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📱 A BuddhaCast ✨ with Josephine Nolan and Dave Lang (available as audio podcast on your favorite podcast service). 📱
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In this fascinating and intense deep dive Podcast, Dave and Josephine ask:
“Are we literally making ourselves sick on a molecular level just by the acoustic frequency of our own negative self-talk? If we know that sound waves radically alters the chemistry of water, and we know that if, as the science points to, we are basically walking bags of water, then we have to ask a really uncomfortable question about our own internal monologue.”
VIDEO BUDDHA CAST:
“The casual words we say to ourselves every single day. If chanting Om can structure your cellular water forhealing, what happens when you spend your entire day repeating things like, I’m so exhausted, or I’m falling apart, or I can’t do this? It’s like a reverse mantra.”
Are those daily complaints physically acting as a reverse mantra? Are we literally making ourselves sick on a molecular level just by the acoustic reinforcement of our own negative self-talk? And they dive even deeper into accoustic resonance, cavitation, ancient Buddhist Mantras and life-force retrieval, what shaman used to call “soul retrieval” Don’t miss this fascinating and lively podcast!!
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Dave and Josephine explore this and other science-back aspects of Buddhist meditation and healing, with an intense dive into Buddhist Lifeorce Restoration, or La Gug.
👉 What if the key to unlocking your body’s innate healing power lies not in a pill, but in the ancient vibrations of your own voice and the power of your mind?
On this episode of the Buddha Weekly BuddhaCast, hosts Josephine Nolan and Dave Lang dive deeper than ever before into the intersection of Buddhist wisdom and cutting-edge science. We move beyond basic mindfulness to explore a groundbreaking synthesis of Tibetan healing practices, modern psychoneuroimmunology, and the physics of sound.
👉Join us as we decode how the concept of La—your vital life force—can be fractured by modern stress and how ancient practices like Lagug (vitality retrieval) are designed to repair it.
We’ll explore the “Vajrayana Practices,” comparing the gentle healing of the Medicine Buddha to the fierce, aggressive power of Black Manjushri and the ultimate “nuclear option” of the Vajrapani-Hayagriva-Garuda triad for combating severe illness.
👉Finally, we demystify mantras, revealing them not as mere prayers, but as “acoustic technology” that utilizes sonochemistry to restructure the water in your cells and entrain your biology toward health.
This is the ultimate guide to becoming an active participant in your own healing journey, using the tools of an ancient tradition that modern science is only just beginning to understand.
🔹 DISCLAIMER: These practices are supportive and NOT a replacement for proper medical advice and healthcare.
🔹🔹🔹Episode Breakdown with Timecodes:
Episode Breakdown with Timecodes:
(00:00) Introduction: The New Paradigm of Healing
(02:30) Buddhist Vitality: Understanding the “La” (Life Force)
(05:45) The Mind as Medicine: Shattering the “Syndrome” Trap
(09:15) The Science of the Mind-Body Connection
(14:30) The Vajrayana Pharmacy: The Healers and the “General Practitioner”
(18:45) Aggressive Diseases & The “Nuclear Option”
(22:45) Mantras: Ancient Acoustic Technology
(26:45) The “Reverse Mantra”
(27:45) Conclusion & Final Thoughts
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Nadine: Welcome to Buddha Weekly’s
BuddhaCast, deep dive podcasts with
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Nadine: our hosts Josephine Nolan
and Dave Lang.
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Nadine: Please like, subscribe, and
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Dave Lang: Okay, so to start off
this deep dive, we’re looking at
something
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Dave Lang: that honestly sounds like
it belongs in uh in a science
fiction
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Dave Lang: novel.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, yeah,
absolutely.
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Josephine Nolan: It’s wild.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: So strange.
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Dave Lang: So we are looking at the
intersection of mind, body, and
ancient
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Dave Lang: wisdom.
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Dave Lang: And to really get into
Buddhist healing practices, we kind
of
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Dave Lang: have to figure out what
it even means to be unwell from a
Buddhist
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Dave Lang: perspective.
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Josephine Nolan: Right, which is a
totally different paradigm.
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Dave Lang: Yeah, completely.
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Dave Lang: Because, you know, in the
West, we have this very specific
model.
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Dave Lang: Like if you break your
arm, you get an X-ray, there’s a
line
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Dave Lang: on the bone, the doctor
points to it, and boom, there’s your
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Dave Lang: problem.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: It’s a very
mechanical, very localized way of
looking
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Josephine Nolan: at things.
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Dave Lang: Yeah, mechanical.
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Dave Lang: But the Buddhist
framework is just, well, it’s a lot
deeper
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Dave Lang: and maybe a little
murkier for those of us raised in
that Western
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Dave Lang: system.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: So, okay, let’s unpack
this because the first thing you
have
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Dave Lang: to look at isn’t a
symptom at all.
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Dave Lang: It’s vitality.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah, your life
force.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: And they call this uh
this concept la.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah, la spelled
just la.
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Josephine Nolan: And it translates
roughly to vitality or life force.
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Josephine Nolan: And I think a lot
of our listeners would probably be
familiar
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Josephine Nolan: with um similar
concepts from other traditions,
right?
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Nadine: Like qi.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah, qi in Chinese
medicine, or or prana, if you’re
looking
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Josephine Nolan: at Vedic
traditions.
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Josephine Nolan: It’s that
underlying energy.
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Josephine Nolan: And we’re pulling a
lot of this from teachings by
venerable
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Josephine Nolan: Zasep Tulku
Rinpoche.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: We have a huge stack of
sources today, mostly curated from
Buddha
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Dave Lang: Weekly, which has been
amazing.
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Josephine Nolan: They do great work,
and Rinpoche talks extensively about
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Josephine Nolan: this practice
called Lagug.
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Dave Lang: Lagug, which means
vitality retrieval.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: And the whole
premise here, which I think is so
crucial,
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Josephine Nolan: is that your vital
energy, your la isn’t just this
static
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Josephine Nolan: battery that you’re
born with, and it just slowly drains
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Josephine Nolan: until you die.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: Like it’s not just a
fixed amount.
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Josephine Nolan: No, it fluctuates,
it can be fractured, it can be
weakened
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Josephine Nolan: by trauma or
stress, and most importantly, it can
be intentionally
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Josephine Nolan: restored.
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Dave Lang: Which is huge because
when I was reading through
Rinpoche’s
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Dave Lang: descriptions of what a
weakened la actually feels like, I
was
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Dave Lang: just like, oh my gosh,
this is the modern morning commute.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, completely.
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Josephine Nolan: It’s everyone on
the subway.
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Dave Lang: Literally everyone.
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Dave Lang: Like he describes it as
feeling ungrounded, right?
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Dave Lang: Having a scattered mind,
or just this total inability to
focus.
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Dave Lang: Like you can’t even sit
down and study or read a book.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah, he says it
makes you feel disconnected from
reality.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: And it’s not just like,
oh, I’m tired, I need a coffee.
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Dave Lang: It’s a fundamental
fracturing of your energy.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: And he tells this story,
which I found so funny, but also
kind
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Dave Lang: of devastating, about a
friend of his.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, the restaurant
story.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: You know the one.
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Dave Lang: Can you share that?
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Dave Lang: Because it perfectly
illustrates this.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Josephine Nolan: So Rinpoche has
this friend who has a severely
depleted
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Josephine Nolan: la.
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Josephine Nolan: And they go out to
a restaurant, and this guy is so
ungrounded,
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Josephine Nolan: so completely
disconnected from his own, you know,
internal
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Josephine Nolan: compass that he
can’t even look at the menu and pick
a
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Josephine Nolan: meal.
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Dave Lang: Wow.
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Josephine Nolan: He actually begs
Rinpoche to just order his food for
him.
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Dave Lang: Which, I mean, on the
surface, you kind of chuckle.
