Sow Seeds for Your Future Self

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Resumen

TLDRThe video discusses the concept of karma, aligning it with Newton's third law, and explores its implications in various fields such as psychology, biology, and behavior. The speaker suggests viewing life through the lens of karma can reduce self-blame, acknowledging we can't control all outcomes but must focus on positive actions and cultivating habits. This approach can change one's life by reducing the emotional investment in outcomes and focusing on actions that contribute to long-term growth. Genetics is highlighted as evidence supporting karmic principles since it shows how past influences affect the present. Karma emphasizes that every action creates future consequences, suggesting a need to cultivate positive actions today to benefit future outcomes.

Para llevar

  • 🔄 Karma is essentially Newton's third law applied to all areas of life.
  • ⚖️ Understanding karma helps reduce self-blame by recognizing not all results are within our control.
  • 🧬 Genetics is a modern support for karmic theory, showing pre-life influences on the present.
  • 🌱 Karma is about sowing positive actions today for future benefits.
  • 🌌 Karma ties free will and destiny, with actions we choose today shaping future outcomes.
  • 🔍 Science has historically moved more areas from chaos to order, expanding understanding.
  • 📈 Good habits are karmic fruits that further influence future actions.
  • 💭 Mindset should focus on cultivating positive actions, not just achieving results.
  • 💡 Knowledge of karma supports humility and self-forgiveness.
  • 🎯 Success should be measured by efforts and intentions, not just outcomes.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker introduces the concept of understanding karma to improve life by drawing parallels between learning controls in a video game and understanding life's systems such as psychology and habit. The essence is to comprehend the underlying rules to succeed.

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    Karma is introduced as a theory that explains why things happen, transcending traditional fields like psychology and biology. It suggests an underlying order to the universe and posits that the one slice from various life aspects can provide holistic understanding.

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    The speaker discusses the historical progression from supernatural explanations, like gods controlling natural events, to scientific understandings. Karma is proposed as a framework transcending this divide, offering insight where science attributes randomness.

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    The possibility of universal order is questioned, suggesting traditional science views parts of the universe as ordered, while other parts remain chaotic. The ongoing scientific exploration transforms chaos to order, possibly indicating an underlying universal order.

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    The speaker relates karma to scientific principles, particularly Newton's third law, emphasizing its applicability across various domains, from physics to psychology, suggesting everything operates on cause and effect, akin to karma.

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    Karma's concept expands to soft sciences like psychology and economics, positing it as a universal principle of cause and effect. This continuous chain is suggested through various scientific disciplines, hinting at a deeper understanding beyond current science.

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    Karma ties into genetics, drawing parallels to how traits are inherited beyond one's control. Science's recognition of genetics supports the karmic view of past influences shaping current life, challenging the line between life before and within.

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    The speaker underscores karma as both cause and effect, suggesting past actions shape present circumstances, but current actions can set up future outcomes. This loop implies that habits formed today influence tomorrow's opportunities.

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    Karma offers a perspective on self-blame and responsibility, suggesting focusing on actions rather than outcomes. This mindset can alleviate regret from past actions and encourage positive present actions without preoccupation with future results.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    Cultivating good karma is likened to planting seeds with uncertain outcomes. Success isn't guaranteed, but detaching from specific goals, focusing on effort, and understanding past influences can shift perspectives, enhancing positive action.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:56:05

    Karma is explained as action-based, bound by present choices shaping future opportunities, unlike destiny. It emphasizes the responsibility of present actions while acknowledging past influences, encouraging ongoing constructive efforts.

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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas

  • What is karma according to the speaker?

    Karma is described as the principle of cause and effect, similar to Newton's third law, applied beyond the physical to all aspects of life.

  • How does understanding karma help in life?

    Understanding karma helps recognize that not everything is within our control, allowing us to focus on actions rather than outcomes.

  • What role does genetics play in supporting the idea of karma?

    Genetics is cited as the first scientific evidence supporting the idea that past lives can influence the present, similar to how genetic information is passed from one generation to the next.

  • How does karma relate to the concept of habit?

    Karma is about present actions sowing seeds for the future, while habits are formed by consistent past actions, serving as future causes.

  • Can karma lead to a better understanding of success and failure?

    Yes, by understanding karma, one can see that success is not fully within one's control, and failures are not entirely one's fault, leading to a more forgiving self-assessment.

