Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters.
You can talk about God all he want. You want to get close and know about God. You have to work with mine is just how it is. Thinking about God is not the same thing as knowing God. Why mind? If you watch, you’ll notice that there’s this thing called mind in your life. It’s not your foot, not your hand, not your nose.
It’s inside and it talks. That’s what it does. It talks, why did I do that? I don’t, maybe I shouldn’t have done it. No, it’s okay. They, they didn’t notice yes or no. Well, very good. So you noticed. In truth, that’s what witness consciousness is. It’s not something very complicated. It’s have you noticed that there’s this thing called mind and that it’s rather loquacious?
And have you noticed that things it says can cause your heart to change all by themselves? Just all of a sudden it says something and you feel bad, it says something, you feel good. The problem is, most people don’t consider that a problem. It’s just what is. It’s just always been that way. Always is that way.
Okay. If something is always there, you don’t notice it. ’cause it’s always there. It’s when there’s change that you notice. Okay, first. What does it talk about? You have to at some point understand mind if you want out. Otherwise, it seems normal. It seems normal that that’s going on in there. It’s not. It is not normal.
It’s like if my hand’s doing this all the time, okay, I’ll go to a doctor. Okay, there’s something wrong. Let’s try to deal with it. Correct. That’s doing that all the time and you don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Okay. You just totally lost in it. It’s just what is, this is how you deal with it.
Normal. You mean humanity. Okay. If it says something that makes you feel better, you like it. If it says something that makes you feel bad, you try to find it to say something or do something, or something happen that will make it say something. That’s nice. You listen to how simple that is. Alright, let’s start with the simplest thing.
What does it talk about in the simplest sense? Trouble is, it’s so mumbled and so much noise. You can’t figure it out in the simplest sense. You have these thing called senses. I call them sensors. I’m a computer guy. They’re sensors. They’re things that pick up sound and pick up sight and pick up touch.
They sense the outside world, correct. Therefore, they’re sensors just like a computer has sensors. All right. What happens? It comes in. It picks it up. Does what happened outside actually come in? Is she now inside of me? It’s tight in there. Crowded. No, there’s nothing inside of me except me. It’s a single occupancy apartment I’m living in here.
But the, you get this, I talk about it all the time, but it’s important ’cause you don’t get it. You get it, but you don’t think about it. You should think about it. The world is out there. It’s not in here. That out there has absolutely nothing to do within here. They’re totally different. Planes of reality out there is made of atoms, it’s made of the quantum vibrations.
It’s just physics, physical world. That’s what’s out there. And that’s what they study and they’ve done a hell of a job. I can’t, I talk about it too much, but I can’t talk about it. But it’s a major part of my spiritual path. Understanding the quantum field. Well, that’s so complicated. No it’s not. They found out there are not atoms, there are not neutrons and protons.
Those are not the smallest particles and they are not even things. They’re not particles though. Quantum physics will tell you there are no particles. There are waveless in a field of energy. We call it the quantum field. It can vibrate like the ocean has waves. They’re not things, the wavelets, they’re energy moving that you can see.
They come up and it goes down. It’s got peaks and TR and so on, and they’re all different. That’s what’s down there. That’s what they found was down there. Where everywhere is, the quantum field is omnipresent. All the stars are made of it. The black holes are made of it. Every single thing in the universe, physical underneath, all of that form for an affinity is just wavelets, perturbations, aggravations in a field of energy, and those wavelets interact with each other and they make up neutrons and protons.
That’s what’s out there. Your senses are amazing. I would say they picked that up. No, they are made of that same thing. They are made of all physical form, everything. Your body, everything. You’re supposed to have what? 32 trillion cells your body’s made of a 32 trillion living cells. Well, the living part we can discuss later, but the cell, the cell membrane, the cell, the physical aspect of the cell is that quantum field vibrating all 32 trillion of them.
Wow. That’s what’s out there. Where’s the beef? How can you have problems? Look at me. How can you have problems, but the politics, how can you have problems? It’s not even there. It’s just waveless in a field of energy everywhere. And then the wavelets become corks, leptons, and bows, and they give names, right?
And then they come together and they make neutrons and protons and electrons, and then they make atoms, and then they make molecules, and then they make you and everybody else. That’s all you’re looking at. Do you understand? You can’t have a problem. There’s nothing happening. This is what your scientists have told you, isn’t that me?
I don’t understand this stuff, but I like to hear what they found. Okay. Will you please for one moment in your life? Understand you can’t have a problem. There’s nothing out there is there. You ever look at a pure table, you know, oh, the table of elements, you’ve seen it, hydrogen and oxygen. Go look at it and freak out.
Which of those little boxes are you turned on by. When you turn off by, use your mind. This is your intellectual mind. You have the ability to understand things at a very, very deep level. You, you don’t have to be a genius, you don’t be Einstein, but you gotta understand what he said. Energy is matter.
Matters energy and the differences is simply a temporary state. As Einstein, it’s just energy moving into fields everywhere. Okay? So there’s a starting position of mine, which is you look at it and you say, hello. What the heck are you doing in there? So the first thing that happens with mine. Simplest.
Most based thing. The most fundamental thing is those vibrations out there. That’s what they are. We put ’em together. I like can’t help myself ever. Probably you haven’t. I have gotten right up close to a flash screen tv. You ever done it? You watching a movie? I dare you be watching the movie and just run, shove your nose, right against that thing.
