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Michael Singer: Jai guru dev, jai masters. The more you grow very maturely on a spiritual path. At first you think it’s about getting high and feeling all kinds of spiritual energy and so on, and you find out that things happen in life ’cause you haven’t noticed that kinda hamper that. Bring that down a little bit, and you’ve had times where you felt close to God.
You have times where you felt a lot of energy. You’re happy, you feel love, and there are times in which you can’t find that again. And unfortunately, a lot of those times are more prevalent than the other times if you haven’t noticed.
But what does one do about that when they’re sincere as a spiritual secret? When you start like I did, you fight. You’re supposed to feel high. You’re supposed to feel shocked. You’re supposed to feel spirit, you’re supposed to believe, and just do it. Fight with it, push away. Now it doesn’t. Eventually, if you stay with it, you find out that’s really the opposite.
That the times you’re having the most trouble, that you feel the furthest away, that you can’t get the energy going are your times the greatest growth? ’cause there’s a reason that you don’t feel the energy. It’s not that it’s not there, it’s always there. Like it’s really funny. During hard times you still breathe, your heart still beats Hear me.
But why can’t I be happy? You are happy. You’re filled with joy, you’re filled with love. The difference is not that it went away, it’s that it’s blocked. That is so important. We use the analogy. I like it. A lot of the sun we just sang about the sun. There are times in which the sun during the day seems to be shining bright, and there are times in which right in the middle of the day, it seems to be dark.
If you go out there, the sun’s the same all the time. It’s just shining 24 7 for, I don’t, what do we say, 4.5 billion years? So the problem is not that it’s not there, the problem is somebody’s blocking it. There are clouds, your eyes are closed. There’s something blocking that, which is always there. That is when you start to catch on what spiritual growth is about.
It’s not about finding it again. It didn’t leave. It doesn’t ever leave, and I tell you a secret, no matter what you or anybody else has ever done, that sun is still shining. Equally on everybody. All the rest of that is your stuff. It’s your judgment. Nature is a teacher. It’s there. So how come. How come I block it?
That’s, that’s the spiritual question. If you want to feel spiritual energy, if you want to feel Shakti, if you want to feel ecstasy, if you want to feel the ascent pulling you up all the time, every moment of your life, stop blocking the reality of what’s real, which is it’s always there. And the Bible, Christ said, I stand at the door and knock.
Whoever will open, I will enter. It’s always there. It’s always there. Everything he taught that ye without sin throw the first stone and not my favorite. We talked about it the other day, so I won’t do it again. Forgive them Lord, for they don’t know what they do. In other words, what are you doing with your mind?
What are you doing with your judgments? What are you doing accepting and rejecting reality? You do do that. You understand that? Was wrong. You shouldn’t have said that, but I did. Well, you’ll pay for that. Okay. That’s the clouds. It’s not about good and evil. It’s not about right and wrong. It’s not about better and worse.
It’s about are you blocking yourself? Do you have the right to block yourself? Sure you do, but then you’re blocked. So the spiritual path is way deeper than what we wanna hold it to. It simply says, are you in there? Check. You sure you in there? Were you in there yesterday? Were you in there last week?
Probably in there. In there. You in there. Did you have thoughts? How do you know? Uh, ’cause I hear ’em. Do you have feelings? Answer me. How do you know you have feelings? I feel them. Who does me? Same me yesterday. Same guy in there. Same guy in there. Believe it or not, that is the self. It is not this mystical thing off Somewhere as you go, go find when the doors of heaven open up.
If you are in there and you are conscious. Hm. Right. Let’s talk about how you get lost. But you’re conscious. You say things like, oh my God, my thoughts are bothering me so much today. How do you know so easy to say? How do you know? I don’t know that your thoughts are bothering you. How do you know your thoughts are bothering you?
I notice them. They’re bothering me. Who’s this eye? It’s that close to you. It’s not something you have to find. Do you understand that you’re it? I say the most hilarious thing in the world is I’m looking for God. Well, you better go to Alia or somewhere. Look under the bed maybe. So I’m looking for the self.