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    so I think karma can be really useful
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    because it helps us understand like how
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    the world works basically so it is my
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    belief that if you want to be better at
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    life you should understand how life
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    works that competence and ease it
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    activities comes through understanding
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    of those activities so if I understand
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    like you know how to control a character
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    in world of warcraft like if I use Waze
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    than a mouse and I understand what the
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    wk ducky does and what the a key does
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    and what the S key does and what the D
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    key does that my success in a particular
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    game will be improved right sort of a
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    no-brainer and so the question is is
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    that true of other things like is that
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    true of life like if you understand how
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    psychology works if you understand how
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    you know habit works
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    if you understand how biology works do
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    you get better at the game of life like
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    if you understand the nature of
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    procrastination and where
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    procrastination comes from will you do
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    better and I think the answer is yes and
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    so karma is one of the biggest things
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    like you know we can talk about habit
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    and psychology and procrastination but
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    those are all like one slice of what
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    life offers right so like this is gonna
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    be psychology and neuroscience and
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    things like that but life has like other
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    big chunks right so we can like do this
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    and I think that God MA is over here and
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    I think it's actually helps you
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    understand even more than the psychology
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    and neurology and stuff like that
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    because this kind of explains why things
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    happen and if we understand like why
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    things happen it becomes way easier to
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    understand life so we're gonna start
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    this in kind of a weird huh what's the
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    other half that's where you guys to
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    figure out so we're gonna start by sort
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    of let's start here okay so let's say
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    that here's human knowledge and I want
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    you guys to just think about this for a
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    second okay so like
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    let's say 5,000 years ago humans
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    understood this much and then we had
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    this so let's say like this is a cloud
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    with a thunderbolt right and then we
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    also had like biology or let's say it's
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    not called biology let's call it illness
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    okay so like there were some phenomenon
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    and human beings like understood this so
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    this is ours and when they looked at
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    like whether they said like oh that's
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    not us
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    like we don't understand how that works
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    that doesn't have principles to it this
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    is a guy named Zeus so Zeus controls
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    this and there's no reason if Zeus is
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    pissed off there's thunder and lightning
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    and if Zeus is happy there's no thunder
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    and lightning and like we're not really
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    sure how that works but like it's under
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    Zeus is control and then similarly like
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    illness is like not something to be
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    understood it's like the gods or other
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    forces that we can't control like muses
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    or randomness or entropy or or chaos
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    theory or whatever like this is not
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    something that fundamentally can be
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    understood so it's a question mark and
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    over time what's happened as science has
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    grown is we're like okay so let's do
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    this like so humans have sort of covered
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    this right we've moved the bar this way
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    and now we're here and we're like oh
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    thunder or lightning or not actually
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    there's like no God who controls it it's
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    like physical phenomenon that have
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    forces that we can understand and then
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    over time we also move over here and
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    then and then we have so now humans
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    control this stuff right we like we get
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    this but over here are places like why
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    or things like was I born to my parents
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    what are some other things why am i lazy
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    when others are not and we look at these
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    things and we say these are questions
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    that cannot be scientifically answered
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    right there's no like science so like
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    over here is the question works so we
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    say that oh this is like it's random
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    right so like a person whose religious
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    will say this is the province of God and
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    God works in mysterious ways and the
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    secularists or the atheists will say
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    there's like there's no order to the
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    universe that can be determined things
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    are just random but do you guys see how
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    like whether we attribute it to
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    randomness or god it's the same thing
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    there's no way for humans to understand
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    so now my first question to you is are
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    parts of the universe ordered and other
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    parts chaos right if we think about the
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    system of science the science say yeah
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    like this part of the universe has order
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    so like physics has ordered but biology
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    does not and like this part of the
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    universe has order but this part of the
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    universe is chaotic because if if we if
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    we kind of think about it
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    like essentially what's happened is the
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    chunks of universe that have become
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    ordered have grown over time as
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    understanding of science grows we've
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    gone from disorder to order right if we
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    look at this spectrum this spectrum over
