E142: The Illusion of Problems and the Return to the Garden

Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. So let’s talk about your favorite topic problems. Well, we might as well, let’s analyze problems. I don’t wanna get down to specifics. I wanna tell you this, what you call a problem. She doesn’t what he calls a problem yesterday. He doesn’t call it today. That’s it. Go home. That tells you something about problems.

They’re yours. Everybody has different problems. Everybody has different problems at different times. How did you decide what your problem is? And I’ll tell you a secret. You decided laugh all you want. You decided this is a problem. Nobody else has a problem with it. Something happens. You’ve done a problem with it.

Tomorrow a problem is something you have inside. A problem is not outside. A problem is not outside. What is outside? You know, I’ve talked about it with level. You want to get on at the quantum level? Nothing. I don’t like to go that far down. ’cause most of you just really don’t think about the sort of stuff.

What is out there? Are atoms, are they a problem? Which atom is a problem? There are just atoms out there, hundreds and billions and zillions of atoms. Well, if you know about 108 different type, whatever the heck it is. Not that many differentiations. Okay. There’s no male. There’s no female. There’s no right.

There’s no wrong. There’s no good. There’s no bad. There’s no high. There’s no low. There’s just atoms. Is that true or not? Do you know that to be the truth? Well, why don’t you live it? Why do you have problems? Okay, because you decided to have them. I know this is so hard for you, and I love to talk about it.

I thought I would’ve liked the color of my car. Now I don’t like it. Wow. It’s a bunch of light bouncing off of the atoms. That’s what color is. The atoms don’t have color. The only thing that has what you call color is light. The different vibration rates of light, you know, that you go shopping for, for light bulbs nowadays, you have to be a physicist.

2030 208 9,000. What is that? The frequency of light is emanating that. I think it at Lowe’s or Home Depot has a little box that you can push a button and it will show you the color of the light bulb. It’s looking at the electromagnetic spectrum. You wanna see colors, just look it up on the web and you’ll see the electromagnetic spectrum and within our ability, our eyes, our senses, ability to pick up that spectrum.

That spectrum is way bigger than what your eyes can pick up. Like the percentage of what we know of as a spectrum, and it keeps growing. What do you mean? How can the electromagnetic spectrum keep growing? Because we keep developing instruments that can pick up subtler and subtler frequencies of light.

That’s all. It’s not growing, you know, at the frequency of light. And the highest level, lowest level is infinite. It’s just light, so we pick it up. So you are sitting there complaining about a frequency of light, and sometimes you’re not complaining about it. You’re repainting your kitchen four times. Why?

Why? Because you don’t like the frequency of light that’s bouncing off of an atom. Will you dare to think like this? You think about all your problems. Why don’t you think about that? There are no problems. We’ll get to the psychology of it in a minute. Right now we’re staying at the physics of it, okay?

The physics of it is what you are picking up with your senses. Sight, taste, touch, smell, hearing. I’m like, okay, I don’t like that sound. I don’t like this. I don’t like that. I like this. I don’t like that. That turns me on. That turns me off. There’s no such thing. You’re doing it inside yourself. Why do you like a song?

They’re playing our song. Well that was when you were getting married. Now we’re getting divorced. I hate that song. It’s amazing. You won’t pay attention to reality, the Bible says, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. This is the truth that will set you free if you dare to use your mind for something other than the stupid stuff that we use our minds for.

I like this. I don’t like that. I want it. I don’t like what you said. We’ll get there in a minute. We’ll get there in a minute. How you got there? But that’s pretty lost ’cause it is ignoring the reality of the situation, which is there is nothing out there but Adams and like I said, there aren’t even Adams.

Sorry. I like to talk about it, but I just get real, real gentle. They have found out that they’re not Adams, they’re electron nutritional protons. You study them in school, elementary school? No, they’re not electron neutral protons. Sorry. I have to be honest. They, they are electrons. They, they’re a fundamental force, but neutron protons are made of something else and that’s where you get down to quantum physics.

They’re made out of parks and leptons and boons and, but then they found out that they’re not even those, that they’re really just wavelets in the quantum field. They’re just vibrations. Everything yoga taught you, ancient yogis taught you that. It’s all just vibrations. It’s just a vibration. In the quantum field, a little wavelet and those wavelets have properties.

They, they amplitude and direction and color and shape, whatever, and when they interact together, two up corks and a down cork make a proton and two down corks and an upper cork make a neutron. Okay? You need to know that, but just know it’s not even here. It’s just wavelets. How can you have a problem with it?

You must be working very, very hard at it to take nothing and make it into a problem. First of all, have I told the truth? Is this not what your great physicist. Chinese, Russian, American, anything, nationality, whatever you want. This is what they found. It’s called the standard model of physics, and they found out that Mass Einstein said it Energy is matter and matter is energy difference is a temporary state.

Somebody was asked the question, well, how much does energy weigh? Because it ends up weighing things. There is just energy. There’s no matter, it’s just wavelets. Wavelets interacting together. And, and then they create the illusion of everything we deal with. So you don’t have problems. I’m, I’m, I’m being really bold today.

You don’t have problems, Joe. Check the physicist. Don’t talk to me. Don’t go to a therapist. We’re gonna therapist for, they’re gonna tell you have problems. Oh, you poor thing. Of course you have problems. Look what she said. Look what he did. Look what’s happening. Look at the color. Oh, who could like that color?

Right? And instead you go to the physicist and they say, you don’t like light. That’s all. Color is light. You don’t like how the atoms put themselves together? Well, let me talk about covalent bonds and various things that pay attention. They have a reason they put themselves together the way they did.

