Peace Is the Way -
Deepak Chopra
Tackling world peace Deepak
Chopra’s way
It’s an incongruous image: Deepak Chopra, a leader of a
spiritual movement that has introduced millions of American to be benefits of
positive thinking, waving a cell phone in the air as he lists its capacities for
destruction. I could be sitting anywhere in the world and move a few electrons
from here, and I’ll interface with the power grid for the entire state of New
York, “he says, “Or I’ll interfere with air traffic signals so no plane can land
at JFK. What is military power going to do then?” Chopra hasn’t snapped. He’s
explaining what he sees as the ineffectiveness of conventional warfare in an age
when terrorists can wreak havoc with-out a single armed troop. What’s need
instead, he says, is a return to the ancient principle that peace begins within;
Just as individuals can now perpetrate mass violence, individuals must also take
responsibility for creating world peace.
That’s the message of Chopra’s new book, “Peace Is the Way,”
which offers seven daily practices that he says will create inner peace and, by
extension, a more placid world. Is it naïve to think enough people will adopt
his ideas to make a difference? “We have to try. If you ask anybody on the
street, “Do you want peace of mind in your life and in your relationship?
nobody is going to say no,” he says. “Magnify that a few million times – that’s
what we need.” It’s that steadfast optimism that has become Chopra’s trademark.
He has made a career of purveying hope, earning an estimated $10 million (D7.6
million) to $15 million (D11.5 million) by selling 20 million copies of his 40
books and operating a successful wellness center in California. His legions of
fans include the Dalai Lama, former Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams
and Oscar Arias, and former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose
endorsements fill the first few pages of “Peace Is the Way.” True to his image
as an unflappable guru Chopra – who’s about 58 but doesn’t remember exactly when
he was born. It may surprise some, but Chopra is writing from personal
experience. In the mid-1980s, when he was chief of staff of New England
Memorial Hospital near Boston, chopra
was on the brink of an emotional breakdown. He drank, smoked and was a
self-described caffeine addict. In the desperation, he turned to yoga and
meditation to relieve his stress. He also traveled to India, where he was born
and earned his medical degree. There, he met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a meditation
teacher and spiritual leader who famously served as guru to
the Beatles in 1960s.
the Maharishi introduced Chopra
to Ayurvedic medicine, which uses herbal mixtures to stave off illness. After
returning to the United States, Chopra founded an Ayurvedic health center in
1985, the same year he quit his hospital job. As Chopra’s fame and financial
success grew, he began to serer his ties to the Western medical establishment,
letting his medical establishment, letting his medical licenses expire in
Massachusetts and California. The estrangement was mutual. Some mainstream
doctors dismissed Chopra’s mind-body approach as ineffective in treating
disease, and in the early 1990s he was accused of making a backhanded pitch for
his health center when he wrote an article in the Journal of American Medical
Association about the benefits of herbal medicine. Today, he maintains his
goals are altruistic, and says he channels much of his earning to charity.
Source: Kathmandu Post,
25/1/2005
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