10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-07-16 · 62 min · 9,855 words

A Buddhist Compass To Direct You Toward Happiness | Beth Upton

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This is the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. Dan Harris. Hello everybody. How we doing. Today we're gonna do one of my uh favorite things. We're gonna nerd out

Oh, the Dharma. But in a way, and I want to assure you of this very, very early. In a way that is relevant and practical, which Buddhism pretty much always is. My guest today is a former Buddhist nun who underwent some of the most rigorous training possible over in Burma. She hit some

Elevated, rarefied states of consciousness. And her job now is to teach the rest of us unenlightened worldlings how we can get a little taste of what she tasted. In our own lives. She's gonna dive into a section of the Buddhist teachings known as the Abhidharma. which she describes as particle physics for the mind. Specifically she's gonna focus on a concept called Cusila.

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