This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing my guest today combines two of my favorite things a deep

understanding of Buddhism and the darma and a tastefully and judiciously deployed

foul mouth.

We cover a lot of ground in this interview, but one of the concepts that really jumped out to me

was how to become unfuckable with, sturdy and steady in the face of whatever happens.

Dude, what an incredible North Star.

I'm not saying I've achieved this, but I am definitely working toward it.

I would like to have this and this conversation

really helped in this regard. I had never met Vinny Ferraro before this

conversation. I had heard of him. He's got a great reputation in the

meditation world and I was absolutely taken by him.

He's got an incredible personal story.

He grew up in extraordinarily harsh conditions and he'll tell you about it. He ultimately found the

darma and turned his life around and in the process has turned around the

lives of scores of his fellow humans. He now teaches at the Insight

Meditation Society the legendary Legendary Meditation Retreat Center in Massachusetts,

and also the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, equally legendary, and he teaches in prisons.

The basic structure of this conversation is we cover three Buddhist practices that Vinny is personally

using these days to keep his shit together.

Over the course of the chat, we hit a whole range of fascinating topics however including

alignment. Vinny's concept of flashing your basic goodness, noting practice, the deep satisfaction in not seeking satisfaction, redirecting awareness, becoming

an empathetic witness for yourself, when to opt for distraction, not taking what is not yours, Vinny's ancestor practice, and this

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