ah nice breathe so I’m gonna start by
asking you a few questions and I really
want you to take an honest reflection on
them yourself all right
so are you here right now right perfect
and also bit confusing face what can you
not see me let me ask you again
are you really aware that you are in
this moment in this place with all your
senses and your breath beautiful alright
the next question so those of you who
taken probably a public transportation
to get here when you were in the trainer
tram how did you spend the time did you
scroll the entire time on your phone
from the beginning until the end
did you actually look around and notice
the people around you
hi contact the smile an exchange of
human acknowledgment Andres is saying
like nothing like that alright cool so
here today I’m I’m here to explore this
notion of what it means to be present
and what it really means to be creative
as a human in this world of constant
changes and technology so before that
let me share a little secret perhaps a
little confession so it was about a
month ago that it was announced that all
of us will do a TED talk so I was really
happy and all my friends were as well so
the funny thing is like every
interaction ever since become this
reminder that one day I’ll be standing
on this red carpet all eyes on me
all the cameras on me this big light on
me giving you this TED talk and it also
becoming this reminder that it has to be
a perfect talk everybody was expecting
me to deliver this amazing talk so what
do I do in the situations
well my perfectionist knocked on the
door uninvited and wrote this amazing
script with beautiful English words that
I wouldn’t otherwise use
and that was really proud of it so I
asked my friend Laksha to be the judge
of it so I sit him in this tiny little
room in the university and I delivered
my speech then in the end of it he said
with no emotions I felt nothing
this was his little word so he recorded
it so I watched it and when I see it I
saw actually a person who was not me at
all it was a person who was trying so
hard to stick to the script and when I
watched that I actually say this this is
not a TED talk this is in fact a dead
talk so we laughed I went home that day
a little disappointed and I was getting
ready to sleep and I was walking and I
saw a glimpse of me in the mirror and I
heard this voice inside of me saying –
yeah I just go home so I turn off the
light put my meditation posture and I
meditate it and in this brief moment of
silence I realized this is exactly what
happens in this modern world we script
the life according to the societal
expectations and each and every line
becomes this projection of us how we see
ourselves through the eyes of others but
is it really how do we want to be is it
really who we are so what I did I open
my bag and brought out the script my
tear then piece by piece through them in
their beam so hey I’m today speaking
from my heart as Felisa say so this
story of me understanding and exploring
this notion and what it means to be
present and what it really means to be a
human started like this so I am a nomad
from Mongolia and I was born in a Gobi
Desert those of you who doesn’t know
where Gobi Desert is you probably heard
of Great Wall of China
well they build that to keep us away and
in the Gobi Desert pretty wide so that’s
where I was born so my parents are the
very first generations of their nomadic
tribes to be located and settle down in
a small villages so our entire family
read in the northern steppes of Mongolia
is a pure
nomads so what it really means to be a
nomad you’re probably wondering what it
really means to be a nomad
so there’s so many things that I could
tell you for hours and days but what I
really want to bring you today is three
things for us life is emotion it’s about
movement it’s about moving with the
nature so we’ll move our home our little
yard
four times a year with each season so
during summer when it’s thirty degree we
leave in a wast of land so our animals
can graze and drink waters easier in in
winter when it’s like minus thirty to
forty degrees we find a shelter in the
bottom of the mountain hiding from the
Siberian wind so we can also buy the
winter it’s all about the edge of
survival and existing so throughout the
year our yurt the door is always open
it’s always welcomed we welcome people
because we hardly see people of course
so when we see someone yeah please come
on in you know and then the door is
always facing to the south and when we
say well the door faces to the south
because we can see if Chinese are coming
but in fact but in fact it’s actually
because the wind comes from the from
North so we have to have the door facing
to the south so our life evolves around
nature and the concept of modern time
doesn’t exist in our culture so we see
and measure the day in the life
as a space between Sun and the moon so
because we don’t have electricity – let