There’s a reason your face looks the way it is. Oh, no. I want a face job, which you’re welcome to have. It’s fine, right? Just move the atoms around. That’s all you’re doing. Is it not? I’m purposely doing this so that we can get to the point of saying. What went wrong? If that’s reality, what’s going on inside of my head?

What is that? How about not reality? Okay. And you know what the great masters taught? There’s a thing called guana. Yo ever heard it? There’s haha yoga and bhati yoga and all kinds of yoga, and there’s guana. Yo. What is that? The yoga of wisdom. It is saying you have a mind and they can think of what I just talked to you about.

Can it, do you understand there’s atoms? Do you understand that every single you’re looking at is atoms? Yeah. Because you have a very great mind. The possum doesn’t understand that. Probably the monkey doesn’t either, but you have a human mind and it’s brilliant. It’s phenomenal, right? It took silicon and turned it into thinking chips.

It took metal and various elements outta the earth and put it together and flew to the moon. Wow. You’re pretty bright. And Giana Yoga is just saying use your mind to understand reality. And we’ve just talked the physics is part of Giana yoga. All the reality of the deep truths. What is not Guiana Yoga.

And I’ll get there. I keep, keep myself from getting there. What is not Giana Yoga? Your ego. The I in there. Well, I don’t understand is that who has the problem? That’s who has the problem. How do I know? ’cause you say, I have a problem. What you should be saying is the eye has a problem. That is what all your problems are.

Okay. We laid the groundwork, the outside, there’s no problem. I’m sorry. There’s no problem. There’s just atoms moving around, molecules bonding, quantum wavelets agitation. They call ’em agitation in the quantum field. And they said the quantum field. I once read an article from NASA and it said a word I’ll never forget.

It was years ago. It said the quantum field is omnipresent. I’ve only heard of the word omnipresent used for one thing, God. But the quantum field is omnipresent, so that which they’re calling that field that has those wavelets in is everywhere. All the stars, the moons, the galaxies, everything is far, far.

Go as far as you want. Trillions of galaxies all emanated from the quantum field and you have a problem. Which wavelet don’t you like? Okay, so now let’s talk about the fall from the garden because that’s the garden. The garden is just, alright, I’ll say it. The physicists don’t know it and they may never know it, but the yogis asked, who am I not, what is it?

They asked, who am I? Is somebody in here observing it? Some consciousness, some awareness of being yes or no. Are you in there? Who’s in there? What is the essence of the being that’s in there? The consciousness? And you say, oh, who’s in here? A woman, 30 years old who got divorced? What? No, no, no, no. Those are the experiences you had that who you are, you are the one that had the experiences.

So you are in there. Well, the yogis, the great masters were more interested in who’s in there than what’s out there. And so they did this thing called meditation. They went deep yoga. One said Meditation is entering the laboratory of soul research. So they went inside and what did they found? They found, I’m conscious.

I am not even, I am conscious. Just I am. I exist. There’s something in there that exists in there. What was in there yesterday? Were you in there yesterday? You sure? Were you in there 10 years ago when you were five years old and you look in the mirror, did you see something? Was it you? Was it you who saw it?

Oh, I see. So you’ve been in there the whole time, haven’t you? You had different experiences, you saw different things, but you’re conscious and that’s the great masters found consciousness, pure consciousness. Not what I’m conscious of is the essence of truth and spirituality. We talked about the truth outside.

Throw the truth inside. I am conscious. I’m conscious of my thoughts. I’m conscious of my problems. I’m conscious of my feelings. I’m conscious. I’m conscious. Alright, who’s conscious? That’s from Monroe. Hardy’s question, who am I? Who is it that’s conscious? There’s billions of objects of consciousness.

Things I’m conscious of, but there’s only me in here. Those are just different things. I’m conscious of the masters, the great ones. They found their way back away from being absorbed into the object of consciousness, back into the source of consciousness. You know what they found? You ready? You ready to tie it all together?

They found that the source of consciousness was the source of the quantum field. Don’t tell the physicist I told you that because if you ask a physicist, okay, a quantum physicist, the highest level Nobel Prize winners, what is the quantum field? We just know it vibrates. We know that there’s something there within that substance.

These wavelets come and we can build the universe out of those wavelets, but we don’t know it. They ask. Someone says, where did it come from? You know what they said? It was so beautiful, so close. It’s always been there. They’re talking about God. I mean, giving a break. I mean if you say the quantum field is omnipresent, that’s pretty big.

How about omnipotent? All force, everything comes out of that field. They literally, the boons I can get into, I, I’m not capable of first of all. But there, there’s cork left on of boons. What are the boons, the forces? What forces? I won’t wanna say gravity. They haven’t proven that yet. Alright, but electromagnetism.

Strong nuclear. Weak nuclear, all the forces that create the universe emanate from the quantum field. They know that. They say that that’s what the boons are in the quantum field, the forces that then pull together everything else. So it’s omnipotent. That field is a source of everything. God, orange is called God.

Well, it is. And that’s what the yogis found out. They went back and they fell into pure consciousness, not conscious of. Just consciousness, awareness of being and whether they find out that the whole universe was emanating from their being. Re yoga on his chapter by experiencing cosmic consciousness. He said when he fell into that state for the first time, it was at the speed of light, was expanding in all directions, all galaxies.

Where my body, every bit of it was me. It was just me. That’s called enlightenment. A very great state. It is the merger. It is what yoga is, the word yoga means union merger. And when they go deep enough inside, it merges. That’s what it does. It merges. So what happened, the marriage of consciousness and form truth is they’re the same.