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    here is like growing order over time
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    this is order over time right so like
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    does it make it so it I mean I'll share
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    with you one conclusion so like some
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    time ago I was very confused by like I
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    thought it was strange that there's like
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    sort of this arbitrary place that we
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    decide we we look at this thing and we
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    say oh yeah like everything on the
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    others
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    as chaos but this is order right so it's
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    kind of weird like that just doesn't
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    make sense to me
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    and so if we think about it you know so
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    it's my belief that things like it
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    doesn't make sense to me that the
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    universe has an arbitrary point at which
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    disorder starts like that just doesn't
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    make sense and generally speaking if you
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    look at it scientifically any place that
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    has been disordered that human beings
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    have looked into over time they start to
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    do deduce order and like Zeus is a great
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    example of that right like they looked
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    at thunder lightning and they were like
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    oh that's just there's no way to
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    understand that it's the whim of the
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    gods and then some guy was like I don't
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    accept that let me look into it and then
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    there were all kinds of other forces
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    that we attribute and this is why sort
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    of like you know the domain of God is
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    kind of shrinking over time
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    so now we get to if there is
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    fundamentally order in the universe and
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    you guys are allowed to disagree with
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    that right that's like I'm not a
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    philosopher or anything and so maybe I'm
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    wrong about that but generally speaking
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    I think that we can have we have good
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    evidence that human beings over time
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    have like made ground and expanding into
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    order or into disorder we've been like
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    colonizing disorder with order and I
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    think there's good scientific evidence
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    behind that so now you know it starts
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    with the hard sciences but like we're
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    even starting to deduce order out of
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    things that are unscientific so like
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    economics or sociology or disciplines
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    where there isn't like a clear science
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    or I mean there is but but it's kind of
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    like it's like a like it's not easily
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    observable and testable but we can still
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    find order principles within its
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    function right so these are the
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    quote-unquote soft sciences psychology
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    is another good example like we can't
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    you know do an x-ray or MRI of someone's
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    brain and know what they're thinking but
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    there's still ordered principles that
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    psychology adheres to so now we get to
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    Karma so what is garma okay
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    karma is nothing more than the principle
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    of cause and effect so some people say
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    that what goes around comes around but
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    that's incorrect actually garma is not
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    what goes around comes around it's that
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    every action has an equal and opposite
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    reaction it's Newton's second law all
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    really car by is is Newton's second law
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    it's just applied on a scale or a third
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    law is it third Locke they're like okay
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    thanks for correcting me guys
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    me llamo dr. K I mean sorry mae amo
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    espanol oh [ __ ] I was gonna write ii
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    again
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    okay so Newton's third law every action
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    has an equal and opposite reaction right
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    so so the interesting thing is that like
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    Newton said that this applies to physics
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    but gaddama says that this is a general
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    principle that applies to all things and
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    that like it's not just physical objects
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    that are subject to this karma priests
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    like sort of says that if you have if
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    actions have results then all actions
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    have results are all forces have
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    consequences and there's no way to
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    escape these and so what like so physics
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    you know this this is physics and then
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    like we can sort of see that actions
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    have results in terms of chemistry and
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    then like biochemistry right so if I
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    like mix like an alkane with like an
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    acid something is gonna happen I don't
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    remember right so and and then we end up
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    with biology and then we end up with
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    psychology and then we end up with
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    behavioral economics
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    and then we end up with advertising so
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    as we can see like these are sort of the
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    hard sciences right and then this is
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    where we get into the soft sciences but
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    even in advertising we know that if we
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    elicit a particular kind of cause like
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    if we place a particular object
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    somewhere on a shelf it is likely to
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    affect whether someone is willing to buy
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    it or not
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    probabilistically so this there's
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    there's cause and effect here there's
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    cause and effect here and then there's
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    cause and effect
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    garma so then we get to the areas where
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    science says oh this is random so like
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    you know why were you born a certain way
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    so in my opinion the biggest revolution
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    in karmic understanding so this is where
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    people like get hung up on karma okay so
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    people say that so this is fine we call
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    this science but stuff like this is BS
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    in is God in his religious and is
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    unscientific and so karma says things
