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  1. “I had a lot of fun, great pleasure, and I'm honored to be talking to you and your audience. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity and hopefully I'll see you in New York very soon.”

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  2. “Not really. I mean, I hope that our conversation today will make everyone think a little bit about his lifestyle and about his definition of happiness and about his impact in the world. If we have done that, which is very ambitious, I'm very happy And if we haven't done it, it's quite fine. But I hope that our conversation, first of all, inspirational for ourselves and for others.”

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  3. “But if we go to an ingredient, Would say if you have choice in between real butter and fake butter that is. Made of chemicals and so on. Processed foods basically. It's processed food. If you have the choice, use The regular butter, for instance, which has we know it has fat, it has benefits, and it Ingredients In its body that are not necessarily positive for the human body, but do not use processed food. The body Our body doesn't digest processed food. Or doesn't digest it at all. So I'm saying use natural products.”

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  4. “Carried, it's not the genes, but the DNA of Roundup, for instance. And when the vegetables have a lot of pesticides and so on, and when you have choice and you can give to your family vegetables or fruits who don't have that, what would you give to your family? So, I think my answer is not exactly what you expect because you would like to maybe one single ingredient. I'm a bit broader in my vision, and I think it's still important to not necessarily answer what you wanted.”

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  5. “I am in favor of organic. And we're going to take two examples, right? We're going to take animals and we're going to take vegetables. So if you have the choice, Of feeding your family. An animal like a chicken, for instance, or eggs, or even milk that doesn't have growing hormones, doesn't have pesticides Lazanov antibiotics, and so on. If you have that choice, would you give your child Meat or eggs or milk with those chemicals in it or would you give your child? And if you can afford it, obviously, because very often it's a matter of budget, but would you give your child a product that is purely natural and doesn't have those chemicals? For the vegetables, it's very much the same. I'm not anti-GMO vegetables necessarily, but when GMO carried”

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  6. “And we do that with all the sou chefs. We are going to go to all the misan place, which is the preparation from different stations. And when we go test the source and... Any preparation We find everything salty, we know it's because our pilot is off because of the cheese gave us the information that we are ultra sensitive to salt. Or if everything seems to be bland, I know my pilot is... Is norm and that can come from many things. I mean, if you drink a bit too much at night, your palate will be norm. If you have a good diet and And don't eat too many sweets at night. And depending on your lifestyle and what you eat, your palate will react the day after and the cheese is the way for us to know that.”

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  7. “Yes, of course. Not only I eat Swiss cheese, I make the entire team of sous chefs and there are eight soupshefs in Le Bernardin. I make them eat Swiss cheese that is not artisanal. Because it always has the same flavor. It's very consistent. It's not the best Swiss cheese. It doesn't have The qualities of an artisanal cheese We know that it tests a certain way, and then when we come to the kitchen, we calibrate our palate by testing it. So when I say caliber our palate, what I mean is that If I test the cheese today and it tests too salty, I know my palate is very sensitive to salt. Cheese test very bland. My palate is numb. If the cheese taste Very well balanced I know my palette is very accurate.”

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  8. “I have many dishes that I love from her. She was doing, and she still does a Vietnamese spring roll call call call call called NEM, which I loved. And actually I have never been able to make it as good as Earth. And she will make also for Miss Tekopoir with green peppercorn sauce. That was for me like the ultimate. And then every day she will make an apple tart. That was like what 12 inches apple tart that I will eat every afternoon when I was coming back from school. And that was my favorite meal.”

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  9. “It's very interesting because when I was a kid And she knew I was unhappy and I was challenged. Her way to make me Happy and to show her love to her son was through the process of feeding me, through the process of cooking for me, is where she put all of her energy as a mother. And I will feel it, I will know it was meant to be a proof of love for her child. If today I am with my mother, I am sure that she will not let me take the knife and start to slice vegetables or anything, she will take total control of the kitchen, claiming that I will mess up the kitchen and she will have to clean it after. So that will be her excuse. But I think the real reason will be to make her son feeling the love from his mom.”

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  10. “It's amazing. It took me such a long time. And then after that, I have been making sure that it doesn't go to my head and that I stay humble and that I share the knowledge and the cooking wisdom accumulated. And yeah, it's what it is. But ultimately, since that process, I accept the gift that I received in my life. which is being able to be a good cook and to be a chef ultimately.”

