Dan Harris

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One, two, or three?

Two.

Is there a religious practice or ritual that you're envious of?

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I have this odd interest in something that simultaneously repulses me, which is devotional practice.

There are aspects of Buddhism where you really – and other traditions as well – where you sort of – you bow –

To a statue of the Buddha or it could be Kuan Ying who's – this is where my Buddhist knowledge is going to run out of road.

But I think she is like the avatar of compassion in certain schools of Buddhism.

And so I don't know a ton about this devotional practice.

I just know that I have some friends who've done it and I see that my initial response to it is revulsion.

Like prostrating yourself in front of some kind of— That's prostrations, literally prostrations.

Yeah, okay.

And when I have that kind of response, I always try to investigate it.

Like, all right, what's going on there?

Because my life has just been a succession of things that I dismissed and was totally wrong about and later came to embrace.

And so I'm just curious, like, huh, what's going on with that?

It is interesting, that practice.

And at the same time, I, like you, see a person who can do that, and it feels also like a beautiful surrender.