35 Burst results for "Swami"
The Dan Bongino Show
Sean Davis: The Left Wants to Criminalize All Political Opponents
"Forget for a moment about Trump versus Santos versus Hailey Rama Swami I don't even want to get into any of that stuff right now because it's turned into I think primaries are good things but it's turned into kind of like a ridiculous food fight I think at this point this is about something a lot bigger than Donald Trump I don't care about anyone's feelings about him at this point This thing up in New York is an abomination I don't know any other word to describe it It's a law about a misdemeanor with a statute of limitations has already expired on this business records thing That was latched on to a felony that exists at the federal level because he was a federal candidate that they can't even prove happened and that the statute of limitations is expired on too I mean isn't this what the Soviets did Remember beria like show me the man I'll show you the crime What's the difference Yeah you actually stole that example right out of my mouth I was about to say that this is dozi level behavior And unfortunately it's become all too common on the left And what I like to remind people is it doesn't actually matter how you feel about Donald Trump whether you love him or hate him whether you want him to be president again or whether you want him to disappear Because the left isn't going to stop with Donald Trump here If they can go and they can de platformer president like Twitter and Facebook and Google and YouTube did sitting president of the United States If they can go in arrest whoever they want and throw them in prison for things that are crimes for example walking through an open door during business hours held open for you by police to a public building like happened to so many people in January 6th And then if they can go and arrest a potential a previous president in a potential future president for crimes that don't exist they're not stopping at Donald Trump Their goal is to criminalize all political opposition and it starts with him but it's not going to end there
The Trish Regan Show
Liberal Takeover: My Chat With Dave Rubin
"I'm not sure he gets another four years at this point. If he does not run again, who are they going to put up? I mean, have they got a bench that's even worth looking at? I think Kamala Harris would be worse if you can imagine worse for the Democrats than Hillary Clinton. And who else am Gavin Newsom, his track record in California would scare the heck out of any other normal American. I don't know who they got. Well, it's interesting because one of the things I've been talking about on the show right now is that the bench that's starting to coalesce on the Republican side is pretty solid. You know, whether you like all these people are not the idea of Trump, desantis, Vivek Rama Swami, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo. These are interesting qualified for various reasons people. Now, someone that's on the left may hate all of them, but there's a track record for these people, all of them. The people on the left right now, you're right. I mean, Kamala Harris was polling basically at zero in her own party when she got out when she was originally running against Joe Biden, you know, a couple of years ago. So that's one thing. But the other thing is they have almost nobody. I mean, are you going to put Pete up there? He's highly unqualified even to be transportation secretary. It was a diversity hire. They basically admitted it. We want the first gay transportation secretary. I don't know what your sexuality has to do with your ability to figure out which way roads are supposed to go, but okay, fine. They don't have much and the fact that, you know, most of us seem to think it would be going towards Gavin Newsom is so insane. And I sort of think so too, but it just shows you what is going on on that side of the aisle.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Are Americans Ready for Another Trump Presidency?
"All right, mister Rama Swami, you've heard the interview. What do you make? Of him. Well, you know, first of all, he sounds like a really interesting and appealing fellow and you just absolutely butchered his first name over and over and over again. It takes me, I've got audio dyslexia. That is not new to say archbishop chapu. You're easy. Byron York is easy. I wish everyone at the bill or something. One of the things that strikes me is the U.S. government is the most sprawling complex bureaucracy in the world. Yes. It's very hard. That many people who have really a good grasp of how the U.S. just the executive branch, how it works. The Pentagon itself is the most sprawling complex bureaucracy. In the world. And I think you could say that one of Donald Trump's great failures, maybe his greatest failure. Is that he came into office with a lot of governing instincts that a lot of Americans agreed with. But he didn't try to understand how the U.S. government works and how he could push it in one direction or another. Which was particularly important for Republican because so much of the bureaucracy is going to be opposed to him. And you have to try to reach deep into the bureaucracy. You can't just appoint a cabinet secretary and decide that you've now got the Justice Department going in the direction you want it to go or any other cabinet department. It's a really big complex thing and I do think that American Trump's time in office has probably soured some Americans on the idea of a businessman running for president.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
If Indicted, Would Trump Still Be the Republican Nominee?
"I've got to a friend of mine who's a Trump supporter. He says if there's an official indictment, his chances are done. He will never get the nomination. I said not so fast. As I keep saying, you count him out at your own peril. There's a guy hospitalized, what was a week before the election two weeks, three weeks before the election? And came bounding back campaigning like a fierce machine that he is. This is a guy who picked off 16 very competent skilled Republican presidential candidates in 2016. He beat everybody. You don't think he's capable of doing it again? I mean, I'm asking the question, you know me, I'm agnostic. Heck, if Vivek Rama Swami is the Republican nominee for president, I'll be on team Vivek. Don't worry. Whoever the Republican is, I'm supporting. We desperately need to end the Democrat leadership in The White House. We got to get rid of the Democrat president at the ballot box. Big time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The 2024 Horse Race
"Landscape is developing. And it's going to be a very long, tiring primary. A year from now, we're going to be right in the middle of it. And so we have Nikki Haley, who is officially announced him Scott, who looks like he's going to run Mike Pence, who's probably going to write, run Mike Pompeo, who's probably going to run. Whispers are that friend of the show, Vivek Rama Swami. Might run for president. And then, of course, Donald Trump is running. I think all of this helps Trump. All of this strengthens Trump's case. For 2024, Donald Trump running for the presidency, standing against neoliberalism, open borders, silly trade deals, and interventionist foreign wars is how he will differentiate himself amongst many other things, obviously. The fact that he was actually president, he got a lot done. These people say they're running for president. Nikki Haley says she's running for president Tim Scott says he is running for president, but in reality they are running against Donald Trump. That is the reality, but they're not going to say it. They're not going to try to insult Trump voters, but they are going to be running against Donald Trump. And I actually think that helps Trump. I think Trump will be able to navigate that successfully. The more kind of targets the better and they're going to start attacking each other because they're going to try to fill up the different lanes. Now whether or not Ted Cruz is going to run for president, that will be interesting if Marco Rubio run for president that will be interesting. We'll Glenn youngkin run for president. Will Greg Abbott run for president? These are all very interesting questions. Will Larry Hogan run for president? I think all of it helps Donald Trump
The Blockchain Show
"swami" Discussed on The Blockchain Show
"Back on the topic of trends and analysis to say what's in crypto, like NFTs, Dex, wallets, and so forth. Have you noticed more traffic in any one in particular or maybe what are your thoughts on where you see some of the trends going? So overall, the numbers are down, right? With a lunar hack with the prices being depressed, that's just a thing across the board. So I would say it's new use cases that's really exciting, right? If you look at the NFTs, NFTs have dropped in pure dollar terms, but haven't really dropped an eth or sold terms. So if you look at the native currency. So they're not really down per se, right? In dollar terms, yes, they are. But it is all they're not really down. So I would say these emerging use cases, which are yet to be discovered yet to be fine product market fit is where a lot of the excitement is. If you look at the games that are coming on the blockchain, shrapnel announce something a couple of days ago. We were the first to index these avalanche subnets. So these app chain thesis. This is like brand new. We've indexed those app changes and if you look at the games that are on these app, it's really exciting. These are brand new use cases, brand new technologies that didn't exist. 6 months or a year prior. So what this is going to do is it's going to really, really grow the space massively. In the grand scheme of things, I think it's important to put everything in context. So if you look at the number of developers in the entire world, something like GitHub has 30 million developers on their platform. Something like the blockchain space has 300,000 developers, so that's 1% of the entire developer base. And something that covalent has about 35,000 developers on the platform. So it's .1%. So we are .1% in our mission to create to get developer adoption. So .1%. So we haven't even started. In our mission to make blockchain data accessible, we are probably heading to the front door and maybe putting our shoes on. We haven't even left our House. So I would say it's so early, so nascent in a lot of these things that I think the growth is yet to come. Wow, that's kind of astounding, really. I mean, are we going to have enough developers? Are they even out there? What is it going to take to attract more talent? Man, that's wild. Did you have a background in coding at all when you were younger? Yes. I've been programming pretty much all my life. So since my teens, but not professionally, I went down the pharmaceutical route and it was mostly data, but even today, you know, I'm not, I quote once in a while, but I think our software engineering team are more capable at it than I am. So when I want to explore new ideas, I just whip up simple prototypes and stuff, but nothing serious. Yeah, well, that's good. The reason I ask is, you know, I've got children and sometimes I wonder, you know, should I set them down this course? Because they've shown an interest in it. And it's just so much potential and like you said, there's just not enough developers yet. And I'm just kind of curious, you know, for maybe a younger people or people who are a little bit older and want to switch careers, you know,
The Blockchain Show
"swami" Discussed on The Blockchain Show
"Like data products like covalent. NFTs were, I think there was just cryptocurrencies back in 2017. Now, NFTs is a whole big thing by itself. So a lot of these things are coming in as an infrastructure level, which didn't exist in the previous cycle. So the next cycle that we new use cases that breaks the existing infrastructure and will start to level up. So I think we're still two cycles away from applications, holding ground before it's mass market. If you look today, there's probably 10 million crypto users. That's it. Just 10 million crypto users. And with game fi and NFTs, the next cycle, maybe they'll get to a 100 million users. If you look at the existing players that are coming in, to get to a billion users, I think it's two cycles away. So that's my take on the timeline. Really good take. It's interesting about infrastructure because sometimes I just marvel at how it's working right now. It's like, all right, yeah, it's working. That's amazing. When are we going to break it? At what point are all of these different blockchain projects going to start slowing down the Internet for everybody else in the world?