You are the self. You are the consciousness that is aware in there and you are aware of your thoughts. Good thoughts? Bad thoughts. X-rated, R-rated pgs, they’re all in there, so, but how do you know they’re in there? Do you ever have bad thoughts? Do you have good thoughts? Do they ever feel bad feelings? Do you ever feel animosity towards somebody?
Do you ever feel love towards somebody? How do you know? Because I’m the one who’s feeling it, I’m the one who’s noticing it. Can you feel animosity towards somebody and then they tell you something really, really nice and you like them and 1000000000th of a second or more likely? You like them a whole lot and they say one thing, you’ll never talk to ’em ever again.
Is it not the same you that heard both? It’s transcendent to this stuff we do with our minds, what we do with our humanness. You say, I’m only human. You are not even close. You are the consciousness that’s watching a human. That’s who you are. You’re the awareness of being that knows there’s somebody in there and that’s a major problem living with that guy and gal, right?
I called it your roommate. Do you have a roommate in there? Are they always fun? How do you know? That’s the beauty of it. You woke up and you realize, I’m not it. I’m not my thoughts. They change all the time. Go into deep meditation and come back and what you say, alright, it doesn’t matter if you ever meditated deep or not, I don’t care.
You don’t understand. You come back and say, I went so deep, there were no thoughts. Doesn’t that sound nice? How do you know? How do you know? There were no thoughts. You didn’t think it because you are the consciousness that’s there. Whether there are thoughts or not. The thoughts are nice or not whether the feelings are nice or not.
The consciousness is always there experiencing what’s going on in there. Ever had a time you wished you weren’t ever do drugs? If you don’t wanna legal or illegal ever drink, just take the edge off. There is no edge. What you’re trying to do is. Somehow get that thing drunk in there so it slurs more or get it.
I mean, there are people I come on, I grew up in the sixties, right? There are people that used to do, I never did them. I didn’t, but they called downers, right? You ever hear of downers? They’ll come tell me. I did these downers, right? I was just zonked out all night. That’s good. It’s like, and the answer is, why would you do such a thing?
’cause I don’t have to be aware of what’s going on in there. By the way, the awareness does not get Zed. It just watches something that can’t even pull it. Thoughts together. How do you know that you’re so drunk? You can’t even talk straight because you’re in there noticing that talking ain’t coming out straight.
You understand? I’m telling you something very, very deep. That is the self. You don’t look for the self, you don’t search for the self. You are it. You are the consciousness that is always in there. It has always been in, even in sleep. Let’s do that. We’re talking about meditation. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to somebody, I slept so deep.
It was so peaceful. I didn’t have any dreams. Answer me. How do you know? How do you know there weren’t any dreams? ’cause you were there noticing there were no dreams. You are always there. The eye never sleeps. It’s perpetual. Was it in there when you were 10? Did you look in the mirror and see somebody who looks different than you look now?
Was you looking? Don’t bring the memory back of what it was like. Just be aware. You were in there yesterday, weren’t you? Well, I’m telling you right now. You did three days ago too. You’re in there 10 years ago and 20 years ago. Guess what? On your deathbed, when your mind is saying, oh my God, I’m dying. You know, it’s saying that
that is a spiritual discussion. It’s everything that all the great ones tried to teach you. You are in there, you are conscious. You are the sun. It is always shining. The question is, what is it shining on? You are always aware. What are you aware of? I don’t know you, but I know what you’re aware of, right?
You’re aware of these thoughts. They get created in this place called Mind Mind’s not out there in the building or the picture or in the sky Mind’s in here. How do you know? It’s like a scientist’s coming to you and ask you, do you have thoughts? Yes. No, you don’t. I don’t see them. Mm-hmm. They must not exist.
You know, they exist. You have thoughts, so you’re aware and you’re in there. Thoughts come up. You can make them come up. Think of a boat. I want you to see a, a queen Mary in your mind. The actual boat. See it visually. Can you, is it really there? It’s in your mind. Okay? You can create things in your mind, can you not?