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Josephine Nolan: Right.
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Josephine Nolan: Rinpoche even jokes
about it with his students, like,
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Josephine Nolan: I have to choose
everything for you.
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Josephine Nolan: Just eat something.
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Dave Lang: Just pick the salad.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: But when you really
think about it, it is a tragedy.
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Josephine Nolan: Because what you’re
witnessing is a total collapse of
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Josephine Nolan:self-trust.
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Dave Lang: Yeah.
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Josephine Nolan: When your life
force is that depleted by stress or
whatever,
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Josephine Nolan: making even the
lowest stakes decision in the world.
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Dave Lang: Like soup or sandwich.
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Josephine Nolan: Right.
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Josephine Nolan: It feels
paralyzing.
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Josephine Nolan: You just don’t have
the baseline energy to engage with
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Josephine Nolan: the physical world.
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Dave Lang: And he contrasts this,
which I thought was just brilliant.
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Dave Lang: He contrasts this with a
Mongolian nomad.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, this is such a
profound comparison.
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Dave Lang: Because he looks at a
typical Westerner, right?
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Dave Lang: Someone with maybe two
university degrees, super highly
educated,
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Dave Lang: tons of intellectual data
just packed into their brain.
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Josephine Nolan: But they’re riddled
with anxiety.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: They’re terrified of
making the wrong choice.
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Dave Lang: And then you have this
Mongolian nomad who maybe is
completely
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Dave Lang: illiterate, has never
read a book, but they live in this
harsh
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Dave Lang: mountain environment and
they just possess this immense
grounded
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Dave Lang: bravery.
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Josephine Nolan: They trust
themselves completely.
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Dave Lang: Yes.
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Dave Lang: They just know how to
exist.
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Dave Lang: They aren’t
second-guessing every single step
they take.
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Josephine Nolan: Because they aren’t
constantly draining their labor with
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Josephine Nolan: mental chatter.
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Dave Lang: Exactly.
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Dave Lang: And the analogy that kept
coming to my mind when reading this
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Dave Lang: is it’s like a
smartphone.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, I like that.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: Like if you have a
smartphone and you have 50
background apps
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Dave Lang: running all at once.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, and the phone
gets super hot.
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Dave Lang: Yes.
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Dave Lang: The phone is literally
burning up in your pocket.
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Dave Lang: The battery is draining
at like 1% every minute, and you
aren’t
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Dave Lang: even looking at the
screen.
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Dave Lang: You’re not even actively
using the phone, but the battery is
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Dave Lang: just dying because of all
these background processes.
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Josephine Nolan: That is a perfect
way to look at modern anxiety.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: Like, does Western
society just have too many
background apps
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Dave Lang: open?
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Dave Lang: Is that why everyone is
chronically fatigued?
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Josephine Nolan: Well, Rinpoche
would argue yes, absolutely.
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Josephine Nolan: And a big part of
that is how we in the West handle
natural
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Josephine Nolan: life changes.
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Dave Lang: Pathologizing of
everything.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: We have this
obsession with taking entirely
normal transitions
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Josephine Nolan: and turning them
into medical syndromes.
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Dave Lang: Right, like midlife
crises.
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Josephine Nolan: Yes, or menopause,
or the one Rinpoche really points
out
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Josephine Nolan: is empty nest
syndrome.
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Dave Lang: Oh, that one is so
interesting because he’s basically
like,
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Dave Lang: Why is this a syndrome?
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Josephine Nolan: He’s baffled by it.
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Josephine Nolan: He looks at empty
nest syndrome and he says, wait a
minute,
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Josephine Nolan: your kids have
successfully grown up.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: They survived.
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Josephine Nolan: They survived, they
moved out, they’re starting their
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Josephine Nolan: own lives.
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Josephine Nolan: You did your job.
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Josephine Nolan: And now suddenly
you have all this freedom.
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Josephine Nolan: You can travel, you
can meditate, you can go back to
school,
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Josephine Nolan: you can just sleep
in on a Saturday.
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Josephine Nolan: Right.
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Dave Lang: It’s a success story.
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Josephine Nolan: But instead of
celebrating it, Western culture
slaps a
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Josephine Nolan: medical label on it
and calls it a syndrome.
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Dave Lang: But wait, how does
calling it a syndrome actually
affect your
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Dave Lang: vitality?
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Dave Lang: Like, isn’t it just a
word?
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Josephine Nolan: Well, if we connect
this to the bigger picture, it all
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Josephine Nolan: comes back to
impermanence, what Buddhists call
anika
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Josephine Nolan: The nature of
reality is that things constantly
change.
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bodies age, seasons shift.
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Josephine Nolan: When you accept
that impermanence, your internal
energy
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Josephine Nolan: But when you label
a natural shift as a crisis or a
syndrome,
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Josephine Nolan: you’re
psychologically resisting reality.
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Dave Lang: Oh, I see.
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Dave Lang: You’re bracing against
it.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: You’re constantly
tensing your mental muscles against
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Josephine Nolan: a force that you
literally cannot stop.
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Josephine Nolan: And that invisible
friction, that resistance, is what
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battery.
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Josephine Nolan: It depletes your
la.
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Dave Lang: That makes so much sense.
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Dave Lang: It’s the resistance that
exhausts you, not the change itself.
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Josephine Nolan: Right.
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Dave Lang: Okay, so that gives us
this amazing philosophical
framework.
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we understand how the mind can drain
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Dave Lang: But I want to pivot here
because the mission of this deep
dive
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intersection of this ancient wisdom
and modern
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Josephine Nolan: And the data is
staggering.
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Dave Lang: It really is.
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Dave Lang: But before we get into
the hard science, we have to
establish
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literally every Buddhist teacher in
our
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Dave Lang: source material
emphasizes.
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Josephine Nolan: Yes, very
important.
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Josephine Nolan: Both venerable
Zasep Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Zopa
Rinpoche
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incredibly clear .
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: They’re saying meditation
is complementary.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: It does not replace
your doctor, it doesn’t replace
vaccines,
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Josephine Nolan: it doesn’t replace
surgery or medication.
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Dave Lang: You don’t just throw away
your prescriptions and sit on a
cushion.
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Josephine Nolan: No, absolutely not.
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Josephine Nolan: The goal is to use
the mind to create the optimal
biological
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medicine to actually work.
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Dave Lang: Which brings us to the
flu shot study.
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Dave Lang: Because this study,
published in Psychosomatic Medicine,
this
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Dave Lang: is what blew my mind.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, this is a
landmark study.
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Dave Lang: It is.
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Dave Lang: So they took a group of
volunteers and they split them right
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Dave Lang: down the middle.
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Dave Lang: One half committed to
doing a daily mindfulness meditation
practice.
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Josephine Nolan: Right, just
standard mindfulness.
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Dave Lang: Yep.
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Dave Lang: And the other half, the
control group, they just lived their
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Dave Lang: normal lives, did nothing
differently.
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Dave Lang: Then the researchers gave
everyone in both groups the standard
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Dave Lang: flu vaccine.
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Josephine Nolan: Which is such a
smart methodology because the
vaccine
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Josephine Nolan: guarantees that
every single person’s immune system
has
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Josephine Nolan: to react.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: They introduced the inert
virus and they just sit back and
measure
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Dave Lang: the immune response.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: And what they found was
that the group meditating daily
produced
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Dave Lang: significantly higher
levels of antibodies compared to the
people
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Dave Lang: who didn’t meditate.
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Josephine Nolan: It’s incredible.
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Dave Lang: But I want to push back
on this a little bit, or at least
play
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Dave Lang: devil’s advocate.
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Dave Lang: Is this just the placebo
effect on steroids?
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Dave Lang: Because how does sitting
quietly on a cushion actually
manufacture
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Dave Lang: physical antibodies in
your bloodstream?