alone telephones and smart smart
technologies anything that we haven’t
been able to do in between that space
can wait until tomorrow no stress so
life is also measured by the breath my
grandpa used to say when you breathe
long and deep you live long and
fulfilled and happy life when you
breathe short and shallow your life is
intense
and short basically you will leave early
this world in fact the word breath in
one going means I’m sorry so the very
root of this word M means to exist to
leave to be so you can see that we were
raised with this notion of embracing
nature and its impermanence so we
inherit so many things for our children
just so didn’t appreciate that there’s
no separation between us and the nature
but I knew from a very young age that I
wanted to be a different type of nomad
the one who doesn’t only travel the
mountains but the one who wants to
travel the world so I had a plan
I wanted to stay hard and I did and I
started learning English at the age of
twelve or so and I’ll be walking around
with the dictionary mindlessly
remembering the words without even
knowing how to make a sentence of out of
it and my older sister was really into
English as well so she would with her
broken English check if I’m right or
wrong so my journey into the modern
world this this modern living started
when I was in the last year of my
university so I was offered an
internship overseas so one sunny morning
in summer I stepped out the train and I
found myself in the middle of Beijing
train station so those of you who know
who knows or who from China now imagine
this little moon going girl who used to
ride horses and like gallop through the
through the steppe all of the sudden
she’s in Beijing surrounded by millions
of people everybody seems to be so
rushed I don’t know where they’re going
no one seems to look each other so I was
fascinated for everything the food it
was so spicy that it actually burned my
tongue I couldn’t feel my tongue and the
language that I was trying to learn was
so hard and it twisted my tongue in a
way that actually felt pain in my jaw
and my tongue I loved it I loved it I
embraced everything so I immerse myself
into it learned the language become
fluent one thing led to another I was
having a thriving career in in China in
Beijing but on a very deeper conscious
level I found myself to be split in
between a contrasting self one side of
me wanted to belong in this modern world
so bad it was embracing everything it
even went out and bought a skin
lightening cream because my dark
sunkissed mongo in skin didn’t meet the
definition of what Beauty means in that
country but another side of me my fries
natural love himself was completely it
crash because all of the sudden it was
waking up with the sound of traffic and
honking noises and all of the sudden it
was a squeezing itself into this train
with thousands of people but no one
wanted to have an eye contact everybody
tries away and stared their phones I was
longing for a silence and I was longing
for the blue sky the green grass the
open space so I knew that if I didn’t
find a way to maintain myself I won’t be
able to sustain not myself and in this
lifestyle so I was searching I was
searching I was reading I was trying to
find a way to how can I stay in this
modern way of living but can bring my
mountains and steps with me so there I
come across meditation and yoga I
remember the first class I’ve taken in
2008 it was taught by an Indian teacher
called Mohan in this ancient Chinese
town inside of a written Park we all
awkwardly staying there and then the
first thing he said find yourself close
your eyes and breathe so I did close my
eyes I started breathing and I started
moving my body and I started sweating a
lot in the end of this class I found my
breed again I found the reconnection
with the nature and with my own being in
that place in the middle of Beijing with
this practice so this became my best
friend
I took it everywhere so last 10 years
was this exploration of what it means to
have a mind and body connection and I
wanted to leave an ashram in Himmel eyes
for a month and I recently did this
island meditation and crazy enough I sit
for 10 hours 10 day
silently all by myself so what it really
did is that me as a nomadic girl
probably you as well many of you is
modern nomads wants to live in the city
in this modern world it’s so technology
driven but we lose ourselves and myths
of it so this become a tool that I can
bring myself as Who I am
every single day to every single
enterprise
so now the journey continued I’m here in
Australia as they say I’m doing my
second master I know it’s very crazy and
I’m studying finance believe me my mind
is exhausted and as you know I have an
exam next Tuesday so now I started to
ask this question of a graduate who’s
studying a finance and someone who
studied international relations how as a
