This is spot on. Life is all about attitude. I am 74 and confined to a wheelchair but I've never felt happier -- life is full of small pleasures if you only look for them at my age every day is a bonus and I rejoiced at being alive

@fredflintstone8998

3 жыл бұрын

Well said sir/madam, I hope that you are still alive and rejoicing.

@thepurpleman119

Жыл бұрын

How are you doing now?

@aloul441

Жыл бұрын

5

"Our mind determines our experience of life" Definitely.

@muzzletov

6 жыл бұрын

thx for acknowledging it, now i believe it

@Unfamous_Buddha

4 жыл бұрын

@@muzzletov And of course, it's MY dream.

@muzzletov

4 жыл бұрын

@@Unfamous_Buddha ???

@c_farther5208

4 жыл бұрын

Totally disagree, sometimes it's timing, being at the right place at the right time. Coincidence. Randomness, a friend helping indirectly or an excellent reputation that opens certain doors; it's all apart of our life.

@muzzletov

4 жыл бұрын

@@c_farther5208 totally disagree

I am a person not much educated,only school final passed. 54 years. With simple meditation our( Hindu holey books) now i am working in embedded company as product developer.Faith & meditation Leeds to me near a person who is a most wise ,honest,and respectable MD of accompany . Now i am well, in all aspects. l ivied in Vijayawada,AP, India. meditation purifies Ur sole and body .thanks.

@sterbprepper4798

8 жыл бұрын

+Free Speech nice speech. to bad it doesn't make you sound knowledgeable. rather it questions your sanity. good luck

@sterbprepper4798

8 жыл бұрын

+Free Speech you are enlightened indeed we humans must strive to be like you. pity us humans for we are merely humans projecting our needs

@aunsuman

8 жыл бұрын

+Yedukondalu Upputella thank you

@trees915

8 жыл бұрын

+'Free Speech Why are you watching this "Meditation crap page"?

@trees915

8 жыл бұрын

Free Speech Hmm... "I do not exist." "You shouldn't listen to me in any way." You are a walking contradiction!

Amazing...I've been going through just these experiences and here he is...articulating them perfectly... Yes I truly believe medirltation does cause these changes.

Thank you Roshi Kjolhede. You answer the question of "why meditate" more clearly than I have ever read or heard before.

"The most essential method which includes all other methods is beholding the mind...The mind is the root from which all things grow...If you can understand the mind, everything else is included!" Bodhidharma

I honor this being for using metaphor and analogy because language is such a weak tool for shining a light on truth it needs a form that calls on remembering experiences that have a strong possibility of commoness across many cultural differences. Meditation, like religion, is a tool that when applied and experienced first hand will affect the state of being in such a way as to aid all aspects of balancing it and give human beings a place to stand and prepare them for doing (putting them in a super position - now a field of all possibilities becomes evident). In Sufic understanding, at least in as much as I have experienced, thought is THE slowest tool for conveying or receiving knowledge, feelings/emotions are quicker but motion or physicalization is the quickest and of the 3 meditation belongs to the latter.

PowerFULL. Your message flows like gentle rain. Clear. Fueled with calming voice pitch. Thank you. 🌅 🌎 🌙

Your voice relaxes me.

The last part is so true and have personally experienced it. Best speech on Meditation

Thank you for the light, Yes All things are linked and it's one. Meditation guides us that we can reach our level of mind in there....Oneness.. and Love.

Bodhin masterfully explains the benefits of meditation - what a treat!

Does anyone else think this sounds perfect for people with anxiety & depression issues?

@dionisakissakis2297

7 жыл бұрын

idk read more about it

@euleneats

5 жыл бұрын

Glenn it's perfect for me

@mrake1000

5 жыл бұрын

Bodhin is my old Zen teacher, my short answer is, try it. Find out yourself.

@anandateertha7865

3 жыл бұрын

I think it may help.. see basically anxiety and depression happen because of ones inability to handle negative emotions.. when you meditate you basically allow this negative emotion to become less noisy and tormentative..This is the very solution required for anxious brain.. but one has to put up with the gestation period of healing.. and beyond that one has to have gods grace to be able to implement the solution..

