Glen Svensson
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2019 by Glen Svensson · across every show →
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Jul 15, 2019 neutral
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019 positive
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019 negative
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
Jul 15, 2019
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.…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”
Jul 15, 2019
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…”