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• February 19 2012

  Life After Death

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  I'm an academic neuropsychiatrist with deep interest in brain and mind. I only read 2 of your books, Buddha and Muhammad. What impressed me the most is your thorough understanding of the person in these figures. For me you seem to know that what is sacred is every moment we spend existing and not in what is "out there".
  
  I don't believe in god/gods or in religion and I feel that humans are miserable because they developed "consciousness", an extension of the frontal lobe function that allowed awareness of time, what has passed and what to come, which created this eternal anxiety about life and death and all the complexity that followed. I think that the Buddha figured it out and gave us the only way to go through it with the least suffering. But when we die, we blend back to the energy in this universe, our soul is the set of experiences that we had and left traces behind, the noise of the working machine of our body and the products of that machine that is left behind. How far am I from the "Truth"!
  
  
  
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  • We won`t know it until we die and no-one has come back to tell us. Everyone who actually claims to be able to tap into the universal consciousness cannot prove this. One can only `know` for him/herself on account of one`s own experience. That is why there is art in so many different aspects trying to explain the unexplainable. I myself may be convinced of a universal conscious field from which I arise and into which I fold back. Am actually able to put it in rhyme and video, yet no-one understands it like I do.We all have a small part of the puzzle and to me this makes life a rich experience. But on this earth and in this duality there simply is the good and the bad and we just have to "wirtschaft" with that until evolution evolves us, which takes millions of our perceived years. And we have already come a long way but there is still a long way and lots of generations to go... Simply my believe which is as good as any other`s.....

    heartphone // 2012-02-19 15:27:08 // 5 Like(s) // Like

  • And all this talk about the coming of a golden age can plainly be explained by the fact that the first big generation after worldwar II is pensioned as from this year. It is the first generation that (at least in the West) has managed to live their lives without a major war going on and with a certain freedom they created themselves. Our offspring is already better off than we were,man and women already work more together. What more can we expect in the few generations that have built society as it is now? Our grandkids will be on a yet higher level and so evolution goes on and on. Why do we think we have reached an end? Or, for that matter why do we think there needs to come a huge quantum leap? Through means of the Internet we are now enabled to improve our communication skills. We are only at the very beginning of this...

    heartphone // 2012-02-19 15:36:37 // 5 Like(s) // Like

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• February 17 2012

  Helping Others

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  Dear Deepak, I liked very much your article about worrying. I just have one question that may turn to be a whole new topic, but considering what you wrote there, I'd like to ask you - how do we know when we have done all we can to help the people we're worrying about?
  
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  • The Law Of Least Effort This Law says that if you can learn to be in the harmony with the nature, you can do less and accomplish more in your life. The nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease to create all the things that you see, touch and listen in this world. You can do the same. You can create whatever you want with effortless ease. To use this law in your life, you need to recognize these three components. The first component is – Acceptance. You need to accept people, situations and circumstances as they are. The second component is – Responsibility. You should take full responsibility of your life. You should not blame others for your mistakes. The third component is – defenselessness. You should not try to convince or persuade others on your point of view. You should not waste your energy to seek power and to control other people.

    Readtoawake // 2012-02-18 15:52:18 // 3 Like(s) // Like

  • Since you feel guilty for having wealth then go ahead and share all of it with the people you so worry about. That should end the guilt once and for all. Bear in mind that after you do you may reconsider the premise that it`s your job to help these people.

    Mark // 2012-02-17 17:43:06 // 2 Like(s) // Like

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• February 16 2012

  Sexual Identity

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  Hi Deepak,
  I have been confused about my sexuality for years, at the beginning I tried fitting myself into the lesbian community but that didn't last long, then I tried dating men and that was okay but I had re-current sexual dreams about being with women, now the latest label I gave myself is bisexual, the mind needs comfort that it fits in in some way but I have come to realize that my confusion with sexuality is the way my identity crisis manifests itself, deep down I'm not grounded in my true being, I feel like the observer in me is watching the ego self wrestle with things like sexuality to occupy itself, but there is no true reconciliation within, I am wondering if you could give me some advice on this matter?
  
  
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  • As someone who also struggled with sexuality, the only option to really consider is to know that the label will always be insufficient. Labels, by nature, always come after the fact. Your true being is an expression that is ever changing in the moment and the moment is the only thing you can succumb to. Knowing is not something that would come from finding the right label, but from finding the true momentary peace that comes from letting go of labels (which as Deepak has said can come from meditation). But also understand that whatever you are is not defined only within yourself but also within the circumstances in which you express yourself. So to fully understand who you are, you will have to relinquish the fear you hold on to that keeps you from fully expressing yourself outwardly.

    thecoolone // 2012-02-17 12:11:49 // 1 Like(s) // Like

  • God`s ways are above our ways. God loves you.He made you unique, and distinct. He wants what is best for you. God made Man[kind], he made them Male & Female, with distinctions. Together they join, sexually, and are One. Each is the Helpmate of the other. If you are unable to pair with your God given mate, it is better to refrain from immoral sexual laisons. You can dedicate your life to serving God, and you will be blessed. Blessed in this Life, and blessed in Eternity. (where sexual unions do not exist).

    Paul Inberea // 2012-02-16 22:59:32 // 0 Like(s) // Like

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• February 15 2012

  Being Peaceful

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  Hi Deepak, I would like to know how I can be more peaceful and serene - and specifically not be affected by other people, fears or circumstances. I find it difficult to live my life as I have found out I can be upset by other people or conditions, which of course leads to suffering.
  
  I try to do this by meditation, visualizing that external factors will not hurt me, frighten or affect me on another emotional level. Meditation helps for a short period of time, but when I am in the daily routine in the 'normal' world this state of serenity is gone. Do you have any suggestions?
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  • Today we need to get back to tranquil times of refection to have seep into our minds that most powerful gap of creation. Today I say go to the water and listen.

    Michael J. McCarthy // 2012-02-15 11:04:48 // 6 Like(s) // Like

  • I started practicing meditation with some routines of Deepak Chopra´s Sincrodestiny book some years ago and I am a more peaceful person with a great sense of serenity that I apply everyday.

    William Aranda // 2012-02-15 11:13:59 // 1 Like(s) // Like

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• February 14 2012

  Meditation

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  Hi Deepak, I've been practicing meditation for quite a while, as a result of this practice a range of abilities have emerged including telepathy. I've noticed that the skill required to connect with people telepathically is the same as the skill required to connect with people who have passed on, who are dead for want of a better word.
  
  The process is the same, connecting with their consciousness. Telepathy with living people can, therefore, be considered a means of sharpening one's skill for communicating with the dead. Having connected with a number of dead relatives, I have noticed that while all seemed perfectly happy none were aware that they were dead. They seemed to be in a kind of dream like state and completely unaware of their present condition of free-floating consciousness. Does this correspond to your experience? Do you think there are different states of consciousness after death for different people?
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  • hi deepak its just so funny ..the other night i had a dream and in this dream i saw two moons.. after a few days i was surfing the net and saw in the some news channel that som planet does have two moons.. also i did further net search which revealed that earlier earth also had two moons... this was a funny experience as i could not gather what the message was for me. hoping that you with your evolved consiousness could give some thoughts on this.. pooja

    pooja malaviya // 2012-02-14 00:47:52 // 3 Like(s) // Like

  • Some religions have also referred to this state as Limbo. Some would also say the phenomenon of Ghosts are those souls that have become stuck, spiritualy & haven`t passed to the higher realms. Whatever the explanations all point to an evolving episode of individual & collective journey in awareness.

    Ray // 2012-02-14 21:47:22 // 3 Like(s) // Like

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