I Meditated, Now I Don’t Care Anymore

so like if i'm internally content why the hell am i here it's because i have all of these karmas to complete now you'll understand why you're here you're not here for the sake of being here you're here because you owe this world something and then as you complete those things you'll be free so help meditation is turning me stoic i've been doing some meditation the past three to four years and now i've discovered dr k i've started doing it even more often however what i've realized is that in the safe space of my existence where there's only my eye and no turbulence i'm so comfortable that i never want to leave and it feels like the only real thing to my existence for example yesterday night i was laying in bed thinking what tattoo i want to get next and then it struck me that the eye on the inside does not really care about tattoos the eye doesn't really care about anything it just exists so i if i tune into it into that the more i feel like all my wants are completely erased but then what's the point of living just to sit with that emotion of not wanting anything until i rot away how do i practice meditation without feeling like things in my material world stop mattering or is this enlightenment realizing nothing matters and i can just sit there in my head and meditate until i pass away but if so why do monks and such keep on living what do i do when i easily can tap into the eye safe space of myself live because i don't really feel like there's any motivation to anything editing in one of my replies in the comments here i do get a boost from creating working on self-development or helping others however i feel like all these things classify as material it's not my inner eye that gets a kick it's my ego that likes feeling good about itself my inner self just observes it feels like it doesn't really care about these things i'm also at a happy and stable point in life so i wouldn't say that i'm using meditation as a form of escapism okay fantastic post so sometimes when people start meditating it starts working what does that mean so let's run through a couple of relevant details here so the person is sitting in bed thinking about what tattoo they want next and then they realize like where is this desire coming from i don't really need a tattoo it's just like i'm content in here i don't need it so as we meditate and as we get in touch with our inner solves let's also remember that this person is relatively stable and happy in life right we start to recognize that like this is kind of weird like i don't really need all of this stuff that i thought i needed before my wants and desires start to go away which is like one of the benefits of meditation so here we are most of us caught up in our desires i want this i want this i want this right i want people to love me i want to be respected i want to be able to hold my head up with pride i want to be able to get the hell out of my house i want to be more physically in shape i want i want i want i want this person's love i want more money i want more stuff the problem with chasing desires is that it's the hedonistic treadmill so i want a promotion but am i content then no i want another promotion i make a hundred grand a year now i want 120. he's getting 120 i didn't get promoted this year i want a tattoo and what does this person want which tattoo am i getting next so the problem with desire is that there's always a next so despite whatever kind of fulfillment you do there's more fulfillment to be had so we start meditating and as we meditate we start to become a little bit less materialistic we start to like understand ourselves bored we find a space of contentment within us which by the way is what all these people who are depressed and addicted and all that kind of stuff that's what they're looking for that's why we teach people meditation by the way so they can find the space where i am content i don't need something else i don't need to feel shame or even if i feel ashamed the shame is there because your your desire for the tattoo is still there right let's be clear it's just the desire for the tattoo no longer dictates your actions so even as you start to meditate you don't feel less you don't become numb you still feel guilt you still feel shame but that guilt and shame controls you less that's why meditation is so powerful so another thing to kind of point out is that this kind of state happens to more more to people who are stable and happy in life so this is what meditation was designed for it was never designed as a treatment to fix what's broken it was designed as taking someone who's stable and helping them become super normal it's all the same actually but we'll just steer clear of that for a second so then we run into a problem if we start to meditate successfully and now we have to be i have to toss out a disclaimer here which is that if you're just keep meditating don't worry about this being the success that you should shoot for trying to attain this state will interfere with your ability to attain it so for whatever reason you meditate just that's fine you don't need to get here you don't need to try to get here or anything like that okay this is a consequence of meditating so for whatever reason you use to meditate you will eventually get to this place okay the goal doesn't matter like it doesn't matter why you're running if you run for five miles a day there will be changes to your body that will definitely happen right you will lose weight your cardiovascular health will improve et cetera et cetera et cetera okay so then this creates a problem