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    like the what what is happening to you
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    in this life to a certain amount or
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    maybe all amounts but at least there's
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    at least 1% chance let's start here so
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    like people say like all of these things
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    are observable within this life but
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    there's no connection between things
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    before this life in this life this is
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    what science generally believes right
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    that like fine you have a particular
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    psychology and that determines your
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    actor advertising behavior but all of
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    that stuff is ensconced within this
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    particular life and then as soon as we
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    start doing things before this
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    particular life we start to get into
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    like hoity-toity stuff and like
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    religious stuff and chakras and crystal
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    healing and God and all that kind of
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    auditory things so we don't accept that
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    and Along Came genetics
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    so I think the biggest contribution from
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    modern science to support the theory of
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    karma is genetics and that may sound
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    like absolutely bizarre but I want you
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    guys to think about this for a second a
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    hundred and fifty years ago I want you
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    to go back in time a hundred fifty years
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    and pretend that you had the same
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    skeptical like atheistic views that you
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    have now like that that doesn't depend
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    on a particular body of knowledge right
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    it's like it's a view and pretend that I
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    came to you 150 years ago and I said
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    what you are in this life is actually
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    determined by your parents it's
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    determined by something that has nothing
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    to do with what your choices are in this
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    life that there is actually an order in
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    a predictive capability to understanding
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    how you turned out to be this way I can
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    predict your hair color is not
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    determined by anything in this life and
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    furthermore is not random but there is
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    actually a system of science that begins
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    prior to where you when you are even
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    born that is going to make a predictive
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    capacity and shape your life today and
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    people would have been like that's
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    insane
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    like there is no scientific link between
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    anything that happens before and today
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    and then along comes genetics and
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    genetics is like actually what you are
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    in this life is heavily determined by
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    things be up before this life that are
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    completely out of your a quote-unquote
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    control we'll get to that in a second so
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    this actually is is really fascinating
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    because genetics actually in my opinion
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    is one of the strongest supporters to
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    the theory of karma because generally
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    speaking when people sort of talk about
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    God Amaya and how it's unscientific they
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    draw they draw like a very important
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    line between things in this life and
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    things before this life
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    right so the theory of karma like if you
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    talk to Hindus and Buddhists they'll say
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    that things in this life are determined
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    by things before this life so this is
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    like they're saying okay this actually
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    leads to us and the first scientific
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    evidence that we have of this is
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    genetics and just think about that for a
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    second so this opens up a whole world of
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    possibility because if we have at least
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    one piece of scientific evidence that
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    supports that you can bridge this gap
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    then like what does that say because
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    then suddenly like this barrier becomes
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    artificial right this barrier is no
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    longer here and so what other kinds of
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    influences from this life are we opening
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    ourselves up to and this is basically
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    what karma says all karma says and it's
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    not really that complicated is that all
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    causes have effects and all effects have
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    causes that's really it it just says
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    that if you look at anything there is
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    there is a reason why this happened and
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    not like a cosmic moral reason just a
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    physical reason if I throw a pen up in
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    the air the pen is gonna come down and
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    so the problem that people have with
  • 00:15:46
    government this is why karma is
  • 00:15:47
    difficult to understand is because our
  • 00:15:49
    knowledge of this life is restricted to
  • 00:15:54
    this life okay so I want you guys to
  • 00:15:58
    imagine something so imagine that
  • 00:16:00
    there's a fence and there's a ball
  • 00:16:03
    there's one person on the side on this
  • 00:16:05
    side of the fence and there's a ball
  • 00:16:06
    that comes down and like lands over here
  • 00:16:08
    even though we can directly observe so
  • 00:16:16
    even though this is the only thing that
  • 00:16:17
    we can directly observe we can still
  • 00:16:20
    extrapolate where this ball came from
  • 00:16:22
    based on this and this is what karma
  • 00:16:24
    does when people talk about like
  • 00:16:28
    reincarnation and crap like that what
  • 00:16:30
    they're doing is they're saying even
  • 00:16:31
    though we can have only observe like
  • 00:16:33
    half of this interaction we can still
  • 00:16:36
    extrapolate like where things come from
  • 00:16:37
    and
  • 00:16:41
    anyway I don't I think that's just kind
  • 00:16:43
    of like I don't have a particular I
  • 00:16:44
    think that's worthy of further
  • 00:16:47
    discussion but we don't really need to
  • 00:16:48
    get into it I'm just sort of
  • 00:16:49
    highlighting what theory of got about
  • 00:16:52
    presupposes and so I think a good way to
  • 00:16:54
    think about this if you guys want to
  • 00:16:55
    understand karma is imagine that you
  • 00:16:58
    have amnesia amnesia every time you
  • 00:17:00
    sleep right so if like if you have
  • 00:17:03
    amnesia every time you sleep whenever
  • 00:17:04
    you wake up you only see the effects of
  • 00:17:07
    your actions in the past even though you
  • 00:17:10
    have no direct knowledge of them so if
  • 00:17:13
    you wake up in the morning and you see
  • 00:17:15
    like a dirty a sink full of dirty dishes
  • 00:17:18
    and you're like oh like that's
  • 00:17:20
    completely random like oh I just you
  • 00:17:22
    know unlucky me but no it's not unlucky
  • 00:17:25
    you it's because you didn't do the
  • 00:17:27
    dishes yesterday so I think if you want
  • 00:17:29
    to understand this whole business about
  • 00:17:31
    like prior lives and reincarnation and
  • 00:17:34
    crap like that like from an intellectual
  • 00:17:36
    or philosophical way you all you need to
  • 00:17:38
    do is the thought experiment is did I
  • 00:17:43
    say dirty dick all you have to do is is
  • 00:17:48
