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tiger death, time masters. There

1:02

are certain truths

1:04

which are just absolute. Those

1:07

are very nice truths. People

1:10

can't mess with them. Your

1:14

life should

1:16

be about those truths. If

1:19

your life is not about absolute

1:21

truth, it's about relative

1:23

truth. And everybody has

1:25

a relative truth. What

1:28

is relative truth? Well, it depends. If

1:30

you're very sincere and

1:32

you would like to know truth, you

1:35

take your experiences, you be

1:37

honest about them, and you try to put

1:39

together what looks like the truth. The

1:42

trouble is everybody is doing that. Understand

1:45

that? Like you literally think

1:47

that people are purposely lying when

1:49

they're trying to tell the truth

1:51

based on what they've seen, based on their

1:53

experiences. I've heard the

1:55

most foundational things that I have

1:57

found in life is a statement

1:59

that psychology says, man is

2:01

the sum of his learned

2:03

experiences. You can't just gloss

2:05

over that. Why? Because that's the truth.

2:07

It's not the truth that you are

2:10

the sum of your learned experiences. The

2:12

truth is that your mind and your

2:14

heart are programmed by the sum of

2:16

your learned experiences. You

2:18

get turned on or turned off

2:20

based on your past experiences. You

2:23

don't know. You've never seen it before. You

2:25

don't know anything about it. It neither turns on

2:27

or turns off. You may be

2:29

scared about it because things you didn't know

2:31

about before scared you. You learn. You learn.

2:33

You learn to like people. learn to not

2:35

like people. You learn to like foods. You

2:37

learn to not like foods. You learn to

2:39

like countries. You learn to like music. Here.

2:42

You were dating somebody in high school and you really

2:44

loved her very, very much. And she dumped me like,

2:46

oh my God, you ran off with your best friend

2:48

and so on. And it used to be a song

2:50

that you all played together. You hate that song. It's

2:53

a song. Not to you, it's not. And

2:56

you think this is natural. You just think, why should

2:58

we even talk about this? Are you kidding me? This

3:01

is reality. This is what's going on. Your

3:03

mind is the sum of your learned

3:05

experiences. They're not a single thing going on

3:08

inside of there, but the sum of

3:10

your learned experiences. That's what your

3:12

preferences are. Your likes, your dislikes, your hopes,

3:14

your dreams. Not hopes and dreams. No,

3:16

no, no. Those are spiritual things. Oh,

3:18

do I get in trouble? No, they're not. I'm

3:23

going to qualify this now. If you're depressed, I want you

3:25

out of hope. But I can tell you

3:27

what you're hoped for. The same thing

3:29

everyone else hopes for. I hope I'll get what I want. And

3:32

you hope you don't have to get what you don't want. So

3:35

that's not spiritual. but it's good

3:37

for you as opposed to being depressed

3:39

as opposed to giving up as opposed

3:41

to thinking there's just no hope that

3:43

kind of hope okay and your dreams

3:45

are the same thing what are your

3:47

dreams i dream someday my ship will

3:49

come in is that the same as

3:51

her ship and her ship and his

3:53

ship same as your ship was when

3:55

you were five no it's something you

3:57

make up in your mind based on

3:59

your learned experiences it basically says i've

4:01

had experiences could be a movie a

4:04

book i wrote i saw somebody else

4:06

whatever A dream I had, it could

4:08

be anything. Every one of those things

4:10

is an experience. They're experiences. They came

4:12

in and they influence your psyche. They

4:14

influence the programming of your mind and

4:16

the program of your heart. You

4:19

are programmed, you understand that. Now,

4:21

there is someone in there, you, who

4:24

is shaking their head, yes, because you

4:26

know this is true. Why? Because you're

4:28

watching your mind, you see your thoughts,

4:30

you see your emotions, don't you? You're

4:32

the consciousness. You're not the somebody

4:34

who learned experiences. You've always been there. If you're

4:36

the somebody who learned experience, then you didn't exist

4:38

before you had the experience. Okay?

4:42

This is my husband. I am his

4:44

wife. Okay? You didn't exist

4:46

before you met them. You just defined

4:48

yourself as that. You defined yourself

4:51

as the wife. But what were you before you

4:53

got married? You were in there the same. You

4:56

just had not had that experience.

4:58

Therefore, your mind was not programmed with

5:00

the wifey thing or the husband

5:02

thing. When you were going

5:04

to get married, The word marriage meant,

5:06

oh my God, you blew your way. All

5:09

right? And when you're getting divorced,

5:11

the word marriage makes you puke. Why?

5:17

It's the same word. Look it up

5:19

in the dictionary. It didn't change because

5:21

there were a few of these learned

5:23

experiences in between the marriage and the

5:25

divorce. So this is

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the truth. That truth

5:29

is relative. Period.

5:31

It will always be relative. It

5:33

is absolutely relative. There's not one

5:36

single thing that your mind says

5:38

about what you like, what you

5:40

dislike, and how you put the

5:42

things together that is truth. It's

5:44

just the way it got together in

5:46

your mind. If you met somebody right

5:48

after you had an operation and your

5:50

husband died and your father died on

5:52

the same day, you probably will not

5:54

like that new person. Your

5:56

impression, remember first impressions? The

5:59

trouble is it's not the Outside

6:01

thing that makes the impression, it's

6:03

how it impressed you. Well, you're

6:05

not neutral in there, are you? Sometimes

6:07

you're open, sometimes you're closed, sometimes

6:09

you're happy. You just want the

6:11

lottering to meet somebody. Okay, so

6:14

wake up. There is nothing that is

6:16

going on inside that part of your

6:18

mind. Well, part is that the personal

6:21

mind. Why is it called the personal

6:23

mind? Because it's made of the sum

6:25

of your learned experiences. Take

6:27

a breath. That's a very

6:29

spiritual thing in the personal mind versus the

6:31

impersonal mind. Let's get that down. What's the

6:33

personal mind? First of all, what is mine? Mine

6:36

is a field, a vibration field that

6:38

has no limit. You can think of

6:40

galaxies, you can think of this, you

6:42

can think of a peanut, anything you

6:45

want. So the mind is

6:47

just a field, a field of energy that

6:49

can create thoughts. Just like

6:51

an ocean can create waves. Thoughts

6:54

come and go, waves come and go, clouds

6:56

come and go, right or wrong? Do your thoughts

6:58

come and go? So basically

7:00

it's a field, a very

7:02

high vibrational field of energy, one

7:04

that our scientific instruments have

7:06

not even come close to being

7:08

able to measure the subtlety

7:10

of the mental plane. It

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is just a field of energy. They didn't used to

7:14

know that there were x -rays. They didn't used to

7:16

know there were beta rays. They didn't used to

7:18

know that there was infrared. They didn't used to know

7:20

that there was gamma. They didn't know

7:22

anything about it. And then they made

7:25

an instrument that could pick up a gamma

7:27

ray or an x -ray or an ultraviolet. Did

7:29

they then say it's an alien thing? No,

7:31

they said it's just part of the electromagnetic

7:33

spectrum. Guess what? It has

7:35

edges. Those are radio waves

7:37

and gamma waves on one end of

7:39

the other. Guess what? Those are just the

7:41

edges that our instruments at this time

7:43

are capable of measuring. There are

7:45

no edges. It's an

7:47

infinite universe. They're infinite vibrations.

