WEBVTT - Meditation with Deepak Chopra 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:06.320 Who am I? What is this realm? What is up 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.080 there in the night sky? Where is the edge to 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.960 this beautiful flat earth? Is the ocean blue because the 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.800 sky is blue? Is the sky blue because that's God's 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.680 favorite color? Because he's a boy? These are some of 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.520 the questions that keep me and Baxter up at night. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.360 We go back and forth trading our thoughts and feelings. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.199 The other night we were talking about what if our 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.280 feet were our hands and our hands were our feet. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.160 I mean, the randomness of it all, it's just astonishing. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.920 Why is a nose called a nose? Why is a 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.879 carolina called a carolina? Oh? My parents name me? That 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:57.160 is everything? Okay, realm, I've just never heard you talk 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.480 like this. Does something happen? Well, it's it's a long story. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.280 Over the weekend, I went to a place called Joshua Tree. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.600 Now I didn't didn't go there on purpose, mind you. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.280 Actually was quite the adventure. I was walking to my 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:18.440 local stopping shop and well, you can fill in the rest. No, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.880 I can't. I can't fill in the rest. Well, I 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.640 ran into an old pal I used to jam with. You, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:30.760 remember Skylar, right, Skyler with the sax. Well you can 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.039 guess what happens next? No, I promise I can't get jeez, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.440 you're not helping me out here. You're really gonna make 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.720 me spell this out for you, aren't you. No. I 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.520 just want to know your story about Joshua Tree. I mean, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.880 whatever led you to all of these surreal questions about 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:51.200 the world. I'm interested? All right. Well, Skylar and his 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.800 sacks took me on the road with his jazz trio. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.760 I hopped on their tour bus to their next gear 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.800 at Toyota, Sienna. Okay, and boy was it magical? Me 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.320 Skyler and his crew. We we played music. We sang 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.640 some songs, drank a little, danced a little, fought over 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.000 some power dynamics in the band, met some mysterious women 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.239 who we loved. But God did Carolina we love the 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.400 music more. It's a common conflict. Then, right around the 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.280 third act, life on the road took a turn for 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.959 the worse. Empty glass pipes all around me. A love child, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:35.560 I abandoned somewhere an Encino Eggzema. My life was in 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.880 the toilet bowl. I had to miss our next show 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.799 at the gas Lamp Artisan Market's annual pet parade. I 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.079 told Skyler to pull the bus over. How long were 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.120 you on the bus? Depending on traffic, it's about a 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.520 two hour drive anyway, I told them to drop me 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.560 off in Joshua Tree, the desert. There had to be 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.680 something more to this life than the lights, the fans, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.919 the girls. And he said, you went south from Diego. Yes, yeah, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.120 I never know how tough it is to get into 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:13.160 Joshua Tree. The security is insane, the guard towers, the fencing, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:20.880 the dogs, the people selling chicklets. Drink it, drink its chicklets. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.000 You know what I think now that you're saying, I 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.960 think you went to Mexico. Well, wherever it was, it 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:31.200 was beautiful, sandy beaches, amazing food, nice people. They were 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.760 speaking Spanish. Now that's Mexico. That's where you were. And 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.080 it was in Joshua Tree where I found only more questions. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.920 Where does all this beauty come from in the world? 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.600 Does it come from me? Does it come from my 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.840 own eyeballs that see it? No, it's definitely the world 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.600 definitely already exists. Is life an amazing dream? I don't know, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.480 ron I mean, these are just questions mystics have been 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.080 asking since the beginning of time, which is why I 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.800 have chosen our topic today to be the questions of 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.720 the universe for the sake of time. Do you think 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:10.520 we can get more specific? Um? Okay, the questions of 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.960 our world? It's still pretty broad. Maybe, um, maybe a 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.159 specific question. Okay, how about the questions of life and 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.000 love and the planets beyond. That's it. That'll be our 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.520 top Maybe just spirituality, or how about you let me 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:33.160 pick the topic since it's my fucking podcast. Sorry, sorry, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.719 I am so sorry. I know you can you look 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.800 at me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let's just ya, you're right. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:48.479 Just maybe let's spirit spiritlogy, spirituality, spirituality. That'll be today's topic. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.520 And I wish I wish that were someone we could 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.320 we could call to talk about the subject. Otherwise you 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.440 and I can handle it, I think. Okay, let me 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.160 pass me your book. I'll see if we have look 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.760 through my rolodex here, Yes, I keep a rolodex, folks. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.760 My rollo X doesn't lose its memory, not a lot 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:16.479 of How is Stephanie that she's not very spiritual? Okay? Yeah, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.839 I wouldn't call her girl with lippering. Girl with lippering. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:28.000 There's no name there is there even a number? Um? 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.520 It's just I think it's just a stick figure. Yeah, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.800 girl with lippering. Thank you. You have nine one one 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:40.640 in here? Just so I I remember to call nine 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.120 one one if there's an emergency. Okay, And you have 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.679 the number to dial Z one hundreds Z one hundreds 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:54.240 dash for cash. Yes, um, oh my god? Do you 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.839 is this real? Do you have Deepak cho Deepak Chopra's number? 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.560 Of course I do, Deepox. He would be perfect. Oh, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.680 he would be I don't want to bother him though. Okay, well, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.920 well let's see if we could track him down. He's 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.960 usually just sitting around his apartment in New York. Oh 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.960 my god, this would be amazing. I feel like an idiot. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.760 Of course, let's call deepop This is one of five 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.279 numbers you have in your roods. Why I didn't land 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.919 on that one to begin with? It's crazy? But then again, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.520 you know, I forgot I have nine one one in there? Also? 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.960 Have you ever forgotten that number? I can't say that 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.800 I have, but I just it's like a security blanket. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.240 I think if I took the nine one card out 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.280 of my rolodex, I'd panic and I'd forget. What is 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.760 the number for emergency? Do you know what the number 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:50.000 for information is? Non emergency information? Yeah? Can you write 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.400 that in that blank rollodex right there? Three? One? Okay, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.680 got it? And then this weekend, I know you're not 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.760 doing anything because you're never doing anything. I have some 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.000 can you find out where girl with a lip ring 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.880 do some research stry to tracker downy? I mean I 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.679 can make flyers, I guess sure. Okay, all great ideas. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.840 Can you rin Assessna an airplane and drop the flyers 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.080 out of the plane World War two style? Yes? I 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.680 feel like that must be illegal. We won't know it's 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.600 illegal until we try it or until we ask just 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.320 do it. Okay, this is out of our budget, I think, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.960 but I will look into Okay, so we are currently 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.080 we're gonna go to break as we try to track 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.800 down Mr Deepak Chopra fingers crossed. We'll see what happens, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.640 and we're back in the Ron Burgundy podcast. We are 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.120 about to dial Mr Deepak Chopra, good friend of mine, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.280 to get into the topic of spirituality. So Carolina, go 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:01.560 ahead and die up our friend Mr Deepak Ray. He's 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:06.960 going to be thrilled and duco for solo. Hello is 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.720 deep back? There. Who's this Hi, This is Stephanie. Hang up, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.440 Hang up, quickly, hang up, hang up? Okay, okay, okay, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:21.520 who dodged a bullet on that one? Who's Stephanie mixing 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:27.960 the numbers? Yeah? Oh, but you know what Stephanie knows, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.839 girl with the lip ring to go through her? Okay, 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:38.720 all right, try try this other number, the one that's 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.760 if you scrape away that kicked on barbecue sauce, you 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.360 can get the rest of them, the rest of the 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.400 number there. This is perfect cute. Well it's not blood, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.640 it's not human blood. Okay, do you have it there? Okay? 0:08:53.720 --> 0:09:02.080 Dialing Mr deepak Bra Hello, Hi is this deep Yeah, Depark, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.640 so wonderful to have you here via satellite phone. Thank 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.120 you for being a part of the podcast today. Thank 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.000 you on it's a pleasure to be with you. Where 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.800 where are you calling from right now? Somewhere somewhere exotic? 