Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. The spiritual journey is by far the most exciting thing that could possibly happen in your life. Why I. It’s not that you set a goal, people do that and it’s good. It’s not great, it’s good, and you try to achieve it. During those efforts. There’s this sense of excitement, this sense of shockti, the sense of enthusiasm that you might reach your goal.
That’s what goal orientation is, and again. I don’t like talking to you at this level because they teach you have goal orientation. I don’t teach you that, but it’s fine to have it. You’ll go through many different stages in your life. Some of them, as I said earlier, are, I don’t wanna suffer. I don’t wanna feel depressed, I don’t wanna feel left out.
I don’t want to hurt. Well, that, believe it or not, is an attempt at positive. It’s more positive than negative. I’m doing better. I think I’ll make it okay. This person was nice to me today. Maybe this is gonna be okay. Right? That is where most people live and the ones who claim to be most successful, especially wealthy and powerful people are always running away from themselves.
You don’t see it. They’re running away from themselves. They can’t handle that. They’ve set a goal. And they meet it. They’re really powerful. They do it every day. They meet their goals. People have to be the way they want them to be. They have the money to do so. They have the power to do so. It’s no fun.
You think it’s fun. It’s not fun to get your way. Why? Because then you have to set another goal. You have to keep setting things that keep you inspired and trying to say, this will make me be okay. And that’s why rich and powerful people are always doing something. Do you think that’s neat to have money and power and I can always get in my way?
It’s depressing. No, seriously. Alright, because it is never taken care of. There always has to be something big. There has to be something better. Like look at the billionaires today. I mean, they needs, now they’re getting their trust of trillionaires, right? Nobody in the world needs that kind of money, right?
But they do. And they feel bad if they’re not number one on hip rate. You can’t imagine how a suffering goes on deep inside of a rich and powerful person. That’s what Christ remember when he said sooner. Uh, the camel should pass to the eye of a needle than a rich man should enter heaven. There’s nothing wrong with having money.
The trouble is you use it. To build yourself up, to build ego, to build. I’m better than somebody else. If you’re not better than somebody else and somebody’s number two, and you were number one last time, you don’t feel good. Alright? I’m not talking against money, I’m not talking against power. But understand, they suffer ’cause they have to keep running.
It always has to get better. There has to be a goal, although what do you do with yourself? So you have to set, and the goals aren’t always nice, might be nice to other people, whatever it is, but there has to be a goal. So goal orientation is, is a way of life. Fine. Someday you’ll find out and maybe lifetimes from now that it doesn’t do anything.
Goal orientation means what does it mean? I’m not okay, and I have a goal that if I reach it, it’ll make me be okay. It’ll make me feel better. There’s a chance. God forbid, you should reach it. Now you have to set another one instead. Another one. Instead. Another one. You have say, keep running. You think you’re running towards something you’re not.
You’re running away from something. You’re running as fast as you can. What are you running away from me? I am in here, but I don’t recognize that I don’t have any idea who I am. I just know that some things make me feel better and some things make me feel worse. Can you relate to that? Do you understand that?
It’s very easy to understand that some things make me feel better. Some things make me feel worse, and we just sit there and say Those who may feel better or good, doesn’t make me feel worse are bad. Right? Well, you’ll find out someday it’s not true as you go deeper in your spiritual journey, but right now.
People are satisfied to live that life. I can be goal oriented. I can track to myself. I can attract to myself that which makes me feel better. None of you wanna attract yourself that which makes you feel bad. Have you noticed that? Right? We all have a law of attraction and every one of you want to attract the one that makes you feel better, and none of you wanna attract the one that makes you feel bad.
How you doing with it? You are gonna find out. You don’t even know what you want. You just know you’re still running, you’re running towards something, okay? But you’re not. You’re running away from something. You’re running away from the fact that you’re not okay at the depth of your being. We’ll talk about, we’re gonna set it down.
What does it mean to be okay? I didn’t even know. You wanna know. That’s how high it is. It’s unconditional wellbeing. You don’t need anything. You don’t want anything. You’re not looking for anything. Ramdas said it’s becoming nobody. People can’t relate to that. Why would I wanna be nobody? Believe me. You wanna be nobody, but not the nobody that I’m no good.
Oh my God, I’m no good or nobody, no. You’ve emptied out, you’re inside, and what’s left there is ecstasy. What’s left there is total unconditional wellbeing. It’s not goal orientation. Okay? So we’ve laid down the beginning of the, it’s not the beginning of the path. It’s depression. People kill themselves.
People will, through all kinds of things, right? Because they’re not okay. Why would you kill yourself? Why would you be depressed? Uh, inside is not okay. So at least you reach a point where you have some goals, you have some thing that thinks, if I get this, I’m going to be okay. It’s always, I’m gonna be okay.
I’ll work for this. I can achieve this. It’s all about achieving and getting and doing alright. Well, that’s an early part of the path and you can do well with that, at least relatively in the sense that you can keep some Shakti flowing as long as you’re getting what you want, or even if you’re not getting it.