It all folds back and emanates out is God is now. You can do whatever you want with thought of God to me. God’s really, really big. He’s not a little person or a thing or somebody you pray to. He can. You’re talking about everything. Everything is what this is. That’s what God is. Everything. So basically what happened?

What happened, I’ve discussed this before. What happened is consciousness created. I’ll give you the words of Mayor B, the words of great masters, consciousness created of itself. Everything like you create of your mind. You create dreams. They’re there. Well, I get they are. I, I don’t know. I experience ’em, don’t you?

You’re conscious of them. I wake up. Oh, I had this amazing dream. I don’t understand. Where were you? I don’t Where’d you have it? Oh no. I had a baby and I always looked a lot and then turned into the Buddha. Well, where I didn’t see it. I did. You saw it, didn’t you? So you have that power of creation and that experience.

So the whole universe came outta the divine. Infinite Being Mayor Bobba says it decided to express itself. Why? You know, said on a whim, that’s so deep. That’s if there was a motive. And God, if an artist, a musician, is just jamming and just playing and just, just getting into it and losing themselves in it.

That’s on a whim. Didn’t think about it. Has no reason or logic does it? A dancer, a beautiful classical dancer, dancing. I mean, you ask her, well, why did you move your hand that way on a whim? Now you understand what God created the universe to express himself to. Just, I’m here. I’m everywhere. Boom. Wow, okay.

Really? Genesis says it. In the beginning it was light. That’s all there was. So in any event, so now you have this expression happening, which is form coming up out of consciousness, and you have consciousness dancing with experiencing the form it created. It’s like, wow, that’s boogie. Okay. And everything is created, all the animals, and basically it’s all here.

And then consciousness, experiences. What’s the purpose? Be an artist or a musician and create some beautiful music and never listen to it. Never heard it. Don’t you ever listen to it. It’ll never happen. Artists get lost in the beauty of their expression. Beethoven. Beethoven heard this music. I used to tell people, Beethoven, you, you don’t have the right to call him a composer.

He just wrote down what he heard. It drove him crazy. He heard this music. Oh, he’s playing in his head. All the orchestras, the symphonies, alright. And he had to hear it. He wanted to bring it down. Passion. Full inspiration. He had to bring it down and write it down so he could hear it through his ears. And he was, he went deaf.

Beethoven went deaf. He was so passionate about hearing the expression of what was happening physically. He cut off the legs of his piano, left him on the wood floor so it would vibrate, and he put his ear down so he could feel the vibration since he couldn’t hear, and he would cry when he was playing as an artist.

That’s just the passion of creation and expression and experience. That’s what the whole universe is about. The passion of expression creation, experience expression, creation, experience. You know, when you’re getting into the zone, imagine that as an artist, that’s not artists, it’s someone in a zone, alright?

And what they end up doing is so great. Why are Monet’s paintings or the great artists, why do they sell for hundreds and billions of crazy numbers, right? Why are they so famous now? And they weren’t famous then when they was poor. Remar was poor. Anything but what they left behind was a physical representation of spirit.

It came down passionate and they put it down and they painted it, and now it’s considered a masterpiece. Just expand that into God. You have this entity, an entity, it is omnipresent throughout the entire universe. One being, one consciousness, one essence, everywhere. Everything is its own being. Just like you feel your body, you feel your foot, your hand.

It feels every single thing that is part of its being, which is everything, and it expressed itself into form and then it wanted to experience. So the essence of the being expressed itself, well, if it’s everything, then everything is part of its expression. Is it not? Right, wrong, good, bad, evil. The Christians, who is Lucifer, a fallen angel?

Read the Bible, A fallen angel, and it all is everything. Yin and yang. Ever hear of it? Dark and light, the opposite. Everything. Everything. If God is everywhere and everything, then his expression, his, her expression is everything. Can you handle that? It’s just everything. And so you come and you realize what are you?

What you are is so great is incomprehensible. If the consciousness of the divine created everything so it could experience it, you know what you are? You are that consciousness experiencing its creation. I look at each one of you, you are the emissary, the ambassador of God sent down to experience his creation.

That’s what your consciousness is, array of the divine consciousness, which is everything, but it can have rays. The sun has rays, but it comes from one place. It’s all the same. That consciousness focusing on you, you, you, you, you, you. That’s what your witness is. That’s who’s back there. Why? Why? Why did that happen?

I’m not answering you. Why is it raining on my birthday? Gimme a break. Do you see? How lost, I guess, as opposed to, wow, let me do my job. Let me do why I was sent here. To experience the moment unfolding in front of me. I can’t talk about certain stuff. I, I feel like crying. Do you understand the moment unfolding in front of you?

Every moment? You are the only one experiencing in that moment. No one’s standing right where you are. Nobody had the same thoughts as you. You are that unique that every single moment, watch this. Close your eyes for a moment. You missed it. God missed an expression of his moment. Nobody will ever experience that moment.

Ha, I feel guilty about something. Alright, get lost in thought. I have a feeling that right there’s a moment of creation unfolding in front of you. You’re meant to experience it. So now you get the groundwork pretty big in it. That’s where your mind should be all the time. Merose said God alone is real.

God alone, Israel, it’s all one force. So what happened? So now you have this force expressing itself all over that’s just on earth, all over the universe. Every star, every planet, every galaxy, every black hole. It’s just that entity that that infinite eternal entity expressed itself. It just is. It always was.

