The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Daily Buddhist: 366 Days of Wisdom for Happiness, Inner Freedom, and Mindful Living by Pema Sherpa, Brendan Barca

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

The Daily Buddhist: 366 Days of Wisdom for Happiness, Inner Freedom, and Mindful Living by Pema Sherpa, Brendan Barca Amazon.com Thedailybuddhist.net 366 daily doses of profound and practical Buddhist teachings for true transformation. Why do so many people still embrace the wisdom of Buddhism, even after twenty-five hundred years? The answer lies in the fact that, although the world may look different now, humans still grapple with the same fundamental challenges: overwhelming emotions, discontentment, and a longing for happiness. These are the very challenges that Buddhist philosophy can help us overcome, empowering us to transform into fearless, compassionate, and joyful individuals. Buddhism provides a framework we can use to lead a great life—one in which we are kinder, have greater resilience, are more adaptable to change, and experience greater lightness and joy. The Daily Buddhist offers daily teachings of Buddhist wisdom and practices to help us navigate the challenges of everyday life. Drawing from many of the greatest Buddhist masters throughout history—renowned Indian philosophers like Nagarjuna and Santideva; Tibetan masters like Milarepa, Patrul Rinpoche, and Chögyam Trungpa; and, of course, the Buddha himself—the authors, Buddhist scholars and practitioners, deliver daily doses of Buddhist insights tailored for 21st century living. Each day of the year, you’ll receive an insightful quote from a Buddhist master paired with a thought-provoking reflection that’s accessible, practical, and modern. Over the course of the year, you’ll learn: How mindfulness can help you find inner peace How to make friends with yourself through meditation How to overcome difficult emotions like anger, jealousy, and anxiety Why cultivating compassion leads to happiness Why you are not your thoughts How to tame your inner critic How to discover happiness that actually lasts This profound yet practical approach to Buddhist philosophy provides tools for true transformation. By the end of the year, you'll see the world and your mind in a new light, propelling you along the path to lasting happiness, self-mastery, and inner freedom.About the author Brendan Barca is an author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and Buddhist practitioner. He discovered Buddhism in his twenties, initially turning to meditation to cope with stress and burnout. Since then, he has practiced Tibetan Buddhsim for years, traveling to Nepal to learn from revered masters such as Dudjom Tenzin Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche. Experiencing the transformative effects of mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist teachings in his own life, he co-founded Brema Solutions with his wife, Pema Sherpa, to bring these invaluable principles to corporations worldwide. Together, Pema and Brendan wrote their first book, The Daily Buddhist, and also run their popular newsletter of the same name. Brendan lives with his wife and daughter Samaya in Brooklyn, NY.

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We have Brendan Barka on the show with us today. His newest book is coming out in May of 2025. It is called The Daily Buddhist, 366 Days of Wisdom for Happiness, Inner Freedom and Mindful Living. Those of you who want a book about wisdom for unhappiness, no freedom and mindless living, sorry to let you down. This book is not for you. But this book is The Daily Buddhist and we're going to get into it and talk about it and all that good stuff on the show. In the meantime, go to Goodreads.com, Forchess Chris Voss, LinkedIn.com, Forchess Chris Voss,

Chris Voss 1, The TikToki and Chris Voss Facebook.com. Brendan is an author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and Buddhist practitioner. I hope so, he wrote a book about him. He discovered Buddhism in his twenties, initially turning into meditation to cope with stress and burnout. Since then he's practiced Tibetan Buddhism for years, traveling to Nepal to learn from revered masters, and I can't produce the names of the masters he learned from, but we'll just take his word for it for now. Experiencing the transformative effects of mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist teachings, in his own life he founded Brema Solutions. Did I pronounce that right, Brendan?

Yeah, it's a combination of my wife's name and mine. Her name is Pema, so we combined it for Brendan and Pema. Oh, good. And she is the co-author to the book as well. Yeah, that's correct. They bring these invaluable principles to corporations worldwide and they wrote their first book together we'll be talking about today. Welcome to the show, Brandon. How are you?

I'm doing great. Thanks so much for having me, Chris. Thanks for coming. We really appreciate it. It looks like we're going to figure out how to make our lives better today. So give us your dot coms. Where do you want people to find you on those social internet stuff? Yeah, thanks so much.