for a lot of competent yet novice meditators which is that i've lived my whole life and in fact the structure of life is based on ambition on wanting things that's what our culture is designed on right so if we look at things like social media and like we look at like targeted advertising and cookies right so like online cookies we try we live in a society that tries to create materialistic need hey by the way so you can just follow fashion trends by the way i know that some people paint their nails and did you know that you can paint the fourth nail slightly differently and we're gonna add a little bit something onto that and then everyone starts kind of doing it and then everyone's like oh like my nails aren't good enough and now let me go pay an extra three dollars for like this additional thing that's what our society bases itself on right even we're guilty of this look merch store right hey there's stuff you can buy right so this is the way that society works where it's all based on ambition and desire triumph elon musk now owns this percentage of twitter that's something that someone out there is aspiring to i wish i was a mega billionaire then i could do this this this this this so we build our lives on ambition oh like little gent jimmy little timmy little lucy little prakash you know like whatever little jose get a's if you get a's you'll get a good job if you get a good job you'll make lots of money if you get make lots of money you'll be a desirable mate you'd be your desirable mate you'll marry someone who you love and who's awesome and attractive then you'll have babies and then you'll have this beautiful perfect life this is the road to happiness it's based on ambition and accomplishment so as you meditate it's really confusing because this goes away and now you're like well hold on a second ambition and desire is how i have structured my life and has been the source of my motivation and let's be clear it can be a very good source of motivation right very good source of motivation that's why most people do it now as you start to like become as you put it stoic you're like i don't feel like doing anything because i'm kind of content so this is not where a lot of people get confused because they think like how do i live life now and this is where i'd say this is actually when you start living life people prior to the state aren't truly living it they're chasing desires that's not living life so once you find contentment within yourself a couple of very important things start to happen the first is that opportunity cost shrinks so like when i'm chasing desire it's hard for me to pick one thing over another thing my ability to pick is actually constrained by my desire so when i lack contentment on the inside i need to eat a slice of pizza instead of a salad because i get more from the pizza the pizza brings me more happiness because i'm fundamentally not content in here and so i choose pizza over salad or i choose playing video games over studying so this is one of the benefits of meditation that people discover as you learn to be content within yourself as you're thinking about ordering a salad you're like oh i want the pizza tap into that piece and say i'm gonna order salad and you'll be like you know what it's totally fine i can order pizza and i can enjoy it the same as salad now you've activated activated god mode in life as long as you can do this your choices are exactly what you want them to be and are not going to be influenced by desire you can do whatever you want to because for you like it's the same right if you're equally content with a tattoo or without a tattoo you never have to get another tattoo and so then people may wonder but then like how do i choose which is something you'll learn so here's what you should do engage in life experiment see what else is out there right so what i would say is do whatever you kind of feel like doing and i realize the whole point is you may not feel like doing much so i'd say like live life but live life from this perspective and what you'll discover is that like all of it is way more joyous and so like i don't know how to say this but when we play a video game like why do we play the video game if it's not real like what does it matter if i use a sword or a bow in a video game what does it matter if i built go mage build or bonk build in elden ring what does it matter it doesn't matter but it's not like global warming will get better in either situation it's not like you know we're gonna fix world hunger it's not like we're going to clean the oceans by going bonk build over mage build it doesn't matter and yet we can do it and we do it with so much more joy so the other thing that starts to happen is that life becomes more like a video game but in the best possible ways it becomes less important whether i do things one way or the other and so it just sort of becomes like a simple enjoyment and then life transforms into something called lila so as you move towards enlightenment the word for reality the word in sanskrit that gets translated into english as reality is technically translated as play but scholars will translate it as reality so like life becomes play it becomes joyous it becomes fun no matter what you do you're having a good time and so then you can choose freely and so just like then you could say but how do i choose well that's based on the internal rules of the game so then you start playing the game of life right so like even though nothing is real like how do you choose something in a video game because based on the internal rules so there's like an internal set