It is what is, and everything is made out of it. In India, in the ancient teachings, it’s called Chit Shakti, conscious energy. That is the holiest word you will ever say. That’s a name for God. Chit Shakti. That’s what it is. Conscious energy, consciousness emanating its energy through expression, Shakti expression.

Experiencing itself. That’s all that’s going on. There’s just creation, experiencing creation. Alright. What happened? The ray of consciousness. The best I’ve ever gotten right. My field that, that explains it so well, and I don’t wanna be repetitive, but I, I used the example the other day. If you look outside, there’s a field and there’s light on the field that came from the sun.

We know that, but basically it’s even throughout the entire field. There’s just light. Then that’s reality. That’s what’s happening. The light is falling on form. The light is falling on form. That’s all. Okay, take a magnifying glass anywheres on that field. I don’t care. Hold it for a minute. What happens? A dot shows up down there on the ground.

Does it not do that? When a magnifying glass do that, can it set the leaf on fire? It takes the light and focuses it. Which light? The light? Well hold it over here. It’ll do the same, not the same. Dot hold over it. Do the same thing. No, where I put it. It’ll do that, won’t it? So it focuses light down to a focal point.

That’s who you are. It is divine consciousness. The light everywhere is focused on your thoughts, your emotions, your body, and what you are experiencing through your senses. It just focuses it down to a dot. And now there’s a whole bunch of those dots running around down there, bumping into each other. Can you see it?

That is what’s going on. So basically, why did it focus like that? Because every bit of consciousness supposed to be experiencing the whole, well, it, it has to shine. Each ray really is separate, but it all is a whole, it’s the, the fact that you’re all running around there little dots, you’re really not. If you come back a little bit, it’s start.

Oh, it’s so deep. That’s what it means to do the inner work. Instead of focusing yourself on that little dot down there, you’re not the dot, you’re the exact same light and you all are one. Okay, so what happened? What happened is all that’s happening that’s really beautiful, but God knows that light knows it’s the light and it’s emanating down fine so it can experience things.

The problem is that light of consciousness gets distracted by what is conscious of as the essence of the greatest things I ever learned. The word distraction, do you get distracted? What does that mean to get distract? What gets distracted consciousness, awareness of being focuses on different things. So you’re sitting here looking at somebody, then you hear a noise, boom.

Your consciousness is distracted. It gets pulled over there. Well, what’s happening is form is created, it’s there, you’re experiencing it, but for some reason it’s called the fall from the garden. It really is this, what I’m talking about right now is the fall from the garden. The light, the eternal light, the light focused down so it can experience itself.

It’s, it’s experiencing, it’s fine. It’s sitting there and, and you start with witness consciousness. That’s, I’m very high up. We’ll go further, but witness conscious means what? I am aware that I am aware of what I’m looking at. Wasn’t everybody aware? They were looking at, ah, you wish they got lost. They got so distracted by what they were looking at that they lost the sense of self.

They lost the sense that I am the consciousness aware of it. They’re just aware of it. Do you understand that right? How could you say that to me? No, I will not let you talk to me like that. Come on back. Where? Who, what? There are nothing going on is there? There’s just consciousness experiencing reality, but you get distracted.

You get so focused on the object of consciousness that you lose your seat of consciousness. He didn’t lose it. You are the source of it. And the sun’s still doing its thing, man. It’s still shining that field, isn’t it? It did not change one eye, but to your tiny little separated awareness that got pulled down into the object of consciousness, you now don’t have that seat.

And that’s why they teach objective observation. That’s why they teach witness consciousness, mindfulness. They’re all talking about the same thing, which is if you take a step back inside, you’ll find out, oh, I’m there. I’ve always been there, but I got lost. I got sucked down into what she said, what she wore.

Just everything is that. It’s the consciousness focusing so much, getting so distracted by an object of consciousness that you identify with what you’re looking at, instead of identifying with who’s looking, and that is the spiritual journey. Christ said something really beautiful. I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man cometh unto the father, but by me.

Well, that’s the truth. If you are this light shining down, but you’re not lost. You’re aware that you’re, that I’m aware, I’m an aware being. I’m totally aware that I am the light that is in everybody, everything. And if you wanna get back there, you have to work your way back away from your personal self and let go there and then come back and know that you’re the witness watching this stuff.

And then let go of the witness and all of a sudden, boom, that’s enlightened. By the way, enlighten, oh, they call it enlightenment. When your consciousness pops back to the field where the light’s hitting everything, that’s enlightenment. But you’re all enlightened. You are all seated in that seat of consciousness all the time, but you’re distracted.

So when Christ said, I in the way, the truth of the light and no man coming to the father above by me, that’s absolutely right. Unless you work your way back. Away from that focus and lostness the funnel that you got yourself lost in. And then you realize you are all of the Christ. You all are that. So the question is, how did it happen?

I told you how it happened. Consciousness is capable of focusing. Is it not? Look at your little finger. You don’t do. I’ll do it for you. Focus on your finger. Can I do that? Can I get so focused on my little fingerprint and this and that? So on that you guys ain’t here anymore. Yes or no? Well, now take finger down.

Oh, where’s your guys come from? Exactly the same. If you focus your awareness on something small, you’re small. If you focus your awareness on the center and core of your being, you’re everything, right? That’s the other thing Christ said, which I, I’m a nice Jewish yogi and I really, really liked Christ teachings.

Why? Because he taught yoga. He said. As I sit by the throne of my father, that’s not a seat. It’s a seat of consciousness as I sit by the throne of my father, so you shall also sit by my throne and these things, which I do, you should do these, and even greater things. You know? He said that. He basically said, you’re the same as me.

