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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Steve Armstrong

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Enlightenment (or, more specifically, exactly how one gets enlightened) has become a somewhat taboo subject. For years, American meditation teachers have largely avoided discussing what's known as "the progress of insight" -- the various stages that lead to Nirvana -- with their students. But why? In this episode, Dan gets clear, candid answers from Steve Armstrong, a long-time meditation teacher and the managing editor of the new book "Manual of Insight."

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

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0:39.7

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0:45.1

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0:56.5

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1:02.6

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1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:17.7

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.7

Today we are once again going high geek, deep nerd. But I promise it's going to be interesting.

1:32.9

Well here's what I promise it's going to be interesting to me. What we're talking about

1:37.5

is something that for years American meditation teachers have largely avoided discussing

1:42.6

with their students, although they discuss it among themselves. It's become something

1:47.2

of a taboo subject. It's called the progress of insight. If you're a close listener,

1:52.4

you will remember that we've talked about this a little bit with previous guests on the

1:55.3

show. But today we're going deep. The progress of insight is another way of saying, and this

2:01.1

is my translation, the stuff that will allegedly happen to you or that you will allegedly experience

2:06.1

if you do a ton of a specific kind of meditation. And the culminating experience, and again,

2:11.5

I'm going to use the word allegedly because I have not tasted any of this for myself.

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