Do you see the movie? No. You see dots, pixels, they bothering you because Dots is bothering you. That’s the atoms. It’s the same thing. It’s because of how far back you’re standing that they average out to make people, buildings, things. They’re just atoms and not even I told you, they’re just wavelets in a quantum field.
Okay. You have senses, that’s part of what they created. You have these senses, tactile, optical, auditory, right? You have senses. They pick up those vibrations. That’s what they’re picking up. Picking up vibrations. What is sound wavelets? What is sight wavelets picking up A on vibrations. So you’re out there and what happens?
The vibrations hit your sensory sensors and they have this wiring system just like a computer. Your nerves, pretty brilliant wiring system. One neuron to the next neuron and they keep passing the vibration back. So the person doesn’t come in, the thing doesn’t come in, the balloon come in, they stay out there, but they emanate these vibrations that come in.
Alright? What do I mean to emanate these vibrations? What is light waveless? It’s waveless of light passing through here when that light hits her. It doesn’t make it through. Her body is dense enough. The atoms of her body are dense enough so the light reflects off, bounces back next to her. There’s air.
The light makes it past the air ’cause it’s not as dense. That’s why it looks like she’s there. Charles Floyd’s. There’s not light bouncing off her body. That’s why you don’t see her light shining on it. And the atoms bounce back the reflection and they come to your senses and that’s what happens. And that’s all that’s happening.
Is it okay? We talk about that. What’s so spiritual about this? Everything they cause it destroys mind. If you think properly, then you understand what’s going on. But we don’t think properly. We believe in the illusion. Which is just wavelets bouncing around. Oh fine. So what happens? They bounce off, sound, sight, touch, whatever it is, and they come in through your senses.
They pass up your wiring system, your nervous system. They end up in this central command center of the brain. All of it ends up there. It does. They know the knee doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t know it’s there, but it comes up to the brain, alright, and I’ll do it. I always do it right. That’s as far as most science goes.
It’s the brain. No, the brain is just a bundle bundle of nerves that all center and end up there. They emanate energy, the vibrations that came in, they skip back there, but they’re subtle and they create a vibration in the mental plane. And that’s what mine is. The vibrations being created in the mental plane.
I don’t see her out there. I see her in here. The light bounces off of that comes back in my senses and it renders just like the flash screen tv. It renders an image in this subtle vibration way subtler than the brain. The brain is still atoms. The mind is not made of atoms, so way subtler vibration. The quantum field is not made of atom.
It makes atoms. There’s even subtler vibration in this universe than the quantum field that’s already gross enough to create atoms. There’s a line in the Bible, which I never understood. I’m not a bible reader. I never understood, and I don’t understand it because it made no sense to me. In my father’s house are many mansions.
Wait minute, a mansion’s a big house. How can my father’s house are many mansions? What does it mean? Are many planes a reality? The many thing more than the physical plane you father’s house, meaning all of creation. So there’s the physical plane, that’s one of the houses, one the mansions. There’s the mental plane, there’s the emotional plane.
There’s just subtle and subtle vibrations of energy. So the vibration that comes in through physical senses passes up. Yes, it collects in the brain and you can see what’s going on. But you inside because you see this. How does she look like that? ’cause I mean here, and it repaints the picture in here and I’m looking at it in here.
You do not look out through your eyes. No one has ever looked out through their eyes. Your eyes are sensors that pick up the vibrations, pass them back to you. It renders in this subtle energy called the mind. You call it mind, and you are looking at it in there, there. I never stop. I’ll stop for a minute.
Is that weird for you? Does physics not say that? Is that not the reality of what’s going on? So it stimulates the nerves coming in. It paints a pic. They don’t know. It paints a picture of mind. They think it stops at the brain. It does not stop at the brain. The brain doesn’t see you. The consciousness sees, sees what?
Sees the image that got rendered in your mind. So that’s the first function of mind. It allows you to pick up the world out there. Otherwise, you wouldn’t know it. You wouldn’t know it’s there. Okay? It’s better. I’m telling you, you’re in here. I love it. You’re, hello. You know you’re in. Are you in there? Are you in there are.
Can you close your eyes and still see things in your mind? You wish you didn’t have to? Can your mind create the vibrations itself without the stimulation of the outside world? Yes or no? Can you dream? What is that? It’s the mind. Those same rendering of subtle energy, vibrations being created in the mind.
It does it all the time. So now you have mind divorce from the outside world. So the first thing it’s for is to pick up the outside world so that you in there, the self, the consciousness, the essence of your being is able to experience this plane. Otherwise you would not. Alright, fine. That’s not a problem.
So far, we don’t have a problem with mine. I don’t wanna get rid of it. I like experience in the world and so it comes in. Good. Congratulations. Come on in. Come in. You come in, you come. Come in. You’re welcome. How hard is it to see? How hard is it? You’re talking about witness consciousness from seeing what your mind is doing?
How hard is it for you to just look outside and see the world effortless. Close your eyes. It’s not there. Huh? It’s there. Okay. That is witness consciousness of the physical plane. Not the mental plane. You have trouble watching your mind ’cause it sucks you into it. It distracts you. If something outside distracts you enough, you don’t see anything else.
That’s what distraction means. It pulled your consciousness down to it and you can’t get it off it. Fixated on it. Something like that. The mind is so distracting ’cause it never stops and so it distracts your consciousness into what’s going on in there. And you don’t even know you’re the self ’cause you’re so lost in it.
Okay, we’re getting there. So the first function of bind is to render the outside world. And like I said, you don’t ever think about it, but why don’t you study science at least at that level to understand that nothing I’ve said so far they don’t agree with. That’s what’s happening. You have sensors that pick up the outside world, they send the messages back and you in there, the consciousness, the awareness of being receives them, but you don’t receive them in the brain.
