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Sep 14, 2026
Dan HarrisHOST
I am your host, Dan Harris.
Dan HarrisHOST
As a Buddhist, I am simultaneously galvanized by and terrified by, uh, the unavoidable fact of death.
Dan HarrisHOST
Galvanized, uh, because being aware of your mortality can make life more vivid and vibrant in the present moment, and terrified because, like, who's not afraid of dying? Uh, today though, I'm talking to a very famous doctor who argues that we can make this process, which again is coming for all of us, much more humane.
Dan HarrisHOST
Uh, Dr. Atul Gawande is a renowned surgeon, uh, a Harvard professor, a, a writer for The New Yorker, and the bestselling author of many, many books, including, uh, the one we're gonna focus on today, which is called Being Mortal.
Rachel ZoffnessGUEST
So the answer to your question is, there's always a recipe of ingredients in any given moment that go into the brain's decision as to whether or not to make pain and how much.
Rick HansonGUEST
There's a metaphor you're probably familiar with from early Buddhism of the two darts, the two arrows, in which there's some kind of primary source of pain, physical or emotional, like, for example, a brick falling on your foot or, you know, longstanding grief over a loss of a loved one, loosely.
Rick HansonGUEST
And then there's the secondary reactions we add to that primary discomfort, and that second dart is where there are many, many opportunities for us.
Rick HansonGUEST
I have a chronic issue in my neck.
The Cajun KnightHOST
"They're not, they're not ready."
Sias ParsonsGUEST
Same with the Buddhists.
The Cajun KnightHOST
It's...
The Cajun KnightHOST
Dude, it's-
Sias ParsonsGUEST
The Buddhists say that they have, they have, uh, um, you know, they, you know, they have those monasteries that have all those scrolls.
Sias ParsonsGUEST
They have scrolls where, you know, it, it illustrates the time he spent with the Buddhists learning from, from the Eastern practices.
Sias ParsonsGUEST
And his, his journey brought him back through Egypt, which brought him to the, the true- what I think is the true source knowledge, which is what the foundation of Hermeticism is.
Sias ParsonsGUEST
But I think if you go straight into Hermeticism, you're talk- it's Western Hermeticism.
Andrew Hunter MurrayHOST
He was living in a castle with Eva Braun in West Germany.
Andrew Hunter MurrayHOST
He was working as a croupier in France, a shepherd in the Swiss Alps, an Italian hermit in a cave on the shores of Lake Garda, practicing Buddhism in a Tibetan monastery.
Andrew Hunter MurrayHOST
The chief of British Counterintelligence in Germany decided this could not go on.
Andrew Hunter MurrayHOST
And into this confusion steps one young man, plucked from his studies at Oxford to pit his brains against the enemy, a historian called Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Jiang XueqinGUEST
Another example is Ashoka, who was an Indian emperor who, again, won all his wars against his enemies, and he's like, "Oh, war is bad.
Jiang XueqinGUEST
Let's do Buddhism instead." Okay? So, and, and I'm not saying this cynically, I'm just saying like there's a pattern, and each time this happens, it is pretty real.
Jiang XueqinGUEST
Okay? So I think that Trump will have a come to Jesus moment in his third term.
Jiang XueqinGUEST
I don't know when, but, uh, he will, and his followers will, will believe it, and he will promote Christianity as the state religion.
Jon Paul CrimiGUEST
The trainer, I was getting paid, but I started mentoring young kids who were messed up and I started helping people get sober and that's how I became a Sober Companion.
Jon Paul CrimiGUEST
And the idea of like, I'm just gonna help somebody else, which is a very kind of Buddhist principle, which is that there's two kinds of people.
Jon Paul CrimiGUEST
There's the dumb selfish person and the smart selfish person.
Jon Paul CrimiGUEST
And the dumb selfish person, when they're feeling bad about themselves, when they're going through something hard, they just sit there and feel bad for themselves.
TiombeGUEST
I am a person that if I don't understand something, then I'm going to go figure it out.
TiombeGUEST
I showed up at a Buddhist monastery.
TiombeGUEST
And I started asking questions.
TiombeGUEST
I did guided meditations with them in the very beginning.
Domyo BurkHOST
And realization kind of being this we lack for nothing.
Domyo BurkHOST
I mean, this is where, like, uh, kind of the Mahayana response to original Buddhism.
Domyo BurkHOST
Where original Buddhism was like you need to work very, very hard to, um, like kinda purify yourself of all of these, uh, karmic desires and bad habits and, and achieve this stillness which will let you taste nirvana.
Domyo BurkHOST
And the Mahayana response is, well, give up all of your craving this moment, and there nirvana is.
Domyo BurkHOST
So this is something that we can, we can touch right now.
Domyo BurkHOST
Please, honored followers of Zen, long accustomed to groping for the elephant, do not doubt the true dragon.
Domyo BurkHOST
Devote your energies to the way that points directly to the real thing.
Domyo BurkHOST
So it is, uh, from the very beginning of Buddhism, part of our, one of our tools and practices has been to remind ourselves of impermanence, about how short our lives are, about the precious opportunity to practice.
speaker_1HOST
Let me tell you a little bit about what Ongo means.
speaker_1HOST
The meaning of Ongo is peaceful dwelling or dwelling in peace, which is a traditional intensive training period in many Buddhist communities.
speaker_1HOST
The practice dates back to the time of Shakyamuni Buddha, when monastics gathered during the rainy season to remain in one place for sustained meditation, study, work, and communal life.
speaker_1HOST
In contemporary Zen communities, Ango is often observed once or twice a year, commonly in spring and fall.
Jill BriscoeHOST
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Jill BriscoeHOST
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Jill BriscoeHOST
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