by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 7, 2013
I had a lot of fun eating lunch today with the Lt. Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. He is charismatic, intelligent, energetic, witty, and had great stories to tell. When I had dinner with President Jimmy Carter and lunch with the Dalai Lama, my dominant...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 2, 2013
On November 29, 2012, I spoke at Stanford University as part of their Conversations on Compassion series. The host and moderator is my dear friend Jim Doty, with whom I co-founded Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (with two of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 1, 2013
As part of our commitment to make Search Inside Yourself available to all, we (the early instructors) taped ourselves delivering all the classes. The videos are now freely available at the link below: http://www.siyli.org/take-the-course/siy-curriculum/ We understand...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 24, 2013
As part of the Authors@Google series, I interviewed my friend Ping Fu, a remarkable human being and an admired pioneer in 3D technology. At the tender age of 8, Ping was ripped away from her parents and forced to fend for herself and her baby sister. She suffered...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 21, 2013
What an amazing way to start the year with a dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Father Laurence Freeman. Two contemplative masters I deeply admire, both of whom so kindly bestowed great honor upon me by writing endorsements for my book, both of whom are...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 1, 2013
We are barely into 2013 and I already received a present from the great Buddhist scholar, the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, in the form of a valuable teaching. All I did was ask him what I thought was a simple question and he replied with some fascinating insights on...
