Anxious? Rushed? Reaching for Your Phone? Four Buddhist Phrases To Bring You Back | Brother Phap Dung and Kaira Jewel Lingo
10% Happier with Dan Harris

Anxious? Rushed? Reaching for Your Phone? Four Buddhist Phrases To Bring You Back | Brother Phap Dung and Kaira Jewel Lingo

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 20261 hr 1 min
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Why tensing against pain makes it worse, the difference between acceptance and passivity, and how to plan for the future while staying present—from two of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh's senior students. Brother Thích Chân Pháp Dung is a Vietnamese American Buddhist monk ordained in 1998 and a Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village tradition, founded by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. He currently practices and teaches at Deer Park Monastery in California and is the founder of the Thích Nhất Hạnh School of Interbeing. Kaira Jewel Lingo is...

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Hey everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. As many of you know, I am obsessed with Buddhism, aka the Dharma. And one of my favorite ways to practice and learn the Dharma is through pithy little catchphrases, these little mantras, these, as I like to call them, Buddhist earworms that weasel their way into your mind stream

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and then surface at exactly the moments when you need them. We've done many episodes on the show where we talked to my longtime meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein about the many Buddhist earworms that he has personally coined. However, he's not the only meditation maestro who uses pithy little phrases.

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Another person who has done so is the legendary Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Nhat Hanh died a few years ago, but he was, as I said, a Zen master from Vietnam, the author of many, many books, and the man who started the well-known Plum Village lineage of Buddhist meditators.

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