@solitary_bird5475

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is. I have practiced this to get rid of depression and anxiety

Simply wonderful, thank you.

Such a grace! Enjoyed so much his vibrance! Want to visit Rochester Zen Center now.

For sure if you have the time to spend it on your own and meditate, your stress level will go down just by the fact that you are spending time to yourself without interruption, and I definitely envy that :)

I'm enthralled by this content. I recently enjoyed a similar book, and I was truly enthralled. "Reclaiming Connection: The Journey of a Digital Detox" by Joshua Ember

Absolutely true.... Word to word!!!!

Excellent insight! There is so much there. As the Roshi said, so much beneath the waves.

VERY NICE....other realm of consciousness...below the ocean waves...

Thank you ! That was an inspired and inspiring talk.

I'm hooked on every word. I read a book with similar content, and I'm completely hooked on every word. "Reclaiming Connection: The Journey of a Digital Detox" by Joshua Ember

I like the flashlight metaphor. Drives the point, spot on.

you are such a learned man, i like yourway of making people understand.

@scentsoftravelmeditation

5 жыл бұрын

ashok kuamr jatav it’s better to say your such an educated or enlightened man ..

@zeroireland

3 жыл бұрын

@@scentsoftravelmeditation 'Learned' is also acceptable. When used in this way it's pronounced 'ler-ned'.

Going below the waves of the ocean...

the best treatment/theraphy that comes from within ourselves - meditation.

What a great talk. Thank you Roshi.

Great talk..TED has some really good speakers

Meditation, peace and knowledge.

I use a muse headband for meditation and it has been super helpful for my to maintain a daily practice for a year now Meditation has changed my life!

@ryanrobin12

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Norton glad to hear. I started my journey a couple of weeks ago. Would you mind offering a couple of positive benefits that you’ve noticed?

@newfilmtrailer7733

3 жыл бұрын

Dont you like to be a monk...?

You all have a very beautiful soul. Devote some time to rejuvenate and lift yourself. Live life to the fullest. Mediate and Relax.

Thankyou for such a beautifully honest explanation

I like the fact that people talk about this on TED :)

This is a very wise man.

Another great speech.

What a brilliant talk.

HEARTFULNESS MEDITATION through HEARTSAPP on mobile, recently experienced. It's magical. All should try.

@arjunagarwal5651

3 жыл бұрын

@My Daily Practice of Meditation Please try the app and then comment, the app just gives you a taster. You don't need the app after that. Why not use technology for the good.

So accurately put...

MERCI des infos🥰🥰🌈🌈🌺🌺🌟🌟

True and great info thx

great talk by my teacher.

peace, love and muscles

Profound Relaxation: Why Meditation is Rest A defining characteristic of meditative procedures is that they are practiced intermittently and over set periods of time. One practices meditation or mindfulness at certain hours during the day and for certain amounts of time, generally a half hour to an hour. The reduction of perseverative cognition (worry, rumination, distraction) through meditation gives the musculature the time to completely relax, and this state of persistent or profound relaxation elicits a state of pleasure or mild euphoria due to the concomitant and sustained elicitation of endogenous opioids (or endorphins) in the brain. The sustained increase of endogenous opioids also down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings. Profound relaxation also mitigates our sensitivity to pain and inhibits tension. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state. We normally do not associate relaxation with a natural high let alone deduce its benefits, and that is because we rarely have but a few minutes’ respite from the next distractive event or thought. Because it is so unusual and unexpected, it is easy to ascribe a unique meditative state to meditative procedure, an inference that is easy to demonstrate as wrong. If perseverative cognition elicits tension, then the continuous avoidance of such cognition for an hour or so will result in total relaxation and a feeling of pleasure, along with greater self-control and rationality. from ‘The Book of Rest’, at web site doctormezmer

Wonderful talk...

Awesome, thanks!

Yes, it's very helpful, very great but how do we do it?

How we choose to engage with life determines the mind's faculties. THEN, our mind determines our experience of life. You can't just say the mind greatly influences us without going into how we impact the mind first.

very fine talk.

