Of his 16 daily waking hours, Deepak Chopra spends four or five meditating. He never gets bored, he said, and he never experiences stress. His only vice is an addiction to yoga. “I’m happy all the time,” said Chopra, 78…
“The people who say they don’t have time, they’re not busy, they’re just scattered. If you’re present, there’s no fatigue. As soon as you think of what’s next, there’s fatigue. As soon as you think “I shouldn’t have done that,” there’s fatigue…”
“I don’t get stressed…”
“Pleasure is overrated…”
“I’m enjoying myself all the time. I don’t have to do anything special…”
— Deepak Chopra, interviewed by Lane Florsheim in “Deepak Chopra Doesn’t Believe You’re Too Busy to Meditate” (wsj.com, November 18 2024)
Yes I like these work
So that’s my problem. I’m scattered…
Dale, I had a large number of “tart” comments to this interview but elected to keep my mouth shut for a change and let the readers form their own perspective! 🙂
I can almost hear your comments! And pretty smart of you to leave it open!
You’ll appreciate, DK, that I briefly misread the opening line as “16 daily walking hours” and thought, “Wow, he and DK would get along great!”
Laughing! Good one!
I initially read it the same way!
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Well, look at that!
Sorry… I lost focus and tried to be “present” at least four times just reading the short excerpt. I don’t think I’m built for meditation. “You do you”. Laughing.
Ha!
I would love to achieve this… Thank you dear David, Love, nia
Oh, so me too Nia. If I acheived 1/10 of this, it would be a miracle.
A better person than I…I can’t meditate for more than 60 seconds!
60 seconds is amazing compared to me!
Not so amazing – I count down from 60 to zero…namaste
that’s amazing
Right. Almost unbelievable! 🙂
Zzzzz…..
Ha!
I think that a good number of us do meditate, just not in the typical forms of meditation. In your case, the hours you spend at The Cove or reading,you are in a meditative state.
I know when I’m in a meditative state. On some work days, certain tasks can be done in a meditative state.
The drive home on lake shore drive, mind you I wait until after rush hour passes. Making my coffee in the morning. Drinking my coffee, doing the dishes.
That being said, there are days when I can’t achieve that state.
Wisdom. Thanks for sharing Sawsan.
Hmm… well I’m a longstanding meditator, but I think if I was doing 4 to 5 hours a day I’d be stressed!
Laughing. I don’t meditate but just the thought of doing so for 4-5 hours stressing me too!!!
I started to read your post and the longer text yesterday, and I prepared myself for a longer comment. Luckily (knowing me, knowing you) I made a note which read as follows:
Deepak Chopra
Much food for thought, some disagreements, some head-nodding.
Special thanks for ‘offering’ the whole NYT article. Very helpful, for how can we appreciate something if we can’t follow the author’s thread of thoughts?
What made me really laugh out loud, was: ‘What’s the secret to a happy marriage or relationship? Give up being right.’ Hell yes…
Also: ‘I love to read. I like people with extraordinarily outrageous ideas. There are lots of people like that.’ That’s so me too…
Didn’t understand, even after reading twice: ‘stress is the perception of threat: physical, emotional and psychological. After a while, he said, “You mean resistance to existence.” And he said, “If you don’t resist existence, you will have flow.” That’s the best advice.’
Sorry? I’m not completely dumb but this makes just no sense to me. OK, I’m exhausted, absolutely overtired to the point where I yawn uncontrollably, but still… and frankly, I very quickly lost not only my will to live (to finish my thoughts about all of this) – I got bored (I do get bored easily, not in an actual physical sense but my mind has to turn on interesting thoughts not stuff I don‘t care about – or ppl I can‘t be bothered with)
Then other occupations kept me away – I returned quickly to you very late at night and managed to add this to my notes:
We have a saying: I get the birds (getting crazy) when reading how their house is – so infused with technological, environmental goodness that it makes me instantly sick.
write example of using AI – HH….
and there my friend, it ends. As I think this wasn‘t the last time you were writing about AI, I shall keep my HH‘s experience with AI for another time. I‘m exhausted (again) with a member of my family with extremely serious health issues.
Now to the disagreement (or rather, my explanation for Why I can’t agree):
Kiki, thank you. Did you leave off your last section on “Why I can’t agree?????
ooh, this resonated with me, ““The people who say they don’t have time, they’re not busy, they’re just scattered.” I have many quotes on post-it notes @ my desk – one of my favorites of his is this one, “Don’t try to steer the river,” AMEN! Happy Thanksgivingness, DK! MJ
Thanks MJ. Happy Thanksgiving to you too!