You Can't Hate Yourself Into Becoming a Better Person | Vinny Ferraro

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, how we doing? Okay, here's the deal. I'm just gonna give it to you straight.

We all have demons. The question is, are you going to find a way to work with your difficult parts, the difficult aspects of your inner repertoire, or are you going to let your demons own you? Your call. That's up to you. Today you're going to hear from a guy who has learned this lesson the hard way and in the process has become a beloved Buddhist teacher.

Vinny Ferraro leads the Big Heart City Sangha, which is part of the Insight Meditation tradition. He's also our teacher of the month over on danharris.com, which means he'll be producing guided meditations throughout September to go with all of our Monday-Wednesday episodes. The idea is that you can listen to the episode, learn a ton, and then Vinny will help you, as I like to say, pound the wisdom into your neurons with a guided meditation. These meditations are only for paid subscribers over at danharris.com. Paid subscribers also now get weekly live meditation and Q<unk>A sessions.

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