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  11. “It was a discovery for me. So, I returned to cooking was Adventure. I wanted to study the four seasons a little bit like Vivaldi with the music, but myself with the food. And I decided to bring a painter, two photographers, and a writer and to go to different regions of America during different seasons. And therefore we rented houses in Vermont for the fall in Hamptons for the summer in the spring in California and because the winter was too challenging in North America we decided to go to Puerto Rico. And during that experience that was starting every morning for the painter a black canvas and for myself going to the market and finding ingredients and cooking for the group and documenting the recipes and so on, it's when I realized that I was a good cook”

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  12. “Interesting because I started in 1991 at La Gernardin as the chef. And in 1994, I was the executive chef of Le Bernardin and a business partner of Maguille Le Cos who created with her brother Le Bernardin, 1991. The brother passed away, and I was in charge of the kitchen by myself, I mean by myself with the team, of course, to manage the team. And in 1995, Ruth Rachel at The New York Times gave the team, and to myself, ultimately a four-star review. And from there we had only accolades and rewards and so on. But I never thought I was a good cook, neither a good chef. And it took me until the year 2000 when I did a book called A Return to Cooking that I realized that I was insulting my luck because I was talented and not everybody is talented and I had to acknowledge it without being pretentious, not to insult my luck.”

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  13. “Yeah All those aspects were very, very challenging and didn't make me a happy camper. And I was missing something in my life. I was missing spirituality. And what Buddhism came from me today, but Yes, I was a little bit lost and angry and angry means unhappy. That was really the beginning of my life. Of course, I had some good moments and some good friends and good relationships and so on. But when I look at the big picture, they were the darker.”

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  14. “Think, well, I did my military duties because they were mandatory and it's not really a pleasant experience. It's not meant to be a pleasant experience. Then I moved to the US in 1989 without speaking a word of English. So huge challenges coming to America and discovering that nobody's waiting for you at the airport with a red carpet and say, oh my God, you're strange, you know, to cook your genius. So all those, especially New York.”

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  15. “They are 15 years old, 16 years old, 17. At 17, actually, I moved to Paris and I lived in tiny, tiny, tiny apartments and worked in La Tour d'Argent, which was very famous at the time and struggled with ridiculous salaries and the challenges of the kitchen and so on. And those years were... Not happy years for myself moving on. I mean, I work for Jo ⁇ l Robuchon in his kitchen. They were tough kitchens, a lot of work, not too many rewards that you will see at the end of the day. And when I was...”

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  16. “At 15 being a very bad student and having a lot of anger issues and a lot of other issues linked to that lifestyle, I was at 15 years old in a principal office at the end of the year, ninth grade, discussing my future. And my future was he cannot go to a regular school. Eric has to find a job. And I was actually very happy about that because I didn't like the school system. And I ask if I could go to culinary school and learn the craftsmanship of becoming a chef. Was not easy Culinary schools are very difficult and they require a lot of discipline and it's tough for young kids.”

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  17. “Where it became hellish when a priest tried to sexually abuse me. Many challenges like that in my life. Then I came back home, of course, and I had to deal with my stepfather for a long time. It was a very challenging relationship that we had. He was verbally abusive and physically have no problem to beat me and so on. Of course, making sure that my mother wouldn't know. My mother was struggling to raise me.”

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  18. “So I was born in a family that was pretty successful. My mother was in a fashion industry. She's still a beautiful woman. My father was in banking, perfect young couple, a success story. They were living in a French Riviera. They were actually living when I was four or five years old in Centrope. So it was with the jet set and so on. They divorced and my life changed with the divorce. Until then, when they divorced, I was about six years old or five, six years old. Until then, I had a great life. Everything was fine. And then when the divorce, my mother remarried, my father remarried. His wife didn't necessarily like my presence. My stepfather was Very, very mean to me, at least is the way I felt. And it was hell at home for me as a young kid. I was sent when I was eight years old to boarding school.”

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  19. “Well, some mornings I'm a bit more grumpy for the coffee but I have challenges during the day. I mean, it's not like my days are blissful every day of the week. I have some challenges that I have to resolve and I have some moments of stress and so on. I mean, it's not like nirvana here. It's New York.”

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  20. “Member and the family support me and support my business and the business support my family. So I kind of have that balance that I really don't want Content I don't want to lose that. And it's not about being attached to that. It's not an unhealthy attachment. It's just that it's very... Beneficial for myself first, of course, but for everyone around me. And it's why Am where I am, and I'm doing what I'm doing.”

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  21. “That are worth it or not. And I realized that for myself, And we have another restaurant in Cayman Island with the Red Carlton called Blue Bay Repair. And I'm consulting there, but it's very low maintenance for me because it's mostly the teams, both teams that work together with my mentorship. But I said to myself, look, if you open another restaurant in Vegas and one in Dubai and one in Hong Kong, Singapore, whatever, and accept all those offers, suddenly your lifestyle is going to change. You're not going to have time for yourself, which I need, as you can understand in a previous discussion we had, you realize that I need a lot of time for myself. And I believe that time is for myself has positive consequences on my family. I'm a better family.”

