Dan Harris

I, as the Tin Man, will defer to...

I think it's the stuff we... I do want to hear what you both have to say, but in my experience, it's the...

The Dharma has these practices like loving-kindness meditation.

I suspect many of you are familiar with it, but if you're not, it really is, as I said earlier, about envisioning a series of beings and starting with an easy person, moving to yourself.

mentor, neutral person, difficult person, everybody, everywhere.

And systematically, it's the systematic cultivation of SAP.

You know, it's like, I sometimes joke it's Valentine's Day with a gun to your head.

It's like, really?

And, like, as I also often say, if you were an alien and you landed on this planet and went to a gym, it would look really weird that people are running in place for 45 minutes or picking heavy shit up and putting it back down.

But why are they doing that?

Because we know that the cardiovascular system and the musculoskeletal

muscular skeletal system can be trained.

Well, the same is true for the brain and the mind.

And so our innate capacity for warmth, for compassion, these are just skills that can be trained through practices.

And then I think it's not...

Then I think the real training is in your life.

Like when somebody you love or several people you love get dementia simultaneously or, you know, my case, my wife's had many serious health problems.

So I've done many, many trips to the hospital.

So you just, that's like...

You're either gonna let that shut you down or you're gonna like rip your pirate shirt off on the prow of the boat and like go for it.