Deepak Chopra Leads Meditation at Occupy Wall Street
October 4, 2011Deepak Chopra joined us at Occupy Wall Street in New York’s Zuccotti Park on Monday night.
He led a two minute meditation with the General Assembly, a nightly meeting where the occupiers give updates on the protest, share plans and debate ideas. To allow everyone to hear the speaker without the use of bullhorns or electronic equipment (which are not allowed in the park), the occupiers repeat what the speaker says so that everyone else can hear. They call this the “people’s mic.”
Here was Deepak’s meditation for the group.
“I just want to do a two minute meditation, or even less. Put your hand on your heart and just ask yourself internally what kind of world do I want to live in? And listen. Do it now. And now ask yourself how can I make that happen? How can I make that happen from a place of love, compassion, joy and equanimity? Simple anger will only perpetuate what already is out there. It was created by greed and fear. We have to go beyond that, and come from a place of compassion, centered equanimity and creativity. Once again, ask yourself, how can I be the change that I want to see in the world? Thank you.”
Very special thanks to the folks at Grounded TV for filming and producing this video. You can follow them on Twitter @GroundedTV or on Facebook here.
- Megan Robertson is a digital producer for DylanRatigan.com.
dylan…we want 2 get $ out of politics. yet, the #1 "expense" n "reason" 4 raising SO MUCH $ is 2 give it 2 TV companies 4 ads. CHANGE THIS 1ST N REDUCE THE "NEED" 4 SO MUCH $!
Hey Dylan, You forgot (or did you?) to mention the biggest political slush fund of all—-Unions! Straight from taxpayer to Fed/State worker to Democrat Party. The biggest donors to Dems by far…… Start there and we'll talk about the rest…….what a softball interview.
Yes I agree with Alan. The biggest share of that money is in television spots for candidates, as a matter of fact there is no denying that the television and newspaper media specifically have gone hand in hand with the extraction of America as Mr Ratigan calls it. And not too far behind media entities, are the churches synagogues, mosques and other outlets of mystical worship in this world. I'm sorry but the episode you gave with Deepak Chopra debating the physicist on the conflict between science and spirituality although its all very well intentioned on Mr Chopra's part (I mean he only makes millions selling books that are simply repeating The Vedas and all of Bhudhas teachings) but I'm afraid he doesn't get the point. neither does your Physicist.
You see the new world paradigm isn't that science is simply going against mysticism. Its that the scientific method or in a nutshell the method of "Observation, experimentation and postulation" is the modern way for humanity to arrive at certain truths. Some truths we will arrive at before other truths and other truths will remain a mystery to us for many centuries to come. But we no longer need Prophets, soothsayers or holy rollers to get us to those truths. We have a much more valuable tool in hand now. Mysticism and prophecies brought to us by men who simply ask us to believe wether its based on some historical manuscript or on some newer revelation are simply not satisfactory. Now you can accuse people who believe this way of being non spiritual if you like but simply stated the cats out of the bag.
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Thanks for sharing. Hat's off to Deepak. Many spiritual practitioners seek to understand how to stand in the face of tyranny without contributing to negative energies. Here's something that may help: http://supremeboundlessway.com/2011/10/01/occupy-…
How much is Deepak worth? Where is his wealth invested? Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!