    kind of do this thought experiment where
  • 00:17:49
    you have amnesia every time you go to
  • 00:17:51
    sleep and like that's what people sort
  • 00:17:53
    of describe is like karma and and kind
  • 00:17:56
    of past lives and stuff like that so
  • 00:17:58
    what does this mean I mean I think all
  • 00:17:59
    this stuff is kind of interesting but
  • 00:18:02
    the question is like what does this mean
  • 00:18:04
    for us okay so so how does karma affect
  • 00:18:07
    our lives now like what can we you how
  • 00:18:10
    can we use this information the first is
  • 00:18:12
    that karma is a system of cultivation
  • 00:18:17
    not creation
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    [Music]
  • 00:18:21
    and so when you guys I want you guys to
  • 00:18:23
    think about it this way you want to
  • 00:18:25
    change your life right you can't change
  • 00:18:27
    your life all you can do is so cut them
  • 00:18:30
    up so what I mean by that is like if I
  • 00:18:32
    ask sometimes I'll ask people like how
  • 00:18:34
    do you grow a plant and they'll say like
  • 00:18:36
    you plant it and then you water it and
  • 00:18:38
    then you give it sunlight and then the
  • 00:18:40
    question is if you plant something like
  • 00:18:42
    let's say I put a seed down here and
  • 00:18:43
    this is dirt and then I add water right
  • 00:18:47
    and then I add sunlight does the plant
  • 00:18:53
    grow do we get a chute right does that
  • 00:18:59
    happen or does it not happen and the
  • 00:19:01
    answer is we don't really know yes
  • 00:19:07
    depends hopefully sometimes not always
  • 00:19:14
    right so let's just think about that for
  • 00:19:17
    a second so when you guys live your life
  • 00:19:19
    and you commit to an action in your mind
  • 00:19:25
    what do you think is gonna happen
  • 00:19:28
    because people say like so now let's
  • 00:19:30
    like think think about this for a second
  • 00:19:32
    so I made a mistake like I didn't do
  • 00:19:33
    well on this test and like the idea is
  • 00:19:36
    that you have a sense that you control
  • 00:19:38
    what happens when you do something right
  • 00:19:42
    you have this idea like this is why you
  • 00:19:43
    blame yourself because like if it's if I
  • 00:19:46
    didn't study enough then it's my fault
  • 00:19:49
    that I did bad on the test that the
  • 00:19:51
    action has a certain coral-like
  • 00:19:56
    leads not even correlation to a result
  • 00:20:00
    what what gaddama says is that you can
  • 00:20:03
    do all of the right things right like
  • 00:20:08
    you can you can provide sunlight and
  • 00:20:10
    water and fertilizer and that the plant
  • 00:20:13
    may not grow and why is this it's
  • 00:20:15
    because there are other forces which are
  • 00:20:17
    your prior Karma's which despite doing
  • 00:20:23
    all of the right things can actually
  • 00:20:25
    cause an action to not happen and what
  • 00:20:28
    this means is like it's not actually in
  • 00:20:31
    a sense that's sort of not your fault
  • 00:20:32
    because you know
  • 00:20:35
    I'm jumping around too much let me see
  • 00:20:37
    if I can explain this a little bit
  • 00:20:39
    better so this is what I see a lot of
  • 00:20:44
    people have problems with is that they
  • 00:20:46
    blame themselves for not getting a
  • 00:20:50
    particular result right so like if you
  • 00:20:52
    are a college dropout or a NEET you like
  • 00:20:55
    judge yourself and you're like I'm a
  • 00:20:56
    piece of [ __ ] because I didn't graduate
  • 00:20:58
    from college and I'm not like this and
  • 00:21:00
    I'm not like this and if you think about
  • 00:21:02
    that that blame it only works like you
  • 00:21:06
    can only blame yourself if you're
  • 00:21:09
    responsible like if you're not
  • 00:21:10
    responsible like if you don't control
  • 00:21:13
    this and this isn't true then you can't
  • 00:21:15
    completely you can't blame yourself for
  • 00:21:17
    this
  • 00:21:17
    this blame comes from a presupposition
  • 00:21:20
    that you control the result if you don't
  • 00:21:28
    control the result then you can't be to
  • 00:21:30
    blame right it's kind of like saying you
  • 00:21:32
    know I showed up at the rental car place
  • 00:21:33
    and I made a reservation and I have a
  • 00:21:36
    confirmation number but there was a
  • 00:21:38
    glitch in their system and their
  • 00:21:39
    computer systems are down so is that
  • 00:21:42
    your fault
  • 00:21:42
    like no obviously not so the more that
  • 00:21:45
    you believe that you control this part
  • 00:21:47
    or actually that's not right I wish I
  • 00:21:50
    could undo oh crap okay they're
  • 00:21:51
    beautiful the more that you believe you
  • 00:21:53
    control this part the more likely you
  • 00:21:56
    are to blame yourself because if you
  • 00:21:58
    don't control this then there's no like
  • 00:21:59
    it doesn't make any sense to blame and
  • 00:22:01
    if we think about what holds you back
  • 00:22:02
    when we were talking about like
  • 00:22:04
    avoidance procrastination and things
  • 00:22:05
    like that your self blame holds you back
  • 00:22:16
    right like that's true like you holding
  • 00:22:18
    yourself back because like oh I'm such a
  • 00:22:20
    [ __ ] this this and this you can't
  • 00:22:21
    forgive yourself you can't let go you
  • 00:22:23
    can't like cut yourself a break for
  • 00:22:25
    being the person that you are and
  • 00:22:27
    screwing things up so the question is is
  • 00:22:29
    there some way to make it easier to
  • 00:22:31
    forgive yourself and the answer is yes
  • 00:22:33
    if you look at karma and what karma says
  • 00:22:36
    is that this actually is not yours to
  • 00:22:38
    control like this is crazy man all you
  • 00:22:41
    control is this you can water a plant
  • 00:22:47
    you can give it sunlight and you can
  • 00:22:54
    give it fertilizer but that does not
  • 00:23:00
    equal growth this is what you guys
  • 00:23:05
    really have to understand and now I want
  • 00:23:08
    you guys to think about this like what
  • 00:23:12
    does this do for your life if you start
  • 00:23:14
    to think about yourself in this way
  • 00:23:26
    it's not even don't just don't be
  • 00:23:28
    emotionally invested in the outcome
  • 00:23:30
    understand that like you are only
  • 00:23:33
    capable of exerting a certain amount of
  • 00:23:35
    control right and this is the other
  • 00:23:43
    thing that I want you guys to understand
  • 00:23:44
    even when you feel like you don't do
  • 00:23:47
    your best you are doing your best right
  • 00:23:51
    this is the other really really crazy
  • 00:23:52
    thing about karma is that like karma
  • 00:23:54
    says that you know you so let's say you
  • 00:23:58
    blame yourself for like skipping a test
  • 00:24:00
    because you were afraid you were gonna
  • 00:24:02
    fail and then you use hold yourself
  • 00:24:05
    responsible for that but what you guys
  • 00:24:07
    aren't acknowledging is that that person
  • 00:24:12
    skips tests due to anxiety of failure
  • 00:24:21
    right so like you have an option to move
  • 00:24:24
    forward to take the test or skip it but
  • 00:24:28
    this person that you are this is the
  • 00:24:34
    problem with this way of thinking okay
  • 00:24:35
    is you guys think that time starts here
  • 00:24:42
    t0 is here right you guys think like oh
  • 00:24:45
    I should have done that but what you
  • 00:24:47
    guys need to understand is that this
  • 00:24:48
    person is the result of past Karma's so
  • 00:24:55
    time doesn't actually start here your
  • 00:24:58
    capability to man up and take that test
  • 00:25:00
    or woman up and take that test is not
  • 00:25:03
    actually like it's not like you have a
  • 00:25:06
    like you don't have like absolute
  • 00:25:09
    control in that moment you are sort of a
  • 00:25:11
    product of your prior circumstances and
  • 00:25:14
    if your prior circumstances have not
  • 00:25:16
    been good like never went to class
  • 00:25:21
    [Music]
  • 00:25:24
    got dumped by someone and mom and dad
  • 00:25:33
    got divorced okay so like if all the
  • 00:25:40
    [ __ ] is going on like you can't really
  • 00:25:41
    blame yourself for for like skipping a
  • 00:25:44
    test just think about that like it's not
  • 00:25:47
    like you you blame yourselves fully
  • 00:25:49
    right so there's absolute judgment here
  • 00:25:51
    you're an absolute [ __ ] but that's
  • 00:25:56
    actually not a fair way to look at
  • 00:25:57
    yourself because there's all kinds of
  • 00:25:59
    crap that got injected into you and and
  • 00:26:02
    some of this stuff is even things like
  • 00:26:04
    neglectful parents or genetics or even
  • 00:26:15
    that you were not given certain
  • 00:26:16
    advantages in life so I was given a
  • 00:26:19
    bunch of advantages so my parents for
  • 00:26:25
    example like financially supported me
  • 00:26:27
    when I was like 24 and in not making any
  • 00:26:29
    money or anything like that and so when
  • 00:26:32
    people look at my success so if I'm if
  • 00:26:35
    we put success over here and we make
  • 00:26:38
    this person dr. K they say like Oh dr. K
  • 00:26:42
    is so different he's so smart he's not
  • 00:26:44
    lazy what they don't get is that I have
  • 00:26:46
    this right and what what you guys don't
  • 00:26:49
    get is that like you know you guys maybe
  • 00:26:52
    had this or this or trauma in the past
  • 00:26:56
    or anxiety so now the interesting thing
  • 00:26:59
    is that like so what that means is that
  • 00:27:04
    I don't in the same way that I don't
  • 00:27:07
    blame myself for my failures I also
  • 00:27:09
    don't own my successes so I don't
  • 00:27:12
    believe that I'm successful because I'm
  • 00:27:14
    like hardworking and I lifted myself up
  • 00:27:16
    by my bootstraps you detach from all of
  • 00:27:19
    it because if I free myself from my
  • 00:27:20
    failures I also free myself from my
  • 00:27:22
    successes when I look back on my on my
  • 00:27:24
    life and I recognize like oh I had a
  • 00:27:26
    bunch of advantages like I was born
  • 00:27:27
    Indian like that was a huge advantage
  • 00:27:29
    why was it a huge advantage it's because
  • 00:27:31
    the body of knowledge that I chose to
  • 00:27:34
    learn from or that I was exposed
  • 00:27:37
    I had like a racial advantage like I had
  • 00:27:40
    a race bonus to learn yoga because I
  • 00:27:43
    grew up understanding words that were
  • 00:27:46
    spoken in my household that when I when
  • 00:27:48
    I let go to an ashram and they're like
  • 00:27:50
    Caucasian people there I realized like I
  • 00:27:53
    just have an advantage over them because
  • 00:27:55
    some of these concepts are baked into
  • 00:27:57
    the language that was spoken in my house
  • 00:27:58
    doesn't mean I'm smarter it just means
  • 00:28:01
    that like they're trying to understand
  • 00:28:03
    some concepts that like I grew up with
  • 00:28:05
    like they're learning yoga for the first
  • 00:28:06
