10% Happier with Dan Harris Surviving the News: Buddhist Strategies for Staying Sane, Engaged, and Not Completely Furious | Pascal Auclair
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Oct 2, 2026 
Pascal Auclair, a Buddhist meditation teacher and co-founder of True North Insight, joins a live conversation on staying sane in an overwhelming news cycle. They explore karma as agency, attention sovereignty, outrage, helplessness, and the tension between staying informed and protecting mental health. They also discuss beauty as resistance, meditation as preparation for action, and creating a sustainable news diet.
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Use Breathing To Escape The News Vortex
- Return attention to breathing and the immediate environment when outrage contracts the mind.
- Balance difficult news with nature, beauty, joy, and creativity without denying suffering.
Crisis Can Become The Practice Field
- The Buddha practiced amid war, disease, conflict, and uncertainty rather than waiting for ideal conditions.
- Difficult circumstances can become the field where honesty, compassion, equanimity, and freedom develop.
Karma Puts Agency In Your Response
- Karma emphasizes intentions and responses rather than guaranteeing that bad people receive punishment.
- You cannot choose what happens politically, but you can shape your mind, relationships, and future through your response.