7:49

It goes on forever. and at

7:51

all levels and all frequencies

7:53

and all everything. But we don't

7:55

have instruments that can pick it up. Tomorrow they'll make

7:57

an instrument that can pick something else up. Someday

8:00

they will pick up the mental plane. Why?

8:02

Because you do have thoughts. They

8:06

exist. Thoughts are

8:08

things. Just because I don't see your

8:10

thoughts, the psychic can, just because I don't see your

8:12

thoughts doesn't mean you don't have them. That's not

8:14

true. You don't have those thoughts. I never had that

8:16

thought, so you don't have it. That's ridiculous. You

8:18

have thoughts. And you have emotions.

8:21

They are real. They exist.

8:23

They're just a very high vibration rate

8:25

of energy that we don't have instruments

8:27

to pick it up. What's amazing is

8:29

you do. Can you

8:31

believe that you are far beyond any of

8:33

the scientists? Why? You have

8:35

an instrument that can pick up thoughts. Don't

8:38

you? Must be.

8:41

You do hear them, don't you? So

8:43

basically, that's what mind is. An infinite

8:45

field of energy can do anything. All

8:47

right. But that's not what you do

8:49

with your mind. You in there. What

8:52

you do with your mind is

8:54

experiences come in through your senses.

8:57

You in there, consciousness, experience them. And

8:59

sometimes the vibration feels good. What

9:01

comes in feels good. And sometimes it

9:03

doesn't. That's just reality. Some

9:05

sounds are pleasant. Some

9:08

are woo! Okay? And everything has

9:10

its vibration. The Buddhists speak about

9:12

that. Everything has its nature. So

9:14

the example I always use, people yell at me for

9:16

the same example. It's a good example. A

9:18

rattlesnake coiled up rattling 10 feet in

9:20

front of you does not feel

9:23

the same when it comes in as

9:25

a butterfly landed on your arm. Does

9:28

it? They're both

9:30

atoms. There's just a

9:32

bunch of molecules combined together. They are

9:34

giving off vibes. Okay?

9:37

They are giving off vibes.

9:39

And not just the physical experiences

9:41

coming in, vibrations coming in.

9:43

And when it comes in, you

9:45

experience it. because you're capable

9:47

of experiencing things. Well, what

9:49

happens is, there are ones that you like

9:51

and ones that you don't like. And

9:54

instead of truth, honoring

9:57

and respecting that reality,

10:00

what reality? There are vibrations out

10:02

there, just like there's vibrations the electromagnetic

10:04

spectrum. There are vibrations in all of life.

10:06

That's called reality. It will always be

10:08

that way. That's how it is. There are

10:10

people that are nice, there are people

10:12

that are not nice. There are dogs that

10:14

will bite and there are dogs that

10:16

will cuddle and be nice. It's

10:18

just reality. It's reality.

10:21

How do you know? Let those who have eyes to

10:23

see, let them see. Let the ears

10:25

to hear, let them hear. That's what Christ

10:27

is talking about, right? That's how it is. But

10:29

when it comes in, you experience it. That's

10:31

what's supposed to happen. You're here

10:34

on the planet Earth to

10:36

experience experiences. What do you do with

10:38

them? I know what you should do with them. You

10:40

should honor and respect every single

10:42

experience that you have. Why?

10:44

Because it's reality. You

10:46

shouldn't be like that. Well, that's not true. You're

10:48

the sum of your learned experiences. You shouldn't have

10:50

said that to me. That's not true. If

10:53

you took the sum of your learned experiences,

10:55

put them all together, including the moment before

10:57

she saw me, the exact words that she

10:59

said will come out of her mouth. Because

11:01

it's just the sum of your experiences. It's

11:03

not you. You're the

11:05

one who's in here. But you

11:08

have these experiences and they cause

11:10

your actions. So, basically, you

11:12

get to the point where you understand

11:14

that the personal mind is not the mind.

11:16

It is a subset of mind. It's

11:18

like a program running inside a computer. You

11:21

can run any program you want inside a

11:23

computer, can't you? A recipe, this, a medical thing,

11:25

whatever you want. That's not the computer. The

11:28

computer is the one that's running

11:30

it. Your mind can have many different

11:32

things going on in there. You

11:34

have a program in your mind, every

11:36

one of you, called the personal

11:38

program. That runs

11:40

all the time non -stop inside

11:42

your mind Well, what's it made

11:44

of how to get program

11:46

make up program of the summer

11:48

learned experiences? You had these

11:50

experiences you didn't like it. So

11:52

what did you do with it? I

11:54

would pick on you for this

11:56

every one of you if you have

11:58

an experience you don't like you

12:00

store it You keep it that's what

12:02

Freud was about you suppress it

12:04

you own it you just Keep it

12:06

in there. It's the funniest thing

12:08

in the world. You have stuff in

12:10

there that you didn't like from

12:12

your childhood. You have things in

12:14

there that mommy and daddy didn't like. You have things

12:16

that your first boyfriend or girlfriend did that you

12:18

either did or didn't like. How do you know it's

12:20

in there because it comes up? But

12:22

it's not happening anymore. Why is it coming up? I'm

12:24

yelling at you. Why

12:28

would you decide it was wise to store

12:30

the worst things that ever happened to you

12:32

when they're over? Seriously.

12:37

Now, I challenge you, go to a restaurant and

12:39

have some bad food served to you. There's something

12:41

wrong with it. It made you really, really sick.

12:43

Just even a smell or touch it. First

12:45

bite. Oh, no, I'm not eating this. Right?

12:47

Well, the wise thing to do is to

12:50

call the waiter or waitress over and say,

12:52

excuse me, ma 'am, can you please give

12:54

me a doggy bag? OK.

12:58

And you take this doggy bag

13:00

home and you've put aside a room

13:02

in your house called the sick

13:04

room. And you put it in there.

13:06

And every single morning, when

13:08

you get up, you take

13:10

a little spoonful so that you

13:12

never forget how disgusting it

13:14

was. That's

13:16

what you did with your bad experiences, didn't

13:19

you? You

13:21

stored them. I mean, there's

13:23

still going on. Okay, let's deal with it. We'll

13:25

all get together and deal with it. I'll help

13:27

you, right? But if it happened 10 years ago

13:29

and it will never not happen, what

13:32

are you doing? What

13:34

can your inner state be like if

13:36

you store every single thing that ever

13:38

bothered you inside of you? Guess

13:40

what it will be

13:43

bothered Isn't it? So

13:45

now what do I do now that

13:47

I stored the things that I liked

13:49

which weren't that many Believe me the

13:51

things you didn't like compared to the

13:53

things you did like it's not even

13:55

close Plus once you build enough that

13:57

you didn't like everything reminds you of

13:59

it You dated a guy

14:02

in high school that, you know, had a

14:04

lisp or had a blonde hair or

14:06

red hair. And it was a bad experience.

