In this TEDx talk, Michael Roach shares a teaching from the oldest printed book in the world—the Diamond Cutter Sutra—which helps us get everything we want in life, and in a way also helps the entire world.

We will be learning an ancient method known as the Four Steps, which can be applied to five different goals: financial independence for the rest of our life; great personal and professional relationships; vibrant health and energy; a clear, happy, and focused mind—and most importantly, how we can use all these to find out why we came into this world, and how we can live a life of great purpose and meaning.

Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton University graduate who spent 25 years in a Tibetan monastery and is the first American to be awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism. He utilized his monastery training to help build a major New York corporation which reached $250 million in annual sales, and was sold to super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009.

Michael used a large portion of his business profits, and support from companies like Hewlett Packard, to found a 25-year effort to train and pay Tibetan refugees to input thousands of their endangered ancient books and make them available online for free.

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The Diamond Sutra – printed May 11 AD 868
“The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion”
A new translation In English by Alex Johnson
Read by Chris Johnys.