You do receive in the brain. It’s almost as if the brain brings it all together, but its vibration is so subtle and the electrical impulse are so subtle that they stimulate the mental plane. They stimulate the subtler plane to create the vibration that got picked up. It’s not like it almost like that.
That’s exactly what’s happening. Energy gets subtler and subtle and like ice water vapor the same thing, aren’t they? What’s the difference? How subtle, how fast the vibrations are. Otherwise, they’re exactly the same. Same thing with all this. It passes through. It stimulates the very subtle, very subtle vibrations of the mental plane.
And you’re in there living in there watching that. Okay? That’s the first thing that happens. So where’s the beef? What’s the problem Now we have no problems. We just experienced, right? I’m telling you, when they talked about the Garden of Eden, the fall from the garden, that’s where Adam and E lived. In that state.
They’re experiencing God’s creation. Their God experienced his own creation consciousness. Experiencing what? Consciousness created fine. It’s wonderful. Everything happens. Y Alpha Omega, you’ve heard the words. Everything happens. Not good or bad. Or right or wrong is a bug. Is it good? No, it’s not bad. It’s a snake.
Is it? Okay? No, it’s just what is. You’re just experiencing reality. That’s the whole purpose of creation. God wanted to experience himself, and so consciousness is experiencing reality. I know it’s so hard ’cause we have so many problems. Just imagine for a moment that’s all that’s happening. There’s that person, there’s that person.
So what? That’s just something you’re experiencing better or worse or good or bad? It’s raining. Okay? It’s not raining, okay? No one’s sitting there doing anything about it except experiencing. So be here now, isn’t it? Just experiencing it. You’re not not experiencing it. It’s neither doing nor not doing.
All the deep teachings come in right there. What are you doing? Nothing. What are you not doing? Nothing. I’m not stopping them from be a snake or making there be a snake. Nothing. Just everything is what it is and you are the conscious experiencing it. That is what mine does. It brings it up to you so that you can experience it.
There is no problem with that. There’s no Democrat or Republican. There’s no good, there’s no bad, there’s no right. There’s no wrong. There’s no male. There’s just consciousness experiencing creation and it’s all one. It’s all the same. Alright, what happened? What’s this big fall that happened? Consciousness is experiencing creation.
No problem. Have you noticed that Not everything that comes in feels the same. I don’t mean feels with your hands that some vibrations are higher than other vibrations. Some vibrations are more pleasant than other vibrations. They come in and they just have different vibrations. The Buddhists say as follows.
Everything has its nature. That’s what’s meant. Everything has its nature. Every vibration is different. Male comes in as a vibration. A female comes into a vibration. A dog comes into a vibration. A cat comes into vibration, snake comes in vibration. A rattlesnake comes into vibration. Storms come in. It’s a vibration.
Bombed. Beautiful days come in. It’s a vibration. They’re neither good nor bad, nor right nor wrong. It’s just creation. There are 300 billion stars. In your one galaxy. Is that okay with you? And what’s very funny, you say, of course. Why wouldn’t it be? Well then why is it not okay that you have a zit on your cheek?
Everything just is all over. And there’s 2 trillion of those galaxies all with hundreds of those of stars. You never think about ’em for one single second at all, right? But you think about what somebody said yesterday, okay, we’re gonna build mind. So, so far we’re, we’re pretty clean. So it comes in, but it all vibrates differently.
Consciousness. This, the essence consciousness can get distracted. Have you noticed that? Can your consciousness get distracted? Someone’s talking to you. Have you ever had somebody talking to you and you hear a word they were saying? ’cause you’re too busy being distracted by your thoughts about what they’re saying.
So consciousness, this is the fall and I ain’t touching it. I ain’t touching it. Don’t you dare ask me why. Right? So you’re there experiencing, God’s there, experiencing his own creation, and then something comes in that pulls awareness, consciousness more to it than something else. A loud sound. A flash of light.
A beautiful woman, a handsome man. Something distracted your consciousness to focus more on that than on everything else. That’s what distraction is. Distraction is awareness being pulled down to an object, and the object can be inside. The object can be outside. What happens when consciousness, which is God, consciousness is the creator of the universe.
Consciousness is everything. When that divine, infinite, one consciousness. Gets distracted by one thing, such as a snake that came in or such as noise or sound. It focuses on it. Distraction means you focus consciousness on it. Can you focus your consciousness on a finger or a toe or on her? Him? Yes.
Consciousness is like a beam of life. It can focus and expand. In the sixth you called expanded consciousness. I’ve grown so far past that. That’s ridiculous. You’re not trying to expand your consciousness, you’re trying to cease to contract it. You’re already fully expanded, but something happens and all of a sudden your country is fully distracted and contracted and then stays there.
Why does it stay there? Consciousness has two aspects to it. It’s one just like electromagnetism, I’m sorry, teaching you physics. You’ve heard of electromagnetism. Well, what’s the difference between electricity and magnetism? How can they call electromagnetism? ’cause there is no difference. They found out that electricity and magnetism are the same force, the exact same force.
They’re the same thing, just like a different angle. Looking at the same thing from a different angle. That’s what they call electromagnetism. Okay? Consciousness is shit. Shati. Shati, conscious energy. Those are two aspects of the force of consciousness. It is awareness and power. For Shakti, it’s energy, it’s conscious energy.
