How To Suffer Less: Joseph Goldstein, Sam Harris, and Dan Harris on the Buddha’s Eightfold Path

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

One of the foundational Buddhist lists—a kind of GPS for enlightenment.

Joseph Goldstein is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, both in Barre, Massachusetts. He is the author of many books including, most recently, Dreamscapes of the Mind.

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, author, podcaster and the proprietor of the Waking Up app.

This episode is the first installment of a new series on the Eightfold Path. The rest of the series is available on Waking Up, a top-notch meditation app with amazing teachers and a ton of courses for all levels. If you subscribe via this link: wakingup.com/tenpercent, you’ll get a 30-day free trial—and you’ll be supporting the 10% Happier team, too. Full and partial scholarships are available.

In this episode we talk about:

The Eightfold Path, your GPS to enlightenment
Generosity
The importance of faith
The wisdom of “I don’t know” mind
Various kinds of right view
Unpacking right view on the Buddhist path
Practical tips for cultivating right view

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0:00.0	It's the 10% Happier Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.0	Hello, everybody.
0:20.0	One of the most common questions I get, especially from
0:24.2	subscribers over on my substack, is how do I go deeper into meditation? Specifically,
0:29.7	how do I learn more about Buddhism? What is Buddhism exactly? What are the fundamental concepts?
0:34.7	And how do I fit it into my everyday life? Up until now, I've not had a
0:39.2	great answer. There are some books I like, of course, but especially in audio, there really
0:43.0	hasn't been an easy solution for an on-ramp to Buddhism. Now, though, I have an excellent answer
0:50.1	at the ready. Over on the waking up app, they just posted a four-part conversation, roughly eight
0:55.8	hours in audio, featuring Joseph Goldstein, the eminent Buddhist teacher, Sam Harris, the neuroscientist,
1:02.7	author, and podcaster, who is the proprietor of the waking up app, and me. In this audio extravaganza,
1:10.2	Sam and I peppered Joseph with questions about all aspects of the Buddha's eightfold path.
1:16.4	As you're about to hear Joseph explain in today's episode, the eightfold path is one of the foundational Buddhist lists.
1:23.3	It's a kind of GPS for enlightenment.
1:25.7	Eight crucial ways to train and orient your mind in meditation, in your worldview, and how you act in the world.
1:34.4	Today, here on this podcast, we're going to play you the first part of this four-part conversation.
1:40.0	If you want to hear the rest of the sessions, as well as the guided meditations from Joseph that go along with those sessions, you need to download the waking up app.
1:47.8	You can do so at wakingup.com slash 10%.
1:51.6	That's wakingup.com slash T-E-N-P-E-R-C-E-N-T.
1:55.7	I'll put a link in the show notes.
1:57.9	Just so you know, if you buy a subscription via that URL, you will get a 30-day free trial,
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