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Josephine Nolan: It’s a great
question.
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Josephine Nolan: And it’s not magic.
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Josephine Nolan: It comes down to
the autonomic nervous system.
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Dave Lang: Okay, lay it on me.
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Josephine Nolan: So Dr.
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Josephine Nolan: Herbert Benson from
Harvard Medical School’s Mind Body
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Josephine Nolan: Institute did
decades of research on this.
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Josephine Nolan: He coined the term
the relaxation response.
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Dave Lang: The relaxation response.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Josephine Nolan: So when you’re
stressed, and I mean just normal,
modern,
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Josephine Nolan: sitting in traffic
kind of stress, your body locks into
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Josephine Nolan: the sympathetic
nervous system.
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Dave Lang: The fight or flight mode.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: Your adrenal glands
are pumping out cortisol, adrenaline
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Josephine Nolan: is flowing.
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Josephine Nolan: And biologically,
when your brain thinks you’re being
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Josephine Nolan: chased by a tiger,
it does not care about a microscopic
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Josephine Nolan: virus.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: Fighting off a cold is
not a priority if you’re about to be
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Dave Lang:eaten.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: So your body
actively diverts resources away from
your
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Josephine Nolan: immune system to
power your muscles and your heart.
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Dave Lang: Wow.
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Dave Lang: So modern life is just
constantly starving our immune
system.
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Josephine Nolan: Constantly.
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Josephine Nolan: But when you
meditate, you actively trigger the
parasympathetic
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Josephine Nolan: nervous system, the
rest and digest state.
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Dave Lang: And that flips the
switch.
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Josephine Nolan: It does.
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Josephine Nolan: Metabolism
decreases, blood pressure lowers,
your heart
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Josephine Nolan: rate drops.
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Josephine Nolan: You are signaling
to your biology that the environment
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Josephine Nolan: is safe.
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Josephine Nolan: And once the body
knows it’s safe, it diverts all that
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Josephine Nolan: energy back into
cellular repair and immune defense.
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Dave Lang: Oh man.
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Dave Lang: So it’s like it’s like
taking your immune system to the
gym.
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Josephine Nolan: That’s exactly what
it is.
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Dave Lang: You aren’t just ignoring
stress.
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Dave Lang: You’re actually doing
mental reps to train your T cells
and
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Dave Lang: your antibodies to do
their jobs better.
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Josephine Nolan: You’re taking the
brakes off the body’s natural
healing
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Josephine Nolan: capacity.
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Josephine Nolan: And we see this not
just with the flu, but with cellular
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Josephine Nolan: aging.
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Dave Lang: The anti-aging research.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: The stuff on
metta-meditation.
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Josephine Nolan: Yes.
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Josephine Nolan: Metta, which is
loving-kindness meditation.
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Josephine Nolan: This research is
wild.
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Josephine Nolan: So aging at a
biological level is largely tied to
these
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Josephine Nolan: things called
telomeres.
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Dave Lang: Okay, remind me what a
telomere is.
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Josephine Nolan: I think of them
like the little plastic caps at the
ends
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Josephine Nolan: of your shoelaces.
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Dave Lang: Oh, the aglets.
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Josephine Nolan: Right.
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Josephine Nolan: But instead of
shoelaces, they sit at the ends of
your
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Josephine Nolan: chromosomes to
protect your DNA from fraying.
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Dave Lang: Got it.
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Josephine Nolan: Now, every time a
cell divides, those telomeres get a
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Josephine Nolan: tiny bit shorter,
and when they get too short, the
cell
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Josephine Nolan: can’t divide
anymore and it dies.
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Dave Lang: So that’s aging.
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Josephine Nolan: That is the literal
mechanism of aging.
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Josephine Nolan: And chronic stress
accelerates that shortening process.
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Josephine Nolan: It causes oxidative
stress that just chews up those
telomeres.
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Dave Lang: But the research on
loving-kindness meditation shows
what?
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Josephine Nolan: It shows that
people who regularly practice
metta-meditation,
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Josephine Nolan: and they actually
found this was especially pronounced
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Josephine Nolan: in women, they
preserve their telomere length.
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Dave Lang: Wait, really?
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Josephine Nolan: Yes.
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Josephine Nolan: Their relative
telomere length, or RTL, acts as a
biomarker
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Josephine Nolan: for longevity.
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Josephine Nolan: By actively
generating feelings of compassion
and love,
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Josephine Nolan: they are literally
slowing down the biological aging
process
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Josephine Nolan: at a cellular
level.
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Dave Lang: That is just — it’s
almost hard to wrap your head
around.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: But it totally tracks
with the findings from the Mayo
Clinic,
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Dave Lang: right?
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Josephine Nolan: Oh yeah.
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Josephine Nolan: The Mayo Clinic
uses meditation as a complementary
treatment
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Josephine Nolan: for all sorts of
things asthma, cancer, chronic pain,
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Josephine Nolan: irritable bowel
syndrome.
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Dave Lang: Because when you turn the
mind onto the body in a focused,
relaxed
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Dave Lang: way, the body finally has
the bandwidth to heal.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Dave Lang: Okay, so we’ve
established that the mind can heal
the body.
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Dave Lang: But here’s where the
Tibetan Buddhist tradition gets
really
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Dave Lang: specific and honestly
fascinating.
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Dave Lang: Because they don’t just
sit there and vaguely try to relax.
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Josephine Nolan: Oh, they have very
precise tools.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: They use these
visualizations, which they call
deity yoga, to
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Dave Lang: target specific
illnesses.
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Dave Lang: I want to get into this,
but first we need to clarify the
word
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Dave Lang: deity.
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Dave Lang: Because in the West, we
hear that and we think, you know, a
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Dave Lang: guy on a cloud with a
beard.
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Josephine Nolan: Yeah, an external
creator God who is going to swoop in
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Josephine Nolan: and save you if you
pray hard enough.
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Dave Lang: Right.
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Dave Lang: But that’s not what this
is.
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Josephine Nolan: Not at all.
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Josephine Nolan: In Vajrayana and
Mahayana Buddhism, these visualized
deities
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Josephine Nolan: are archetypes.
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Josephine Nolan: They are
representations of your own internal
Buddha nature.
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Dave Lang: Okay, so you’re
visualizing your own potential.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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Josephine Nolan: You are using this
vivid ancient imagery to wake up a
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Josephine Nolan: specific
psychological state within yourself.
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Dave Lang: And the most famous one,
the sort of baseline practice, is
the
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Dave Lang: Medicine Buddha.
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Josephine Nolan: Yes, the Medicine
Buddha.
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Josephine Nolan: He was the general
practitioner of the Buddha system.
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Dave Lang: The general practitioner.
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Dave Lang: I love that.
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Dave Lang: And he’s visualized as
this brilliant lapis lazuli blue
light.
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Josephine Nolan: Right, sitting
there holding a bowl of healing
nectar
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Josephine Nolan: and a medicinal
plant.
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Dave Lang: And there’s this
incredible detail from Jason
Espada’s writings
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Dave Lang: on this.
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Dave Lang: He points out the
etymology of the word medicine.
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Dave Lang: The Latin root is meteor.
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Josephine Nolan: Meteor, right.
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Dave Lang: And that root is actually
the origin for both the word
medication
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Dave Lang: and the word meditation.
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Josephine Nolan: Wow.
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Dave Lang: Yeah.
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Dave Lang: They both literally mean
to heal or to make whole.
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Josephine Nolan: That’s a beautiful
connection because in the Medicine
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Josephine Nolan: Buddha practice,
you visualize this blue light
entering
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Josephine Nolan: your crown, washing
through your nervous system, and
literally
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Josephine Nolan: flushing out the
sickness as this dark smoke or
sludge.
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Dave Lang: And they also chant the
mantra, right?