That’s what God is conscious energy ti And what happens is when that energy, that, that ti, that conscious energy that’s everywhere is all over created. Everything’s doing everything. When it gets distracted, not only does your awareness get distracted, but what comes with it is energy ’cause of the same thing so that when you get distracted by something.
It pulls your consciousness down to it and brings force and focus and power to it so that when you are distracted by a thought, listen to me, it’s like I’m 50 years of meditation, right? You get to see some stuff, alright? And it’s also the deep teachings that they all taught, not me. When this vibration comes in and is received on the mental plane and it draws consciousness to it, ’cause it distracts it, that pattern stays in your mind.
Otherwise, everything passes right through. Like the ocean passes right through the water, passes right through, but because you focused on it, you brought will, you brought Shakti, you brought energy to that point. And I’m telling you, the more you focus on it, the more it stays in your mind. Have you noticed you drive by trees all the time?
You drive by white lines all the time. You drive by people you don’t know all the time. Then all of a sudden. One person who you thought looked like your sister who’s dead and you’re just looking back, hear me? And you’re gonna think about that. That’s not going away right then is it? It got stuck in your mind.
Things could get stuck in the mine. Yeah. Remember ice, water, steam, okay, it got frozen. They got fro. What did the pattern that came in from outside that distracted your consciousness enough that it brought it down there. As long as that energy is focused there, it can’t pass. It’s like a frozen because you brought consciousness, consciousness and energy, the same thing.
What is will do? You have will? Can you make things happen? Can you decide to pick up the glass and it happens? Can you make a thought happen? Can you try to make a thought go away? You are in there. Your consciousness has power. That is what will is focused consciousness. When you wanna think about something like math in your head or something like that, do you have to strain a little bit?
Hold a quadratic equation in your mind and keep it there. Then move it around, you know, change the variables. In any event, you have to struggle to hold it in your mind at some point and you feel tired. It uses energy. Will is the focus of consciousness. When you focus your consciousness, it can do things, can’t it?
You have will. Yogananda said, will was everything he said? Not a single thing happens without the use of will in terms of you. You have will in any event. So you focus the ti and what happens? It gets stuck. What does that, what you focused on? God, please listen to me. I’ll build it real slow. For you, what you focused on stays How long?
Depends on how much you focused on It depends on how long it stays out there to cause you to focus on it. Are you understanding mine already right away? Isn’t that what’s going on in there? Okay, so let’s just say you see a snake and garden snake. No. Garden snake goes by. You move it caught your attention.
You look at it and it’s a garden snake. You know it. So you let it go. It doesn’t keep coming back. You’re gonna go to the party and talk about the garden snake. Alright? Some of you will, we’ll talk about that too. Alright? So if you focus on it, if it’s there for a long time, you tend to focus on it. Okay? If it’s there for a short time, even though it’s a little bit strong, it can come in and pass, but it’s really strong even if it’s not there for a long time.
I tell the story of a 8-year-old child driving in a car with their parents and they happen to turn their head around in a terrible car accident. You know, really? Blood and body parts, oh my god, that may stay in them forever. It took two seconds to drive past it. Am I exaggerating? It’s called becoming fixated.
What is fixated? The consciousness stayed focused on it. That child may never talk again. They could have serious psychological problems. What does that mean? That’s what a psychological problem is. Something got stuck in the field of mind. How big is the field of mind? As big is the universe. There’s no limit.
The physical plane, there’s no limit. The mental plane, there’s no emotional playing. There’s no limit. But when you focus on it and bring your consciousness down and focus on it, then your world is that small. God, I’m saying it. Is that not true? You know how big your world is? You what I want, what I don’t want, what I like, what I don’t like.
Who hurt me? What’s happened on my past? Who’s my children? I mean mine. I mean mine. I mean mine. That’s your world. I got your mind. You get anybody? Wow. That exact mind is the size of a God. Ramer Krishna one said, A great enlightened master. He said, the purified mind is no different than the self was the self God, the infinite one.
Eternal, omnipresent, omniscient. There. There. God, the purified mind, the mind that’s not limiting itself by getting distracted and focused. Purified doesn’t mean it doesn’t swear purified mind. There’s nothing caught in it. What is it? Not purified mind. Depends on what got caught in it. It’s the bundle of what got caught in it.
How’s that? Why do things get caught? They get caught because you focus on them more than other things. And now what you focus on the most days, it could be a tiny little thing like that accident we talked about, and you’re in trouble for the rest of your life. You’ll never drill in a car again. There are people that will not fly in a plane.
They will never get into a plane. Why? Because they watched a news flick in which a big 7 47 crash and hundreds of people died and things all over the place. That made enough of an impression on that person, and they won’t fly to California to see their grandkids. They will give up major parts of their life ’cause that impression took over their life.
Now, do you understand mind? Does it have the ability of catching your attention? That news that that person watched is still in there, but it’s not it. Well, it took a minute. It was a one tiny part of the news program once. Why is it still in there? Because you. You. The consciousness couldn’t handle that.
It happened. They couldn’t handle it. The vibration was so intense that it captured your consciousness. You focused on it, which is fine. Of course, you know, you look at something terrible, you see it, you experience it. Now turning away, reality wins. How about I say that reality always wins reality? Is that what happened?
How do I know it happened? Stop it. Let Christ say, let those who lies to see. Let them see. Let those of your to hear. Let them hear there. How do you know it happened? Guess that’s right in front of me. Alright? I make something outta my mind and tell somebody, something didn’t happen that did, or, you understand that that’s the world you live in now and get me outta here.
