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Daily Connect: Zuckerberg on Buddhism?

Submitted by Lani on Thu, 12/23/2010, 8:15pm
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I just read a fascinating article on Mark Zuckerberg for Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2010:

One of the interests Zuckerberg lists on his Facebook page is "Eliminating Desire."

"I just want to focus on what we're doing," Zuckerberg says. "When I put it in my profile, that's what I was focused on. I think it's probably Buddhist? To me it's just — I don't know, I think it would be very easy to get distracted and get caught up in short-term things or material things that don't matter. The phrase is actually 'Eliminating desire for all that doesn't really matter.'"

I'll be writing more on this article for next week, because I love that this guy is worth around 7 billion dollars and drives an Acura. 

Mark Zuckerberg...Buddhist?

 

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