human beings collectively are going to
stay relevant and creative and then
content in this world of technology so
if you notice the way that we leave our
alive the technology has completely
shifted the way we experience life as a
human we started moving everything from
this world possible to the virtual
reality now we shop we study we walk and
we even date in the clouds so what it
does is that it eliminates the physical
motion of our body so when a body start
to move it becomes a stagnant so in fact
it’s not just one body this your head
space is one entity and this your
physical body is another entity so when
you stop moving this two entity doesn’t
operate together so our clever brain
takes over in and then jumps into the
driver’s seat and start making all the
decisions but the fact of the matter is
that the brains very main purpose is to
survive so it’s not very positive it
makes the decision based on failure and
self-criticism so just to go back to
where we started are you here right now
and how are we spending our time so this
really become the way that I see my
interactions and also people around me
so have we taken the technologies in to
the extent that we are maybe becoming
more like what we created a robots
going through our life mindlessly lost
in the thought leaving life through the
tiny screen smartphones perhaps even
confused what’s real and what’s virtual
so I’m not even saying that technologies
are bad but the technology fantastic but
one of them basically is asking you this
question is that maybe perhaps at the
time that we as a human as a living
thing cannot exist physically in this
virtual reality we need the physical
motion we need the grass we need the air
we need the blue sky we need the nature
and we also need another humans this eye
contact touch and hug to thrive as a
human being so the funny thing is we
don’t even consider this as a living
thing we just do whatever we want to do
with it
we feed food that that’s not good for us
we constantly think about things that
necessarily doesn’t help us and we just
keep on going so the power of presence
is when you’re a body and your mind
meets in one place so how do we do that
it’s our breath so in fact when you
start learning yoga you move your body
and you bring your mind with it but the
fact they say breathe is because that’s
the bridge that it connects so it is the
thing it is a really one thing that
happens regardless of what in our body
every single moment but we don’t think
about it
so there’s a notion for me of going home
is to bring myself into the present
moment so right before I walk in that
door I was meditating on the other side
of the door so before I go and have a
date perhaps I’ll go meditate so I can
bring my best self before I go do a job
interview I’m
so they can see my shine so shall we all
go back home to our breath yeah
beautiful so I invite you all bring a
little movement in your body whatever
movement that it feels all right
whichever you want to whichever way you
beautiful and find your place
close your eyes I’d like to invite you
to bring your right hand on your heart
center and your left on your belly
button can you feel your heart beat can
very slowly can you arrive in your own
as you inhale can you feel your chest
and your belly expands and as you exhale
can you feel the drawing of your Nellie
but starved from our feet the
can you feel your knees your senior
cough this leg that carries around no
matter what as you scan your body can
can you feel your tie the front of your
and you feel your sitting bones rooted
can you bring your left hand on your
belly as you’re scanning up to your
chest your spine tall and lengthen can
you feel your heart it’s beating and
can you feel your shoulders just notice
and you relax your shoulders and
properly draw it down a bit as you
exhale bringing your awareness to your
neck extension of your spine can you
feel your jaw can you relax your jaw and
relaxing your cheek and your eyeballs
and your I lead new eyebrow noticing the
very slowly drawing a left hand up and
let’s take a deep breath in together
take an inhale and let it out slowly
open your eyes and you look to your
right and acknowledge the person next to
look to the other side and acknowledge
the other person with the eyes eye
contact so as you might have noticed
this is what’s called being present you
probably feel something just shifts in
us it’s hard to explain so this is what
I mean by going home so before doing
anything that it’s significant
can you please promise yourself to go
home and remind yourself that we are
human beings not a human doer and
anything that we haven’t been done we
haven’t been able to do today can wait
until tomorrow
if you fail the exam you can do it again
it’s not in the door oh well let’s take
a brief so we can not fail it so it’s
danced your life taking one deep breath
at a time thank you for your presence [Applause]