    time at the age of 21 and when I went to
  • 00:28:08
    Sunday school at the age of 8 like
  • 00:28:10
    people taught me yoga it's absolutely
  • 00:28:13
    like a race bonus and so if I have a
  • 00:28:16
    race bonus that other people don't have
  • 00:28:18
    like how can i how can I say that I'm
  • 00:28:21
    better in like oh like I'm so successful
  • 00:28:22
    because like I'm so much better than you
  • 00:28:24
    like you guys suck and I'm amazing
  • 00:28:26
    because like I'm so smart no it's dumb
  • 00:28:28
    it's a race bone it's like I didn't do
  • 00:28:29
    anything to deserve that and so it
  • 00:28:33
    changes if if you don't deserve your
  • 00:28:35
    successes then you also don't deserve
  • 00:28:36
    your failures it's not really under your
  • 00:28:39
    control
  • 00:28:42
    so yeah right so like just think about
  • 00:28:47
    that for a second this leads to all this
  • 00:28:49
    stuff that we want like humility and
  • 00:28:50
    confidence and self forgiveness in
  • 00:28:53
    compassion and people like how do I do
  • 00:28:55
    that stuff I'm like oh you should learn
  • 00:28:57
    how to forgive yourself and they're like
  • 00:28:59
    how do I do that this is the way that
  • 00:29:00
    you do that you understand this so the
  • 00:29:03
    next thing is this also changes the way
  • 00:29:09
    that you act because here's the real
  • 00:29:11
    scam okay is that according to karma you
  • 00:29:18
    actually control all this [ __ ] this is a
  • 00:29:23
    really crazy thing okay and what I mean
  • 00:29:25
    by that and but we're gonna focus on
  • 00:29:26
    really one part of it is this this is
  • 00:29:30
    the operative thing right so now what I
  • 00:29:37
    want you guys to do is recognize that
  • 00:29:39
    going to class is not about getting a
  • 00:29:41
    grade going to class is about providing
  • 00:29:45
    a buff for future you it's not about
  • 00:29:49
    passing the test
  • 00:29:50
    it's not about graduating
  • 00:29:51
    from college it's not about getting a
  • 00:29:53
    good job it's just about buffing future
  • 00:29:56
    you and this is what karma is karma is
  • 00:29:59
    giving yourself the opportunity to
  • 00:30:02
    cultivate things for yourself you can
  • 00:30:04
    plant a dozen seeds but you can't make
  • 00:30:06
    them grow so what you guys should focus
  • 00:30:08
    on is planting seeds but the problem is
  • 00:30:11
    that when you plant a seed and that's
  • 00:30:13
    your focus and it doesn't grow then how
  • 00:30:16
    bummed out are you you're a little bit
  • 00:30:18
    bummed out but if you plant a seed and
  • 00:30:20
    then you try to like really really make
  • 00:30:22
    it grow you're like man I want that
  • 00:30:24
    plant to grow I really want the plant to
  • 00:30:25
    grow I want to graduate I want to get a
  • 00:30:26
    good job I want to get a girlfriend I
  • 00:30:28
    want to move out a house I won't do this
  • 00:30:29
    I don't do that I want this seven but
  • 00:30:31
    that's HAP na na ma you're not focused
  • 00:30:33
    on the sea you're focused on the fruit
  • 00:30:35
    right you're focused on the end game and
  • 00:30:37
    then what happens is if things don't go
  • 00:30:40
    your way then you get disappointed and
  • 00:30:42
    the disappointment keeps you from acting
  • 00:30:44
    and so instead what I want you guys to
  • 00:30:47
    focus on is like the action focus on
  • 00:30:50
    going to class and change your view from
  • 00:30:52
    I want to graduate to I want to set
  • 00:30:55
    myself up to graduate it's it's a tiny
  • 00:30:58
    little shift but it's revolutionary like
  • 00:31:02
    every day when you guys come to this
  • 00:31:03
    webinar and you do 10 or 15 minutes of
  • 00:31:06
    yoga that's a positive that's a positive
  • 00:31:09
    buff right these are the positive ones
  • 00:31:11
    yoga so I don't think you guys realize
  • 00:31:13
    by coming here and doing yoga you're
  • 00:31:16
    actually buffing future you and then
  • 00:31:18
    like things are gonna start to change in
  • 00:31:20
    your favor this is what I see time and
  • 00:31:22
    time and time again is that when people
  • 00:31:24
    start sowing positive karma they don't
  • 00:31:28
    really know what the result is gonna be
  • 00:31:29
    like there's no clear way when yoga's
  • 00:31:35
    over here every day what does that lead
  • 00:31:39
    to
  • 00:31:41
    job girlfriend-boyfriend
  • 00:31:45
    does that lead to that no not not not at
  • 00:31:48
    all like it's like how does yoga lead to
  • 00:31:50
    any of that but Yoga is one of these
  • 00:31:54
    influences it's one of the influences
  • 00:31:56
    that you don't see and that what I've
  • 00:31:59
    noticed time and time again and I've
  • 00:32:01
    done this work now with like literally
  • 00:32:02
    hundreds of people is that when they
  • 00:32:04
    start doing yoga every day like [ __ ] in
  • 00:32:06
    their life just starts to get better and
  • 00:32:07
    that cause and effect look so distant
  • 00:32:10
    that it's hard to like really see and so
  • 00:32:14
    what I want you guys to do is like
  • 00:32:15
    cultivate good things for yourself don't
  • 00:32:18
    do good things for yourself
  • 00:32:19
    cultivate good things for yourself right
  • 00:32:23
    cultivate a life for yourself or an
  • 00:32:25
    attitude for yourself by like doing good
  • 00:32:27
    things that don't have a reason like
  • 00:32:31
    don't have a good reason behind them I
  • 00:32:32
    know it sounds completely crazy because
  • 00:32:34
    right now you guys do things because of
  • 00:32:36
    particular reasons and if those reasons
  • 00:32:38
    don't pan out then you feel disappointed
  • 00:32:40
    and stuck and you feel like it's useless
  • 00:32:42
    to do stuff in that frame of mind leads
  • 00:32:46
    to you feeling like doing stuff is
  • 00:32:48
    useless just think about that for a
  • 00:32:49
    second
  • 00:32:50
    if action does not lead to result it
  • 00:32:58
    creates a negative feedback loop for
  • 00:33:01
    action right so this scenario results in
  • 00:33:10
    inaction
  • 00:33:12
    if action has no effect to result what
  • 00:33:21
    does this lead to this actually leads to
  • 00:33:25
    action
  • 00:33:28
    bizarre [ __ ] crazy this is karma
  • 00:33:32
    karma is saying sow the seed sow the
  • 00:33:35
    seed sow the seed we don't know if it's
  • 00:33:37
    gonna grow we don't know if it's gonna
  • 00:33:39
    grow we don't know it's gonna grow this
  • 00:33:42
    actually leads to action it's bizarre
  • 00:33:49
    because then what happens is like this
  • 00:33:51
    is what's crazy is the result starts to
  • 00:33:54
    come right at some point if you plant
  • 00:33:56
    enough seeds stuff is gonna start to
  • 00:33:59
    grow like that's gonna happen you guys
  • 00:34:02
    get that like if you go to the library
  • 00:34:04
    and you study every day like at some
  • 00:34:06
    point you're gonna start passing tests
  • 00:34:07
    but the key thing is to not go to the
  • 00:34:10
    library to pass tests it's crazy if you
  • 00:34:14
    try to pass a test by going to library
  • 00:34:16
    you're not going to go good if you don't
  • 00:34:23
    know what to think then you're doing it
  • 00:34:24
    right
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    see this is the problem is you guys get
  • 00:34:27
    stuck in this negative feedback loop
  • 00:34:30
    this is the problem right here anyway
  • 00:34:35
    okay so let's is to cheat code
  • 00:34:41
    absolutely that's what I'm telling you
  • 00:34:42
    guys karma is like a cheat code because
  • 00:34:44
    it gives you it's not a cheat code it's
  • 00:34:45
    a walkthrough right it doesn't allow you
  • 00:34:49
    to break the rules in a new way it's
  • 00:34:52
    like you know finding like a fountain in
  • 00:34:55
    a game that makes you like invulnerable
  • 00:34:57
    or buffs your stats it just makes the
  • 00:34:58
    game way easier to play okay so let's do
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    QA
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    [Music]
  • 00:35:13
    all right so ah very good annex so anak
  • 00:35:25
    says this almost feels like I'm not
  • 00:35:26
    responsible for anything your act
  • 00:35:28
    actually in a weird way you're
  • 00:35:29
    absolutely right
  • 00:35:30
    so the problem is that we view
  • 00:35:33
    responsibility with the result when we
  • 00:35:38
    think about I'm not responsible for
  • 00:35:39
    anything we lump these two together
  • 00:35:41
    right so we think about like if we think
  • 00:35:43
    about someone who's responsible the way
  • 00:35:46
    we describe a responsible person is by
  • 00:35:49
    results we say they have a job they
  • 00:35:51
    moved out of the house they have a
  • 00:35:52
    family they pay a mortgage they do this
  • 00:35:54
    they do that like they think about all
  • 00:35:56
    these kinds of things they think about
  • 00:35:57
    results but what you're actually
  • 00:35:59
    responsible for is your actions this is
  • 00:36:02
    where responsibility lies is with
  • 00:36:06
    actions not with the results and the
  • 00:36:08
    more you focus on being responsible for
  • 00:36:10
    your actions and letting go of your
  • 00:36:12
    results the better off you're gonna be
  • 00:36:13
    yeah my question is if a person is in
  • 00:36:16
    the habit of blaming themselves for
  • 00:36:18
    misfortunes in life doesn't karma give
  • 00:36:20
    them the opportunity to blame their
  • 00:36:22
    circumstances and if blame is not
  • 00:36:24
    healthy then how do you dissolve the
  • 00:36:26
    habit of blaming and not become a doer
  • 00:36:28
    okay great question so the first thing
  • 00:36:30
    is that like so if you aren't
  • 00:36:33
    responsible for the result can't you're
  • 00:36:36
    saying if you're not responsible for the
  • 00:36:37
    result can't you become a Doomer because
  • 00:36:41
    everything is sort of destined is that
  • 00:36:44
    what you mean Oh kind of like for
  • 00:36:47
    example if I have a habit of blaming
  • 00:36:50
    myself like I was I if I'm like
  • 00:36:53
    everything that's happened in my life is
  • 00:36:55
    my fault because I didn't do anything
  • 00:36:56
    about it up until this point then
  • 00:36:59
    doesn't understanding carmella doesn't
  • 00:37:02
    that make me able to blame that oh it
  • 00:37:04
    was all life's fault so therefore it's
  • 00:37:07
    not my fault
  • 00:37:07
    therefore it's fine if I don't do
  • 00:37:09
    anything about it so yes and no so this
  • 00:37:12
    is the thing to understand so like I
  • 00:37:14
    don't know if you're are you basically
  • 00:37:16
    saying that like you
  • 00:37:18
    it's life's fault therefore it's destiny
  • 00:37:20
    it's not me sort of yes okay so this is
  • 00:37:24
    what you guys have to understand so like
  • 00:37:26
    you know this debate
  • 00:37:27
    between freewill in destiny that exists
  • 00:37:30
    in the in the West
  • 00:37:32
    garma fixes this beautifully so there's
