This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, my fellow suffering beings. Sometimes I think about the fact that the Buddha has near universal name recognition.

I mean, there are statues of the guy in spas and restaurants and everybody's backyard.

And yet most people know almost nothing about who he actually was or more importantly, what he actually taught as a friend of mine recently

joked it's like there's an inverse relationship between the Buddha's Q rating and what most people actually know about him.

If you want to get to the core of what the guy taught, perhaps a great place to start would be something called the eightfold path.

As many of you know, the Buddha liked to make lists as teaching tools and one of if not the most important list is the eightfold path.

It's an eight part recipe, essentially for doing life better.

Today, we are launching a three part series on this eight part list.

Why only three parts for the series is pretty good question.

And there's actually a pretty good answer.

The eightfold path is often divided into three chunks or buckets.

So we're going to bring on master meditation teachers to walk us through each of these three buckets.

We're going to kick things off today with Darah Williams about whom much more in a moment next Wednesday will do part two with Eugene Cash and we will wrap things up in two weeks with the great Joseph Goldstein.

As I mentioned on Monday, as you may have heard, we're running an experiment for the month of May.

We're launching two concurrent series.

We're going to do some weaving here every Monday.

We're doing a series we're calling bold face where we interview celebrities who are brave enough to talk about the darkest shit in their lives.

And then on Wednesdays, we're going to go deep Dharma.

So hit me up on Twitter, actually.

I'd be very curious to hear if any of you have feedback on how this strategy is working or whether it's working.

You can also comment through our website.

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