asking you a few questions and I really
want you to take an honest reflection on
them yourself all right
so are you here right now right perfect
and also bit confusing face what can you
not see me let me ask you again
are you really aware that you are in
this moment in this place with all your
senses and your breath beautiful alright
the next question so those of you who
taken probably a public transportation
to get here when you were in the trainer
tram how did you spend the time did you
scroll the entire time on your phone
from the beginning until the end
did you actually look around and notice
the people around you
hi contact the smile an exchange of
human acknowledgment Andres is saying
like nothing like that alright cool so
here today I’m I’m here to explore this
notion of what it means to be present
and what it really means to be creative
as a human in this world of constant
changes and technology so before that
let me share a little secret perhaps a
little confession so it was about a
month ago that it was announced that all
of us will do a TED talk so I was really
happy and all my friends were as well so
the funny thing is like every
interaction ever since become this
reminder that one day I’ll be standing
on this red carpet all eyes on me
all the cameras on me this big light on
me giving you this TED talk and it also
becoming this reminder that it has to be
a perfect talk everybody was expecting
me to deliver this amazing talk so what
do I do in the situations
well my perfectionist knocked on the
door uninvited and wrote this amazing
script with beautiful English words that
I wouldn’t otherwise use
and that was really proud of it so I
asked my friend Laksha to be the judge
of it so I sit him in this tiny little
room in the university and I delivered
my speech then in the end of it he said
with no emotions I felt nothing
this was his little word so he recorded
it so I watched it and when I see it I
saw actually a person who was not me at
all it was a person who was trying so
hard to stick to the script and when I
watched that I actually say this this is
not a TED talk this is in fact a dead
talk so we laughed I went home that day
a little disappointed and I was getting
ready to sleep and I was walking and I
saw a glimpse of me in the mirror and I
heard this voice inside of me saying –
yeah I just go home so I turn off the
light put my meditation posture and I
meditate it and in this brief moment of
silence I realized this is exactly what
happens in this modern world we script
the life according to the societal
expectations and each and every line
becomes this projection of us how we see
ourselves through the eyes of others but
is it really how do we want to be is it
really who we are so what I did I open
my bag and brought out the script my
tear then piece by piece through them in
their beam so hey I’m today speaking
from my heart as Felisa say so this
story of me understanding and exploring
this notion and what it means to be
present and what it really means to be a
human started like this so I am a nomad
from Mongolia and I was born in a Gobi
Desert those of you who doesn’t know
where Gobi Desert is you probably heard
of Great Wall of China
well they build that to keep us away and
in the Gobi Desert pretty wide so that’s
where I was born so my parents are the
very first generations of their nomadic
tribes to be located and settle down in
a small villages so our entire family
read in the northern steppes of Mongolia
is a pure
nomads so what it really means to be a
nomad you’re probably wondering what it
really means to be a nomad
so there’s so many things that I could
tell you for hours and days but what I
really want to bring you today is three
things for us life is emotion it’s about
movement it’s about moving with the
nature so we’ll move our home our little
yard
four times a year with each season so
during summer when it’s thirty degree we
leave in a wast of land so our animals
can graze and drink waters easier in in
winter when it’s like minus thirty to
forty degrees we find a shelter in the
bottom of the mountain hiding from the
Siberian wind so we can also buy the
winter it’s all about the edge of
survival and existing so throughout the
year our yurt the door is always open
it’s always welcomed we welcome people
because we hardly see people of course
so when we see someone yeah please come
on in you know and then the door is
always facing to the south and when we
say well the door faces to the south
because we can see if Chinese are coming
but in fact but in fact it’s actually
because the wind comes from the from
North so we have to have the door facing
to the south so our life evolves around
nature and the concept of modern time
doesn’t exist in our culture so we see
and measure the day in the life
as a space between Sun and the moon so
because we don’t have electricity – let
alone telephones and smart smart
