That's essentially what meditation is.

Mind transformation that is the very meaning of meditation.

A few years ago, I did a meditation retreat in Thailand.

That's the potential of meditation, of mindfulness.

One thousand prisoners who sat in meditation.

And that's what these are for, in case you've been wondering, because most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that.

Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.

Here, the 0.5 is the full standard deviation of a meditator who meditated on compassion.

Some shut down the self using meditation.

Actually, he was meditating on compassion.

He used to meditate in the morning.

We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being.

You get stressed, you do some meditation.

Of course in meditation we're going to end up falling asleep.

Hopefully, they will come.

A lot of people are worried about what is rationality about?

He said, You know that I kind of like meditation, and I pray.

Under a tree she saw a woman meditating furiously.

This is the place where the meditators you can see it's kind of inspiring.

You know, you've been here for a few hours trying to understand, discussing with your fellows.

So I was about 11 when I went along to my first meditation class.

And then, the rest of their life, they will do that three or four hours a day.

You want to know more about this, go and see this film, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.

This was a meditation program inside the prison of over 1,000 prisoners.

They do, like, three years' retreat, where they do meditate 12 hours a day.

And the fourth and most important, of course, was the delineation of a contemplative practice that not only had the possibility of a transformation of the human heart, but had 2,500 years of empirical evidence that such a transformation was a certainty.

We find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand.

I had to eat right, exercise, meditate, pet dogs, because that lowers the blood pressure.

I had to eat right, exercise, meditate, pet dogs, because that lowers the blood pressure.

Also, it has been shown in other labs for instance, Paul Ekman's labs in Berkeley that some meditators are able, also, to control their emotional response more than it could be thought.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

I imagine an old man crying here, out of the sight of the overseer.

So, what threatens to happen with this unfolding apocalypse is the collapse of global social organization.

But they found that this is after three and a half hours in an fMRI, it's like coming out of a space ship.

Russia is larger than Pluto.

Russia is bigger than Pluto.

In silence, in meditation, in my inner space, in the me that remains when I gently put aside my passing emotions and ideas and preoccupations.

Some of them who came to the labs, like in Madison, Wisconsin, or in Berkeley, did 20 to 40,000 hours of meditation.

Now in life, and in meditation, there'll be times when the focus becomes a little bit too intense, and life starts to feel a bit like this.

Jody Williams called it It's good to meditate.

Paul Clayton It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin', and it ain't no use to sit and cry now. BD It ain t no use to sit and wonder why, babe, if you don't know by now, and it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, it'll never do somehow. KF Okay, now, there's a lot of these.

Now you see me thinking at my kitchen table, and since you're in my kitchen, please meet my wife.

Chris Abani muses on humanity

And meditation or self inspection is one of the ways again it's not the only one it's one of the ways of gaining this kind of inner power.

I don't follow that, but that's cool.