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Josephine Nolan: Yes.
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Josephine Nolan: Typically they
chant the Medicine Buddha mantra 108
times
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Josephine Nolan: over a glass of
water.
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Dave Lang: Oh, to empower the water.
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Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
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00:15:13,440 –> 00:15:16,639
Josephine Nolan: You imbue the water
with that intention, and then the
561
00:15:16,639 –> 00:15:17,600
Josephine Nolan: sick person drinks
it.
562
00:15:17,600 –> 00:15:20,480
Josephine Nolan: It’s a very
holistic grounding practice.
564
00:15:21,519 –> 00:15:23,360
Dave Lang: Okay, but here’s where it
gets really interesting.
565
00:15:23,360 –> 00:15:27,120
Dave Lang: Because the Medicine
Buddha is great for general healing.
566
00:15:27,120 –> 00:15:31,840
Dave Lang: But what if you have
something terrifying, like cancer or
Ebola,
567
00:15:31,840 –> 00:15:34,559
Dave Lang: or some aggressive modern
disease?
569
00:15:35,279 –> 00:15:35,279
Josephine Nolan: Right.
571
00:15:35,840 –> 00:15:40,080
Dave Lang: A peaceful blue Buddha
holding a bowl of nectar might not
feel
572
00:15:40,080 –> 00:15:43,440
Dave Lang: powerful enough if your
mind is absolutely panicking.
574
00:15:44,480 –> 00:15:46,559
Josephine Nolan: And the tradition
completely acknowledges that.
575
00:15:46,559 –> 00:15:49,679
Josephine Nolan: What’s fascinating
here is that they have specialized
576
00:15:49,679 –> 00:15:52,240
Josephine Nolan: practices for
exactly that kind of aggressive
threat.
578
00:15:52,720 –> 00:15:53,440
Dave Lang: The specialist Buddhas.
580
00:15:54,080 –> 00:15:54,080
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
581
00:15:54,080 –> 00:15:56,240
Josephine Nolan: And the primary one
for this is Black Manjushri.
583
00:15:57,360 –> 00:15:59,919
Dave Lang: Now Manjushri is usually
the Buddha of wisdom, right?
585
00:16:00,399 –> 00:16:00,960
Josephine Nolan: Normally, yes.
586
00:16:00,960 –> 00:16:03,519
Josephine Nolan: Usually depicted
with a sword to cut through
ignorance.
587
00:16:03,519 –> 00:16:07,919
Josephine Nolan: But in this
specific healing manifestation, he
takes on
588
00:16:07,919 –> 00:16:11,360
Josephine Nolan: a wrathful,
terrifying, pitch-black form.
590
00:16:11,919 –> 00:16:16,080
Dave Lang: And Venerable Zasep Tulku
Rinpoche specifically recommends
this
591
00:16:16,080 –> 00:16:17,519
Dave Lang: for modern assertive
diseases.
593
00:16:18,159 –> 00:16:18,320
Josephine Nolan: He does.
594
00:16:18,320 –> 00:16:22,559
Josephine Nolan: Cancer, AIDS,
Ebola, and also sicknesses caused by
modern
595
00:16:22,559 –> 00:16:26,000
Josephine Nolan: pollution,
chemicals, radiation, contaminated
water, the
596
00:16:26,000 –> 00:16:27,600
Josephine Nolan: really heavy,
aggressive stuff.
598
00:16:28,240 –> 00:16:30,960
Dave Lang: But wait, I have to ask,
if the whole point of this is to
trigger
599
00:16:30,960 –> 00:16:35,519
Dave Lang: the relaxation response
and lower cordisol, why on earth
would
600
00:16:35,519 –> 00:16:38,879
Dave Lang: you visualize a
terrifying, wrathful deity?
601
00:16:38,879 –> 00:16:40,720
Dave Lang: Wouldn’t that just stress
you out more?
603
00:16:41,120 –> 00:16:42,000
Josephine Nolan: It’s a paradox,
right?
604
00:16:42,000 –> 00:16:44,399
Josephine Nolan: But
psychologically, it is brilliant.
605
00:16:44,399 –> 00:16:45,600
Josephine Nolan: Think about it.
606
00:16:45,600 –> 00:16:49,679
Josephine Nolan: If a patient is
overwhelmed by a terrifying disease,
their
607
00:16:49,679 –> 00:16:52,639
Josephine Nolan: subconscious feels
like it’s under attack by a monster.
609
00:16:53,279 –> 00:16:53,279
Dave Lang: Right.
611
00:16:53,919 –> 00:16:57,360
Josephine Nolan: If you try to
visualize a gentle, peaceful blue
light,
612
00:16:57,360 –> 00:17:00,480
Josephine Nolan: the subconscious
mind might reject it.
613
00:17:00,480 –> 00:17:01,360
Josephine Nolan: It feels
outmatched.
615
00:17:02,159 –> 00:17:02,639
Dave Lang: Oh, I see.
617
00:17:03,039 –> 00:17:06,799
Josephine Nolan: But if you
visualize Black Manjushri, this
entity that
618
00:17:06,799 –> 00:17:10,000
Josephine Nolan: is fundamentally
indestructible and more terrifying
than
619
00:17:10,000 –> 00:17:13,519
Josephine Nolan: the disease itself,
your mind suddenly feels protected.
621
00:17:14,240 –> 00:17:15,119
Dave Lang: He’s like the ultimate
bodyguard.
623
00:17:16,000 –> 00:17:16,000
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
624
00:17:16,000 –> 00:17:18,960
Josephine Nolan: He isn’t attacking
the patient, he’s destroying the
disease.
625
00:17:18,960 –> 00:17:23,519
Josephine Nolan: And by recruiting
this inner psychological warrior,
your
626
00:17:23,519 –> 00:17:26,480
Josephine Nolan: nervous system
actually feels safe enough to relax.
628
00:17:27,680 –> 00:17:28,799
Dave Lang: That completely tracks
it.
629
00:17:28,799 –> 00:17:31,759
Dave Lang: I was trying to explain
this to a friend, and the analogy I
630
00:17:31,759 –> 00:17:32,559
Dave Lang: used was computer
software.
632
00:17:33,119 –> 00:17:33,359
Josephine Nolan: Okay, yeah.
634
00:17:33,759 –> 00:17:35,920
Dave Lang: Like if your computer is
running a little slow, you run your
635
00:17:35,920 –> 00:17:38,319
Dave Lang: standard background
antivirus scan.
636
00:17:38,319 –> 00:17:39,359
Dave Lang: That’s the Medicine
Buddha.
637
00:17:39,359 –> 00:17:43,200
Dave Lang: But if your hard drive
gets hijacked by some vicious
ransomware
638
00:17:43,200 –> 00:17:47,200
Dave Lang: that’s destroying all
your files, you don’t use the gentle
background
639
00:17:47,200 –> 00:17:47,759
Dave Lang: scan.
640
00:17:47,759 –> 00:17:51,839
Dave Lang: You go out and download
the most aggressive heavy-duty
malware
641
00:17:51,839 –> 00:17:53,440
Dave Lang: removal tool you can
find.
643
00:17:53,920 –> 00:17:54,720
Josephine Nolan: That is a perfect
analogy.
644
00:17:54,720 –> 00:17:58,400
Josephine Nolan: Black Manjushri is
the heavy-duty malware removal tool.
646
00:17:59,119 –> 00:18:01,039
Dave Lang: But it goes even further
than that.
647
00:18:01,039 –> 00:18:04,799
Dave Lang: Because if Black
Manjushri is the specialized
software, then
648
00:18:04,799 –> 00:18:07,759
Dave Lang: there’s this other
practice which is like the ultimate
nuclear
649
00:18:07,759 –> 00:18:08,160
Dave Lang: option.
651
00:18:08,720 –> 00:18:09,839
Josephine Nolan: Well, you mean the
three-in-one combo?
