The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 -

Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment of a five-part audio documentary series, something we’ve never done before now. Over the course of the episodes, we talk to His Holiness about practical strategies for thorny dilemmas, including: how to get along with difficult people; whether compassion can cut it in an often brutal world; why there is a self-interested case for not being a jerk; and how to create social connection in an era of disconnection. We also get rare insights from the Dalai Lama into everything from the mechanics of reincarnation to His Holiness’s own personal mediation practice.

In this first installment, Dan watches as a young activist directly challenges His Holiness: In a world plagued by climate change, terrorism, and other existential threats, is the Dalia Lama’s message of compassion practical — or even relevant?

Want more of The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness? Download the Ten Percent Happier app wherever you get your apps.

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0:00.0	Greetings, Tara Brock here.
0:05.2	Our friend Dan Harris at the 10% happier podcast recently traveled to India to sit down
0:12.9	with the Dalai Lama.
0:14.4	And he created the Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness.
0:17.8	It's a five episode series that pairs ancient wisdom with modern science to share practical
0:25.8	takeaways to truly make our lives better.
0:29.7	So here's the first episode from the series we wanted to share with you.
0:34.4	We hope you'll check out the rest on 10% happier podcast.
0:42.8	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:45.3	I'm Dan Harris.
0:47.1	A gang it's New Year's and we're making a pretty radical departure from our usual format.
0:56.4	And thank you for choosing America in your lives.
0:59.3	I recently flew with a small team to Durham, Sala India, home to his holiness, the Dalai Lama.
1:06.7	I'm sitting on board a giant plane that we're about 13 hours into our flight.
1:15.4	Here's the backstory.
1:17.3	I went because I got this incredible opportunity.
1:20.2	The Dalai Lama agreed to do a course for the meditation app that I co-founded, which is also
1:26.3	called 10% happier.
1:28.8	The plan was I would interview him on camera about how we can all get happier and then
1:33.0	my team and I would edit that down and serve up the learnings to our users.
1:38.5	Now to be clear, I had actually interviewed his holiness before.
1:41.7	The first time was back in 2011 and then a few years later he was the inaugural guest
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