You do it all the time. The trouble is you get lost in it instead of being the consciousness that’s aware that you have a toy, a playpen called mind. No one talks about mind that way ’cause they’re scared to death of it. ’cause it causes so much trouble. Right? You have a playpen, you can go into the playroom, you can play outside, or you can go into this place called mine.
Who can you The consciousness. Well, what can I do in there? Anything you want. Anything you want. See a boat, see a car, see a man, see a woman, anything you want. Alright. You have dreams that are very prolific. There’s entire buildings and things and lives. You live a whole life. You get married, divorced, has six kids, and your dream, and you wake up.
Oh, where was that? In your mind? You created that in your mind, did you not? And you are aware of it, I’m gonna keep coming back. You are the consciousness that is always aware you are the sun that is always shining. It’s just a question of what is shining on. So I started off by saying, can you think, I’m not saying do you theoretically, can you think whatever you want?
Think about when you were five years old in school. Think about what your mother did when blah, blah. Think anything you want. You know what I’m saying? You think anything you want, think of an alien. Okay? Think of a robot. Anything you want? I don’t know what to tell you. Think of a galaxy far, far away. It’s there.
That is an amazing play pan. You are busy with VR and all this kind of stuff. It’s like you kind of got something really serious in there. Anything you want, any time you want. You have this, okay, we’ll get it someday. You’ll understand it. How do you manifest in this playpen called mine? Certain thoughts.
You exert what’s called willpower. Sometimes you have trouble holding onto thoughts, don’t you? And you get tired. Can you get tired trying to do math in your head? Wow, you’re exerting a power. That power is willpower. So you’re in there the consciousness. There are a place called mind that can create thoughts visually and and vocally.
And who determines, well, I get that in a minute. Don’t go too fast with me. But who has the power to determine that you thought about a boy or a girl or a car, or anything like that? You just, it’s easy. You just, you don’t need voice recognition. You don’t need typing, right? You’re just like, boom, there it is.
That’s your willpower. Where does it come from? Do you know that? That’s when you meditate deep enough? You find that out, okay. The self, this consciousness we’re talking about, it’s not some nebulous thing, you know? It’s there. It’s awareness. Awareness is the most important thing in the universe. If you weren’t aware, you might as well not be here.
Are there trees? Not if you’re not aware of ’em. Awareness gives meaning to everything. If I take away your awareness, you’re not there. I turned off the light. Now there’s no sun shining. You’re not aware. It’s not like, oh, I’m aware there’s no light. No, you’re not. You’re not aware. Awareness is the beginning and end of all meaning of everything.
We’re starting very spiritually. You understand that? Awareness is God. God is awareness. That’s why it’s called omniscient, omnipresent. Omnipotent. It is awareness. Everywhere is the same. It’s just awareness. You are aware and you know you are. If I turn off that awareness, what meaning is your life? Are you having experiences, good ones or bad ones?
No. You’re not having any experiences ’cause you’re not aware of anything. Do you hear me? I’m stressing this. You are awareness. That’s what you are in there. That’s what they mean by soul. That’s what they mean by ottman. That’s what they mean. The core, the essence of your being. That’s what they’re talking about, is never born and never dies.
Was your awareness there before your body was born? Someday you’ll find out whether you’re there. You’re aware you’re dying. Are you aware you’re dying? Are people aware they’re dying? Does somebody who has. Dementia or stuff? Disease and can’t remember things. Do they know that? They can’t remember? They’re aware.
I used to be able to think of things, now I can’t. And they get all upset. Personally. Reasonable. So awareness is always there. It’s just a question of what’s aware of. It’s always because it’s aware of, but the seat of awareness, that’s what Spiritu is about. That’s witness consciousness. Alright, so you are an aware being.
Very good. So where’s willpower come from? It comes from that in the ancient teachings of yoga and the great scriptures, they call God chi shati. Conscious energy. Conscious energy. That’s what you are. That’s what’s back there, not just consciousness, conscious energy. Energy is the quantum field that vibrates and creates the whole universe.