of rules which we're going to play by and life is the same way so if you want to get a job you should get a job part of the rules of life or generally speaking we should try out this relationship stuff so let's try it out and let's try to enjoy it and see if it's for us and then you'll kind of come to a very simple experiential base conclusion this is good i'm going to do this thing i'm going to get a tattoo i'm not going to get a tattoo you become free from the constraints of desire which allows you to actually engage more fully with life and so what's confusing is people think that the opposite of ambition is apathy which in a sense apathy and ambition are opposites but when you meditate this is why people use the word transcend you transcend that axis you transcend the axis of like ambition and apathy into just like enjoyment and freedom and so this is why even as people talk about enlightenment they they call it bliss they call it freedom like those do you all get how those are like in the english language those are not synonyms bliss and freedom are not say in the same ballpark at all and enlightenment implies knowledge like what is going on here like these are not similar things but as you progress spiritually you will get to a state of mind which when boiled down to translation you know like when we reduce things the state of language and logic which is not really like what reality is right so reality is not dictated by human logic human logic is an attempt to approximate reality and so we use these kinds of words so as you progress just live by all means play by the rules and you will see that things are more joyous the other thing that happens you still have a long way to go are you enlightened yet i don't think so let me show you why so the other thing that happens when we start to meditate is we conquer the big problems and by big i mean like not more important i mean the things that are more visible so i was lying in bed thinking what tattoo i want to get next and that struck me that the eye on the inside does not really care about tattoos guy doesn't care about anything and then so okay fine you're uncaring here you're enlightened with this thought sure so if i tune into that more all my wants are completely erased but but then what's the point of living just sit with emotion of not wanting until i rot away see this is an unenlightened thought this this word wrought away there's an attachment you see that so like you're free over here but you're not free over here right like this is a problem for you which is why you're making the post but it's subtle so this is where in meditation the problems that we deal with are subtler and subtler and subtler they get smaller and smaller and smaller right so it's like we pick the low hanging fruit which is desire over a tattoo and then we get to other things so then we also see like another thing changing because i don't really feel like there's any motivation to things but i do get a boost from creating working on self-development and helping others this is another quality of people who meditate they become more altruistic they become more creative they improve as human beings so this is absolutely in the right direction this is the reason why many people meditate you may not be doing it for these advantages which is good it's not the right reason to do it not really a right reason but all of these consequences will start to change you'll become more materialistically successful your relationships will improve your understanding of the self will improve however i feel like all these things classify as material here's your problem number two so now that we've got a real meditator we're gonna go into subtleties classification this can never classify do you understand that the mind of a meditator can never classify classification is of the mind it's not doesn't come from transcendence of mind it comes from operation within mind it's not my inner eye that gets the cake it's my ego that likes feeling good about itself so let's go even subtler what's wrong with your ego getting a kick why do we place a value judgment on ego getting a kick is bad and the internal state is good why do we place a value judgment on the inner self over the ego so now what we see with people who are good meditators is these are the next questions that come up it's beautiful this person is doing wonderful but now the challenges that you face are more subtle you've leveled up but you're far from finishing the game like we're just getting started like you just completed the tutorial my friend and so now you dig into these things so then ask yourself what's it like having an ego that's gratified so let's remember that there's a reason why we have an ego right the ego serves a purpose ego isn't bad ego and control is bad you being in control of your ego is perfectly fine and then you ask the question what is the i in that sentence or what is the you it's not the ego it's that transcend itself so what should you do very practically i'd say first of all you're on a fantastic track just keep doing what you're doing but live life more fully so engage more and observe now you're really now you have you're centered in your capacity of observation so now you can learn so now you should go and do different things like go find a romantic relationship if you don't have one go get promoted go swimming do all of these different experiences and see what life has to offer because now you can live life to the fullest because you're not constrained by a desire now you can actually enjoy stuff so like now we're in the video game we're like