Meditation is that state where you are no more. Your sense of Self is gone.
If you ask an artist where his work comes from, if he’s a generous artist, he’ll say, ‘I don’t know where it comes.’
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Deepu Asok is the author and illustrator of the wonderful and enlightening Visual Wisdom newsletter. He’s also the host of a podcast called The Happiness Hypothesis. He’s got a serious eye for designs that pop.
Deepu and I were dming over meditation and spirituality. But he had to get going, and asked to continue our talk over zoom some time. I said sure. And of course, I asked if he wanted to record our talk for the podcast. He said yes. And so, here we are.
Please enjoy my conversation with the wonderful and wise Deepu Asok!
Talking Points
- On different schools of meditation and yoga (3:00)
- The benefits of doing yoga before meditation (11:00)
- Why meditate? (14:00)
- “Philosophy doesn’t transform you. Practice transform you” (21:00)
- “The lion is trying to help you, but it doesn’t know how.” (28:00)
- On Happiness and work (37:00)
- Three types of work (43:00)
- Selling on Gumroad (50:00)
- The differences between drawing and writing (55:00)
- “You’re paying for the organization of the ideas” / Constraints (1:00:00)
- Art vs Content (1:07:00)
- On books and reading (1:16:00)
- Wishful thinking (1:23:00)
- Flow in drawing (1:35:00)
- Constraints (1:40:00)
- Final questions (1:46:00)
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