The Art of Stillness | Pico Iyer | TED 

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You can try whatever you want my dear but as long as You don’t try Jesus , you won’t find Life

Do you recommend this book? What is good & what is bad about it

@@GF_7860 It is a book of spiritual practices with 365 steps (one for each day), with each day a new step, a new lesson, and a spiritual practice, be it meditation or else.

Thank you so much for that quote, helpful for my not making homework.

Stevo Reno not really.i just binge play games. They are more engaging and rewarding to me than going anywhere. The real worlds generally boring.

william stern Traveling around the world with my family was the most fullfilling thing I ever experienced in my whole life. It taught me how to feel at home, even when I have to move constantly. It showed me what really makes us a family, even if you dont have any comfort from your home. It really made me realize what is important to make your life worth living and what is just an extra you will never miss once missing. I know that many dont have the resources to do so and Im very thankful I got the opportunity to.

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Pico is always so thoughtful that what he says seems self-evident, but is the product of great reflection and years of reading classical literature, in addition to his travels and multicultural background. In the U.S., we must confront and discuss our Puritanical roots and other guilt- or materialistic-driven myths that compel the "live to work" mode of thought.

There is a constant need bcoz we are constantly changing every second of every day and without visions and know(ledge) people will perish!

That's true. There is more to explore inside you.

There's a Place - The Beatles

I wish his hands would meditate in stillness

Pico iyer hates the Beatles. He thinks they are thinly talented. He has nothing good to say about john, paul, george and ringo. Fact.

He's telling you to explore, get out and be out there in the world. Go on vacation. Pursue a career. Have hobbies. Have a family and kids. Have a life. But at the same time, experience everything in moderation. At the end of the day, you need to tune out sometimes to get a hold of yourself. You need to turn off the noise for some time to retain your sanity. You need to get calm and quiet. Don't think in terms of black or white.

I'm not being black or white, or suggesting such a dichotomy. I'm suggesting that what we explore, and how we apply ourselves is what matters. If you do not explore with leisure and motivation, then you are likely due for a break. But you can still explore radically and be content. This is the goal. Not to have moments of nothing, that is a waste. Terms such as "tune out" and "get a hold of yourself" are extremely ambiguous, and deserve a bit of explanation. If you mean tune out as being not active with the diverse world and what you can make of it, then you are just that, and are spending moments of your life trying to do nothing, when you can interact with this rare opportunity. These terms being used seem to be simply figures of speech, and have little literal value. But such is the dilemma of his argument. It is an appeal to emotion, not logic. He is appealing to this idea of meditation that is culturally induced, and people fall for it (Same goes for the cliche of needing a family, a career, hobbies, and kids). I am saying that this should be avoided, because there is a lot more things you can do than "tune out" to make your self more content, including the willpower to make yourself content. The "everything in moderation" philosophy is one of great inspiration, but of great fallacy. Not everything is of equal value for moderation. Don't be calm, be aware of this mysterious realm that deserves to be explored and be active with it.

VexylMusic What makes you think meditation is "not being active with the diverse world"? Meditation actually tends to make people more relaxed and clear-headed in turn making them more active and productive. A daily practice of meditation for just 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening will make it much easier to achieve that state of fulfilling radical exploration you mentioned. It's called "flow" or "zone" in psychology and meditation is a fantastic catalyst for it. There's a lot of research done on meditation and different types of meditation, I highly encourage you to look it up. I was quite shocked at how recognized and how secular of a practice it is. Anyone can do it and benefit. I continue to be surprised at how powerful something so simple as sitting and clearing your mind can be.

∆rtemis Those 40 minutes daily, I could spend still being active walking around, studying, and creating things. I'm pretty sure that those 40 minutes do not pay for themselves again. Do you not suspect a bit of pseudoscience in "clearing" your mind through meditation? What does meditation do that sleep doesn't?

VexylMusic Since our minds has boundaries and you can't always be pushing yourself toward doing things. Attitude like this leads to anxiety and depression. Meditation and mindfulness helps you cope with stress, and stress can be really destructive if you don't handle it right.

Typical of a philosopher to take an idea to its unreasonable extreme. It seems accurate to call philosophers deep thinkers. They are not broad minded though.

“He sleeps as many hours as possible, and kills time by recalling the tiniest details of his apartment and thinking about a story on an old scrap of newspaper he has found in his cell.”