vibin right so the enlightened person vibes with life more practically you may be ready for deeper spiritual practice now that you have this observing self so if you have the opportunity to learn more mystical esoteric advanced or powerful meditation i would strongly recommend that depending on what your goals are and stuff like that i think you're probably because it requires a certain amount of like centering to be able to tolerate that kind of stuff and unless you're centered in this way that's when when people do powerful meditation techniques i personally think we don't really have good data on this we know there's meditation and do psychosis but i think when you're grounded in this way your hopefully won't become psychotic if you do a powerful meditation technique that's been my experience anyway and that's why how they're taught in traditions so the last thing is that this is one of the cases where i think that you know really finding a good spiritual tradition will help you a lot so like gurus are kind of you got to be careful in a sense but this is why gurus exist the real role of a guru is to guide this person because chances are they're not going to find the answers to things like in logic or in books or in other places so you really need someone who's like spiritually like advanced to understand what you're experiencing and then like guide you effectively and hopefully ideally give you appropriate techniques to help you work on this stuff but i'd say you can still you know but the essence of it is the same you've already mastered the main moves so much like a video game like you know you go through the tutorial you know all the moves like that's all the moves the game gets harder but you just have to use those moves in a more sophisticated way you have to use those moves against more difficult enemies so then like think about that sense of rot right can you sit with contentment while you rot away of course not then you wouldn't use the word rot okay so where does that come from so there you'll find a subtler desire can you let that go no i can't so be non-judgmental towards that okay i'm gonna hold on to that desire so be it right i'm in this world it's my karma to have some of these things so let me pursue them and as you go on this path so many of these things that people talk about will become very clear to you what is karma you'll understand this now now you'll now you're truly able to understand what karma is like if i'm internally content why the hell am i here it's because i have all of these karmas to complete now you'll understand why you're here you're not here for the sake of being here you're here because you owe this world something and then as you complete those things you'll be free so it's even said in sort of the karmic traditions that after someone gains enlightenment they take one more birth is that it's because they still have karma left over so as long as they don't re-engage in additional karma they kind of like you know it's like probate i think after someone passes away right it's like settling the estate which happens after you die so this is the kind of stuff that i think is like tricky because i think that like this is where we really have to if you really want to understand what's going on here i feel like i have to lean way more on the spiritual tradition far away from science and even away from logic because logic like falls apart at some point and i cannot emphasize this enough like once you understand spiritual experience you'll realize that logic is not real right it's a human conception it's our human mind's ability to organize reality so even if we think about things like the laws of physics like the laws of physics stop working at the quantum level i barely even know what that means but that's what people who are knowledgeable in physics say like how is that logical like the laws of physics just stop it's like i'm going to zoom in laws of physics work i'm going to zoom in laws of physics work i'm going to zoom in laws of physics work zoom in a little bit more ah laws of physics stopped working now i'm sure there is a logic to it i'm sure there's a system to it because that's the way the world works right it just exists in a particular way logic is the way that we try to understand it but that's filtered through the shortcomings of the human mind and so that's why like i can't teach this kind of stuff because all you're going to get is like logical explanation but you have to be here first then you'll truly understand questions yeah so so someone's saying uh plato would like to have a word with you so would mathematicians logic is only a a perception and not some intrinsic property of how the world works no so the world works with logic for sure human logic is different from the world's logic right that's why we make observations in the world that are not logical then we have to adapt our human logic to better fit the harmony of the world i don't know if that's a better answer right and mathematicians can have a word but that's just words it's not reality right so like reality is one thing our representation of reality as humans is something else we tend to get closer and closer that's what science is about science is about understanding how do we reconcile that which is illogical and then we learn we adapt our human logic and our human understanding closer to reality but that reality is out there and our human logic is over here and we're getting closer and closer and closer it's unclear whether that relationship is asymptotic so isn't it then nihilistic also how do we know what to do in such a