So the first place to find us is going to be at thedailybuddhist.net. That's where you can learn everything about the book and also about our business and our story. And then you can also find us on Instagram. That's at daily.buddhist. And we're growing on there for the last six months. And then we're on LinkedIn. I'm at Brendan Barka on LinkedIn. I always read it as buddhist. And I figured those are people that were doing lots of marijuana. Buddhist, get it? No. I'm just doing stupid jokes in the show, people. Don't write me. It's okay. It's getting settled in.

The Daily Buddhist. Some things you have to waste even though the joke sucks. It's maybe that it's funner when you kill and die than when you... It's funnier to die than kill. Anyway, The Daily Buddhist. So So give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside your new book? Matthew 18 Yeah, so The Daily Buddhists, as the title mentions, every single day of the year, including one day on leap years, you get a piece of Buddhist wisdom. So we've extracted some of the best quotes and some of the best teachings from over 2,500 years of Buddhism,

put them at the top of each page, and underneath it we give a commentary or a practice or an action that is modern, that is made for 21st century living. In each month we cover different themes. We talk about themes in Buddhism such as impermanence, compassion, interdependence, meditation of course, and so help authors, excuse me, help readers be able to work through it in a methodical way so that by the end of the year they come out feeling that inner freedom, the happiness and mindful living as the book mentions. Pete Get wisdom, happiness and inner freedom, you know, the mindfulness of sitting with your own thoughts and dealing with them, all that good stuff. What is Buddhism?

Say, let's lay a foundation for that. So if I'm not familiar with what Buddha is, how would you describe it? Matthew 18.1 At its core, Buddhism started from one individual, the Buddha. He was around ancient India about 2500 years ago and his own journey. He started out as a prince, living a really privileged life, but found that he was still experiencing suffering and so he wanted to figure out how he could try to find happiness. And so he actually went off for a while and

became a watering ascetic. He was, you know, trying to practice with limiting his, you know, he was, wasn't eating much, was just praying all the time, meditating, but found he couldn't find happiness there either. So what actually worked was more of what he called the middle way, which was a space in between that. And so, really what Buddhism is, it's helping people to first realize that suffering is a part of life, but then also realize that there's a path out. So, Buddhism and what the Buddha outlaid back then is although there is suffering, you know, there is, we all die, we all get sick, we all experiencing all types of suffering, there are ways to get out and feel happy now. And so, that's what Buddhism is, you Buddhism is at a 30,000 foot view.

Pete Wait, you mean we all die? What? Jared Unfortunately, I don't think – Pete No one told me about this part. No, I'm just kidding. Unfortunately, I'm too aware of it. But no, I mean, you know, there's an old adage of Marcus Aurelius' thing, you know, death smiles upon us, so the best we can do is smile back or

something to that effect. Yeah, there's struggle in life, there's going to be challenges, there's going to be, you know, things that we have to overcome. Some of it seems to make us grow. It's kind of weird how sometimes we, the things that happen to us are the things that need to make us grow the most, it seems, when we're in our moments of dichotomy and we're going through cathartic experiences and stuff. It seems like that's what we need the most. It's kind of like every person has stuff falling into their life that has the ability to either destroy them or grow them. And it just depends on how we react to them, I think. Jared Sussman Yeah, I think a lot of things in Buddhism

too reflects around how to be more mentally resilient, how to work on your mind and see situations, you know, no matter how dire they may seem or how difficult things are externally, trying to find ways to, you know, internalize your power and be able to, you know, find a way to get out of it or find a way to, you know, a better place in life. I think that might be in line with what you're saying. Pete And maybe perspective is a way of looking at Buddhism helps give you a different angle or perspective or maybe a thoughtful sort of approach to it instead of, you know, fight

or flight panic, which is how some people deal with other problems, right? Jared Yeah. In Buddhism, we're always trying to understand our internal and external reality a little bit clearer, you know, because in a given day, right, we have all these thoughts that are ping-ponging around our head. We have all these things coming at us on social media or on the internet. And so, there's a lot of room for external and internal distraction, whether it's our thoughts or whether it's things outside, but it's trying to use mindfulness, use meditation as a way to see things

a little bit more clearly and kind of see, okay, I might've maybe, for example, been angry at my partner or something, but trying to see, okay, that doesn't mean that I'm a bad person, doesn't mean that I'm angry, it means that I had that emotion and there might be a better way to work on it in the future.