What’s truth now? Which enough people in their mind decided it was, it is not. Truth is what happened. How do I know what happened? Stop it. Okay. Can I talk you like that? So basically it happens, it comes in, but there are vibrations that are so strong that they pull your consciousness down to them. That’s okay.
Do you let them go? No. What do you mean they’re gone? The accident passed. Then the snake went away. The person said something is not saying it anymore. Why does it not make it through? Because you can’t handle that. It happened. The consciousness is so uncomfortable. It gets caught in the vibration. How’s that?
It’s hard to see. If you ask me, how can God get caught here? Go into, I dare you, go into deep, deep, deep meditation. No, I hope you do. I hope you can, whatever, even just once, then come out and see how long it takes for you to be screwed up again. Have you noticed mind? Okay, so what’s happening? So the vibration comes in, it distracts your consciousness and you don’t wanna feel it.
That’s the problem. The problem, not the vibration. The problem is you don’t wanna feel that vibration. That’s the beginning of what we call duality. That’s where it comes from. Everything’s one. It’s just the ocean, right? But you focused on it and you set aside what you like from what you dislike. It just happened instinctually, it just.
It’s not comfortable. I don’t wanna experience this. Have you ever had an experience you didn’t wanna experience? Ha ha, ha. Go talk to Sigmund. So you, the will, the consciousness that’s in there focused on that and couldn’t handle it. What does that mean? Couldn’t handle it. Couldn’t let it pass through. The words can change the meaning, don’t they?
I couldn’t handle that. I couldn’t let it pass through. Why? Okay, you’re in there. You live every day of your life. Things happen, right or wrong. It wasn’t comfortable. It was scary, it was freaky, whatever. And it came in and you experienced it by definition. Don’t worry if you didn’t experience it, don’t worry about it.
I got you. Came into mind. Consciousness got drawn down, focused on it, and it said, no, I don’t wanna experience this. It’s so beautiful. It’s so beautiful. I always quote you from the third, then patriarch, the deepest teaching one liner that’s ever been said the great way, meaning enlightenment is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
If you don’t set aside what you like from what you dislike, then everything passes through The initial impression can be uncomfortable. You let it go. That’s what letting go is. Wow. Finally, if you use my words, I teach letting go, don’t I? It doesn’t mean out here. It means in there where the consciousness focused on it and now it’s caught in there.
What do I do? I know what you do. You do this thing called push it out of your mind. I don’t want that in my mind. I had a terrible marriage. I got divorced. I don’t wanna think about it anymore. Well, you’re obviously thinking about it if you don’t wanna think about it anymore. No, I don’t wanna think about it anymore.
So what do you do? The will, the force of will you. The consciousness pushes it away. Have you ever pushed away a thought, ever pushed away an emotion? You do it all the time. That’s what Freud means by suppression, repression, denial. You obviously experienced it. You wouldn’t be suppressing it. Notice we’re still talking about mind.
Are we? We’re talking about what is going on in this field of mind? Something got stuck and I don’t want him to be stuck and I don’t want it in there. I don’t how this, I don’t want that to have happened. Okay, can we analyze that? Obviously it happened or you would not want it to not have happened, and I’m gonna tell you a secret.
There is no way in the entire universe that it ever will not have happened. The very fact that it happened means it happened. Not a question of can I neutralize it? Can I rationalize it? Can I play with it? ’cause it’s caught in there. I’ll find a way to be positive about it. Good, wonderful. It’s better than being negative, but what do you mean I’ll find a way Mind will find a way to try to neutralize the thing that got stuck inside its mind.
That’s what rationalization is, is that now what’s going on in there? Do you understand mine better? So the self is in there pushing stuff away. When you push it away, that’s the worst thing you can possibly do on your spiritual journey. It’s to do what? It’s bad enough that I couldn’t handle it. Happen.
Reality happens. I, sorry. I am so sorry. I didn’t tell you when said and done. I’m not telling you. Don’t do anything about it. I’m not telling you that you have to let me finish about who you are and what it is. You have to understand what’s going on, right? So it comes in, it’s not comfortable. It distracts your consciousness.
It’s not comfortable. I don’t want it in here really. I don’t want it to have happened, but I can’t do anything about that. But I don’t have to experience it. I don’t have to sit here, experience it, do I? Well, you do, but what you do is push it away. You use your will to push it out of the conscious, outta the mind.
It’s funny, you call it conscious mind. I, I can’t help myself. I know too much. There’s only one mind. There’s one field of mind. And truth is there’s only one mind altogether. Yours is separated ’cause you focus on yours, right? That’s the only reason that her thoughts are different than her thoughts.
They’re all next to each other. That’s why a psychic can see ’em. It’s not your mind. It’s like saying it’s my ocean. ’cause I’m looking at that wave. But you are fixated on the thoughts in your mind, in the part of mind that you identify with, that you hold onto. When you suppress. You’re trying to push it out of your mind.
It does not go out of your mind. It just goes in order. It goes to, it goes to the place that you don’t wanna look at. It goes to the part of mind that your consciousness doesn’t wanna look at. How do you keep it there? Keep pushing it back down. Does it ever come back up? Answer me. Does it ever come back up by itself?
You see a post, you hear a word, hear a sounds, smell something. Can it come back up? He, what did he do? You push it back down? I, I can’t believe, I can’t believe he wore that. My grandfather, he used to wear that and he died years ago. And I, I just, it’s really bothering me. Just gimme a minute. I’m sorry. Gimme a minute.