  • 00:37:34
    no debate in karma so what karma says is
  • 00:37:36
    that it is your choice whether you jump
  • 00:37:39
    off a cliff but once you jump off a
  • 00:37:41
    cliff you're destined to fall so karma
  • 00:37:44
    is a tie between freewill and destiny
  • 00:37:48
    and you're absolutely right that if you
  • 00:37:51
    look back on your life and you say
  • 00:37:52
    there's nothing else I could have done
  • 00:37:53
    in a bizarre way you're right but that
  • 00:37:55
    doesn't mean that there's nothing you
  • 00:37:56
    can't do today in fact what you should
  • 00:37:59
    do is reframe that to recognize there's
  • 00:38:01
    no you couldn't have done any better
  • 00:38:03
    than you did but today is a new day and
  • 00:38:05
    you can sow new karma so you don't
  • 00:38:07
    control anything that happened in the
  • 00:38:09
    past but in the present moment your
  • 00:38:11
    actions will influence the future I mean
  • 00:38:15
    that makes sense for me but from a point
  • 00:38:18
    of view of somebody who I was before it
  • 00:38:20
    seems like it's a hard concept to wrap
  • 00:38:22
    my mind around if I'm in the process of
  • 00:38:25
    if I'm just blaming myself and then I
  • 00:38:28
    get an out that I didn't blame
  • 00:38:29
    circumstance sure so your circumstances
  • 00:38:32
    so let's think about it this way right
  • 00:38:33
    these are circumstances that are out of
  • 00:38:36
    your control so not my fault so be it
  • 00:38:41
    I accept it you're correct not your
  • 00:38:44
    fault the question is what is the next
  • 00:38:47
    arrow that you put forward because at
  • 00:38:52
    this point it starts to become your
  • 00:38:59
    fault
  • 00:39:01
    what do you think about that ice yeah
  • 00:39:04
    that yeah I see the distinction now I
  • 00:39:07
    think it's a it's like a fine line but
  • 00:39:09
    like the idea is that doing everything
  • 00:39:14
    you can do is doing something now
  • 00:39:16
    absolutely under right so even if we
  • 00:39:20
    accept that the past is not your fault
  • 00:39:21
    because you couldn't control those
  • 00:39:23
    garments the these garments over here
  • 00:39:25
    was like you jumping off of like various
  • 00:39:27
    cliffs in past lives which you can't
  • 00:39:29
    control so if you want to let go of
  • 00:39:31
    blaming yourself there so be it tell
  • 00:39:34
    yourself it wasn't my fault there was
  • 00:39:36
    nothing I could have done but today is a
  • 00:39:38
    new day and you can definitely so new
  • 00:39:39
    seeds today so in a weird way I don't
  • 00:39:44
    want you to blame yourself
  • 00:39:45
    like if you're saying like how do I
  • 00:39:46
    don't i absolve myself with
  • 00:39:48
    responsibility go for it man unburden
  • 00:39:50
    yourself of responsibility learn to
  • 00:39:53
    forgive yourself for not achieving that
  • 00:39:54
    which you wanted to achieve and wake up
  • 00:39:57
    today and recognize that today is a new
  • 00:39:59
    day and I can sow new seeds and have new
  • 00:40:01
    results yeah it's bizarre but you're
  • 00:40:08
    absolutely correct you just seem easier
  • 00:40:12
    so see the the tricky think about what
  • 00:40:14
    you're saying is they say if this isn't
  • 00:40:16
    my fault then this isn't my fault this
  • 00:40:20
    is the false correlation right here
  • 00:40:23
    right this is where the nihilist or the
  • 00:40:27
    person who's like hedonistic or has no
  • 00:40:29
    meaning in life this is the correlation
  • 00:40:31
    that they make that the past and the
  • 00:40:33
    future are tied together but they're not
  • 00:40:35
    today is a different day in the actions
  • 00:40:37
    the Karma the seeds that you sow today
  • 00:40:40
    like it's like waking up one day and
  • 00:40:42
    looking out at your garden and saying I
  • 00:40:44
    have no fruit trees and it's like yeah
  • 00:40:46
    man like you can't wait you can't blame
  • 00:40:48
    yourself for not having fruit trees now
  • 00:40:49
    because you didn't plant anything in the
  • 00:40:51
    past but today you can plant and whether
  • 00:40:56
    you have fruit trees in your your yard a
  • 00:40:58
    year from now or not depends on whether
  • 00:41:00
    you plant today and you can even plant a
  • 00:41:02
    dozen trees today and maybe none of them
  • 00:41:04
    will grow there's a chance that a year
  • 00:41:05
    from now you'll still have no fruit
  • 00:41:07
    trees but when you fast forward to a
  • 00:41:10
    year from now and you look back on your
  • 00:41:12
    life and you're like okay there are no
  • 00:41:14
    fruit trees but you
  • 00:41:15
    know what I actually planted 1212 seeds
  • 00:41:19
    and I watered them every day and I gave
  • 00:41:21
    him sunlight and soil I did the best
  • 00:41:23
    that I could okay this is what I was
  • 00:41:27
    saying so when you look back at your
  • 00:41:30
    life a year let's let's say you fast
  • 00:41:32
    forward a year from now and then you
  • 00:41:33
    still don't have any fruit trees in your
  • 00:41:36
    garden something magical is gonna happen
  • 00:41:39
    even though you have no fruit trees in
  • 00:41:41
    your back garden you're gonna look back
  • 00:41:42
    on your life and you're gonna say you
  • 00:41:43
    know what [ __ ] it I did the best that I
  • 00:41:46
    could so I should rest easy and
  • 00:41:48
    sometimes life just throws you a
  • 00:41:49
    curveball and you can't do it the
  • 00:41:51
    question is did I do the best that I can
  • 00:41:53
    and should I be able to sleep at night
  • 00:41:54
    right this is a problem that physicians
  • 00:41:57
    face when their patients die
  • 00:41:58
    whether you sleep at night as a
  • 00:42:00
    physician depends not on whether your
  • 00:42:01
    patient died or not although sometimes
  • 00:42:03
    it takes time to learn this isn't
  • 00:42:06
    recognizing I did the best that I could
  • 00:42:07
    and sometimes bad [ __ ] happens and the
  • 00:42:11
    problem right now is that you guys have
  • 00:42:12
    not done the best that you could a year
  • 00:42:14
    ago you didn't do the best that you
  • 00:42:16
    could and that's what you blame yourself
  • 00:42:17
    for so it's not about being successful
  • 00:42:20
    or not being successful it's about
  • 00:42:21
    living a life without regrets living a
  • 00:42:24
    life in a way that you free yourself
  • 00:42:26
    from blame because you give it
  • 00:42:27
    everything you've got I mean it feels
  • 00:42:29
    amazing to give it everything you got
  • 00:42:31
    because a lot of times things work out
  • 00:42:32
    and sometimes things don't work out and
  • 00:42:34
    if you play a game and you play like
  • 00:42:36
    let's say I'm playing a game of dota or
  • 00:42:37
    something or Lal or valor --nt right and
  • 00:42:39
    if I like played the best that I
  • 00:42:41
    absolutely could and like I get crushed
  • 00:42:43
    like that's okay does that make sense
  • 00:42:48
    you doesn't make sense yeah
  • 00:42:50
    yeah and if I if I think about what you
  • 00:42:55
    know if I could wish one thing for you
  • 00:42:56
    guys it's not success what I think most
  • 00:42:59
    of the people who watch the stream are
  • 00:43:01
    looking for is to wake up one day and
  • 00:43:03
    say I gave it my all that's what they
  • 00:43:05
    want they don't want success they want
  • 00:43:08
    to wake up one day and be happy with the
  • 00:43:10
    person that they are and be happy with
  • 00:43:11
    the work that they put out into the
  • 00:43:13
    world they actually don't want a million
  • 00:43:16
    dollars like that is not what's missing
  • 00:43:18
    I have an analogy I just want to make
  • 00:43:22
    sure I got this correct
  • 00:43:23
    for example dota analogy you can try to
  • 00:43:26
    push the lane and kill creeps but you
  • 00:43:28
    don't guarantee weather
  • 00:43:29
    get the power absolutely is it is that
  • 00:43:31
    absolutely right like so you don't
  • 00:43:33
    respond you don't determine when you're
  • 00:43:34
    pushing a tower you don't determine
  • 00:43:36
    whether they five-man rotate to defend
  • 00:43:38
    it and gank you or whether no one shows
  • 00:43:40
    up you just have to do the right thing
  • 00:43:44
    yeah thank you okay next question
  • 00:43:55
    hey doctor stay with them just get a
  • 00:43:58
    mute stream hey man
  • 00:44:00
    okay hey so um my questions or just they
  • 00:44:05
    would like to give you a quick
  • 00:44:06
    background like I feel like I have a lot
  • 00:44:08
    of grief related to those past Karma's
  • 00:44:11
    sure because because I feel like I mean
  • 00:44:15
    in essence I feel like I've lost five
  • 00:44:17
    years of my life like although although
  • 00:44:19
    something good is like coming out of
  • 00:44:21
    those years where like in like you
  • 00:44:23
    mentioned in a stream earlier I feel
  • 00:44:24
    like I'm not building building my
  • 00:44:26
    foundation on a house of cards it's like
  • 00:44:28
    a stronger foundation coming from it
  • 00:44:30
    good but I I guess my question is like
  • 00:44:35
    how is karma different from setting up
  • 00:44:37
    good habits like like yeah is there a
  • 00:44:40
    difference between the two
  • 00:44:41
    like just focusing on building good
  • 00:44:44
    habits that might set you up for success
  • 00:44:46
    or like just a concept of karma like
  • 00:44:48
    what's the difference between them there
  • 00:44:50
    isn't right so like a good habit is the
  • 00:44:54
    fruit of a karma so if I wake up and I
  • 00:44:58
    do yoga every day the action that I do
  • 00:45:00
    is yoga on a daily basis or it's not
  • 00:45:04
    even a daily basis all I can do is yoga
  • 00:45:06
    today if I do yoga today and then when
  • 00:45:08
    talk tomorrow rolls around I can do yoga
  • 00:45:10
    or not do yoga
  • 00:45:12
    like when does it become a habit like
  • 00:45:13
    what does a habit how do I find a habit
  • 00:45:15
    like what is that show me a habit
  • 00:45:21
    rhetorical so how do I know whether
  • 00:45:24
    something is a habit I'm just using like
  • 00:45:29
    this habit bull F and I'm like it says
  • 00:45:31
    it takes 66 days to build a habit I know
  • 00:45:33
    but I'm asking what is a habit like I
  • 00:45:38
    feel like for example I want to make
  • 00:45:40
    yoga have it for me where it's like I do
  • 00:45:42
    it every day I'm not asking you what you
  • 00:45:45
    want your habit to be I'm asking you
  • 00:45:47
    what is a habit okay it's something I do
  • 00:45:52
    every day regardless of what it brings
  • 00:45:56
    me okay so does that sound like Karma to
  • 00:46:00
    you okay so I mean maybe not that
  • 00:46:05
    everyday concept like very good
  • 00:46:08
    excellent
  • 00:46:08
    so this is the main thing that you need
  • 00:46:10
    to understand a habit is not something
  • 00:46:12
    you can have going forward it's
  • 00:46:14
    something that you look back on okay I'm
  • 00:46:19
    not sure it follow so like a guard my