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.960 Actually I lived non locally, but my physical body is 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.600 in New York at the moment. You live non locally 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.320 and but the physical body? Yes, Um, what does that 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.280 mean living? What exactly does that mean? I am and 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:39.000 I live Wherever I am and where I am has 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:44.240 no location in space? And time. By saying I am 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.120 I'm not referring to the body mind. I'm referring to 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.840 the awareness in which my body mind is a changing experience. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.160 So when we say we're in Los Angeles, we are 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.240 are physically were our physic called bodies in Los Angeles, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.360 but our body mind. But but the fact is that 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:12.440 Los Angeles is a human construct like latitude and longitude 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.680 are a human construct. Of money is a human construct. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.959 Of wall streets is a human construct. Greinwich mean time 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.280 is a human concerts Philadelphia is not a human construct 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.719 that places it is. I don't know about that, yeah, exactly. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.440 So what is it that creates those constructs? Why do 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.800 human beings creates stories around raw experience? Why do they 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.840 do that? Patients? Yes? Why? Because we are storytellers, That's it. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.920 We're the only species who tells stories, including a story 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.920 called nation state, or story called religion, a story called science. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.200 And then we mess up and we create climate change 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.160 and war and terrorism and eco destruction and extinction of 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:01.280 species and violence. We are we're in same species. Well, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.480 there is a raccoon that lives in my backyard. He 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.559 tells me stories every Sunday night. Does that count No, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.840 you interpret the stories. Run are you? I swear he 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:16.040 talks to me? Okay, Well, then in that case you 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.600 you have broken the mold. You are into inter species communication. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.240 That's where it's all about what the perceptual experience of 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.000 the rackooness Deepak. Let me ask you this, when when 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.920 you were in school, did your friends call you d 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:39.240 money or was it always just Deepak? They calls me deep? Okay? 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.840 I like that that works on many different levels because 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:48.120 you are a deep person and deep yes. Um, let 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.800 me ask you, what would you tell someone who just 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:57.760 has questions about life. Well, on a very superficial level, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:03.120 I would say life is a sexually transmitted into watch it, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.240 watch it, d money, watch it. Life is a sexually 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.560 transmitted in durable condition. On a deeper level, life is 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:16.800 all there is. Without life, there is no experience. True 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.400 life is all what we call the body, what we 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.880 call the world, what we call anything that we give 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:30.520 a name to is it actually created in consciousness? And 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.720 once we agree on the meaning of the world, it 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:39.120 becomes our reality. I know that you probably are a 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.320 huge proponent of of trying to live more In the moment, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.080 I would assume that Um and I have trouble because 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.160 I'm always thinking, Oh, I've got to plan my next vacation. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.400 Oh what should I have for lunch? Should I have 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.960 a grilled cheese sandwich or tuna? You know? What what 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 steps should we take to just slow down and live 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.920 more in the moment? Yeah, Ron, that's a very important question, 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.520 because if you're not living in the moment and always 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.920 um in the future of the past, then you're not 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.880 really here. You know that what's his name, Wittgenstein, the 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.960 German philosopher, that we are asleep. Life is a dream, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.640 But once in a while we wake up enough to 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.959 know that we're dreaming, and we wake up to ourselves, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:31.480 which is this this presence that we call now. So 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.280 everything that is even a trillionth of a second in 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.520 the past or a trillionth of a second in the 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.720 future is a dream. So we are in fact living 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.600 a dream reality. And if you're always anticipating the future 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.480 when it finally arrives, you won't be there for it. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.600 So what's the point. Sometimes I wake up and I 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.280 am running down the middle lane of the freeway in 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.560 my underwear, screaming at the top of my lunch. What 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.880 does that mean? Means that you're having a panic attack. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:08.120 For whatever reason, you're having existential anxiety. Fair enough, What 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.320 what is your hope for the human race? Can I 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:15.640 ask you that? I think if you really want, um 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.440 my honest opinion, the human race is doomed to extinction. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:26.680 We've it's it's an experiment that didn't work out. So 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.760 I think either we evolve to a new stage of 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.800 our being or we're doomed like the dinosaurs. So we're 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.760 up creek without a paddle. Yeah, we need to take 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.320 a leap in our imagination to see what a peaceful, 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:48.720 just sustainable, healthier and joyful world could be because it exists. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.640 It exists in our imagination at the moment. If we 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:58.000 somehow evolved and developed gills and could breathe underwater with 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:03.840 that help, I think it would help unless we created 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.400 the junkyard underwater as well, But we're doing right now, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.840 you know, I think nothing will happen. We could go 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.600 into outer space and still create junk over there. So 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.800 the only thing that could help is our own transformation. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.320 So at our in our pure essence, we're just nasty creatures. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.440 We have the potential, though, for being both divine and babolical. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:36.280 So right now we actually expressed our diabolical tendencies, but 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.360 we have the other tendency too. Do you have any 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.960 TV shows? Do you have any favorite TV shows? Do 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:50.680 you like? I used to watch Candid Camera that really 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.880 there's a lot of fun. And I wish the whole 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.240 world would watch stuff like that. Then they wouldn't be 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.040 so nationalist an angry, and you know, they'd understand the 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.520 human conditions little more because you know, well, Run that 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:14.800 humor is is dealing with contradiction and paradox and ambiguity, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.440 and it is actually humor is a way to get 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.880 to our soul, as most art is. Science is the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.240 language of the mind. I've always said that what you do, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.920 what you guys do, is language of the soul. That 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.080 is wonderful language of the soul. That science of the mind, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.920 language of the soul. Yeah, that's a good Do you 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.600 mind if we take that for runs? Could I copyright that? 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.160 You can steal it? Okay? Perfect? Oh my god, thank you. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.440 This is recorded, so this will stand up in a 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.440 in a court of law. Thank you. Deepak. If you 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.640 would honor us and lead us in a bit of 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.520 a meditation here, we would we would love to to 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.280 go along with you here. Sure, so wherever you are 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.960 if you can, unless you're driving. Wherever you are, just 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:10.000 sit quietly, put your feet firmly on the ground, and 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.439 keep your eyes closed or close your eyes and start 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:20.920 to observe your breath and just watching the breath will 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.320 slow it down. And since breath and sort go together, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.280 just watching the breath, your mind will settle. And now 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:36.520 bring it into or bring your awareness into your heart 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.719 in the middle of the chest, and then mentally asked 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:49.080 the following question who am I? What am I? Antially meant, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.639 and then don't try to answer it. Just be aware 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:59.280 of any sensation, image, feeling or thought that comes to you. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.119 Do it a pull of times, a few times mentally 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.280 who am I? What am I? If you want to 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.320 go deeper, say who who wants to know? Who wants? 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:20.040 What is it that wants to know? Just observing any sensations, images, feelings, thoughts. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:25.600 That's spontaneously right a chicken caesar salad reading, And now 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.840 ask the question what do I want? What is my 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:36.520 deepest desire? Once again allowing any sensations, images, feelings, or 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:45.320 thoughts to spontaneously. Riss Is are you dying. Two more questions, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.639 what is my purpose? Fantasy lead? Why do I do 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.400 what I do? Have a w n B a fantasy leak, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:19:01.000 allowing any sensation, image, feeling, or thought to come to you? Yes, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:08.040 Sueperd had assists. And now the final question points what 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:14.120 am I grateful for? Not firelight like allowing any sensation, image, feeling, 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:23.000 a thought to come to And now just feel your body, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.520 feel the sensations in your body. It takes a few 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.600 seconds and open your right m. This is a meditation 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:45.080 in reflective self inquiry. Now is it, customer? My wallet 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.960 is gone? Yeah? Is that? I told you money is 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.360 a human construct? Because someone made it up? Someone took 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.880 my wallet, just saying whether whether it's a human construct 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.960 or not, Well, that's not your concern and we've got 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.040 to get at that here. While my eyes were shut 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:09.040 and was blowing, my heart rate stole. Well, you exchange 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:17.119 your inner being and that was the payment. But your 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:24.880 idea wasn't there? Right? Okay? Um, Well what I feel 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:29.879 very very calm. Oh, I'm so happy. We can do 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.200 other kinds of meditations. You know, there's awareness of mind, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:39.320 awareness of emotions, awareness of body, aware awareness of perception 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:45.479 of relationship, transcendence, meditation. Most people don't understand meditation. They 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.399 think it's a system of thought, but actually it's a 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.880 way of bypassing thought. So we're not supposed to pay 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.240 attention to our thoughts. No, whatever happens is fine. But 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.119 you can see that most of your thoughts on at 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.760 your own they're recycling public information, so you don't have 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.280 to be victimized by thought. Can you teach me how 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:13.560 to levitate or levitate an object? Yes, but we'd have 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.320 to be there together. And how much would that cost me? 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:24.520 Huh nothing? Oh? Okay, good, Wow, I'd be charging with 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:26.440 a lot of money. I mean, I know that's a 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.560 human construct, but i'd be charging. Once you realize that 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.080 the physical body is an illusion, then you can do 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.359 whatever you want. It's part of the dream like that. 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.680 So the next time I'm at a Lakers game and 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.199 I don't have a ticket, I can just walk right 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:46.560 down to the front row and I can just say 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:53.159 that you are on the human body you want is Yeah, Well, 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:57.520 their security is pretty tight, very tight. Trust me. Deep. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.680 Let me ask you this, what's your nine to five? Like, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.879 what's a typical day for Deep? Actobra. Typical days, I 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.880 woke wake up very early. I wake up around four 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:13.920 thirty five. I spend two hours in reflection and meditation. 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:20.240 I do one hour yoga every day, and then after that, 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:24.159 I just shoot the breeze. I'm meaning, I do whatever 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.480 I feel like, and it's like I'm singing my song 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.720 and some people enjoy hearing it. And then in the 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:36.520 evening I do a shortter meditation. I go for a 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:41.119 long walk in New York City, and before I sleep, 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:47.760 I meditate on the mystery of death. Holy smokes, I 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.560 don't know. But I'm seventy two. I don't have to 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.240 face the fact that I'm in the final chapters of 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.960 my life. You're on the you're on the back nine, 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:02.160 as I say, the golf world, Yes, what do we do? Deepark? 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.280 If like, what do you do with criticism? Or if 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.399 anyone's mean to you? Yeah? What if someone walks up 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:10.200 to you while you're on your walk through New York 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:15.760 City and say, hey, Bob, out of my way. Um, 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.760 if it's a homeless person, I give them twenty dollars. 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:24.440 If it's somebody else, I just keep walking. And I 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.960 used to get offended by the good and by the 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.560 bad opinions of others. It was never immune to criticism, 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.840 but then I worked on it and write this moment 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.680 in my life, I'm immune to both criticism and flattery. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.600 With growing older kind of you're just middle of the road, 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.879 right there. Yeah, well, I let it pass. It's not 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:51.680 important if you're If you are always concerned about what 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.000 other people think about you, then you'll be offended for 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.440 the rest of your life. I need to work on 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:01.800 that because I still love compliments so much, and criticism 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:06.160 just it reduces me to rubble. Usually if Ron gets criticized, 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:08.600 he just sits down wherever he is in the middle 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:13.720 of the floor. I just pout, well, well the seat, Ron. 