14:08

You don't like people that have lisp and

14:10

you don't like people that have red hair.

14:12

You understand that. You just generalize

14:15

the whole thing. Everything hits your stuff. That's

14:18

the problem. The world

14:20

is not the problem. The world is

14:22

not the problem. It's not

14:24

the problem that there's yin and yang, that

14:26

there's dark and light and high and low and

14:28

nice and not nice. That's not the problem. The

14:31

problem is you can't handle it. The

14:33

problem is that you stored every

14:35

single thing that ever bothered you inside

14:37

of you. And now everything bothers

14:39

you. Do you understand that? The

14:42

honest statement is you complain all the

14:44

time. You complain about the heat the

14:46

driver in front of you, what somebody

14:48

said, what somebody didn't say, what perfume

14:50

somebody's wearing, what somebody's not wearing, this,

14:52

that, every single thing, the clothes they're

14:54

wearing, every single thing bothers you. Come

14:57

on. Every

15:00

single, the temperature, what

15:03

temperature do you like? I

15:05

don't know, 69 or 70, up

15:07

to maybe 76. Humidity?

15:09

Oh, no, no, no. Now my hair

15:11

gets to myself. No, below 40 %

15:13

humidity. That's what I like. Well,

15:15

then you're in trouble because it doesn't

15:17

hit that very often. Now

15:19

you can go move somewheres where

15:21

it's like that. It's now running

15:23

your life. It's

15:26

absurd. It's literally absurd.

15:28

And you store this stuff inside of

15:30

you and then that becomes what we

15:32

call the personal mind. That's where you

15:34

stored it. You stored it inside this

15:37

beautiful thing called mind. You made a

15:39

subset of what you like and what

15:41

you don't like and what happened to

15:43

you, etc, etc, etc. And

15:45

it is all the time occupying

15:47

your consciousness. That's what you're drawn

15:49

to all the time. What do you

15:51

do about it? Well, obviously I'm not stupid.

15:54

If I have things going inside of my mind that bother

15:56

me, I avoid those. I

15:58

avoid anything that reminds me of what I

16:00

didn't like. Right or wrong? Do

16:02

you want to have a dog? You have a relationship with

16:04

somebody. you to have a dog? Do want to have a dog?

16:06

No, I don't have a dog. I had a dog when

16:08

I was little. I used to poop all over the place and

16:10

didn't work out well. No, I don't like dogs. That's

16:13

actually, you think, a rational statement.

16:15

You had one dog when

16:17

you were little and you

16:20

know about dogs, don't you? It's

16:22

so amazing and you sit there

16:24

because your universal set is not

16:26

so universal. It's personal.

16:28

The only thing it has in it

16:31

are your experiences. I always

16:33

say this to you and I know you don't

16:35

get it. No one gets it. Any time

16:37

you're having an experience, how

16:39

many are you missing? How many

16:41

experiences that are going on

16:43

all over the world, all over

16:45

the universe that you're not

16:47

having at the time you're having

16:49

that one experience that you're

16:51

having that 700 billion zillion. And

16:54

yet the one experience you

16:56

happen to have is God to

16:58

you. I don't like

17:00

dogs. No, I don't have a dog. Get

17:04

quiet. This is

17:06

a serious problem. How

17:08

about this is the cause of every single

17:10

problem that exists in the planet Earth? Because

17:13

everybody has had different

17:15

experiences. Therefore, everybody has

17:17

a different personal mindset. Therefore,

17:20

everybody thinks, I have evidence.

17:22

I had a dog. I'm

17:24

not impressed. Marriage

17:27

doesn't work. You should have seen

17:29

what happened to mine. Okay,

17:32

you can get married again. No, I'm not going to get married again. Every

17:36

experience you've had, I'm

17:39

going to tell what, you ready? Is

17:41

statistically insignificant. I

17:46

know who's going to win the next election. How do

17:48

you know? I asked him. No,

17:53

that's not a good sample size. Sadisticians

17:56

don't accept that. Guess what? Nothing

17:58

inside your mind is a good

18:00

sample size. I read

18:03

it. You read it. You

18:06

read anything you want nowadays. But

18:08

I read it. She told

18:10

me. She told me about him. I

18:13

don't know what to do with him. She told

18:15

me about the experience she had. You

18:17

do it all the time, don't you? That

18:19

means how weird is it? No, no, no.

18:22

Sally told me what George is like. No,

18:24

I don't what to do with him. Okay.

18:26

Wow, you sure know George real well. That

18:29

is what you've done with this

18:31

beautiful thing called your mind. You

18:33

built this tiny little

18:35

subset that it talks all

18:37

the time. It tells you

18:39

what to do, what not to do, all based

18:41

on your past experiences. And you sit

18:44

there, your mind says, that's all

18:46

I have in my past experiences. Well, all I have

18:48

for the election is what he said. Maybe

18:51

we best not be listening. There.

18:54

There's spirituality for you. There's

18:57

no way in the world the

18:59

personal mind knows anything because it's

19:01

made up of its personal experiences

19:03

and it hasn't had any that

19:05

are meaningful statistically. But

19:07

because the experience you had was

19:09

so strong, it is loud

19:12

in there and it drowns everything

19:14

else. But I don't like

19:16

that kind of person. Why? Why

19:19

would you dare to look at

19:21

it? You had some experience, and the

19:23

experience could be what your parents

19:25

taught you. It could be what

19:27

your preacher said. Those are all the

19:29

sum of your learned experiences, and they

19:31

are meaningless. They are

19:33

statistically insignificant. They are not

19:35

the truth. They seem like the truth

19:37

to you. The only time I

19:39

ever saw the cat, and this was the cat I

19:42

saw, I think, I know cats. I don't know

19:44

cats! Right or wrong? Have I

19:46

caught you? Do you not do this? Everyone

19:48

does this. Who

19:50

has ever had the same experiences as

19:53

you? I mean, every

19:55

experience, where you are, every moment

19:57

you're having, every experience you're having, sight, sound,

19:59

touch, who has had the same experiences as

20:01

you? Nobody. Nobody

20:03

alive now. Nobody ever has

20:05

never happened before. Wow.

20:09

You're unique, but you got programmed

20:11

by this meaningless experience that

20:13

you had and it now runs

20:15

your life. There are people

20:17

who become traumatized. What does it

20:19

mean to be traumatized? You

20:22

experience an experience

20:24

that was so negative,

20:27

so difficult to experience that it

20:29

captured your consciousness and you will

20:31

never talk again for the rest

20:33

of your life. You will never

20:35

go outside. You will never

20:37

be near a man or a

20:39

woman or a foreign person

20:41

or an American or whatever. You

20:43

had this experience that you

20:45

couldn't handle. It got stuck inside

20:47

your mind and your heart.

