You Can Stop Fixing Yourself: Buddhist Advice on Boundaries, Rituals, and Dropping Your Self-Aggression | Susan Piver

Hello, everybody, welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Normally, given the fact that I'm a skeptical guy and an agnostic, when somebody uses the word magic, I uh get hives. However, when somebody I trust and respect uses that word with all of its metaphysical connotations, I actually get interested. Yeah. with my guest today, Susan Piver. Who who is a Buddhist teacher and a best selling author and uh a frequent fly right here on this show. Susan has a new book and it's called Inexplicable Magic. So what the hell is that about? Let's bring in Susan Piver. Susan, welcome back to the show.

Thank you. I am so happy to be back and it is so good to see you. I think the w key word here is inexplicable. Uh so this magic is there are no wizard hats. There's no casting of spells unless you know you're into that. But I'm sure you Can attest to this, Dan, or tell me.

If not. When you sit in meditation, basically what you're doing is Nothing. At some point, however, you and I and countless meditators over the millennia. have reported.

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