Deepam Gokal

#MD #Hospitalist #WFPB #🇺🇸🇿🇦🇮🇳

[Deepam Gokal @OmDoc]

Dancing Salaryman Pokes Fun at Japan’s Buttoned-Down Culture https://t.co/GGIhjmJbq7 via @NYTimes

[Deepam Gokal @OmDoc]

How Healthy Is Seaweed? https://t.co/w5v8o9UJLr via @NYTimes

[Z @ZeeContrarian1]

𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗜𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗲 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦.

-Tibetan Buddhist teacher

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been exploring a thought experiment that has taken me deeper and deeper into the Self.

The more I observe life, the more waking reality reminds me of a dream.

Of course, dreams and waking life follow different laws. But that is not the point.

Nobody has ever returned from the grave to tell us what happens after death. Yes, there are stories of people who were declared clinically dead and later revived. But perhaps the doctors were mistaken about their condition, or perhaps their hearts had stopped while their brains had not yet suffered irreversible damage. None of this proves that someone has experienced irreversible death and returned.

So, having never experienced death myself, I am left with the closest experience I have: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲.

When we dream, everything feels real. People, animals, trees, love, fear, anger, desire. An entire world exists, and we believe in it completely.

Then we wake up.

Suddenly, we realize that the people, the trees, the animals, and even the person we believed ourselves to be were all made of the same fabric.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲.

And perhaps this is the simplest way to understand the ancient idea that 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗲.

The most fascinating part is that I was no more real than anyone else in my dream. I wasn’t the one real person surrounded by imaginary characters. 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

Today, walking through the streets of Istanbul, I watched hundreds of people passing by. Different faces, different lives, different desires. Everyone seemingly living inside their own reality.

And I asked myself: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺?

I assume these people have their own inner experience, just as I do. But I cannot directly know their awareness, any more than I can know the awareness of characters inside my dreams.

Perhaps the only thing I can know directly is awareness itself. Whether dreaming or awake, experience is happening. Even deep sleep raises the question of whether awareness disappears or simply has nothing to observe.

And this brings me back to the 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘬𝘳𝘢 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘢:

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦. 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭?

Imagine realizing, while dreaming, that everything is a dream. Suddenly, the problems, ambitions, victories, and defeats lose their importance. They still exist within the dream, but 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲.

There is nothing left to prove, nothing you must achieve. You can simply become still, observe, and turn inward.

Perhaps waking life is no different.

I don’t know whether reality is a dream. And I don’t need to know.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. It loosens my attachment to the person I believe myself to be and takes me deeper into the Self.

And here is the most important realization:

𝗜𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹.

𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

My memories, my personality, my ambitions, even the person asking these questions are all part of the same dream.

Just as the dreamer is not the character inside the dream, perhaps I am not the person I believe myself to be.

Perhaps what remains is awareness itself.

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱: 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗲.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This guy spent 14 hours waiting for a squirrel to set off this Rube Goldberg Machine.

[📹 Creezy]

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

Can we all agree that Novak Djokovic is the greatest athlete of all time?

[Tiempo De Tenis @Tiempodetenis1]

🥹 Recordamos esta hermosa historia que contó Daniil Medvedev sobre Novak Djokovic:

🗣 "Estábamos entrenando con Novak y me dijo que en unos días se jugaba la Copa Davis. Me preguntó cuándo viajaba y le dije que el sábado. Me propuso: '¿Quieres venir conmigo en mi avión?'".

🗣 "Soy una persona tímida, así que al principio le dije que no, que la federación ya me había comprado los pasajes".

🗣 "Me quedé pensando: 'Tal vez debí haberle dicho que sí'. Cuando terminó la práctica le pregunté: '¿De verdad puedo ir contigo?'. Me dijo: '¡Sí!'. Así que acepté".

🗣 "Eso es algo que la gente a veces no sabe de Novak. Puede ser duro en la pista, pero desde que lo conocí siendo 400 del mundo hasta hoy, que fui número 1 y soy un rival directo, me trata exactamente igual. Fuera de la cancha nada cambió y eso habla de la gran persona que es".

[Deepam Gokal @OmDoc]

@hamza_xau Trade

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry, don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The pink pigeon from Mauritius bounced back from near extinction through careful conservation.

[National Geographic TV @NatGeoTV]

Presented by @Rolex. It's time to explore nature on an epic scale. It's time to explore Africa.

#AfricaEarthsWildHome is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

A gentle and powerful reminder

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

18 years ago.

Djokovic and Nadal play blackjack at a casino.

[José Morón @jmgmoron]

Así define Alcaraz cómo fue su almuerzo junto a Federer.

🗣️ “Estábamos almorzando y de repente llegó Roger y tomó un plato para almorzar con nosotros”

🗣️ “No voy a decir de qué hablamos, porque era un momento privado. Mantendré nuestra conversación entre nosotros, pero es genial”

🗣️ “Veo a Roger a veces cuando aparece en los torneos, pero no es tan común pasar tiempo con él en el circuito”

🗣️ “Entonces la Laver Cup es especial porque puedo pasar mucho más tiempo con Roger, charlar fuera de la cancha y preguntarle sobre muchas cosas. Es genial y me encantan esos momentos”

Lo que decía: impagable.

[Deepam Gokal @OmDoc]

What’s the Healthiest Nut? https://t.co/gYuVN71zIM via @NYTimes

[Sue @SueJ2024]

When you refuse to make two trips:
😂🤣😂😅😂🤣😅😂

[Swish 🍒 Tennis @Zwxsh]

When the ATP did the hit the ball through the hole challenge...

It truly showed the difference between top players and the average public

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Originally released alongside Wreck-It Ralph, critics and audiences fell in love with the 2012 animated short Paperman, which won Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards.

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

Novak Djokovic learns Chinese calligraphy. 🇨🇳

A man of many talents. ❤️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Stunning moonwalk tutorial

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[Michael Greger, M.D. @nutrition_facts]

Though deficiency for those starting out with adequate stores may take years to develop, the results of B12 deficiency can be devastating, with cases reported of paralysis, psychosis, blindness, and even death. https://t.co/XqDIeSouoi