state if there are no desires or difference to it at all i'm lost yeah that's why you have to experiment that's my point that's a this is a hard thing to understand unless you're already here so what i'd say is if you're in this place go and engage in life and you'll learn at a level that you've never learned before because of the capacity of your observing self right food will taste different you'll struggle for a while and then you'll discover like it's way easier than you ever thought it was it's hard to describe it's just way easier so what meditation is recommended to reach this point of contentment it is not a meditation that will bring you to this point of contentment necessarily so the meditation that's recommended is not based on where you go it is sort of but the biggest requirement of what meditation is not based on where you want to go but where you are right so if you were to ask me what would you recommend if i want to learn quantum mechanics i could say go sign up for a quantum mechanics course but if you're five and you don't understand arithmetic that's not going to help you very much even though it's the right answer so if you want to get somewhere everyone's concerned about the goal the bigger question is where are you meditation should be designed for this not for this and this is the big problem with meditation so everyone says here's about we do this right we fall into this trap we do it for a reason because it's the only way to do it there's the best way to do it that i figured out which is here's a meditation for this thing here's a meditation for this is a meditation for this meditation for this because we've gotten the idea that meditation is for something that is fundamentally false meditation is not for anything the second you add a for something it becomes of the world it stops becoming transcendent it's not so why do we do that to trick people into meditating you trick yourself into this state you just meditate for a while it doesn't matter what you do as long as you keep meditating with any technique you will get here if you're meditating properly that is transcendence can be achieved from any of these techniques it's just figuring out which one is right for you so it's not about the transcendence it's about you so can you sit still do you like focusing on your breath do you like to move these are the kinds of questions do you want an esoteric practice does that excite you more what gets you to practice the easiest that's what meditation should be but aren't you desiring a relationship when you want to try it out no quite the opposite so when you desire something you have a particular goal or satisfaction in mind trying something out is actually the exact opposite because you have nothing in mind when you try something for the first time you cannot have a desire for it do you all get that like your desires they may be based on conceptions but that's not the real desire or it's a desire based on a conception so to try something out it's like the first time you try pizza after that the desire you'll have for pizza is going to be completely different from anything you had before so as you start trying things out like trying stuff out proceeds desire not the other way around so life is a to-do list of karma life is sort of life brings with it a karmic to-do list but this tidbit that i shared with you all is once again it's like reported right so we have no idea that's true or not but people from karmic traditions will say that you'll have one last life post-enlightenment to settle your karmas i have no idea if that's true or not but for those people it's a to-do list of karma okay how do you differ between ego and i so ego is i so that's why so even in in translation right so in sanskrit when you look at these texts they won't use the word i when they're talking about this they'll use words like this they'll use words like the self they'll use words like thuria turia is that which transcends other states it's like the the state that you cannot describe right so ego and i kind of go hand in hand and so the key thing is that who you truly are is more than your ego that's the self which is why we use that term and is the self i no and if they're like how the hell does that work that's not logical at all you have to experience it then you'll understand like i don't like that's the problem with this these spiritual traditions is that logic you can't transmit understanding through information no amount of watching pornography is going to teach you what it's like to have sex it just can't be done or at least i haven't seen a way to figure it out yet maybe someone else will be correct and maybe someone else will figure it out okay yeah so i know this this last post so this is the challenge right it's like what i tried to do today is get uh a lot of different stuff so they're different different people in our community at different stages of their development and there's also like sort of a sequence right so this is it's nice that we see all of these posts so i didn't really comment on this but the nice thing about all these posts is that all of them are good all of them show self-reflection all of them show curiosity all of them show understanding and it's just where you are and it's not like so even though i sort of implied that one is ahead of the other it's kind of irrelevant right like if i'm 22 years old and i'm finishing college and there's a six-year-old who's in the first grade like one is ahead of the other but it's not nothing to be ashamed of it's just where we are right so it's not that there's a value judgment on