The Blockchain Show
"swami" Discussed on The Blockchain Show
"But blockchain show is a podcast that demystifies cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology. Welcome to the blockchain show. How are you? I'm doing great. Pleasure to be here. It's great to have you here. I suppose maybe a good way to get started before we talk about covalent. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background, how you got interested in blockchain. And we take it from there. Yeah, great question. Great place to start. So I'm a physicist by training and worked on cancer drugs for about half my career. And I got a little disillusioned with that industry because of the way pharmaceuticals are financed and products taken to market. It takes about a decade to take a product out to market, which I felt like my life was slipping away. So I made the move into databases and just general cloud data infrastructure about a decade ago. And that's where I got my training wheels on. About four years ago, a friend of mine pointed me to a hackathon, a database hackathon that was here in Vancouver. And Vancouver rains a lot so this is a sunny or a rainy Saturday morning. I show up to this hackathon and decide to build something. And build a quick hack over those two days. And ended up winning that hackathon. So that hack is what is today covalent. And it was quite accidental because if it were not raining, if my friend didn't tell me about this, if, you know, just the timing, I would not have entered the crypto industry because I thought from my experience in blockchains, which I'm used to tens of thousands of transactions per second to 15 transactions per second on Ethereum was kind of a joke. So I mostly wrote it off and it was that hackathon that brought me in. And then there's a full journey after that, but that's how I got into that space. So you had the initial idea at the hackathon or was it kind of in your mind before? I had an idea that I wanted to just play with and test out. And in my experience in the industry, it doesn't matter what industry is for a new technology to be adopted by existing businesses, you need an on ramp. You need some kind of middleware. You need some kind of interface that allows your existing tools existing, talent, existing processes, to work with this new technology.
The Blockchain Show
Ganesh Swami of Covalent Shares His Blockchain Origin Story
"Welcome to the blockchain show. How are you? I'm doing great. Pleasure to be here. It's great to have you here. I suppose maybe a good way to get started before we talk about covalent. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background, how you got interested in blockchain. And we take it from there. Yeah, great question. Great place to start. So I'm a physicist by training and worked on cancer drugs for about half my career. And I got a little disillusioned with that industry because of the way pharmaceuticals are financed and products taken to market. It takes about a decade to take a product out to market, which I felt like my life was slipping away. So I made the move into databases and just general cloud data infrastructure about a decade ago. And that's where I got my training wheels on. About four years ago, a friend of mine pointed me to a hackathon, a database hackathon that was here in Vancouver. And Vancouver rains a lot so this is a sunny or a rainy Saturday morning. I show up to this hackathon and decide to build something. And build a quick hack over those two days. And ended up winning that hackathon. So that hack is what is today covalent. And it was quite accidental because if it were not raining, if my friend didn't tell me about this, if, you know, just the timing, I would not have entered the crypto industry because I thought from my experience in blockchains, which I'm used to tens of thousands of transactions per second to 15 transactions per second on Ethereum was kind of a joke. So I mostly wrote it off and it was that hackathon that brought me in. And then there's a full journey after that, but that's how I got into that space.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Leftist Censors Move to 'Woke' Platform Mastodon
"Yesterday I tweeted out that the censorship on Twitter was not a uniform censorship, but a one way censorship against conservatives that left us were never banned and Elon Musk replied to me and he goes correct, correct. And of course that magnified the reach of my tweet, which was seen by times of people. And it turns out that a lot of these woke leftists on Twitter who are angry. They're not angry by the way that they are being censored. They're not being censored. They're angry that they don't get the sense or other people. And some of them are like, well, Twitter has become a very hateful place. Let's go to the other platform, which I'd never heard of quite frankly. It's called Mastodon. And what's funny about Mastodon is that it's all these leftist tall monitors, if you will, are now on Mastodon, and they're all trying to cancel each other. So it's really fun to watch because one guy says to another guy, you know, well, you're not just sufficiently you don't have sufficient allegiance to the trans issue. You need to be banned. And then the other guy goes, well, I don't want to be banned because of some activists and the guy goes, you can't call me an activist. I'm a journalist. And so all of this is going back and forth, one guy was essentially kicked out of a journalistic platform on Mastodon for calling another guy a boot licker. And so, you know, banning is the name of the game here. In fact, I was telling W she's I had a clever idea that I'm going to go on mastered on myself. Now, I'm not going to go on as diminished as Souza because I'd be banned instantly. I'm going to go on as this kind of super woke Asian Indian guy. And just between you and I think I'm going to use the name Kumar P kumara Swami. That's me. That means like you can't give it away. They'll know it's you. Well, this is kind of between us. Don't let the cat out of the bag, but my idea is to go on as a super woke guy on Mastodon and demand that everybody be banned because they're not sufficiently woke.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vivek Ramaswamy Describes the Rise in and Problem With ESG
"It's Vivek, Rama Swami, and he joins us right now. He is behind a new effort called strive to fight E, S, G what exactly is ESG? Vivek, welcome back to the program. Good to see you. How are you doing? I'm doing great. First, congratulations, great interview with Tucker last evening, but let's start at the beginning because some of our audience, they're not really as well versed in this as I think they would like to be. They're very busy and it can be very confusing. What is ESG and how does that impact normal everyday people? Yeah, so the rise of ESG is basically a way for quasi governmental actors in the private sector to use your money to advance progressive values in corporate America without you knowing it. So Charlie, I know that sounds confusing. Here's how it works. Is a group of large asset managers. Let's name them. BlackRock, state street and Vanguard. What they do is they aggregate the money of everyday citizens, probably most of the viewers of this program. And then they use that to buy up shares in public companies and corporate America. And then they tell those companies to adopt diversity equity inclusion quota systems for race or gender, carbon caps, climate change measures, scoped three emissions caps that most of those everyday citizens don't actually agree with. I think it's a form of financial fraud actually, Charlie, using someone else's money. To advance agendas that the owner of capital, the citizen disagrees with, that's a problem. No one has yet stepped up to solve it. In my view is I'm not going to wait for politicians to solve this problem. I think we can solve it through the market. That's why I found it strive. But this is hopefully the beginning of a great uprising of everyday citizens saying that it's not just our voice. It's our money too,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Bill Maher Hosts Panel Over Canadian Truckers
"We scoop Bill Maher. The vac Rama Swami is on this panel. And former Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williamson. So that's the panel. You got Bill Maher, the entrepreneur that ramaswami, who we interviewed last week and the former Democrat candidate Marianne Williamson, I want you to hear this segment from HBO's real time with Bill Maher. The beautiful thing about a democracy is that so far, thank God this has been a peaceful set of protests. I hope it stays that way. That's part of the messiness of democracy. It's part of what makes it beautiful. You're all ready for that one. I've been watching. I agree that democracy is messy. And that's the price you pay in a way for free society. As long as we're going to honor free expression, protest is important, but also protest is inherently disruptive. So the line we have to find for ourselves is where does disruption become harm? These people have spoken, they have expressed themselves. They have a lot of passion behind their message, obviously. And what the Canadian government and any government has to then balance is at what point does this now move over into more than your grievances, but the grievances of people such as workers in Detroit and elsewhere who are finding economic harm because of these protests. I think it's interesting. And why truckers? And I thought, you know, like during the pandemic, you know, I talked about this many times. You know, we would see these Ed rolling it together and I think, no, we're not. No we're not. Some people who stay home and some people who bring them the food. You know, if you're just ordering Amazon and you don't ever have to go out and your job, you can do remotely. But who's bringing the Amazon things? The trucker,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Bill Maher Hosts Panel Over Canadian Truckers
"We scoop Bill Maher. The vac Rama Swami is on this panel. And former Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williamson. So that's the panel. You got Bill Maher, the entrepreneur that ramaswami, who we interviewed last week and the former Democrat candidate Marianne Williamson, I want you to hear this segment from HBO's real time with Bill Maher. The beautiful thing about a democracy is that so far, thank God this has been a peaceful set of protests. I hope it stays that way. That's part of the messiness of democracy. It's part of what makes it beautiful. You're all ready for that one. I've been watching. I agree that democracy is messy. And that's the price you pay in a way for free society. As long as we're going to honor free expression, protest is important, but also protest is inherently disruptive. So the line we have to find for ourselves is where does disruption become harm? These people have spoken, they have expressed themselves. They have a lot of passion behind their message, obviously. And what the Canadian government and any government has to then balance is at what point does this now move over into more than your grievances, but the grievances of people such as workers in Detroit and elsewhere who are finding economic harm because of these protests. I think it's interesting. And why truckers? And I thought, you know, like during the pandemic, you know, I talked about this many times. You know, we would see these Ed rolling it together and I think, no, we're not. No we're not. Some people who stay home and some people who bring them the food. You know, if you're just ordering Amazon and you don't ever have to go out and your job, you can do remotely. But who's bringing the Amazon things? The trucker,
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
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10% Happier with Dan Harris
"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Lies that way. In not taking anything personally and seeing that the self is actually an illusion. That seems to me like perhaps a key difference, but please tell me where I've got that wrong. No, I don't think you're wrong. Just that how we understand the terms and understand the intent behind using those terms, that would lead to us to different ways of interpreting those words. Let me explain. I see but as a very practical teacher, I mean all of the Buddhist philosophy that has developed down over the last 2000 years or more than 2000 years, is that philosophy that developed by those who came after the Buddha and Buddha's words themselves that discourse as the Buddha are so simple, so direct, so practical. It doesn't feel like you're trying to construct any metaphysics from that one. And because Buda was practical, one thing you noticed that people had gotten so caught up in concepts that the reality that it beyond the concepts was eluding them. And this happens in every tradition over time. We saw the Hindus of his own contemporary period. He thought that they were discussing this. What is the nature of the art? What is this and what is that? And so much engagement to concepts. And you wanted to kind of draw their attention away from the concepts towards the reality. The example often given in this tradition is of the finger pointing at the moon, a finger pointing at the moon can be helpful to locate the moon, but the finger itself is not the moon. So if someone starts looking at the finger that they are not seeing the moon. So sometimes the conceptual framework that is present in different traditions, if we are engaged all the time with these concepts, then whatever reality those concepts are pointing to, we may not be able to reach that. And so what I wanted to break that connection between the concepts and that reality saying no, leave this concept behind hold on to what is real. And he did it in a very provocative and revolutionary way. So people are saying, art man, hot man up and says that, now, that is not. See beyond the idea was the moment to let go of this concept, the reality will reveal itself to you. And I think that was very, very powerful teaching. The problem which occurred even during both our time, because when Buddha said, there is no Altman. Human beings being who they are, people start thinking, oh, there is no admin. So no Altman or not the became a concept. So instead of being preoccupied with the concept of the atma, people started getting preoccupied with the concept of anatomy. And that is why Buddha in one of your discourses says and this is kind of hilarious in some ways, but also something that should make us think. Got Buddha says, those who are attached to the idea of the art man have some hope, but those who are attached to the idea of no Altman have no hope. Now what he meant by that is it won't do to substitute one concept by another concept. We have to look beyond the upma and beyond the enactment. Because concepts are just that if I want to go to the roof of the house, a ladder might help. But the latter is not the roof. I must use the ladder to go to the roof, but then not just start arguing about the ladder itself. So that's one way I try to understand the different ways the same truth gets expressed. Whether that is this infinite transcendent self, or let go of this concept of the self to reach the reality. A second way, which is also helpful that I have found for me is for most people self is really their ego. Even the idea that the real eye, the real me is not this eye that I'm experiencing now. I have to eliminate my present limited notion of I to go to that real life. And so because my false eye right now is myself. So when Buddha said, there is no self what you are really saying is get this false side, this limited eye attached to these perishable entities like the body and mind, get that out of the way. And the idea was when the false eye gets off the way, whatever is real will remain, whether you call it by that name or not. So there is something ineffable and whether we call it atman or not or the soul or God or whatever, getting hung up on the concept is going to screw you up what you want is to do the work of meditation service prayer. Letting go in innumerable ways that will allow you to have the experience, which is beyond concepts. Absolutely. Concepts are good. Concepts can be helpful for intellectual understanding. But remaining stuck to them can hinder our growth. So we have to make good use of them and then learn to look beyond them. Last question for me, which is about you. You started by telling us your personal history joining monastery at age 19, you were given this name, which translates into the joy of letting go. Now you're no longer 19. I don't know your exact age, but you're a little bit older, and I'm just curious after a lifetime of study and practice, would you describe yourself enlightened how good are you, how accomplished are you at letting go now, how joyful are you now? Progress report if you're comfortable with it. I can definitely say 10% or more happier than I was when I joined the monastery, certainly. Looking at myself objectively, I definitely can see that I have become more mature. I have this strong faith and conviction that I'm on the right track. That if I continue doing what I'm doing, continue being who I am that I will reach the school of transcendence. I've been very lucky I must say that the choices I made in my life along the way have all been reduced the kind of results I had hoped they would, so I'm very grateful for whatever circumstances brought me to where I am today. And what I have found is that the best way for me personally to be happy is to make the thoughts the words and the actions as close to each other as possible. Harmonizing that if I think something might work and my action should be in harmony with what I think. Because I believe that much of the stress and anxiety that we experience in life is because sometimes we think in one way, our words, what we say goes in a different direction. And our actions going yet different direction. To the extent we are able to bring them all in harmony in one line, that is what I believe would produce a truly authentic life. An authenticity is absolutely necessary to reach enlightenment. I think people who are not authentic can never become enlightened. So I think that's the first and foremost struggle that we all have to undergo in our life. And I'm doing my best and to the extent possible I try to share with others through my books through my lectures and so on. Whatever I found has helped me personally in my life and something that I know that it works. And the blessing of my life has been that over the years, people who come here, not just in Boston, but whichever places I have been before the feedback has been very encouraging. So in the Vedanta society, the it's a very diverse congregation we have. The people who come to the ground society don't all self identify as Hindus that are Muslim that are Christian that are Buddhist traditions. And over the years, so many people have told me or written to me that is a result of studying and understanding the teachings and we study it here through the life and inspiration of Swami Vivekananda and his teacher Sri ramakrishna and three shouted out Devi. These are the founding lights of the order to which I belong. Many have pointed out to me that is a result of studying and trying to understand using this insights.
