Dan Harris

Jeff was thinking it.

I know.

He's the problem.

Canada.

This is why we call it meditation.

And let ourselves feel what we feel.

The Buddhists know how to have a good time.

I mean, the joy and the enjoyment of life emerges directly from the clear seeing of what the truth is.

Yeah.

Big time.

I sometimes think about, like, what is the logic of boredom in the face of these remembrances?

Like, what a waste of time to be bored.

You know, or just to be running on the lie, like, that this is going to go forever.

Self-protective chicken.

Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah, I wasn't saying that the logic is that we recall these and then never allow ourselves to relax again because we need to maximize every waking moment.

And I think I like Netflix.

It's just that the logic of especially boredom or disaffection or blasé-ness kind of goes out the window a little bit in my experience when you're starting to view the world through this lens.

Coming up, we answer some audience questions, including a really interesting and thorny question about how you hold two things in your mind at the same time.