Dr. Alok Kanojia
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's happening to my mind in here.
There's nothing.
So I tested this when my dad passed away.
So I remember like going to the funeral and seeing his body.
I remember touching his skin, like his face, and shocked at how cold he was.
Like it was like my dad, but he's like ice.
And so I was grieving and I was sad and I was crying, but I was like, is that thing still there?
And I found that thing was there and I felt at peace.
Like it is the mind that is sad.
but I'm not sad.
The body is grieving, but I'm not grieving.
That's really what I am.
That's just emotion.
It's not really me.
When we become identified with our emotion,
When we were going through a breakup and we're like, oh my God, I become sadness.
I become sadness incarnate.
But then when you step away from sadness, when you are watching sadness from the outside, it can actually be wonderful.
And that's why we like sad movies.
We feel sad, but we feel great.