You are that light. That is who you are. Okay? So the focus of your consciousness did what it’s supposed to do. Pay attention, be the emissary for that moment unfolding down there so that the conscious can experience itself, but you got lost. You focus so much on that, that you started to ident. Two words that are so spiritual to me that I’ve realized over all my growth, distraction, and identification.

You get so distracted by the object that you identify with it. That’s my car. Get off of it. Don’t you touch it? Ooh, that’s my body. Whoa. It can die. It can’t do anything. It’s just light. Oh, death where I sting or death, where is I victory? It’s just a bunch of molecules floating around, right? And you’re the consciousness that got so identified with them that you think you can die.

I think it’s really funny, all the great teachings teach that. The Gita teaches that there’s the line in the Gita where Christian is stalk into his disciple orah. And Arjuna doesn’t wanna fight this battle. Don’t worry about the background. Don’t wanna fight the battle. No, I don’t wanna hurt anybody. I don’t wanna do anything.

And Christian says to him, whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought you were a great being. I don’t understand fires cannot burn to self. When you back in there, you can experience fire, but you are the one who’s experiencing it. Weapons cannot reach the self, can they? Now that we explain what’s going on, it’s just the dance of life and all the great teaching teach that.

Okay, so where do we end up? Down there. Why? Because we got focused on tiny little things. You hear me? Compared to truth. You are a great being. You are so, Hammi is my favorite. Hammi. I am bra. So Shiva, there’s your mattress. I am the divine being. Lost right now, but I’ll find my way back. We gotta find our way back to the garden.

All right. There’s lots of teachings out there. Okay, so you are the consciousness of the divine. That con. Keep thinking about that field, that field with light falling on it. You are that you are there. So one field of light focusing down on what you got distracted by, which is fine. You’re supposed to experience it.

God is experiencing himself, his own creation, but you got so focused on it that you identified with it. This is my house. Get away. This is my house. There’s no house, there’s no my, that’s the consciousness focusing on an object so much that you kind of freaked out about anything. My house has termites.

There are no termites. There is no house. Guess what? There is no eye. There is no, i, i is what you did. You created a fake i a fake thing by focusing your awareness so limited down to this tiny spot. Now, one of those spot I talked about in the magnifying glass, that’s who I am. I’m this spot. And what I’m shining on is part of me too.

Okay? And then get away from me. And so basically you wake up and you realize, what am I doing? I fell from the garden. When they say you fell from the garden, the Bible says, what does it say? Now you must work by the sweat of your brow to be okay. Am I knowing about that? Okay. So what happened? Now I’m focusing down and I believe it’s mine.

It’s this I, me, mine, I, me. Mine, I, me. Mine. That’s my child. That’s my house. That’s my clothes, that’s my hair. That’s my face. That’s what I’m thinking. That’s my me mine. I, me mine. And that’s what you’re focused on. But that’s not who you are. The awareness that’s focusing on this mind. That’s saying that. So what happens is, I like that little dot, right?

It’s that little magnifying dot you’re floating around. That’s you. And you’re experiencing not everything ’cause you didn’t wanna experience everything. You focused yourself so much. You’re only focusing on where your dot falls. That’s all you experience is where that little dot exists. Even though you’re everything but you focused it down and now everything that happens leaves an impression on you.

That’s the most important part to understand. What do you mean? I was dotting around, not dotting around, dotting around. I was dotting around and, and all of a sudden I saw this beautiful bracelet and it was shiny and it was shining on it. By the way, it’s only beautiful ’cause you’re shining on it. If you’re not shining, you don’t even see it.

But it’s gold. How do you know? ’cause I’m shining on it and it’s glittering. So now I’m shining on it and I see this bracelet and oh, I like that. It’s beautiful. It’s mine. That’s my bracelet dead away from me. It’s my bracelet. And then all of a sudden, one day, where’s my bracelet? I can’t find my bracelet.

Start ripping your hair out. Oh my God. Where’s my bracelet? That bracelet was the most important thing in the whole universe. Whoa. What happened? You identified with it. You projected your sense of self. Instead of being who you are, you projected your sense of self onto this object, and you did that with your children.

You did that with your husband, you did it with your wife. You did that with everything. Everything you did with your job and with your finances. Every single thing is now outside. It’s all about what’s happening outside. Why? Because when I lost that bracelet, it bothered me. Why? It didn’t bother the light that was back there experiencing everything.

I’ll tell you that right now. Right? You don’t know what you’re talking about, okay? But I got focused down so tight onto that, that I built a concept of myself. That’s what the ego is. It’s like now I’ve identified with the object and I stored it inside of me. It’s not inside me. There’s nothing inside you except light.

But I stored that inside of me. Bracelet, okay? When I lost the bracelet, feel bad. I don’t like it. I don’t wanna lose anything ever again. I wanna own all the jewelry so I can back up, or I never wanna own jewelry ever again. I don’t care. Do whatever you want. You built what’s called a self-concept inside, based on the experiences you had.

The only thing inside of you is God, but you built this. You took these experiences and held them in this sacred mind of yours. The mind that was capable of understanding the quantum field was capable of understanding everything we talked about today. It’s brilliant, but no, now it’s not so brilliant. Now it has what’s called a, some scarra, an impression that you held onto it purposely willfully.

I’m bracelet. I lost a bracelet. I don’t like what it feels like. I never wanna lose it again. You built a concept of yourself. It’s not yourself. That is not the self. It’s a mere self-concept of yourself. You made it up. Who are you? I’m the person who played Dorothy in the fifth grade and everybody cla.

