A Four-Word Buddhist Teaching for Instant Calm and (Just Maybe) Lasting Peace | Bart van Melik

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. How are we doing? Today I'm talking to a great meditation teacher named Bart Van Mellock.

We're going to talk about a host of fascinating issues. how to get out of your head and into your body, whether it's okay from a Buddhist standpoint to connect with other people through complaining or bullshitting, how to introduce meditation to your children, the immense power of practicing meditation with other people, and we talk about Bart's tagline, which is keep calmly knowing change. He'll explain that. What you're about to hear is a live conversation that Bart and I recorded during one of our weekly live sessions for subscribers to the 10% with Dan Harris Meditation app. Bart started us off with a guided meditation.

You won't hear this because we clipped it out so we can get right to the Q<unk>A, but the session began with Bart guiding us in a meditation. The theme of the meditation was Keep Calmly Knowing Change, but we talk a little bit about what that phrase means during the conversation. Before we get to the conversation, just quickly want to plug the app. If you sign up, you can come to our weekly live sessions where we meditate and then chop it up together.

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