10% Happier with Dan Harris

Start Here Now an open-hearted guide to the path and practice of meditation

the book I wrote before that is called Start Here Now an open-hearted guide to the path and practice of meditation.

He's written some books including one called The Joy of Living and another called In Love with the World and he oversees the Tergar meditation community, a global network of Buddhist meditation centers.

The first book is Joy of Living and the last book is the In Love with the World.

So what I call if you love the world world loves your back so I wrote a book about this my retreat called In Love with the World so I mentioned about this my story about my one due retreat.

Most recently he's the author of Being You, a new science of consciousness.

The book which shares my first general public book on consciousness and the self is called Being You a new science of consciousness and that would be the thing I certainly recommend people to read if they're interested.

We're going to talk to a neuroscientist who has been probing the mystery of consciousness. His name is Anil Seth.

And my second book, *Wisdom Wide and Deep*, that presents a complete path and a comprehensive path of deepening samadhi and concentration and understanding the conditionality of body and mind and exploring insight practice.

My second book is really an advanced book for people who want to look at details, and I do mean details. It gets pretty detailed and it's thick.

Wisdom Wide and Deep is a four more advanced practitioners and describes a very specific and systematic approach to both concentration and insight practice.

So I did this well first did this book called Meetings With Mentors and I went around often hitchhiking to teachers that I knew to earn authors to talk to them about their life so I interviewed Ram Doss and Jack cornfield and um different people like that because I was trying to find my way

So I did this well first did this book called Meetings With Mentors and I went around often hitchhiking to teachers that I knew to earn authors to talk to them about their life

But I did find a young teacher named Daniel Ingram. I found an ebook that was floating around and I actually met one of his ex-Roomates, College Roomates, while I was at NC State.

And he had a different conception which is enlightenment isn't necessarily about uprooting all these things. It is about totally shifting your sense of identity and the experience of a reference point like of who you think you are and that it was possible to have a full experience of that changing and even dissolving totally.

He wrote a book about how to do it, kind of a cookbook as he describes it.

In fact had written a whole book called Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha about how he was in our hunt and how you could become one too.

So I actually went and read this book after the retreat was like the first thing I did after I got out of retreat and at first I was like this is a little insane just but based on the cover it was actually a PDF that he you could print out for free.

It comes from this famous short film of the same title by Charles and Ray Eames, the famous American husband and wife design team and the idea is that the film starts with a scene of this couple having a picnic in a park in Chicago.

I liked the, we had a book of it at home and I used to flip through it when I was a kid.

I would literally, I would lie in my bed and I would deliberately imagining panning back the camera so I could move into this broader perspective.

I call this meditation Powers of Ten and it comes from this famous short film of the same title by Charles and Ray Eames, the famous American husband and wife design team

I liked the, we had a book of it at home and I used to flip through it when I was a kid.

the other one gait of tears sadness in the spiritual path which like i said is kind of a smaller book of mine but i'm immensely proud of it it was written in the year after my mother died and that's that's in there not directly but it's it's actually in large part about the sadness that we experience every day if we're attuned to life and it's ups and downs and affirming that in a profound way

The Gate of Tears is the first one and then is my book of poetry and and now Jewish enlightenment they're all at this sort of Jewish Buddhist spiritual intersection

and that's that's in there not directly but it's actually in large part about the sadness that we experience every day if we're attuned to life and it's ups and downs and affirming that in a profound way

And she's telling her story now in a new book called Unbecoming, A Memoir of Disobedience. Unbecoming a Memoir of Disobedience.

Unbecoming for me. That's also a Buddhist phrase which a lot of folks comment on. It was about unlearning my cultural conditioning as an Indian American kid becoming a Marine.

The book is called Unbecoming. I'm a more of disobedience.

And she's telling her story now in a new book called Unbecoming, A Memoir of Disobedience.

Unbecoming a Memoir of Disobedience.

For me, I get very real in this book like there were times where I was no saint, you know, but both before I was in uniform and in uniform.

For me, Unbecoming... That's also a Buddhist phrase which a lot of folks comment on. It was about unlearning my cultural conditioning as an Indian American kid becoming a Marine.

He's written a book about it and you're going to hear him tell it.

Ben Federer, our guest this week, he is currently an executive at a senior executive at a company called Tencent... Ben left Take 2 in order to go to Bali with his four kids and his wife and he wrote about it in a book called Take Off Your Shoes.

The title of the book comes from a poem by a poet named David White who I don't know bills himself but I've heard him build is kind of like the corporate poet because he speaks a lot about what's in you know the condition of a lot of people in corporations and he wrote a poem called Fire in the Earth in which he invokes the image of Moses at the burning bush and it's about kind of Moses realizing that he has been on holy ground his entire life and he reads his poem in which he talks about how one day he reads his poem in a public setting and somebody comes over to him and says you know the Hebrew word for the that the Bible uses to for take off and as an takeoff issues the Hebrew word for that is the same word that the Bible uses for an animal shedding its skin.

It's called Take Off Your Shoes. Author is Ben Fetter. It's on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and independent bookstores.

He's written a book about it and you're going to hear him tell it.

Ben left Take 2 in order to go to Bali with his four kids and his wife and he wrote about it in a book called Take Off Your Shoes.

The title of the book comes from a poem by a poet named David White who I don't know bills himself but I've heard him build is kind of like the corporate poet because he speaks a lot about what's in you know the condition of a lot of people in corporations

I don't know why I wrote the book but the book in many ways is trying to make sense of all of this for me.

