist nun in Korea for ten years and is now a lecturer, spiritual counselor, and author of such books as "The Path of Compassion" and "Women in Korean Zen." Two brief notes: First, this episode is a re-run, which we're doing a few times this summer in order to give the staff a breather, and also to resurface some of our older gems for our newer listeners. Second, this conversation includes some brief references to sensitive topics, including sexual activity and substance abuse. Download the Ten Percent Happier app today: https://10percenthappier.app.link/install Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/martine-batchelor-repost

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0:00.0

Before we get started with today's show, I want to tell you about something very cool

0:04.7

that we have cooking here.

0:06.0

Well, I think it's cool.

0:07.4

You can judge for yourself.

0:09.5

Here it is.

0:10.5

Back in October, I had the opportunity to spend some time with his holiness, the Dalai Lama,

0:15.6

Nobel Peace Prize winner, leader of the Tibetan Nation and exile, and arguably the best known

0:21.4

meditator on the planet.

0:22.9

I went with a small team to his home base of Darum Sala India to interview his holiness

0:29.4

for this podcast.

0:30.4

Yeah, I knew it would be interesting, but frankly, I very badly underestimated the sheer

0:37.0

volume of fascinating stuff that would go down while we were on the ground.

0:41.8

We ended up spending two weeks in his or it during which time we saw the Dalai Lama be directly

0:47.5

challenged about whether compassion can cut it in a cold world.

0:52.5

We witnessed his holiness make a bold and surprising and unconventional move in the name

0:57.8

of social connection.

0:59.8

We talked with him about dealing with difficult people, the concept of wise selfishness, the

1:05.3

deity who he believes is in charge of his rebirth, and we got a fascinating guided tour

1:11.0

of his own meditation practice.

1:13.9

Along the way, there were emotional breakdowns, sacred cows, marauding monkeys, and even some

1:19.4

potty humor from the Dalai Lama himself.

1:23.3

So much stuff happened that we decided to produce a five-part audio documentary, which is

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