technologies anything that we haven’t
been able to do in between that space
can wait until tomorrow no stress so
life is also measured by the breath my
grandpa used to say when you breathe
long and deep you live long and
fulfilled and happy life when you
breathe short and shallow your life is
intense
and short basically you will leave early
this world in fact the word breath in
one going means I’m sorry so the very
root of this word M means to exist to
leave to be so you can see that we were
raised with this notion of embracing
nature and its impermanence so we
inherit so many things for our children
just so didn’t appreciate that there’s
no separation between us and the nature
but I knew from a very young age that I
wanted to be a different type of nomad
the one who doesn’t only travel the
mountains but the one who wants to
travel the world so I had a plan
I wanted to stay hard and I did and I
started learning English at the age of
twelve or so and I’ll be walking around
with the dictionary mindlessly
remembering the words without even
knowing how to make a sentence of out of
it and my older sister was really into
English as well so she would with her
broken English check if I’m right or
wrong so my journey into the modern
world this this modern living started
when I was in the last year of my
university so I was offered an
internship overseas so one sunny morning
in summer I stepped out the train and I
found myself in the middle of Beijing
train station so those of you who know
who knows or who from China now imagine
this little moon going girl who used to
ride horses and like gallop through the
through the steppe all of the sudden
she’s in Beijing surrounded by millions
of people everybody seems to be so
rushed I don’t know where they’re going
no one seems to look each other so I was
fascinated for everything the food it
was so spicy that it actually burned my
tongue I couldn’t feel my tongue and the
language that I was trying to learn was
so hard and it twisted my tongue in a
way that actually felt pain in my jaw
and my tongue I loved it I loved it I
embraced everything so I immerse myself
into it learned the language become
fluent one thing led to another I was
having a thriving career in in China in
Beijing but on a very deeper conscious
level I found myself to be split in
between a contrasting self one side of
me wanted to belong in this modern world
so bad it was embracing everything it
even went out and bought a skin
lightening cream because my dark
sunkissed mongo in skin didn’t meet the
definition of what Beauty means in that
country but another side of me my fries
natural love himself was completely it
crash because all of the sudden it was
waking up with the sound of traffic and
honking noises and all of the sudden it
was a squeezing itself into this train
with thousands of people but no one
wanted to have an eye contact everybody
tries away and stared their phones I was
longing for a silence and I was longing
for the blue sky the green grass the
open space so I knew that if I didn’t
find a way to maintain myself I won’t be
able to sustain not myself and in this
lifestyle so I was searching I was
searching I was reading I was trying to
find a way to how can I stay in this
modern way of living but can bring my
mountains and steps with me so there I
come across meditation and yoga I
remember the first class I’ve taken in
2008 it was taught by an Indian teacher
called Mohan in this ancient Chinese
town inside of a written Park we all
awkwardly staying there and then the
first thing he said find yourself close
your eyes and breathe so I did close my
eyes I started breathing and I started
moving my body and I started sweating a
lot in the end of this class I found my
breed again I found the reconnection
with the nature and with my own being in
that place in the middle of Beijing with
this practice so this became my best
friend
I took it everywhere so last 10 years
was this exploration of what it means to
have a mind and body connection and I
wanted to leave an ashram in Himmel eyes
for a month and I recently did this
island meditation and crazy enough I sit
for 10 hours 10 day
silently all by myself so what it really
did is that me as a nomadic girl
probably you as well many of you is
modern nomads wants to live in the city
in this modern world it’s so technology
driven but we lose ourselves and myths
of it so this become a tool that I can
bring myself as Who I am
every single day to every single
enterprise
so now the journey continued I’m here in
Australia as they say I’m doing my
second master I know it’s very crazy and
I’m studying finance believe me my mind
is exhausted and as you know I have an
exam next Tuesday so now I started to
ask this question of a graduate who’s
studying a finance and someone who
studied international relations how as a
human beings collectively are going to
stay relevant and creative and then
