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Meditation for the 99%

Jan 26, 2019

What do you imagine when you hear the word meditation? An Asian monk with a shaved head sitting a cave? A white woman doing yoga in her expensive condo beside a Whole Foods?

Don't be afraid. This episode could be called Meditation 101. You’ll hear about the neuroscience behind claims about meditation and practical...


Jan 19, 2019

Mindfulness continues to blow up, so much that the rich and powerful have caught on. A recent Forbes column argues that “mindful leadership” leads to an “improved bottom line and more fulfilled employees.” Researchers have found that meditation “significantly enhances the performance” of elite US special...


Jan 12, 2019

Meditation teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s phrase is an antidote to our habit of trying to escape the emotions we don’t want to feel.

In this episode you'll hear about one time I was in the Dominican Republic and I was freaking out about how fast the teenager driving the van was driving, another story about a bridge made...


Jan 3, 2019

As I’ve written and talked about, meditation is most powerful when practiced daily. But doing anything other than fulfilling our basic needs—eating, sleeping, drinking water—each and every single day is hard work. And the last thing we need in this society is more work that we don’t get paid for.

So, if your...