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"To ask about something that I mentioned earlier. A lot of people who listen to this show know quite a bit about Buddhism because we talk a lot about Buddhism here. How would you describe the principle differences between Buddhism and Hinduism? Well, I would begin by saying Buddha was not a Buddhist. There is no indication anywhere in Buddha's teachings that he said that I'm starting at your religion. So I see Buddha as a reformer within the Hindu tradition. And you could say that a similarities, the relationship between Buddhism and Hinduism, to somewhat between Christianity and Judaism. So puta was a very powerful, very charismatic, one of the greatest reformers within the Hindu tradition. And he came to a royal family and those who belonged to the priestly cast and the warrior cast to which the buddhas belonged. They routinely studied all the scriptures. It was a part of their upbringing. So Buddha had read all these Hindu texts. In fact, a lot of the Buddha's teachings can be traced back to these text which are older at that time. The only thing is put that did not go on saying, oh, I'm saying this because it is set in the Gita, or because it is set in the Vedas. He was not like coating from books. But all of his teachings can be traced back to that. In fact, Swami Vivekananda was the first Hindu indigenous teacher to come to the west. He described Buddha as the greatest teacher of Vedanta ever born. So hint of sibo as a great teacher. In fact, Hindus believe in repeated descent of the divine so there are many others in the Hindu tradition, and Buddha is one of the others in the tradition. So Buddha is worshiped by the Hindus as well. So Hindus don't see Buddha as of someone from a different relation. And so for me, Buddhism doesn't feel like a different tradition. It just feels like well, we belong to this same big religious family. But when Buddhism spread outside the Indian subcontinent, when to Tibet and Sri Lanka, East Asia and then to Japan and Korea and all these other places, and of course, later on when made such a strong foothold in the western world as well, it absorbed some of these local cultural wars and ideas and imageries. And that is why we have now had different kinds of Buddhism. Well, they're all Buddhism, but if you see a pivot and Buddhism and Japanese and Vietnamese, everyone has their own flavor attached to it. And that's the strength of what is I see that it doesn't go and push aside the existing thought processes and cultures of the places, Buddhism spread to, but it assimilates them. And so Buddhism definitely has been a deep impression on the world today. And I made a deep impression on me. I've got a Buddha's image right in my room here. And I borrowed onto it every day. One difference and you may not see this as a difference, you might be able to disabuse me of this notion that I'm about to articulate, but one difference I can see between what some might call Buddhism and Hinduism is in your descriptions early in the earlier in this conversation. You talked about the atman or the self the word soul could be used, although as you pointed out a complex word, but this true nature that resides within all of us. Whereas in Buddhism, he talked about nata not self that the more you look at the mind, the more you'll see that there's nothing you can call self.
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"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"If it were to go to sleep, and it would forget that it is infinite. And in the dream, see itself as finite. It'll forget that it is immortal in the dream, see itself as mortal. It will forget that it's free and see itself as bound. And that's our human existence now. If we look deeply when Buddha said, life is suffering. Keeping really say that life is joy and suffering, which is our present experience. You just said life is suffering. And that's what even Krishna, whom Hindus worship set in the Gita, he says, having come to this joyless world. But this seemed like pretty one sided descriptions. But when Buddha referred to this life, I just being filled with suffering. He was really referring to the existential form of suffering. Not this kind of a daily suffering through hunger and homelessness. That's suffering. I grant it. But again, those are not universal in the sense that not everyone in the world is homeless. Some people are. And we need to do all we can to help them. But there are certain kinds of suffering from which no one is accept. For instance, mortality, no one is exempt from death. Aging, we can pretend we are not old. We can hide the fact that we are getting old, but we can not stop the process of aging itself. Illness, no one can say that they have never fallen ill. So physically, aging, sickness, death, the three main sites in that story in Buddha's life, which he saw when he first went out of the palace, which was the beginning of his renunciation. There is no human solution to these problems. And of course at the level of the mind that is stressed that it anxiety that is vary. So these are the existential nature of our existence. This is the kind of suffering when we focus on it and realize there is no escape from this, then one can ask, do I want this to repeat again and again to millions of years? Or do I want to put an end to it? And the answer is, well, if I can end it, I would love to end it. And that's what I believe, the different religious traditions, try to do. Theologically, they can put this same idea in different ways. But the idea is, can we be free from this present chaos of existence in some way? And being a place or in a state where we can be free from all of that. And if you think about it this way, then I think wanting to break this cycle of birth and rebirth would be great. So what is the alternative look like here if you say you can escape from these endless rounds of birth and death? Where do you escape too? Is it heaven? What are you envisioning? Or what does the faith envision? Yes, we actually we just wake up. So the analogy of sleep that I gave before, the only way to escape from a dream is to wake up. Otherwise, one dream will be followed by another dream. So these reports if one believes in them can be seen at just another dream. Death is another dream. If someone wants to think in terms of heaven and hell, that's a heaven dream. That's a health dream. So we are passing from one dream to the other, and we can go on doing this indefinitely unless it until we wake up. And the word Buddha really means one who is awake, but that was not the name that his parents gave him. And Buddha himself said that just as he became the awakened one, everyone of us has the potentiality to wake up from this seemingly endless series of dreams. And so escaping out of samsara really means waking up and finding that all this mortality, this limitedness, this anger, this hatred, everything that is terrible, all of that was just a dream. And you wake up, you haven't done anything new, you just find you are who you are. Do you know anybody who's woken up in this way who's ascended in this way? And what happens to them when they die? This experience of enlightenment is a completely subjective experience. Outwardly, the person looks pretty much like we see other people, except the people I met who have seen as enlightened beings, the carrier different aura around them. There is so much peace and joy and contentment just spending a few minutes in their company, you feel uplifted. So those are the external ways we can try to understand that something has changed inside. We see someone who is always loving kind. They'd never get upset. There is not an IO jealousy or anger or hatred in them. So from outside, you can see something has changed in sight. But what is exactly happened internally to that person, only that person knows, and that person can't really express it so much because the moment you put it into words, you already started it. Nevertheless, many texts do describe what are called the characteristics of the enlightened. Some external way of kind of knowing that here is this person who has been able to go beyond the common weaknesses of humanity and somehow scale some height beyond that and such are the people then whom we respect adored worship as mystics, saints, sometimes saviors, prophets, incarnations, and these are the different labels that are put upon them. But this is what we see from the outside. How does one go beyond? How does one in your tradition become enlightened? One way of doing that is just letting go. Letting go to begin with all unnecessary baggage. And even in a very superficial way, we understand the utility of it. Sometimes I see my own desk here get so cluttered, so crowded with things. And then I look at them after a day or two and say, do I really need this thing to be here? The moment my desk is cleared of all unnecessary things, I just feel so happy. I'm able to work better. So same thing can be done, but looking at our own life and seeing these hundreds of things that I think I need to do. This hundred of things that I feel are my duty my responsibility. And I might ask myself, do I really need to do all this? Do I really need to possess all these things? And if a part of me says, no, maybe I don't need this. I don't need that. So if I can to begin with, start eliminating the unnecessary baggage I have accumulated over the years. Of even material possessions, but also unnecessary parts and ideas and information, I will find that I'm already feeling much freer. That's the way I think to kind of prioritize things in life. So that life becomes simpler and the more simple we become the happier we get. In fact, in some Hindu traditions, God is described at the simple one. And that a song Hindu tradition, which says that unless I become simple, I can not really recognize the simple one. So in order to understand or to communicate with that infinite divine existence, divine reality, which is simple, not complicated. I need to become simple myself. If I'm not able to perceive that truth right now, it's not because the truth is not present, but it becomes I have become complicated. And so letting go of this unnecessary package, I'm able to regain my simplicity and then that way towards transcendence, way towards eliminating my weaknesses my drawbacks becomes easier. Okay, so I hear that a sort of deep decluttering here, both on a material and a psychological level is part of the path toward enlightenment. Where spiritual practices such as prayer and meditation fit in in the view of your tradition. Yeah, so prayer is a very natural response when we want something, but it is a kind of a wanting. When we are little babies, when we needed something we just go to mom and dad and say balm I want this I want that..
