Deepak Chopra joins the Atlantic staff writer Arthur C. Brooks to discuss how people can better understand that happiness is not just theirs to pursue. In fact, as people strive for happiness, happiness is also often trying to reach them, Chopra says.
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Deepak Chopra joins the Atlantic staff writer Arthur C. Brooks to discuss how people can better understand that happiness is not just theirs to pursue. In fact, as people strive for happiness, happiness is also often trying to reach them, Chopra says.
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Could have saved Chopra the hassle of this call by auto-generating his contribution at wisdomofchopra.com
Happiness is likely easier to find when you’re sitting on top of a multi-million dollar empire
Contentment is Happiness.
The goal of a resonance cascade is to plant the seeds of will rather than stagnation. We believe, we dream, we are reborn. We exist as psionic wave oscillations. As such, I will have to unsubscribe, as that is quite clearly what the quantum vibrations told me just now.
In a talk Deepak gave in San Francisco, I was seated front row. He was trying to mix Quantum physics terms with spirituality and other stuff, JUST to "appear" smart/knowledgeable. Fortunately, I knew far more physics than him and was able to see how he was making a fool of the audience. He is after fame and wealth. A happy person never chases wealth or name/fame. He's a big show-off and FRAUD.
I thought The Atlantic had wise people who would be able to detect positive people but alas! I am unsubscribing from this channel today.
Deepak "the king of charlatans" Chopra. Why there's still people believing in that old fart, for anyone wondering what I'm talking, I recommend you to search here in YouTube the debate between Chopra vs Richard Dawkins.
If you'd confronted and dealt with death, you wouldn't be speaking, unless they animated your corpse for this.
Oh no! You just lost all credibility by having a notorious purveyor of woo on your channel without challenging him.
The problem we have with happiness is that it is fundamentally irrational and a barrier to real meaning, and we are a rational thinker who values truth, which makes us extremely content.
Life, for the individual organism, is not positive. It is pain and endless decay, potentially accident cutting that short even before you've achieved the entire purpose of our existence: To replicate our genes, to breed in our case. If you do not do that, you are pointless as an organism. To think otherwise is only denying reality.
That said, denial of reality is necessary for the prevention of the elimination of the species, so we have natural dopamines and illusory notions that our brains create (pleasure, etc) which convince us that the suffering is in fact pleasureable. In a word, we are all deluding ourselves constantly, by our very physical, very real nature.
As far as we can tell, the PURSUIIT of Happiness is simply a grift, a racket. One either discovers one's own version of happiness or one will remain unhappy, which is not necessarily the worst thing that's ever happened. So go get em Deepak! It may be a grift or a racket but there's no denying the very real positive effects of your work, and the work of people like you.
Look at that, no need for happiness when you have honesty and reality and a healthy sense of your place in the universe. And a grift or a racket is not necessarily a bad or useless thing, either.
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