Spirit in business

500 enthusiastic businesspeople gathered in New York in April for the Spirit in Business conference. Designed for CEOs, senior executives, ethics officers, change agents and business educators, the conference was a great source of inspiring stories for this issue. It was a call to act, to transform, and to acknowledge the "quiet spiritual revolution" already occurring in corporate leadership. His Holiness the Dalai Lama would have addressed the conference if his doctors had not prescribed complete rest before his tour of Australia and New Zealand in May. But he did send a message of encouragement and support for the conference, and for the burgeoning Spirit in Business World Institute. He said, "For a long time I have advocated the need for ethics or spiritual values in the world of politics and economics ... On the global level, we must take immediate measures to create ethical codes in the world of business and finance ... I believe the answers can be found on the basis of increased awareness: we should meet and discuss these issues more often ..." He also said that, "No matter how rich you are, there is no way you can buy inner peace. It has to come from inside through mental practice."

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A Jewish-Buddhist Encounter: a conversation between Rabbi Ezra Finkelstein, Prof. Robert Thurman and Jonathan Rose

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