so the first thing I learnt when I went
to the monastery was to learn how the
mind works because once you know how the
mind works you can control it and once
you can control it you can focus it you
can’t focus and concentrate something
you don’t understand when people say the
mean life is too busy
I can’t simplify no one so you don’t
want to you have the choice nobody’s
holding a gun to your head saying you
have to associate with these people and
you have to do these things no you
choose to do them people say this to me
all the time you know I hang around with
entrepreneurs and other people like you
and I have met they’ve come up with
snapchat you need to be on snapchat and
like I don’t need to be on snapchat I
don’t care what comes up tomorrow I’m
not gonna do it because I can’t sustain
it all right that’s gonna take a little
bit more on my energy today and I only
have this much energy and I need to
divide it between all the people and
things that I love my law of
thermodynamic states you cannot create
or destroy energy but you can transfer
it from one thing to another or
transform it from one thing to another
so I can’t create more energy when we
have this much because come 11 o’clock
tonight I’ll be exhausted and ready to
sleep so I got this much hundred-percent
I need to know where I’m dividing I
always tell entrepreneurs to look at
energy the same way they look at money
it’s a finite resource that needs to be
wisely managed wisely reallocated and
wisely invested that rich person sleeps
about 78 hours to say roughly so awake
for about 16 hours of the day let’s just
say on average we’re practicing at 13
hours a day seven days a week
distraction and then you wonder why
you’re so good at it
that’s the law of practice the law of
practice is that we become good and
whatever it is we practice whether it’s
positive or negative it doesn’t matter
if you practice something over and over
and over again you become really good at
and that’s why people are so good at
distraction because it’s what they
practice and then people say things like
technology are great distract us right
smart phones oh I have this thing so
distracting my smartphone the Internet
are they distractors I’d like to say no
first and then yes but mostly no
technology in itself is not a bad thing
it’s actually a beautiful thing as long
as we’re in charge of it but if every
time your iPhone beeps what makes a
sound and you turn to it and you go yes
master how can I serve you today then
you live in that world of distraction
you it’s training you to be distracted
but if you actually use technology then
technology is not a bad thing so how do
we become good at concentrating we start
by understanding the mind right all of
us have a mind it’s the most powerful
tool in the world both the smartphone
it’s put machines that drive itself on
Mars so the first thing I learned when I
went to the monastery was to learn how
the mind works because once you know how
the mind works you can control it and
once you can control it you can focus it
you can’t focus or concentrate something
you don’t understand so how does the
mind work from the monks perspective on
the monks experience of the mind there’s
two things that you need to understand
one is there’s awareness and one is the
mind so take a few moments to explain
this to you and share what they are so
you imagine awareness is a glowing ball
of light like an orb that can float
around okay so that’s awareness now
imagine your mind as a vast space of
Ahaz area with many different sections
within it one area of the mind is anger
jealousy food sex happiness joy signs
ah and this glowing ball of light call
awareness can travel within the mind and
it can go to any area of the mind it
wants to go to and when it goes to
particularly air of the mind it lights
up that area when it lights up that area
of the mind you become conscious of it
and this what’s happens all day we are
now people and things around us to take
awareness to from one area of the mind
to another all day long from the time we
wake up and therefore we become
distracted
to be concentrated is to be able to keep
your awareness on one thing for an
extended period of time how do we
practice this we practice this by doing
one thing at a time throughout the day
what’s the best way to develop
concentration the best way to develop
concentration is to bring that practice
into our everyday life look at
opportunities throughout your day in
your average day ask yourself what’s a
great opportunity to practice
concentration how many of you have a
spouse a partner that you live with
quite a few of you every time you speak
with your spouse or your partner keep
that ball of light that awareness on
that person it drifts away bring it back
it drifts away bring it back the more
you practice this the more you become
better at concentration give her or him
your undivided attention so if you speak
to your spouse for two hours a day what
a great opportunity to practice
concentration every time you speak with
the child practice concentration parents
can love to me all the time and say down
the paani how can I teach my children to
concentrate very easy you learn to
concentrate first now there’s an old
saying that goes monkey sees monkey do
you know and if you can’t concentrate
you can’t expect your child to
concentrate and if you don’t teach your
children how to concentrate how can they
possibly learn how to concentrate they
can’t the benefits of concentration are
endless right when you’re able to
concentrate you’re able to focus all
your energy into a single given point
life is a manifestation of where your
energy is flowing and if you can’t
concentrate your energy the things that
you want to manifest in your life
becomes very very challenging so learn
to concentrate by doing one thing at a
time
bring this practice into everything that
you do throughout the day make it a part
of your life practice practice practice
keep bringing awareness back
and keep it focused on one thing at a
you [Music]
