Deepak Chopra's Introduction to Meditation - Part 1, 3

[pietrrocks]

Deepak stop talking start meditating. I get the message you are trying to talk your way out of all this

[AnaKosta]

David Lynch, the champion of TM, is a... smoker! He says he enjoys nicotine... Explain that. Vivekananda smoked, as well as his guru, Ramakrishna (he died with throat cancer -- I don't know if related to his smoking habit). However, don't ask me if they smoked simple tobacco or if they smoked ganja. That would not be out of the ordinary in India. In "Aghora" Robert Svoboda says that Vimalananda, the Aghori adept, was a chain smoker too. Siddhas have strange ways you can't fathom.

[mysteriouscat100]

what Mr Chopra is saying is absolutely true .i meditate since 10 not for choice but because there is nothing where i live ,i spent precious hours near my window trying to turn myself inside out ,results?i don,t drink no smoking,not married,i try to help others and have a great feeling of contentment,Chopra.s last sentence makes me laugh because true:people laugh when i tell them i,m 40 ,I LOOK 20!!!!!!!

[PsiKidPower]

Meditation feels good, its one of my favorite thing to do (or may i say, be) I love how I feel when i meditate.... that ecstasy, blissful feeling i get is so alive, it makes me sooo grateful just to be alive.

[ahhGroovymangroovy]

Yeah I feel the same way..The other day After I came to and out of meditation..I was so happy..It was unexplainable...The Third Eye is awesome to..Scary at first even

[veramann]

It's an informative video but quite short.

[shyammetal]

Swami Vivekananda used to do regular meditation.....and yet he was not able to get rid of his smoking habit.....why is that so?

[mozart186]

Maybe he didn't want to stop smoking? Maybe he liked smoking?

Did Swami Vivekananda say that he wanted to quit smoking but couldn't and that he thought meditating would get him to stop?

Swami Vivekananda may have had a completely different agenda for his life that did not include 'not smoking.'

Regular meditation causes a general improvement in your mental and physical health. Regular meditation does not turn anyone into a supernatural being.

[shyammetal]

May be he did not want to stop smoking....may be!

I never mentioned anything regarding supernatural!...then why this superficial assumption?

Meditation overall leads to self-awareness....and there you find the purpose of taking birth as a human being.....and at the end of the day the purpose of every human becomes to free himself from the cycle of repeated birth and repeated death....

[oneoftenintheworld]

go go go for it let us meditate !

[ChannelHigherSelf]

Great insight into addiction and meditation!

I just wish Deepak would go deeper into the realizations of medition. These deeply spiritual benefits outweigh the more superficial benefits such as slowed aging.

[misseptember]

awesome thank you for your knowledge and wisdom.