Tools for Dealing with Hatred & Prejudice with Anu Gupta & Raghu Markus – Mindrolling Podcast Ep.580

07/02/2025 56 min
Tools for Dealing with Hatred & Prejudice with Anu Gupta & Raghu Markus – Mindrolling Podcast Ep.580

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Bringing together mindfulness and science, Anu Gupta offers transformative tools for dealing with hatred and prejudice.
Check out Anu Gupta’s 2024 book, Breaking Bias, to learn more science-backed methods for unraveling stereotypes and prejudices.
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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
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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