Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

by Dan Harris

I try to remain mindful of a great New Yorker cartoon that shows two women having lunch. One of them says to the other, “I’ve been gluten free for a week, and I’m already annoying.”

Several hours after leaving New York City, the bus rolled into suburban Boston and pulled up at Newton South High School, my alma mater,

WHAT

“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.”

Watching his beaming face on my computer, I thought about the Buddhist term mudita, which means “sympathetic joy.” I describe it as the opposite of schadenfreude.