Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. The great teachings, all of them from the really deep teachings teach that the mind is the problem. There’s no problem but the mind. It is the cause of all issues, all problems. People hear that very differently. Everybody hears it a different way. Like somebody says, my mind’s bothering me, so it’s a problem.
Somebody else says, I came back from deep meditation and there was no talking going on in there, but it came back. So that’s the problem. Somebody else says, the mind is complaining. Somebody else says, the mind likes what’s happening, so it’s not a problem. Let’s talk about mind. I love talking about mind, first of all, and this is hard for people.
What is mind? Truly? That’s not your brain. Your brain’s a chunk of matter. Your mind is a very high vibration. In the universe of creation, there’s all kinds of vibrations. When they vibrate very slow, they make dense matter. When they vibrate higher, they make liquids. But the same atoms, the same matter, the same particles, if they’re vibrating faster, they make a gas.
Like right now, all this is full of air. It’s not empty. It’s full of hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen. But you don’t get smacked on the head with it. Why? Because the density of the vibration rates of your atoms and the molecules they put together is way more dense than how the air is bond, how the hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, et cetera.
Atoms are bound together. They’re so loose as you walk right through them. Water is denser than air, but you can go through water unless it’s frozen. And that means that they, they contracted, they slowed down, the vibration slowed down. It’s not a spiritual discussion. This is physics. It’s all vibrations.
That’s all that’s happening. It’s vibrations at very different levels. We call the physical plane. The vibrations that we can pick up. Well, they didn’t used to know the x-rays. They used to know there’s infrared ultraviolet. They didn’t know. There’s pitches of sound that dogs can hear, but humans can do.
They exist or not? I. It’s just vibrations. It’s all vibrations of energy. That’s all that’s happening. Right? And if it vibrates very quickly, then they’re very loose bonds. ’cause they can’t tie together. They’re moving too quickly. If they vibrate very, very slowly, then they bond together. The energy they have is used to bond together instead of be loose and have room to move.
That’s not a spiritual teaching, that’s physics and. The great scientists have discovered and found out not just that atoms or molecules are bonded together, a different vibration race, but the atoms themselves are made of vibrations. Einstein said, matter is energy, energies matter, and the differences simply a temporary state.
State of vibration and quantum physics went all the way down. They worked it all the way down to molecules, atoms, cent, protons. But then they found out that no, no electron cent protons, especially cent protons, are made of something more subtle. Subatomic particles subatomic, right? Well, what are they made of?
They’re made of things called corks Left Boone. Who cares? But they’re made of something that joins together to create a neutron and a proton. They’re not a, a elementary substance. What’s the difference? How fast the vibrating? So they look down deeper. I teach you this all the time, just you should understand quantum physics only to the level of what have they discovered.
You don’t wanna know the complicated aspects of it. Quantum mechanics and all that stuff. Well, what did they find out? And they’ve got these machines. Machine’s. A funny thing to all these, these fun blue, multi-billion dollar kind of experiments buried underground over in Switzerland and France, miles and miles long.
And in order to find out that a, a neutron and a proton were made of something, they weren’t elementary particles. They bombarded them. They aimed them. They aimed protons over miles and miles to gain enough speed to build enough energy so that when they collided, they broke apart and they found out there’s these subtonic particles, quote quantum particles, but then they went deeper.
They found out that no, they’re not particles. There’s a big argument was going on, is light a particle or is light a wave? Don’t try to answer it. They spent a long time trying to figure out whether the light is a wave, meaning energy is a wave of energy, or is it a, a photon, a particle? And they found out that the photons are just waves.
There’s a vibrations of energy, but it slowed down even a little bit. They form a photon. They form a, what we call a particle. Quantum physics will tell you there are no particles. There’s just wavelets in the quantum field. What does that mean? That’s a very, very, very fast vibration level of creation. And then it slows down.
And as it works, as it slows, as all’s happening, as it slows down, it becomes the proton, a neutron electron and atom molecules. Ultimately your body and the mountains and everything, they’re just that exact vibration slowing down as the energy gets used as it expresses itself. Do you understand that? Do you understand why is he teaching physics?
Because it is the most spiritual thing you will ever learn. Your mind says, do you believe in God? Do you believe that there’s nothing vibrations going on down there, and that those vibrations. Slow down on their way up, and that’s what you’re looking at. They didn’t stop being vibrations. Every single level of vibration is still there.
I’ll go on, don’t worry. But I challenge you by saying, I’m holding water in my hand. Now you look at it, see it. It’s water. Am I holding water or am I holding H2O molecules? You’ve done enough physics to understand, well, they are H two molecules. Yeah, but they appear as water. Why? Because by the time everything vibrates at the same rate and is dense enough, you see it as water.
Who sees it? Your eyeballs, which are vibrating in attention. The whole thing is just layers of vibration rates. So my holding water. Aru molecules or hydrogen and oxygen atoms there. Now I challenge you. What do I have in my hand and full of water? Yes. Astro molecules. Yes. Don’t answer me. Just say yes.
’cause they’re all existing at the same time. And then, am I holding the hydrogen oxygen atoms or am I holding electron protons Every layer. Is expressing itself at different levels, but they’re all the same. Ice is water. Water is ice. Ice is steam. Steam is ice. Yes or no? It’s just the question of the vibration rate.