Okay. Okay. I’m okay. You are not, you are not. Okay. I’m glad you’re doing that. It’s better than crying and ripping your hair out or beating somebody up for saying it. I mean, trying to handle it better than that. But if what you’re doing is pushing that sucker back down there, that ain’t spiritual. What you just did was polluted your mind.
It’s like a virus. And computers have viruses. You don’t know what they’re gonna do. They go down there and they spread out and they mess everything up. You don’t even know it until it starts showing up. That’s what suppression does. Suppression’s a no-no, but we all do it every minute of every day. All the time I’m gonna get there, right?
What does suppression mean? I am in here. Check. I don’t want that in here with me, but it is in there, not when I pushed it away. It’s not. And not if, you know, we never talk about that around your father. Don’t do that. What’s wrong with daddy? He got some suppressed stuff that it comes up now to understand mine a little better.
It’s not that complicated when you slow it down. How much stuff have you shoved down there every day of your life since you’re born? Things are coming in through your senses. They don’t all feel the same, and you are dealing with them mostly through clinging. That’s a Buddhist term. What does that mean? I like this one.
Well, very good. Let it go. No. Why? I want it to happen again. I do not want it going away. I love you. Don’t go to work today. I need to be with you. It means a lot to me. Stay cling. You understand that, right? As opposed to experiencing be here now and letting things come in and go. For all you know, there’ll be a more beautiful experience when he comes home and when she comes home.
I don’t care. Right? I like this one. There’s where the eye comes from. The eye is God consciousness, having identified with the stuff you stored in there and made it ego. That’s what the eye is, right? Someone has yoga on the green enlightened master. What is the ego master one liner. Ready? The masquerading self.
You took these pieces that you held in your mind, the good ones, the bad ones, the like, the dislike and so on. You push them away, you clung to them, and you built a mask made out of mind, made outta the things you held in there. And then you’re so lost that your entire awareness of being identifies with that stuff, you stored in there and said, that’s me.
I’m the person who played Dorothy in the fifth grade. I’m the person who got divorced two years ago. No, no. Those are experiences you in there had who had the experience? Are you not in there having experiences? You are not the, some of your learned experiences, your psyches is some of your experiences.
Your ego mind is something you learned, experiences. That’s what’s in there. The experiences you had that you either held onto, pushed away, or let go through every day. You are 99% enlightened every single day. 99% of every single thing that comes in your senses goes right through the cloud. A breath of air.
The wind, a person you don’t know, it just comes in and goes through. It’s been doing that your entire life, but some of it didn’t make it. Why? Because it distracted your consciousness and you built a house in there in your mind, and it’s beautiful thing called mine that has the ability. What does Microsoft say?
Where do you wanna go today? I like that ’cause that’s what it can do. Not your computer, your mind. Where do you wanna go today? Anywheres. Can you think about the Andromeda Galaxy? Can you see it? I got a problem with it. See, you are the one who decided to hang out with where you have problems. Where’d you get the problem?
I built them up. I had these experiences. Every moment of my life things were happening. Most of them came in and went through. How much is coming through your senses? The pictures of the wall, the knots in the wall, everything it comes in, it goes through. Doesn’t distract your consciousness, but some things did distract your consciousness and when they distracted them in a way that you liked, you clung to them still.
Same. You kept them in your mind, clinging. Have you ever done that or had an experience they didn’t wanna let go of? When I kept thinking about it, my vacation was so great last year, I went to Hawaii and said, I wanna go back. I think about it all the time. I made a picture album of it. You don’t have to make one outside.
You already got one inside. When was the last time you made a picture album of every single thing that ever bothered you? You don’t have to. It’s in there. So there you have, you built a mine. You didn’t build mine. Mine is there. It always was there. That’s what you built it out of. But you clung to things and then you suppress things and those things are still there.
And how do they work with each other? I, I was married to somebody named Ben and he was a schnook and we got divorced and so I pushed all that away and now someone’s trying to fix me up on a date with somebody with beautiful, wonderful man. Wonderful. Right? And I asked what’s his name? He said, Ben, no, I had enough Ben from my entire life.
I ain’t going out with a Ben. How do you work it out in there? Kind of hard to live in there. You wake up in the morning, what’s going on? You know what’s going on. I’ll tell you what’s going on. The latest thing you experienced. Maybe you had a dream that’s pops back up. That’s the latest thing you experienced, or the strongest stuff that you pushed away years ago.
What mommy did and what? Right? It balls and pops up. You don’t know what it is. It’s just the vibrations weird and yes or no. Okay. That’s what mind is. That’s what your mind is. That’s all it is. Stop it. It’s just stuff you stored in there and then you identified with it. Even psychology quotes it. Your self concept.
What’s the ego? The self concept. What’s the concept? Something you made up that’s a concept is not real. What’s your concept of, I don’t know. Make it up. Make something up. It’s a concept, it’s not a reality. So you made this whole thing in your mind and now you identify with it. That’s your self-concept.
It’s not the self. Do you know you have an ego? Has everybody noticed that an ego’s a bit of a problem? You guys wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t at least started to notice. Who’s noticing? Who’s noticing that? All of a sudden somebody’s dancing with your boyfriend and you’re feeling this jealousy and you know you don’t need to.
You’ve done it before and messed up your whole relationship. It’s just your ego trying to hold and clinging. You see this stuff? Who does you in there? God, that what’s in there? Remember, God got distracted. That’s who’s noticing. What do you do about it? I don’t wanna talk about nine times outta 10, maybe more.
