Jack Kornfield & Yung Pueblo On: How To Meditate When You're Freaking Out, the Limits of the Thinking Mind, & Balancing Self-Interest with Compassion
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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One's a legend, the other's a phenom. Together, they offer practical wisdom for maintaining your daily meditation practice, handling conflict, connecting with community, and understanding the limits of the mind.
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. He is the author of 16 books which have sold 2 million copies, and the co-founder of Cloud Sangha.
Diego Perez is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name, Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 3 million people. Diego's books are Inward, Clarity & Connection, Lighter, and The Way Forward.
In this episode we talk about:
- How and why to maintain a daily meditation practice
- The importance of community
- The limits of the thinking mind
- How to handle conflict
- How to love without being attached
Related Episodes:
- Jack Kornfield talking about forgiveness and uncertainty on the pod
- Yung Pueblo's past appearance on the pod
- Dan Clurman and Mudita Nisker on effective communication
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. Hello my fellow suffering beings how we doing As somebody who can tend toward selfishness, |
| 0:25.0 | I have long wrestled with how to balance my desire for self-gratification, |
| 0:29.0 | with my feeling that if I'm a good person, |
| 0:32.0 | I ought to have compassion for other people. |
| 0:34.0 | In other words how do I balance my own self-interest with other people's interests? |
| 0:39.0 | So we're going to talk about that today and we're actually going to talk about much more |
| 0:42.0 | with two great |
| 0:43.4 | darma teachers. |
| 0:44.4 | Jack Cornfield is a legendary old school Buddhist heavyweight |
| 0:48.0 | and young Pueblo aka Diego Perez is a relative newcomer |
| 0:52.3 | with a massive following on Instagram. |
| 0:54.4 | We're going to talk to these guys about how and why to maintain a daily |
| 0:57.7 | meditation practice, the importance of community, the limits of our thinking |
| 1:02.3 | minds, how to handle conflict, and how to love without being attached, |
| 1:06.6 | which is a perennial question. |
| 1:08.3 | Before we dive in a little bit more about these two guests, Jack Cornfield trained as a Buddhist |
| 1:12.2 | monk in Asia, Thailand, India, and Burma, |
| 1:15.4 | specifically he holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a founding teacher of the |
| 1:20.5 | Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. |
| 1:25.8 | He's also the author of 16 books which have sold more than 2 million copies. |
| 1:31.1 | Diego Perez is a number one New York Times best-selling author who's widely known on |
| 1:35.4 | Instagram through his pen name Young Pueblo online he has an audience of over 3 million |
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