20:49

It draws your consciousness to it

20:51

all the time and you

20:53

are a mess. Can one

20:56

experience do that? Can one

20:58

experience ruin your entire life?

21:00

Is that reasonable? You're

21:02

the highest species on the planet. How

21:05

can it be the one arbitrary

21:07

experience, right? If a

21:09

coffee maker, was somewhat

21:12

slower than normal because the person who

21:14

made it had a fight with their

21:16

wife three years earlier and didn't solder

21:18

the thing well enough. And so it

21:20

took five seconds longer to make your

21:22

coffee. Therefore, you weren't at the traffic

21:25

light where the accident took place. Your

21:27

whole life is different. Right or wrong? You

21:29

want to live like that? Who wants

21:32

to live like that? That's completely

21:34

ridiculous. So these are

21:36

not the truth. That's

21:38

what we started talking about. There's a thing

21:40

called absolute truth. We're not even close. The

21:43

personal mind, it's not a

21:45

lie. It's not that you didn't,

21:47

you understand, I did experience that. Don't tell

21:49

my dad, I know you experienced it, but

21:51

you gave it 100 % weight. Now do you

21:53

hear me? If anything

21:56

different had happened, it

21:58

would be different in there. That's

22:00

not reasonable to base your life

22:02

on that. And you base it so

22:04

much so, Now, you keep that

22:06

stuff in there. You think you know

22:08

the truth. Look at all

22:10

your views and different things. They're all

22:12

based on something. I'll put

22:14

this to sleep. I know you haven't, but

22:16

I'm going to ask. I know it's embarrassing. Has

22:18

anyone ever changed their mind? Has

22:22

anyone ever changed their

22:24

mind? You just changed

22:26

it the anytime you want. Fall

22:28

in love with somebody who thinks differently than

22:30

you. I think your thoughts will change. I

22:33

guess I didn't understand fully. You're

22:35

right. Can we go out again?

22:38

Just change the moment. You

22:40

know I'm saying? So that personal

22:42

mind, that part of your mind

22:45

that is full of the sum

22:47

of your learning experiences. See psychology

22:49

says that. You're not the sum

22:51

of your learning experiences, but that part of your

22:53

mind is the sum of your learning experiences. What do

22:55

they call that part of your mind? Your psyche. Your

22:58

psyche is not your mind. The

23:01

psyche is the program part of your

23:03

mind. Can you think other than that?

23:05

We're doing it right now. I

23:07

hope it's helping. Let's get

23:09

this down. Can you live your

23:11

life without listening to the personal

23:13

part of your mind? Absolutely. You

23:16

just won't be prejudice. You won't

23:18

be scared all the time. You won't have

23:20

to... What do you do with that personal part

23:22

of your mind? You listen to it. Why?

23:25

It makes you. Because

23:27

it's very not comfortable if

23:29

something gets hidden in there. If

23:31

something happens that it doesn't want. It's like

23:34

a spoiled child throwing tantrums. Have you ever

23:36

had to get really bad? Have

23:38

you ever had situations

23:40

happen outside that are

23:42

so different than what

23:44

you wanted that you

23:46

broke? That it broke

23:48

in there that you didn't even know who you were.

23:50

You didn't know what to do or what to think.

23:52

You just come on and say yes. I

23:55

hope so. Not that I want

23:57

you to suffer, but I want you to realize how

23:59

stupid the thing is. You're

24:01

running around with a

24:03

time bomb inside your head.

24:05

Aren't you and inside

24:07

your heart at any moment

24:09

anybody can do anything

24:11

and you're a basket case

24:13

Okay Spirituality is about

24:15

waking up that part of

24:17

your mind Is stupid

24:19

it's dumb what you did

24:21

you did it? No,

24:23

that experience actually happened. I

24:26

know but it's over I

24:29

made a rule for Mickey, and he's not

24:31

very good at it. A long time ago, when

24:33

I moved out here and dropped out in

24:35

the 70s, early 70s, it was the rule. If

24:37

it's not going on outside, it's not going on

24:40

inside. Pretty

24:42

rational. You drive by

24:44

cars, you drive by trees, you have clouds,

24:46

weather, all kinds of things go on. I don't

24:48

to sit there being neurotic about everything. If

24:51

it happens, it happens. It didn't feel

24:53

good. Finally, it's over. Thank God. Mazel

24:55

Tov. Let's throw a party. Hooray! You

24:58

don't even do it with your divorces. Very

25:00

few people that got divorced are really divorced.

25:02

They still think about it. The person still bothers

25:04

them. It's still going on in their head.

25:06

They can't go to certain places. They used to

25:08

go there together. You had divorced outside. You

25:10

didn't get divorced inside, did you? Is

25:12

it that person's fault? Well,

25:15

maybe what they did in the time, it could

25:17

have been really bad, but they're not doing it

25:19

anymore. It becomes your

25:21

fault if it's not happening anymore

25:23

and you're still bothering yourself about

25:25

it. It's something you're

25:27

doing to yourself. The

25:29

other person is not even there. Who

25:31

will talk to you this way? This

25:33

is truth. So what

25:36

do we end up doing? We end

25:38

up devoting our lives to the worst things

25:40

that have happened to us. We

25:42

sit there and say, we don't want to live.

25:44

We don't want to do. We don't want to

25:46

meet. And all of it is based on your

25:48

personal self. I've been having fun lately with these

25:50

dating services, which if I talk about these things,

25:52

it's just to make you laugh. Just

25:55

laugh at yourself, but don't not do it. Don't

25:57

listen to me, right? So what's the dating service? All

25:59

right, you go on the web. Some

26:01

of you have done it. You go on the web

26:03

and it asks you some questions. Do

26:06

you like a tall person? Do you like someone

26:08

who's strong? Do you like someone who's docile? Do

26:10

you want to live in the country? Do you

26:12

like city, et cetera, et cetera, all these questions.

26:14

What color is your favorite color? Do you want

26:16

someone to like? What kind of food do they

26:18

like? Do they like Italian food? Do you like

26:20

Chinese food? And you put all that down there.

26:22

I'm confused. It sounds to me like you're

26:24

looking for you. Go

26:29

date yourself. What

26:32

you wrote down there is what you want.

26:34

What you like. You wrote down the sum

26:36

of your learned experiences made you think that

26:38

way. And now you're going to

26:40

find something. I sold me. It doesn't exist. We

26:43

just said no one had the same experience as

26:45

you. So now we

26:48

go out with these preferences, hopes and

26:50

dreams and concepts and views and

26:52

likes and dislikes and fears and anxieties

26:54

all based on what? Past experiences. Our

26:56

past experiences, our personal self.