to the monastery was to learn how the
mind works because once you know how the
mind works you can control it and once
you can control it you can focus it you
can’t focus and concentrate something
you don’t understand when people say the
mean life is too busy
I can’t simplify no one so you don’t
want to you have the choice nobody’s
holding a gun to your head saying you
have to associate with these people and
you have to do these things no you
choose to do them people say this to me
all the time you know I hang around with
entrepreneurs and other people like you
and I have met they’ve come up with
snapchat you need to be on snapchat and
like I don’t need to be on snapchat I
don’t care what comes up tomorrow I’m
not gonna do it because I can’t sustain
it all right that’s gonna take a little
bit more on my energy today and I only
have this much energy and I need to
divide it between all the people and
things that I love my law of
thermodynamic states you cannot create
or destroy energy but you can transfer
it from one thing to another or
transform it from one thing to another
so I can’t create more energy when we
have this much because come 11 o’clock
tonight I’ll be exhausted and ready to
sleep so I got this much hundred-percent
I need to know where I’m dividing I
always tell entrepreneurs to look at
energy the same way they look at money
it’s a finite resource that needs to be
wisely managed wisely reallocated and
wisely invested that rich person sleeps
about 78 hours to say roughly so awake
for about 16 hours of the day let’s just
say on average we’re practicing at 13
hours a day seven days a week
distraction and then you wonder why
you’re so good at it
that’s the law of practice the law of
practice is that we become good and
whatever it is we practice whether it’s
positive or negative it doesn’t matter
if you practice something over and over
and over again you become really good at
and that’s why people are so good at
distraction because it’s what they
practice and then people say things like
technology are great distract us right
smart phones oh I have this thing so
distracting my smartphone the Internet
are they distractors I’d like to say no
first and then yes but mostly no
technology in itself is not a bad thing
it’s actually a beautiful thing as long
as we’re in charge of it but if every
time your iPhone beeps what makes a
sound and you turn to it and you go yes
master how can I serve you today then
you live in that world of distraction
you it’s training you to be distracted
but if you actually use technology then
technology is not a bad thing so how do
we become good at concentrating we start
by understanding the mind right all of
us have a mind it’s the most powerful
tool in the world both the smartphone
it’s put machines that drive itself on
Mars so the first thing I learned when I
went to the monastery was to learn how
the mind works because once you know how
the mind works you can control it and
once you can control it you can focus it
you can’t focus or concentrate something
you don’t understand so how does the
mind work from the monks perspective on
the monks experience of the mind there’s
two things that you need to understand
one is there’s awareness and one is the
mind so take a few moments to explain
this to you and share what they are so
you imagine awareness is a glowing ball
of light like an orb that can float
around okay so that’s awareness now
imagine your mind as a vast space of
Ahaz area with many different sections
within it one area of the mind is anger
jealousy food sex happiness joy signs
ah and this glowing ball of light call
awareness can travel within the mind and
it can go to any area of the mind it
wants to go to and when it goes to
particularly air of the mind it lights
up that area when it lights up that area
of the mind you become conscious of it
and this what’s happens all day we are
now people and things around us to take
awareness to from one area of the mind
to another all day long from the time we
wake up and therefore we become
distracted
to be concentrated is to be able to keep
your awareness on one thing for an
extended period of time how do we
practice this we practice this by doing
one thing at a time throughout the day
what’s the best way to develop
concentration the best way to develop
concentration is to bring that practice
into our everyday life look at
opportunities throughout your day in
your average day ask yourself what’s a
great opportunity to practice
concentration how many of you have a
spouse a partner that you live with
quite a few of you every time you speak
with your spouse or your partner keep
that ball of light that awareness on
that person it drifts away bring it back
it drifts away bring it back the more
you practice this the more you become
better at concentration give her or him
your undivided attention so if you speak
to your spouse for two hours a day what
a great opportunity to practice
concentration every time you speak with
the child practice concentration parents
can love to me all the time and say down
the paani how can I teach my children to
concentrate very easy you learn to
concentrate first now there’s an old
saying that goes monkey sees monkey do
you know and if you can’t concentrate
you can’t expect your child to
concentrate and if you don’t teach your
children how to concentrate how can they
possibly learn how to concentrate they
can’t the benefits of concentration are
endless right when you’re able to
concentrate you’re able to focus all
your energy into a single given point
life is a manifestation of where your
energy is flowing and if you can’t
concentrate your energy the things that
you want to manifest in your life
becomes very very challenging so learn
to concentrate by doing one thing at a
time
bring this practice into everything that
you do throughout the day make it a part
of your life practice practice practice
keep bringing awareness back
and keep it focused on one thing at a
you [Music]
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