Well, how come cold makes ice? Because cold slows down the vibration rate. How can we put heat on it? It melts into water or into steam because you stepped at the vibration rate. It’s all about vibration rates, which is exactly what the great yogis. Thousands, thousands, thousands of years ago before anybody studied this stuff, right outside said, it’s just vibrations.
And they said that the primal vibration was what? Oh,
that. That’s the vibration that created creation. What does the Bible say? In the beginning was the word, what’s the word? Vibration. And the word was with God. And everything’s created outta the vibration. So basically. What we spiritual people who accept both the physics and the science and the spirituality.
See, is that in the beginning there was nothing. It wasn’t vibrating at all. It was like a lake with absolutely no vibration. Just crystal clear, we’re gonna get to mind in a moment. Rama Krishna, a great enlightened master. One said the purified mind is no different than the self. Now there’s one for you.
Wait till you get to that state. You see that come visit me. What does that mean? The mind is just another level of vibrations. That are way more subtle than air or hydrogen or ultraviolet rays or nest stuff. What is the electromagnetic spectrum? Different vibration rates. You know that they measure them.
You go to the store to buy a light bulb, they tell you what the vibration rate is. This one’s 77,000, whatever it is, Hertz. Oh my God. You’re so educated that they’re telling you the vibration rate and they also tell you the temperature. This temperature of this bulb is so and so, and the, because it’s color, temperature, vibration rate, are all the same thing.
They’re just the electromagnetic spectrums. It’s vibrations. What if I step up the vibration beyond what any instruments you have today, not you personally, but all of science. Is there higher vibrations beyond what they call the edge, the outer edge of the electromagnetic spectrum? Obviously they have continuously found new ones.
They didn’t say they’re not part of the physical plane, they just expand the definition of physical plane. It includes x-rays, ultraviolet, infrared. Well, someday, and I won’t be here, you can be sure of that. I don’t wanna be here. They will be able to have instruments that read your thoughts. Why they’re just a higher vibration rate.
That’s not weird. The mind is not something weird. It’s just a very high vibration rate. In these layers of vibration rates in the universe, this layer makes mountains. This layer makes oceans, this layer makes air, this layer makes, et cetera, et cetera. This layer makes subtle, subtle vibrations, which we call mind.
It is the vibration rate of mind. It’s not the physical plane, it’s the mental plane. Does that like, woo, it’s off somewhere where the psychics live? No, it’s just a higher vibration rate. Are there people, not all of ’em are real, but I’ve met real ones. Are there real psychics? Real psychics that see your thoughts and see your emotions and feel them pick up on your.
What do you pick it? He’s got bad vibes. Can you pick up on some of these vibrations? Okay. They’re real. They’re just subtle. So some people have an ability, innate, usually innate ability that for whatever reason they can pick up on this very subtle vibration rates fine. I just wanna lay the groundwork.
None of it’s weird. How do I tell you this? I don’t wanna tell you this. I’ve been talking lately about saying, I don’t wanna tell you there was a a saint in India. Yoga builds real saints, enlightened people. We do art sababa. That’s Sababa surety. These are very, these were in 18 hundreds, early 19 hundreds.
Uh, very, very great saints. There’s another Sai Baba, such a sababa was his name. Alright, he’s more recent. He just died some years ago. He had the power of manifestation. He did it in front of everybody. Hundreds of thousands of people in India would come together, and I knew many people that went over there and saw with their own eyes.
Whoa. What do you mean at a power of manifestation? He would stick his hand inside of an empty vase, which is empty, just a vase. Okay. Upside down, empty vase. He put his hand in there and do this. Ash would come flying out like a, like a tornado. Like a hurricane, pounds of it pouring out there. Where’d that come from?
He slowed down the vibration of a higher plane with whatever power he had to do so, and did that. There are people who say that he manifested a wedding ring for them. He just put his hand like that with nothing in a bowl and boom, a wedding ring came out. Now you think that’s weird. I don’t think it’s weird at all.
You know what he used to say? I give you what you want. Miracles. So you gimme what I want. Your ego and it’s telling you that’s not magic. There is the ability for the Shakti, for the energy, but we’ll get there in a minute. Alright? That’s someone can change the vibration rate just like you change vibes.
Alright? Be in love. Have somebody walk into your house and it’s just, oh my God, I get blown away. Then have somebody say something you don’t want to hear, and it gets dark. Yes or no? Can the vibes change? Do you feel them answer me? Is that weird? No, it’s real. You have the ability to feel higher. Vibration rates.
There used to be, you know, back when I wrote the Search for Truth back in the seventies, there were people who studied what was called Curian photography. They had instruments that could pick up the subtle vibrations, and they would show them as auras or whatever the heck it is. Most people don’t believe a word of it.
I don’t care whether it’s true or not. I know it can be true. I know that you picked them up. So I can the machine pick him up. There’s a story that booked another baba. We actually got to meet him. He passed a long time ago. They wanted to do curling photography of an enlightened master. There are pictures out there.
I haven’t bothered finding him again that they did it and they said it grew. His feet are holy. They did it of Ana’s foot. Alright. Flames of light coming off of his toes, turning into blue, going all the way out there. That’s what his oral looked like. He wasn’t a enlightened master. Okay. What was the purpose of me telling you this stuff?
I told you once. Here’s where I am with that stuff. If someone came here, used to be a lot of gurus would come through here, right? Back in the seventies, somebody came here and they said, I want you to see what I can do. Okay. When you come outside and here’s a guy doing mantras, waves his hand and a star goes shooting across the sky in exactly the direction he shot his hand.