a head or behind which is what we put on it right that's what our mind does we just are where we are you're like what if i'm 22 and i'm in the first grade then i'm behind well it's like that's where you are right it's not could you have been anywhere else well that becomes complicated okay should we meditate so when someone says yeah the six-year-old is owning the 20 year old so here's the thing you're correct but that presumes a comparison right a comparison improve implies some kind of judgment you can't have a a comparison without equality and once you add equality you're placing a judgment right if i say this is hot hotter than this that implies a scale it implies a comparison once i name something is hot i name something as cold so you're correct it's just then you've slipped out of the not the right kind of thing that kind of thing he has value for sure but it's not the right kind of thinking for this goal okay so by that standard how do you escape judgment see you guys ask the same questions over and over and over again how do you escape you don't you all see that like everyone's always looking to escape how do i avoid pain how do i find ready how do i become ready how do i avoid pain how do i escape judgment how do i stop feeling this way you're stuck in a loop absolutely right i'm not saying it's bad it's just notice it so how would that how would this be different if you were okay with a little bit of pain if you were okay with some suffering right and this is when you say deal with it that's you know sort of that's not i mean that's not very helpful so the first thing is just like understand what your mind is trying to do because just like if y'all caught the the thing about avoidance and being ready oftentimes it is our desire to escape that traps us the most right it is the avoidance of problems that creates problems like that's not dr k doesn't need to explain that to you you all understand that right oh my god i only have seven days left to study let me avoid that problem and not study today oh my god i only have six days left to study oh my god that's overwhelming i wasted a day let me waste another one it's tricky this is some crackpot stuff dr k still feels fear anxiety pain he's not some kind of realized buddha under a bodhi tree you're damn right i'm not and i feel all of those things so i see people keep on mentioning jordan peterson i you know i i've talked briefly about jordan peterson before i don't know if i mentioned this to you guys but i watched when i was in residency i watched his course on personality and i thought it was absolutely phenomenal i'm not so sure about some of his more recent stuff but in terms of like his ability to synthesize and explain things i think it's very good the other thing is that i don't think neither me nor jordan peterson are original thinkers for the record i certainly am not like what i teach is not based on original thought in fact it's like based on a huge tradition of people who figured things out way before i did maybe jordan peterson was an original thinker i don't know um now you guys are really really good at regurgitating derivative information i completely agree so if you look at people who tend to be popular on the internet we're good at transmitting information we're not necessarily original thinkers does that make sense so like success on the internet is about transmission of information not origin original of of thought so i think we're good at explaining things yes we can meditate now so i thought i was go so people are asking questions you know how do i become content how do i let go things like that so also maybe i'm feeling a little bit more on the spiritual side today so i was going to teach you all the shanti mantra so people are also asking questions about mantras and stuff like that how do i find my mantra that's also weird esoteric cultish kind of stuff but so one mother that i think is safe to share for lack of a better term won't induct you into any kind of cult you can use it if you want to you cannot use it if you don't want to is the shanti mantra so shanti means peace and it's just something that you can kind of chant right so we know that from a scientific perspective chanting stuff just in general seems to have positive effects on our mind and has benefits from you know evidence-based or evidence scientifically validated benefits so i don't think the shanti mantra will hurt you um the other thing is that for people who are so the shanti mantra has a religious connotation to it but i don't really think that that's an accurate representation i don't think that you are praying to a particular thing or becoming part of a particular religion by intoning the shanti mantra so the western concept of religion is if you do certain things that makes you a certain kind of religion so western religion is very like there's us and there's them right there's like the infidels and the chosen people like there's that dividing line and it's like these are the things that separate for the us from the them so the eastern religion like what happened is people from the west like showed up in the east and they're like oh these people have a set of beliefs that's a religion so the shanti mantra is a mantra it's just a chant to ideally invoke peace so if you call that you're not asking a god to do it for you so it's just an attempt to cultivate peace is the best way that i'd put it now if you think that's religious that's you can easily make an argument for that i'm not saying that you're wrong it's just not how i see which is part of the reason that i teach it so if i were to