Some people wanna work hard to get what they want. I don’t, might have to work hard. That’s wonderful, but you still are not okay. And you see a goal, you see an aspiration that’s giving you Shakti of going forward, and there’s nothing wrong with any stage in this path. Do you understand that? You’ll go through all kinds of stages.
My job. It’s to let you understand in front of yourself, right, that people often come years later and say, I didn’t understand at all what you’re talking about, but then I went through this and went through this and went this. I now see if it can help you at all on your journey. That’s what a spiritual teacher, that’s their job.
Okay, but not, not to set a goal and then have you try to achieve it. It’s higher than that. Alright, so basically what happens, so if you’re lucky. And you’re positive and you’re working on yourself, you get a flow of energy that’s goal oriented and it turns you on and that’s beautiful. Okay? It will not last.
It’s not supposed to. Why? You’re not living off God. You’re not living off the depth of your inside. You’re living off goal orientation. It’s your difference. So let’s go deeper. What happens at some point, I talked about it the other day there. There’s Shakti. That is not worth getting. It doesn’t lead any of us.
It’s a short term thing. We all have that, don’t we? I. Don’t ever talk about it, but second chakra is very good with that and there’s nothing wrong with that. But have you noticed how easy it is to change the Shakti when you’re playing around with some energies and ego does the same thing? Ego can absolutely get your Shakti flowing.
So basically you get to the point well, you realize what is a higher form of Shakti and you start looking inside and realizing that what it’s about is not. The high Shakti. It’s about why you’re not feeling it, not what do you need to get in order to feel enthused? You need to get in order to feel inspired.
What do you need to get in order to really just to, how about being turned on for the rest of your life there when goal orientation. Unconditional wellbeing every single second, every moment of your life. Who wants that? You don’t understand. You’re capable of that. That’s who you are. That is your natural state.
The problem is I always get there. The first thing you do is you talk about high, but then you start talking about, wait a minute, why am I not there? Why do I not feel completely inspired for no reason? I woke up in the morning and I brushed my teeth and I had breakfast, and this car started every single moment.
Is the same as every other moment. That’s what we hear now, is that’s what the deep teachings are. You’re turned on all the time. Well, why don’t I feel that? Because you’re blocked. Okay, now we’re getting down to walking the spiritual path. Why am I blocked? I’ve done this with you a thousand times. I’ll do it 1,001, right?
’cause what matters is not how to get high. Why are you not high? I think right now you’re the highest being ever walked the face of the earth. Don’t you feel it? No. Why? Why don’t you feel that? Because I’m telling you, the highest being ever walked to face the earth. Period right now. Why don’t I feel it?
Why? We’ll do it short course because over the course of your life you have had experiences, which strong ones were not comfortable to you. What did you do with those experiences? You stored them, why you weren’t able to handle the experience. How’s that? Somebody said something mean to you. Somebody hurt you.
You know your parents got divorced. Who the heck knows how many experiences could hurt you? How many experiences can be uncomfortable? There’s many stars in the sky, and when you have those experiences, you’re not evolved inside to be able to handle them in a proper fashion. How should I be handling them?
Let them go. Why do you wanna store bad experiences? Do you store bad experiences? Everybody stores bad experiences. As a suppression. Is repression. Denial. Resistance? Have you ever resist an experience? If somebody says something to me, it hurts you? What do you do with it? Does it come back tomorrow? Kinda, it came back a year from now.
Can you see the person again and assume it again? Then you’re stored it. Otherwise it’s not there if it’s still there. After the moment went by, you stored it. Otherwise it’s not there. The rain’s not there. The clouds are not there. The right lines on the road are not there. There’s billions and billions and billions of things that are not there.
But the ones you store are okay. Why’d you store? ’cause they hurt. You protected yourself. You defended yourself. People talk about boundaries. What is the boundary? Something I couldn’t handle and I ain’t dealing with that. You’re not going there, baby. That’s my boundary. If you have boundaries, you’re resisting.
Boundaries mean I couldn’t handle the experience. I’m not saying it’s wrong. We can talk about that, but it means I have a boundary where, where inside there’s nothing inside. Inside’s empty, the Buddhist void. There’s nothing inside. I say, but you store it. Let’s do that. I see to do that. There’s nothing inside of you, but what you stored there, you had experiences, you remembered them, you brought them back.
You want that to happen again. Man is the sum of the learned experiences. You’re not, you’re the consciousness that’s aware of the sum of learned experiences. You know, the indwelling consciousness that is aware that you have trouble with your mind, that you have trouble with your heart, that you get excited about things, you’re a conscious being, but unfortunately, we can’t handle the experience we’re having.
That’s what it means to grow spiritually, by the way. That’s what it means that I can handle every single experience that ever happened to me. That’s an enlightened being. It is not stored inside. It maybe was painful, I handled it. Maybe I didn’t handle it right away, but years later, okay, fine. I’m okay.
There’s no problem. Fine. You were mean to me. Okay. You wanna know historic experiences. Go back to your high school reunion. Go back to your high school 20 year reunion and see how you feel about every single person that’s there right now and whether they bring back your stuff. You store the experiences.