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.760 The secret to power is to be is to be 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:22.720 immune to criticism and flattery, to be fearless, and to 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:27.760 feel beneath no one. That's called self power. Everything else's 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:31.359 agency power. It can be taken away from you in 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:33.960 the blink of an eye. But the flattery is pretty 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:40.359 fun though. Still. Yeah, if you're eight years old to 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:46.159 se to see my friend, well, you know what, in 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:48.760 some ways we should We should always hope that we 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:52.840 act like eight year old. That's true, But some eight 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:57.440 years end up being heads of state. That's true. Deep, 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:01.560 my man, you're on fire right now. You are on fire, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:06.120 my friend. Um. We cannot thank you enough for being 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.159 on the podcast today. Thank you for taking us on 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:11.120 a Thank you so much. It was an Oh, I'm 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:13.720 very grateful. Thank you, and I hope to see you 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:17.280 guys sometimes. If I never in New York, I'll call you. 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:19.960 Let's go out for a beer and maybe I can 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:23.920 sleep on your floor. Sure, well, treat you to a 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:27.359 good conica and you'll be making it in your nervous 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:31.000 system so we won't have to go out. Perfect sounds good. 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:35.399 Thank you, sir, Thank you so much. Thank you so much, everyone, 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:38.280 Thank you so much. The Ron Burgundy Podcast. We'll be 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:45.480 right back, and we are back. You are listening to 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.680 the Ron Burgundy Podcast once again, right thanks to Mr Deep. 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:57.000 What a fascinating individual, amazing, just completely has let go 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:01.600 of the earthly realm. We're dreaming. It's pretty fascinating. We 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:04.119 still haven't found my wallet, we're still look. I know 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:08.560 that's a man made construct, but that man made construct 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.560 was filled with two thousand dollars in cash. Yeah, I know. 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:15.800 It's a problem. Yeah, that's a problem. Well, there's only 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:17.760 a few people in the studio. That's more than half 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:22.160 of what's in my checking account. Anyway, we'll figure it out. 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:26.919 We'll figure it out. Um. But boy, Deepak, he sent 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:28.800 a shiver through my spine. He doesn't have a lot 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:30.880 of hope for the human race to figure it out. 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:34.000 And girls won't help us either. Deals will not help. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:35.760 I thought for sure that was going to be the 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:39.040 lightbulb moment. You always call that your backup. We can 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:44.760 develop guills. In fact, if I was Bill Gates, I 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:48.880 would will all my money to the research and development 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:53.040 of gills for humans, Guild Development. Guild Development. I don't know, 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:58.240 that's a real that might be a waste. And the 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:00.960 theme song for the charity of Old Development would be 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:06.760 sung by Country Western start Vince Gille. Oh, and we 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:09.760 need a theme song for the Guilt. If they wanted 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:13.080 to have one, we'd call it Vince Gille. I mean, 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:15.720 it's a it's an idea. I'm a dreamer, I know, 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:19.840 and I'm a dreamer. Um. Okay, let's go to our 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.720 fact check. Well, there's no reason to have a fact 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.439 check today, because as Deepak laid it out for us 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:30.080 so eloquently. Um, these are all human constructs. They don't 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:35.280 really exists. Okay, you're gonna go against the money, No, no, no, 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:37.200 I just all get him right back on the phone. 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.639 We'll go right around with this world flat. There was 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:47.800 just human construct all right. Then I'll just scratch this. Yeah, off, 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:49.960 I guess, I guess we'll just move on. Yeah, we will, 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:57.159 we will move on. Here's my final thoughts. Please, what 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.760 do you know? I went looking for answers in all 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:06.440 the wrong places, and I realized there is oneness in 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:11.440 us all we just have to connect. And oh wait, 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:15.000 oh gosh, I just realized I left my jacket and 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:20.480 Skyler's toyota. Maybe my wallet was in the jack. Okay, CAROLINEA, 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:21.800