It's called Take Off Your Shoes.

Zelnick reveals his secrets in his new book Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets to Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever and discusses them with Dan in this interview.

The book's called Becoming Ageless. But none of us is ageless. We're all aging, of course.

And the book dives in and says, and here's a program that's going to keep you looking as good as you can, feeling as good as you can, being mentally clear and living your best life at any age.

Zelnick reveals his secrets in his new book Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets to Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever and discusses them with Dan in this interview.

The book's called Becoming Ageless. But none of us is ageless. We're all aging, of course.

And the book dives in and says, and here's a program that's going to keep you looking as good as you can, feeling as good as you can, being mentally clear and living your best life at any age.

It's it's called Becoming Ageless and it's available on Amazon it barns and they'll will pretty much anywhere that you can find books for sale

which my father charmingly thought was how not to be afraid of your own wife.

which my father charmingly thought was how not to be afraid of your own wife

The new book is The Elements of Mindfulness and it is drawing upon the elements of nature in particular the tree, the wind, clouds, the sun as four primary elements and then two other elements that are very special to both learn what mindfulness is for those for whom it's new.

The new book is The Elements of Mindfulness and it is drawing upon the elements of nature in particular the tree, the wind, clouds, the sun as four primary elements and then two other elements that are very special to both learn what mindfulness is for those for whom it's new.

And the most recent book that you very thoughtfully allowed us to talk a little bit about because I'm grateful for that is The Elements of Mindfulness which introduces that particular methodology

the first book was mindful parenting another book that shortly followed was Mindfulness for Law Students

The first book was mindful parenting another book that shortly followed was Mindfulness for Law Students

a related book is The Six-Minute Solution that's a book mindfulness for lawyers those two books use language of the law like justice becomes allow the moment to be as it just is you know clever ways of playing with the language of the law to remind us to wake up in the middle of our day

a related book is The Six-Minute Solution that's a book mindfulness for lawyers those two books use language of the law like justice becomes allow the moment to be as it just is you know clever ways of playing with the language of the law to remind us to wake up in the middle of our day

the last book i wrote was called Living with Intent my somewhat message or need to purpose piece enjoy which was rediscovering these gifts that i learned as a kid

and then my other most recent book was called Living with Intent my somewhat messy journey to purpose piece enjoy which i would say um is more for people dealing with balance and purpose and just trying to get through the day

she's written a bunch of books uh including Living with Intent that was back in 2015 that there's quite an interesting story behind that book which she will tell in this podcast

and the last book i wrote was called Living with Intent my somewhat message or need to purpose piece enjoy which was rediscovering these gifts that i learned as a kid

and then my other most recent book was called Living with Intent my somewhat messy journey to purpose piece enjoy which i would say um is more for people dealing with balance and purpose and just trying to get through the day

Rinpoche just means he's a respected and high level teacher in the Tibetan tradition. He's also a reincarnate. He's designated as a third reincarnation of a previous Rinpoche, a great lama from generations past and we get into an interesting conversation about my skepticism about the whole reincarnation thing.

He has written a number of books including it's up to you the practice of self-reflection on the Buddhist Buddhist path light coming through natural vitality uncommon happiness he's yes heart advice he's he's written lots of books the way of tenderness I believe is another book and a lot of them are about compassion and kindness.

And you've got a new one yeah uh paperback is think by the time we record this probably just have by the time we release this will the paperback will be newly released it's called training intendedness.

Rinpoche just means he's a respected and high level teacher in the Tibetan tradition. He's also a reincarnate. He's designated as a third reincarnation of a previous Rinpoche, a great lama from generations past and we get into an interesting conversation about my skepticism about the whole reincarnation thing.

He's written many many books including it's up to you the practice of self-reflection on the Buddhist Buddhist path light coming through natural vitality uncommon happiness he's yes heart advice he's he's written lots of books the way of tenderness I believe is another book and a lot of them are about compassion and kindness and he has a way of talking about it that again makes it less ui gooey and more practical and more sort of you might not like this term but I like it sort of self-interested what's in it for you to do this and there's a lot in it for you to do this and so let me shut up and and have him explain here we go

yeah paperback is think by the time we record this probably just have by the time we release this will the paperback will be newly released it's called training intendedness

And the other book that I wrote the first book is called the inner gym a 30-day program for strengthening your happiness and the premise of that book is that unlike what a lot of people say in the yoga community I don't believe that happiness is a choice I think that happiness is like a muscle that you have to cultivate and strengthen

and the other book that I wrote the first book is called the inner gym a 30-day program for strengthening your happiness and the premise of that book is that unlike what a lot of people say in the yoga community I don't believe that happiness is a choice I think that happiness is like a muscle that you have to cultivate and strengthen [00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:13.800]

he's written a book called sex in the spiritual teacher and also the user's guide to spiritual teachers

my first book on this area the first book on the subject was sex in the spiritual teacher in 2011

why did you want to write that because i wanted to make a difference because what goes on um when when spiritual teachers stray

in Sex and the Spiritual Teacher i talk about all the different seduction techniques there's actually a list um sex as a special blessing sex as a spiritual teaching

he's written a book called sex in the spiritual teacher

the first book on the subject was sex in the spiritual teacher in 2011

in Sex and the Spiritual Teacher i talk about all the different seduction techniques there's actually a list