26:59

And what do we do? We go

27:01

out and try to make the world

27:04

outside of us come in in the

27:06

way that feels good to us and

27:08

make sure it doesn't happen in a

27:10

way that makes us feel bad. We

27:12

try to manipulate the outside world and

27:14

you're taught to. You're taught that

27:16

it's supposed to be... How many people think the

27:18

world is not supposed to be the way they

27:20

want? And if

27:22

it's not the way you want, you have a

27:24

word for it. It's wrong. That

27:28

was wrong what you did. How

27:30

could you believe that? How

27:32

could you believe that? I can't believe anyone would believe

27:34

this. Are you crazy? See? If

27:37

it doesn't match you, it's wrong.

27:40

And it seems that way because

27:42

you have evidence. to some

27:44

of your learned experiences, which I'm

27:46

telling you scientifically, it's not evidence.

27:49

It's absurdity. And

27:51

we're caught in, it's called being caught

27:53

in your mind. That part

27:55

of your mind, I call it personal mind,

27:57

that's your ego. That's what's

27:59

meant by the word ego. It's

28:01

true that that part of your mind is some

28:04

of your learned experiences. They have a name for

28:06

ego. It is your

28:08

self -concept. What is a

28:10

self -concept? Something you made up about yourself.

28:13

Concepts are not reality. Concept, would

28:15

you think about something? How you think about it?

28:18

What's your concept? Would it be like to go

28:20

to New York or to Hong Kong? You

28:22

might go up. Well, I was at the

28:24

web once and I said, this is I have

28:26

a concept that is like this. You have

28:28

concepts. Concepts are not reality. Concepts

28:31

are mental things. And

28:33

psychology called that thing inside

28:35

your mind your self -concept.

28:37

Something you made up about

28:39

yourself. I am this person. I'm

28:41

the person that likes this. I'm the person married

28:43

to George. Those are my children. I,

28:45

me, mine, I, me, mine, I, me, mine.

28:47

Okay. I'm the person who played Dorothy

28:49

in Wizard of Oz in the fifth grade

28:51

and everybody clapped. Therefore, I'm a good

28:53

actor. You're just defining yourself by the experiences

28:55

you had. That's

28:58

all. I think it's fun as you get old. I

29:00

really like it though. I really do. All right. think

29:02

it's marvelous. All right. Wait till you get through experience.

29:05

Great. All right. Let's say you're

29:07

a very attractive woman or a very handsome man. Kind

29:10

of get a little self -concept about that. You

29:12

know, your GQ on the front

29:14

cover, one little beauty award in Oshkosh

29:16

or something, right? And so you

29:18

have a self -concept that you're an

29:20

attractive person. What if see

29:22

what happens to GQ? You

29:27

are not going to get old.

29:31

Why? It's

29:33

reality because it doesn't match

29:35

your self -concept. It

29:38

doesn't matter what you made up about yourself.

29:40

So this whole concept of building

29:42

something inside your mind, which you're

29:44

actually looking at, you're the one

29:47

who's looking at, do you have

29:49

an ego? Do you have a

29:51

self -concept? What happens when you present

29:53

your self -concept to somebody and they say,

29:55

you're lying, you're not like that. That didn't

29:57

happen to you. You're not married to

29:59

him. That's not your kid. How

30:02

you doing? You're

30:06

resting your consciousness on

30:08

your self -concept. You

30:10

live inside your ego. That

30:12

mind of yours that you built in

30:14

there, the personal mind, it's so small. Wait,

30:18

can we do that? I

30:20

don't care who you think you are, how big

30:22

you think you are, make a little maniacs run

30:24

around there, right? Are you kidding me? You're

30:26

one person out of,

30:29

what, 8 .3 billion that

30:31

are now alive on the

30:33

planet Earth. You're real

30:35

important. Now, we're going to

30:37

start using another part of your mind. Like,

30:40

that was not a very personal thought. In

30:43

fact, that's very challenging. You know what? People write me,

30:45

why are you making me think that? It makes me

30:47

feel small. You are. Go

30:50

on. Make yourself want to be big.

30:52

You're not. You're one

30:55

of 8 .3 billion. That's a

30:57

big number. Billion people

30:59

on the earth today. And there have been billions

31:01

and billions and billions that came and went

31:03

already. You're one of those.

31:06

And soon you're not going to be here.

31:08

Have you ever found out that sometimes people

31:10

are here and then they're not here anymore?

31:12

Where did they go? They disappeared.

31:14

They were here. They

31:16

had a self -concept. They had views

31:18

and opinions. Where are they now?

31:20

They're not here anymore. Someday you will

31:22

not be here anymore. All right?

31:24

But you want to be important. You're

31:26

not. There's

31:28

another party that really is. But

31:30

it ain't that part. That part

31:32

that you made up and put together

31:34

based on the Summary of Learned Experiences

31:37

is so small. We already said the

31:39

Summary of Learned Experiences is nothing. You

31:41

missed every single thing, every moment. So

31:43

how can the nothing you pulled out of

31:45

the moment you're having be something? Then

31:47

you sewed them together into a

31:50

self -concept. I like this, I don't

31:52

like that. I'm this kind of person and people think blah

31:54

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. How small is

31:56

that compared to all the people on the planet Earth? Because

31:59

they all had experiences, didn't they? Aren't

32:01

you just one of them? And

32:04

even if you want to think you're big

32:06

on a planet Earth, leave.

32:09

What do you mean? Go into outer space.

32:12

Astronauts do it all the time. Go out there

32:14

and look at the little planet spinning out there. How

32:16

important are you? What did I

32:18

tell you once? 1 .3 million

32:20

planet Earths fit

32:22

inside the Sun. Take

32:27

a breath. How important are

32:29

you? Now,

32:32

maybe this doesn't make you feel good.

32:34

It should make you feel wonderful. It

32:37

means I'm free. I

32:39

don't have to hang out with a stupid self -concept

32:41

and prove myself to everybody all the time and make

32:43

sure that everything's the way everybody wants it to

32:45

be and make sure the old clap when I come

32:47

in the room. It

32:49

doesn't matter. It's meaningless.

32:53

You see the difference in truth

32:55

and non -truth? It's the truth and

32:57

it didn't stop in case you

32:59

think. Look at 1 .3

33:01

million earths inside the sun. So

33:05

how could we mean anything? What's going on

33:07

in this stupid planet? So

33:09

1 .3 million earths inside of sun.

33:11

You ready? How many,

33:13

quote, suns are there? 300

33:15

billion in your

33:18

galaxy. This is

33:20

called using your mind for truth

33:22

instead of using your mind to make

33:24

a sick thing in there. and

33:26

then going out there and trying to

33:28

manipulate everybody and everything so that

33:30

when it comes in it doesn't bother

33:32

you as much and maybe even

33:34

feels good. What a

33:36

tiny life. That's

33:39

why you suffer. You suffer.

33:41

Buddha said everybody's suffering. They are, all right? Yeah,

33:43

but I got what I wanted. We'll see how

33:45

long it lasts. Tell me the last time you

33:47

got what you wanted and didn't want anything else.