So that's just like one small anecdote, but I do think, as you mentioned, it's a different perspective on how you see things that might help you to live better and be a better person. And the other thing is, is the calming of the mind, I think, right? We're shot up with all these scattered thoughts. We have this ego mind that's kind of abusive sometimes, and there's a lot of noise. Of course, in our world, you know, you got social media, you got ping pong notifications from your phone every five seconds. And, you know, I had somebody

on recently a couple months ago, and they talked about spending less time looking for distraction. And a lot of times, as human beings, what we're doing is we're trying to distract ourselves from maybe our life or maybe thinking about our life or focusing on the issues maybe we need to focus on. And we look for ways to distract us from the reality of what's going on. And sometimes that isn't always good because we're just filling our world with noise and cheap dopamine hits, right?

And so, he talked about how we need to spend more time just quiet and alone with our thoughts and sit and go, what the hell are we thinking? Why are we thinking that? What is Buddhism actually about, maybe? Matthew 11.10 Yeah, it actually got me thinking about one of the words in Tibetan for Buddhism or the word for meditation is this word, Gome, which actually translates to getting to know yourself or being able to understand yourself better.

So, in a Buddhist perspective, when you sit down with your thoughts and you're able to meditate, it enables you to be able to see who you are and be able to see those thoughts, see those distractions. If we don't do that, if we just kind of keep ourselves in the treadmill of those dopamine hits, see ourselves every day, just like racing one thought after the next and one activity after the next,

we never actually get the chance to get to know ourselves. Nevermind make friends with ourselves, which is also part of the reason why there's a lot of, self-loathing or self-hatred out there. It's because we don't actually take the time to create kindness or space for ourselves. I think that's a big part of what meditation is, and especially from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective.

Is the book meant to be read sequentially or do you jump around to the dates maybe in the book? If you have dates, I don't know if there's dates in there. Yeah, there's dates. So we have a date for every single day of the year and we've seen early readers, some people do have some advanced copy do one of two ways is you can either start January 1st and work through the book like that, even if you buy the book, let's say in June, or other people if they really

want to stick to the day of the year they're in, you can start and just pick it up on that day, it's still going to have the benefits, it's just each month covers a different theme. So the other thing you could do is you could pick, okay, I really want to work on understanding impermanence, understanding change and understanding death and that. So then you would maybe start in January where if you wanted to focus on meditation, we have a chapter for that in December. It really depends, but it can be either. Pete Is there an entry in your book or from a day that maybe has your favorite sort of personal advice or maybe story behind it?

Matthew 18.30 Oh, there's a lot. A lot of the stories that we've made in there, you know, come from personal experience or from, you know, or from different books we've read. I mean, one of the things that I think about, there's an entry in the book that is called The Tip of the Iceberg, and it's February 5th, if I get the date right. And for that one, it makes you think about, you know, all the different causes and conditions that go into someone's behavior. For example, maybe you have a friend who is at,

he's a great friend, but maybe at times he's really stingy, right? He doesn't help you pay for the Uber. He doesn't buy you a drink. He doesn't maybe do the things that you'd wish him to do. And so you might think to yourself, oh, maybe this is just a bad person or that makes things really hard for our friendship.

But we can't see the fact that maybe back when he was a kid that his parents made him feel a sense of lack, maybe doesn't come from much money. And so it helps you kind of peel back the layers and kind of see beneath, if you go back to the analogy of the iceberg, that there's more to meet below the surface. And so with that kind of understanding,

with every person we come across, whether it's a colleague, whether it's a neighbor, you know, some of them might trigger us, we can understand, okay, they might trigger me, but I can only see a little bit of what this person is going through when there's so much more that they've lived through all these experiences that are creating

whatever action they're doing towards me, or not even towards me, but you know, in my presence.. Yeah. So, tell us about your journey through your life. What was some of your influences growing up? What shaped you and eventually brought you to Buddhism? Jared Yeah, so I grew up in Massachusetts, not too far from Boston, and I guess I was raised Catholic, although not too strictly. So just didn't go to Sunday, Sunday school every, every week. But, you know, grew up there, got, you know, education in the Northeast. And then I was in finance.

