Unstoppable Friendliness | Bonus Meditation with Pascal Auclair

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When we abandon preconceived ideas, we all get freer. Learn to embrace others' full humanity through this liberating practice of acceptance.

About Pascal Auclair:

Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. He is a co-founder of True North Insight and one of TNI’s Guiding Teachers.

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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.
0:13.4	It's the 10% Happier podcast.
0:16.0	I'm Dan Harris. Happy Valentine's Day.
0:28.7	It's time for a bonus meditation.
0:30.0	When I first heard the phrase loving kindness, I thought it was inexcusably cheesy.
0:35.6	So sometimes I prefer to call it friendliness. Our meditation teacher
0:39.8	du jour, Pascal O'Clair, takes that one step further by using the phrase, unstoppable friendliness.
0:46.7	And in today's meditation, he's going to help you get a taste of it. Just a little bit more about
0:51.0	Pascal before we jump in here. He's based in Canada. He's trained with the great Joseph Goldstein at the Insight Meditation Society.
0:57.9	And he's the co-founder of True North Insight.
1:01.2	Here we go now with Pascal O'Clair.
1:04.8	Hello you. It's me, Pascal.
1:09.6	Loving kindness or unstoppable friendliness, as Anushka Fernando Puli calls it,
1:15.4	can be nurtured by abandoning what is blocking it.
1:19.6	Follow me on this unexpected and liberating journey.
1:25.2	First, let's settle in a comfortable posture, where you'll feel supported and stable.
1:35.3	A little moment of solitude and introspection. Oh, what a blessing. Okay, let's reflect for a moment on the attitudes in our minds
1:56.9	that sometimes keep us from being able to wish well to ourselves and others, to be kind.
2:04.6	Isn't it true that judgments, expectations, demands, or resentments sometimes get in a way of
2:10.3	our love and appreciation? Break someone to mind, a family member or friend.
2:18.3	Imagine them here with you.
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