Master Your Life: Dov Ber Cohen on the Mind, Psychedelics, and Self-Mastery | @Whole.Picture

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Rabbi Dobe thank you for joining me you wrote a book called mastering life what does it actually mean to master our life wow that's a good question in general most people seem to be a victim to their circumstances victim to their outside world so most people get their happiness based on what happens to them if their football team wins then they're happy football team loses then they're sad nice weather happy bad weather sad people like their social media post they're happy don't like it they're sad so people are basically a victim to so people are basically a victim to their outside world and also their sense of self self-esteem if you think I'm cool if I'm saying the right thing wearing the white thing I got the right body I'm drinking the right thing got the right phone then I feel good about myself and if I'm not getting recognition from other people then I don't feel good about myself so self-mastery is the ability to choose how I think and how I feel and how I act in the world rather than just being a victim and reacting to what's going on around me you mentioned happy should we be chasing happiness in be chasing happiness in life should we be chasing happiness I think happiness is what most people want whenever I ask people what do you want in life everyone says I want to be happy but I think if we're chasing happiness we'll never really get there what we should be doing is we should be investing in the things that are going to bring happiness for example having a goal having a clear goal in life to impact the world in a positive way or to improve my character traits or to to have some sort of project in the world once we feel that we're reaching a

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1. 0:00Rabbi Dobe thank you for joining me you wrote a book called mastering life what does…
2. 4:06good life even if your external circumstances are difficult and if you're having negative thoughts even…
3. 8:12meditation and and helping offens because I did lots of volunteering in ofan ages and it's…
4. 12:53present moment so even if you play tennis I used to play tennis a lot so…
5. 16:59perfect and pure which means this is real deep Jewish therapy however abused you may have…
6. 21:34work what does aod mean spiritual work our work our how we're doing things in life…
7. 25:38lowest is called the nephesh and the nephesh really means just the enlivening spirit like an…
8. 29:46limitation 100% that's why it says on PES we say you have to see yourself as…
9. 34:21to exercise these different things we do in the physical world to better our life where…
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