Whoa. Then he goes, boom, waves his hand. Another way star goes shoot across there. Every time he waved his hand exactly where he waved his hand. What? What would be your reaction? Okay. I know what my reaction would be. The stars where they belong. Stop it. That would be my attitude. How about yours? You see, because I don’t think anything’s not possible because I understand it’s all just vibration rates.
So you get to the point where you understand that there are higher vibration rates, way higher than the electromagnetic spectrum. You, humankind have not been able to pick those up yet. You, you do. Have you ever picked up somebody’s thoughts? You ever been sitting in a car? You haven’t thought about something for a long time, and all of a sudden you think of something and you say it, and that person says it at the exact moment you say it.
They say that person’s name you haven’t talked about for four years. Of course you have. Have you ever had a phone ring and know who it is you’re picking up, but he’s in France. It doesn’t matter. Just like light travels at high speeds, the vibration rates are very, very high speed. It has nothing to do with time or distance or anything like that.
It’s so funny. I’m not asking you to believe. I’m just saying, do you believe in water? Do you believe in ice? Do you believe in steam? Do you believe in the x-ray that can go through different things, right? It has nothing to do with beliefs. It just has to do. Do you understand? It could be higher vibration rates.
Why would the highest vibration, you know anything about be what the scientists have found so far? They keep finding hard ones. That’s all. So I don’t like belief. It’s just an understanding. There’s a line in the, I don’t read the Bible. There’s a line in the Bible I’ll never forget that says, in my father’s house are many mansions.
He’s talking about what I’m talking about in the creation of the divine, the father. There are all these different vibration rates, there are different planes. I’ve just been talking about your mind going way past that, but I don’t wanna talk about it. Are planes of reality. They’re not weird, they’re just different vibration rates At every single plane of the vibration rate things can manifest.
How do you know? How do you know there’s planes that people can’t pick up? You listen to them every day of your life. We’re talking in there. Do you have thoughts? Point to it. I wanna see it. How do you know you have thoughts? These are deep spiritual questions ’cause I’m in here. What is a thought? It is a form that is created out of the mental planes vibration rate.
It’s vibrating, very subtle, and just as atoms can come together to make rocks or water or this or that, or scientists can make lasers, very high vibration things. There’s high vibration plane. Not weird. I showed you this high vibration plane, and it can make things, it can make what’s called thought forms.
They’re thought forms. Do you have ’em? Do they pop up in your mind? Does anything ever pop into your mind? Have you ever tried to get anything out of your mind? You couldn’t. Where is it? Show it to me. Does it exist? No, it doesn’t exist. Of course it exists. But if a scientist comes into a very serious scientist, here’s the electromagnetic spectrum.
Show me a thought. You just laugh at ’em. You don’t have thoughts, you, no. You’re making this up with what their figment is. Your imagination. Where’s that? There’s something going on in there in there. There is obviously something going on in there, talking up a darn storm. Do you have emotions? Show them to me.
These are vibration rates. How come you can pick up on the vibration rates that the CERN laboratories that are picking up the subtlest vibration? It can be. How come you pick them up without even trying? Because you are the self, the consciousness is the highest. Okay? Is there a highest vibration that everything slows down from?
Yes. Tag your it. Your consciousness, your awareness of being is aware of the thought plane. Is it where of the emotion plane? Is it? Where of the physical plane? To be aware of the physical plane, you need to have physical senses that can pick up the vibration rates of physical plane to be aware of the mental plane you wish you didn’t have to.
You understand that it’s just right there in your face. Your mental plane, your thought forms, your thought vibrations are way closer to you the consciousness than your emotions or your physical. You have to look through your thoughts and through your emotions to see your physical or to see somebody else.
How do I know? ’cause you can’t do without the thoughts popping up in there. Oh, she looks like my sister. She’s not your sister. It’s just form that you’re picking up. But that’s not what happens, is it? The thoughts get stimulated and they start dancing around in there. The emotions get stimulated and you look through your thoughts and your emotions to look out through your eyes.
You are the consciousness that is the highest vibration rate. All of it came from you. That’s why they say Ma’am was created an image of God. What is in there is what created all vibrations. Now we’re gonna talk about why it doesn’t seem like that. First of all, to have the foundation. It’s all physics.
They call it metaphysics now it’s just physics. It’s physics. They haven’t figured out yet. ’cause the vibration’s too high. If they tell you that, they know your brain is your thoughts, because they have figured out which part of the mass of the brain that if you have emotions, they pop up there. Right.
That’s not the, that’s the result of the vibrations. That’s because you’re having higher vibrations rate. They’re coming down and they show up in that part of the brain. Okay? Or things come in from outside and then it picks those up, those vibrations, and that causes the mental plane to vibrate. I don’t know.
You don’t know if you want to hear about this. You pick up things from outside. They come in through your senses. They’re vibration rates. The snake doesn’t go in there. He stays out there, but the vibe comes in and it passes up your, your nervous system, and it, it, it manifests in the brain, makes the vibration in the brain, that vibration, that subtle vibration.
They’re measuring with their MRIs and their cts, whatever it is. That subtle vibration doesn’t stop. Where they measure it is subtle and it it, it comes up and that vibration is transferred into the mental vibration plane and it creates thoughts. You have thoughts, that’s where they come from. You have thoughts that are stimulated to the outside world coming in, and you have thoughts that you just have inside and they mess up.