But then my mother went and pick me up and I was late and I got so scared. That’s who you are or that’s what happened to you. That’s what happens. And so you start storing inside of your beautiful mind. Oh, I don’t care if you’re Einstein. You’ll have very great minds. You start storing inside your mind these impressions that either felt really good or really bad.

So you didn’t wanna let go of them. You don’t wanna let go of the ones that felt bad. How do you like that? Why do I wanna hold onto and keep that? Which really bothered me the most? Because you don’t know how to handle it. You don’t know how to let it have happened. And so what you do is say, no, I don’t want this to have happened, but it did.

No, and you just birthed the field of psychology. And by the way, you now understand the differences. Spirituality and psychology. Spirituality is that light psychology is what you did with the focus of your awareness on the tininess. Of your hopes, your dreams, your thoughts, your likes, your dislikes. It’s built this thing inside.

Someone would ask Yogananda, what is the ego? Now there are books written on that stuff. You hear me? A great master. Ready? The masquerading self. What does that mean? What do you mean to masquerade? You wear a mask, the light of the divine drew and built a mask in front of it. And that mass was made out of those some scars made out of the impressions that you didn’t let go of.

You did that, didn’t you? Throughout your life, you suppressed them, you clung to them. Whatever it is, you held them. They were just moments in reality. Why do you have different ones than her? ’cause you had different experiences. Everybody had different experiences. That’s what’s supposed to happen. You’re supposed to have different experiences.

That’s why you’re the ambassador of God’s consciousness, experiencing his universe. We all see the same thing. We all have this variety and amazing differences, and there’s a storm, and then there’s sunshine. You’re experiencing the power of creation. You’re experiencing God, but you can’t handle it. You sit there and say, but no, no, no.

I wanted the bracelet. I like the bracelet. I’m holding onto the bracelet now. It’s not there. I don’t like you. Maybe you stole it. All of a sudden you start building this whole concept in your mind that has nothing to do with anything except you. That’s why it’s called the ego got one. What happens if things happen outside?

Meaning when you’re looking down a little dot of light moving around and it matches you, listen to me. It matches the concept you built inside. Woo, I like it. I like that. I want that to happen again. This is good. This is righteous. This is God. It was a miracle. You know what a miracle is? I got what I wanted.

Which one of you say is a miracle if I don’t get what I wanted or if I get what I don’t want. None of you. So you built this concept inside your head that said, because of my past experiences, that left impressions on me. ’cause I held onto ’em. These are the things I want to happen. These are the things I don’t want to happen and I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna work for the sweat of my brow to make, to make the quantum wave.

Lets behave the way I want them to.

Okay, so you catch on that. That’s what needs to be lost. You’re lost in saying, I can only be okay if I get what I want. I will never be okay if I go what I don’t want. So now the purpose of my life is not God. Realization is not being the ambassador of God to experience creation. The part of creation I’m supposed to be experiencing.

No, no, no. That’s not my meaning. The meaning of my life is to manipulate and control the atoms moving in front of me, the outside world, in front of me. People, places, things, everything to be the way so that when they come in, they feel good. They hit the part of me that I wanted them to, the part that I stored inside my concept of self, my concept of everything, and never, ever be the way I don’t want.

What happens when you don’t want it? It hurts. It causes, what was that word? Suffering. What is suffering? What is suffering? The distance between reality and what you want.

What happened to her? Made her suffer. When that happened to you, you rejoice. He’s leaving. I hated the idiot, but I’m Catholic. I couldn’t divorce. Now he left me a note. I’m leaving. Ha.

It’s all based upon the past experience you’ve had, the concept you built inside your head. How well does the concepts inside of you match what’s happening outside of you? Yeah, generally not very good. Will it happen by itself? Will it happen by itself that the outside world will match what you want? No, of course it’s not gonna happen by itself, but you have to make it happen.

You have to go out there and either meditate out, oh, ire, get me a house. Sure, I want a new house. Ohm, sure, I hope he leaves. Oh, please. Doesn’t matter what you’re using. Use a mantra. Use will use money. It doesn’t matter. You’re out there manipulating the outside world to match what you decide is supposed to go on.

How’s that work out for everybody else? So you just catch on then this is, this is not good. What is good? Find your way back. Let go. And now what’s the path? The path is not about getting what you want. It’s not about avoiding what you don’t want. Do you worry? You know what you worry about? I know I’m psychic ready.

I worry that I won’t get what I want. I worry. I get what I don’t want. And if I had you write down, everyone would write down something different. Now you see why? Now you understand that’s not who you are. That’s where you got lost. That’s how you projected this inside your mind. So we talked about how great the mind is, not the ego mind, the ego mind’s called the personal mind.

What’s the difference? The personal mind thinks about me. That’s what thinks about me. What do I want? What do I not want? What do I like, what I don’t like? What hurts me? What? It’s just totally focused. You are the divine descendant. You’re you’re God descendant. Whoa. But that’s not how you see yourself. I’m this little beggar.

That has to get things the way I want and fight for them and, and get hurt if they don’t so well, what’s the way out? The way out is not getting what you want or avoiding what you don’t want. That is now what success is. The purpose of your life is not getting what you want. I’m sorry, doesn’t mean you have to be enunciate.

Nobody said that. But that’s not the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to experience life. Life is a place of soul sin to evolve. How are you doing? ’cause if what you’re saying is, I don’t wanna evolve, I wanna get what I want, I don’t want this to happen. I want that to happen. Well, that’s not very evolved.