653
00:18:10,400 –> 00:18:11,039
Dave Lang: The three-in-one combo.
654
00:18:11,039 –> 00:18:14,559
Dave Lang: Vajrapani, Hayagriva, and
King Garuda.
656
00:18:15,759 –> 00:18:15,759
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
657
00:18:15,759 –> 00:18:19,680
Josephine Nolan: This is reserved
for incredibly difficult times,
severe
658
00:18:19,680 –> 00:18:24,720
Josephine Nolan: epidemics, massive
viruses, or just insurmountable
psychological
659
00:18:24,720 –> 00:18:25,359
Josephine Nolan: blockages.
661
00:18:26,160 –> 00:18:28,079
Dave Lang: So you’re visualizing
three different deities at once.
663
00:18:28,480 –> 00:18:32,000
Josephine Nolan: You’re visualizing
a synthesis of three intensely
powerful
664
00:18:32,000 –> 00:18:32,720
Josephine Nolan: archetypes.
666
00:18:33,759 –> 00:18:36,319
Dave Lang: Okay, let’s break these
down because the imagery is so wild,
667
00:18:36,319 –> 00:18:37,359
Dave Lang: starting with Vajrapani.
669
00:18:38,400 –> 00:18:41,279
Josephine Nolan: So Vajrapani
represents the raw power of the
Buddha.
670
00:18:41,279 –> 00:18:45,440
Josephine Nolan: He’s usually dark
blue, very wrathful, holding a Vajra
671
00:18:45,440 –> 00:18:46,240
Josephine Nolan: or thunderbolt.
672
00:18:46,240 –> 00:18:50,079
Josephine Nolan: He is the sheer
brute force needed to shatter the
illusion
673
00:18:50,079 –> 00:18:50,720
Josephine Nolan: of the disease.
675
00:18:51,359 –> 00:18:51,759
Dave Lang: And then there’s
Hayagriva.
677
00:18:52,799 –> 00:18:55,119
Josephine Nolan: Hayagriva is the
embodiment of compassion.
679
00:18:56,000 –> 00:18:56,480
Dave Lang: Wait, really?
680
00:18:56,480 –> 00:18:58,400
Dave Lang: Because the visualization
is insane.
682
00:18:59,200 –> 00:18:59,200
Josephine Nolan: Right.
683
00:18:59,200 –> 00:19:02,960
Josephine Nolan: He’s depicted as
this wrathful red figure with a
screaming
684
00:19:02,960 –> 00:19:05,759
Josephine Nolan: green horse head
bursting out of his hair.
686
00:19:06,240 –> 00:19:07,279
Dave Lang: That does not sound
compassionate.
688
00:19:08,240 –> 00:19:09,519
Josephine Nolan: Well, it’s a
different type of compassion.
689
00:19:09,519 –> 00:19:12,400
Josephine Nolan: The green color
represents swift action.
690
00:19:12,400 –> 00:19:15,359
Josephine Nolan: This isn’t the
gentle compassion of someone holding
your
691
00:19:15,359 –> 00:19:16,240
Josephine Nolan: hand while you cry.
692
00:19:16,240 –> 00:19:19,839
Josephine Nolan: This is the fierce,
urgent compassion of a parent
running
693
00:19:19,839 –> 00:19:21,920
Josephine Nolan: into a burning
building to save their child.
695
00:19:22,480 –> 00:19:22,640
Dave Lang: Oh wow.
696
00:19:22,640 –> 00:19:24,559
Dave Lang: Okay, so it’s active
aggressive compassion.
698
00:19:25,279 –> 00:19:25,279
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
699
00:19:25,279 –> 00:19:29,440
Josephine Nolan: And the third is
King Garuda.
701
00:19:30,720 –> 00:19:31,599
Dave Lang: The giant bird.
703
00:19:32,160 –> 00:19:33,599
Josephine Nolan: Yes, representing
supreme wisdom.
704
00:19:33,599 –> 00:19:38,400
Josephine Nolan: Garuda is this
massive eagle-like being, often with
swords
705
00:19:38,400 –> 00:19:39,200
Josephine Nolan: for wings.
706
00:19:39,200 –> 00:19:43,200
Josephine Nolan: And in the
mythology, Garudas are the apex
predators of
707
00:19:43,200 –> 00:19:43,440
Josephine Nolan: nagas.
709
00:19:44,240 –> 00:19:46,079
Dave Lang: Nagas being the
snake-like water spirits.
711
00:19:46,799 –> 00:19:46,799
Josephine Nolan: Right.
712
00:19:46,799 –> 00:19:50,079
Josephine Nolan: And nagas are
traditionally associated with
bringing plagues
713
00:19:50,079 –> 00:19:51,359
Josephine Nolan: and underground
diseases.
714
00:19:51,359 –> 00:19:55,039
Josephine Nolan: So King Garuda
opposes those disease-bringing
forces.
716
00:19:55,599 –> 00:19:58,480
Dave Lang: So when a practitioner is
sitting there visualizing a giant
717
00:19:58,480 –> 00:20:02,240
Dave Lang: bladed eagle tearing
apart a plague snake, what is
actually
718
00:20:02,240 –> 00:20:02,880
Dave Lang: happening in their body?
720
00:20:03,519 –> 00:20:06,079
Josephine Nolan: Well, Lama Zopa
Rinpoche talked about this a lot
during
721
00:20:06,079 –> 00:20:07,039
Josephine Nolan: the SARS outbreak.
722
00:20:07,039 –> 00:20:10,480
Josephine Nolan: He explained that
Western medicine is great at
explaining
723
00:20:10,480 –> 00:20:13,279
Josephine Nolan: the gross physical
functions of a virus.
725
00:20:13,920 –> 00:20:14,720
Dave Lang: And the mechanics of it.
727
00:20:15,119 –> 00:20:15,119
Josephine Nolan: Right.
728
00:20:15,119 –> 00:20:18,400
Josephine Nolan: But it completely
ignores the subtle mind.
729
00:20:18,400 –> 00:20:22,799
Josephine Nolan: If your subtle mind
is trapped in terror, your gross
physical
730
00:20:22,799 –> 00:20:24,319
Josephine Nolan: body can’t heal.
731
00:20:24,319 –> 00:20:29,279
Josephine Nolan: So visualizing
Garuda destroying a naga is
basically a
732
00:20:29,279 –> 00:20:33,039
Josephine Nolan: high-definition
psychological simulation of your own
immune
733
00:20:33,039 –> 00:20:33,519
Josephine Nolan: system.
735
00:20:34,000 –> 00:20:36,400
Dave Lang: It’s like visualizing
your white blood cells attacking the
virus.
737
00:20:37,039 –> 00:20:37,039
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
738
00:20:37,039 –> 00:20:40,559
Josephine Nolan: It shocks the
subtle mind out of its fear loop and
replaces
739
00:20:40,559 –> 00:20:42,400
Josephine Nolan: that fear with
absolute resolve.
740
00:20:42,400 –> 00:20:46,000
Josephine Nolan: And when the subtle
mind is resolute, the gross physical
741
00:20:46,000 –> 00:20:47,359
Josephine Nolan: body follows suit.
743
00:20:48,400 –> 00:20:48,400
Dave Lang: Man.
744
00:20:48,400 –> 00:20:50,079
Dave Lang: That is so powerful.
745
00:20:50,079 –> 00:20:53,279
Dave Lang: Okay, but this brings us
to the final part of our deep dive
746
00:20:53,279 –> 00:20:55,279
Dave Lang: because we’ve talked
about the mind, we’ve talked about
intention
747
00:20:55,279 –> 00:20:59,680
Dave Lang: and visualization, but
the actual engine that drives all of
748
00:20:59,680 –> 00:21:00,400
Dave Lang: this is speech.
