Dan Harris

Like we are human beings and our ethical conduct has consequences or lack of ethical conduct has consequences too.

And so you want to hold – it's a paradox.

Much of life is understanding and utilizing paradox.

And this is the big one, in my opinion, that these two things are true at the same time.

And can you toggle back and forth between them with some skill?

How does that affect your idea of your feelings about being forgotten, about there being no remainder of you?

I mean, I know you have a child.

There's like a physical remainder of you.

But how many generations before nobody remembers who great-grandpa Dan was, does that freak you out or is that just part of the deal?

It doesn't freak me out that much.

You know, about a year and a half ago, I was interviewing somebody on my show, this amazing Buddhist teacher named Vinnie Ferraro, who has an incredible story, which I'll tell very quickly, which is that he grew up in a very low-income environment in Rhode Island and was an addict and a criminal and

He served several stints in jail and prison, and during one of his terms, he was in there with his own father and got out, got sober, found the Dharma, and has become this incredible teacher.

He's the only teacher I've ever interviewed who, throughout the whole interview, will call me bro.

And he's very funny and very wise.

And he got me interested in an aspect of Buddhism that a lot of people might be tempted to reject.

And that's totally fine.

It's hardcore.

But the Buddha himself recommended that twice a day you recall five things.

This body that I'm occupying is of the nature to grow old.

It's of the nature to get sick.