Yesterday I went to the Depak Chopra speech in Copenhagen! I never heard about him before, I must admit! But my friend Thomas was inviting, so I had to go…. And it blew my mind! Even though this stuff might be a bit technical. Especially when he started explaining that we are the universe and the universe is in us… I was already getting in my defence state! Crossed arms, and mimicking a 5 year old! But then something caught my attention…. This guy could actually explain those things, and not only explain it, he almost managed to keep me awake for 3 hours… but that is another thing… it actually surprised me that he was not just any “new” Motivational Guru, with an “emperors new clothes” theory. He took some of the theories from his buddhist background and matched them up with western civilizations/ christianity’s morales. Further to that when we really got into things (of course some of it got too “hippieyaya”!) he took some buddhist sayings and compared them to sayings of Jesus! (I am an atheist, but always found religion interesting).

But that was not my HUGE EYEOPENER! That was actually in the end of his speech, when he was talking about 15 values, a person should or could have (sorry, Im not sure what he actually said here, but he probably did not say that we should have those ;)!) I heard versions of that before somewhere! But where? Then it struck me… It is ancient coaching/nlp/motivational stuff…. WOW… I loved it… got out my notebook, and got to write down a few of them.. hopefully we can have a fruitful discussion of those. Here they are (the ones i got!):

You and I evoke the Universe by looking at it!

Conciousness is found in the space between thoughts (I made that one up… think it is catchy… I might try and sell it to Eckhart Tolle ;))

“Socially Programmed hallucinations”

That person or thing is in me as I am in it!

Yoga (Yoke) means connecting to the source (did not know that there was a word “yoke” for that same thing in english!)

All fulfillment comes from within - Ask and you shall find (Jesus) which is connected to modern coaching where you “ask the right questions (in the positive) and you will get the right (positive) answers! - Fundamental questions gives fundamental answers!

Seperate self

“To get rid of the ego is the ultimate melodrama of the ego” I love this one… had the discussion last saturday when I was at the goal setting and managing course! Some girls were discussing this, and I thought it was bullsh*t! You cannot give up your ego, 100%!

What you can do in relation to your ego is the following: Just watch what is happening an then watch the observer’s reaction…. and dont judge!

highest level of intelligence is observing your self with our judging!

The world is a mirror of the self (smile to the world and the world smiles back)  We do not like people with traits that we deny our selves!

try as a test to identify traits of people you do not like and see if you can recognise them in your self… maybe ask some people that are close to you! Then if they are in you, try to accept those traits!

Resist no Evil - We heard that one before, but in buddhism there is no good, without evil… everybody has a shadow, unless they are standing in the dark! Yin Yang… Evil is not Evil!

Death makes life possible! - Every day you die…. and comes back in a different and better version! Your skin regenerates every month! A cancercell is a healthy cell that forgot how to die! So, Let the past die! Find out what you need to let die in you, to come back in a better version! Death is a creative process!

We are the universe - the light from the universe shines on a plant which transforms the energy into leaves which we eat, which makes us grow… thereby we are the universe and the univers is in us! We are a tree, without us the tree would not breathe (carbondioxide) and we would not breathe without the tree (Oxygen).

the only time is NOW!

the above is only my keywords from the Depak Chopra speech.. I will have them as discussions in future posts, where I hope to get in depth with those!

Namaste

Kasper