Your body can get tensed up. You do. You understand? It’s not weird to a yogi. It’s just a so simple thing in the whole world. Okay. Where do your thoughts come from? Well, they’re in the mental plane and they’re rather prolific are they not? Got a fair amount of ’em. That’s funny. Okay. Can you stop ’em? Not usually.
Well, why are they there? What is that? Why are their thoughts? There are thoughts. If you trace it back, you’re gonna find out that the vast majority of your thoughts are about you. I know you don’t like to think like that. The vast majority are thoughts. There’s my car, my house, my baby, my nose, my body, my emotions, my heart, my thoughts that I, me.
Mine kinda shows it a fair amount in there, doesn’t it? Okay. Because what has happened is the consciousness, which is who you are, the witness, the consciousness. It’s the highest vibration. It picks up whatever’s vibrating on the mental plane and what happens in this deepest teaching, you can know about the mind.
Those vibrations get strong enough. You identify with them. You don’t identify with yourself sitting back here watching them. That’s witness consciousness. You have to try and struggle to do that, that I’m in here. I notice my thoughts. That good? I’m glad you do. Do you notice where they come from? Can do anything about it?
Don’t worry about it. At least you notice them. Most people don’t notice their thoughts. They think they are their thoughts. They will argue from day and night. I am my thoughts. I am my mind. I am my brain. I am what I think. No, you’re not. You’re the one who notices that there’s thoughts. Is that complicated?
Is that too hard? Are you not noticing them? You’re noticing your thoughts and those thoughts. Some of them are very strong, right? If you sub your toe or if you get hurt and fle body, the vibration comes inside and you end up with a, with a traumatic experience and your thoughts, it causes a vibration inside your mental plane that doesn’t go away.
Why? Because you hold onto it. The consciousness gets distracted. That’s a key word. It gets so distracted by what it’s looking at that it thinks it’s what it’s looking at. It thinks it’s it. It identifies so entirely with that thought, with that feeling, with that emotion, whatever it is that it, then I think about it, it just gets sucked into it, and it walks around its entire life.
Think this is who I am. The person, I had this terrible experience when I was young. Somebody yelled at me and school and I got so embarrassed. I’ve always been, I, I, I, I, I. No, no. You experience the experience. The consciousness experienced the experience, but it didn’t let it go. So it formed a thought form within the mind that it held onto.
It got distracted so much that it kept this energy. The energy, the higher vibration of energy controls the lower, so it’s holding onto this. We just call it clinging. It’s holding onto that thought form. Do you have thoughts in your mind from your past that will never happen again, but they still bother you?
How can that be going on? The event happened a long time ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago. Why is this still in your mind? ’cause you held it there. It distracted you sufficiently to where you didn’t let it go. I don’t know. Does it tell you you didn’t let it go? I can’t handle the way you talked to me. I will never forgive you.
You’ll be so sorry for the rest of your life that you hurt me like this. Okay? Walk around like that for the rest of your life. It’s not happening anymore. The person’s been dead for 10 years, but still, in your mind, how has that happened? Is not on the physical plane. Okay. ’cause you the self, the indwelling consciousness has the power, the shakti, the force to hold onto a thought form.
It’s natural that the thought form comes up, you know, like what somebody said, or like what somebody said comes up, passes through your mind, but it doesn’t pass through your mind. And so Freud talked about suppression, repression, Nile, all this stuff is stuff you are doing with your mind. It’s not who you are.
You are not that thought. A single thought you ever had is you, you’re the one who noticed the thought. You’re the consciousness. That’s what they mean by witness consciousness, mindfulness call, whatever you want. You’re aware that you’re aware that there’s a thought. Well, now you know what the thought is and where it came from.
It is the very subtle vibration rates and the mental plane that creates form and they pass through just like waves in an ocean pass through. Right. Or if they don’t pass through, they create dams and every hits them and hell, hell breaks loose. Right? Things naturally melt into ’em, but they don’t in you, they come into your thoughts and you hold onto ’em.
You don’t know you’re holding onto ’em. You don’t think you’re using your will. It’s just distracted your energy enough to create a form that doesn’t go away. That’s what your thoughts are, and the vast majority of them are about you. What I want, what I don’t want, what I like, what I don’t like, what are my goals in life?
When you like that stuff, right? And our society doesn’t know a thing and they say, oh, if you have good goals in life and if you’re having thoughts that are about your what you wanna succeed and all that kind of stuff, that’s good. Okay. It’s fine. It’s much better than being depressed. It’s much better than having negative thoughts.
Can you have negative thoughts? They’re not at fun at all, are they? They have very low vibration rates, just like. Ice has a lower vibration rate there. I’m trying to get the studio once or for all. It’s just vibrations and you are the experiencer of the whole thing. Am I experiencer of the physical plane?
Of course you are. If you don’t have senses, you don’t even know it’s there. You’s picking it up and it’s passing it back to you. It all gets passed back to you. But when you get lost in your thoughts. It’s lost in thought. When you get lost in thought for such a long period of time, either it gets a long period of time, the thought stays there, or it’s a strong, strong impression.
It can happen for one second. You’ll never forget rest of your life is see your parents die in a car accident right in front of you. It become traumatized. What does that mean? The thought does not go away. If there are children that have experiences like that, that will never talk again ’cause they can’t bring their consciousness and their energy down enough into the physical plane to express at that level.
’cause they’re caught in the thought form. So if a very intense experience takes place and comes in through your senses and it creates a thought form in your mind, which it will create a thought form that is a vibration, everything has its nature. It’ll create a thought form. Nothing wrong with thoughts.
