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10% Happier with Dan Harris
This new and fantastic book provided a Buddhist investigation into the nature of self, making the most incomprehensible part of Buddhism understandable and useful for daily life.
He's got a new book that is fantastic, it's called Untangling Self. The subtitle is a Buddhist investigation of who we really are and what he does is he makes the least comprehensible part of Buddhism...
— Episode: Andrew Olendzki, Teaching Old-School Bud...
Episode: Andrew Olendzki, Teaching Old-School Buddhism
This new and fantastic book provided a Buddhist investigation into the nature of self, making the most incomprehensible part of Buddhism understandable and useful for daily life.
He's got a new book that is fantastic, it's called Untangling Self. The subtitle is a Buddhist investigation of who we really are and what he does is he makes the least comprehensible part of Buddhism which is this idea that the self is an illusion.
The book is called Untangling Self.
Episode: Andrew Olendzki, Teaching Old-School Buddhism
The speaker highly recommended this new book by the guest, noting that it effectively explained the often incomprehensible Buddhist idea that the self is an illusion, making it both understandable and useful for daily life.
He's got a new book that is fantastic, it's called Untangling Self. The subtitle is a Buddhist investigation of who we really are and what he does is he makes the least comprehensible part of Buddhism which is this idea that the self is an illusion which a lot of people get really hung up on but actually if you explain it correctly as this guest does, you can really make it a not only comprehensible but useful in your daily life.
The book is called Untangling Self.
Episode: Andrew Olendzki, Teaching Old-School Buddhism
The guest introduced his new book, which offered a Buddhist investigation into the self, aiming to make the often incomprehensible idea that the self is an illusion understandable and useful for daily life.
He's got a new book that is fantastic, it's called Untangling Self. The subtitle is a Buddhist investigation of who we really are and what he does is he makes the least comprehensible part of Buddhism which is this idea that the self is an illusion which a lot of people get really hung up on but actually if you explain it correctly as this guest does, you can really make it a not only comprehensible but useful in your daily life.
The book is called Untangling Self.
You know, when I wrote 10% happier, when I teach, when I teach, I don't teach anything. When I talk, I travel around the country speaking to corporations. I have an app where I work with teachers to talk about mindfulness and meditation. I talk about mindfulness and I talk about it in the following way, which is that mindfulness is the skill generated most commonly through meditation of where you learn to see what's happening in your head right now clearly so that you don't get yanked around by it.
But if we just bring it down to the practical level which is yeah you're feeling angry right now, look for the you who is angry. Try to find it.
You can read his books and re-list into this podcast because he said a lot of things that probably will take you two times to really fully grasp because this stuff is tricky but really important.