This Is Why We Suffer! Deepak Chopra

so suddenly I saw the connection between mind body and spirit but then I was also actually intrigued by the fact that you can have two patients who had the same illness saw the same doctor got the same treatment and had completely different outcomes one could survive one could die and in between there was a wide range of outcomes and it did give me the insight that our normal everyday experience of what we call reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning they're actually reality shifts as your consciousness shifts a correlation is not a causation as we know if the rooster crows in the morning and the Sun rises at the same time we don't assume that the rooster caused the Sun to rise but they are correlated so your mind your brain and the physical world are correlated experiences in a deeper realm of existence which is not in space or time the purpose of all healers and ultimately of all physicians should be to alleviate suffering now we've done a pretty good job with alleviating what we call suffering that occurs from acute illness you break your leg get an orthopedic surgeon to fix it you get pneumonia you take an antibiotic so we've done a good job on what we call the physicalist level for acute illness but then there's something called chronic illness diabetes type 2 inflammation cancer heart disease autoimmune illness accelerated aging propensity to infections and we haven't done a good job there because what we are realizing right now that only 5% of disease related gene mutations are fully penetrant which means they guarantee the disease 95% of gene mutations that cause illness are related to lifestyle sleep managing stress when you meditate or not you exercise or not maybe you do yoga not breathing techniques the quality of your emotions nutrition personal relationships social interactions environment connection with nature influence your gene activity we call it epigenetics let's say you got rid of all chronic illness and acute illness would humans still suffer and the answer is yes because unlike other species we have something which is actually quite bizarre it's called existential suffering we wonder why we exist we wonder why we get old and can we prevent that we wonder why we get infirm and lose our memories as we get old can we prevent that but we also are afraid of death okay can we prevent that and answer is biological death is based on a false premise which is you are your biology and you are your body and you are a mind you are not your body you're not your mind you're not the experience of the world you're the consciousness in which all this experience occurs to observe a thought is to know that you're not at heart to observe an emotion is to know that you're not the emotion to observe the body is to know that you're not this bundle of sensations and perceptions so who are you what is it that knows a thought what is it that knows the perception the color red is there a color red anywhere in the physical universe or is it just an experience I guarantee you know scientists can tell you that the color red exists as a physical entity in the universe it's an experience in human consciousness not in the consciousness of a bat who doesn't see colors but experiences the echo ultrasound what is the color red to a bad when you realize that everything you thought was real is not real when you also realize that who you think you are is not real but when you realize that all your name your form and everything you see is provisional two things happen to some people they have immediate what we could only metaphorically call the dark night of the soul they're going to a deep depression because everything they thought was real is no longer real including their own name form body and mind some people cross that threshold when discover Nirvana or enlightenment and they say wow I thought I was I was squeezed into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime but I'm a timeless being that can morph myself into any experience including the human experience which is amazing but the human experience is also that which causes exist in chilled oppression so the causes of human suffering since you brought it up are brought up in eastern wisdom traditions as number one you suffer because you don't know who you are you confuse yourself with your body mind experience number two you grasp and cling at experiences which are evanescent and transitory and dreamlike you say what happened to your childhood it's over what happened to yesterday it's over what happened to five minutes ago it's over what happens to these words by the time you hear them they don't exist so you know Wittgenstein the German philosopher said we are asleep while life is a dream but once in a while we wake up enough to know that we are dreaming so what do you wake up to when you cross this threshold you wake up to your true self which is not body or mind but the awareness in which that experiences so grasping and clinging at a dream is the second cause of human suffering the third is being afraid of anything that's unpleasant pain abandonment being treated by someone not respectfully so that's you know there's a version to certain experiences third cause of suffering fourth is identifying which is related to with your ego identity and fifth is the fear of death now they're all connected they're all the same fear they are not knowing who you are this is the biggest question that humans or everybody should be asking Who am I what am I am I the changing experience of this body which is a perceptual activity am i the experience of the changing mind or the changing personality because you don't have the same personality when you were a kid or maybe even ten years ago what is it at the basis of this when you start that reflective self inquiry ask yourself Who am I what do I want what is my purpose what am i grateful for going to the stillness of meditation you have what wisdom traditions have called revelation revealed truth now you know that sounds very grand I would say just call it insight you know meditation mindfulness awareness of body awareness of mind awareness of mental space awareness of the web of relationship awareness with that which we call the universe it leads you ultimately to the awareness of awareness and when you discover that that's nirvana is there anything behind consciousness no now everyday experience is modified consciousness so right now what you're experiencing is what we call the waking state of consciousness okay what do you mean by that the awareness that I'm aware no the awareness that is experiencing a physical body and a physical world with eyes open it's called waking state of consciousness okay okay so awareness is modifying itself every time you open your eyes into this experience right and you call it the physical world now if you close your eyes you have another state of consciousness where you don't actually experience the physical world you experience sensations images thoughts emotions stories it's like a dream as soon as you close your eyes you're experiencing you might call it daydreaming but there's no difference between a dream and what you dream at night the physical world has disappeared there's only a mental world then you go deeper at night even the mental world disappears in what we call deep sleep now that is the highest intelligence by the way because in deep sleep there's unconscious processing going on there's creativity going on there correlations being made there toxins being removed there's a whole resetting of your memories and consolidation of that so in deep sleep even though there is no experience of a physical or a mental world it's a very intelligent highly highly correlated state in which unconscious processing is occurring and get rid of the idea that the world is physical what we call of the world is physical even your physical body is a perceptual activity and that perceptual activity for you and me is a human perceptual activity through human consciousness not through bad consciousness not through mosquito consciousness not through plant consciousness go beyond that there is only one consciousness that is differentiating you know undifferentiated consciousness differentiating into these different species of consciousness that form matrix of conscious beings that are collectively projecting this you if I ask you what is this you'd say it's a cup right well if you were a baby you wouldn't notice the cup this is a shape this is a color this is a form disorientation this is your taste and it's noise the rest is a story it's a human story we created just like we created money on Wall Street on nation-states or colonial empires and we take that for reality so when when you have time to be still question your habitual certainties you'll realize that actually we know nothing nothing everything we know is made up it's a human construct and once we are embedded in that human concept we call it reality we don't question what is the source of this experience so taking retreats practicing mindful awareness of body of mind of mental space of the web of relationship the mystery of existence it takes you slowly deeper to your true self as Rumi said God's language is silence everything else is poor translation [Music]

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Published: Thu May 07 2020