Consciousness is that, which is aware of it in science. Science is very spiritual if you pay attention to it. They used to think there were two forces, magnetism and electricity, and they were separate. And when they find out there’s one force called electromagnetism, they’re the same force looked at from one angle is electricity, another angle is magnetism.
I got it. Ti it’s one, there’s not two forces. There’s a force called Chich conscious energy. And that force, I won’t go down to, you know, I, I like this quantum field stuff, right? That they have found out that the further they go down into matter, that there are nothing there. There are no electron nutrient protons, there are no particles.
There’s just little wavelets in a field. Oh, energy. Einstein said it matters. Energy. Energy is matter. And the difference, just a temporary state, like your scientists are your priests, ’cause God is reality and what they’re discovering the further they go down there. It is very godly. You don’t have to study quantum physics.
Just understand what I told you. That’s all you need to know. They looked out there, Aristotle, Plato, oh, look what’s going on? And then eventually got some microscopes and they could see molecules. Oh, it’s really just a bunch of molecules moving out there. Then they could see electron microscopes. They could see atoms.
Electron neutron protons joined together, making molecules. You know this stuff. You went to school, you didn’t pay attention to it. You didn’t walk out of the class and say, oh my God, it’s all atoms. It’s all atoms. She’s not really so pretty. She’s just a bunch of atoms bound together by some quantum laws and covalent bonds.
She has a bunch of covalent bonds. ’cause your mind lies to you. You can’t see truth, your senses can’t see properly. Then you go down further and they, they got down to the atoms. That’s beautiful. Then they found it. No, there’s not atoms. There’re electron protons. That’s how much most of you went to school.
That’s what you learn. There’s electron protons. No, no, no, no, no, no. Take a proton and get it miles and miles away from each other and bombard trillions of ’em at each other down in, in, in CERN at the Super Collider, and when they hit each other for 1000000000000th of a second. Subatomic particles come out of them.
A proton is made out of two up corks and a down cork. A neutrons made of two down corks and an up cork. Whoa. Look at your minds. Look what you found out. So you’re down there and now you realize, and even there they found out, well, there are really corks, leptons, and boons. All the quantum subatomic particles.
There are no particles. They’re just wavelets in the field of energy. Like, like if you drop a leaf into a still lake that makes waves, that’s what’s down there, little wavelets. And they hid each other and they put themselves together due to laws. And next thing you know, you have a proton and tron, and that’s what you’re looking at.
So. I’d like to stop right now. You hear me? Where’s your problem? What problems do you have? If that’s what’s going on, there’s nothing even here. Einstein said it beautifully. He said Reality is been an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Those waves put themselves. You know, Timothy once said, God created heavens in earth.
Is it true that God created the heaven and earth? No, it’s not true. God is creating the heaven and earth. If those wavelets are not doing it, you’re dressed right here in the morning. You hear me? That’s how it gets built. It gets built by these little quantum wavelets and then they interact together and it comes up and it makes the atoms, which atoms?
The ones that make your dress, which dress are the, the one that’s in your house in the morning, and maybe you wanna say thank you, so you’re a lot closer to God than you thought you were, but this is why Christ said not a hair on your head moves. That God knows not a sparrow falls in the tree, that God is not aware.
God is the tree. God is the sparrow. God has the hair on your head. That’s what omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient means. It’s everywhere as conscious. And that’s what science says. And so science is pretty serious stuff. And so what blew me away years ago, I read an article in NASA that said the quantum field is omnipresent.
Read right past that. I didn’t read right past that. I’ve only heard the word omni President used once for meaning of my life. God was omni president, omni mission, and I’m now all of a sudden they say something’s omni president. In other words, every single galaxy, every single thing throughout the entire universe is made of the same thing is made of the same field.
That quantum field is omnipresent everywhere. Whoa. Have you thought about that? So again, you come back, I’ll, I’ll build the mind moral for you. Right. Why are you having problems? There’s just these little wave lists moving down there and you get to see what they made and they see what they’re making. You are the consciousness looking at them.
