#1: Dalai Lama

Ten Percent Happier
March 11, 2016
#1: Dalai Lama
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Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

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How can you live a happier life? In our debut episode, Dan Harris sits down with the Dalai Lama and Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds. His Holiness and Richardson have collaborated for years on research looking at the impact meditation can have on the brain.

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