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"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"And when the British colonized India in the 17th century, they dropped the age, and so the river became indust people became Indians and then sometime in the I believe around 1630 or so, we find the first victim reference to this word called Hinduism, because they wanted a word to characterize the religious life of the people living in that part of the world. And the simplest way it seemed was, well, we are only thinking of these people as Hindus, just add an ism to it. And that's how they formed the name of the traditional Hinduism. We can now Hindu scripture has the word Hindu in it. Again, it's a big subject about there's this orientalism, how the strong, the powerful, get to define and characterize those that are less powerful politically and so on. And so the term Hinduism or even Indians are none of these are indigenous terms. So if we want to find a more accurate term to describe Hinduism, then Vedanta probably might come close to it. So I don't have any problem with Hinduism, but just this kind of a historical background to that one. And Krishna is worshiped by Hindus as one of the incarnations of the divine, and he's the teacher who gives the teaching that is found in the book called the. I just want to pick up this is all super fascinating, and I really appreciate it. Especially the history, much of which I did not know. When you say Krishna is one incarnation of the divine, that leads me to think that it's not that Hinduism or Dante is a faith with many gods. It's that it's a faith with one God that has many incarnations. Would that be the correct articulation? Yeah, so in the word for incarnation in the Hindu books in Avatar, again, as you can see, when these sacred terms from a religious tradition gets entered into mainstream English language, or get appropriated, then they kind of lose their meaning. And today, if you say out there, and people think about all these avatars, they have on their social platforms. And Hollywood is a movie out there. So it's kind of sad in some ways, because that is a very sacred word in the Hindu tradition. It means that descent of the divine that somehow periodically we see when we look back at history that some extraordinary beings seem to be born in different parts of the world. And the influence that they have, the power that they exert is not just for their contemporaries. It remains for centuries. And such are the people when it's difficult to know whether these are human beings, or it's a divine being. Whether this is a human being who has raised themselves to a divine stature or it's a divine being, was kind of come and take on a human form. So it's kind of a meeting ground between the human and the divine. That's where the avatar or the incarnation resides. And because it happens periodically, can do see that there are many incarnations, but the being whose incarnations they are is one and the same. Coming up, we're going to talk about how to escape some Sara, Swami will also explain his belief that all prayers are always answered and he'll talk about Hindu meditation. That's right after this..
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"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"We do something good, the result is good, which usually means something that will bring me happiness. If I do something bad, the effect is suffering in some form. And the natural desire of the heart is to be happy and to avoid suffering. But also, we have to hope that there is such a thing that justice in the larger picture. And therefore we believe that goodness will lead to good results and wickedness will lead to bad results. And that hence the basic of ethics, a while we don't do good. Be kind because we know that it will lead to a good result. And that's essentially what the karma theory is. And then the question comes when we see sometimes babies when they're born in some extremely favorable circumstances and some are born in vault on countries in very challenging circumstances. And we might then ask, well, what did these babies do? To deserve this or to deserve the other thing. They haven't even had a chance to do anything. And so if that is justice in life, we would say, well, if it is not in this life, maybe in previous life. Because we really don't have much options other than saying, well, it's the way of God. Which puts God in a very difficult position because we like to think of God as someone who loves all equally. Then it does seem to make sense why God would want some people to be happy in some people to be miserable. So the theory of karma keeps God out of it and says, let me take the responsibility for whatever is happening in my life. And that's how karma and rebirth get connected. An innocent child gets cancer, the idea is that there must have been something happening in that person's past lives that have resulted in this negative occurrence. Thought cancer per se, because the effect of karma in experiential terms is either joy or sorrow or suffering. And so if that is happiness in my life, we like to believe that well, I must have done something right to deserve this. Usually when we are happy we don't question the results at all. We just kind of say, well, I'm entitled to it. But only when there is suffering and then someone says, well, you must have done something to do with Demi select wait a minute, wait a minute. How can you blame me? So that's essentially how it seems. So if I am suffering, I must have done something and if I don't know if I've done something in this life, maybe something might have been done by me in some previous life because of this suffering a skull. And the reason for that is not to blame anyone. But to say that, if suffering were to come to me without any reason, then why be ethical at all? Because suffering can come to anyone for any reason, happiness can come to anyone for any reason. So why should I do any good? Why should I avoid evil? So it's not very logical to believe in justice and then not so much accept the idea that whatever is happening to me could not bad, pleasant or unpleasant. I may have contributed to that in some way, which I probably may not even remember now, well, if it happened in the previous slide, I certainly don't remember it. Is it one problem with this notion of karma that it could at least theoretically lead to a kind of indifference or callousness? For example, in the country where I live and you live too in the United States, there's a lot of inequality and unfairness in the system. If I embrace karma and perhaps this would be an inappropriate embrace of the idea of karma, I might say, well, somebody is homeless, somebody's disadvantaged. That's because something they did in their past lives, so I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to try to fix that. Yeah, that's a good question, but I think this response comes only when we don't understand what the theory of karma says, because if I see a homeless person if I see someone suffering and I don't help that person, I'm storing a bad karma for myself. And then I would have to suffer in future for not doing what I should have done. So if someone ignores suffering and doesn't help, that's not that the theory of karma is failed, but this person is storing up suffering for themselves. So if I understand karma in the right way, I will know that if there is suffering if there is anyone in trouble, the right thing for me to do is to go and help that person. Because if I help that person, I'm storing up good karma for myself. But actually, we can even go step further. If I can go and help someone who is in need, if I try to remove suffering of someone else, without even thinking of storing good karma for myself with no self interest involved with no asking the question what am I going to get out of it? If I just do it completely selflessly, then that's when my heart becomes pure. The word in Sanskrit the use for this is called chitta shoot the heart should these purity. And if my heart becomes pure, then I acquired a clarity of perception, and with that clarity of perception, I will know exactly the right choices to make going forward the right decisions to take the right things to choose to see the distinction between the perishable and the impeachable, then choose the imperishable. So I think understanding the theory of carbide very helpful because with extremely empowering, it gives the reins of my life in my own hands. Rather than blaming the government, the destiny on my neighbors, and that's what children do. They're just blame somebody as for what's wrong with them. But what's the sign of being an adult? A mature person is to say, I'm responsible. They're taking responsibility is really what karma says..
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"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"That's what I'm eating the welcome on the show. Oh, happy to be here, Dan. And I should say for those who didn't get a chance to hear it because we're probably not going to include it in the show that Swami was extremely patient as I learned the correct pronunciation of his name. So that's a sign of advanced spiritual development right there. Speaking of your name, can you tell us what it means? The name is a Sanskrit combination of two terms. The first term is Thiago, which means letting go. And the second part is honor, which means the joy. So put together the name means the joy of letting go. And what does that mean to you in practical terms the joy of letting go? Yeah, I mean, it's not the name that my parents gave me. So this is the name that was given when I was ordained monk, 45 years ago. And Hindu monks generally, their names ended on and they'll be another one qualifier before it. And the name is not chosen by meats given by my teacher. And so in our tradition, we see that whatever name the teacher gives on ordination, I see that as an ideal towards which I must exert. I must try to attain that. And that's what I have been trying to do with my own little way of letting go of the unnecessary baggage so that I can focus my time and energy on what is essential, what is important. I suspect there may be some modesty in the my own little way part of that formulation. I'd be curious to hear what's included in your own way of letting go. How does one go about that? Because it's counter to human nature in many ways, letting go. We are programmed by the culture and by evolution for accumulation. Yeah, that's true. One of the essential in gradients of our human existence is the feeling of incompleteness. We somehow feel that I lack something. And it's that sense of unfulfilled sense of lacking that makes me want to go and accumulate things and somehow to fill that emptiness within me. And letting go therefore does not come naturally. But also I think that in life sometimes we see that when we get something new, then whatever is old, we are able to let go of that easily. For instance, if I have space in my garage to bark only one car and my car is getting old and somehow I get a new car, then letting go of the old car becomes easier. And so I see letting go a stack that once we acquire a higher ideal, something better something higher than that which is lesser of lesser importance of lesser significance is given up easily. So in some sense, I think letting go should ideally become a very natural process rather than something one reluctantly kind of gives up. Because as long as there is reluctance to give up something, it means it still has value for me. So that makes sense. The letting go of specific things or ideas or patterns in habits in our lives becomes easier when there's something more meaningful with which to replace it. I'm curious for you, what is more meaningful? No, I did not begin thinking about this very philosophically that I'm very young age, but when I look back, sometimes when I was a teenager, I guess, because that's when I seriously started thinking about these things. And I joined the monastery when I was 19. So I don't that period. It just felt that the things which are so temporary, so perishable, so in permanent, kind of holding on to them no matter how much we cling to them, sooner or later they are just going to slip away. I'm going to lose them. So the quest was to see something which would last longer. And not something which I will miss very quickly. And that's what took me to the study of these ancient books and then of course in Vedanta, the tradition I come from. It speaks about this inner essence of our existence. Which is immutable, which is worthless, which is deathless. That is something that can never be taken away from me, because that is me. Anything that did not me can be easily taken away from me. And so thinking along these lines, I started focusing my attention more and more on that reach always is. THC, people just say that permanent being or entity or four such no matter whichever way one wants to characterize it as God. In a subjective way that is the essence of my own existence. Would you say that another word that could be applicable here would be soul? What could say soul, except that the word soul gets also used in theological literature? And that gets defined in different ways. So then a Christian or a Jewish or a Hindu or a Muslim, because all the English translations of these indigenous texts, they kind of use the word soul, but what is meant by the soul in the different traditions may not necessarily be exactly identical. I personally prefer the word the self, because there is no ambiguity there. It's me. I mean, what question can be asked between, which is the real B and which is a superficial me and so on. You ask that question, I'd be here curious here your answer to it. Yeah, I look at it this way that we use the first person pronoun all the time from the time we wake up till we go to sleep. And of course, even in our dreams. So the question would be when I say I'm sitting on talking, I'm doing this or this will happen to me. Who is this I? And clearly, the very first thing that comes to mind when we speak about the eye just the body. And that's why it's time before a mirror and I feel I'm able to see myself in the mirror. What I'm really seeing is just my body. Not even my body really just a reflection of my body. But I feel it's a fairly good representation of who I am. So I kind of judge my appearance from what I.