750
00:21:01,200 –> 00:21:01,440
Josephine Nolan: The mantras.
752
00:21:02,319 –> 00:21:02,319
Dave Lang: Yes.
753
00:21:02,319 –> 00:21:07,680
Dave Lang: The literal physical
sound waves of ancient Sanskrit
mantras.
754
00:21:07,680 –> 00:21:10,400
Dave Lang: And this is where things
get really crazy.
755
00:21:10,400 –> 00:21:14,079
Dave Lang: Because the sources are
claiming that the physical vibration
756
00:21:14,079 –> 00:21:18,640
Dave Lang: of these words can alter
the body and the environment, even
757
00:21:18,640 –> 00:21:20,880
Dave Lang: if you don’t have any
faith in the religion at all.
759
00:21:21,359 –> 00:21:21,359
Josephine Nolan: Right.
760
00:21:21,359 –> 00:21:25,039
Josephine Nolan: We are moving out
of psychology and straight into
physics.
762
00:21:25,759 –> 00:21:28,720
Dave Lang: So let’s start with the
most basic building block of all
this:
763
00:21:28,720 –> 00:21:30,000
Dave Lang: the syllable A-U-M.
765
00:21:31,039 –> 00:21:31,039
Josephine Nolan: Right.
766
00:21:31,039 –> 00:21:32,880
Josephine Nolan: Commonly pronounced
as om.
768
00:21:33,599 –> 00:21:36,880
Dave Lang: Because the texts say
this isn’t just a sacred word you
say,
769
00:21:36,880 –> 00:21:39,920
Dave Lang: it’s an actual mechanical
process inside your head.
771
00:21:40,400 –> 00:21:40,559
Josephine Nolan: It is.
772
00:21:40,559 –> 00:21:41,680
Josephine Nolan: It’s an acoustic
blueprint.
773
00:21:41,680 –> 00:21:44,799
Josephine Nolan: When you vocalize
it correctly, it happens in three
distinct
774
00:21:44,799 –> 00:21:45,200
Josephine Nolan: phases.
775
00:21:45,200 –> 00:21:47,119
Josephine Nolan: First, the A sound.
776
00:21:47,119 –> 00:21:47,839
Josephine Nolan: Ah.
777
00:21:47,839 –> 00:21:52,000
Josephine Nolan: Your mouth is wide
open and you can literally feel that
778
00:21:52,000 –> 00:21:53,839
Josephine Nolan: vibration in your
chest and abdomen.
780
00:21:54,559 –> 00:21:56,400
Dave Lang: And that corresponds to
the waking state, right?
781
00:21:56,400 –> 00:21:56,640
Dave Lang: Yeah.
782
00:21:56,640 –> 00:21:57,759
Dave Lang: The broad physical
reality.
784
00:21:58,480 –> 00:21:58,480
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
785
00:21:58,480 –> 00:22:01,920
Josephine Nolan: Then you transition
to The U sound, ooh, you funnel your
786
00:22:01,920 –> 00:22:05,039
Josephine Nolan: lips and the
vibration moves up from your chest
into your
787
00:22:05,039 –> 00:22:06,400
Josephine Nolan: throat and the
lower part of your face.
789
00:22:06,880 –> 00:22:08,160
Dave Lang: Which they link to the
dream state.
791
00:22:08,720 –> 00:22:08,720
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
792
00:22:08,720 –> 00:22:11,440
Josephine Nolan: And finally, the M
sound.
793
00:22:11,440 –> 00:22:13,519
Josephine Nolan: Your lips are
completely closed.
794
00:22:13,519 –> 00:22:18,000
Josephine Nolan: The sound becomes
this tightly focused drone, like a
bee
795
00:22:18,000 –> 00:22:18,319
Josephine Nolan: humming.
797
00:22:18,960 –> 00:22:19,839
Dave Lang: And that vibrates the
cranium.
799
00:22:20,640 –> 00:22:22,720
Josephine Nolan: It reverberates
directly inside the skull.
800
00:22:22,720 –> 00:22:26,079
Josephine Nolan: It physically
vibrates the cerebral cortex and the
pineal
801
00:22:26,079 –> 00:22:26,720
Josephine Nolan: gland.
802
00:22:26,720 –> 00:22:30,880
Josephine Nolan: And this
corresponds to the deepest, most
subtle state,
803
00:22:30,880 –> 00:22:32,640
Josephine Nolan: dreamless sleep.
805
00:22:33,359 –> 00:22:36,480
Dave Lang: So just by saying that
one syllable, you’re manually
massaging
806
00:22:36,480 –> 00:22:38,880
Dave Lang: your entire nervous
system from the bottom up.
808
00:22:39,200 –> 00:22:40,480
Josephine Nolan: And there’s hard
science on this.
809
00:22:40,480 –> 00:22:43,599
Josephine Nolan: Jonathan Goldman,
who does incredible research on
sound
810
00:22:43,599 –> 00:22:47,039
Josephine Nolan: healing, he points
out that self-created chanting
actually
811
00:22:47,039 –> 00:22:50,079
Josephine Nolan: synchronizes the
left and right hemispheres of the
brain.
813
00:22:50,720 –> 00:22:51,119
Dave Lang: Which is wild.
814
00:22:51,119 –> 00:22:53,359
Dave Lang: And doesn’t it also
affect oxygen levels?
816
00:22:53,920 –> 00:22:53,920
Josephine Nolan: Yeah.
817
00:22:53,920 –> 00:22:56,000
Josephine Nolan: It drastically
oxygenates the brain.
818
00:22:56,000 –> 00:22:59,279
Josephine Nolan: And because that M
vibration hits the pineal gland, it
819
00:22:59,279 –> 00:23:00,720
Josephine Nolan: actually triggers
the release of melatonin.
821
00:23:01,680 –> 00:23:03,839
Dave Lang: Wait, so just by humming,
you’re releasing melatonin.
823
00:23:04,799 –> 00:23:04,799
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
824
00:23:04,799 –> 00:23:07,920
Josephine Nolan: You are chemically
altering your brain, lowering your
825
00:23:07,920 –> 00:23:10,640
Josephine Nolan: heart rate, and
prepping your body for deep rest
just
826
00:23:10,640 –> 00:23:12,079
Josephine Nolan: by vibrating your
own vocal cords.
828
00:23:12,799 –> 00:23:13,759
Dave Lang: Okay, I can buy that.
829
00:23:13,759 –> 00:23:18,000
Dave Lang: I can accept that
vibrating my own skull changes my
internal
830
00:23:18,000 –> 00:23:18,400
Dave Lang: chemistry.
831
00:23:18,400 –> 00:23:20,240
Dave Lang: But what about the
environment?
832
00:23:20,240 –> 00:23:24,079
Dave Lang: Because at the very
beginning of the show, I brought up
that
833
00:23:24,079 –> 00:23:25,680
Dave Lang: agricultural study in
China.
835
00:23:26,240 –> 00:23:27,599
Josephine Nolan: In Fujian province,
yeah.
837
00:23:28,000 –> 00:23:31,200
Dave Lang: Right, where they set up
loudspeakers in a wheat field and
blasted
838
00:23:31,200 –> 00:23:33,359
Dave Lang: Sanskrit mantras at the
crops.
839
00:23:33,359 –> 00:23:38,640
Dave Lang: And the wheat grew 15%
larger and had fewer pests than the
silent
840
00:23:38,640 –> 00:23:39,680
Dave Lang: fields next door.
842
00:23:40,160 –> 00:23:40,960
Josephine Nolan: It’s a wild study.
844
00:23:41,599 –> 00:23:42,400
Dave Lang: How does that work?
845
00:23:42,400 –> 00:23:46,640
Dave Lang: A plant doesn’t have a
brain, it doesn’t have ears, it
doesn’t
846
00:23:46,640 –> 00:23:47,200
Dave Lang: have faith.