teach anyway we may teach religious stuff at some point but you know there are some like goddess worship things or like shiva worship or stuff like that like the worshipping stuff i think is more clearly religion this seems a little bit different to me so the shanti mantra is tricky because most people can't say the word shanti so what they say is shanti so the first thing that we're going to do to learn the shanti mantra is we're going to teach you all the proper pronunciation does the proper pronunciation matter now i'm going to go ahead and say yes and the reason i'm going to say yes is because people who i trust told me it mattered so the first thing we're going to do is learn how to so hopefully most people can change sean so it's not shan so if you think about shan versus sean it's the way that your mouth widens or opens vertically or laterally right so if i say shanty shanty it's going like this and if i say sean it's opening so the first thing is sean is like opening tall and it's kind of weird but if you just practice that if you go shan shan shan shan shan shan you'll notice what the difference is okay next thing is the thie so this is hard especially from people of like western cultures so what they'll say is shanti right so it's not or shanti it's not shanti like a shanty town so that's because when we make the sound t notice where the tongue is okay so i'm going to zoom in a little bit t t t t t the tongue remains behind the teeth when i say t t so just do that for a second go five times t okay now what we're going to do is so put your tongue between your teeth you all got that so this is how you say so try it with me now shanti shanti so you can go slow at the beginning if you want to you can practice so i see a lot of people who are like into yoga and like converting to hinduism and stuff like that usually caucasians or maybe south americans or things like that but um and then they'll you know they'll really struggle with the sanskrit pronunciation i don't think it's that hard i think no one's ever bothered to teach them right so it's like enye from spanish so senor you just have to learn how to make form your mouth in the right shape and then the sound will come out naturally okay so shanti okay so if you feel like you've got a good handle on that shanthi shanthi let's practice a little bit now we'll do it a couple of times more quickly now what we're gonna do is the shanti mantra so we're gonna take a deep breath and i'll demonstrate okay so om shanti shanti shantihi [Music] [Music] all right really simple okay so now we're gonna do it together so what i want y'all to do is sit up straight okay take a deep breath in and om shanti shanti shanti [Music] and again om shanti shanti shanti we're gonna do it a third time [Music] and now what we're going to do we're going to add two modifications okay the first is we're going to slow it down and stretch it out a little bit the second is that as you chant with your eyes closed focus on the vibration not on the sound so at the very beginning we're going to be focusing on the mouth to make sure you can do the movements right make sure you get the pronunciation right invoke it properly i saw a good comment that pronunciation is something invocation is sacred it's interesting right so it's an invocation so we're gonna focus on that vibration and kind of slow it down a little bit don't try to squeeze through it okay or don't try to rush it so close your eyes just take a moment to observe your breathing and now we'll take a deep breath in and begin [Music] and really feel that you can continue to breathe feel that rising force as you say shanti right so focus on that upward momentum that you'll feel kind of from your abdomen through your chest and out your mouth so we'll begin again deep breath in ombre [Music] he take a moment to breathe and one more time om shanti shanti [Music] and so this is a practice that you want to do if you're feeling upset in some way it's an invocation for peace and even from sort of like a mind-body perspective whatever feelings you have negative emotions tend to be felt in the belly in the chest and in the throat and so as you chant shanthi mantra you're like letting that stuff out you're like cleaning it out cleaning it out cleaning it out you can do the practice for five minutes at a stretch if you want to ideally you can work your way up to 15 or 20 and we'll sort of demonstrate now what a really like kind of slow shanti mantra looks like in general the shanti mantra is going to have a lot of physiologic benefits that all meditations have you'll notice that as you do the shanti mantra it's by definition going to change your pattern of breathing so remember that the rate of exhalation heavily governs the calmness or speed of mind so when we're very very rapid hyperventilation is associated with anxiety so as we slow things down it may not be anything mystical about shanthi it just may simply be breathing right so we know that some of these things are going to work regardless of whether there's any emphasis to the mantra itself for those of you that are open to it i recommend opening yourself up to the shanti mantra and seeing what kinds of effects it has remember that a lot of these mantras were kind of developed based on these weird like experiences or spiritual sensations this idea of prana or chi right so does it affect that in any way maybe it does maybe it doesn't you're a choice whether you want to explore that or not so we'll end one more time so i'll end with one final shanti mantra that'll go nice and slow okay so you can join me if you want to so we're