They’re very useful. Okay. They’re, they’re part of the, like, it’s like saying the nerves in my hand pick up something. I don’t like what they picked up. The nerves should die. No, there’s nothing wrong with the nerves. They’re picking something up and you should be able to handle it, you know, kill the nerves.
There’s nothing wrong with the mind. The mind’s primary function is to pick up the outside world so that you in there can see it because you can’t see it without the census picking it up. That’s why they’re called sensors. So now it comes in, it vibrates there, and you in there see what’s going on. But if it’s a really strong vibration, such as the one I talked to you about, it makes an impression that pulls your consciousness.
Your awareness, the self down into it so much that it brings all this energy and it holds on to that vibration. It could be for your entire life. I don’t wanna tell you. It could be for lifetimes, but we don’t discuss that. It just brings down a thought form. It creates a thought form that you can’t get rid of, and the doctors can’t get rid of it, and they sit there and say, you have to learn to cope with it.
That’s not true. They’re not a single thing that’s created in your mind that can’t go away. How do I know that? Because you are the one that’s holding onto it. There’s nothing in the mind that clings you clinging to the mind. Okay. I don’t know. I met her and I love her so much. She’s so beautiful. I’ll never forget, I can’t, I can’t be without her for a single second.
What is that? She’s not there now or she went to work. It doesn’t matter. You got this stuff going on in your mind and it affects your emotions. They’re the same mind emotions, just different vibration rates. Do they tend to move together? Your thoughts and your vibrations there. There you go. They’re passing the energy back.
Oh, please understand. Once in your life, this is your liberation. This is your way out. To understand the truth. So yes, thoughts create vibrations and those I get stuck in there. And then those vibrations affect the heart’s vibration. It’s just different planes of reality passing their, their shakti, they’re chitty between each other.
In, in yoga, there’s a world called chitty. Those are the vibrations in the mind. Just like we now know that the quantum field vibrations are vibrations. In a quantum field, there are these vibrations at the mental level. They basically create thought forms. That’s what you make ’em out of. But you pay attention.
Your consciousness is the highest force in the universe. You fo you get distract. I don’t wanna say you focus ’cause that’s a willful act. You get distracted. The consciousness can consciousness pay attention to one thing and not another, and then another can shift. Its attention everywhere. Of course it can.
Well, you just took all the attention of your awareness and focused it on this terrible or beautiful no matter incident. She was beautiful. Oh my God, what happened? Same thing. It was just so strong that it distracted your consciousness down to it and you can’t let it go. I can’t wait to see her again.
Nine tonight won’t be like any other, right? Just vibrations in the mind. Some of them are much more pleasant than others, no question. That’s not the point. They’re temporary. Just like waves in an ocean, they go away by themselves. Don’t go in there and try to make ’em go away, you’ll make more of them. It’s the same thing with your mind.
So the vibrations come in and they pass through. Unless they don’t pass through. Why don’t they pass through? ’cause you hold onto ’em. You the indwelling consciousness fixate on you, get distracted by it and fixate on it. So now you’ve built, imagine now you have this beautiful mine empty. Talk about empty mind.
Let’s be spiritual, empty mind. What does that mean? It’s basically a computer that’s fastest, finest quantum computer ever lived. If it’s not programmed, doesn’t do anything. It’s not stupid. It’s potential is incomprehensible. You understand that, but it hasn’t been programmed to do something. That’s what empty mind is.
It’s the most brilliant vibration, one of the most brilliant vi, other than self. It’s the most brilliant vibration in the universe. It’s empty. Nobody’s causing vibrations in there. You can cause ’em anytime you want. Okay? But nobody is, and it’s a Buddhist empty mind. And that’s why Robert Christus said the purified mind is no different than the self.
Just like when you look in a lake, that’s crystal clear with no. Disturbances. You see your reflection, don’t you? Now go in there, throw a leaf for a rock in there and see what you look like he’s saying, ’cause he was there all the time. That if the mind is still purified, you see what we’ll call it, purified in a minute.
If the mind is still and not creating vibrations, you see the reflection of yourself. That’s why the purified mind is no different than this self. They’re just that close to each other. Ultimately, they blend and merged together. The great masters went way beyond. Some of ’em had trouble coming back. I don’t wanna tell you that.
’cause you’d be afraid. Don’t worry, I didn’t have to worry. You won’t get there. Not in the next thousand lifetimes. Robert Krishna was that way. He’d go into Samad and these great mindless state emptiness. Gone, completely had to eat. Come on, maybe you need food. The disciples would go to him. They would start whispering the name of God in his ear, like going fishing to try and catch enough consciousness to bring it back.
Don’t worry, you won’t go there, but as inspires me, why? It’s the truth. That’s who you are. You are that great. But what happens is your consciousness gets distracted. Consciousness, self, God gets distracted. By a particular thought or a particular emotion, and then you marry it, you, you get involved with it, and then you think it’s you.
I’m the one who played doth in the fifth grade. You are not as an experience. You and there had, and it’s been over for 40 years, but you defined yourself by the experience you had. You held on to certain experiences that hurt you, that you really liked. You know, hold on. All of ’em. The white lines on the road.
Go right by the trees. You drive by, go right by. These experiences you held onto ’em. They distracted you enough. People clapped when you were in fifth grade about how good you played Dorothy, right? Or your first boyfriend left you and hurt your heart and you’ll never love again. They left these impressions and you held onto them, okay?