I was doing sales for a number of years. And one of the things that started to happen to me in my mid twenties, I started to burn out. I'm someone who's, you know, very type a I'm very driven. I want to, you know, get the promotion. I want to make the sale. I want to, you know, here, I want to write the book right here we are doing a different type of that. But I'm like that type of person. And I found that it created a lot of anxiety in me just the way I was kind of going about my career. And so back then, I discovered meditation, a friend told me about it, that she was trying it. And so I gave it a try and I never stopped. And that was about nine years ago. And I found that pretty quickly meditation was able to help ground me, help me to, you know, calm my thoughts, see more clearly. And then that sort of.

Progressed into more formal, what you can call Buddhist practices. And actually I met my wife at a bar, her name is Pema and she's she was from Nepal. So she actually grew up Buddhist from a traditional sense. And one of the things we had in common at the bar was that we both meditated and had interest in Buddhism. So you can imagine it was a, it was a good match. And so we've been together now for over seven and a half years and have grown our practice together a lot. When I say practice, I mean, you know, it's, of course, it's meditation, but it's also living by Buddhist principles. Of course, there are ways to do like Buddhist prayers, just like you could do prayers in

Christianity. So that's a big part of what we do. And then now with the book, we wanted to bring this to everyone else out in the world so they can understand the profound impact Buddhism can have, even if you're not Buddhist, right? You could be Christian, you could be Jewish, you could be anything and still appreciate the lessons in the Buddhist philosophy that we're teaching. Pete And then having a daily sort of advisory, you know, I have something that sits off the screen but I look at it every day.

I have my Marcus Aurelius Meditations and I've got a book that's called, it's from Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Journal. And so, having a daily sort of reminder, something to tickle your brain and tickle file for your brain can really help. And one of the things I found was I started doing a thing in the mornings during the spring and summer when it's warm enough to go out. I'd go out and sit with my shirt off to start my circadian rhythms and get my vitamin D and I'll sit in the sun, my dogs are playing in the yard and I'll read something from stoicism like meditations or something like that.

With your book I could be reading whatever the daily mantra is and then I would ponder over it. I would kind of read maybe a page or two and then I would think about what I'd read. And you try and swim in it a little bit. Instead of just trying to blast through a chapter, you know, you read a few pages and sometimes they just anonymously open the book and just kind of pick something and kind of run with it. But I found that starting my day in that mindfulness that you're talking about and probably, you

know, with your book, one of those mantras for the day, really helped set my day on a good course. You wake up and you got emails coming at you and you got phone calls and text messages and everybody's like, the world's on fire, we need your attention. And you're like, oh God, you got the news and you got social media. And so I found that by not engaging in all that stuff first in the morning, waking up and getting my coffee, go outside, start my circadian rhythms, get my vitamin D from the sun, spend about 15, 20 minutes out there, of course I can play with my dogs, I can breathe

in some fresh air. I found it was really meditative in a way, sort of relaxing and it really set a concrete foundation for my day. And so people can do that with your book, right? Matthew 18.30 Yeah, and that's part of the reason why we built it. In fact, I'm very familiar with Ryan Holiday's work and also Stoicism. So I'm a big advocate of things you can learn from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and Epictetus, the people that Ryan talks about in the Daily Stoic. And so in much the same way, our book is pulling from the Buddhist masters. So you might not know all their names except, you know, people

know the Buddha, but they might not know the others such as Shantideva, Nagarjuna, Milarepa. These are big names in the Buddhist space that anyone who knows Buddhism or practices in the West, they'd know them. But a lot of people that don't, just like before Ryan's book, didn't know maybe who Epictetus was. It's the same thing. They have profound knowledge. And so by giving it in those daily chunks, and I found that book very helpful, the Daily Stoic, it's the same idea. It's how can we start our day with a little bit more intention, a little bit more mindfulness, so that if we learn to go back to the lesson I was talking about earlier, the tip of the iceberg, let's say that day someone triggers me and I start maybe because I read that passage, I would react differently or try to understand the person versus overly react.