Know meditation know life, No meditation no life.

@monieptl706

4 жыл бұрын

The Hummer OSHO eh 😜

God created the World with Meditation.There fore we should use this Secret Power for our everyday Life.Great inspiring Speech.Thank you.

Great talk!

@sergeydzema5569

6 жыл бұрын

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thank you!

Gassho dear Bodhin

Anybody know what the music at the start is?

Our minds are geared towards negativity for survival in the short term. They don't care about our long term happiness. And our impulses are there to help us lust and conquer. But the impulses again don't care about our actual happiness. We will always have these animalistic aspects but it takes strategy to not be defeated by our own nature. In the most balanced form our impulses can serve as just a magical, interesting happening that we don't see as the all important

We all need to be in a perpetual state of meditation......... For full blown life...... Learn what is Tao te Ching

Sir can I use earplugs in meditation

i wish these talks show to meditate. most know that it is good for you, showing how to do it will be more helpful. there are millions of how to videos on here so getting to know from a ted speaker might be more legit.

The best

i felt like this was awe so inspiring . i wish i could go that deep !!

@michaelwilson2854

9 жыл бұрын

You can, you will.

@michaelwilson2854

9 жыл бұрын

***** who is us ? And what would you like me to tell "us" ?

@thatsinpossible4967

9 жыл бұрын

***** Maintain affirmative thought and belief.. and it will happen. Reality is actually a BELIEF-construct. "Believing is seeing" I speak from experience. ..and YES.. what I just said generally defies all mainstream opinion. Good Luck! ;)

@thatsinpossible4967

9 жыл бұрын

***** What is the problem a full-blown creator being has? Too much power!! since this produces experiential shallowness and lack of soul growth opportunity from minimal challenge and difficulty. All problems can be solved by simply immediately thought manifesting the solution. Hungry? Materialize Food. Wanna smoke? Materialize Cuban Cigar. ;),etc. etc. Therefore, Source created fractal aspects of itself to participate in an ILLUSION of limitation, so souls could actually learn serious lessons. That is 3d Earth life experience. Regarding me.. it's not about me. However, I am awakened, and know stuff from higher dimensions, so I can assist in sharing ideas to help elevate human consciousness by helping people understand the ACTUAL nature of reality and their own innate power. Any specific questions?

@kiranevetts7868

9 жыл бұрын

thatsINpossible Where do I learn more?

It also helps trigger the relaxation response which in turn raises dopamine. Not to mention helping train ones concentration.

Roshi is a great teacher, go to the Rochester Zen Center and hear him speak.

Guys do you have a clicking sound in your head during meditation? What is it? Can someone explain this? Thank you in advance!

If you'd like to see more of his talks, you can have a look at the Rochester Zen Center's KZread channel.

i can't help but thinking brain is talking to me.. from pinky and the brain.

@lipservice9818

7 жыл бұрын

Spencer probably one of the best youtube comments in the history of youtube comments!

meditation change mind

In the end he said “us and them” I’m the beginning he said “zen” Vs others So difficult for some people to get away with identifications

My Grandma told me an old saying which is "show me your bible and i'll tell you what you" I think its quite similar to Ortega E. .... interesting.

Nice video

meditation=unlocking our unconscious desires

"Into the depths of the ocean....."

very good we are each individuals , but,we are ONE

Dr. Evil's twin/opposite brother!

Any medidation by it's nature is not connected to any religious belief. Even though it may have origins in some belief systems. Any meditation is good. Do it.

@ObakuZenCenter

2 жыл бұрын

Not all meditation is the same and this is intolerant. Be better than this.

Through this speech I got to know whats benefit of zen, but in this whole speech what i missed is about the process on how to do zen meditation. The speech would have been wonderful if the process of doing it would have been included too... Orator should finish the speech with the process along with benefits... Peace.. :-)

@Angloth

8 жыл бұрын

+Navin Prasad Google it ;) Its pretty simple, yet hard to do! Gets easier tho!

@dennishaughton4554

6 жыл бұрын

Angloth & how do u do it?

