Dan Harris

It feels like beauty and liberation in that kind of surrender.

In my first book, I wrote about how I was on my first retreat, and everybody was bowing to the Buddha, and I thought it was like, I really hated it.

And then I wrote about how I started doing it, but only for a hamstring stretch.

I think the way I've come to understand devotional practice to the extent that I understand it at all, which is very limited, is that ultimately what you're bowing to is an aspect of the mind, of the human mind.

So like compassion that is papered over and sometimes cemented over by the world, by the world we live in where we're just armoring up and hardened.

But we have this...

It is quintessentially human capacity for compassion, for love.

Just to put it in plain English, to give a shit about ourselves and others, right?

This is, you know, love is this panoramic inner capacity that we have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bowing to the avatar of compassion is a way to – it's like a snake charming that you're doing on yourself to bring that aspect, that hidden aspect of the mind into greater salience.

Last one.

One, two, or three?

Three.

What's an experience you wish you could give every person?

I think most of us consciously or subconsciously kind of think we're stuck with how we are.

We have X amount of patience, X amount of generosity.

Um, but what we know from the science is that the brain and by extension, the mind, uh,

it's trainable.