There is no super glue in there. Not in your emotion field or in your mental plane. There is nothing holding on. I tell you psychiatry would shoot me. There is nothing holding on to your entire psyche. The entire ego, the entire self-concept, your entire put together fake self that took the pieces you liked from column A and column B, and put them all together and held onto
Tami Simon: say, hi, this is me.
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Michael Singer: You know my favorite one. This one don’t leave me. No, I need you. Don’t leave me. Tell me who you want me to be. Just tell me what to be. I can be anyone you want me to be. Oh, that is so cute. What’s that telling you? I made the thing up. You wanna see a different one? I’ll give you a different one. Ever done it?
Paying attention. I’m trying to teach you something. It’s deep. The only reason you built that self-concept in there. Is because other things bothered you or turned you on and you started building. I’m the one who likes this. I’m the one who doesn’t like this. I know that. ’cause I had those experiences and I don’t ever want the thing, I don’t like to happen again, and I want that to happen again.
That I did like. And now you built this whole thing in there. It’s really funny. Once you get out, it’s hilarious. It’s left your head off. What are you doing? Somebody says Yogananda. Great enlightened master what his ego. People write treatises books and the ego, not him. The ego is the masquerading self. In other words, you’re in there, the self, your being, your truth, your essence, and you pulled this stuff around you to protect yourself.
I don’t like what he said. I want time again. You just pull all these things and you put a mask on. Made out of those experiences and said, hi, this is me. Ever feel insecure that people reject you or that you might not be liked or anything like that? That’s your ego. That’s what ego is. It’s the mass you pull together, right?
And it can change in a minute. It can’t, it. Bam. Somebody says one thing. I never thought you would say something like that to me. I can’t believe it there now it’s a totally different mask. Alright? That’s what the mental plane is. It is an empty field of mind. A field of mind that you filled. The vibrations came in, they passed through, you experienced them.
They have to pass up to you. Just like if stuff doesn’t get picked up by your sensory system, I know, Hey, you don’t know what’s there. So the same thing with your mental plan. It comes up here and it’s primary, most fundamental function is to vibrate at that plane to where the self can see what came in from outside.
That’s wonderful. It’s very nice. You don’t have to pay attention to it. But sometimes you do have to pay attention to it ’cause it catches your attention, it catches your awareness, it sucks you down into it and you can’t let go. And then you start building this whole house you collected every, did you not collect every single thing that ever bothered you inside and decide you don’t want it to happen again?
And make every decision for actually life to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Why? Because you made. This vibration rate and you held onto it within your mind and you have a whole bunch of them and they hit each other. How do you try making decisions? Of course you do. The color red once turns you on.
Now it turns you off. Now do you wanna go with something that’s red or not? Oh, no. I will decide tomorrow. Okay. I wanna go with the red. No, no, I don’t think I should. It’s hilarious. You’re trying to put this whole mesh together of your whole life, and you have all these patterns in there. You’re trying to make them behave.
Psychology teaches you that. Freud said that. The ego. You have a super ego. What’s that? Let’s just get down to, it’s all, this is science. Psychology science, but super ego. The world has set impressions on your mind that said, you should not have done that. I can’t believe you did that. You’re a terrible person.
Or, oh, I can’t believe you’re so kind, but so wonderful. Look how you’re so kind to somebody else, right? That got stuck in a part of your mind that he called the Super Ego Society programmed. A, it’s bad enough, you did it. Your mommy did it, your daddy did it. Your preacher did. Your rabbi did it. They made impressions on the mind that were based on value judgments of what’s good and what’s bad, and what you should do and what you shouldn’t do.
Okay? And then he said, you have the ear. What’s the it? It’s also simple. Once you pay attention, what’s the it? Do you have a body? Is the body an animal? Does it have different drives, hunger, sex, this, that, everything? Does it have different fundamental functional al drives? Don’t let them tell you. You’re not an animal.
You’re not an animal, but your body is very evolved. One, but it’s an animal gets scared to death. You’ll behave just like the rest of the animals will run away. It is a biological force. How do you know it’s there? How does the consciousness know that those vibrations are happening? The same way. It has to pass them up, your nervous system and your emotional system, and then you get experienced by them.
And Freud said that’s the it, those primal drives. So the drive itself is real, but it gets into your mind, oh my God, I want to eat. I. I, I have to get this. I wanna have a nicer house. I want this. I wanna have sex, I wanna do this, I wanna do that. Right? It’s like, or, or even I wanna have a family. I don’t care what you call the primal drives.
You understand that, that you know, that are, I know people that are very serious about their growth and stuff, and they found out, Noah, I wanna have a baby. Right? Well, fine, have a baby. No, no. I need to leave. I need to get involved with a real, I wanna have a baby, but I don’t have a relationship. I better go find a relationship.
These are drives. That are pushing you, but they have a primal base to drive for motherhood or something. Nobody’s denying any of this stuff. It’s all real. Well, Freud labeled that as the id, not the Super Ego, super Ego Society programming that part of your mind. The ID is the body programming that part of your mind?
Nobody said the ego was what stands between the two and tries to make peace. You build yourself concept. Yeah. They said, I shouldn’t do this right, but it’s okay. And rationalize that because I have this drive. Then next thing you know builds something in there. Good luck. That’s able to get along with everything else.
