Mindfulness, Humility & Holistic Approach to Education: Gadadhara Pandit Dasa at TEDxTeachersCollege

In this talk, Gadadhara Pandit Dasa shares his personal journey about becoming a monk and his goal to introduce university communities to a more holistic and balanced life style as part of their education and work experience. As part of his talk, he takes the audience on a meditative journey and explains the added value of integrating a few minutes of meditation into your daily life.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa has been a monk in the bhakti-yoga tradition since September of 1999. Pandit currently serves as the first-ever Hindu chaplain of Columbia University and New York University. His activities at Columbia include facilitating weekly vegetarian cooking classes, discussions on the Bhagavad-Gita, and sessions on the art and practice of mantra meditation. Pandit is a regular contributor for the religion section of the Huffington Post. He was featured in the NPR piece "Long Days and Short Nights of a Hindu Monk", The New York Times, as well as the PBS documentary on the Bhagavad Gita. For more from Pandit, check out his website at nycpandit.com
TEDxTeachersCollege 2012 explored innovations in international education at Teachers College, Columbia University, one of the leading schools of education in the world. The full-day event covered themes about education, policy, peace and justice, technology, and gender identity. For complete coverage of the conference, visit www.tedxteacherscollege.com

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Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, obviously a Hare Krishna devotee, never says "Hare Krishna" even once! It's also strange that the audience is never shown even when he's asking the audience do stuff!

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Mindfulness (sati) explained to the world first time by the Buddha. Read four foundations of mindfulness sutta.

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I don't believe the speaker needs to specify all the details of his Hare Krsna background which is gaudiya vaisnavism. He is not hiding. He is presenting. in a non sectarian way, truths which are valid for all religions and all people without imposing details of his own chosen path, Hare Krsna

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The speaker, Gadadhara Pandit, is a Hare Krishna follower. It surprises me how he tries to hide this fact and simply present himself as a nondenominational monk pushing points that are completely foreign to the ideas of the Hare Krishna group. It would have been more honest to state his real position and make a decent presentation of the Hare Krishna doctrine.

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Worse is to have followed this link from a site that considers itself an ISKCON mouthpiece, tacitly giving approval to this watered-down presentation that contradicts Srila Prabhupada's directives on presenting Krishna consciousness to the masses -- from calling himself a "Hindu" to closing his talk wih an impersonalist meditation rather than introducing the Mahamantra as a desireable daily practice. Would Hare Krishna "as it is" have been so offensive to or over the heads of that group?

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Hare Krishna is Sanatan Dharma (Religion) .... Mindfulness is not religion ..... its a method developed to create self awareness and build a path to some meaningful purpose in this world ! I think you get it !

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