Blurns in this speaker's defense, I hadn't even noticed that until I scrolled down and saw your comment. Therefore his frequent hand movement/gestures clearly aren't distracting. Perhaps you should focus more on the content of his presentation, as opposed to his physical gestures while giving it. Shameful that ppl such as yourself would point out something so irrelevant and childish. It's like who cares, dude. Pay attention to what the man is saying.

That's why the external is always demanding us to act...and trying to get a reaction. 😅

shubhajit chakraborty this is fortunately not true. Because you would only need some people to do it, learn about it, and would then be able to teach us how to look. We can learn from someone else his/her experience :)

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yes and what a breath of non blustering self important triteness

Sorry the vids are too long to fit in between your Call of Duty games, some of us have a longer attention span and would like to spend more than 2 mins on acquiring knowledge

♚Fantasizing-Reality♚ You know, I was going to mention attention span in my previous comment but I decided not to thinking that it would make an argument, which I seek not to, but since you mentioned it,I will. Although I love TED videos and have been watching and educating myself since, I believe, the start of TED Talks, I think that, given that an average human span (according to SAP(a trustworthy source)) is 8 seconds, that Ted Talks exceeding five minutes are ridiculously hard to follow. I mean, you can use fancy technology or new technics in the presentation to keep the audience's attentions for a while but for 16 minutes, it's near impossible. IF you have an idea that you would like to share with the world, a 5 minute video should be more than enough. By increasing video length, TED has decreased its audience by more than 50%. The incredible ideas shared by TED talks need to be shared with the world in a profound matter that seeks all audiences, else those talks are worthless.

♚Fantasizing-Reality♚ Don't make assumptions about someone else's attention span

Al Infinity They do not seem very long when we are enjoying the content. TED Talks grow long when we lose interest in what is being said.

Monica MovieStar Are you making assumptions about my assumptions? And did you just tell me what to do? Im not your fat little kids... Can you be anymore hypocritical and unintelligent? I dont think so

GJ!

attributing an observation to somebody else is a way to say "I am not the one saying that, it is a specialist, it should be true", often employed, even in case when there is no need for it.

God knows what you'll think if you read a newspaper then.

News flash... The social "too much" or "too little" exchange between people has been around forever. You're remarks about not reading comments and avoiding spam, do not make any sense.

Monica MovieStar Newsflash, that was my point. My point was that what this guy is talking about is ancient and the response to it has been known for thousands of years. I did reference the stoics in response to this social media stuff and said how they would address it. The stoic school of philosophy is thousands of years old. And that is just that one philosophical school's response to the issue. Also... "newsflash" is derogatory. Just fyi. I get the feeling that you didn't want to be confrontational but that's what you are doing when you use that term in response to something another person said. You are implying that I am so obtuse that I didn't grasp something obvious. It didn't help that your observation was based entirely on your own misunderstanding of my post. A point I make not to offend you but rather to correct an error you made. *tips hat*

And then the stkics became cynics :-P

Trach3a Cynic in the greek, refers to the dog which is a reference to being without shame or pretense. Diogenes, the father of the cynic school was known for example to urinate on the legs of people he didn't like and generally not a give much of a f' what anyone else thought. It refers to a state of being one's self. Saying what you think, believing what makes sense to you, and acting as you see fit. It refers to being utterly free and indifferent to external judgment.

@@diogenes848 Wow ... The day I manage to come to a place where I don't care what people think would/will be a liberation like nothing I've ever known. I long for that, but admittedly am not there yet.

Adrian I don't mean to piss anyone off, but I'm pretty sure you meant marital. And by having a wife, he's either heterosexual, bisexual or a masochistic homosexual, so I guess you're right.

lmv92x Yes I know personally gay people that only came out the closet at 30+ years after having kids and being married, totally plausible, or even others that do not come out of the closet because they're afraid of what people think.

Adrian Ok, that makes sense.

Eheheheheeh GAYYYY ehehehehe /s

So, what if he was? Does his personal life spark more interest in you than the subject of the video?

Teach esl : ) That is the opportunity to travel and reflect.

hahahahahah!

LOL

***** I'm pretty sure peperoni misread his last name as Lyer instead of Iyer and decided to make the obvious pun.