@adritrace88

5 жыл бұрын

@@dennishaughton4554 You sit down and observe yourself and your thoughts. Just observe, when you get carried by one of those thoughts, come back and keep observing. After a while you will be above all the junk! :)

It's really hard when your child is suffering. When it is oneself it is easier.

José Ortega y Gasset = hosts a or they got ya set Brilliant XD

thoughts are just a 6th sense. When you change the way you filter information through your 6 senses, your whole experience of life will change.

Bodhin, you should do a 10-day Vipassana Meditation course (Goenka tradition). Then you will leave Zen behind.

@abhijitjacob

8 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%. It is the purest form of Buddhist meditation lost to India but preserved in Burma from where it was resurrected by just one mans initiative. Though the course leaves religion completely out.

@princefrei

7 жыл бұрын

That is your view ;) Don't cling to it

@TencilX

6 жыл бұрын

Anicca, Anicca, Anicca (Goenka’s Voice) :D Much Metta to All

I used to be able to meditate, now it's seems hard to do. goes to show how much bad vibration has enhanced.

@michaelosorio5378

7 жыл бұрын

start again from 3 mins of meditation, I used to meditate for half an hour then I stop from somedays well laziness sometimes win , and then when I tried to meditate again I cant do it, so i tried again from the start now I can do it for 10 mins.

It is about 'advait' in indian philosophy.

omg that's the real life Doctor Evil!

@taharaja801

8 жыл бұрын

sexiste

#Varys

Give this man a cat and a hoodwink and you created the perfect bond villain.

I clicked on this because the thumbnail made him look like Dr. Evil. Now, I want my money back. There was no Dr. Evil here.

is this Raymond Reddington ?

@buiphuong762

8 жыл бұрын

+Daulton Baird He looks like Red

If I do zhen meditation will I end up wearing the same clothes?):

What is that shirt he is wearing? I've seen Bruce Lee wear it before.. not sure what it's called. Beautiful talk nonetheless.

@sutikshnadubey

9 жыл бұрын

Talk was really simple and effective explanation of meditation. Inspiring. to answer your question above :- it is called "jodhpuri bandh gala" you can find usually indian political leaders wearing this, trend set by "Jawahar lal Nehru " www.google.co.in/search?q=jodhpuri+bandh+gala&oq=jodhpuri+bandh+gala

@chenyuwang9427

9 жыл бұрын

zhongshan suit people living in china after qing dynasty used to wear it

It becomes really confusing and often self-contradictory when you plumb the depths of non-dualism and take a non-religious or secular approach doing it. You realise that there is a power greater than your own yet because of your secular fetish refuse to call this God and substitute with words like Awareness which don't really capture the whole essence of this higher Power. 9:05 see how confusing his words are here. What he really means is when you meditate ,you remove your ego(fear,hope,concern and every other emotion that come under samsara) and God or Consciousness shows you the way- that's not dualistic since you have removed your ego from the equation-and you make the right decision led by Consciousness without feeling you're being guided. But he makes it sound as if meditation heightens your discernment and you make the right decision ,all because of this peculiar anathema to saying God/higher power.

Try Vedanta and Ohm Chant for meditation. Understand how Hinduism taught meditation and things will be clear and then you see the miracle otherwise there will be confusion like he is still having.....And that is attention not meditation.

Eastern philosophy looses track when it mistakes unity as uniformity. We all are united becquse we are have a common ancestor and are family, and spiritually have one God. We have our identities and uniqueness, but in love we are all one. Unity in love keeps your identity and persona, while making us able to be selfless and kind. What happens when unity is confused for uniformity is that , people become selfish and there is no love. Love itself is considered an attachment, that the mind is tasked to detach from. God is love, Jesus is the Dearly beloved Son of God. God is not detached.

@rickdeckard1075

9 жыл бұрын

"What happens when unity is confused for uniformity is" progressive politics

@crate2819

9 жыл бұрын

But I'm so hungry and I need to go off and kill an innocent animal so I can live another day in this reality. Wait, God is love?? I guess you can call killing other animals/plants and eating them to survive love. It depends on how you view the word "love" but I'm sure most of us don't view it like that when we think of it.