33:49

Come on, I'm waiting. Your

33:52

entire life, your entire life. Sometimes

33:54

you got what you wanted. It's

33:57

over, right? Wake

33:59

up. So this

34:01

is what happened. The world came in and

34:03

you made an ego. You made a

34:05

self -concept out of it. And now you,

34:07

I would say you own it. It owns

34:09

you. You better do what

34:11

it says. You suffer. It makes

34:14

a mess in there, doesn't it? And so

34:16

you're out there trying to serve your ego. You're

34:18

out there trying to make everybody and

34:20

everything be the way so that when it

34:22

comes in, the ego says, And

34:25

when it comes in, it's like...

34:27

That's why you're neurotic. That's

34:30

why you're anxious. That's why you're scared. And this

34:32

whole concept of what you want and what you

34:34

don't want is just something to learn experiences. So

34:37

you wake up and you realize

34:39

there are two parts of your mind,

34:41

the personal and the impersonal. The

34:43

impersonal is based on truths. What

34:46

do you mean? The truth is you have

34:48

dropped down onto a tiny little planet in the

34:50

middle of nowhere and you'll be here for a few

34:52

years. That's the truth. Well,

34:54

I don't like that. Too bad. Too

34:58

bad. It's the truth. So

35:00

the truth becomes if it's true that

35:02

there's this little tiny little planet spinning around

35:04

in the middle of nowhere in dark,

35:06

black, empty space. I visited

35:08

the Astronomy Department the other day

35:10

a few weeks ago, and I

35:12

asked them, I know you're studying

35:14

exoplanets and all that kind of

35:16

stuff going on. How many planets

35:18

are there? How many of the

35:21

300 billion stars In

35:23

your one galaxy, which

35:25

by the way, there are two

35:27

trillion galaxies, but we won't do

35:29

that to your mind because it breaks

35:31

it. But out of your 300 billion stars

35:33

in the Milky Way galaxy, how many

35:35

have planets? What they said? Basically,

35:38

every one has at least one or

35:40

a few. You're really

35:42

important sitting here on this little planet, aren't

35:44

you? It's just

35:46

a planet spinning a little nowhere.

35:49

And you're not staying here. How

35:52

many years are you gonna be

35:54

here 80 90 100? It's

35:56

been here for what? 4

35:59

.5 billion years this planet

36:01

spent here and you dropped

36:03

down to visit for 80

36:05

or 90 and You making

36:07

a big deal out of

36:10

it Spirituality is about the

36:12

following that part of you

36:14

is not important that part

36:16

of you has had experiences,

36:18

which are very little, is

36:21

that anytime you're having an

36:23

experience you're missing all the

36:25

rest, and that's all, and you're

36:27

having them, you're experiencing them. The part

36:29

of you that is very important, for

36:32

some reason you pay no attention to, which

36:34

is the one who's having

36:36

the experience. Your experiences

36:39

don't mean squat. There's

36:41

one in a trillion who's

36:43

having the experience. How

36:45

do you know you had an experience? How

36:48

do you know anything? How do you know you have

36:50

thoughts? You have thoughts? How do you know? Do

36:53

you have emotions? How do you know? Have you

36:55

had experiences? Can you see out of

36:57

your eyes? Can you hear? How do you

36:59

know? How do you know? Who sees when you

37:01

see? Who hears when you hear? Who notices

37:03

thoughts? Who notices? Do you have emotions? How

37:06

do you know? Because you're

37:08

in there. You're

37:10

not what you're experiencing. You're the

37:12

one that's experiencing it. It's a

37:14

case of subject -object. You are

37:16

the subject. You're the end user.

37:18

You're the end user. And everything

37:20

else is something you're experiencing. You

37:23

are not what you're experiencing. You're

37:25

the one that experiences it. That

37:27

is spirituality. Who

37:29

are you? That's what all

37:31

spirituality is about. That's all of yoga is

37:33

about. That's what life is about. Self

37:36

-realization. Do you

37:38

know who's in there? No.

37:42

I haven't even thought about it. Why? I'm too

37:44

busy staring at what I made up in

37:46

there and then trying to make all you guys

37:48

be the way I want you to be

37:50

so that I'd be okay staring at what I

37:52

made up in there. You just made it

37:55

up. You made up of you. It

37:57

could be anything you wanted to be. So

37:59

basically you wake up and realize that

38:02

I'm telling you that that part of you

38:04

is nothing. It's nothing.

38:06

It's just something you made up. Everybody

38:08

did it and because everybody made one

38:10

up based on different experiences, everybody wants

38:12

something different. So there's wars, so

38:14

there's disharmony, so there's all these problems.

38:17

Because of that, how can

38:19

you expect everyone to get along if they all

38:21

made of something different? And

38:23

they're only okay if they get what they want.

38:25

And they're never okay if they get what

38:27

they don't want, right? Hitler doesn't want

38:29

them to be Jews. He wants Germany to

38:31

take over the whole world. I think

38:33

that caused a few problems. Why

38:36

did he have to think like that? He didn't

38:38

have to think like that, did he? Why

38:40

did he have to pay attention to the part

38:42

of him that's all like that. Imagine

38:44

what the world would be like. Let

38:46

it go. Let it go. Just

38:50

relax through it. Yeah. Here's

38:52

a Jew. Here's a black person.

38:54

They weren't just Jews. Here

38:57

they are. Come on. Breathe. Listen

39:00

to me. Breathe. Breathe through it.

39:03

Breathe through it. You can handle it.

39:05

Breathe through it. OK. OK.

39:08

We don't have to bomb. Blop London

39:10

and Berlin and Paris and ruin

39:12

the whole culture that ever exists. Okay.

39:18

All right. So you wake up and

39:20

realize the problem is not the world. The

39:23

problem is that you couldn't handle the

39:25

world. You couldn't handle reality. And because

39:27

you couldn't handle it, you did the

39:29

same thing everybody else does, which is

39:31

you resisted it. I don't want to

39:33

have this experience. Have you had experience

39:35

you didn't want to have? You know

39:37

what you do with them? Zachary

39:39

Floyd said, you pushed them away

39:42

because you didn't want to experience them.

39:44

So you kept on a distance

39:46

from you, you in there, the self,

39:49

the consciousness, the experience, er. If I

39:51

push away the experience, I don't

39:53

have to experience it. Yeah, you do.

39:55

You have to hold it down

39:57

there your entire life. It

39:59

does not go away, ever,

40:01

until you let it go.

40:03

It doesn't dissipate. Don't use

40:05

that word. If I keep it down a

40:07

long enough, it'll go away. Really?

40:10

I like the family. It says that you know, we

40:12

don't talk about that around your father. Oh,

40:15

daddy's got a problem. Daddy's

40:19

stored some stuff in there, didn't

40:21

he? And we're not supposed to

40:23

talk about it. Watch where you step. Ever

40:25

been around somebody who ever watched what you say? This

40:28

is why, because you pushed it

40:30

away, it stayed in there, and now

40:32

the world comes in and hits

40:34

it. and you have to

40:36

rationalize it or suppress it or do whatever.

