CNBC: Ommmm! How Silicon Valley values meditation
Google is going Zen. Silicon Valley is well known for its lucrative employee perks, but now companies are offering meditation and mindfulness courses to employees and there's a long waiting list to...
One Billion Acts of Peace
In May 2013, Dawn, Ivan, Jessica and myself spoke at the United Nations to initiate a campaign to inspire one billion acts of peace in the world supported by 13 Nobel Peace Laureates. Here is the...
Peace in every mind, joy in every heart, compassion in every act
All my friends know that my career goal is to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime. But every now and then, somebody asks me, "How will you know when you're successful?" For a long...
Taming hatred with insight
I try to always be good to everybody. Because of that, people tend to be nice to me, so I seldom have the opportunity to experience ill-will towards anybody. However, no matter how good you are to...
The role of joy in sustaining uninterrupted attention
In July 2013, I hit a milestone in my meditative practice. I managed to maintain uninterrupted attention on the breath for about one hour. "Uninterrupted attention" means the attention doesn't...
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