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"swami" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Gang, one of the most consistent requests we get from listeners is to explore non Buddhist forms of meditation. So that's what we're going to do today. In fact, we're going to get what I've been calling Hinduism one O one. We talk so much about Buddhism on this show, but I'm pretty embarrassed to admit that I know or knew until now next to nothing about Hinduism, the tradition out of which Buddhism emerged. So that changes, or at least starts to change today. My guest is Swami Thiago nanda, who has been a monk since 1976 and is now the Hindu chaplain both at MIT and Harvard. In this interview we talk about the basics of Hinduism, including the history and the approach to both prayer and meditation. We talk about letting go, karma, rebirth, and how and why to escape it. The deep connections between Buddhism and Hinduism, his contention that all prayers are answered, a recipe for reducing stress and anxiety, his thoughts about all the ways in which we scramble to deal with our sense of not enoughness or incompleteness or emptiness and his argument that the answer is a kind of simplicity, which I have been somewhat glibly calling deep decluttering. And we talk about a new way to think about perhaps the trickiest slipperiest of all Buddhist concepts anata or selflessness, the idea that the self is an illusion. Just to say before we dive in here, we are posting two interviews this week that directly challenge my views on Buddhism. Coming up on Wednesday we're going to talk to the author of a book called why I am not a Buddhist. As you may know, I think it is vital and happiness producing to systematically challenge your own views, so I'm going to try to walk the walk here, at least for this week. Okay, we'll get started with Swami Thiago nanda right after this. Hey, so here's a word you don't often associate with tax season? Easy. But at tax act, they use that word all the time, because tax act makes it easy to get started. Easy to file your taxes and easy to switch. In other word they use a lot, guaranteed. Tax.
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"swami" Discussed on Mysterious Universe
"No, there's a man who was milking a cow. And he had this clia bucket and a clear receptacle of some kind. And there was also a jog that was on the table in the room. And the Swami said, okay, fill that jug. And she's like, okay, and said a couple of words and apparently the milk disappeared before the eyes of the guy doing the milking and reappeared inside this jug. So there's definitely some type of source. Like some type of energy that was being transferred some type of ability that happened. But at what cost? What cost was it taking from her? Yeah, exactly. This is back in the 60s. So who knows what happened to her after that? But I'm fascinated by this idea because I think that people genuinely do have these experience. Are they believe that they have these experiences? And I think some people do have them. But what's actually, I think, to say that all they're just crazy or it's all in their mind. I think you hit the nail on the headband because yeah, it may be in their mind. But that might be the only way that they're allowed to access it. Something has changed in their minds from a massive jolt of electricity early on in life that is now granting them access to these realms, which is quite a curse, though. It's an electronic curse, because for most of these people, they're not pleasurable experiences. And that's what's very odd about this. They always terrifying. They're always horrifying. They always have some type of illness associated physical illness associated with them. And I was really one story should I have a family that had I think this little girl had been electrocuted. And after she got electrocuted, she was fine. They had the safety switch in the house. So she got a minor jolt. But after she got the minor jolt, she would wake up because she claimed that there were these red about the size of a pencil like worms that would glow that she would wake up trying to climb into her throat, like they would climb in her mouth and she'd be trying to pull them out. And it would be that they would be the shadow that was kind of in the room. And the shadows seem to be directing these things, trying to get them in and she'd go. And what was really crazy is that her parents thought that she was not like our parents went and saw a psychologist and got a checked and they couldn't find anything wrong with her until one particular day when this activity continued, apparently when she was in this state, she touched her brother and as soon as she touched her brother, he could see them. And it was all he could see them like crawling over her and they're all weird because I was trying to get into her mouth and she was like pulling them out and pulling them away. And the brother, I can see them. And the researchers in this convinced that, look, this isn't two kids that were making this up as some crazy story because first of all, the parents had genuinely experienced the not terrorist at the child was going through. And then the children seemed to be genuinely terrified by what they were experiencing. And to carry on for so long. Eventually, the activity died down, but it's like, what is it? As a result of being electrocuted, what happens when the daemon worms getting your mouth? Well, that's the thing. It's all very, very unusual, grow inside you. But yeah, I mean, are they spirits? Is that what it is? Yeah. I don't know what this is. I've ever met them to get rid of them..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy, Author of 'Woke, Inc.'?
"Show. I've been looking forward to this one for quite some time. One of the most important books that has been authored in recent memory and it's all about kind of woke ism and corporate America and what we can do about it and it's a very interesting very articulate guest. The vague Rama Swami did I get that right? You pretty darn close, Charlie. Good to see you. All right, I'm in the zip code. Honor to have you on our show. You're doing a wonderful job introduce yourself first to our audience and then talk a little bit about your book and we'll go from there. Yeah, sure, just a brief introduction. I grew up was born and raised in Ohio, where actually I live today. My parents were both immigrants from India. I often jokingly asked my dad why he came halfway around the world to Southwest Ohio. And he said that, actually, it was the only place in the world where he could get a job in the United States to be near his older sister who was in Fort Wayne Indiana. And that, of course, beg the question of why she came to Fort Wayne Indiana and we joke around it's the only U.S. state with the word India containing. That gets a bit of my family background on how they came here on a joking note. More seriously, I ended up going to Harvard for college. I studied molecular biology. I was a nerdy guy in the lab the whole time. Ended up getting into BioTech investing after I graduated. Did that for 7 years from 2007 to 2014, spent three of those years at the same time in law school at Yale where I met my wife, probably the most productive thing that came out of it. She was in med school and lived next door to me. And when I came back to New York City, after I finished law school and having a fund job on the side, now it was just a fun job. I ended up having a gap in my schedule, took up stand up comedy for 6 months before I decided that that wasn't my calling and left my job to start a BioTech company. I led the company as CEO for 7 years and during that time we got a number of medicines developed. The one I'm probably most proud of is a new drug to treat prostate cancer. But I stepped down from my job as CEO, this January. And you know, thankfully, the company runs well today. It's multi-billion dollar business, but I stepped down as CEO to work on what I thought was a different kind of cancer. Not a biological cancer. But a cultural cancer that I thought threatened to kill the dream that allowed me to achieve everything I ever had in my life as a first generation American. And that was the new orthodoxy. Well, I guess we could call the new woke orthodoxy that had really taken control of one elite institution after another. And though I wasn't born into a lead America, I had lived it for the last 15 years. And I felt compelled to not only tell my story, but to reveal the problem that I saw, which I viewed as a defining scam of our
My Seven Chakras
"swami" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Longer serving as or even better change. The story that we're dealing our cells are what happened on that particular day or even better you know do some of the career yoga some other clears that swami's teachings about because a combination of physical practice and also inner work can lead to that energetic shift which will make all the difference because like loud sue the ancient chinese philosopher once a wisely said by letting go it all gets done. The world is one by those who let go but when you try and try and try the world has been beyond winning so let that sink in for a moment and with that we arrive at the wisdom round. which is the last for today. So swami are you ready great. So what is the best piece of advice that you have ever received. Well wanting goes right through a difficult period where people were trying to actually saying not for a nice things about me and someone said to me that what they're saying because it doesn't change who you are so and then i realized that's true so what am and what i've done is i know who i am. And that's the most important thing stikes at artwork shedding and hit my seven joker as we weren't change the way we look and religion to a mistake so if you had to share what is the most important mistake that you made in your life in. What did you learn from it. I really don't know I Maybe it's singing in public because have your dad voice. And the first time i ever sang in public someone came up to me afterwards and he said to me. You know you're really brave. Because when you first started singing she's choking knowing could add such bad voice but then you just kept saying so. I realized that there are no mistakes in life. We you know we learned from everything. So what is it one thing you do in the morning or in the evening before leaving. That has improved. The quality of your life Well this i already mentioned the decree is that i do and i spend a few minutes every morning. I do oil pulling i do nettie and do skin brushing and i think are all very important things and i know. Sometimes people say they don't have time but it's less than ten minutes and i think it could. It will completely change your health if you if you do them regularly and if you could recommend one book for our listeners today would that be Well this cold yoga. And all your data by dr david frawley in. I think it talks about a lot of aspects of yoga that Maybe people don't know about and bit confused about the heard about. They don't exactly know what it means and how it relates to vague. Or which is the the healing modality of india. So the name of the book is yoga and either way they could. I guess and the authors dr david for all the so. Actually i know how much you love the books that have been shared on the show and.
My Seven Chakras
"swami" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"And in the texts on yoga. They they talk mainly about six cree. Okay and their crews clinton exercises for cleaning the nasal passages for cleaning the upper digestive tract. Which is the died the stomach and the asaf icus and the mouth for cleaning the middle Digestive tract the intestine for cleaning lower track digestive tract. Which is the Large intestine and the colon for Cleaning the is and Cleaning the respiratory system. And i think that one for cleaning respiratory system is the one that's best known which is called papa about it's award it translates into shining skull and the idea is the editor. You didn't regularly you. Because you've become so purified your face would start to shine and people do it as part of a yoga breathing exercises but technically. It's not a breathing. It's not a pony alma like usually recall. You're the breathing. Says shirts in the misprint. Allah but technically kepala. Bobby is actually a cre- cleansing exercise. So i think it's an important one. And i think if you're going to be getting into yoga breathing. It's an important one two sock with so should drive. The question really is is. Do you wanna have a glowing shining face. Do you want to be able to do clean your digestive system open up your respiratory system. Clean up the is and have these simple simple tools that you can use on a daily bases to able to balance your life especially if you're living in a modern city which most of you are so that's exactly the team that we're talking about today. So swami could you maybe describe Some of these careers and how help restore balance just for an overview of Those were new decrees..