Evolved is okay, I’m here. I’m conscious, and there is a universe unfolding in front of me. How do you know that Those of I succeed? Let ’em see that those of ears are here. Let ’em hear. Okay. It’s free. Straightforward stuff. There it is. What is reality? How do you know it’s reality? ’cause that’s happening. How do you know the past is reality?

’cause it happened. How do you know it happened? Just. Pay attention. Don’t make things up. Don’t rewrite history. My God. What we’re doing nowadays, it’s just absolutely unbelievable. The mind has completely taken over. It’s got nothing to do with Republican or Democrat. The mind has completely taken over. It basically says, I am what I think.

These are my hopes. These are my dreams, my concept, my views, my opinions, my likes, my dislikes. Pay attention. No. How about meditate? Let go. You don’t have to hold onto that. If you hold onto that, you suffer. If you hold onto that, your whole life is a big mess. It’s a big mess. How are you getting along? Well, we stay together for the kids and so on.

It’s working out. How you getting along? Oh, ecstatic. Every moment of my life, and Phil was Shakti, Phil would love, Phil was spirit. So beautiful, but the but the kids were doing drugs. Oh, let’s take care of it. We’ll work with it. It’ll be fun. Like reality’s reality, deal with it. Can you deal with it? The answer is no.

No, it has to be what I want. And so there we are. Right, right at the end. Well, that’s really interesting and it’s all true. Obviously we had a true discussion. We talked about you have no problems, do you? You made ’em up. Well, what’s the spiritual path? It is so simple. Not easy to do, but it’s so simple.

Ready? When something unfolds in front of you, such as it’s ha. Now the driver, look, he keeps using his blinker. He keeps 700 breaks. Oh my God. They, I don’t know how to drive. Okay. When something happens in front of you, respect it. Honor it. It is God’s expression of that moment, but it’s, it’s terrible. It is what it is.

Reality wins. The question is not whether it’s good or bad, or right or wrong or fair, or just, did it happen? Is it happening? Is the person driving 15 miles an hour above the speed limit and you’re in a rush? Yes. Can you handle it? No. Can you handle that expression of the universe? Well, how do I know it’s God?

Because it’s all God. That’s what I’ve taught you. ’cause every single thing. All of creation. The Bible says not a hair on your head moves that God doesn’t know. Now, the sparrow falls from the tree that God is not aware. Of course, he’s the sparrow, he’s the tree, he’s the hair, he is the head. That’s what omnipresent means, you know?

Talk about spirituality. That’s spirituality. So basically you come down and you say, can I handle it? And right now, you were not taught to handle it. You were taught to fight it. You were taught make things be the way you are. Get your act together. Spirituality starts with acceptance. What mean I should accept it because it happened?

No, it’s wrong. It happened. You have a choice. Accept it or suffer. I don’t like that it happened. Okay, we’ll, we’ll deal with that. But can you accept that it happened? No. Well then we have this thing called suppression, repression denial, don’t we? That’s what happens when you don’t accept. If you can’t accept it, you have to resist it, and when you resist it, it stays inside of you.

So the first step in all spirituality is acceptance. It’s hot out. Okay. Is that okay with you? It better beep. Doesn’t mean I can’t go into the air condition you know of. It’s not power annunciation, it’s about acceptance. It’s hot out. I’m gonna stand here till I bake. No, what is that? It’s hot out. You start with, I can accept that it’s hot out, not just accept it even deep enough.

I respect the forces of creation that are expressing themselves as heat, that I honor it, I respect it, then ready? I love it. I love it. That’s when you’re getting there. So you start with acceptance and you find out, I can accept that it happened outside, but inside is not doing well. There’s something inside of me that’s woo.

Cooking and resisting and getting all weird. What I do with that? Ready surrender. What do you mean surrender? Not surrender. Let it happen. It already happened. Don’t worry about it. It’s not about what happened outside. It’s whether what happened outside when it came in, could you handle it? And what you’ll find out is, no, I can’t.

You wanna know why? Because it hit your stuff. You had problem with your mother and then this happened and blah, blah blah. You had all this stuff in there and so now stuff comes in and hits, it doesn’t, it makes you feel weird and you all upset and all kinds of stuff goes on. Alright? You will wake up someday and go deep enough to realize.

I am the self. I’m the consciousness. I see anger coming up. I see jealousy coming up. I see fear coming up. I see insecurity coming up. Why? Because I made a mess in here. I made a mess over the course of my entire life. Something happened in kindergarten and somebody rejected me, and now I came put up with rejection.

I, I don’t like it at all. Hear me? Things got stored in there. It’s not clear in there. So what do I do when you feel the energy come up, which that’s why you meditate, that’s why you do mantra. That’s why you do things that center you in the seat of consciousness so that you’re actually aware enough to see, oh, here comes anger, been there.

I’ve been there. I see it. I know what it’s gonna do. I know what this will do. This will destroy my life. And everybody else’s anger a good thing. No causes trouble. Am I capable not of suppressing it. If you suppress anger, it gets worse. If you suppress anything, it goes down there like a virus and it spreads into your entire psyche.

What kinda weird thoughts go on? What kind of crazy stuff goes on? Just like Freud said, so no, I don’t suppress it, but, but it is there. What do I do with it? It’s coming up. It’s coming up. Well, psychology again, there’s where spirituality touches psychology. Psychology. Psychology says don’t suppress. That’s a foundational thing with psychology, right?

That’s why you do therapy to try and find out what you suppressed and get it up. But that we’re spiritual people. We don’t suppress, right? We don’t suppress well. At least we don’t suppress that. It’s hot out. We can handle that. We don’t suppress the driver in front of us. Start with little stuff. Practice acceptance.

