by Marc Lesser You’re driving when, suddenly, another car pulls in front of you. What do you do? Or you’re feeling misunderstood, undervalued, disrespected, treated unfairly. How do you react? It’s common and easy for us humans to respond to all of these situations by showing our anger or frustration. We seem to be wired…

Do you have the patience to waitTill your mud settles and the water is clear?Can you remain unmoving Till the right action arises by itself? —Lao Tzu

The paradox of the practice is that in getting deeper and deeper into what seems like a solitary inward practice, the imperative to go out and serve the world indeed becomes stronger and stronger.

Meditation simply means training the mind and studies suggest that it enhances health by: Improving immune function to help fight infection. Optimizing the level of the enzyme telomerase, which repairs and maintains the ends of your chromosomes, keeping your cells— and therefore you—youthful, functioning well, and healthy. Enhancing the “epigenetic” regulation of genes to help…