You do not have to store these experiences. They happen, they pass through like clouds in the sky and you are a very evolved being who’s always okay, ’cause you didn’t store the garbage inside of you. If you store garbage inside of you, it’s going to be garbage in there. Yes, yes, you can learn to be positive.
Fine. Why do you need to learn to be positive? ’cause otherwise it’s negative. So spirituality is about waking up that this is the problem. The problem is not that you don’t have a goal or have this or that. The problem is that you stored this stuff inside and now you’re blocked. And if you’re blocked, the energy can’t flow.
But if you get something you want, the energy flows. If you dream of something and the dream comes true, how long does it last? Have you ever gotten what you want? Have you ever, at least one time in your life, did you get what you want? Hello? Last. You never need anything else, right? It’s over. I get married.
Oh boy. He’s finished. Wake up. It’s all goal orientations. I am not, okay. Be honest, I’m not. Okay. Deep inside, but I’m trying to be okay. I’ve found ways to get the Shakti flowing different times, different ways, right? I prefer that you don’t live like that. I would love you to be in ecstasy all the time, every moment or every second of your life where you’re born.
You go through these experiences in your life, you die. You go Whoopy. That was fun. Nearly, but the net result is it is because you stored this stuff inside that you’re not okay. Otherwise you are okay. That’s what it means to cleanse spiritually. You live your life, you go through what you need to go through, but you go through it, you don’t store it.
That’s the highest thing no matter what it is. A divorce, a death, a this, a that. A bad experience. Somebody dissing you, right? Frontline. Headline in the newspaper telling you terrible lies about you. Okay? Can you handle it? Can you handle it? Or do you want to store that inside of you and have it bothered you for the rest of your life?
I ask you who wants to store them inside of them and have ’em bothered for the rest of your life? Why is that an intelligent thing to do? It’s just nobody taught you. You don’t have to. That stuff should not be stored inside. It was not meant to be stored inside. It was meant to be. Experiences, learning experiences that you go through, some of them are pleasant, some of them are not.
But you learn from everything. You learning how to play tennis, hit the ball into the net, fine. Keep playing. You’ll get better. That’s what life’s about. You’re gonna have experiences. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s what you’re supposed to do. But ultimately your goal, if there be such a thing, is I wanna be able to handle every single experience I ever had, ever have or ever will have.
If I were doing a retreat with you, I’d make you say that I want to be able to handle every experience I’ve ever had I am having, or I’m going to have. Now you’re talking about the spiritual path. That is a spiritual path. It’s not about getting what you want or avoiding what you don’t want or believing in this or that it’s in here.
You live in here and experiences are coming at you. Are they not? Every moment of your life experiences are coming at you. Can you handle them? By the way, what does handling mean? They pass through. Handling doesn’t mean I’m handling this. No, that doesn’t mean grabbing onto it. Handling means I am open enough.
Clear enough, high enough, call, whatever you want to where this experience is able to pass through me and does not have to stay inside of me. That’s where you’re going. That’s spirituality. That’s what a master is. That’s what enlightened being is an enlightened being, is a being that every single experience passes through.
It passes through. Well, what if I need to remember something? Nobody said, you don’t have a memory. You bring it back when you wanna bring it back, but it doesn’t haunt you then come back by itself. It’s not this subconscious garbage that you stored inside, or fears and anxieties and all the different stuff that we all have.
It means being open enough to where it all flows through. It all passes through. So how does one get that way? First, they understand that that is the spiritual path. It’s not about getting what you want. Freedom is not about getting for yourself. It’s about getting rid of yourself. Freedom from yourself.
If you didn’t have that garbage going on inside, you would be wonderful, wouldn’t you? How would you like to wake up in the morning and all of a sudden it’s gone. There’s no fears. What are you afraid of? What do you mean no fears? Psychological fears. I’m talking about, alright, what are psychological fears?
I might not get what I want. I might have to get what I don’t want. What are the fears there? If you look at your fears, that’s what you’re gonna see. There are things that I need. I might not get ’em. There are things I don’t want and I might get ’em. They’re now, you’re in there being afraid and try to control everything to try and make it be the way you need it to be.
I don’t want you to live like that. You’re a great being. You don’t have to live like that. So I like to imagine you wake up in the morning and none. Oh, it’s so exciting and none of that is there at all. None. It’s completely clean. So what happens? The moments unfold and they pass through. You work with them.
It’s not that you don’t interact with the world, of course you interact with the world, but you don’t interact with the world out of your inner stuff, and that’s what we’re doing now. I have preferences and hopes and dreams and concepts and views and opinions and likes and dislikes. Donut, all of that is you stored.
Every single like and dislike and preference, and hope and dream, every one of those things is based upon the stuff you’ve already stored inside. Do you know that? I wanna know. Do you know that even psychology teaches you that they say, man is the sum of his learned experiences. So you picked up all these experiences and did what you stored them.
And so now you say, that’s who I am. And the person who likes this, and the person who doesn’t like this, and the person who believes in this, the person doesn’t believe in that, and the person likes to be treated this way and don’t like to be treated that way. You’re not. You’re God descended your pure consciousness.
