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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been asked to speak about the cultivation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of mental and emotional balance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which I imagine many of us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps all of us here are interested in already
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm quite sure everyone is interested in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having a clear mind, having mental well being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emotional well being, a sense of health.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the implication in the title here is that balance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a key to both mental and emotional balance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so how do we go about cultivating that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suggest the key is attention.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we all know from our own experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our own minds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be our worst enemies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can drive us mad
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while sitting quietly in a room with no stimuli from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the environment at all, we can be abjectly miserable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just by the rumination, the thoughts going through our minds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting caught up, snared, in the grip of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which i call rumination.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words we know we can
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,miserable all by ourselves with no help from outside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an inside job
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many, but perhaps not all, people know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's also possible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be sitting quietly in your chambers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quietly in a cave, quietly in a serene place in nature
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with little or no stimulation from the environment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a sense of being truely well, happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you look around, and think, what's making me happy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can't find anything outside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sense of well being is coming from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we should be sherlock holmes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tracing this to the source. now in this marvelous
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presentation I have the luck of being to listen to off stage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causation the agent was uniformly attributed to the brain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's no question the brain is implicated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of our subjective experiences
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the notion the only true explanation is a neurological one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i never heard the speaker say that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i think, is limited.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes i think we have a brighter light shed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on what's going on in subjective experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by looking into subjective experience itself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for a psychological explanation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so i suggested that attention is the key
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a person who can control his attention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his or her attention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can control the type of reality that person has a sense of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experiencing and living. for after all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as William James, the great pioneer of modern psychology stated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the moment what we attend to is reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take seriously, we count as real, only that which we attend to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when our minds are caught up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in attention hyper activity, whether or not it's clinical
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diagnosed, i think we all know what it's like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the mind is like a runaway train
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a elephant in rut
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use on of the great indian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classic metaphores
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can give us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an enormous amount of grieve, especially
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when this rumination
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this obsessive compulsive flow of thinking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is negative.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dwelling on passed misfortunes, the misbehaviour of other people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,negativeness of once or another and they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,catch us in their claws
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we really become victims of our own minds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so negative rumination. If we're looking for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mental balance, emotional balance, in so far
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our minds are still prone to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such negative rumination, such attention hyper activity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the mind really is out of control
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're kinda just being dragged along in its wake
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, as long as we are prone to that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to the extend that we are prone to that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mental and emotional balance will be an unreachable ideal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call this OCDD
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this tendency.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to be confused with the OCD obsessive compulsive disorder which is clinically diagnosed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the OCDD will not show up in the current version, the 5th version of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the encyclopedia of mental diseases.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably because all of the editors of DSM have it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as do most of us, if not all of us here in the audience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i call it obsessive compulsive delussional disorder
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but see how familiar it sounds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obsessive and in the sense that you would like to be just quiet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing to think about, nothing you need to think about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'd like to be quietly present
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply attending to... your body, your mind another person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't because the mind is like a chatterbox
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it always has something to say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obsessively thoughts are flowing out, one after another
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as much you would love to turn it off,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least have a respite once in a while
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bit of quiet in the chamber of your mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it does not give you that option
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it always has an answer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to be quiet. Good let's talk about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's obsessive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think you have control
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,try to not think for one minute while your still awake
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's obsessive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well and if that's not enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's also compulsive, that is the thoughts arise
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but don't just simply arise
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like images on a television screen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they arise and we generally are compulsively drawn into them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a syphon, as if it sucks our attention in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our focus is on the reference of the thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are there and then thinking about this and that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a really awfull image in that movie "little miss sunshine"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remember where they tied the dog to the back of the station wagon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then forgot?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeah, it was a comedy so no animals were harmed in that sequence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but nevertheless, we're the dog
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the rumination is the stationwagon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it draws us in, it drags us along.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does that resonate with your experience?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's worse than that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obsessive would be bad enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compulsive is even worse
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it gets worse
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's delusional
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is when we get caught in the vortex of this kind of flow
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of rumination
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the general tendency
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see for yourself, i'm not trying to tell you what your experience is like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i'm making a generalisation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see whether the shoe fits.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we tend to take seriously whatever we're thinking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventhough we're not thinking it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is thinking us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dog is not driving the car.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is it not true that when we're thinking about something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fixating, ruminating, obsessing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there's a general tendency to think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i think therefor it's true
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,psychologist call that refractory period.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the mind gets caught in the grip of an emotion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a memory, a desire, and we can't see outside of that filter system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if i'm ruminating negatively about some person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resentment is arising, maybe contempt or disgust is arising
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards that person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in so far as i am in the flow of that rumination
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that obsessive compulsive delusional disorder
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i cannot imagine that person has any good qualities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even any neutral qualities