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Tara Brach Has A Counterintuitive Strategy For Navigating Tumultuous Times

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A (potentially challenging) Buddhist recipe handling anxious times.


Tara Brach, a legendary meditation teacher, psychologist, and frequent flier on this show. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. She has also written several books including Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. 


In this episode we talk about:


  • A Buddhist tradition known as the Bodhisattva teachings… which are quite radical… and which Tara thinks can vastly improve your life… and the health of democracy. 
  • We also talk about: why some people might think this stuff is too soft
  • 4 practices to develop compassion 
  • A mindfulness technique known as RAIN
  • How mindfulness can help you see what is beneath your anger
  • Letting distress be a portal—and the amazing phrase, “action absorbs anxiety”
  • How to get active when you have limited time
  • And how to counteract the tendency to numb out


Tara also recorded a guided meditation based on this conversation, which you can find on www.DanHarris.com.

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Transcript

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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, today we are going to talk about some counterintuitive and maybe controversial Buddhist strategies for navigating

0:35.1

anxious times.

0:36.8

We are recording and posting this in the midst of a U.S. presidential election, but I want to stress

0:41.8

that the ideas here are evergreen and

0:44.0

universal no matter when or where you are listening to this. My guest is Tara Brock,

0:49.6

the legendary meditation teacher, psychologist, and frequent flyer on this show. She's the founder of the Insleeves. mandatory meditation

0:55.0

meditation,

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in schools,

1:01.0

and has been active in teaching meditation in schools, prisons, and underserved populations.

1:02.0

She's also written several books including radical acceptance, radical compassion, and trusting the gold.

1:08.0

In this conversation we talk about a Buddhist tradition known as the Bodicepha teachings which are quite radical and which Tara

1:15.4

thinks can vastly improve both your life and the health of democracy. We also

1:21.8

talk about why some people might think this stuff is too soft,

1:25.1

for practices to develop compassion, a mindfulness technique known as rain,

1:30.6

how mindfulness can help you see what is beneath your anger, letting distress be a portal and the

1:37.6

amazing phrase action absorbs anxiety, how to get active when you have limited time, and how to counteract the very natural

1:46.8

tendency to numb out.

1:48.6

Just to say, before we dive in here, that Tara also recorded a guided meditation based on this conversation.

1:53.3

We'll post that on Dan Harris.com.

1:56.0

Tara Brock right after this.

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