Right. Experiencing what it’s like to be stuck in a human. But you don’t have to be stuck in a human. You don’t have to stare at those thoughts and those emotions and have them freak you out and be afraid. People are afraid of themselves. You don’t understand that. I’m afraid of what might happen. They me tomorrow.
- Somebody might treat me and I said, and not things might happen that bother me. I want you to be free of all of that. Do you know you’re capable being completely free? I don’t care what you’ve been through. I don’t care what scars you have inside. You say you have scars. Do you have scars inside? Have you had experience inside that left marks on you that keep coming back up?
Okay. There are no scars inside. You have used your will to stop these experiences and store them inside, and they were not nice experiences. Therefore, they show up as scars. They show up as problems that I have, and then I work on trying to get rid of them and try to get situations better for myself. Are you tired yet?
It’s exhausting to go through every single day trying to get what you want, avoid what you don’t want, and make sure everything right. So spirituality is, at least you’re saying, I don’t wanna live like that. Do I have to live like that? And the answer is no. Of course. You don’t have to live like that. Well, you did it.
You are the one that held that stuff inside, did you not? When things happen in old life, do you push them away? Do you resist it? Can you feel yourself stopping the energy from coming in? You just get to the point where I’m gonna learn not to do that. Alright? So the first stage of your spiritual growth is pretty negative.
Second stage of your spiritual growth is, oh, I did this. I, I used to ask a question to you guys. If you store every single thing that ever bothered you. Throughout your life, inside of you, what’s it gonna be like inside? Bothered. You can try to make it nicer, but there’s this constant fear that there’s constant anxiety, there’s a constant sense that something’s gonna go wrong and I won’t get what I want and, and blah, blah, blah.
Okay? You have to decide. I don’t wanna live like that. So, like I said, it’s not a matter of of compensating for the problems you have, but letting it be nicer outside. I, if I have money, I can travel fine, fine. If I have a good relationship that’s really nice to me and doesn’t slurp their soup and is always kind and, and I and I a mood wheel on my door so I can tell ’em what moods I’m in.
So people treat me, they wanna be treated. Wow. That’s exhausting. That’s ridiculous. How would you rather be? I am an open being. Bring what is. I will handle it perfectly fine. It will come in and I’ll learn from it. I’ll grow from it. Every situation in your life is a learning experience, isn’t it? So somebody died, your parents died.
It’s sad. Did you handle it? Did you learn how to handle it? Are you better at handling death ’cause you went through one? Or if you’ve never ever experienced a death of a loved one. It’s a learning experience. Doesn’t mean you’re kitty. It just means you’re willing to go through the experience without resistance, without sitting there saying, no, I don’t want this to happen.
Well, it did happen, but I don’t want it to. Too bad. What? What kinda silly statement is that? I don’t want it to rain today. Yeah, I don’t have to rain on my birthday. You’re just causing trouble for yourself. So you get to the point where you say, okay, I’m gonna work with this. But, but then it’s important.
This thing about situations will happen outside that are not pleasant, don’t they? Can you handle it? Not, can you stop it from happening? You’re never gonna stop you and young from happening. There’s gonna be positive and negative, dark and light, sick in hell, birth and death. It’s just the universe is built that way.
There’s law of the opposite. Everything happens. Is that wrong? No, it’s not wrong. But what I do with it. Honor and respect it, come into it with a sense of openness that says, I can handle anything. Even if you can’t, I can handle anything. Why you grow? If you sit there and say, I can’t handle this, you resist it, and you push it away and you suppress it, and that is not spiritual.
So just get to the point where you realize I have work to do inside. My work is inside how? I’m not gonna store more of this stuff anymore. I always get to this point. That’s the first step. First step is I don’t wanna str. Do you wanna store more in there? You want more scars. You want more problems later in your life because somebody didn’t treat you the way wanna treat you or anything like that.
Or you wanna be able to shake it off, really shake it off, not suppress. It does not have to be in there. It’s not about coping or tolerating. It’s about letting go. If I’m resisting it, it’s gonna leave marks. If I don’t resist it, it passes right through whatever I go through. If I don’t. You use my will to push it away and manipulate and control it, you’re gonna find out it goes through.
So you start doing that during your life. You take small little things that now you resist and you sit there and say, I’m not gonna resist them anymore. Why? For the same reason I get better at tennis every time I hit the ball. Every single time you play a piano, you get better. Doesn’t mean you’re contra pianist, right?
You start practicing being, okay, look at me. Why not? Do you wanna be okay? Do you wanna be clear? Do you wanna be high? Do you wanna feel love? Then practice, practice doing that. And that’s what you end up doing every moment in your life. You take a look and say, can I handle this? And then the small things like when it rains out or somebody says something you don’t like, or somebody’s in a bad mood and they didn’t treat exactly what they were, we treated right.
Can you hand looking right in your eyes? Can you handle it? Come on, you don’t wanna, why don’t you wanna? ’cause it doesn’t feel good. There are vibrations in this world that don’t feel good, rattlesnakes rattling in front of you. Don’t feel good. That’s not the point. Can you handle not feeling good? Can you handle the energy that doesn’t feel good?