So it's the same idea. And I think that daily read, we've also learned from our corporate clients, we do a lot of speaking events and training events for companies to try to help them with their employees with mindfulness and meditation. And one of the things we've learned is that people like to learn in small little bursts. And then they take the little bursts and then they try to implement it into their day. And that way it actually seeps in, it creates real change. Whereas if you read a whole book, in the course of a couple of weeks, and the next thing you

know, it's a month later, you kind of forgot what you were trying to implement. So that's the other idea with the structure. And hopefully that can help people in that way. Pete The daily keep on course, because that's, you know, that's how a lot of people fail with New Year's resolutions and, you know, I'm going to make change in my life. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll start tomorrow, you know, then tomorrow never comes. And, you know, having that daily schedule and I think starting out the morning with peace really helped. I would do a thing where I wouldn't sit down with my computer, start looking at,

you know, people screaming at me on emails for attention. I would sit down and play some piano solo music from George Winston, that seems to be one of the things that brings me peace, and just try and start the day with some calmness, just try and ease into the day. And then, you know, eventually, you know, climb onto the horse and run down the road with all the craziness that life brings you. And I just found that was a really healthy sort of foundation for me to start the day, just a real concrete place to start from. And I felt like I was more in command of my life too. I feel like when I do that and I start the day with the daily sort of mantra

and I ponder it and I have some mindfulness about it and some peace, that it gives me the day even though you know like I say when you open your phone and everyone's screaming you I need this answer on an email you know y, yada. Then you feel like you're more in command. You don't feel like you're being whipshot by trying to hold on to life, holding on to the back of a car going 100 miles an hour and you're just holding on for dear life. You kind of feel like you're more in control of your life.

I like the empowerment I feel with it. Yeah, and I think control of your life. I like the empowerment I feel with it. Matthew 11 And I think control is one thing and then also I would say like maybe a feeling of feeling like things are a little bit lighter. I think one of the things that we can, what we might, if we don't take that space, like whether it's mindfulness or stoicism or we're meditating, then things can feel like overwhelming, right? You mentioned all these emails, all this mounting work and it can kind of feel like we're on this race that never ends and it's too fast, and we're holding onto that bumper car, right,

or the bumper of the car. When you're able to reflect on, maybe it's something like impermanence. And I go back to that one because it's one of the most important Buddhist teachings. Like when you really, everyone knows, like I mentioned earlier, that we're going to one day die, but a lot of people, I think myself included,

most of the time, we don't internalize that, right? We don't live like we are impermanent. We live like we're going to be around forever. That reflects in maybe the decisions we make, how we treat other people, how we treat ourselves. So we can think about things with more intention in the morning, whether it's impermanence or compassion or generosity, whatever the theme might be. And these are all Buddhist concepts, could be other things. Then it's going to help us to actually live that in our day so we're out there and these things are happening. We can have more control maybe over our reactions, but then also feel lighter that these things aren't as important as we might think they are, you know, and kind of

like get us away from this game we've created and see things more expansively and maybe like that word lighter I think is really helpful for people to think about. Pete Yeah. I mean, it gives you, it gives your perspective too, I think. You know, like I say, you feel like you're more in control and empowered as opposed to, you know, the world just running, you know, running on you, you know, with all of its noise and busyness and you know, it's just, it can be overwhelming. Like, I started really, when I started really thinking about it and having a perspective, changing my perspective in the morning to feel empowered, to feel like I'm more in control of my day, and then approaching it from a...

I kind of feel like more I'm in the driver's seat when I sit down at my desk, turn on my computer and stuff. I feel like I'm the one managing my life as opposed to, I'm just chasing everything, trying to put out all these fires and whack-a-mole and all that stuff. And so, I think it really makes a difference. Mindfulness is really everything. And then just practicing the ability to bring fight or flight mode down to calmness and peacefulness and some sort, you know, some

sort of resolute state where you feel like you're more empowered as opposed to being victimized. Cause you can kind of feel that way some days where you're like, why me? What the, what the fuck happened today? You know, why I just feel like I'm under assault all day long, you know? Yeah. And you know, to your point about, you know, bringing into that calmness, you know, there's so much research out there these days

about the benefits of meditation when it relates to things such as reducing stress, but also in terms of creating happiness. There was a big study done several years ago by Richard Davidson up in University of Wisconsin, and they were under a fMRI machine, put some Buddhist monks under there, and they found that some of the monks,

or most of them, the ones that were experienced meditators who have been meditating for years and years and hours and hours, well beyond anything I've ever done, had experienced, you know, heightened levels of different things they point to as happiness. So they actually are in like a more happy, a more stress-free state because of their meditation practice. So that's one of the things if we can think about is if we're not giving ourselves that space or maybe some form of meditation and there's all those different types of forms out there, then we're not giving ourselves maybe a chance to experience happiness on a level that's really out there.