going to breathe just in and out i'm going to do three breaths and then the big breath and then the mantra so breath number one number two i'm going to slow down before number three number three nice and slow and now we'll begin the shanti mantra deep breath in [Laughter] the shot [Laughter] [Music] that feels good right so as you do that nice slow breath notice how you feel maybe a little lightheaded maybe it was a bit much for you that's okay do what your breath allows shanti means peace right and feel that vibration [Music] [Laughter] he ah great question why can't we just go peace so beautiful experiment i want you to try chanting peace three times see how you feel see where the vibration is see what the difference between shanti and peace is you'll be able to tell so here's the last thing i'll leave you with you know how we were saying earlier that science or the world or reality operates by logic and human conception tries to capture it with our own logic that there's like the way the world works and then there's our understanding of science and through progression we get closer and closer to the way the world works to understanding the real science so the shanti mantra was not someone trying to invoke the idea of peace it was someone trying to understand the fundamental nature of peace and then figuring out what set of syllables closely matches the quality of peace the shanti mantra is not words that mean peace it is an attempt to encapsulate the fundamental concept of peace with a vibration i know that sounds very esoteric very mystical and very weird but if you all want to understand this you can do it too so for example the breath has a particular set of syllables consonants vowels that are the sound of the breath there is a sound of the ocean right these things have sounds and so what mantras are they're reverse engineered from observation they're not language that is then used to capture a concept uh i guess actually that's exactly what it is in a sense but what i mean is that the the mantra is reverse engineered from the thing itself and so that's why it's shanti and that's why when i teach i don't teach peace peace peace and if you chant peace three times you're gonna feel the difference and then you ask yourself which one is closer to peace and then you'll find an answer and then your logical mind is gonna be like what the hell does that even mean how can a sound be close to peace like what those two things are fundamentally not related but then you do the practice and then you'll be like actually yeah like one of these feels more peaceful than the other and so as the yogis observed and observed and observed they came to these conclusions they're like that's weird certain sounds are closer to peace and certain sounds are closer to like other stuff right and they just followed their observations this is why they were in a sense scientific because they didn't approach it with a preconceived notion they just saw what they they made observations and then they practiced experiments and they came to conclusions so for those of you that are skeptical don't believe me do it yourself if you come to a different conclusion then you come to a different conclusion maybe i'm wrong definitely a possibility quite likely maybe my experience is different from yours also really really important thing to understand maybe there isn't one shanti mantra for all people all possibilities but how are you going to know practice it right don't take my word for it practice it yourself and see what conclusions you come to am i confident in my conclusions sure are they 100 correct how on earth can i say that i have no idea maybe you'll be the one who discovers that the peace mantra is superior to the shanti mantra who said that the yogis did it right who said that the yogis got all the way there just practice you figure it out you decide what do you say to these people that say that these mothers are demonic i'd say that these mantras aren't demonic but they're absolutely demonic mantras and we just don't teach those and once you learn a demonic mantra you'll understand what a demonic mantra is and how these are really not demonic mantras right so let's remember that in these traditions of meditation there are there's black tantra white tantra and red tantra interesting right because in final fantasy there's black mage white mage and red mage may have something to do a lot of the final fantasy world is actually based on the hindu mythology or buddhist mythology so three kinds of tantra mantra is a subset of tantra so there are black mantras and they're also like negative organisms right so a lot of the prayer and stuff which we tend to steer clear of right so if you look at like hindu temples they're like gods there right and in buddhist temples there are bodhisattvas these are like organisms or beings that have like a positive alignment to them they come from the positive material plane or the positive elemental plane or whatever but in these mythologies there are also villains roxas's asuras right these are the things that once again in the final fantasy games like are the bad guys so that level exists too we just don't go near it right but like who said that all of the all the bodhisattvas have to be good that's a duality in the judgment in and of itself it's there you guys really want to know you can go to some of these like you know weird places and really do some cult kind of stuff and then you'll encounter this stuff it's wild dude don't get me wrong it's just not not everything is for twitch you

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