Bringing together mindfulness and science, Anu Gupta offers transformative tools for dealing with hatred and prejudice.
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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Anu explore:
- How Anu was brought up around meditation and yoga
- Receiving the gift of spirituality
- Anu’s early connection to the Gayatri Mantra
- The distinction between caste and class in India
- Adjusting to Western life and dealing with bias in the U.S.
- Researching the nature of hatred and prejudice
- Holding our egos with loving awareness and compassion
- Transforming ourselves through practice
- Making our unconscious biases conscious
Check out Anu Gupta’s 2024 book, Breaking Bias, to learn more science-backed methods for unraveling stereotypes and prejudices.
About Anu Gupta:
Anu Gupta is a human rights lawyer, scientist, scholar of bias, meditation teacher, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, a professional development company that trains corporate, nonprofit, and government leaders to advance inclusion and wellness by breaking bias. He is also the author of Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them(2024), with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Check out Anu Gupta on Substack.
“The tools that we need are the ones I’ve been teaching people; mindfulness, stereotype replacement, compassion. Not just talking about them, but actually practicing them and feeling them.” – Anu Gupta
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