40:39

Like Freud was dealing with serious, serious,

40:41

you couldn't handle, all right? Most

40:43

of Freud's studies were with people

40:45

that were institutionalized. You

40:47

know that? So he dealt with, he saw

40:49

stuff. And so he dealt

40:51

with suppression, repression, and denial.

40:54

I call them resistance. That catches all

40:56

of it. It came in, did it come

40:58

in? If it didn't come in, I don't have

41:00

to worry about it. It happened, it came

41:02

in, and not on my watch. Come

41:04

on, I want you to feel it. Ever

41:06

done a knot on my watch? You did

41:08

not say that to me. Well,

41:11

obviously I did, or you wouldn't me I didn't.

41:14

What's wrong with this conversation? If I didn't

41:16

say it, you would have a problem,

41:18

right? Obviously I got said, it came in,

41:20

and you didn't like it very much. And

41:23

so what did you do? You did not

41:25

want it coming. I tell you lately, there's

41:27

a thing called all the way in. Then

41:31

it comes all the way in. It

41:33

happens, you experience it. and it

41:35

goes through. You did not

41:37

experience it. You can bring it

41:39

back in memory, but you didn't push it

41:41

away. You didn't know

41:43

what percentage, I've been doing this for

41:45

a long time, what percentage of what

41:47

comes in through your senses, you

41:50

let go right through. I

41:52

assure you, it's like 98

41:54

% goes right through. The

41:56

grass, the trees, the

41:58

clouds, the most weather, people

42:00

walk by, things come in

42:02

through your senses. They go through.

42:05

Did you experience them? Yes. Did

42:07

you have to hold them back

42:09

and fight them? A cloud went

42:11

by. Right now,

42:13

look at everything you're looking at. It's all coming in. You

42:17

have the right to bring it

42:19

back. We have memory stores, a computer

42:21

does, but that's not what we

42:23

call a samskara. That's a very deep

42:25

word in the yoga tradition. What's

42:27

a samskara? Something that didn't go right

42:29

through. What do you

42:31

mean? It came in. And I

42:34

resisted it. I didn't resist

42:36

all the other things. They're there. But

42:38

I resisted that one. Wait a minute. Wait

42:40

a minute. You guys are sitting

42:42

fairly close. She looks a

42:44

lot like my sister looked before she

42:46

died. Are you in relationship with her? I

42:49

want to talk to you guys. It

42:51

didn't make it right through. Did it?

42:54

It hit something in there.

42:56

It created something that I

42:58

stopped the experience. and held

43:00

it inside of me. Have you ever done that?

43:02

Ha, ha, ha. All right, well, I'm trying to

43:04

teach you. Pay attention when you wake up. You

43:06

get the witness. Where do you see how many

43:08

you don't do that about? How many

43:10

white lines of the road you're driven by? Were

43:13

some of them dashed? Were some

43:15

of them yellow or white? Was

43:17

it okay with you? If it's okay

43:19

with you, it goes right through. You

43:22

still know you saw it, but

43:24

if it's not okay with you,

43:26

if something happens, And

43:28

either you want to experience it, what did

43:30

you say? Oh my God, no one's ever

43:32

been that nice to me. Can we go

43:35

out again? When can I see you again?

43:37

I ain't letting go of that, baby. I'm

43:39

gonna hold on to that for the next time until I

43:41

see you. I only

43:44

have eyes for you,

43:47

dear. Ever hold on to something

43:49

because you liked it very much? Then that got stuck

43:51

in your mind. Ever hold on

43:53

to something because you did not want to experience

43:55

it, didn't want to come all the way in?

43:57

And so you push it away. No, I don't

43:59

want to feel that. You do it all the

44:01

time. That is what your ego

44:03

is built of. That stored stuff

44:05

in there. You built

44:07

a house in there. And it's powerful

44:09

because it's stuff that you liked

44:11

and didn't like. And you built

44:14

your ego out of that. And that's what your

44:16

self concept is. It's not everything you experience.

44:18

It's the stuff you stored in there. And

44:20

it's loud. It's powerful. And therefore,

44:22

you don't think about who's experiencing it.

44:24

You think about how do I

44:26

get it what it wants? How do

44:28

I be okay? Because I'm staring.

44:30

I use the word distraction. I really

44:33

like that word. Distraction is

44:35

a very spiritual word. Why? You

44:37

are distracted by that thing. It's

44:39

powerful. It draws you into it. If

44:42

something reminds you of something you liked, you want it

44:44

to happen again. You don't

44:46

do that with the white lines. Well, I

44:48

hope I see that one again. I can't

44:50

wait. I can't wait. But you do it

44:52

with what somebody said or somebody bothered you.

44:54

You don't want to happen again. So now

44:56

you devote your life to trying to make

44:58

the world outside when it comes in, match

45:01

what you want. Who's in there? No one

45:03

even knows they're in there. No one thinks

45:05

about it. Why? Because they're so

45:07

distracted by the ego, distracted

45:09

by their beliefs and hopes and dreams and

45:11

concepts and views and preferences, and

45:13

then they devote their life to that

45:15

part of themselves. That's

45:18

not very good. All

45:20

right? You devote your life to yourself, and

45:22

that's what the great masters are. What

45:25

did Christ mean when He said, my Father, I are

45:27

one? He meant that I

45:29

who is in there, maybe a little here,

45:31

that moved on to say it. His

45:33

saying was as follows, meditate

45:35

on the self. Honor

45:37

and worship your own being, for

45:39

God dwells within you as you. That's

45:42

the you, that the kingdom is

45:44

within you. And it is the truth.

45:46

And anyone who explored that part

45:48

of their being, man, you

45:51

spend one second. in

45:53

the self, and your life will never be the

45:56

same. Because you realize you're

45:58

not who you thought you were. Notice

46:00

who you thought you were. You

46:02

are who you are. When

46:04

Moses of the burning bush, and

46:06

it told him, go down and tell the Pharaoh,

46:08

let my people go, right? And he said,

46:10

well, Pharaoh's a pretty powerful guy. are

46:12

you talking about a burning bush? Told me, I don't know. I

46:16

don't think he'll do it,

46:18

all right? And Moses asked God,

46:21

They have lots of gods down there in

46:23

Egypt. What God should I say? What's

46:25

your name? What do you

46:27

say? I am that

46:29

I am. Whoa.

46:32

I am that which is always

46:34

has been, always will be, never

46:36

wasn't. That's who you

46:38

are. That's who's back

46:41

there. Holy mackerel. And

46:43

you're busy devoting your life to what

46:45

you're looking at, which is basically a

46:47

bunch of poop. Is

46:49

it not? Are you having

46:51

fun hanging out in there with

46:53

your ego? Trying to make everybody

46:55

be the way you want them to be and make

46:57

sure that everything goes right and doesn't ever go

46:59

wrong and you haven't fun in there yet? But

47:01

the Bible will say, Old Testament, when

47:04

you're throwing out the guard, what's the guard? And you're living

47:06

in the self. You're

47:08

experiencing life. It's open. You're

47:11

seated in a deep seat of

47:13

consciousness, experiencing the beauty of everything. Yin

47:16

and yang, it's just all comes in, passes

47:18

through. You're experiencing life. You say, oh my God,

47:20

it's so beautiful to be here now. It's

47:22

all coming through. All right. When you were thrown

47:24

from the garden, what does it say? Now

47:26

you must work by the sweat of your brow.