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  22. “Good lifestyle and good income to everyone who is in the company. Of course, relative to their position and to the responsibility that they have, I mean, not everybody has the same compensations. But I think like that. And then Look at my life and I'm like, you know, I'm very lucky in this life. First of all, so far, I think I am healthy. Not starving Not in a war. I have a happy family surrounding me, supporting me. I have a team that seems to like me. In terms of money, I eat well I am traveling when I need to travel. Sweaters and so on, how many of that do I need? Many houses do I need how much money do I need in a bank? And when I'm going to leave this world, Everything is going to stay here. I'm not taking anything with me. So how much sacrifices I have to make to accumulate wealth.”

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  23. “Well I am not naive. I mean, I am not that naive. And I understand the benefits of being wealthy that comes usually from working hard and developing businesses and so on. Or sometimes you come from some other directions. But wealth definitely contributes to happiness, but ultimately... We know it doesn't bring happiness. An inner strength, inner happiness. So You have to, I mean, in my case, I decided that I had to find my level of contentment. And what was my level of contentment? So I... I created it and I said, look, my level of contentment is that I have a very successful restaurant in New York that makes me very happy, that creates jobs for 160 families. And we work as a team to make our clients happy, to create experiences for people who come here. We live from that. And now I live pretty well and I'm trying to give”

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  24. “Basically, like I said before, like the Pavelov reflex, soon as I'm gonna have doubts about losing what I have built in terms of reputation, I'm going to think about is it really important in my life? Can I give it away? And I realized that it is not important in my life. And I can give it away easily. And then suddenly, boom, the cloud, I visualize the cloud and I destroy it. And I don't have that fear anymore of losing, of being attached. That's my way of doing it. I'm not sure it's the perfect way. I'm not sure it works for everybody. But for me, the way I do it. And it's very simple when you think about it.”

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  25. “Something and for me, for you could be something else, but it could be a rock, a stone, it could be anything. For me, I always go to the dark cloud because for some reason it works in my mind. I see a dark cloud and I'm like, this dark cloud is my attachment to my tidal and to what I'm supposed to represent. I am going to get rid of it. And I have decided that probably because I read a lot of. How you call books from Star Wars? I mean, watch Star Wars and read a lot of comic books and so on. So I am the guy who has the laser on the front in his forehead. I have that power of destroying that cloud and saying, well, that cloud is full of attachment to something that is not meaningful at the end of the day. It's not important. And I'm destroying and I'm destroying and destroying and destroying. And doing that repetitively creates”

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  26. “Why are you so attached to be someone of a potential, like being a celebrity, for instance? What does it do for you? How good is it for you? What happened if you lose that? What will be the consequence of losing that? And how important is it in your life compared to being healthy and being compassionate person and so on? And when you analyze Subject, you realize that suddenly. If you attach to your tidal, which actually when you actually die, stays here and you die and your tidal doesn't exist anymore, so it's not even meaningful on the long term. When I identify that weakness, which is attachment in this instance, I say, okay, well, I'm going to visualize because I want to make it simple for my mind to fight. I'm going to visualize that as”

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  27. “The man who's talking to you right now is Eric Repair. He's a simple man who's trying to be a good guy and who fell many times in his vision. I'm not talking to you as a master here. I'm a student. I'm trying every day to... Anger to fight attachment and ignorance. So therefore, saying that, if I take Attachment as a subject. I'm trying to see where I am attached the most. Is it the power? Is it the glory? Is it the money? Is it Something else. And then I decide that today I'm going to focus on the fact that I'm attached to my reputation as a grid chef. And I'm very potentially that can bring to a very insecure reaction toward that. And I can be very attached, so much attached to my reputation. It's definitely something that is negative. So, when I identify the subject that I want to fight, I Basically, concentrate and say”

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  28. “Or anything like that. So that's very interesting to me that you have to reject whatever doesn't make sense to yourself. Now, going back to the weakness, weakness are coming from ignorance. And ignorance is basically the root of all weaknesses. We basically consider in Buddhism three poison of. the which are coming from ignorance. The first one is attachment. An unhealthy desire And then hanger is a very powerful poison of the mind as well. And that comes from ignorance. So let's say attachment. Let's take the subject of attachment. So I could be attached to many things. And I am during the day, actually, I mean, look.”