That’s ti the shakti is the vibrations in the beginning, in the, what does the Bible say? I’m not a Bible reader. I told you, I admit it. I’m a nice Jewish boy and I read the the New Testament once in my life in 1971, and yet it keeps coming back in the beginning was the what? Oh, the word, what’s a word?
Vibration. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God. And in the ancient in into scriptures, oh, was the beginning of creation. All vibrations. Whoa. Pretty neat. And now science comes back and says, and everything was from the beginning, just vibrations interacting with each other. Okay, very good.
So I said, will, will shati. Consciousness, energy. When you focus your consciousness, when you try to think of something, you have to focus, don’t you? Mm mm That’s what you’re doing is you’re taking the ocean, the infinite universe of awareness, and you have the power to focus it down on a spot inside your mind.
And that that power is the power of will. Alright? Most people don’t have any idea what will is, and they say they’re not even there. That’s what it is. The focus of consciousness. The analogy I use with you guys sometimes is the field out there. Now there’s light all over the place, right or wrong, everywhere’s IP president, if you will.
Okay? At least in terms of field, take a magnifying glass, simple magnifying glass. There it is. Don’t look through it. Just hold it out there and look at the ground. What will you see a point the leaf could burn? Be careful. It takes the power. That’s everywheres. Focuses it exact power isn’t that the same exact light that’s out there all the time doesn’t burn you, but you put that magnifying glass there and it focuses it.
It creates this tremendous focal point of power. That’s what will is the focus of consciousness. So when you focus your consciousness, you’ve asserted will. In fact, there’s nothing you can do without will. In fact, your arm moves anything. You are willing it to take place. Okay, so now we’ve got consciousness.
You in there and you’re paying attention to this playpen. And it is a playpen. A playpen called mine. You can assert your will to think anything. The Andromeda Galaxy Ever see a picture of end drama galaxy? Hundreds of billions of stars you can actually see it at at certain times of the year with binoculars.
You can see thero galaxy out here at night. Okay? You just see it. Your mind has the ability to do whatever you want with it. Some scientists found the quantum field, somebody else found a cure to this. Somebody else, like, my God, your mind is phenomenal. What are you doing with your mind? Now we’re gonna come down to Earth.
I don’t wanna, I’ve built it for you before that. The building, the model of mind is so easy. Why? There are books. I have no idea. Okay. ’cause here it goes. Have you had experiences, you, the consciousness, have you had experiences that came in from the outside? You have senses, they pick up, the outside comes in, and you, the consciousness experiences them.
Have you noticed that they don’t all feel the same? Yeah, that a rattlesnake rattling in front of you does not feel the same as a butterfly flitting around you. Yes or no, you’re not doing that. Everything has this nature. All of creation, which came up from the quantum field, made all these things and made every animal’s bottle.
My, I can’t talk about it. Every single thing that is comes up and it has its own vibration. Everything has a vibrations. They’re vibes. You ever walked into a place and felt bad vibes ever walked into a house where people were fighting and then they stopped fighting when you walked in, but you knew they were fighting.
Everything carries its energy. It carries the vibration. So you’ve had these experiences. Some of them were pleasant, some of them were not. Most of them. 99.9% were just passed right through. You drove down the road, there’s thousands of trees, you see them, people, places, clouds. They just passed right through.
You’re here now. You experienced the experience you were having. Fair enough, but not all of ’em did that. Did they? Some of them got stuck. They didn’t pass right through. You’re in a crowd and people are talking and all of a sudden somebody says a name of someone who you knew before, and all of a sudden you’re thinking about that even though they’re not saying it anymore.
You’re not here now, you’re there then. So it came in, passed through, came in and passed through. But what happened is one of them distracted your consciousness. You’re still conscious of the other ones. You did see the trees. You didn’t focus on ’em. They were just the experience you were having. Go look at the ocean.
