MM: You have talked about chakras and about meditation. It’s very important because, the happiest man in the world is Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan
monk. He’s the right hand of the Dalai Lama and he meditates all day long.
So neurosurgeons studied him in a laboratory and their conclusion was
that he was the happiest man in the world. A man who is in a monastery
in Tibet with no cars or anything and no women - not doing anything but
meditating. Maybe, this is the solution?
ML:
No. It’s his solution. It’s what his brain
tells him is love. What
moves to his left brain.
He identifies it and he
responds to it affec-
tively and he releases it
to the universe. That’s
his love. If you tried to
do that you’d be miserable. That’s what’s
behaviorally relevant
to him. Know thyself.
Not know thy monk.
You have to follow your
bliss. Each one of us
has a love. We have a
bliss that we’re supposed to do. That’s just
like saying I need to be
like Madonna. I want
to be like that monk.
What we can learn from
that is not ‘do a monk’;
but do you. You’ve got
to do yourself. So, my
point is that you go
back to allowing yourself to do love. The
answer to that is he
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does what he loves all
the time. If you can
get into the flow of
doing what you love all
the time OR identifying
love in every moment
of your day: identifying
love in this! Identifying
love in this! Identifying
love in every aspect
of everything. Then
your brain will be in
the same way. It will
be in your amygdala,
in your hippocampus,
in your frontal lobe,
in your hypothalamus,
pituitary, your adrenal
gland - will all be in the
nutrients of love.