Lee Kuan Yew could, you can too wherever you are

Grandpa and I are travelling in the Far East!!! Singapore and Thailand have been our home for nearly three weeks.  We have had the pleasure of family, the pleasure of grandchildren, the pleasure of Christmas, the pleasure of presents and the pleasure of food.  We are literally soused in the pleasure of holiday and now we are soaked in sun oil, salty from the sea and feel like a very expensive packet of crisps.  

Lee Kuan Yew

Father Laurence Freeman OSB

And what you are wondering has happened to our meditation?  Well it is alive and pretty well really and the reason is this.  We had an extraordinary bit of luck in meeting a meditating person in Singapore who had an extraordinary tale to tell and this is it.  He and his wife meditated, they were Catholics and had met Father Laurence Freeman.  He, Peter Ng worked closely with Lee Kuan Yew, the long time Prime Minister of Singapore who is credited with taking Singapore from a third world country to a leading first world economic and thriving nation.  Lee Kuan Yew died last year but in his last years, despite being agnostic, he took on the discipline offered by Christian Meditation.  You can hear him in conversation with Father Laurence by clicking on the link.  The striking thing about this conversation is that it was his extremely clear mind and enlightened thinking which made meditation reasonable.  You can also hear Peter Ng speaking about introducing Lee Kuan Yew to meditation

Peter Ng and Lee Kuan Yew meditated in Singapore and when they travelled so we thought we could take time off from our two weeks of pleasure and meditate twice a day too.

Enjoy the film, we did!