you're reminded that there is a strong tradition of meditation along with buddhism.'ve always been fascinated by this because of the proven health benefits of meditation. for example, if you meditate, you can actually reduce your stressful you can become more empathetic toward others. you can even increase your attention span. there's more than that. there is a recent study that showed simply immediate taigt can reduce your risk of heart disease. they found people who meditated for 20 minutes two time a day cut the rick of a heart attack and stroke by half. sounds pretty good. i do it myself. a lot of time i focus on a single word. my word is gentle. i focus on that word. do i this in the morning. i do this in the evening. i can feel my blood pressure t

you're reminded that there is a strong tradition of meditation along with buddhism.'ve always been fascinated by this because of the proven health benefits of meditation. for example, if you meditate, you can actually reduce your stressful you can become more empathetic toward others. you can even increase your attention span. there's more than that. there is a recent study that showed simply immediate taigt can reduce your risk of heart disease. they found people who meditated for 20 minutes two time a day cut the rick of a heart attack and stroke by half. sounds pretty good. i do it myself. a lot of time i focus on a single word. my word is gentle. i focus on that word. do i this in the morning. i do this in the evening. i can feel my blood pressure start to drop. i can feel high heart rate start to slow. my phrase is more meditation, less medication. i hope you enjoyed the show from phnom penh. unfortunately, that will wrap it up for us. let's keep the conversation going at cnn/sanjay. also join me on twitter. time for a look at your top stories in the cnn newsroo

a priest decides he is going to show the powers of mystic buddhism and he appears and on the alter with different sorts ofornmen of owns and then progresses through profound things and all of these are tongue twisters but it's the first round of tongue twisters nothing happens and the priest is very upset and blushes extraordinary red and he tries again. the second time the chants are much shorter and he begins to lose his patience and again nothing happens. third time nothing happens and he basically says how much time to turn to the wonderrous powers of the lotus set raand he does chanting and the parody is something like if anyone is old enough to remember and the mouse before vatican two and you don't understand anything and it's mumbo jump bow and this is a parody of that. the second and third pieces before the intermission i will not introduce. i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have

one of the things you may know about cambodia is that the official religion is buddhism.an see reminders of this just about everywhere you look. for example, this is a prayer area here in phnom penh. you see these sprinkled throughout the city, really throughout the entire country. a buddhist statue over there. and, you know, you're reminded that there's a strong tradition of meditation along with buddhism. i've always been fascinated by this because of the proven health benefits of meditation. for example, if you meditate, you can actually reduce your stress. you can become more empathetic toward others. you can even increase your attention span. there's more than that even. there's a recent study that showed simply meditating can reduce your risk of heart disease. they found that people who meditated for 20 minutes two times a day cut their risk of a heart attack and stroke by half. sounds pretty good. i do it myself. other times i focus on a single word. my word is gentle. i just focus on that word, i do this in the morning, i do it in the evening, i can feel my blood

. >> this is, some yoga, buddhism. >> john, we have our hands busy -- in america, kids are encouragedeat junk almost from the time they're born. they see junk food ads on television from the time they're 2. they're fed sugar frosted flakes, they go to school and eat salty foods in the school lump program. there are 3 million soft drink vending machines. >> we're into a commercial problem, that's his area. what kind of avalanche of junk food have your market years exhibited that is demonstrable in your studies? >> i think looking at the schools and things like that there has been a grassroots movement within the schools to get rid of a lot of the vending machines and replace them with things like bottled water, yogurt type drinks, fruit drinks and bottled water, things of that nature. and even snacks, you've got organic type snacks, natural snacks, snack bars which are replacing things like candy bars and potato chips. those are some products we're seeing a lot of. a lot of the snack bar-type products. and the diet is getting more healthful. things like smoothies, for instance, are som

that banner read, "tiger, did you mean bootyism instead of buddhism," and another read "tiger, are youy daddy?" controversy there. >>> all right, a little less than a week to go before the london olympics. >> a company hired to provide security for the games says it's coming up short. that private security company, g4s was supposed to hire 10,000 security guards. but last week, they admitted to being at least 3,500 short. they also said that on any given day, they don't even know actually how many employers are going to show up. the british military and police have had to step in to try to fill that gap made by the company. >> day my day, we started to realize that the pipeline and the people we thought we were going to be able to deliver, we couldn't. >> olympic organizers now say despite the unexpected setback, the security of the games will not be compromised. >>> how about this? a bay area swimmer getting set for her third olympic games. >> you know the name, natalie coughlin already has 11 olympic medals to her game. she talked to nbc's natalie morales and she says she's very exci

likewise, the simplicities of zen buddhism really informed his design sense, that notion that simplicitye ultimate sophistication. >> kroft: when he returned from his trek, jobs and wozniak started building and peddling a primitive computer for hobbyists. with a $1,300 investment, they founded apple computer in his parents' garage. explain to me how somebody who was a hippie, a college dropout, somebody who drops lsd and marijuana, goes off to india and comes back deciding he wants to be a businessman? >> isaacson: jobs has, within him, sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict, between being hippie- ish and anti-materialistic, but wanting to sell things like wozniak's board, wanting to create a business. and i think that's exactly what silicon valley was all about in those days. "let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business." >> kroft: so we don't have to work for somebody else? >> isaacson: right. and steve jobs wasn't all that eager to be an employee at hewlett-packard. >> kroft: he was never much of an engineer. isaacson says he didn't

but as a scholar of buddhism, who has written a fascinating book about medication in burma, she pointed out that they were not actually -- this is not a political demonstration. this purely a spiritual manifestation -- manifesting their disapproval and refusing to apologize for beating them up. it did not have an overtly political dimension. and it is interesting to see everything. ensure longer you have a desperate situation where you have an extreme similarly chauvinist redish party -- buddhist party. unfortunately, burma is free of such an abomination. >> any other questions from the audience? do you have a second question. >> i am curious for the common citizen. if you live in rangoon -- limitations? do they have power 24 hours a day are not? do they have access to western media enact even in china which had censorship, you can read "the new york times" online in china. i'm wondering as far as being able to deal with this misunderstanding -- foreign news in just the general living conditions. >> they have had internet for a long time. they have had cable tv. this is one of the reaso