Freud himself said, it’s what the ego is, right? And then you identify with that as you. I’m the one who’s trying to hold all this together. No, you’re not. You’s the consciousness that is experiencing this entire mess that’s going on in there. And it is a mess. It’s just vibration rates that don’t quiet down and you’re held on and you held on, held on, and then they hit each other.
That’s why it’s like that in there. And you know what your solution is if you’re a normal human being. You know how you try to solve it by manipulating the outside world so that when it comes into your mind it feels comfortable, good luck. ’cause you have all that junk in there, right? Have you ever noticed that you get what you want and the next thing you know you want something else, or it doesn’t turn out the way you thought it would be?
It’s like you’ve made, it’s such a mess in there of all these patterns that you held onto Anybody ever get defensive? Anybody know what the word defensive means? Can somebody look at you the wrong way? And that’s this whole mishmosh you built in there, being challenged. You’re not who you think you are.
You say you’re a good musician. I haven’t heard way better musicians than you. You’re terrible. I can’t believe you. Oh my God. Well, that’s not true. What do you care? If somebody says there’s a noise from out there coming in, hitting the mental plane, fine, who cares? You care because you’ve tried to build a house in there, didn’t you?
And you try to live in there and be okay? Never. As I Buddhist said, all of life is suffering. You’re not gonna be okay in there till it gets quiet or till you stop building this whole mess inside your head that the outside world has to match for you to be okay. There are people who sit there and say, I’ll be okay if everything’s the way I want it to be.
Okay. First of all, that’s not true, but you don’t even know what you want ’cause it’s so complicated in there. But what kinda statement is that? I’ll be okay if it doesn’t rain tomorrow. I’ll be okay. Rain on my birthday. The outside world has nothing to do with your birthday or anything like that. What you’re doing is making a complete mess.
Now we’re talking about mine. You make a complete mess out of all the reality ’cause you can’t handle reality ’cause you built this stuff inside your mind right now. I used the word mind. You mean a little more? You know, is a plane of vibrations in which the consciousness started clinging and holding on to these law forms that were meant to pass through.
Well how? How could somebody pass through it? Let’s say somebody you love dies. I get real so to something I love. Oh, my heart dies, right? How am I supposed to let it pass through? It’s going to create vibrations in the heart. The energy shifts, it shifted. It wasn’t the same. You used interact with this person a certain way and they’re not there anymore.
It’s going to go through a shift that’s normal. It’s understandable, but the trouble is you can’t handle it. You don’t want it to happen. You don’t wanna feel the loss, and so you push it away, you suppress it. There are people that suppress, I had a divorce 15 years ago. He’s still in there. I don’t like to hear his name.
Don’t you bring him in this house? You didn’t let it go. It’s natural that you go through vibrations but you don’t clinging to them. They come and they have to express themselves in a natural way. Then you’re a healthy person. A healthy person doesn’t laugh ’cause someone they love died. No. You feel the emotion of the shift in energy patterns that took place used to interact with the person not there anymore.
You’re gonna feel the shift, but it passes through. It’s not permanent. It’s not, I’ll never love again. I was the sole love of my life. I don’t wanna beat anybody else. I should stay alone for now on, ’cause I’m gonna be loyal to that. You’re caught. You understand that you’re caught in fought forms, so everything will naturally pass through if you let it, but you won’t.
So what you do instead is try to manipulate and control the outside world so that when it comes in, it doesn’t disturb this thing you built inside your mind. Can you relate to that? Do you understand that? That’s what your preferences are, your hopes, dreams. I’m a terrible teacher. I’ve never heard another teacher who talks against hopes and dreams.
I’m not talking against them. They’re wonderful things. If your choice is to get depressed and have no hope and no dreams, for God’s sakes, have hopes and dreams, right? If you catch on and understand what your hopes and dreams are, are patterns inside your mind. How’d you decide what you hope? I hope I get what I want.
I dream that someday will be the way I want it to be. I have this dream. Okay, fine. Wonderful. How’d you decide who I wanted to be? She don’t agree. She looks like she’s relating with you. She doesn’t agree with you. She says she is. She likes you, right? Nobody’s the same. They all had different experiences.
Everybody had totally different experiences. Don’t you dare think they’re the same as you, not even close. What they held in their mind was from childhood all the way through all the strongest impressions of positive and negative got stuck in their mind and they held onto ’em and they built an ego. But now they launch you to like you, so they act a certain way.
Ever have somebody disappoint you? Have you ever had somebody that you said, I couldn’t believe you did that. I never thought you would ever do that. Of course you have. And the truth of the matter is, of course you wouldn’t have done it. You didn’t have the experiences they did. Now you start to wake up spiritually.
That’s true. Spirituality. When you understand your mind, you understand everybody else’s. But if you think your mind is you and you are right, and your experiences are special, you’re special. Yeah. Just vibrations in the universe, passing through. Hello. You won’t be here for long. Don’t worry. There’s nothing special.
Why do you wanna be special? Because I have insecurity and a lost and, and then when I was young, they yelled at me. So now if people like me, I feel much better. It’s all mine. It’s just mine. It’s a vibration is a mine. Just say your vibration is a body. They can hurt. It could feel good. You can do exercise and do good.
Your mind food can make you feel good or bad. The mind runs it, all the stuff you built in there and it’s so strong, isn’t it? That’s some strong stuff in there. Your ego and most people are taught. You wanna be okay, impress people, do good, be strong, just. Get in there to that mind and manipulate everything and everybody so that you’re okay.