My Seven Chakras
"swami" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Today. Swami shannon dr swami. Are you ready to inspire yes. I'm ready looking forward to it. Great soc romney sheridan and is an internationally renowned yoga and meditation teacher who has inspired thousands of people to practice. She's been teaching for almost forty years. And is the author of several books. She teaches worldwide. leads pilgrimages to india and is also a trustee of the gungor prim hospice a charity that seeks to a cancer hospice in education north india. New book the cleansing of yoga explains about yoga cleansing practices known as clears which are natural ways to eliminate tension energetic blockages. Unlike other yoga practices. They are not designed to increase strength and flexibility instead. They are cleansing rituals. Which purify your body and mind allowing your health to improve and increase clarity as well yours overall cheerfulness. Right so really fascinating topic. I'm really excited to dive deeper. But before that thank you so much for joining me swami. It's a pleasure to be here. Great great so like a lot of what. You do is highly inspirational. What is your favorite inspirational core. These days and how do you apply it in your daily life. Well actually it's a very short quote from my teacher. Who saw vishnu dividend in. He said tell me to be a yoga teacher. Not a preacher and used to tell all the students that but i particularly it to heart. Because i know a lot of people they do read a book or they Jewish short workshop and they start teaching whereas i think yoga's really Something that you should live and teach from your own experience. I think i always look at my body. My mind is like laboratory where. I'm testing all the things i heard in red. And they'll feel like i'm teaching something that's located. Think absolutely and this has. This has come to my mind especially over the last few weeks which is especially when it comes to a spiritual experience. You cannot intellectually leonard. You need to have a personal experience so that you could embody whatever there is to be learned and that happens as you alluded to to personal expedients experimentation and once. You embody that. I'm sure you a better teacher. Because now you're relating from expedients as opposed to relating from theory or. What is were the books. So i think this is a really Really awful court nadu shared with us and with that. let's inspired you to write this book. The cleansing power of yoga abbott will. I've written several books on different aspects of yoga. I wrote a book on chakra. Meditation and one unprinted. Emma the power breath and went on mutri's hand gestures but i realize that there's one aspect of yoga that those uber notebook on it. All and there was korea's cleansing exercises. And i feel especially in modern life where we have so much pollution you know. The air is polluted. the waters polluted. A lot of our food isn't really So good not the best quality. It's very important for us to constantly be working in cleansing our our bodies so That's how i got the idea. And then i started looking to see what was available and there is nothing at all available and it just felt. It was very important book to write. Well absolutely i mean when when when i heard of this book immediately noted that this type of information is not really available When you think about yoga when you think about yoga what typically people here is the boss. Cha's and flexibility especially in the west. Today we're going to dive deeper into the careers and particularly how we can use these different areas and different techniques to cleanse our body which is so much needed in today's Residual so my question is. How did you get into yoga while i was looking for some kind of physical exercise to do and i saw an ad in the paper and i thought i'd try it and i just got your interest up more more interested i in the physical aspect and then in the philosophy and then i met my teacher. Swami vishnu on and started working with these even on the yoga centers and i worked with them for about twenty six years but then i left and now i call myself a freelance. Yo yeah just to go to different places in teach and i write books. Got it now. My question is or which year was this where you saw the ad and if you could tell us where in the world where you and what particularly like what state of life where you in that may wanted to get into yoga for as you mentioned more physical fitness as opposed to some of the other Modalities or techniques are already available in hewlett right. Well i'm from new york. Originally and i was living in florida. This is Nineteen sixty seven. I started practicing yoga. And i wasn't particularly interested in doing yoga just interested in some kind of physical exercise and then i saw this ad and i have no idea what yoga was but i thought i might as well try this and as soon as i started. Fan that It really worked so ram. I had a problem. I was very sick as a child. I had polio. When i was about four years old and i was actually paralyzed for about a year and the doctors told by parents at dinner. Be able to walk and another is to save. The reason i could walk is that i was too young to understand the doctors. So i just kept trying so i could walk but then i always had problems. Full triple the time so i tried different kinds of physical exercises. It would help me and some of them helped me of did but none of them helped me as much as yoga. So that's why. I really stuck with it because i found it was so helpful and now and i tell people i had polio and those paralyzed like very few people believe me right because there's no there's no sign of it anymore. Yes absolutely and i guess. Many people are not able to relate as well right. I mean What is not something to be taken just like that it's it's a pretty serious And often physically debilitating Challenge right but you went through it and and people aren't able to see any science. Which is i think. A major transformation. Yeah i think that was one of the biggest challenges faced in my life. And because i could face it i think it helped me face other challenges because once you overcome something then another challenge come to think. Well i ever came the first thing. Yeah probably if i keep at it. I can do this as well absolutely. I mean. i've read that. This has to do with The new neurons in your brain. It's like once your brain learns that this is possible. Then it's able to sort of mirror that into some other skill or some other challenge and now all of a sudden you have that possibility was in you and you'd award overtakes to get there because you know responsible that feeling it is possible i think. Shipped everything right right. I think what's important is the feeling that that it's possible because you can read books saying it's possible yet unless you've actually experienced it you don't know it's true so social social don't how did you end up meeting. Swami wish to one another. And how do they influence your life. So take us back to that for stem. Well i started. When i was studying yoga taking classes with some students of his okay and then i moved back to new york and i started going to class at the shaven yoga center and then one time they she said this swamy coming. I didn't even know who is a. What islami was that there was this person called sergey. He was coming and they were going to a retreat. So that for the whole weekend we will do meditation and yoga. And i thought okay. That sounds interesting. So i signed up. And i met sondhi and I f- when i first met him. Or i felt as he was the most honest person i had ever met and what he said really hidden note with me something very deep so i just wanted to study with him more got it got it end. You've mentioned somewhere. I think on your website that he was known as a flying swami. Yes he had a plane and he used to fly a different trouble-spots in the world like he flew over the suez canal when it was closed dropped. Leaflets calling for peace. He flew berlin wall. He flew over belfast. When there was a lot of fighting there and used to say that yoga was about breaking barriers internal barriers but also he felt that world barriers that there are certain barriers that we create that are berries to world peace. So just like yoga's about inner peace he said we can also use your before world peace in this equalled his mission in life tell people about this so so also in in in two thousand and.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
"swami" Discussed on The Jordan Harbinger Show
"On the jordan harbinger show. What's next deer jordan gabe. When i was still in college. I got an unexpected and hefty inheritance and. I didn't make the best choices with that money. I traveled all over and partied. Lied to most of my close friends and family about it and ended up hooked on substances. When my closest friends found out the truth they reached out to me. And some even travel to find. It helped me at the time. I would say this is the new me. Leave me alone. i'm having fun. A lot of them. Cut me out of their lives after that and understandably so after a year and a half of living like that. I realized how sick i really was. I found help. I've been sober now for two and a half years. I've since reached out to my friends back then i've built back friendly relationships with some of them and others have told me that they're just not interested in letting me back into their lives. This hurts but it's understandable. So i just thank them for their time then. There are some who never responded and straight up. Blocked me on all social media. I have new friends and a new support group. But i just can't seem to let go of those people i never heard back from. It's easier for me to let the relationship die. If i got confirmation from the other party otherwise my mind is filled with what ifs and the advice on what i can do to move on and let things go signed a mending fences. Well you've been on quite a journey. My dude. I'm glad to hear that you got clean. You rebuilt your life. That i think is fantastic and definitely not easy to do. So congrats there. It sounds like you've been doing a lot of amends over the last five years which as you know is an important part of recovery. It sounds like when people reject those amends. You can accept that but when you don't get any response whatsoever yeah creates a lot of uncertainty. And that uncertainty is hard for you it's causing you to ruminate and obsess and i get why that's so tough. I think it would actually drive me crazy as well. Did you get my message. Why aren't you responding. Are you still man. Just not care like what the hell. Yeah yeah so so. what can you do. First of all rejected amends. This is actually a big topic within the addiction community. It's very common most recovery programs. They talk about how you are ultimately powerless over other people. You can't control how they'll respond as you probably know making amends that's ultimately not for you. It's for the person you've heard. At least you know ninety nine percent of it is right if if someone doesn't want to hear from you the general advice is to respect that and just do your best to move forward with your recovery but in your case moving on his heart because you just don't have the information you feel. You need to put a relationship to bed. I wonder if maybe what's happening. Is that in the absence of a response. You're doing what. I would do candidly in imagining the worst case. Scenario like believing that the person despises you and wants you to carry this guilt instead of imagining that they just might have a very full life now a different life or that. They don't know how to deal with their own feelings about your apology. Or who knows. Maybe they're stuck in addiction to or they're going through some other life crisis and it's like the crap that they need right now. You just don't know we don't know something as humans. We tend to tell ourselves a story that reflects our worst fears a lot of time. And there's probably a name for that cognitive bias. gabriel. I can't think of it off the top of my head. I know it applies to pretty much all people not just people in your shoes. So i think it's probably a negativity bias or or something akin to that so i think the key to resolving this problem actually i think negative negatively bias overestimating the likelihood of a negative outcome. But it similar. Something like that. So i think the key to resolving this problem is to get people to answer you or pretend like you don't really care what they think you do care and on some level you should care. The key is to figure out what it is about this uncertainty. That's so difficult for you. What thoughts come up when somebody doesn't respond to your amends. What does somebody else's re response or lack of response make you feel about yourself not to go all shrink on you here but if you can unpack those questions a little bit you could do it with sponsor you could do it with other friends and recovery. You could do it with a therapist. I think that this obstacle will become a lot more manageable for you. The pain might not go away completely. But you'll be able to process a lot of the stuff that comes up a rounded which is where most of the relief will actually come from. Yes i agree jordan. He cannot control what other people do or say but he can control how he processes the feelings. Maybe the guilt shame or just how. He frames his story in light of their response which who knows. I mean that might even be more therapeutic long-term than just hearing somebody he was mean to five years ago. Say that's okay. I forgive you. You know what i mean. Yeah it's a good point. I think that might mean living with a few of those old wounds. Well i that painful. But they don't need to be all bad so as important as repairing those old friendships is for you. Try not to pin all your feelings about yourself on these people. Sometimes you're just going to have to forgive yourself and forgive them for not forgiving you and just keep building life. You wanna live knowing that these mistakes as hard as they are. They're part of what got you to this point. And that makes them a valuable part of your story. Good luck man. Oh by the way the show review instructions are updated. We had were a little outdated. They were a little hard to follow. Please let us know if these are easier to use for those of you reviewing the show jordan harbinger dot com slash review. We've got screen shots in there. We've got a little bit better documentation.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
"swami" Discussed on The Jordan Harbinger Show
