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Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing

door Deepak Chopra

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A remarkable first-person account of a young doctor's spiritual journey. Chopra guides us from his beginnings in India, through the conventional training of a Western physician, to his discovery of the ancient traditions of India's Ayurveda and the dimension of the mind in medicine.
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I doubt that any of this will be first-order unique, you know, and I’m not an expert in Ayurveda or Western medicine, or any other system of healing, even though I obviously (easy as it is to forget, for both the doctor and the patient, in different ways) have some skin in the game, as an embodied being.

I certainly think there are things that Western medicine does well. Certainly it’s been proven that good Western medicine is better than poor Western medicine, for example. (Which is why people pay for it: I read this memoir of this sometimes-clueless Texas Christian singer, and he had a huge weight problem, and he could have died, but he was already rich, so he didn’t because he got super-expensive surgery and lived, you know. The doctor’s like, Your grandfather died of this. Your father died of this. But you’re going to live! And he all but said Hallelujah my spirituality broke the cycle, and was so clueless that he didn’t specifically thank God for his record deal and whatever lawyer he hired to protect his earnings, you know…. So clueless. Too clueless to be grateful.)

Anyway, there are things that typical American doctors and the staid elements of the American system do well—mostly finding and solving specific health problems, you know. Find this problem. Solve this problem. But, for that very reason—although I guess I understand the idea—I hate the yearly check-ups I’m required to take by my supervised housing, because our doctors are very nervous people, you know. Show them a healthy person, and sooner or later they’ll do tests until they find something wrong—which one of us is perfectly healthy?—and then they’ll give you medicine with side effects, and even in a case like mine where I can’t imagine that I have good insurance, you know, so they drive me nuts even though it’s purely a case of covering their asses and driving themselves crazy. Medical bureaucracy, you know. It’s how they keep demand down.

But I like Big DC (I know, that makes him sound like either a rapper, or David Copperfield, right), because unlike some voices in the alternative community, he’s not an alarmist or a conspiracy theorist, as absurd as the staid people are who make DC into their cartoon villain character, you know. Actually, the thing about Deepak that’s so reassuring to me and yet so strange is that he is an alternative voice: I actually have to remind myself of that, that no matter how accepting you want to be, no matter how much you want to join hands, no matter how much you want to sing Kumbaya—I mean, look at me. One of my things is, I like to include. But that itself makes me different, makes a stereotypical liberal in some people’s eyes, might automatically make them feel positively un-included, and fucking freaked out, to boot. But, anyway. I’m an alternative voice, DC is an alternative voice. And it’s a memoir, a sort of personal/why book, more than even a standard-issue introduction to this sort of thing, but that doesn’t make it less valuable, since it is nice to hear Deepak, who in this very Indian way has a way of disappearing into the world and forgetting himself, talk about himself personally and specifically, and the whole—both mystic and quite hum-drum—background of being from the subcontinent of India.

…. And the other thing is it might occur to a racist liberal (a distinct type, that) to see a brown Mexican—and what is an Indian from a certain point of view if not a sort of higher brown Mexican—and, seeing rationally enough to see that the difference in skin tone does not equate with criminality or constitute a threat, say, Sure. The brown Mexicans will be the raw materials of the new America (or whatever), built along the old pattern, as the white blood declines. —This is by no means wholly wrong or wholly trivial or bad. Anglo ways can be good and can work for some people, and people whose skin tone is not pale can feel their attraction; many such people want to be tolerated and included precisely so they can participate in this existing system, just as though they were young white people or whatever. But perhaps we deceive ourselves. Is it really ours to say that there is only one way to do things? Is it really ours to say that the other body may not develop in the way they choose? Perhaps we are neither materially nor culturally hurt by the existence of other physical races and cultural groups. Perhaps temperament and skin tone may both be tolerated. Survival and monopoly are different terms, are they not? Or is it that white people must be everywhere, if white people are to be anywhere? Or is it that the ‘darkness’ anywhere is a threat to the light everywhere? But the only true darkness is that people everywhere are afraid to know the truth, and seek to punish the one who wants to know it.

…. The other thing is the whole business of hospitals and being a professional, which I guess I’ve never liked, although I probably could have been one if I hadn’t minded being sweared at, you know. It’s certainly not exclusive to the West, but our wear white gloves while counting the money attitude does seem extreme to me. A lot of competition—I know that it’s done under the auspices of quality control, but I think that’s just a rationalization. If Becca Bunch University is turning out good students, then that’s a problem for Audra Levine University, the only good school in (the mainstream/‘real’ part of whatever country)—so they have to be crushed. And if you don’t like it, you’re a woman, and we’ll crush you.

And then we’ll admit you to hospital so we can heal you! 😸

…. The candy bar: We judge other people based on whether they are their culture can be easily assimilated to our own.