You do something. You’d to say something. Well, why’d you have to dance so long? What are you going, what about that, that, that secretary you have at work that all of a sudden now what’s going on? Why are you on the phone so long? Nobody can relate to anything like that. Any time of your life, that’s what’s going on.
So you build a concept inside of the things that bothered you the most and the things that you liked the most, and now you’re trying to gloom together, trying to figure out, have whoever has trouble making decisions. I wanna know about that. People talk to me about that. There’s a whole chapter, there’s a new book coming out in March, the whole chapter in new book on decisions.
Why do you have trouble making decisions? Because there’s about 60 of me in here, of 600 of 6,000 of me in here, and depending upon, I’ll go on the web and I’ll think, where do I wanna go on my vacation? And I’ll see the glaciers are melting. I better go see them before they melt. Right? No, it’s cold. I don’t like the cold.
Plus I’ll get depressed. No. What are you doing? You’re trying to make it all match. You’re trying to find thought patterns that when you hold them in this mess that you built up in your mind of every moment that ever bothered you and every moment that you liked, they’re all in there, aren’t they? You’re trying to find a way to get a thought pattern that makes it through all that, and that when you’re finished having the thought.
Yes. Yes. I will get married. I do love him. And then I says, you love George too. How’d that work out? But I love Harry more than I’ve ever loved George. Well, maybe there’s somebody better. How do you know? Go on again, get married. How do you know that won’t happen tomorrow or a year from now that you’ll bump into somebody in Publix and your heart will go, boom, bigger than it’s ever done before?
You better not get married. There’s your mind. You like it? You having fun yet? No, I’m just begging you. Do you understand now what’s going on in there? What does psychology mean by the formative years? There wasn’t a whole lot of stuff in there yet, so that things make a big deal. I called out the mommy, she didn’t come.
I’ll never forget that. And then, then she made a a baby brother. And I wasn’t the most important person. I didn’t like that at all. And my parents got divorced when I was five. Well, you’re now 85 years old. You ever think about it much? It’s still affecting your life. So that’s what happens. It’s just mind.
It’s nothing. It’s something you built because you couldn’t handle reality. How’s that? Here’s the definition of mind of ego. Mind. Something you built inside of mind. ’cause you couldn’t handle reality. Yes or no. Fine. You got married, fine. You got married. You’d have a few good years. He turned out to be a schnook or she turned out to be a schnook.
You got divorced. Fine. You got divorced. I’ll never date again. Anybody listening? You did that. You the only one in there. There’s nobody else in there. Yeah, but you, you don’t know. My mother said 30 years ago, mommy’s dead. It ain’t dead in there. Why? Because you held onto it. So what you call mind is your ego.
Mind is the part of the infinite mind of God, the creator of the universe. It can make music, Beethoven. It drove ’em crazy. Most people won’t agree with me, but I like Beethoven. Alright. Beethoven did not compose. He wrote down what was already going on inside his head. He goes, study his life. He drove him crazy.
He heard symphonies that had never been written yet. Were going on inside of his head. Did you know that? Yes. He just heard them all and then he needed to write them down and then he needed to play them so he could hear them through his own ears. You know, he went deaf the later part of his life. What did he do?
Because he, it drove him crazy. This, this, this music was going inside of his head and he couldn’t hear it. He couldn’t express it. He cut the legs off his piano, put it on the floor. It was a wooden floor, second story, whatever, and held his ear near so he could feel the vibration of it. ’cause he couldn’t hear.
He’s passionate about it. Alright, that’s mind creativity. Great artists and even great thinkers. The mind could have great thoughts, can’t it? The quantum field, who figured that stuff out? Okay, so it’s the mind is a great thing. It’s the ego mind that’s a problem. It’s the ego mind. I just described it to you, the parts you held and then limited your thought processes.
98% to you. What you like and what you don’t like and what you want and what you don’t. All those just experience you had. Every single thing you like and don’t like are experiences you had that you couldn’t handle. What mean the ones I like to? No, you couldn’t handle ’em. You couldn’t let ’em go. You wanted to happen again.
You started comparing everybody. That’s not as nice as before. You are in trouble. So you held this stuff in there and they all got caught in there and now your consciousness is married. You can’t get outta there. You’re locked inside that prison. Now you don’t understand mine. Mine is a very great thing.
Mine is a great thing. It can think anything. It can create it’s inspiration. It’s unbelievable. But not when you lock yourself in. There are people that are very good at music or art that you’ll never see it ’cause they’re embarrassed to show it to you. It’s just that ego’s afraid of being rejected. Why?
I’ve been rejected before. It doesn’t feel good, does it? I don’t want it to happen again. So I’ll pattern my entire life pretty much based on the worst thing ever happened to me. Okay. And that’s the psychology studying. And they call that mind. It is mind. What are emotions? Same? It’s just a different vibration rate that you feel instead of think.
They do the same things, don’t, they can’t have an emotion. You don’t wanna have, can’t emotion. You wanna have, they’re just different planes. Different vibration. Ray. And they are hooked together, aren’t they? The mind thinks the emotion feels. Emotion feels the mind thinks they stimulate each other.
Therefore, you have one problem. Ego mind. Now I know. ’cause what she calls a problem he thinks is great and what she called a problem yesterday, she thinks it’s great today. What she thought was great yesterday makes her sick to her stomach to even think about. Now, all you need is one more experience comes in, doesn’t fit the ego.
God, I met you and you’re so perfect. Unbelievable. We had a couple of days, it was great, right? I can’t believe you said that. I never would’ve thought you would say something like that. I don’t ever wanna see you again. Help. There was three other people at the table. They didn’t have any problem with what I said.
