The Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra offer practices for cultivating inner peace at the Newark Peace and Education Summit. Watch the CNN video
Daily Inspiration
The universe is a pattern of behavior of the brain. As consciousness evolves, the brain and universe transform. -Deepak Chopra
Sin and Eating Meat
I’ve read your books and some articles in the newspapers. I’ve a question regarding non-veg food. Some people say that we should not eat non-vegetarian food, because in that process we end up killing or taking lives. But, I do not identify with this reason. Because plants and vegetables have also got life. And, a recent research that I came across in ‘The Times of India’, suggests that if we play some soothing music in front of a plant, it helps it grow in a far better way. Then, Are we not killing lives by eating vegetarian food as well? I understand this logic, ‘Jaisa ann, waisa mann’ and about the negativity of the food. Since childhood I have been told, ‘Life lives upon life’. So, my question to you is quite unequivocal, Is eating non-veg food a sin? I’m looking forward to an explicit explanation, instead of an abstruse answer.
Stress Free with Deepak Chopra
This is a six week program for stress reduction. It includes interactive activities for example. If you’re having a conflict, you would enter different words that characterize the conflict, and it creates a snow globe of words. If you shake the phone, words get scrambled and you can see the conflict from a different perspective. Another exercise asks you to enter words that describe your anger, creating an angry ice cube. Then your job is to slowly melt the cube with your finger. It’s a letting go ritual that allows your anger to melt away with the cube. Available at the iphone app store.
Read more: Apps to Make You Happy at Work
Cosmic Consciousness and The Holographic Universe
A video conversation with Deepak and Ervin Laszlo.