The Book of Joy

This book by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jack Kornfield. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, exercise & strength, meditation & mindfulness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “there's a wonderful book that came out last year the year before called The Book Of Joy which was a conversation between the Dal Lama and Archbishop tutu”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's a wonderful book... called The Book Of Joy”
  Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202402:16:08

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield". The episode features Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield: Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls. Jack Kornfield is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, one of the key figures who brought mindfulness practice to the West and author of 16 books. A 10th-anniversary super-combo episode pairing Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, intuition, and saying no with Jack Kornfield on meditation and compassion.