The things that we long for love, real wisdom, deep insight, creative self-expression. Those are not things we can manufacture. They are only things that we can receive. They just arise when there is space. Sometimes.

So if you're interested in those things, meditation is a really good practice and something like the anyagram which helps you let go of the things you don't like about yourself and the things you like about yourself to just see yourself very helpful in creating that very fertile.

Space of receptivity where everything we really want is already there.

Okay, so when you hear the word anyagram, you likely have one of three replies. Oh, yeah, can't get enough of the anygram. That would be one. Oh, please. Another podcast about the anygram. That would be two or.

What's the anyagram? Well, no matter where you fall on that spectrum, good news. You are about to discover one of the most powerful personal insight tools ever created and in a way you have never heard it explained before.

Not just as a tool for personal awakening and transformation, but also as a game changing leverage to transform your personal and professional relationships. See things you never saw.

Understand people with a depth you never imagined possible and affect change in the state of culture society, the world even this conversation with a member of my chosen family, legendary Buddhist teacher, founder of the open heart project and New York Times best selling author Susan Piver.

It will not only rock your understanding of the anygram if you had one before it may well change your life and it's all about her groundbreaking synthesis of the anyagram and Buddhism or as Susan calls it the Buddhist anyagram, which also happens to be the title of her equally revelatory new book.

And these new insights are especially important given the times we live in in today's world compassion from a stranger is something you can only hope for as we struggle over our differences and everything from religion, gender, race, politics and more.

And the Buddhist anygram it helps you see and understand others in a tour clearer more nuanced way and then step into relationships with more empathy and compassion and that includes towards yourself today's conversation we also dive deeper into anagram and its roots and Susan takes me through her fascinating journey of discovery of the tool and how she views and utilizes it through a Buddhist lens.

We also explore the ways that the anygram could be an integral tool in our individual and collective transformations to become more compassionate connected and whole only if we're willing and brave enough so excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is a good life project.

We've been hanging out together for so long your chosen family and I thought I knew almost everything about you and then I discover that when you're a kid you see numbers dancing around in the dawn you gotta tell me more about this.

Well it's true everything you just said is true the family part the chosen family part absolutely and yeah when I was little like little little 456 I don't know I would lie in bed and in some half dreamy state.

I would see numbers I don't know if I saw them I don't know if I saw them in my mind's eye if they were dance I don't know but in my mind I saw numbers.

And they were not just here's a six here's a 12 they were communicating something I know that sounds very weird and we know each other well enough so you know I'm not we will not walk around in a wizard hat and flowing garments or anything but I numbers were had meaning I think is a better way than word than communicated.

And sometimes what they said was informative sometimes it was funny none of this was anything I remember but I guess I thought as you do when you're little well everybody this happens to everyone because that's what you think when you're little.

And then I forgot about it stopped happening at a certain point and then when I discovered the any a gram many years later there was some connection there for me.

Yeah it was almost like a foreshadowing of there's there's something about numbers that is going to be a part of your life and a part of your deep fascination for decades coming up so pay attention to this.

Yeah so you brought up this thing called the any gram and that's what we're going to dive into in today's conversation.

I think the any gram and also you're fascinating sort of Buddhist transformation all I don't even want to call it an overlay because I feel like you see them as one in the same it's sort of like this.

Blended body of work set of tools set of ideas set of practices but you have a really fascinating and highly unique take I've known about the any gram for a decade and I've known about it because of you we spent I don't know the better part of a week together.

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