Jay Shetty: Learn to see the layers in everyone
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"Why?” asks an insistent high school art teacher. “Why? Why? Why?” Staring blankly back, a young Jay Shetty has nothing to say. It’s an art project, it's just homework. A collage. It’s just … layers. The next day in a subway station, Jay's chance encounter with an ad peeling off the wall unlocks the truest answer. What he discovers that day about himself carries forward into college, when Jay meets a fellow student who's consumed by negativity and pain. There, the art project from so many years ago comes in handy in ways he never anticipates.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. |
| 0:02.0 | With some exciting news to share, Meditative Story is now on YouTube, so you can now experience |
| 0:08.9 | full length stories with gorgeous visual backgrounds, short clips from our storytellers and even some |
| 0:15.0 | meditation videos from me, which I love to record out in nature. |
| 0:20.1 | We hope you'll come along for this new venture. |
| 0:22.6 | You can follow the channel at meditativestory.com, fullslash youtube. |
| 0:52.6 | Layer after layer, I see ad after ad poking through. |
| 1:03.6 | Pops of colour, fragments of letters. |
| 1:08.4 | Within those layers is the history of that one single space. |
| 1:15.2 | I start to think, what are my layers? |
| 1:21.6 | J. Shetty is admired for his work as a podcaster to help wisdom spread in today's digital |
| 1:35.8 | world. |
| 1:36.8 | Known for his ability to see the complexity in people, J. Shetty shares a meditative story |
| 1:42.4 | today about suspending judgement on others until he's able to see beyond the surface |
| 1:47.5 | of first impressions. |
| 1:49.5 | It's a story he's telling for the first time here. |
| 1:52.9 | And if you follow J, his first book, Think Like A Monk, may be a great interest. |
| 1:58.7 | In this series, we combine immersive first person stories, breathtaking music and mindfulness |
| 2:06.2 | prompts, so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories. |
| 2:12.3 | And that can need to improvements in our own inner lives. |
| 2:18.4 | And wait what? |
| 2:19.9 | This is meditative story. |
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