@rickdeckard1075

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Heagerty so, you did it differently in the universes you designed...?

@crate2819

9 жыл бұрын

No, I'm a physcopath that loves watching innocent sentient beings suffer their whole existence. I'm just like the god who created this reality.

@rickdeckard1075

9 жыл бұрын

Matthew Heagerty oh...so, you know her?

Crazy We Muslims do this 5 times a day, it takes uo atleast 25 -50 min of our day combined all prayers. Im getting use to it since I started practicing again

@bobbob9350

9 жыл бұрын

Ima Farah sounds like brainwashing

@serenityserenity5864

9 жыл бұрын

bob bob What? That I pray five times a day and follow a religion that had given women rights 14000 years ago? That I follow a religion that has scientific miracles present in the Quran 14000 years ago before we here found it through modern day techno? Im probably more updated then you my dear friend

@gorgonee

9 жыл бұрын

Ima Farah 1400... the koran is 1400 years old, not 14.000. Other than that: Give proof to your statements and people will believe them, up until now they are pretty untrustworthy.

@bobbob9350

9 жыл бұрын

Ima Farah rofl wow. i cant believe how stupid people are. "That I follow a religion that has scientific miracles present in the Qur'an" "That I pray five times a day and follow a religion that had given women rights 14000 years ago" no need to reply to someone so stupid

@jwarrior343

9 жыл бұрын

Ima Farah Prayer and meditation are two different things

Meditation does NOT change the brain A bounty of research claims that meditation increases gray matter (preserves aging brains), increases cortical thickness (improves mood), and changes self-control areas in the brain (fights addiction). These studies have not been above reproach, and have been criticized for small sample sizes, inadequate controls, and a failure to be replicated. To address these issues, a well-controlled study of the neurological effect of meditation was recently performed by Kral and colleagues , who found that for short term meditators at least, no structural changes in the brain were demonstrated. The Kral study was unique because it was conducted by true believers in the efficacy of meditation, and admirable that they accepted the fact but did not remark on the implications of their study, which toppled a pillar of the meditation enterprise, that meditation itself could be considered a unique process because of its indirect effects on brain morphology. Of course, they left a final judgement on the neural effects of meditation in abeyance, as they did not consider longer time frames that could indeed demonstrate that meditation builds better brains. Ultimately such a question need not have been answered, as if we conclude that there are no process distinctions between the neuropsychology of relaxation and meditative states, the primary inference would be that relaxation does not build brains, but thinking does, irrespective of whether it is right or wrong. Kral et al. (2022) Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials, Science Advances, 8, 20, 1-10 From Galileo’s Lament and the collapse of the social sciences. On Scribd

really,.....you think .... or perhaps you did,n,t ......

your message didn't reach clear , i a m psychologist,life coach,mediator,pianist mus composer for songs an feature film

@felipeasth

7 жыл бұрын

in others words you are nothing.

@jadmhannamusic

7 жыл бұрын

felipeasth that s the best description. Yes i am No-thing.

not true for all meditations or explanations of reality. i.e., there are more explanations than the two he mentions so his alternative explanations are incomplete and his conclusions have value only if you believe that your thoughts at all levels have no value. specifically, i don't understand uniqueness' existence without identification with our thoughts. nor, is the physical dualistic world only a "nightmare". because others exist, e.g., i can see beauty in another and relate to beauty and appreciate other's uniqueness and find some of the thoughts within myself which enable me to get a different way to see the world. for me mediation opens me up to seeing value in everything, and that equates to total self acceptance without being judgmental.

An evil petting zoo?

don't be attached to your... lol

I wish this guy was a little more confident.

@rmsolympic1

9 жыл бұрын

Junker1599 I think he's confident, but he's also a very, very mellow fellow.

@MrJohnbatist

9 жыл бұрын

Junker1599 show more ego you mean?

@lane6136

7 жыл бұрын

he's confident

@joshboston2323

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree with you. He's a bit nervous it seems.