How Do You Respond From the Most Compassionate Place

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Asa: It's possible to take some time to close your eyes, quiet your mind and begin to listen to your body. The example i love is mahama gondi - he would take one day a week in silence to meditate. We have the kind of buddhist practices of how to do this in our own minds,. But then we need a kind of expedential version of that now as technology has made it so much easier for people to be aware of things they can't control.

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.