content in this world of technology so
if you notice the way that we leave our
alive the technology has completely
shifted the way we experience life as a
human we started moving everything from
this world possible to the virtual
reality now we shop we study we walk and
we even date in the clouds so what it
does is that it eliminates the physical
motion of our body so when a body start
to move it becomes a stagnant so in fact
it’s not just one body this your head
space is one entity and this your
physical body is another entity so when
you stop moving this two entity doesn’t
operate together so our clever brain
takes over in and then jumps into the
driver’s seat and start making all the
decisions but the fact of the matter is
that the brains very main purpose is to
survive so it’s not very positive it
makes the decision based on failure and
self-criticism so just to go back to
where we started are you here right now
and how are we spending our time so this
really become the way that I see my
interactions and also people around me
so have we taken the technologies in to
the extent that we are maybe becoming
more like what we created a robots
going through our life mindlessly lost
in the thought leaving life through the
tiny screen smartphones perhaps even
confused what’s real and what’s virtual
so I’m not even saying that technologies
are bad but the technology fantastic but
one of them basically is asking you this
question is that maybe perhaps at the
time that we as a human as a living
thing cannot exist physically in this
virtual reality we need the physical
motion we need the grass we need the air
we need the blue sky we need the nature
and we also need another humans this eye
contact touch and hug to thrive as a
human being so the funny thing is we
don’t even consider this as a living
thing we just do whatever we want to do
with it
we feed food that that’s not good for us
we constantly think about things that
necessarily doesn’t help us and we just
keep on going so the power of presence
is when you’re a body and your mind
meets in one place so how do we do that
it’s our breath so in fact when you
start learning yoga you move your body
and you bring your mind with it but the
fact they say breathe is because that’s
the bridge that it connects so it is the
thing it is a really one thing that
happens regardless of what in our body
every single moment but we don’t think
about it
so there’s a notion for me of going home
is to bring myself into the present
moment so right before I walk in that
door I was meditating on the other side
of the door so before I go and have a
date perhaps I’ll go meditate so I can
bring my best self before I go do a job
interview I’m
so they can see my shine so shall we all
go back home to our breath yeah
beautiful so I invite you all bring a
little movement in your body whatever
movement that it feels all right
whichever you want to whichever way you
beautiful and find your place
close your eyes I’d like to invite you
to bring your right hand on your heart
center and your left on your belly
button can you feel your heart beat can
very slowly can you arrive in your own
as you inhale can you feel your chest
and your belly expands and as you exhale
can you feel the drawing of your Nellie
but starved from our feet the
can you feel your knees your senior
cough this leg that carries around no
matter what as you scan your body can
can you feel your tie the front of your
and you feel your sitting bones rooted
can you bring your left hand on your
belly as you’re scanning up to your
chest your spine tall and lengthen can
you feel your heart it’s beating and
can you feel your shoulders just notice
and you relax your shoulders and
properly draw it down a bit as you
exhale bringing your awareness to your
neck extension of your spine can you
feel your jaw can you relax your jaw and
relaxing your cheek and your eyeballs
and your I lead new eyebrow noticing the
very slowly drawing a left hand up and
let’s take a deep breath in together
take an inhale and let it out slowly
open your eyes and you look to your
right and acknowledge the person next to
look to the other side and acknowledge
the other person with the eyes eye
contact so as you might have noticed
this is what’s called being present you
probably feel something just shifts in
us it’s hard to explain so this is what
I mean by going home so before doing
anything that it’s significant
can you please promise yourself to go
home and remind yourself that we are
human beings not a human doer and
anything that we haven’t been done we
haven’t been able to do today can wait
until tomorrow
if you fail the exam you can do it again
it’s not in the door oh well let’s take
a brief so we can not fail it so it’s
danced your life taking one deep breath
at a time thank you for your presence [Applause]
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