Lucy Liu: One Outstanding Humanitarian
Lucy Liu: It is. I’m very curious about it. I really do think about that. I remember taking Chinese philosophy when I was in college, and I remember Lao Tse’s Tao [Te Ching], and they were talking about The Tao. I took the class, and wrote a paper on it. Even after I finished the class, I did not know what was going on. And oddly, two years after I graduated, I was walking down the street, and suddenly, everything hit me. It all made sense to me, the idea of the uncarved block; the idea of all of these teachings that it had. I suddenly understood it, and it was such a huge miracle for me. I remember the professor saying, right before we started studying it, ‘I’m so envious that you guys are learning and opening this book for the first time, and you’re going to read it.’ –because there’s only one first time, right? I opened it, and I read it. I just did not understand anything about it. But now, I see the wisdom in what he was talking about.
Deepak Chopra: I think a lot of problems in our world happen because people are not connected to these wisdom traditions.
Lucy Liu: I think it’s true. We have been lucky in Eastern tradition, though.
Deepak Chopra: Yeah. But, the vast majority of society is like functioning like biological robots, zombies. They don’t even think what life is about.
Lucy Liu: Well, I think that, oftentimes, religion can get in the way of that.
Deepak Chopra: So, as I talk to you, and the more I’ve gotten to know you, it seems like you have an amazingly successful career. You have good health. You are spiritual. I think you’re centered. You’re engaged in social causes. And you have meaning and purpose in your life. Is that the recipe, then, for people who are watching us?
Lucy Liu: I think that everyone has their own very unique way of living their lives and falling into where they are. The one thing that I’ve learned is change is incredibly difficult, but it’s not impossible.