The wrapper: And hopefully we don’t have to start giving away the good seats, just because they assimilate.

…. “You’re getting there too quickly.”

Having a good working relationship with a doctor is much more of a long shot of you’re poor—I don’t want to write down what I was thinking the other day about these people we get to see seeing as we’re poor, you know…. I guess to be fair some of the more affluent and superficially informed people also have limited choices, because of their subscription to Heresy Hunting, Medical Choices Edition Magazine, you know….—but at least I can train myself (Thich said the same thing, but I ignored him, lol) to eat more slowly, as though I enjoyed it, as though I weren’t feeding a machine, you know…. As though life weren’t a race and everything an obstacle, right. “I only have thirty more years or so to become enlightened, and then I’ll really start to be old man!” 👴😸🫠

…. Anyway, as he says at the very end, it’s not a technical manual; it’s basically a memoir, which I like—there’s really a memoir type for every category of book, really. It doesn’t explain the details of Ayurveda any more than a vegetarian (perhaps?) memoir like “Eating Animals” is the same practically as a cookbook of plant-based recipes. It’s example, inspiration, motivation. And it’s a very practical either way—who asks for a plant-based recipe book that they don’t think that they need?

Anyway, I don’t know. I changed when I became a vegetarian, and I’m going to maybe try to go deeper into life again, but I always, usually, and without realizing it, really, always had Plato’s opinion of health scholarship, like it’s just worrying and frittering life away and trying to control the un-controllable thing that isn’t really worth your time…. and with that line of thought you can blend into Epictetus, too. I feel bigger from knowing guys like those two, but certainly, obviously, we can have a conditional preference for health, and I never realized before, that trying to have perfect health can itself be the right way, that makes you a bigger person, and takes you closer to the white light.
  goosecap | Mar 3, 2023 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Chopra-Dormir-enfin-sereinement/28163

> Que représente pour vous l'Ayurvéda, êtes-vous VATA, PITTA ou KAPHA ? … ; (en ligne),
In: Infos Yoga, (22), Mars/Avril 1999, (p. 8)

> DORMIR ENFIN SEREINEMENT, de Dr Deepak Chopra - Ed. Presses de la Cité, Collection Ayurvéd. — Derrière un trouble en apparence bénin l'insomnie est un véritable drame, vécu au quotidien par des millions d'individus.
S'inspirant des préceptes de la sagesse ayurvédique, le Dr Deepak Chopra propose sa méthode pour vaincre les troubles du sommeil. Vous devrez définir votre personnalité ayurvédique, contrôler votre respiration, pratiquer les massages relaxants, apprendre à mieux vous nourrir. Ce qui ne sera pas difficile si vous êtes un adepte du yoga assidu.
C'est un ouvrage passionnant qui vous permettra de découvrir en quelques pages la médecine ayurvédique dont nous ne saurions trop vous recommander l'approfondissement.
Infos Yoga, (21), Janv./Févr. 1999, (p. 34)

> CORPS / ESPRIT. — Nous devrions cesser de considérer le corps humain comme un corps et un esprit, ou comme un esprit à l'intérieur d'un corps, et l'envisager plutôt comme un esprit/corps. En outre, nous devrions nous accoutumer à cette notion que l'esprit ne se trouve pas seulement dans le cerveau. La conscience est le mode d'expression spécifique de l'esprit et le comportement qui exprime la conscience est présent dans tout le corps, dans chacune des cellules.
—Dr Chopra, "Dormir enfin sereinement"
Ed. Presses du Châtelet
In: Infos Yoga, (21), Janv./Févr. 1999, (p. 4)

> BIEN DORMIR. — Si vous décidez de rester éveillé jusque tard dans la nuit, votre sommeil sera plus superficiel et moins reposant, il sera aussi plus difficile à trouver. Les spécialistes du sommeil ont établi le fait que le sommeil devient plus léger au fur et à mesure que l'on avance dans la nuit. Ceci corrobore la description ayurvédique du passage de Kapha à Pitta puis à Vata - du plus lourd au plus léger - au cours de la nuit.
—Dr Deepak Chopra,
Dormir enfin sereinement - Presses du châtelet
In; Infos Yoga, (22), Mars/Avril 1999, (p. 6)
  Joop-le-philosophe | Feb 7, 2023 |
After I gave birth, I was stressed and used to eat too much. Somebody hinted at Ayurveda, so I had my mother get me some Ayurveda books from Germany way back in 1993. I don't know why it says that the publication date was 2001 because the same book came out much earlier. I was not into esoteric stuff then, but it was very matter-of-fact and spiritual at the same time. I do not practice what he describes but I became open-minded towards Eastern medicine and more skeptic against Western medicine. I also started to understand the connection between mind and body. Somehow I wished I had encountered the book a year or two earlier. ( )
1 stem foomy | Jan 19, 2010 |
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