Glen Svensson
Buddhist Teacher, Center for Contemplative Research. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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After completing an IT degree and working in tech for nearly a decade, Svensson graduated from a seven-year Buddhist Studies program in Italy. Since 2005, he has led retreats worldwide focusing on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, Shamatha, and Vipashyana meditation.
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Everything Glen Svensson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Svensson: Maintaining daily meditation alone requires support from a community
“What we need to do, I think if we really want to change our life and to meditate regularly, we need help. We need to find other like-minded people who are trying to do something similar and to get connected with them. And to help each other, support each other…”
Svensson: People stay constantly busy to distract themselves from unsettled minds
“One reason is that often in the modern world, it's felt like if you're not doing something, you're not being productive. So therefore just do something. And then the other reason that we often fill up our day is that with things is if we're not really doing an…”
Svensson: Reflecting on impermanence frees up your time for meditation
“So if we really reflect on the fact that we've got a life of opportunity, and it's not going to last forever, then what you're going to find is a lot of these things that we fill up our day with, that don't really bring us much, we're going to lose interest in…”
Svensson: Leaving a corporate IT career meant abandoning a dysfunctional lifestyle
“All that that career was really giving me was some money and then some little sensory pleasures, and very quickly that really doesn't satisfy anymore. So I didn't feel like I was giving up something. In fact, I felt like I was giving up, ah, a dysfunctional wa…”
Svensson: Direct meditation guidance is much better than learning from books
“It's much better to get some direct guidance rather than just trying to pick it up from a book.”
Svensson: Choosing between a career and spiritual practice is a false dichotomy
“You know, in terms of career, you know, often people talk about, you know, should I do the career thing or the spiritual thing? I think this is a wrong way of thinking. Because, you know, for most of us, a career is what we require to have financial stability.…”
Svensson: High-earning Fortune 500 CEOs are often miserable without internal happiness
“You know, if we have this idea or this world view that the source of my happiness is coming from out there in the world, then I think no matter what career we have, even if we're really a CEO of a Fortune 500 company and earning millions of dollars a year, I t…”
Svensson: Avoid spiritual labels when explaining your meditation to skeptical family
“Often if they are very closed-minded, It's probably not a good idea to openly say, you know, I'm following a spiritual path now, I'm a Buddhist, I'm doing this and that. We're probably going to attract a lot of negative attention. But of course, if we just tel…”
Svensson: Why meditation practices fail without first training single-pointed attention
“And so a lot of the meditation practices won't work very well because we're so distracted and dull. So what I recommend to most people, ah, as a beginning stage is to really, ah, work on improving their attention skills, to improving their ability to focus, to…”
Svensson: Creativity emerges from a spacious mental stillness, not active thinking
“And that is exactly where creativity comes from, is that creativity comes from that That, ah, that spacious stillness of the mind, and that often the solution or creativity is not coming when we're doing a lot of thinking, and so if we can really, ah, enter in…”
Svensson: Convincing others to meditate threatens them; lead by example instead
“Often the best way to do that is to lead by example rather than trying to convince others that you've got the answer and that they should do what you're doing. Because if you do that often you lose those people because then they feel like threatened or somethi…”
Svensson: Habitual meditation requires short initial sessions and fixed daily timing
“And if we try to meditate too long in the beginning, we're just going to give up because it's too difficult. So I would recommend that just start very short, maybe even 10 or 15 minutes. And to begin to develop a habit, I think it's important to pick a time Th…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Glen's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 NEON SHOWLEDGER | Buddhist Teacher, Center for Contemplative Research | 1 | 12 | — | full record on the Neon Show → |