Buddhist Themes in The White Lotus, Explained | Josh Bearman

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, party people. How are we doing? Today we are going to deconstruct the Buddhist themes in the amazing HBO TV series The White Lotus season three.

By my reckoning, there's never been a more popular work of art that I'm aware of that has dealt with Buddhist themes in such a rich and robust way. I mean, you can maybe look at The Matrix, but the Matrix, which came out many years ago, didn't deal with Buddhism head on. in the way the White Lotus did, and it's caused this huge conversation, which I think is so interesting and so fun for me as somebody who loves the show and who loves the Dharma. So today we're dropping a special episode. We usually don't drop episodes on Thursdays, but we rushed this episode into

the feed because we got so excited about it. Side note, I want to thank many people on the team who made this possible, including Marissa Schneiderman, our senior producer, and Caroline Keenan, another of our producers, and Abby Smith, who's another key member of the team. But there are many people who did a lot of hard work to get this episode ready for you. My guest is a guy I just met who I feel like I could easily be friends with.

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