Or do you have to manipulate everything in your life so you never have a feeling that doesn’t feel right? ’cause you’ve never succeeded at that, have you? There’s all these things come in. So it’s not sufficient to say, I can manipulate this, I can control life. They can, you can go there. And I did move out to the woods.
Okay? And think that you can control life to, it doesn’t bother you. I had it down to almost nothing. I was meditating six hours a day, living in a hut in the middle of the woods, and nobody’s out here, right? And a dog would be barking in the distance. I think I hear it and it would bother me. You’re not getting away from life, nor do you want to.
What you want to do is learn to handle things. What things? Everything. I’m not ready for that. Okay. You’re not ready yet. Just sit there and say, I’m gonna practice. This is what I want you. I’m gonna practice every day of my life. To do better at handling things. That’s all you can do. I’m gonna do the best I can.
That’s what it means to be conscious. I’m in here, I’m conscious and I have issues. I don’t wanna have issues. Every single experience you have had throughout your life, who was your teacher birth? Was your teacher death? Was your teacher sick with your teacher? You know, somebody yelling at you. Is your teacher getting divorced?
Is your teacher? Every single thing that takes place in your life, you can learn from. You can learn from it. Can you have a nice divorce? Most people can. Some people can. Which would you rather do have an ugly divorce after you lived together for years and then basically mess everything up or, okay.
Didn’t work out. We tried. We can be friends, love each other. You can do anything you want ’cause you’re in there. It’s your life. But you have to learn to handle the experiences that are happening to you. And so what you do is little by little every that’s what I want you to do. Here’s your spiritual path.
Ready? Yeah. You can meditate, you can do mantra, do everything right. But on an everyday basis, remember? That the experiences you’re having should be digestible, that they can make it through. I don’t wanna store these things in here and have to ruin my life, and they do do that. So you start working with them little by little.
You have experiences during the day and you sit through and say, fine, I can handle that. But what happens if something happens I can’t handle, you’ll know, you’ll fall, you’ll get upset, you’ll throw. Pots and pans, who the heck knows you have hatred? Thoughts. You know, it’ll get messy. Okay, fine. What do you do?
People always ask, what do I do? What if I fall? What if it doesn’t work out? You get back up as soon as possible. This is spiritual life. You back up as soon as possible. The moment you see, okay, I got lost. I fell down. Do not judge yourself. Do not feel guilty if I hit the ball into the net. I don’t feel guilty.
I’m learning. So if you’re trying the best you can and you fall down, get back up. Just get back up and don’t judge yourself and what’s gonna happen. I always teach this. Stay up as long as you can. And come back as soon as you can. These are deep teachings. Just, I don’t care if it’s three seconds longer, you held the anger down or you held the hurt down, right?
Just so come on. And then when you start to get clear, it’ll get clear again. Alright? It starts to get clear. Do it as soon as possible, and no judgment, no anything. And what will happen, that gap will get smaller and smaller, period. Just like practicing the piano, you practice it, you’re gonna get better.
You practice life, you’re gonna get better. This is the spiritual path. That is why you took birth on Earth. That is why you’re going through every single experience you’re going through to learn to grow. And you just start taking that attitude instead of the attitude. I’m okay as long I get what I want.
But you don’t get what you want. No, it’s not okay. Right. You just sit there and say, get up in the morning and say what? I am going to be fine today. No matter what happens, it’s gonna be fun. I’ll deal with it. But it’s a sport. It’s fun. And in India they have a name for God’s dance. It’s called God’s Lila.
You heard the word God’s, Lila. It’s sometime in, uh, translated as God’s dance and or I like God’s sport. You’re playing. You’ve come here to get better, or you come here to practice and you just keep working with it. If you do that, you’ll get better. You will always get better every single day if you do what I’m telling you about.
If you do your best each day to let go. Just let it go as I can handle it. The driver in front of me is tailgating me. It’s freaking me out, and he is gone in three blocks. Did I freak out? No, I didn’t. Wow. I used to freak out over that. Just keep working with yourself, keep raising yourself, and then ultimately you get to the next phase.
What’s that? I always tell you this. It’s neat to know that there are some automatic phases that happen. It’s not just all this intense work. It is at first. Why? Because it’s a mess in the air. Okay. It’s like you suppressed all this stuff throughout your life, right? You start working with yourself to raise your thoughts, raise yourself, okay?
And then eventually you realize, okay, I got some big stuff down there. I. Will it come up? People always ask me, do I have to go down there and get it? I love when they ask me that. Of course not. It’s gonna come up by itself, isn’t it? Have you noticed it comes up by itself? All you have to do is handle it when it comes up.
Well, how do I know which one to handle? The one that’s coming up? You do not have to do anything more than that. Just handle the one that’s coming up, how let it go and, alright, what does letting go mean? What does it mean to let go? Ready? You can understand this, you know, to be some meditator events have energy.
It’s not just what happened outside. It’s what happens inside. They come inside, don’t they? Events that happen outside, come inside. They touch your heart. They touch your mind, okay? They have energy, vibrations. They come in. And you will have a tendency to resist. Sometimes the tendency is so prevalent, you don’t even know you’re doing it.