So that might encourage people to maybe give it a try or at least find their own version of meditation that can help them to get there. Pete Slauson Now, did you guys do coaching or counseling or advisors? I think we mentioned you do some work for corporations. Tell us what you guys offer on your website in your service area there. David Lujan Yeah. So, we've been, my wife and I have been in business together for almost seven years and we're both professional speakers and corporate trainers. I work with companies to do, whether

it's a speaking event or a training for either their employees or for their clients. And a lot of our topics revolve around mindfulness, how to use meditation to reduce stress or boost performance. We also do other work around emotional intelligence, emotional regulation. So that's our, before the book has come out, which is coming out next month,

that's been our main thing for seven years. And it's been a great way to learn about what people need there out there in the real world, because sometimes with Buddhist philosophy, you can kind of see, Oh, that's something that only people that live, you know, in Nepal can benefit from, or people that move out to the mountains and just kind of shut off their phone. But really what we're seeing in the corporate world and even, you know, just as I talk to people out in our neighborhood here in Brooklyn is, no, mindfulness and meditation and Buddhist philosophy can work right here in the fast-paced world of New York City or wherever you are.

And so that's what we're trying to do. And we've been doing that with clients for a while, and now hopefully the book can bring it to more of a broad scale. Pete Weiss This world doesn't get any easier and seems to be faster and more complex than ever before. And with AI and different things, it's just getting crazy. As we go out, pitch people on how they can onboard with you, they can reach out, they can find out more about you, order the book, etc., etc. I think you have, on your website, you have some special offerings you can get if you

order the book through you directly. Yeah, so on our website, thedailybuddhist.net, you'll see we have a bunch of pre-order exclusives, so there's a couple of tiers. But the main thing that we're offering for people that want to get the book ahead of time, it comes out May 27th, is a 15-day meditation course actually created by my wife that we usually package to either corporate clients or to individuals that buy it through our website. So if you get the book early, you can just register through our site and get the

meditation 15 day meditation course directly to your email. You've got a couple other things you'll see on the site, but that's the main thing that people seem to be getting excited about right now. And also the books can be available everywhere in the U S all the major retailers, a lot of independent stores. And if you're abroad so far, most of the English speaking countries, I guess, like the UK, Australia, New Zealand, those are going to be having the book as well. You can buy the book and learn to meditate. And I got to tell you people, I am a big component of this. I've talked about it before in the shows people have heard. Starting out with

that morning mindfulness and helps your circadian rhythms, helps your sleep patterns. Bring calmness to your morning, just brings you a foundation. What better way to start your morning than to sit with your family? For me, it's my dogs, to sit with good coffee. My kids a good espresso, and ponder the world, and kind of set yourself, make sure you get your legs under you, you basically for the day. That can really help and of course reading passages of different mantras or Buddhist things can remind you every day.

And that's one of the things on how you create healthy habits, right? Is by having a daily sort of working in it. People always set those New Year's resolutions and then they forget about them, but having a daily sort of activity you can do to remind you and create that foundation, I think can make all the difference, wouldn't you say? Absolutely, that's what's been our finding. In fact, one of the programs we do for clients

is called Micro Habits for Big Shifts, and that's what we've seen. If you can integrate a little thing each day, there's like the 1% better, then it's gonna help if you're thinking about it from a success standpoint in your career. But I think from our standpoint, being a little bit happier, being a little bit lighter, being a little bit kinder, that's the things that through the book, you're going to be able

to start to experience those little daily micro habits can lead to big shifts if you compound that over the course of the year. That's what we've experienced and hopefully people that pick up the book will experience too. Make the world a better place. Thank you very much, Sir, for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me, Chris. It's been a great time. Thank you. And thanks, John, for tuning in. Order the book wherever fine books are sold. You can preorder it now for out May 27th, 2025. It is called The Daily Buddhist, 366 Days of Wis for happiness inner freedom and

Mindful living definitely recommended. Thanks for tuning in go to goodreads.com Forchesschristphos, linkedin.com, Forchesschristphos, christphos1 on the tik-tok and all those crazy places in it. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you next time