Stop Arguing With Reality | Bonus Meditation with Sebene Selassie

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Unraveling one of our main sources of unhappiness.

About Sebene Selassie:

Growing up, Sebene felt like a big weirdo. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and raised in white neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., she was a tomboy Black girl who loved Monty Python and UB40. She never believed she belonged. Thirty years ago, she began studying Buddhism as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. Now, Sebene is a teacher, author, and speaker who teaches that meditation can help us remember our inherent sense of belonging, that our individual freedom affects absolutely everyone and everything, and that our collective freedom depends on each and every one of us. Sebene is a three-time cancer survivor of Stage III and IV cancer.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad-free right now.
0:04.7	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:13.5	It's the 10% Happier podcast.
0:16.2	I'm Dan Harris.
0:29.6	Hey, everybody, time for a bonus meditation.
0:34.5	Today we're talking about hope, which is a tricky concept and can be, I think,
0:39.4	deployed unwisely, but you're in good hands today with our meditation teacher du jour, Seben A Salasi, who says hope is not about arguing
0:43.2	with reality, which is the way it's often sold to us.
0:46.5	A little bit more about Seb before we get started.
0:48.9	She's trained as a meditation teacher,
0:50.3	an integral coach, an indigenous focusing oriented therapy for complex trauma practitioner,
0:56.5	and she's a New York State licensed hiking guide. I should also say she's got a great
1:00.7	subscription service going on Substack Ancestors to Elements. You should check that out. I'll put a
1:05.9	link in the show notes. Here we go now with Sabine-Silassi.
1:10.7	Hey there. This is Sabine.
1:14.6	Maybe you've noticed a central paradox of meditation.
1:19.5	We may come to practice seeking positive transformation for ourselves and the world,
1:25.0	but first we must learn to allow things just as they are.
1:30.0	Genuine acceptance lays the foundation for transformation.
1:35.8	I like to think of this as learning not to be in contention with reality.
1:41.4	Another way to say that is trusting life, moment to moment. Let's try it together.
1:50.0	Find a way to settle in that's comfortable for you, wherever you are. You can close your eyes if you'd
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