It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody. How we doing? Very few of us relish chaos and disruption, but they are, I'm sorry to say,

brute facts of life given the non-negotiable nature of change. Today we're going to talk about how to

tune into the value of disruption and learn how to sit with chaos.

My guest is Zen Jew, Earthland Manuel.

She's an ordained Zen priest.

She holds a PhD.

She's worked for decades as a social science researcher and as a development director for nonprofit organizations.

And she is a prolific author.

We'll be covering a few of her books in today's episode, in fact.

We also talk about what to do with the unknown

and not having answers, the power of,

and this is her term, a sip of silence,

what she means by the phrase,

death as a doorway to tenderness, her personal story about an unusual route to becoming a Zen priest, how she defines the word tenderness, a word that can easily get bogged down and sloppy sentimentality.

And what she meant when she wrote these words, I'm not advocating love as an answer to all the ills of the world. Then again,

it is just that simple to be love. Just to say, before we dive in here, we first aired this episode

in 2021. We're bringing it back this week while our team takes a little time off for the holidays.

Zanju, Earthland, Manuel, coming right up.

Before we dive in, just to say, we've got some exciting things happening in the 10% happier universe. We are now offering bespoke guided meditations to go with every podcast

episode. Those meditations will be guided by a teacher of the month, all people who you know from the 10% cinematic universe, people who have been on this podcast before.

I like to think of the podcast as the lecture and then the guided meditations as the lab.

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