This is a turquoise lake.

If you have a bout of depression, you'll go to the right side.

I'm meditating.

Meditate.

It is always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

What will I stand up for?

Something as simple as, you know, as juggling.

Who is the meditator?

We need a framework to learn how to be more mindful.

She loves an entrance, your muse.

My sleep is dreaming, my dreams are wisdom,

Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.

I assumed that it was just an aspirin for the mind.

You have to find out.

my wisdom the power of truth.

Use your feelings, ObiWan, and find him you will.

So now, the critics, and there were many critics, said, well, you know, meditators, they're weird.

He used to meditate in the morning.

She will go to her father's grave and meditate for about an hour.

He painted an image he had during meditation last night.

You get stressed, you do some meditation.

Something sits and is meditating, and somehow it has a focus for the meditation.

By seeking the God within. By cultivating my own inwardness.

(Laughter)

So I decided to do a literature search to see if there's any research on this.

Secondly, this concept.

Or are you more of a tantric breathing kind of a guy,like sting?

In this study, what we did is, we took people who had never meditated before, and we put them in the scanner, and then we put them through an eight week meditation based stress reduction program where they were told to meditate every day for 30 to 40 minutes.

Jody Williams called it

And he meditated for three years and he did not see the future Buddha Maitreya.

So he said, Okay, I get the point.

And what we found is this

It all began when I was writing a doctoral thesis on death and meditation.

So the first study we did, we recruited a bunch of people from the Boston area, and these were not monks or meditation teachers, they're just average Joes who on average practice meditation about 30 40 minutes a day, and we put them in a scanner, and we compared them to a group of people who were demographically matched, but who don't meditate.

I felt my state of consciousness expanding when I meditated on death.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas,

So, I thought, OK, three months, you know...

So we did a second study.

Next thing you know, I'll be taking up meditation.

Now as I was there, I guess, like a lot of people,

But that's the only way to go.

Some of them who came to the labs,

And after a moment, she opened her eyes and she looked at me and she said,

I follow the path of Surak in meditation and study.

A monk on a mission. And where does he lead us?