’cause what matters is I did it my way. I made it through Right. Spirituality. Now that we have a foundation, sorry it took so long. Spirituality is, oh my god. That’s actually going on in there exactly like he said it was. Yep. He hit the nail on head. Does that get you out? No, because you’re gonna get pulled right back in.
So what gets you out to stop being distracted by? The thoughts in your mind means to not have thoughts? No. You have thoughts. You do math, you do a thing. You think you crave music. You know all kinds of beautiful things with your mind. It’s as good as the finest computer’s ever made. You can play music.
Can it? Can it sing songs to you? Can it do math? Can it create music? Can it paint? Can it do art? What can the mind do? Anything? Microsoft? Where do I wanna go today? You do anything? What have you done with it? Made a flame and mess. I hold onto stuff I didn’t like. And then why would you hold onto something you didn’t like?
If you don’t like it, don’t hold onto it. I don’t know how not to. It made an impression and it bothers me and so I held onto it and I want it to happen again. And I structured my whole life around that. Okay. What’s the way out? Yes, you can work with your mind. I feel sorry for you. If you think you need to stop your mind and make it be quiet, that’s like saying a leaf fell into the lake.
I’m gonna make it not make ripples. I don’t think so. I think anything you do makes more ripples. Alright, well, okay, so it really wasn’t about the ripples than the leg. It was about something falling to the lake. Do things fall into legs? So is the answer to make sure nothing catch everything before it falls in the leg?
No, absolutely not. Is it to make it not make ripples? No. Is it to be just as comfortable when something falls in and it creates ripples and you don’t have to touch it or do anything about it? It’s just the natural way of things. That stuff falls, makes ripples. What happens to ripples? They go away. Not if you play with ’em.
They don’t. Now if you don’t want to be there and you suppress them and hold onto them and jump in there and try to make it, you understand that now you get real deep, thin teaching. So right, if you are able to handle reality, and vibrations are part of reality, you don’t have to do anything about it.
It’s not about doership or non doership, it’s about existing in the presence. Of whatever’s happening outside, inside, and you’re at peace, you’re calm, you’re not distracted, you’re not making these major big deals out of things. It’s all passing through, but does create vibrations. It does create emotions.
So what they ask Robert Krishna once, does enlighten being ever feel anger? I was shocked to read his answer. Yes, but it’s like riding on water. Go read it. Read it, write on the water and read it. It’s gone. Any impression it makes is gone in the moment. That’s what it’s like to live a whole life. It’s not that there are no impressions, they just pass through.
Why? ’cause you’re not holding onto ’em. The only thing that’s a mess in your mind is that you got lost in there. When you step back, you see it for what it is. Oh my God. It’s just an ocean of vibrations. It’s okay. Somebody says something, it comes in. It feels weird. I can handle it. That’s okay. I don’t mind weird.
I like weird. I like everything. When you like everything, you don’t have to hold onto it. You don’t get distracted by it. Here, you’re into cars and it’s Ferraris and she’s into Teslas or avs. Alright, so a beautiful Ferrari drives by your head turns. You talk about it, it left an impression on you. Tesla drives by, you don’t even notice, right?
And she’s that way about the Tesla. For the Ferrari, the key is not that somebody drive by. The key is did you get distracted by it sufficiently to identify with a thing? It’s just all four of ’em passing through. And so the great ones are able to let everything happen. Everything passes through emotions mind.
It does what it needs to do, but you’re not suppressing it. You’re not resisting it. You’re not clinging to it. Just let it Beatles. Let it be. Think your words of wisdom, but you can’t do that, can you? So you go out and manipulate everything so that. Forget, let it be so that it’d be what you want it to be, right?
You talk to me and treat me the way I wanna be treated and wear what I want you to wear, okay? And then you try to be okay that way. So do you understand mine a little bit better now. It’s a joke. You get to a point, you look at it, you just laugh. Look at you. Look at you caring what other people think. Do any of you listen to me?
I’m gonna stop. It’s hard for me to stop. Okay. Do any of you ever think what you think somebody else is thinking about what you said? It’s kinda funny, isn’t it? What you’re really saying, what would I be thinking with the chunk I built in my mind if I had said it, but I was them being, I don’t know. It’s just too complicated.
Alright. And you’re wasting your time getting upset and the mind gets upset, doesn’t it? And then the heart gets upset. I’m having a hard time at what? What I think he thought I was saying. What if he misunderstood what I was saying? What if he told other people what he misunderstood? I was saying, I need to go on the website and go to Facebook and tell everybody I didn’t mean that.
You gotta find out that he didn’t even know you said it’s just all going inside your head. The vast majority of everything you are worrying about will never happen.
Okay, so what’s the answer? Learn to stop being distracted by the vibrations passing through your mind. Well, that’s, that’s pretty tough. There’s serious stuff in there. I always tell you, start with the simple things. Start with the weather. Can you handle the weather? It’s just something that comes and goes.
It’s, it’s your perfect guru. It comes and it goes and it has no meaning other than what you give it to it. And so you let go the car in front of you. Putting brakes on this. He’s just blinker. You’re driving 15 miles below the speed limit. Can you not be distracted by what is going on? That is none of your business, and you start letting go.
You can still be distracted by the work that was given to you at work. Pay attention. Come down, do your best. It’s really very simple. All right, but now do you understand mine? Answer me. Do you understand mine better? You see what it is? It’s just a field of vibrations that nobody knows nothing about and they make a mess of it.
Oh, okay.
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