The above video is an extract from a 17-min video entitled - "Lee Kuan Yew in conversation with Laurence Freeman OSB". In the extract Lee Kuan Yew describes his personal experience of meditation and how it makes him realized that there is an "Inner, True Person" in each one of us.

The link to the video and description of the video is given below.


⁣https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoSGUuAj1o


⁣Lee Kuan Yew is widely regarded as the founding father of modern Singapore. As Prime Minister for 31years from 1959 to 1990, he led Singapore to independence and transformed the economy from the third world to first. In giving his approval for the publication of this video, Mr Lee urged that newcomers to meditation ‘must believe in it and they must practise it, even though they do not succeed at the early stages.

LAURENCE FREEMAN is a Catholic monk of the Benedictine order and director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM). He has published many works on meditation.

The WCCM is a global community of meditators united in a contemplative Christian tradition as taught by Fr. John Main, OSB. Our community is now present in more than 100 countries with 3000 weekly meditation groups, multiple centres, and a vibrant online community. Our mission Lis to communicate and nurture the fruits of meditation so as to foster the unity of all peoples, and to create social change by facilitating personal transformation through dialogue, silence and friendship.