A Pressure Cooker for Insight | Bart van Melik
The great meditation teacher Ram Dass once said, "If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family." My guest today comes with tools to help you keep your cool when interacting with f...
31 Mar 20211h 5min
Three Lessons from Happiness Research | Emma Seppälä
People in the mindfulness meditation world often note that what we're teaching is not a breathing exercise; the goal is to just feel the breath as it naturally occurs (if you've chosen the breath as t...
29 Mar 202157min
The Self-Interested Case for Examining Your Biases | John Biewen
Too often, the process of looking at your biases can be presented like eating your vegetables. But one of the most fascinating and rewarding things I have attempted to do in recent years is to take a ...
24 Mar 20211h 2min
The Profound Upside of Self-Diminishment | George Saunders
There is a powerful scene in a novel called Lincoln In the Bardo, where President Abraham Lincoln has come to the cemetery where his young son, Willie, is soon to be buried. Willie had passed away at ...
22 Mar 20211h 8min
How to Understand Oneness | Roshi Norma Wong
Today we're diving into a concept that is simultaneously one of the oldest contemplative cliches and one of the most profound head scratchers — oneness. Can *you* be one with everything if *you* don't...
17 Mar 202157min
How This Plague Ends (and What It Tells Us About Human Nature) | Nicholas Christakis
We all remember that fateful week, almost exactly a year ago, when it all seemed to sink in for so many of us–when Tom Hanks got sick, the NBA suspended games, and the (now former) President addressed...
15 Mar 20211h 3min
How to Break Your Anxiety Habit | Judson Brewer
To mark the first anniversary of the week in March 2020 when Covid fundamentally altered our lives, we're launching a special two-part series. Today, we're going to be talking about anxiety, which has...
10 Mar 20211h 11min
A Conversation about Abuse, Agency, and Mindfulness | Tanya Selvaratnam
Before we dive in, a warning: this conversation includes descriptions of abuse and violence. As you may know, March 8th, the day we're dropping this episode, is International Women's Day. We have a st...
8 Mar 202146min