Then what happens? It starts coming up. He’s driving like that. Oh my god, remember starts coming up, right? Psychology, and they’re not wrong. Nobody’s wrong. Says find a way to express it. Find a way to release that energy through a more positive, constructive expression. And they’re not wrong. I’m not judging at all.

That’s something you can do with the energy, right or wrong. And it’s certainly better than letting it take over you and have it express itself. ’cause that’s messed up energy. It’s not justifiable. There’s justifiable anger. There’s no such thing. You have stuff in there, it hit your stuff. You feel anger.

Somebody else says, oh my God, this is neat. I didn’t wanna go to work anyways, look how slow they’re driving, right? It’s, it’s just how you take it. So anger’s coming up. One thing you do is suppress it. Please don’t. Please don’t, please don’t. And the second thing you can do is find a way to express it. Fine.

There’s a third way they never taught you that. It’s called transmutation. What is transmutation? The energy has a vibration has its nature. It’s nature is anger. Can you relax so deeply that that energy can come up to a higher center? The very energy that’s anger can instantaneously become love. Just all, it starts off as anger.

Now you feel compassionate and you feel love. It just comes to a higher center, a higher chakra, right? You guys don’t chakras. You’re raising the energy up to a higher level. It does not have to come out as anger. It does not have to be expressed inside as anger. You can raise, you work with, that’s what all of yoga, all spirituality is about.

Transmuting the energy, not denying it, not suppressing it, not expressing it, raising it up, doing that inner work of raising it up and you have all kinds of techniques. I don’t teach ’em. They teach you all kinds of techniques, don’t they? That’s what your spiritual techniques are. You can do awesome is you can do mantra, you can do this, you can pray to God.

You can take that energy and offer it to God. That’s a wonderful thing to do. Just feel it. Get your NUS used to teach that reach down. So chakra, taking a chakra, reach down, take a handful of it. Come on, get a handful of it and offer it up here. Here. Dad, you made it. You take it. Here’s yours. I do it right now.

You do that. I, I put flowers in front of master’s, pictures every single morning and evening for 50 years, 60 years, 55 years, right? Means nothing. You do this. Take that energy inside and offer it up way higher than any devotional thing you will ever do. Right? And it will raise the energy. It will raise the energy, and eventually it will change direction.

I always have my tongues this way. Now it’s all going down. It’s all fighting. It’s struggling in there, protecting, fighting inside, outside. You bring that energy up enough and it starts to change direction. All of a sudden, you’re not feeling it going down. You feel it spontaneously going up. So the flow of the Shakti, and it starts creating ecstasy and joy and love all the time until you decide, no, that was wrong.

I’m not feeling love. Don’t you say that to me. I’ll never love you again. As opposed to, I’m sorry that you felt that. I’m sorry that you went through this. I understand. I went through it too. And it’s called compassion. And then all there is is love. All there is is love and it keeps going up higher, higher.

And then eventually, I guess a better close. Eventually it goes up high enough to where you don’t have to do anything. Doing anything in there, just everything just is what it is. And it’s all going up. It’s all passing through. The storm is passing through, the argument is passing through the event, whatever it is, the passing through and it starts lifting you up.

Now, important part I learned many, many years ago is that’s not the end of it. You are the divine consciousness. Dancing in the divine play, there’s action. Surrender doesn’t mean you don’t act. Surrender means you don’t act out of reaction. You don’t react. I’m not acting out of my junk, inside of me. My opinions, my views, my hopes, my dreams, my concepts.

Now I’m clear. Come down and help. That’s where service comes from. Come down, wanna protest, protest, but do it with love, do it. Understand as much. Of what’s going on on the other side of that team that protests the other people as you understand why you used to be like that. That’s what compassion is.

It’s not about, you’re right, they’re wrong. They had different experiences than you, didn’t they? How could you think like that? Because I had different experiences than you my entire life. I had different experiences, didn’t I? Therefore, you don’t hate them. You’re not fighting them. You’re saying I, the clarity that I see, how can I raise the situation and maybe it is protesting, maybe it is suing, maybe it is divorcing.

I don’t know. I can’t tell you, but I’ll tell you that when you’re clear inside, you don’t have to be guided. It’s not about you being guided because you are clear. The energy takes care of itself. It raises everything up. It raises everybody up. You hear me? Can anybody hear me?

Yes.

We took a big journey, didn’t we?

From creation to the fall, to the ascent. What if, what if What came up was so strong that I didn’t even see it. I started throwing pots and pans over the place, or yelling and screaming. Guess what? It’s fine. If you don’t see it, do the best you can. Here’s what I teach, right? Stay up as long as you can and come back as soon as you can and don’t judge.

No guilt, no shame. Just growth. That’s spiritual growth. Earth is a place of social sin to evolve. That’s evolution. You went through a problem. You fell down. Get back up. When you’re riding a bike, child’s learning to ride a bike. They fall. That’s good ’cause they’ll learn balance. Same thing inside. Don’t judge yourself just.

Take your eyes, aim them. I shall call it the pole star of your life. Aim your aim up for as long as you can, and come back as soon as you can, and you start finding out that that gap gets so small until it’s not there anymore. It’s called becoming established in the seat of self. Now there’s no effort, there’s no work.

You’re there and it doesn’t fall. Why? Because you keep raising the energy up. I would keep you here for the rest of your life

so that maybe you’d remember who you are. You are a very great being. You’re God descended. Not someday. Find your way back to God. You are there right now. You’re just focused away from yourself. Alright, work on yourself.

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