"On wildlife smuggling. This is a kind of gross topic that might be. One of the grossest shows that i've done and i've done shows on human organ trafficking okay. Wildlife smuggling is just next level depressing. But it was an interesting and fascinating conversation and an important one and we also had scott adams one from the volta persuasion tactics used by the former president. Whether you think they're persuasion tactics or not. So we're gonna do a dive into some of the psychology behind that as explained once again by scott adams who's been on the show a few times now so make sure you've had to listen to everything that we created for you here this week. Gay by know. We've got a lot this week. So let's dive into the mailbag hide jordan. Gabe were two sisters who are concerned about our mom. Last summer are stepped. Out of twenty years passed away after months of severe illness the day after he died our mom posted about it on facebook the day after that a very old friend of our moms. Let's call them berry called her up. Wanting to reconnect on one hand were very happy are mom out socially and even getting into another relationship when she's ready but there are several red flags with berry that we just can't ignore red flag number one when barry i her mom. He insisted that he'd never saw her post about her husband's death instead he claims that he is quote unquote psychically linked to our mom and that he could send something was wrong. He calls himself a swamy and has told her multiple times that all she has to think of him and he will psychically receiver message and call her within a day or so coincidentally she has thought about him at times and he has called her within a few days so she takes that as proof. That berry has these special powers okay. Held up for anyone who doesn't know reminded would swamy is a swami as basically a hindu religious teacher. Okay all right so berry from missoula thinks. He's an indian mystic healer shaman. That's great. I just wanted everyone to know that red flag number two barriers made some pretty bold offers about their future together even though they've only met up a few times person when he first called her he said that he quote never wanted her to worry about anything unquote and that he would quote. Take care of her unquote. He has called her. Mrs berry when they talk on the phone he has offered to sell his property and by her house by the ocean which is dream great. This is some john shit right. I've i've heard this podcast continue. Yeah sounds familiar okay. Red flag number. Three berry has convinced our mom that he inherited a large fortune from his parents. Now maybe he did. He does have some land and he's never seemed to worry about work still. There are no obvious signs of his supposed status as a multimillionaire. Also he claims south travel the world but some of the photos. He says he took while traveling. So up. all over the internet and a reverse image search amazing right so this lazy scammy swami is just downloading photos from fucking flicker what a pro says tons of unexplained money criminals con artists. Just saying continue. You may have picked up on this already but our mom gullible and emotional for example. She's into the conspiracy theory. Seen in a major way. The quantum financial system joe biden was executed at gitmo last year and is now a body double aliens geo engineering antitax. The list goes on and on. This is on top of mystical new age. Hooey and several multilevel marketing schemes. That she's gotten caught up and she's also quite lonely. She lives in a rural area where she doesn't have many friends and her marriage to our stepdad was complicated. They didn't have much of an emotional connection for the last decade and he left her in a bad position financially. She's now living in a house. She cannot afford has an enormous amount of student debt and recently lost her job. Neither of us has the means to support her. She starving for someone to care about her and treat her like she's special. We wanna support our mom and her grieving and we want to support her and building healthy relationships. So how can we find out whether berry is good for her and whether he's even telling the truth and do these red flags concerning to you guys or are we overreacting. Because we've lost so much of our faith in our moms judgment signed saving mom from a swamy con so he's not telling the truth right like where do we even start with this one. Anyone listening right now as a ton of alarm bells going off. So we've got a grieving isolated gullible love-starved financially vulnerable woman and we've got a crafty manipulative love bombing pseudo spiritual savior wanna be who's coming out of the woodwork. Coincidentally adjust the right time to rescue your mom as she's in this grieving position vulnerable position. So yeah this is bad news. You're not overreacting. If this were my mom. I'd be very concerned about bury the swami. Good old b. swamp over there obviously. We don't know of various trying to run a serious scam on hurry. Could he could be but he also just might be a delusional weirdo at a minimum. He's moving in on your mom emotionally and that alone is worrisome. Anything could happen from there. You know just just occurred me. Gabriel he said. Oh if you think of me. I'll call you within a few days. That's such a huge window. All he has to do is call her every few days and she's like oh my god. I was just thinking about you tuesday. And he's like that's right here. It is friday afternoon. What are the odds. And he just doesn't call twice a week and he's got it covered. Hello yeah the big problem is you're up against a significant obstacle in your mom in one way she's highly manipulable. You'd think he'd be easy to convince. But the conspiracy mentality the need to believe. These are very rigid mindsets. There's deep programming at work there. So this'll take some doing. So what can you do to save your mom. Well first of all. You're going to have to resist the urge at first to convince her that she's wrong about berry instead i would actually. This might be a little counterintuitive. I would focus on building a strong foundation of trust and rapport with her. Because if you come at her like mom wake up berries a fraud. He's scammy swami he's telling tanya you wanna hear you're lonely you're desperate. Can't you see scamming you. You're being an idiot. She's gonna shut down. You'll be tapping into her. Shame her cognitive dissonance. You're gonna trigger any narcissism any need for control. Her response will probably be to reject you dig our heels in. I'm not saying your mom's narcissist. I'm just saying we all have this. And you don't want to trigger it but if you stay close with her you be her friend you make her feel understood and save confiding in you even when what she is saying is objectively bat. Shit crazy you're going to have a much better chance of changing her mind. And i know that's what dr steven hodson would say. He's our resident cult. Mind control and conspiracy theory mindset expert. He'd say approach her with love rather than judgment ask thoughtful questions director to reevaluate what she believes and remember that. There is a mom beneath the compromised. Mom who's still listening to you. And that's the person you're speaking to and i think that he's absolutely right when he says stuff like this. You got to remember your normal mom if she ever was normal but like you know the mom. You love is underneath. Freaked out vulnerable weirdo. Act in mom. And as you do that i would start helping your mom. Identify some of the underlying thoughts and feelings that are making her so vulnerable to bury in the first place so when you give her a caller you come over to visit.
The Bio Report
A Test for Data-Driven Drug Development
"Bill thanks for joining us daniel. Thanks for inviting me on the show. We're going to talk about smash avante. Its business model. And its efforts to better harness available data to speed drug development and improve decision making around it. perhaps we can begin with a little background. People may be familiar with the vikram swami's and his vance samanta was actually born out of sumitomo dainippon farmers acquisition of five vance. What is samat of antony. And where does it sit in relation to sumitomo in the group of vance acquired. Sure so as you mentioned was formed out of a three billion dollar transaction between a dainippon. Sumitomo pharma and raytheon Anytime a mid sized japanese pharma company. Roy vance is a startup pharmaceutical company about six six years old. So roy event has been successful at in licensing drugs in therapies refining their clinical development plan to optimize their positioning to address unmet need raising external capital to support the clinical development plan then hiring executive team to that clinical development plan so when a drug was expected to address high unmet need royden spun off a subsidiary to house. The drug generally named with the suffix van so dsp dainippon sumitomo purchased roy vance ownership stake in five of those subsidiaries and also to technology teams digital innovation headed by dan. Rothman and mike computational research team with our computational ecosystem that we burned of the drug
NPR News Now
Portugal join other nations in suspending AstraZeneca shot
"Temporarily. suspending use of astrazeneca's covid nineteen vaccine the world health organization and the european medicines agency are investigating whether there's any link between the astrazeneca shot and blood clots but as npr's jason and reports the w. h. o. Still believes the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any risks. There have been reports of thirty blood-clotting incidents several of them fatal among the nearly five million people who've so far been vaccinated with the astra zeneca shot in europe that buick joseph scientists who swami nothin points out that this rate is less than what would be expected to occur in the general population and so far we do not find an association between these events and the vaccine the who is urging countries to continue using the inoculation while the medical reviews are underway. The astrazeneca vaccine is not yet authorized in the united states jason. An npr
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
A Simple Equation to Help Kids Love Math
"We're going to the equivalent of flipping to the back of the book to look right at the answers because we know back by listening to this math, you had to overcome some anxieties I bet of your. Yes. So let's get right to our takeaways and number one. Don't let your math anxiety hold your kids back. Nothing's -iety. As you mentioned is a real phenomenon all over the world and it's pretty clearly related to how we teach math in school things like timed practice and memorization and high stakes testing and oh my gosh, I'm getting. Hot Flashes and sweaty palms, just thinking about tests. Can here's the really upsetting thing that math anxiety it's not equal opportunity. That's right. It's tied to stereotypes race, and especially gender research shows that mothers and Preschool teachers who are overwhelmingly women they can pass that feeling onto their kids especially to their girls but there is some good news children are not born with math anxiety. All right. It's passed onto them. So I think that's why we have to check out selves in when we're talking about math this. was kind of a surprise for me because I thought that you know if my kid had a problem with math I could bond with him by saying, Hey, you know it was tough for me too but actually rose Marie says saying, I. Don't like Math I can't do math that will get conveyed to your children and the solution. Instead we need to reframe math yet rosemary says think about the fun activities that can back up and reinforce what they're learning. In school math is very much an integral part of your life do you love music i? Do I love to sing. All right. If you love music, then you love math do like to cook and Bake I love to cook and be okay. Then you love math because she can't do music and you can't cook and bake without math so I can't cook or bake really and I definitely cannot sing but I love baseball for example, and my boys. And I we talk about baseball statistics all the time. So what's important Rosemary says is recognizing math as part of many things that we like doing together exactly and so to see more about how adults can we've math into our everyday moments of life even with really little kids you and I and our producer Laurent Mickey visited Really Special Preschool new first reported this episode. This is back in two thousand and nineteen when we could freely move throughout the world. Watch US light today. This is the center for Early Childhood Education. It's our research preschool at Eastern Connecticut State University. The lobby has this giant, super, realistic oaktree yet which I climbed inside. Very cool. We should also say about a third of the kids at this school speak Spanish at home. That's right and at the preschool, we sat down with one of the lead researchers. Suda. Swami not done and she helped us understand a lot more about how to grow children who love math the minute we say math with think of the big picture you know Bagel theorems beore geometry concepts instead swimming not says thinks small she's a professor in Early Childhood Education at Eastern Connecticut State and her special focus is on early math learning and Sudha And her colleagues have done lots of research to see what kinds of childhood experiences lead to better performance in math later on and one of their answers makes up our second takeaway take number to talk about math take this really ordinary moment you asked them to put their books away and and say, doesn't fit the shelf. So why disadvantage fit? Maybe it's the book is too tall too big Suda says you're actually talking about math process it's problem solving. Yeah, and we heard lots of this by the way math talk at the preschool. As the duck fit in there too. He did fit when he was standing up. So you decided to lay down does he fit now? That's Amy Lopez the lead teacher for the toddler. It's a sunny room with a cozy reading corner. There's a play kitchen and blocks, and you're the center of the room. There's this table and amy sitting with the children they're building together with magnetized calls, which are these colorful plastic blocks with different shapes that stick together and the little plastic farm animals, and one of the kids is kind of putting together a house. You're using triangles and squares unique. Naming the shapes in both English and in Spanish. When we played this tape for Rosemary she said what I heard. There is the teacher using descriptive math language and that is so key for children to understand math concepts. You can't understand the concepts without the language. Yeah, and aim is not building the box for the kids cheese actually making observations kind of narrating their thoughts in real time the more blocks you on the longer dad's Cohen I notice that when you added more your line got longer and longer when she said Moore blocks to make it longer. Longer is a complex word for children and they need to hear that language and they need to hear that language in a very concrete way. She wasn't even afraid to use really technical words like when this little boy was trying to make a little corral standup. Now you can put them all around the perimeter all around the edge Caribbean or.
