10% Happier with Dan Harris Folgen

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Virtue is a tricky topic. It’s often sold to us by religious leaders who are thundering judgmentally, and sometimes hypocritically, down to us from the mountaintop. But from the Buddhist perspective, there is actually a deeply self-interested case for ethics and virtue. The Buddhists are not trying to get you to follow a bunch of very specific rules: they are trying to get you to do no harm because that will make you happy.   This is part two of our series on a venerable Buddhist list called the Noble Eightfold Path. The three middle items on the list all have to do with ethical conduct. They are: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.   Our guest today, Eugene Cash, is gonna talk about this stuff in super practical, non-dogmatic and non-preachy ways. Cash has been a Buddhist teacher since 1990. He's the founding teacher of San Francisco Insight and a senior teacher on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council. His teaching is influenced by many streams of Buddhism— Theravada, Zen and Tibetan.  In this conversation we talk about:  How to make terms such as virtue and ethics more attractive to skeptics Eugene's case that being ethical is in your self-interest His idea that kindness can actually be hard-nosed and tough How the Buddha could be hard on people when it was helpful for those people How to use right speech skillfully Why he says that practicing right action all day long is his idea of fun  The technical versus the holistic understanding of right livelihood The difference between “being present” and “presence”  And what has kept him devoted to the eightfold path for so many years   Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/eugene-cash-595

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Today’s guest is the legendary astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, the host of the Emmy nominated podcast, Star Talk, and the recipient of 21 honorary doctorates. He also has an asteroid named in his honor. Tyson’s latest book is right up our alley on the show. It's called Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization and it’s basically about how taking a scientific perspective can improve your life—and the world.   In this episode we talk about: Applying a scientific lens to our emotions The importance of intellectual humility How the knowledge of death brings meaning to life  Neil’s long view of social media Whether we are living in a simulation Neil's personal mental health regime And whether there is intelligent life in the universe Full Shownotes:https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/neil-degrasse-tyson-594 

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- This episode kicks off our series on the Eightfold Path which will continue on Wednesdays for the next two weeks with Eugene Cash and Joseph Goldstein. DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist and has been a meditator for the past 25 years. She is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation and is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is an IMS Emeritus Guiding Teacher.  In this episode we talk about: The first two components of the Eightfold Path: Right View and Right Thinking How the Eightfold Path has played out in DaRa’s life  The notions of Intuition, Clear Seeing, and Openness  And the very tricky skills of renunciation and fostering non-attachment to outcomes Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dara-williams-592