Mr. Furman has walked eighty miles, or one hundred twenty-nine kilometers, with a bottle balanced on his head. And in nineteen eighty-one he clapped his hands for fifty hours.
In all, he has set or broken more than three hundred forty records. Some of these have been broken by others. But he still holds more than one hundred twenty records and sets many new ones every year.
ASHRITA FURMAN: "The last few years it’s been around fifty or so. Those fifty, many of them are physically challenging and do take sometimes up to, you know, three or four months of training. And some of them are really very simple and involve peeling and eating a lemon in the fastest time or something like that.”
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Ashrita Furman says he is happy if other people break his records. In fact, he offers advice on his website. He says whatever record you choose to try to break, make sure it is something you love doing and something that gives you joy.
And he offers this advice once you have chosen the record you want to set: Train hard. Plan ahead. Be patient -- don't give up. Expect the unexpected. And learn concentration.
He says meditating has helped him set his records.
ASHRITA FURMAN: "You know, when you’re really having a good meditation you feel that you are separate from your body, that whatever is happening to that body is not happening to me -- I'm the soul and I transcend that body. To me it’s the most fulfilling thing that I can do. It keeps me in really good shape. It brings me [a] tremendous amount of fulfillment, of closeness to God. And I‘ve had spiritual experiences in the middle of a record. So, I never want to stop."
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