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African-Americans, Nature and Environmental Justice
"Road wanting. This is so exciting. Fred Tuchman is the river keeper for the Pawtuxet River in Maryland and a winner of the Audubon. Naturalist Society Twenty Twenty Environmental Champions Award River keepers are part of the national nonprofit group dedicated to protecting waterways. Swami this conversation with myself began sixteen years ago started production, river, keeper, and the Guy delivered packages to the office. It might have been ups or something like. Like that, so what in the world you guys do? I told him you know. We protect a river, and we sue polluters, and we run advocacy movements. And he said wow thought about that I could see the wheels turning in his head. He was a person of color, and he said I didn't think that black people could do this successfully wore. The white communities would accept doing this. So I realized that there was perspective out there a set of expectations about what any of us are likely to be able to do, and that we had to challenge those expectations all of us as the only African American river keeper in the US Tuchman acts as a bridge between a white, dominated conservation, establishment and communities of color alongside the river. He protects you find challenges being a person of color in working in this field. Sure I feel challenges and their intricate ones because I don't want to. To be identified as the river keeper for the Black Folks. That's kind of futile right I. I feel like I'm representing a movement that wants to protect a watershed that requires as much participation across many boundaries and I do find time to the messing us in black and brown communities necessarily needs to be different, because the problems are different, because the perspective is different, environmental consultant to Chemo Price adds that perspective may be at odds with the perspectives of mainstream environmental groups had to talk to people who. Bring bring trees to neighborhoods. It hadn't even considered the history of African. Americans in trees. People may not be jumping up and down. Going here on trees, you know older people, maybe like you know what reasonable represent safety for me who knows, but it's just being open and honest about an invalidating the fact that not everybody is a tree hugger in it's okay, and while many people consider untrammelled park lands peaceful escapes from the stresses of the city. People of color may view them differently. There's a lot of people that you know of justifiably are afraid of certain parks because that's where people go maybe to. To Do to dump bodies where people go to do things that they don't want other people to see them doing, and she says that people may simply feel unwelcome especially in federal parks. This like that room in your house that has the plastic on the couch gymnastics to go into, but looks really nice, but you can't go use it so sometimes I think people perceive that is just any unaccessible space to them that distance people may feel regarding these spaces comes partly from their not having been included in the process of creating them, maisy us is a landscape architect and arborist and says that city. City planners pay much more attention to the needs and desires of upscale neighborhoods than those of low income communities. I've gone to so many different community admitting and can tell you from firsthand experience. How much more deference communities that are rich white? Get in the in the planning process how they get to Co. create their communities as part of that because they have power that they can leverage in that process. She's found that many people don't fully understand the process one in which city planners create land, use maps and decide the fate of each community everywhere there is. There are people who decide what type. Type of land use goes where rate so if you have like a power plant in your neighborhood, somebody decided that your neighborhood is a good location for that power plant. If you have other types of pollutants in your neighborhood, a lot of times it has to do with industrial land uses or commercial land uses those are decisions that an urban planner would make, and so if you noticed stat, communities of color tend to have these adjacent cities with pollution. That's because somebody approved that land use, but people don't know that land use maps drive like these kinds of decisions and a lot of times people. Are not part of the process when they're creating the land use maps in a lot of times, people are part of the process. Get Nord in the process of creating this,
Science Talk
African-Americans, Nature and Environmental Justice
"Road wanting. This is so exciting. Fred Tuchman is the river keeper for the Pawtuxet River in Maryland and a winner of the Audubon. Naturalist Society Twenty Twenty Environmental Champions Award River keepers are part of the national nonprofit group dedicated to protecting waterways. Swami this conversation with myself began sixteen years ago started production, river, keeper, and the Guy delivered packages to the office. It might have been ups or something like. Like that, so what in the world you guys do? I told him you know. We protect a river, and we sue polluters, and we run advocacy movements. And he said wow thought about that I could see the wheels turning in his head. He was a person of color, and he said I didn't think that black people could do this successfully wore. The white communities would accept doing this. So I realized that there was perspective out there a set of expectations about what any of us are likely to be able to do, and that we had to challenge those expectations all of us as the only African American river keeper in the US Tuchman acts as a bridge between a white, dominated conservation, establishment and communities of color alongside the river. He protects you find challenges being a person of color in working in this field. Sure I feel challenges and their intricate ones because I don't want to. To be identified as the river keeper for the Black Folks. That's kind of futile right I. I feel like I'm representing a movement that wants to protect a watershed that requires as much participation across many boundaries and I do find time to the messing us in black and brown communities necessarily needs to be different, because the problems are different, because the perspective is different, environmental consultant to Chemo Price adds that perspective may be at odds with the perspectives of mainstream environmental groups had to talk to people who. Bring bring trees to neighborhoods. It hadn't even considered the history of African. Americans in trees. People may not be jumping up and down. Going here on trees, you know older people, maybe like you know what reasonable represent safety for me who knows, but it's just being open and honest about an invalidating the fact that not everybody is a tree hugger in it's okay, and while many people consider untrammelled park lands peaceful escapes from the stresses of the city. People of color may view them differently. There's a lot of people that you know of justifiably are afraid of certain parks because that's where people go maybe to. To Do to dump bodies where people go to do things that they don't want other people to see them doing, and she says that people may simply feel unwelcome especially in federal parks. This like that room in your house that has the plastic on the couch gymnastics to go into, but looks really nice, but you can't go use it so sometimes I think people perceive that is just any unaccessible space to them that distance people may feel regarding these spaces comes partly from their not having been included in the process of creating them, maisy us is a landscape architect and arborist and says that city. City planners pay much more attention to the needs and desires of upscale neighborhoods than those of low income communities. I've gone to so many different community admitting and can tell you from firsthand experience. How much more deference communities that are rich white? Get in the in the planning process how they get to Co. create their communities as part of that because they have power that they can leverage in that process. She's found that many people don't fully understand the process one in which city planners create land, use maps and decide the fate of each community everywhere there is. There are people who decide what type. Type of land use goes where rate so if you have like a power plant in your neighborhood, somebody decided that your neighborhood is a good location for that power plant. If you have other types of pollutants in your neighborhood, a lot of times it has to do with industrial land uses or commercial land uses those are decisions that an urban planner would make, and so if you noticed stat, communities of color tend to have these adjacent cities with pollution. That's because somebody approved that land use, but people don't know that land use maps drive like these kinds of decisions and a lot of times people. Are not part of the process when they're creating the land use maps in a lot of times, people are part of the process. Get Nord in the process of creating this,
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Kurdish Americans worried about family
"Kurdish Americans in western Washington say they feel betrayed and they're worried about their families after president trump has decided to pull out of northern Syria come was Patrick Quinn has their reaction I had a really interesting conversation with a woman named a bunch want me she lives in maple valley bush's from Kurdistan in fact her six siblings and parents they are still there right now she told me everyone is okay in crisis mode she says she's only able to talk with them when they have reliable internet and that's been a couple days and obviously seeing some of the latest images that has not helped her costs by any means Swami who's been in the U. S. seven years this month she says her family takes it hour by hour she tells me she gets nervous every time her phone rings fearing for the worst she was among the couple hundred who rallied in Seattle this weekend and she said above all else she feels angry she questions why president trump would call for troops to be removed after her country supported the US in the war against ISIS sisterly breaks or hard that he didn't really show any kind of faithfulness on support tool to those who are the the the the true ally of America and it's not only now throughout history and says she fears to threats to our family and the Kurds one that ISIS will be re organized into is the Kurdish forces she called what Turkey is unleashing in Syria right now genocide
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Pope Francis Accidentally Tweets Support to New Orleans Saints
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U. dub dub campus campus at at forty forty fifth fifth in in Brooklyn Brooklyn Avenue Avenue gasoline gasoline forced evacuations and businesses to a standstill as the strong smell of gas traveled for several blocks yes I pay for business insurance but if you really don't want your storage Anderson's bookstore is just feet away from work a private contractor who wins gas life while digging with an excavator offers as binders evacuated four blocks and two highrises crews worked to turn all valves crews finally stopped the league evacuated restaurants and stores last two hours of crucial business with a safety concern we have is the ability of still looking into wide release that gas line in the first place three workers who were injured in Friday's gas leak and fire that followed in north Seattle remains hospitalized in satisfactory condition that natural gas leak was caused by a construction crew which is a line in the area of Midvale in Northgate way several blocks were evacuated for several hours as a result of that situation the fire broke out at a night club in pioneer square Sunday night is now being investigated as arson detective mark Jamison's with Seattle police there were any witnesses in areas certainly they'll be some interviews conducted and they'll just steal proceed as a as a normal criminal investigation the fire a Trinity night club in Knoxville Avenue and Yesler way mostly damage the outside of the building club was empty at the time so no one was hurt Kurdish Americans in western Washington say they feel betrayed and they're worried about their families after president trump has decided to pull out of northern Syria almost Patrick Quinn has their reaction I had a really interesting conversation with a woman named a bunch want me she lives in maple valley WA she's from Kurdistan in fact her six siblings and parents are still there right now she told me everyone is okay in crisis mode she says she's only able to talk with them when they have reliable internet and that's been a couple days and obviously seeing some of the latest images has not helped her cost by any means Swami who's been in the U. 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