Yeah, but my grandfather used to talk like that and I didn’t like him at all. And the exact tone that you used and look on your face when you said it, plus I can read body language. You had those hands across your third chakra. I know what you meant. It’s funny. Can anybody relate? Are you not living inside that mess?
Is it fun? What is Buddhist first? Noble truth? All of life is suffering. Whoa. Pretty negative guy. Guess what? All life is suffering because of that. Life is not suffering. It’s a little planet spread, middle nowhere, a lot of things going on. Kinda entertaining and, and that’s what’s going on. Now, that does not mean that you don’t act.
Life is an interactive sport. God did not create creation, so he doesn’t experience it. It’s all this vibration race. He lowered the vibration enough to create the quantum field. It then emanated up into form and consciousness is looking at the form of created. It’s all one. And so God’s creating his creation and so therefore, it is meant to be interactive.
You write music, I get to listen to it. That’s God writing and God listening. Every moment you’re experienced, no one has ever experienced before, no one that they’re looking for a different angle or they won’t be here in a minute. They’ll be out there. You’re in here. Your sequence through the moments of life are unique.
No one had the childhood you did. No, the mother you did, did today. Every single moment, you’re having a unique experience that no one will ever have again, and no one ever had it. That’s how special you are. You are God’s emissary ambassador sent down to experience the moment that he created God experiencing God, God, dancing with God, spirit and nature, dancing together.
Alright? But I told you how we screwed it up. We made a real mess of it, didn’t we? You do interact, but you don’t interact with something ’cause you can’t handle it. And that’s generally what you do. Do you understand that? I can’t handle what you said. What I gonna do react. I’ll react, not interact. I’ll react ’cause it hit my stuff.
It hits your stuff in there, doesn’t it? Okay. You made me feel bad. It’s like, no, you’re just dumping more stuff out here. It’s adding more pollution to the world. You’re taking the junk you built in there that you know you’re suffering. You know it’s hard to live in there and you’re dumping it out here.
When you get clear means what it means. You don’t have an ego. No, you have an ego. You, you don’t identify with it. You can let it go. Someone who wants ask Ram a fully enlightened, greatest being. Does an enlighten being ever feel anger? You know what he said? Yes, but it’s like riding on water. Go ride on water.
See how long it lasts. It just passes through. It’s a human emotion. If I don’t have to act on it, do I? There’s just something passing through. When you’re clear, you are never coming from ego. You’re not coming from this. You built a mess in there, didn’t you? You held on, you built this, this cage in which you live called your limited ego, and that’s your whole world now.
You look at everything outside, patient, what you want? I don’t want, I like it. I don’t like it. Whatever happened to me, I wish it didn’t happen. I wish it would happen. Oh my God, what are you doing in there? You’re certainly not experiencing reality. You destroy reality every time it comes in. You destroy.
All this garbage has to pass through. Why do you like people? ’cause they remind you of something. I did not like people. ’cause they remind you of something. Okay? And that’s why it doesn’t last real well. ’cause lots of you in there and lots of him in there and whoa, I see who comes out today. No, you interact from a place of clarity.
In other words, it comes in, it makes it through. And you look and see if there’s something you do to help. It’s called service, not I’m acting ’cause I’m not. Okay or ’cause I want someone to make me be. Okay. How’s that people act based on I’m not okay. I avoid it. I will be okay if this happens. I’m trying to make it happen.
Well, okay, that’s just you. That’s just ego. 100% ego. It’s 100% that part of mine that you built in there. What if you let it go doesn’t mean it’s not there. It doesn’t mean you still don’t have thoughts and so on, but you let them go too. If the world comes in, hit something, you let it go. Look at that. It’s so hot out.
Yeah, you’re right. It’s hot out. Okay, so fine, let go. You just keep letting go. Now who’s left there is consciousness, awareness of being the being who experienced the thing. And I’m telling you, you’ll find out that when you look outside, the only thing left in you is how can I help? What can I do to help this situation?
Even if your spouse of 30 years comes to you and says, I want a divorce, I’m not happy with the way things have been. You feel the initial reaction and you realize that’s God living through what she built or he built. Right? How can I help? Not don’t talk to me. No, I can’t. How can I help that? That was graduate school, by the way.
Alright, but literally that’s all that’s left in there is a servant of reality. There’s always something you can do. A smile, an opening, an understanding compassion. Compassion means it came in, it went through, and I understand you’re having difficulty with it. I’m not having difficulty with it. It’s not the same as sympathy.
How can I help? How can I help? Maybe. You need to tell me what’s bothering you, and I’m gonna listen. You know what? Normally in this conversation with that, somebody starts saying, well, you know, years ago, oh, that bothered you. That shouldn’t have bothered you. What’s wrong with you? Oh, you just shove it right back in their face.
You, what’s the word? Oh, defensive. What’s that mean? It hit my stuff. I couldn’t handle it. It hit my stuff. Boom. I’m pushing it right back. That does a lot of good, ever notice that? A lot of good. Okay, can we take a breath? Do you now understand mind better than you did? Do you understand that mind is the only problem.
Life is not a problem. It’s just God expressing every single aspect of his being. How can I help? Okay. And there are beings who are clear and they do beautiful things. What do you wanna do with your life? You were born and you’re going to die. In between. You can try to get what you want. What do you mean?
I’m gonna try to be okay when things are not the way I wanted. Like try to make it through or I can use my life to let go of myself, to learn, to honor and respect reality, and then do what I can do to surf. Oh, thank you for listening.
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