47:28

Don't you work by the sweat of your

47:30

brow to be okay, to try to be

47:32

okay. Not to be okay, because you're not, but to

47:34

try to be okay. The most

47:36

powerful in the world, they seem okay to you. They

47:40

can't handle anything. All

47:42

the strongest people have to make sure that things are

47:44

the way they want them to be. What

47:47

does that mean? That means the weakest people that will walk

47:49

to face the earth. If you

47:51

can't handle anything, I

47:54

can't handle what you did, I handle what you said. I can't

47:56

handle anything. I can't handle anything. That's not exactly the way I

47:58

want it to be. Okay? Well, then

48:00

there's something wrong. I'm not

48:02

telling anybody in particular. That's how

48:04

it is. And so

48:06

you wake up and you realize there

48:08

are truths and we've talked about

48:10

some of them and there are non

48:12

-truths but the non -truths aren't fake

48:15

news I mean come on that's minor

48:17

non -truths aren't propaganda fine right let's

48:19

get a little bit bigger the

48:21

non -truth is your ego and all

48:23

that other stuff is because of ego

48:25

why would somebody lie because some

48:27

didn't match the self -concept and they

48:29

don't want to face it I didn't

48:32

say that I didn't I didn't

48:34

say that I have on a tape

48:36

you faked it Why

48:38

am I doing that? Because I

48:40

can't handle it. I'm weak.

48:42

I'm strong. I can control you. No,

48:44

that's not the fact that you need to

48:46

control me. You need your weak. The

48:49

fact that you can't handle reality

48:51

is a major problem. Well, that's the

48:53

part of you that can't handle

48:55

reality. Tag, you know, you got

48:57

one. So what is spirituality?

48:59

What is truth? You have to

49:01

learn to not be married to

49:03

that ego. It's not who you

49:05

are. and it's a major problem and it's

49:07

very, very difficult to live with and to

49:10

say that you're going to solve the difficulty

49:12

of what it is to live with by

49:14

making everybody else be the way you want. Wow,

49:17

why don't you just let go of that stupid thing?

49:19

a lot easier. I know as

49:21

difficult as it is to let go

49:23

of yourself. What did Christ say?

49:25

To die to be reborn. Die

49:27

to be reborn means to let

49:29

go of what you're staring at, what

49:31

you made up, this stupid thing

49:33

that you have going on in there.

49:35

inside your personal mind and then

49:38

all a sudden your spirit you die

49:40

of the person to be reborn

49:42

in the spiritual is I know we've

49:44

talked about all day but you

49:46

don't realize how married you are to

49:48

the personal and it's not easy

49:50

to let go why because it's powerful

49:52

you are addicted people get addicted

49:54

to alcohol and drugs because they're already

49:56

addicted to their ego if it

49:58

was beautiful and they were doing that

50:00

stuff the whole tank commandments would

50:02

go away Why? People don't do them.

50:04

You don't need them. If

50:06

you're okay in there and you feel with love

50:08

and joy and God is great, I just love a

50:10

young guy. Kill anybody? You're gonna

50:13

lie? Young is still some people's spouses? Okay.

50:16

So we've had a nice talk. We

50:18

talked about truth and non -truth. Non

50:20

-truth is way bigger than you think it

50:22

is. Non -truth is the

50:24

ego. Your ego

50:27

is not the truth. It

50:29

is not true. You're beautiful. It's not true.

50:31

You're not beautiful. is not true you're a male,

50:33

is not true you're a female, is

50:35

not true you're any of that. You're the self. The

50:38

truth is you're the self. You're

50:40

the consciousness. You are

50:42

at all times the consciousness. It is

50:44

the same consciousness that looks out through

50:46

his eyes and sees what it sees

50:49

and notices that there are thoughts in

50:51

there and notices that there are emotions.

50:54

When you are able to sit in

50:56

that seat of consciousness, it's called becoming

50:58

established in the seat of self. That's

51:00

the truth. Now you've touched

51:02

truth. And you shall know the truth and

51:04

truth shall set you free. This is all

51:06

the deep teachings from the deep beings, Buddha

51:08

and Christ. They teach the same thing, but

51:11

nobody's listening. What they

51:13

think is, let's be spiritual and

51:15

make our thoughts be spiritual. Let's

51:18

make our feelings be spiritual. Let's

51:20

make the ego believe what we say

51:22

we should all believe. No,

51:25

no. That's still you

51:27

staring at something. You

51:29

are the self. How do I

51:31

be the self? Stop not being the

51:33

self. How do you get

51:35

out? You learn to

51:38

handle reality. You

51:40

learn to handle what comes

51:42

in via peace inside. Then

51:44

what? Just the people walk over me?

51:46

No, it doesn't mean that. Handle

51:49

it, accept it as reality, then

51:51

see what you can do to help.

51:53

As opposed to what you're doing,

51:55

all of us at your

51:57

dinner queue, Try to

51:59

manipulate it so that you

52:01

can handle it. That's not

52:04

handling it That's basically saying

52:06

I can't handle it. So

52:08

I'm gonna come out and

52:10

change you guys So that

52:12

I can handle it That's

52:14

dumping your stuff out into

52:17

the world. That's the ultimate

52:19

pollution Everything I'm doing is

52:21

not to help you or

52:23

the situation is to help

52:25

me because I can't handle

52:27

it Learn to handle

52:29

reality. The new book, Living Untethered, is

52:32

very, very deep because it really

52:34

lays down how to learn to handle

52:36

reality and what happens when you

52:38

can do that. Now you become a

52:40

blessing on the earth. You

52:42

come down, every situation happens,

52:45

handle it, be at peace

52:47

with it, serene, love, respect,

52:50

compassion. Now look, is there

52:52

something I can do to help? I

52:54

want to meet that person. That's

52:57

the saint. But somebody who

52:59

comes down and everything they're

53:01

doing is trying to help the

53:03

situation, whatever the situation is.

53:05

I'm here to serve, not serve

53:07

me, not get what I want. You're

53:10

whole and complete within yourself. There's

53:12

so much beauty, Shakti flowing inside of

53:14

you day and night, just pouring inside of

53:16

you, feeding you. Listen to me, every

53:18

one of you, that's the reality that's

53:21

going on inside of you. Why don't I

53:23

feel it? Because you're staring at the part of

53:25

you that you collected over the course of

53:27

your life. And that part's not so good, is

53:29

it? Not doing so well. And

53:31

that's why you don't feel the Shakti. You're

53:33

looking away from it. If I look into the

53:35

darkness, I don't see the light. If

53:38

I turn around, oh! Okay.

53:43

I understand truth versus

53:45

this stuff we do. Jai

53:49

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