  • 00:46:22
    Garmin is about action in the present
  • 00:46:25
    right and habit is is is like it's kind
  • 00:46:31
    of I mean there are some things that are
  • 00:46:33
    habit but let me put it this way like
  • 00:46:34
    you said you notice that you you paused
  • 00:46:36
    at the word every day it's something
  • 00:46:39
    that you do every day that you you know
  • 00:46:40
    that is relatively easy for you or
  • 00:46:42
    whatever but the king the key difference
  • 00:46:45
    between habit and Karma is habit is like
  • 00:46:47
    you don't you can't have a habit going
  • 00:46:49
    forward you can have a habit when you
  • 00:46:50
    look back so when you look back and you
  • 00:46:52
    take actions on a daily basis without
  • 00:46:55
    the exertion of willpower that is what
  • 00:46:58
    we call a habit it's an automatic
  • 00:46:59
    behavior oh yeah yeah right how's the
  • 00:47:04
    difference from karma it's different
  • 00:47:06
    because karma is about the present and a
  • 00:47:08
    habit is about the past you can't have a
  • 00:47:10
    habit going forward because you have no
  • 00:47:12
    idea what you're gonna do tomorrow it
  • 00:47:16
    feels like your Karma maybe covers your
  • 00:47:20
    mindset as well whereas habit is like
  • 00:47:22
    just the action so yeah well I think
  • 00:47:25
    that garma has a lot to do with mindset
  • 00:47:27
    and so let me let me put it so your
  • 00:47:30
    question was is habit different from
  • 00:47:32
    Karma so I think some people got what I
  • 00:47:33
    was saying about a habit is in the past
  • 00:47:35
    but so I'll put it this way so if you so
  • 00:47:38
    if you take the right actions on a daily
  • 00:47:40
    basis one of the fruits that garma can
  • 00:47:43
    bear is something called a habit and a
  • 00:47:46
    habit is the capacity to engage in a
  • 00:47:48
    behavior with a relatively low
  • 00:47:50
    investment of willpower or even like an
  • 00:47:53
    automaticity to it like a habit is like
  • 00:47:56
    an automatic behavior right it becomes
  • 00:47:59
    easy once it becomes a habit and I think
  • 00:48:00
    habits are built through karmic actions
  • 00:48:07
    okay so Karan was like laying the seeds
  • 00:48:10
    for the habit to grow yes
  • 00:48:12
    and then the habit is also up Gautama
  • 00:48:15
    for future you so this is what karma
  • 00:48:18
    says right is that there are causes and
  • 00:48:20
    effects and effects or causes
  • 00:48:22
    it's a loop it's not linear so if I
  • 00:48:26
    throw a ball up in the air and then the
  • 00:48:28
    ball lands on the ground the next time I
  • 00:48:31
    walk into the room the ball is gonna be
  • 00:48:33
    on the ground right and then then I can
  • 00:48:36
    pick the ball up so all things are tied
  • 00:48:38
    like causes lead to effects and in
  • 00:48:40
    effects in turn or future causes does
  • 00:48:42
    that make sense or no um I'd like to be
  • 00:48:47
    honest I'm not getting it good no but I
  • 00:48:49
    I might I might listen to this yeah let
  • 00:48:52
    me let me explain it so it's let's let's
  • 00:48:53
    spend time on this okay so let me think
  • 00:48:55
    let me show you something okay so let's
  • 00:48:58
    say that I study every day at the
  • 00:49:00
    library what's what's the result of
  • 00:49:06
    studying every day at the library I'm
  • 00:49:12
    like a good study habits so like if a
  • 00:49:15
    test comes you you don't have to like
  • 00:49:17
    take radical change - great therefore it
  • 00:49:20
    you're oh you already know good study
  • 00:49:22
    habit so let me ask you something so we
  • 00:49:26
    can sort of say that a good study habit
  • 00:49:27
    is the result of the Karma of studying
  • 00:49:31
    every day right fair yeah okay so now my
  • 00:49:38
    question to you and what's your name
  • 00:49:40
    buddy Simon Simon is that does a good
  • 00:49:44
    study habit is that a cause for future
  • 00:49:47
    effects or is that the end of the rope
  • 00:49:53
    for me personally that feels like a like
  • 00:49:58
    something for future results absolutely
  • 00:50:00
    right so then you you graduate from
  • 00:50:02
    college let's say okay so now we can see
  • 00:50:10
    that the good study habit is both an
  • 00:50:12
    effect and a cause do you see that yeah
  • 00:50:20
    right so like what's the relationship
  • 00:50:24
    between karma and habit a habit is just
  • 00:50:27
    one result that is also like a future
  • 00:50:29
    cause but at the end of the day like so
  • 00:50:33
    this is this is exactly the point is
  • 00:50:35
    that if you think about
  • 00:50:36
    current you and what kind of action you
  • 00:50:40
    take if you've got two choices right to
  • 00:50:45
    take act in a good way or at that
  • 00:50:50
    current you is the result of prior
  • 00:50:53
    Karma's and so like good study habits go
  • 00:50:57
    here let's say gaming goes here right
  • 00:51:06
    because you stayed up too late and then
  • 00:51:07
    like let's say this is do you go to
  • 00:51:09
    class and then this is yes and this is
  • 00:51:16
    no so do you see that like in this
  • 00:51:17
    scenario your prior actions create the
  • 00:51:23
    you that exists now in shapes your
  • 00:51:26
    likelihood to take actions in the future
  • 00:51:29
    do you get that yeah yeah I know okay
  • 00:51:35
    so like where do habits come in because
  • 00:51:38
    habits are created by prior Karma's does
  • 00:51:45
    that make sense like whether you go to
  • 00:51:47
    the library every day or not determines
  • 00:51:49
    whether you have good study habits yeah
  • 00:51:54
    yeah like what path karma has an effect
  • 00:51:57
    on you or have this today absolutely so
  • 00:52:00
    then did you so what's your question or
  • 00:52:02
    if I answered that like I got the sense
  • 00:52:04
    that your question is what's the
  • 00:52:05
    relationship between karma and study
  • 00:52:07
    habits and and this is sort of the
  • 00:52:09
    answer that I have for you is that karma
  • 00:52:10
    shapes your study habits but then your
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    study habits are in and of themselves a
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    karmic effect for future you so they're
  • 00:52:22
    they're intertwined absolutely oh okay
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    yeah yeah again so that yeah so my
  • 00:52:28
    habits will become my Karma for my
  • 00:52:31
    future self exactly okay and so the way
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    that I want you guys to live your life
  • 00:52:35
    is to build Karma's for your future self
  • 00:52:38
    don't become a don't develop good study
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    habits so that you can graduate just set
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    up like try to help out like if you ever
  • 00:52:46
    played a game like you know wow where
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    you you create
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    an alt and you send money from your like
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    prior character to your like alt you
  • 00:52:55
    know what I'm talking about that yes
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    sweetie
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    I'm trying to teach people on the
  • 00:53:00
    internet about Karma
  • 00:53:04
    I don't know why that's a good question
  • 00:53:07
    it's okay she can say just almost done
  • 00:53:10
    Meili okay hold on it's okay you can say
  • 00:53:13
    okay so so I'm gonna give you guys one
  • 00:53:17
    last gaming analogy and then I gotta run
  • 00:53:18
    okay so in World of Warcraft you can
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    have a high level character who makes
  • 00:53:23
    money really really fast and then you
  • 00:53:26
    can create a new low level character and
  • 00:53:28
    then the money like the low level
  • 00:53:30
    character earns money in a far slower
  • 00:53:32
    rate than the high level character and
  • 00:53:34
    so what I want you guys to think about
  • 00:53:37
    in karma is like when you have a high
  • 00:53:39
    level character you can send stuff from
  • 00:53:41
    your high level character to your low
  • 00:53:42
    level character and it really
  • 00:53:44
    accelerates your growth and so what I
  • 00:53:46
    want you guys to understand about karma
  • 00:53:48
    is like sowing good Karma's is like
  • 00:53:50
    sending stuff to your future self so
  • 00:53:53
    you're like setting up your all for
  • 00:53:54
    success or failure or an ease of success
  • 00:53:57
    or failure down the road you guys got it
  • 00:54:01
    I don't know if that makes sense if you
  • 00:54:02
    don't play wow it can be hard to
  • 00:54:03
    understand but ok good thanks for asking
  • 00:54:09
    Simon I got a run guys but thanks thanks
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    for asking you a question man thank you
  • 00:54:16
    thank you ok so
  • 00:54:21
    compound interest is absolutely right so
  • 00:54:24
    one person says compound interest so I
  • 00:54:26
    want you guys to understand this very
  • 00:54:27
    clearly okay the difference between and
  • 00:54:31
    I mean I say I keep on making
  • 00:54:33
    comparisons so maybe that's not good but
  • 00:54:34
    the difference between me and you is not
  • 00:54:37
    that I'm smarter the difference between
  • 00:54:39
    me and you is compound interest right so
  • 00:54:42
    like I'm older than most of our audience
  • 00:54:44
    not all of our audience so the
  • 00:54:46
    difference is I started investing things
  • 00:54:48
    at the age of 21 and I didn't even see a
  • 00:54:51
    result until like 2010 so I went to
  • 00:54:54
    India at the age of 21 and it took nine
  • 00:54:57
    years for that to bear fruit 2010 is
  • 00:55:00
    when I started medical school okay and
  • 00:55:04
    then that in turn has led to the bearing
  • 00:55:08
    of all kinds of other fruit / hey and so
  • 00:55:15
    so give yourselves time and don't worry
  • 00:55:17
    about moving out of the house and on
  • 00:55:21
    other things like that just focus on
  • 00:55:23
    building that compound interest set your
  • 00:55:26
    future you up for good things through
  • 00:55:28
    karma and if those things happen great
  • 00:55:30
    if they don't happen don't worry about
  • 00:55:31
    it just continue investing continue
  • 00:55:34
    planting seeds continue planting seeds
  • 00:55:36
    hype and then eventually stuff will
  • 00:55:40
    start to grow okay so if you're thirty
  • 00:55:44
    fine so be it I started med school at
  • 00:55:46
    the age of twenty seven or something
  • 00:55:48
    it's okay it's not the end of the world
  • 00:55:50
    alright let's go ahead and who do we
  • 00:55:53
    want to raid oh we want to raid you
  • 00:55:58
    you're okay it looks like we're raiding
  • 00:56:02
    my two-year-old
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