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  29. “Yes. Before I go to that, I'd like to say one thing that is. Very interesting to me about Buddhism is that it's not a dogmatic religion or philosophy at all. And actually even Buddha himself. Buddha means basically the enlightened one, right? But his name was Shakyamuni. Shakyamuni himself said, please, please, please, please. It's not because I am respected and I am supposedly enlightened that you should take every word I say for. Please analyze everything I say and reject everything that doesn't make sense in my speech, in my actions, in my theories, do not take the dogma as it is, question everything. And today when you study Buddhism, your teachers, they very, very articulate in making sure that you do that and they test you. Making sure that you do not accept anything they say because they are supposedly your teacher or supposedly.”

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  30. “It's not fighting the fact that it's a science and it's a philosophy as well. It's just complementary. And some people are purely religious. Some people are purely scientific about it and some people are using the three aspects of that philosophy.”

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  31. “It's why it's so appealing today to a lot of people because Buddhism can be a religion, if you wish. It can be also purely a philosophy. And it can be also all the theory of Buddhism can be proven by science, especially quantum physics or quantum mechanics. So you have three ways to embrace the philosophy of Buddhism, one being totally secular, and I think it's actually probably the future of Buddhism is to be proven by science. And quantum mechanics is the best way to The theory Philosophically Debating and by Analyzing Can prove the theory, the many theories of Buddhism. And then, of course, you can always follow the religious path, which”

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  32. “Yes, I said to her, I said, Look, can you try to find me something interesting about Buddhism and Tibet? Someone, a master, I didn't know the Dalai Lama at the time. I had no idea. And she finds that book and sent it to me. The beginning of the book is the speech that he made when he got the Peace Nobel Prize. And that speech really moved me tremendously. It was a brilliant, brilliant, compassionate. That he made. And after that, I read, of course, the rest of the book, which touched. different aspect of Buddhism, but ultimately I understood that Buddhism can be three things at the same time.”

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  33. “And I actually went and grabbed the Playboy. And then I saw that book about Tibet. Somewhere Airport, and I look at it, and it was the same price. Say, oh my God, I'm interested because I always was curious about Tibet. It looks like we don't know much about that country and so on. So I said, oh, I'm going to buy the Tibetan book. And then I had the book. went back to the Playboy and I dropped the book and then I was paying for the Playboy and at the last second I said to the lady no please I'm sorry I'm Taking the book and I put back the Playboy Where it belongs, and that was my first Buddhism and in Tibetan culture.”

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  34. “Yes, I was about to go into the plane and I had 10 francs, which is the equivalent of $2 or a bit less. I mean, Franks do not exist anymore now with euros, but at the time it was about that much. Was tempted to buy Playboy.”

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  35. “It was this book for sure. I still have the book, of course, which is out of print because From 1989 That book was sent to me by my mother. I was living in Washington, D.C. I had previously read a book in a plane coming to America to leave permanently in America, a book about Tibet and about Buddhism. And I was interested, but I was a bit confused. But something was interesting about it.”

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  36. “Believe me, I mean, I'm a student trying to explain to you what I understand. I'm definitely not considering myself a teacher.”

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  37. “I can tell you very quickly, let's for instance, you can Can have a page of paper on the front of you, and it is a page of paper. You do not deny the fact that it is a page of paper. Now, for you, it's a page of paper, but for someone else who has never seen a page of paper, it could be something to fire or it could be some... Interpretation. So, whatever you think of, it's not necessarily the ultimate truth. It's just your interpretation. Also, that sheet of paper, that page that you have on the front of you is made of wood that was once a seed in the ground that became a tree after years of rain and wind and sun and night. That piece of paper, if you go further, is made of particles, atoms, and smaller particles. And ultimately the piece of paper that you have on the front of you is yes, a piece of paper, but it's much more than that.”

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  38. “No, the mantras are in Sanskrit or in Tibetan sometimes. But for instance, the mantra of emptiness, I can tell you now, and I don't think you're going to understand much. And I'm not sure I understand fully the mantra, but it's Tadia Taum Gategate, Paragate, Parasam Gate, Bodhisoa. So I say that mantra many, many times. I have a mandla, which is basically like a bracelet with pearls, little pearls, and you have 108 pearls. Each of them representing a teaching of Buddha. And you repeat that 108 times. If you have the time to do it, if not, you do it three times and you try to Understand the mantra, like for instance, emptiness is a very, very important Part of Buddhism Explain all phenomenons of life. And we can go into the details of it if you want, but it's going to take an hour.”