847
00:23:47,200 –> 00:23:48,000
Dave Lang: Is it magic?
849
00:23:48,559 –> 00:23:49,920
Josephine Nolan: It’s not magic,
it’s sono chemistry.
851
00:23:50,480 –> 00:23:50,480
Dave Lang: Sono chemistry.
853
00:23:51,599 –> 00:23:51,599
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
854
00:23:51,599 –> 00:23:54,960
Josephine Nolan: To understand the
wheat, you have to look at how sound
855
00:23:54,960 –> 00:23:56,240
Josephine Nolan: affects water.
856
00:23:56,240 –> 00:23:59,599
Josephine Nolan: And this brings up
Mazzaro Emoto’s experiments.
858
00:24:00,480 –> 00:24:03,440
Dave Lang: Okay, now wait, Emoto’s
water crystal stuff is pretty
controversial
859
00:24:03,440 –> 00:24:05,359
Dave Lang: in mainstream science,
isn’t it?
861
00:24:05,759 –> 00:24:06,000
Josephine Nolan: It is.
862
00:24:06,000 –> 00:24:09,519
Josephine Nolan: His specific
methods and his claims about human
consciousness
863
00:24:09,519 –> 00:24:13,119
Josephine Nolan: directly freezing
water into pretty shapes have been
heavily
864
00:24:13,119 –> 00:24:13,759
Josephine Nolan: criticized.
865
00:24:13,759 –> 00:24:18,400
Josephine Nolan: But the underlying
physical principle he was pointing
866
00:24:18,400 –> 00:24:21,519
Josephine Nolan: at, that acoustic
frequencies can alter the structure
867
00:24:21,519 –> 00:24:22,880
Josephine Nolan: of liquids, that is
real.
868
00:24:22,880 –> 00:24:23,519
Josephine Nolan: That’s
sonochemistry.
870
00:24:24,480 –> 00:24:26,880
Dave Lang: And it relies on
something called acoustic
cavitation, right?
872
00:24:27,359 –> 00:24:27,359
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
873
00:24:27,359 –> 00:24:31,839
Josephine Nolan: When a sound wave
travels through liquid, the changes
874
00:24:31,839 –> 00:24:34,240
Josephine Nolan: in pressure create
these microscopic bubbles.
875
00:24:34,240 –> 00:24:37,759
Josephine Nolan: The bubbles expand
and then violently collapse.
877
00:24:38,559 –> 00:24:39,440
Dave Lang: Like tiny little
implosions.
879
00:24:40,319 –> 00:24:40,319
Josephine Nolan: Right.
880
00:24:40,319 –> 00:24:44,000
Josephine Nolan: And the energy
released by those collapsing bubbles
can
881
00:24:44,000 –> 00:24:47,119
Josephine Nolan: fundamentally alter
the chemical activity in that
liquid.
882
00:24:47,119 –> 00:24:51,119
Josephine Nolan: Industry uses
ultrasound cavitation all the time
to break
883
00:24:51,119 –> 00:24:53,920
Josephine Nolan: down pollutants and
water or speed up chemical
reactions.
885
00:24:54,799 –> 00:24:58,160
Dave Lang: So if sound waves can
reorganize chemicals in a vat of
water.
887
00:24:58,640 –> 00:24:58,640
Josephine Nolan: Right.
889
00:24:59,119 –> 00:25:01,599
Dave Lang: And humans and plants are
mostly made of water.
891
00:25:02,079 –> 00:25:02,880
Josephine Nolan: You see where this
is going.
892
00:25:02,880 –> 00:25:06,319
Josephine Nolan: Humans are roughly
60% water, plants are even higher.
893
00:25:06,319 –> 00:25:09,759
Josephine Nolan: If specific sound
frequencies can change the chemistry
894
00:25:09,759 –> 00:25:13,759
Josephine Nolan: of water in a lab,
it makes perfect biological sense
that
895
00:25:13,759 –> 00:25:16,559
Josephine Nolan: rhythmic organized
sound waves could alter the cellular
896
00:25:16,559 –> 00:25:19,599
Josephine Nolan: repair and growth
rates of a water-based organism.
898
00:25:20,400 –> 00:25:20,960
Dave Lang: Oh man.
899
00:25:20,960 –> 00:25:23,920
Dave Lang: That completely changes
how I think about resonance.
900
00:25:23,920 –> 00:25:27,519
Dave Lang: Like normally, if I hear
resonance, I think of that trick
where
901
00:25:27,519 –> 00:25:30,160
Dave Lang: an opera singer hits a
high note and shatters a wine glass.
903
00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:30,720
Josephine Nolan: Right.
904
00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:31,759
Josephine Nolan: Destructive
resonance.
906
00:25:32,400 –> 00:25:32,880
Dave Lang: But this is the opposite.
907
00:25:32,880 –> 00:25:35,279
Dave Lang: It’s like, okay, if I
have two tuning forks, right?
909
00:25:35,599 –> 00:25:35,599
Josephine Nolan: Yes.
910
00:25:35,599 –> 00:25:36,000
Josephine Nolan: Entrainment.
912
00:25:36,880 –> 00:25:36,880
Dave Lang: Yeah.
913
00:25:36,880 –> 00:25:41,039
Dave Lang: If I strike one tuning
fork so it hums perfectly, and I
bring
914
00:25:41,039 –> 00:25:44,880
Dave Lang: it next to a silent
tuning fork, the silent one will
just start
915
00:25:44,880 –> 00:25:46,640
Dave Lang: vibrating in harmony on
its own.
917
00:25:47,119 –> 00:25:47,119
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
919
00:25:47,920 –> 00:25:51,039
Dave Lang: So if our cells are sick,
they’re vibrating chaotically,
they’re
920
00:25:51,039 –> 00:25:51,599
Dave Lang: out of tune.
922
00:25:52,160 –> 00:25:54,480
Josephine Nolan: And the mantra is
the master tuning fork.
924
00:25:54,880 –> 00:25:54,880
Dave Lang: Right.
925
00:25:54,880 –> 00:25:59,519
Dave Lang: You introduce this
massive, healthy, organized acoustic
frequency
926
00:25:59,519 –> 00:26:04,000
Dave Lang: into your water-based
body, and it coaxes the sick cells
back
927
00:26:04,000 –> 00:26:04,960
Dave Lang: into their natural
rhythm.
929
00:26:05,599 –> 00:26:06,880
Josephine Nolan: That is exactly the
mechanism.
930
00:26:06,880 –> 00:26:11,359
Josephine Nolan: The physical
vibration overrides the chaotic
disease vibrations.
931
00:26:11,359 –> 00:26:14,799
Josephine Nolan: And this raises an
important point about why they use
932
00:26:14,799 –> 00:26:15,759
Josephine Nolan: Sanskrit
specifically.
934
00:26:16,640 –> 00:26:17,839
Dave Lang: Why not just chant in
English?
936
00:26:18,559 –> 00:26:21,279
Josephine Nolan: Because Sanskrit is
considered the matrika, the mother
937
00:26:21,279 –> 00:26:21,759
Josephine Nolan: of languages.
939
00:26:22,640 –> 00:26:23,920
Dave Lang: It has 50 core
vibrations, right?
941
00:26:24,319 –> 00:26:25,200
Josephine Nolan: Yes, 50 core
syllables.
942
00:26:25,200 –> 00:26:29,519
Josephine Nolan: And in these
ancient cosmologies, these aren’t
just random
943
00:26:29,519 –> 00:26:31,759
Josephine Nolan: sounds people
agreed upon to communicate.
944
00:26:31,759 –> 00:26:36,160
Josephine Nolan: They are the
foundational acoustic building
blocks of
945
00:26:36,160 –> 00:26:36,160
Josephine Nolan:reality.