You’re always protecting yourself, always pushing away, always watching with somebody. Watch their body language. Watch what they said. What do they mean by that? Every single thought like that is protection. Now, protecting myself, okay? And so you get to the point where you catch on and you see the energy’s coming in.
And I’m about to protect myself. Don’t. Whoa. What do you mean? It’s such a natural tendency. Nothing’s hurting you. Nobody’s hitting you. Somebody says something that you don’t like. So what? It comes, it goes, believe me, they won’t remember tomorrow. You remember tomorrow, you think that every single thing ever bothered you?
Everyone knows they bothered you. They don’t know anything. They were in their own mood, in their own way. It’s just, it’s, oh my God, check his body language. I have a stomach ache. I’m not covering my third chakra. I just don’t feel good. And you just catch up. Why am I doing that? Why do I care with somebody’s body?
Language? Isn’t body sure of this body language? Why do I care? Why would I bother myself with that? You’re protecting yourself. That whole thing is about can I read you and know what you’re really thinking? I don’t care what you’re thinking. I know what you’re thinking. Garbage right or wrong. I know what you’re thinking.
It depends on what you had for pizza last night. That’s what you’re thinking now. Okay. I’m in a bad mood. Do people get in moods? Do you care that everybody’s got moods? Everybody’s got moods. I’m enough trouble myself. I don’t need to know. And you’re gonna find out. It works out just fine. Boy, am I glad we’re talking about this.
Not that it works out just fine. It works out a thousand times better. Why? If you sit there and try to read somebody, why are you doing that? To protect myself. The only reason I’m doing that is to protect myself from you. Well, the vast majority of time you’re reading something, you’re reading you, you’re reading your fears, your anxieties, your self-consciousness, every single thing like that.
That’s what’s going on inside of you. So that’s what it looks like is going on inside of them. The vast majority of time that you think you know what somebody’s doing, you do. I used to play I back when I was first growing back. When I moved out here, I did crazy things to try and get free. Didn’t work, but it was fun.
It was different. I would walk up to total strangers and ask them something. I was getting into a bus and I bumped into somebody. I was getting into the bus. I walked up to them when they sat down and said, did it bother you that I bumped into you? And the person said, I didn’t see you bump into me every single time.
They had no idea what was going inside my mind. It was going inside my mind. It’s not theirs. You’re gonna find out you are living in the shell of your own thoughts. And your own emotions. So if something went wrong in your life yesterday, it looks like it’s happening today. It looks like everybody’s, it’s the whole bank robbery thing.
You go in to rob a bank. When you come out, you’re paranoid. You think everybody’s looking at you. Probably no one’s looking at you. Imagine if you could live like that. Free instead of doing all that garbage. And so you start to work with yourself in the way I’m talking about, which is you understand I have a problem with my, do you have a problem with your mind?
Does I have a problem with their mind? It doesn’t always say nice things does it? Why? Because of the stuff you stored down there doesn’t always think highly of yourself, doesn’t always think you succeeded, doesn’t always think you impress people. It’s like it’s constant mental junk going on in there because the stuff you stored, like I said, I don’t want you to living like that.
I care about you. You do not have to live like that. How you start this thing, I quote letting go, so the energy comes in, it doesn’t feel good. I’m telling you, please watch the tendencies to push it away. I don’t want to experience this. I don’t have to put up with this. I don’t like what you said. I don’t like the weather.
Even the weather. I don’t like this rain. It have to be raining on my birthday, and you start watching this tendency to resist, to use your will to push things away. Letting go means not to do that. What do you mean? It means there’s a part of your being that’s doing the pushing. When you suppress who’s suppressing FR suppression?
Yes, I know. There’s all this negative energy and garbage you put down there. Who put it down there? What force pushed this down there so it stays down there. You did. Your will. You are the only one in there. That’s all that’s in there is you. Then why are you making such a mess? ’cause you can’t handle the vibration.
You can’t handle what this feels like. So you, it comes in, you will feel the, I’m begging you. You will feel the tendency to resist. What does it mean to not relax? That’s what I found. When you feel the tendency to resist, relax. Just relax. What does that mean? Relax. Why would I relax? It’s not comfortable you in there.
Relax. Don’t fight it. Just someday you’ll learn how to do it and you’ll understand exactly what I’m talking about. I’m feeling a tendency to resist. What do I do? Relax. No, it’s gonna come closer. The relaxing doesn’t let me resist. Ah, relaxation is the opposite of resistance. Inside relaxation is the opposite.
Resistance. That’s not to teach you that, don’t they? Right. Relax into it. Massage, relax into it. Well try relaxing inside. When you feel the tendency to close to resist, relax, and what you’re gonna find out first, you can’t do it. It’s hard. You don’t wanna do it. I don’t wanna protect myself. I don’t wanna feel what you just said.
I don’t want it coming in here. I don’t like it. I don’t want it to rain. I don’t want it to be hot. I don’t want the driver in front of me. You’re driving 10 miles hour below the speed limit. There’s all these things that you resist, that get stuck inside of you. They cause bad energy. So you learn when it comes in to say, relax.
