I Meditated Every Day & This Is What Happened To Me... | Russell Brand

I've meditated everyday this is what has happened I've started doing videos on how I've meditated every day but more importantly than that probably is that my assumption of Who I am has been challenged because I have a daily experience of consciousness that is distinct from my individual sense of my self not to say that often when I sit down meditating I just sort of close my eyes I'm thinking I'm thinking just stuff going on in my head and all you're doing really is closing your eyes the type of meditation I primarily do is called Transcendental Meditation just the name it's a form of mantra meditation where you think a word given to you by your teacher and whenever you notice you're not thinking that word you return to it eventually through the repetition of this word sometimes the mind kind of sinks into a state of deep awareness where you are not continually involved in the construction of in a narrative put simply the sense of thinking continually like oh I think I'm not God of this meditations a bit boring or that was terrible this thing happened I wish I could do that I'd like to maybe one day I will learn how to do scuba dive like that stopped and it's just a beautiful sense of peace I know is that part of the point of meditation is to return myself continually to the present to the moment to watch how I have a tendency mentally to be thinking about sewing from the past or projecting to something in the future as kind of inability to just be still and be present in the moment the mantra gives the mind something to do so that it has that to think like we're little minds a child and you give it a yo-yo or a biscuit or something or a ps4 these days and you say you play with that I'll be over here now as that particular piece of language suggests it's as if the thinking mind is not the ultimate set almost as if there are many many selves if you think of the Olympian pantheistic model it's like mr. God a wall that God of love the message of God the Olmec God the god of under-the-sea the various different forms of deities meaning in practical and individual terms that sometimes I am governed by there at different humors when my blood is up I'm a different person there are decisions I'll make when I'm angry or decisions I'll make when I'm fearful I would never consider making otherwise meditation means that the crucible or the screen upon which all of these images are reflected becomes somewhat not elevated but at least I'm aware I'm aware it I say all the gods live on Mount Olympus I'm aware of myself as Mount Olympus and not all of the different gods I'm aware that hold on I'm the continuum or in the language of Rumi I am a guesthouse and there are many visitors jealousy sadness rage anger love you know when you're in love it consumes you and there's nothing but love that's what it's so beautiful isn't it that early bliss of falling in love that beauty euphoria that almost hysteria at the moments when you find out they like you too and you awarded you and then you have those first revelatory conversations what about there when we were talking that time you know God already likes you then ah the giddy silly bliss of those days to be free from the self almost like what we really want is to be free of the self we will take drugs to be free of the self we watch movies to be free to simply buy clothes he'd fall in love to be free of the self and yet what do we are we continually telling what I'll ever be yourself be yourself as if that something can be realized through this constructed identity meditation helped me to understand that I am NOT what I think and feel I am witnessing what I think and feel that and as I do that I'm less likely to get involved in or take allocations conflicts or problems that are as a result of my force and feelings they still happen and I still have the force and feelings but my relationship with them is changing is getting easier furthermore more relaxed more calm less concerned about external things less tied to material things still have those things I've been longing doctrine ated and in cult and inculcated by the culture I was born into so I still care what other people think about me want people to respect me and be attracted to me all of those things that come with being a human animal socialized in the time that I was socialized but by having access to these you know ancient archaic principles of meditation my perspective on myself and my life changes and in fact that's the point of them that's why I always say that the mindfulness movement as an extraction of spiritual principles from their theological underpinnings is a disrespectful thing do some mindfulness in order to become a better lawyer and then crack on even though I've heard very great teachers say you know your meditation will improve you or accountancy or your lovemaking David Lynch even once said to me when I was a lot younger you will enjoy pornography even more when you meditate but the true goal for me of the spiritual experience is to be free of watching pornography to be free of caring about my professional duties except before as they bear on I'll pin others you know I have to be a comedian that's useful to other people I have to be a comedian it's loving in my personal relationships that the aim becomes a kind of service of a higher or this different good different good not just contained within more individualistic materialistic rationalistic needs I am me I'm gonna die one day I better get as much stuff for me and my family as I possibly can all those ideas they abide in me yes they do but my journey my intention the map that I follow is one of transcendent and by transcendent I mean first and foremost we transcend to the belief of who we are and then perhaps together we can transcend the ideas of society is we could start to think about well how could we form different systems different communities together how can I relate to other people differently is it possible that every interaction I have ends with that person feeling a little better for having known me not somewhat diminished or yeah somehow no cheapened or wounded or dismissed you know so it has on one level it's very simple and it's about kindness and recognition or who I fought myself to be was a construct on a deeper level it's the recognition that we are all one that we probably all access the same place for meditation and those probably I say as if that can be ever proven but it seems that there's a sort of perennialism a universal into the way that these states are described for our history and through our various forms of documentation even though the language might change it might be the angel Gabriel or it might be the Holy Ghost or it might be some transcendent mystical force or it might be the beliefs of one sort you know the freedom from the wheel but it all for me seems like the same place we're all heading we're all heading in the direction of oneness rule heading in the direction of love and meditation is an invaluable tool on facilitating that journey that's why I meditate every day and that's why you should meditate every day hello I'm doing these new videos more frequently now please hit the notification button at the end of this video cuz then you'll get a like a little bell when there I post a new video and I'd like you to get a little bill when I post the video then I can I don't know be buzzing away in your pocket sounds like I'd be like a little pocket mosquito anyway subscribe click the bell I want more people to watch their YouTube videos you specifically

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Published: Wed Aug 14 2019