The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness | Part 1
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dan 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?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.9 | A gang it's New Year's and we're making a pretty radical departure from our usual format. |
| 0:16.8 | I recently flew with a small team to Dharam Sala India, home to his holiness, the Dalai Lama. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm sitting on board a giant plane that we're about 13 hours into our flight. |
| 0:35.9 | Here's the backstory. |
| 0:37.8 | I went because I got this incredible opportunity. |
| 0:40.8 | The Dalai Lama agreed to do a course for the meditation app that I co-founded, which is also |
| 0:46.8 | called 10% happier. |
| 0:49.4 | The plan was I would interview him on camera about how we can all get happier and then my |
| 0:53.6 | team and I would edit that down and serve up the learnings to our users. |
| 0:59.0 | Now to be clear, I had actually interviewed his holiness before. |
| 1:02.2 | The first time was back in 2011 and then a few years later he was the inaugural guest |
| 1:07.6 | right here on this podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | Back then though, I was a fidgety skeptical news anchor with a happiness side hustle, but |
| 1:15.9 | by the time I was making this trip, I had changed or at least that's what I told myself. |
| 1:22.0 | I was still of course skeptical about a lot of things, but I had done so much more meditation |
| 1:27.0 | and general learning. |
| 1:29.1 | In fact I was even in the midst of writing a whole book about love. |
| 1:32.8 | I'll be it in my usual wise-ass style. |
| 1:37.2 | Another difference with this encounter was that instead of a quick sit down while he was |
| 1:41.2 | on tour here in America, I would be on the Dalai Lama's home turf. |
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