947
00:26:36,880 –> 00:26:38,559
Dave Lang: So Sanskrit is like an
engineered language.
949
00:26:39,119 –> 00:26:42,000
Josephine Nolan: It’s an acoustic
technology designed specifically for
950
00:26:42,000 –> 00:26:45,519
Josephine Nolan: physical and
psychological resonance, which
actually is
951
00:26:45,519 –> 00:26:46,799
Josephine Nolan: right there in the
word mantra.
953
00:26:47,599 –> 00:26:48,640
Dave Lang: What does the word
literally mean?
955
00:26:49,119 –> 00:26:54,240
Josephine Nolan: It comes from two
roots manas, which means mind, and
tre,
956
00:26:54,240 –> 00:26:57,519
Josephine Nolan: which means to
protect or to set free.
958
00:26:58,079 –> 00:26:58,400
Dave Lang: Mind protection.
960
00:26:59,119 –> 00:26:59,119
Josephine Nolan: Right.
961
00:26:59,119 –> 00:27:00,400
Josephine Nolan: An instrument of
thought.
962
00:27:00,400 –> 00:27:03,039
Josephine Nolan: It’s not a prayer
you’re throwing out into the void
hoping
963
00:27:03,039 –> 00:27:04,160
Josephine Nolan: someone hears it.
964
00:27:04,160 –> 00:27:06,960
Josephine Nolan: It’s a physical
tool you use to tune your own
biology.
966
00:27:07,839 –> 00:27:08,799
Dave Lang: So what does this all
mean?
967
00:27:08,799 –> 00:27:11,599
Dave Lang: When we look back at this
whole deep dive, from the scattered
968
00:27:11,599 –> 00:27:15,440
Dave Lang: law all the way to the
water crystals, the through line is
so
969
00:27:15,440 –> 00:27:15,599
Dave Lang: clear.
970
00:27:15,599 –> 00:27:18,799
Dave Lang: Healing isn’t just
swallowing a pill and waiting.
972
00:27:19,519 –> 00:27:20,559
Josephine Nolan: No, it’s highly
active.
973
00:27:20,559 –> 00:27:21,279
Josephine Nolan: It’s a
collaboration.
975
00:27:22,240 –> 00:27:25,519
Dave Lang: You start with the
intention to restore your vitality
by accepting
976
00:27:25,519 –> 00:27:26,160
Dave Lang: impermanence.
977
00:27:26,160 –> 00:27:31,119
Dave Lang: Then you use deity yoga,
whether it’s the Medicine Buddha or
978
00:27:31,119 –> 00:27:34,559
Dave Lang: Black Manjushri, to
recruit your subconscious mind and
counter
979
00:27:34,559 –> 00:27:36,319
Dave Lang: the psychological weight
of the disease.
980
00:27:36,319 –> 00:27:40,079
Dave Lang: And finally, you
physicalize it all by vibrating your
cellular
981
00:27:40,079 –> 00:27:42,880
Dave Lang: water with these
engineered Sanskrit mantras.
983
00:27:43,599 –> 00:27:46,240
Josephine Nolan: You’re hitting the
illness on the gross physical level,
984
00:27:46,240 –> 00:27:49,119
Josephine Nolan: the subtle
psychological level, and the
vibratory cellular
985
00:27:49,119 –> 00:27:50,480
Josephine Nolan: level all at once.
986
00:27:50,480 –> 00:27:53,599
Josephine Nolan: And modern science
is really just starting to map out
987
00:27:53,599 –> 00:27:56,319
Josephine Nolan: the mechanics of a
system that’s been used for
thousands
988
00:27:56,319 –> 00:27:57,119
Josephine Nolan: of years.
990
00:27:57,839 –> 00:28:00,480
Dave Lang: It really is an ancient
technology for human optimization.
991
00:28:00,480 –> 00:28:05,599
Dave Lang: But, you know, taking all
this data seriously leaves us with
992
00:28:05,599 –> 00:28:08,720
Dave Lang: kind of an intimidating
thought about our day-to-day lives.
994
00:28:09,279 –> 00:28:09,519
Josephine Nolan: Oh, definitely.
995
00:28:09,519 –> 00:28:12,400
Josephine Nolan: This is the thing I
can’t stop thinking about.
996
00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:16,400
Josephine Nolan: If we accept
acoustic cavitation, if we know that
sound
997
00:28:16,400 –> 00:28:20,160
Josephine Nolan: waves radically
alter the chemistry of water, and we
know
998
00:28:20,160 –> 00:28:23,519
Josephine Nolan: we are basically
walking bags of water, then we have
to
999
00:28:23,519 –> 00:28:26,480
Josephine Nolan: ask a really
uncomfortable question about our own
internal
1000
00:28:26,480 –> 00:28:27,039
Josephine Nolan: monologue.
1001
00:28:27,039 –> 00:28:30,880
Josephine Nolan: The casual words we
say to ourselves every single day.
1003
00:28:31,359 –> 00:28:31,599
Dave Lang: Oh well.
1004
00:28:31,599 –> 00:28:31,839
Dave Lang: Yeah.
1006
00:28:32,319 –> 00:28:36,400
Josephine Nolan: If chanting ohm can
structure your cellular water for
1007
00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:39,440
Josephine Nolan: healing, what
happens when you spend your entire
day repeating
1008
00:28:39,440 –> 00:28:42,960
Josephine Nolan: things like, I’m so
exhausted, or I’m falling apart, or
1009
00:28:42,960 –> 00:28:43,839
Josephine Nolan: I can’t do this?
1011
00:28:44,319 –> 00:28:45,279
Dave Lang: It’s like a reverse
mantra.
1013
00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:46,000
Josephine Nolan: Exactly.
1014
00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:49,920
Josephine Nolan: Are those daily
complaints physically acting as a
reverse
1015
00:28:49,920 –> 00:28:50,400
Josephine Nolan: mantra?
1016
00:28:50,400 –> 00:28:54,000
Josephine Nolan: Are we literally
making ourselves sick on a molecular
1017
00:28:54,000 –> 00:28:57,119
Josephine Nolan: level just by the
acoustic frequency of our own
negative
1018
00:28:57,119 –> 00:28:57,519
Josephine Nolan: self-talk?
1020
00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:01,200
Dave Lang: If our bodies are
physically listening to every single
dubration
1021
00:29:01,200 –> 00:29:06,319
Dave Lang: we make and structurally
changing because of it, man, we need
1022
00:29:06,319 –> 00:29:08,880
Dave Lang: to be incredibly careful
about the song we’re choosing to
sing.
1023
00:29:08,880 –> 00:29:11,920
Dave Lang: That is a massive
paradigm shift to take into the
week.
1024
00:29:11,920 –> 00:29:15,200
Dave Lang: So to our listeners, we
highly encourage you to observe your
1025
00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:17,680
Dave Lang: own mind-body connection
over the next few days.
1026
00:29:17,680 –> 00:29:22,079
Dave Lang: Pay attention to your
vitality, test out taking a deep
breath
1027
00:29:22,079 –> 00:29:25,920
Dave Lang: to settle your nervous
system, and most importantly, guard
the
1028
00:29:25,920 –> 00:29:28,079
Dave Lang: acoustic environment of
your own mind.
1029
00:29:28,079 –> 00:29:30,720
Dave Lang: Until next time, keep
diving deep.
1031
00:29:33,759 –> 00:29:37,200
Nadine: This has been a Buddha
Weekly Buddha Cast, a deep dive with
Josephine
1032
00:29:37,200 –> 00:29:38,720
Nadine: Nolan and Dave Lang.
1033
00:29:38,720 –> 00:29:42,559
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1034
00:29:42,559 –> 00:29:49,039
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1035
00:29:49,039 –> 00:29:51,279
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1036
00:29:51,279 –> 00:29:54,960
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