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  39. “Then it's having a job that's not in contradiction with the teaching of Buddha, you cannot be in a mafia and kill people and be a Buddhist. It doesn't work. And then it's to say, well, The right efforts every day to implement all of the above and become a better person. And that needs to say, well, I'm going to practice. Concentration to be able to achieve that goal because Require a lot of concentration and then it's to achieve wisdom and use that wisdom for good reasons. This is the Four Noble Truth.”

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  40. “The path of liberation from suffering, which is basically following the teaching of Buddha. And the path of liberation is very simple. You can draw a circle and it's called the eight-fold path. I think it's eightfold in English path of liberation. So basically it's eight recommendations from Buddha, which are very, very simple because again was his first teaching and not necessarily to some people who were very knowledgeable in Buddhism. So the first thing to say to yourself is I trust the teaching of Buddha and I will question everything about the teaching but if it makes sense to me I will trust the teaching and study. The second thing Is to say to yourself, well, studying is not good enough, I have to practice having good thought during my journey, then having a good speech. Therefore, having good actions.”

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  41. “A previous condition Then it's to say, well, if I don't want to have that suffering again, I have to stop creating the conditions that lead to that suffering. So that's the third noble truth. And the fourth noble truth”

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  42. “Something like that. I mean, I'm taking this example, but it could be any, right? I mean, I'm trying to be funny with that. It's to identify the root of suffering. Because suffering cannot exist by itself without.”

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  43. “Yeah, of course you have always like Buddhism for dummies, but I don't recommend it. I think studying the Four Noble Truths. With someone like the Dalai Lama, it's a good idea because it's a Interesting and simple approach to Buddhism is the realization that so the formal truths basically are Was the first teaching of Buddha after he got enlightened? And it's the realization that in life at one point or another, life is made of suffering. And that suffering, so that's the first truth. The second truth is that suffering has an origin. So basically, let's suppose you have a big headache. Where is the headache coming from suffering? Maybe last night you had a bit too much tequila.”

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  44. “I mostly read Buddhist text or books from masters or ancient masters and from modern teachers and mostly teachings from his holiness the Dalai Lama. What I read”

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  45. “Actually, you know, the coffee comes very hot. And I don't like hot coffee, but it gives me the time to sit down and let my coffee get slightly cooler. And it's a way for me also to start my day in a very quiet, simple. And I wait a few minutes for the coffee to be a bit warmer and then it takes me about at least 15 minutes to drink my cup of coffee. Actually, it's a mug, but it takes me about 15 minutes. And really, the coffee for me becomes very pleasurable in terms of temperature in the last five minutes of the process.”

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  46. “So, first of all, it's decaf So it's no caffeine in evolves. And that helps me, I guess, a lot for my meditation. And I'm not in charge of buying the coffee. It's my wife who goes to the store and buys. Quality coffee from different countries, but she knows my tests after so many years and I don't know where it's coming from, but it always tastes the same. So I cannot tell you the origin of the coffee.”

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  47. “So I wake up, and when my mind wakes up, it's not like I am confused. I know where I am. I am in my bed. I'm aware of that. I have this sense of awareness. But I try to have my first thoughts dedicated to the fact that I am alive and I'm lucky to be alive because it gives me many possibilities to be a better person, to have an impact on other people. Also, I've A good day on the front of me and so on. So it's something that I'm Doing right away, and it's not like I'm thinking about it for 10 minutes. It's a very quick thought. Few seconds thinking about it and say wow, I'm lucky, thank you. I'm appreciating the fact that I'm waking up today and I am alive.”

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  48. “And it doesn't happen overnight. Meditation very often on the beginning, it's frustrating and it's It's not pleasureful. It's a challenge. But then after A lot of practice, it becomes a necessity, it becomes kind of a refuge for yourself. And it's a lot of pleasure coming out of it.”

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  49. “Meditation ultimately Help you to Train your mind how to concentrate in a better way. Helps you to control, like I mentioned before, your mind. If not, the mind is something that is very Three and very lack discipline. And so it's the only way for you to be in control of yourself. And it's the best way for yourself to Concentrate and to, if you are studying some philosophical subjects, to go to the roots of the subjects. That's what meditation does. It also, I believe, helps you to be calmer. It's calmer in English word.”

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  50. “probably takes about in between Shamata and Vipashana which is guided meditation and shamata being single point meditation is when you basically control your brain and then it's when you with your brain concentrate on different subjects in between both meditations must be about 25 minutes half hour maximum not more than that then I read again And then sometimes I meditate again if I have time, but that's basically about two hours of my time on the morning is in between doing the ritual that I just explained to you.”

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