I've Been a Buddhist Monk for a Number of Years and It's a Really Remarkable Experience

"My direct ancestors were the chairman of the East India Company when it was engaged in colonialism and expansionism. I sort of saw myself as kind of part of that legacy kind of going on adventures all over the world not really understanding the complexity," he says. "I began to understand the brutal colonial history that my country and much more personally my family were directly involved in." He then spent a number of years there in a forest monastery so begging for food and living alone in the forest. 'It awakened a deeper sense of responsibility you know how do you live your life with the kind of history that I've set out at a moment of planetary crisis'