The Cake Incident | Part 2 of The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Dalai Lama makes a risky move. When confronted by a young American woman coping with incredible loss, he does something surprising and counterintuitive. The incident surfaces a question that is more urgent now than ever: As social media, tribalism, individualism, and a global pandemic conspire to keep us separated from each other, how do we maintain what psychologists call "social fitness"?
In conversation with Dr. Richard J. Davidson, world renowned neuroscientist and longtime friend and collaborator of the Dalai Lama, we unpack the scientifically demonstrated benefits of the social connection embodied by His Holiness, and give easily accessible strategies to incorporate this wisdom into your everyday life. Also, Dan has a bit of an identity crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello everybody, welcome to the second installment of our special weeklong series, The Dollar |
| 0:15.1 | Lama's Guide to Happiness. |
| 0:17.5 | I have a very protective producer, Liz, and she won't let me get any closer than this. |
| 0:22.8 | But they look cute. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm in Darm Sala, home to his holiness, The Dollar Lama, also home to an astonishing |
| 0:28.9 | number of monkeys. |
| 0:30.8 | The two creatures I'm looking at right now are on the larger side about the size of a golden |
| 0:34.9 | retriever. |
| 0:36.3 | They are calmly perched on a balcony railing until one of them decides to come and say hello. |
| 0:42.5 | Oh my God. |
| 0:44.5 | Alright. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm going to stay behind the cameraman. |
| 0:49.2 | That looks like a warlike stance. |
| 0:52.1 | You do have to be careful, by the way, with these monkeys. |
| 0:54.0 | Our friend, Rosci Joan, left the window to her hotel room open, and the monkeys got |
| 0:58.6 | in and tossed the place. |
| 1:00.7 | Propensity for mischief, notwithstanding all of the street animals here in Darm Sala, |
| 1:05.5 | the monkeys, the sacred cows, and the dogs and cats, they're all incredibly well cared |
| 1:11.3 | for. |
| 1:12.3 | There's a nonprofit here that takes in the cats and dogs, gives them checkups, spays, |
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