Relax. My teaching is it will say to you, anger can’t relax. I feel angry. I can’t relax. The anger should have relaxed you, relax, you who’s resisting. It’s all about resistance. It’s all about resistance. If you’re not resisting, literally, if you’re not resisting, you’re enlightened. That’s the empty state. It just all comes in and passes through, but you are resisting.
So the practice becomes, how do I practice not resisting nothing in particular, just the energy as it comes in, the tendencies to resist in my life. I learned. If you don’t resist, it passes through why You are the one who’s stopping it. You’re the one that’s creating the energy that pushes it back down.
So you choose to resist. Now, when you push it away, it stays stored inside. That’s all you need to know. If you resist, it’s gonna stay in there, either big or small or whatever. And sometimes they’ll stay in your entire life. Things happen in your formative years when you’re young and now you don’t like the color blue ’cause something happened.
So if you don’t resist and you little practice relaxing, letting go, letting go, you can let go of anger. You can feel anger start to come up inside of you. I can’t believe you said that right? Relax. How can I relax by not resisting? Relaxation means non-resistance. Are you willing to be in there when its energy comes in and practice non-resistance?
You just let it come in and pass through. Alright. Did anybody listen to that at all? Do you know you’re capable of doing this? Or do you think, oh no, I’m not capable of this. You’re not capable of the big things, but you’re capable of the normal everyday life and you start letting go of those and what happens?
You get better. That’s where I want to go. You get better at it. Better at what? Non-resistance. Non-resistance. People say, I mean, non-resistance outside. No, no, no. Non-resistance inside. You’re not resisting what’s coming up inside of you. It’s disturbing. It doesn’t feel good, but I’ve learned to let go. And when you learn to let go, it doesn’t stay inside.
That’s all I wanna teach you. That’s the essence of my teachings. If you let it go, it doesn’t stay inside, then what happens? Don’t worry about it. Once you’ve let go, life happens. Believe it or not, when you let go of yourself, which means resistance, when you let go of protecting, wanting, desiring, fearing, and that stuff, you’re just letting it go.
You come in harmony with life. People talk about me in harmony with life. I wish they knew what they were talking about. The great masters teach Man minus mind equals God for that minus mind part kind of not so easy is it. If you’re not in there resisting, there’s nothing out there. But God, you don’t know it.
You don’t think like that. You don’t say, I’m doing God’s work. You just let go of yourself. Christ City must die to be reborn. And I hear the teachings. That’s who he’s talking about. ’cause it’ll kill you. Non resistance. That’s a serious path. So it comes in and it just feels like I’m gonna, of course I’m gonna resist this.
Don’t let go first, let go. What’s gonna happen? You find it easier and easier, and then something really magic happens, not because you’re getting what you want, you’re excited about something, but all of a sudden behind you, not behind the energy. And not in the process of letting go behind you and you didn’t know there was a behind you.
Why? Because you’re very busy dealing in front of you. Do you understand? You’re always dealing in front of you. There’s a behind you, there’s a top and everywhere, the whole universe around you, right? You just have this little fishbowl on and it looks like I’m inside of that. You’re not inside of that. And all of a sudden you start feeling this energy coming from inside, not ’cause you’re getting what you want.
You’re excited. It’s much deeper than that and it starts flowing inside of you. And the more you let go, and I’m talking about letting go, means are you willing to let go of the discomfort that comes in of either not getting what you want or getting what you don’t want and you just keep letting go. You just keep letting go for how long?
Forever. Non-resistance is spirituality. Non inner resistance. When there’s no resistance, that’s empty mind. That’s all of a sudden all the Shakti starts flowing inside of you and you start feeling this tremendous joy. Why? Because you’re free. You feel the joy of your being, of joy of self, not the joy of ego and not the joy of getting what you want.
There’s the joy of liberation. That’s what liberation is. You freed yourself from yourself, but it doesn’t happen. If you’re resisting, it doesn’t happen if you’re grabbing and clinging, so you practice deep spirituality. So I always give this the talk. People always say to me, you give the same talk. Well, you all seem to come back.
You need to hear it. It is about non-resistance. That’s what it’s about. The essence of spirituality is this energy’s gonna come in, isn’t it? It comes in and it hits your heart, it hits your mind, and your mind starts thinking. It could think positive, it could think negative. I couldn’t care less. It starts thinking, it comes up with these ideas and comes and views and opinions and hopes and dreams and all kinds of stuff, doesn’t it?
And it doesn’t ever stop, okay? The man minus mind equals God. That means that stuff’s not going on in there. How you’re letting it go. You let go. You don’t resist. You let it go. But why would I let it go? Because there’s always something higher. It’s always higher. You just talk about an elevator going up, you just keep going up.
Then what? You just keep going up. But where do you get off? You don’t. That’s what Nirvana is. That’s what different states are. ’cause you never give off. But then how does life happen? It just manages to do it. Hmm. That’s how I wrote this render experiment. It’s just when you let go of you, life happens while you’re busy doing you and you happen, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
You need to go through what you need to go through. How do I know if I need to go through it or if I should be letting it go? There’s no choice. You’re gone. You go through what you need to go through. It looks like this is what’s supposed to be happening. It always looks like that, or this is not supposed to be happening.
