Dr. Ishan Shivanand's new book, The Practice of Immortality, offers tools for shifting from individual to collective thinking. The concept of "amrit" (nectar of immortality) represents transformative knowledge, while "the Buddha in the boardroom" imagines enlightened leadership that prioritizes employee well-being and resilience in a changing world.
Welcome to the Stanford Faculty Club. The Practice of Immortality. As the world gets fractured and more distracted and more and in greater despair, this book has come at the most opportune time. If we go from I to we, We go from illness to wellness. That truly is what the world needs right now. This author of ours travels 100 countries or more in a year. Millions of people who depend on him for guiding them personal, professional, spiritual, social, relational.
And imagine a world where more and more people can taste this amrit, and they also want to do good and help and heal. My dream is the enlightened CEO. My dream is the Buddha in the boardroom. My dream is the Buddha in the Senate. And the dream lives on. And this book is my gift. It is a way of taking those teachings and bringing it into your life, where these teachings are molded in a way to fit your life rather than you molding yourself. Help get these tools to the right places ASAP, and maybe we can help. Things that can easily be implemented and still values The well-being of the employee. A happy employee is a productive employee. When I read the story of Dr. Ehsan, the entire journey that he has been through, very humbly explained, someone who's the face of resilience. And trust me, Humans are very resilient. With one small ray of hope, we will survive, and I hope to give that to the world. We must get better at adaptability because the world will go at its own pace, and if we are not resilient, the world will be able to overwhelm us. Make little bit extra effort and find the people. There are many people. So trust me, it's the best time to be you. You'll find your tribe. You experience something so beautiful. And you want to help more and more people with it. And I have seen in my journey, the ones who were able to grasp this nectar of immortality, amrit, they became like me. They wanted to share.
Simplicity comes from hard-earned wisdom. It is not something that's just given.
But thank you everyone for being here. It's a pleasure and honor, and I've had the pleasure and honor to be with you in your tough times and see you grow out of tough situations.