And the next thing you know, you’re interacting with the world. Otherwise you’re letting go. Maybe I’ve communicated. You’re literally in there letting go when always. But what if it doesn’t go well? Then you deal with it. Then you fall into it and you go through what you need to go through and you go through different circumstances and stages.
People go through everything in their life, all kinds of things. You have, haven’t you? That’s your evolution. It’s called evolution. But what you’re evolving toward is not getting what you want, what you’re evolving towards emptiness. You just let go of nothing there, and it’s what you do every minute of your life.
When you’re a deep spiritual person, you’re letting go. That’s all you’re doing is you’re letting go. Letting go of what? Letting go of yourself, letting go of the mind, letting go of the heart, letting go of all these resistances. What you’re letting go of is a tendency to resist, the tendency to hold on and cling or resist that.
Then stuff stays inside. Otherwise you can grow really. Very beautifully and strong. And I told you what happens, and these are the deeper states, and it’s like nowadays they don’t teach that. Even religion doesn’t teach that, but they teach being good and doing this and donating or doing, which is all wonderful.
It’s wonderful, right? That’s not spirituality. Spirituality is. You have died to be reborn. You have died to be reborn. You have let go. Not, not a little once did that happen. Once you have let go of your inner state of mind and heart, the personal self ego. You let it go little by little, and I’m telling you next time, next thing happens, takes time, but it happens.
This Shakti flow starts flowing for no reason. You don’t know anything about it. You take credit for it. You don’t do anything. There’s just this energy flow that’s always flowing up. It’s never, ever changing direction. It just keeps flowing up. But if you resist, you’ll feel this. Stop. If you resist to get what you want, resist to avoid what you don’t want.
It will affect that flow. But if you let go constantly, it just keeps going up and going up and going up and going up. Then what happens? It’s amazing. Instead of feeding your lower self, instead of feeding your personal self, your ego, all that stuff that you use for life, right? It starts feeding your deeper inner state.
The Shakti will start feeding your higher centers, your higher centers, our chakras, and you feel it, and you have to decide, am I willing to give this up? In order to do something lower and you start realizing, I, I’m doing how long? 55 years. You just start seeing, it’s all about letting go. The entire spiritual path is about letting go of what yourself, but let go myself.
What will happen? What do you see? God will happen. Life will happen. We’re talking now about the Dao. People understand the teachings of lasu in the Dao. It’s like one of the great teachings of LASU that I really love is that the ocean bed. Is empty, isn’t it? The bed of the ocean is empty. The mountain top is way up high when it rains.
Where does the water go? Into the bed, into the empty. That’s like sounds, scenty, right. It flows right off the mountain and goes down and if the bed was empty, S essence, the ocean is an empty bed. It, it has water in it, but it’s going down and always ends up what they call the low. It always ends up balanced where there’s no effort.
If you want to keep the water on the mountain, you better work at it. If you let it flow down, there’s no effort. You’re not doing anything ever. That’s the dao. So what will happen when I’m done with me? God, my father and I are one. You literally get to true spiritual state where when you are gone, what’s left is your being the essence of your being.
That is what the masters all I, I like the masters. I don’t like to talk about it. I don’t like to sit there and make it a goal, but there are beings who have merged. There are beings that have let go of themselves sufficiently. To where they’re not human anymore. That’s how it’s there. But there’s consciousness that’s experiencing the totality of the universality.
They merge with the universe. Can they come back? They do. They live the great ones like Christ and Buddha and others. They can come back and go, even come back and they’re actually simultaneously in all states at the same time. You’re a very high being. So when I talk to you like this, I’m not talking about yoga under or Christ, or I’m talking about you.
There’s no differently. You in that state. That’s who you are. You are the divine consciousness focusing on your thoughts. You’re the divine consciousness, focusing on your thoughts, whatever they are, whatever you think’s going on with good, bad, and different. But you’re caught in those thoughts. That’s who you say I am.
I am this. Okay. And it’ll take a while to say, I’m willing to let go. I’m willing to let go. I’m just gonna keep letting go. I’m not gonna stop. There’s no elevator level. I’m just gonna keep letting go. Oh. I don’t mind talking to you this way, and don’t sit there and say, I’m not ready. Of course you’re ready.
You are literally God descendant. Do you understand that? Right now, what’s looking at me through your eyes is God, consciousness being filtered through your mind’s, judgments and likes and dislikes and preferences and hopes and dreams. If you relax when the stuff comes in. Always, always relax. Never stop.
Never pick a point along the way. Just keep relaxing. You’ll keep growing and it’ll keep getting more and more beautiful and it will never stop. It’s not like this is what I should be doing. Just keep letting go. Just keep letting go. Very good. What’s the bottom line? You’re a very great being. You’re not some little petty human trying to be okay.
You know, the divine consciousness descended, but it got caught. The fall from the garden. It got caught in your mind. Alright, very good. I hope you understand. You see how sincere I am. You’re beautiful beings. Free yourself. Alright.
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