You’re seeing the ocean. It’s fine. Beautiful, but if something comes in that’s stronger vibration, positive or negative than all the rest. It distracts your consciousness. Do you get distracted by things I told you once? Who teaches that? Distraction is a phenomenally spiritual event. It’s where it all happened.
That’s why you have a psyche. You got distracted by certain things and because I taught you when your consciousness focused on something, you’re focusing chuck on that it brings power just like a magnifying glass. So you didn’t do it purposely. It brought more consciousness down to that event than the other events going on.
If you walk outside, there’s grass, there’s trees, there’s sunlight, and there’s a snake. Guess which one you pay more attention to. Did you do that willfully, purposely? No. It distracted you. It pulled your consciousness down to it. When it does that, it stays. You. Think about that snake for hours, days, weeks, years, never walk outside, ever again.
You just got programmed. Your mind is no longer yours. The experience that you focus, and it’s not even like you perfectly focus on it. It distracted your consciousness. If you hear a big noise outside, your conscious goes there. Your bright light shines, your consciousness goes there. If somebody’s yelling, your consciousness goes there.
It gets distracted. And that’s just the beginning. It’s a primary distraction. It pulls your consciousness down to it. I how much I can get across him in one talk, right? That’s the primary distraction was the snake. It’s in there. Now, there’s something held in this playin called mind called snake, but the snake’s not there, but it is in your mind.
Now, you walk into a house and somebody has a baby and they have a rattle. All of a sudden you’re thinking a snake or a rope. Now all of a sudden your mind is reactive to the stuff you stored in there. Now you’re being distracted by something that’s not the snake. It is associated free association. Now you have more things stored in there.
I’ll never have a baby because I got so scared by the rattle, and you just as an exaggeration, but boy, you know what I’m talking about, right? The example I always use, you were married to a guy named Ben. It didn’t work out so good. You got divorced and it wasn’t a very pretty divorce either. That was six years ago.
You’re now over in Europe vacationing, and you’re having at a party having a great time, and all of a sudden somebody yells out, Ben, Ben, Ben, your heart flutters. That stuff got stuck in there and now anything that touches it causes regeneration and there’s a lot of stuff in there. People yell at me because they always use the same examples, right?
Have you ever had a driver in front of you driving 15 miles an hour below the speed limit on a two-lane highway that you can’t pass? And you’re in a rush. Answer me, yes or no? Do you talk to that driver? Do you, when you make it to the office, talk to other people about that driver, do you next time say, I ain’t taking that road.
I’ll take the expressway. There’s more lanes. It’s funny that it seems, and I’m only actually a little bit, if you are now visiting some other state and you’re driving. You see a car that looks like that car, your heart goes. Your mind thinks about it there. I just built your mind, didn’t I? Okay. You know what psychology says?
I don’t know that they know how brilliant they are. Man is a sum of his learned experiences. Have you ever heard of that man is the sum of his learned experiences. What did I just tell you your mind? Is the sum of your learned experiences of all experiences. You can bring them back. You can think about a white line on the road, but it doesn’t do it by itself.
Yoga is a samskara, that’s a very important word, a samskara. What is that? An event that came in that you couldn’t handle, therefore you held it. You suppressed it. You clung to it. You kept it in your mind. It’s filled with emotion. If it comes back up, you can feel what you felt at the time. People say mean.
I went back in there. I went into this kitchen and, and I smelled the smell. I felt I was a 5-year-old again with my mother, and she was cooking. You literally feel like you’re back at that place. You stored the entire thing. That whole packet of energy that got stuck in there, got stored. And it can be reactivated, can’t it?
Right? How many of those do you have? It’s not just these giant things. Somebody’s, somebody’s talking to you and they say something with a tone that doesn’t hit just right. ’cause your mother used to be sarcastic. You could not like that person. Literally, you could not like that person. In fact, I guarantee you won’t like that person.
She reminded you of your mother. I don’t wanna be her under her. You wanna go? Let’s, let’s invite Sally. No, I don’t wanna invite Sally. Why? I don’t know. She reminds me something about her reminds me of my mother and I don’t like my mother. So now, Sally’s, uh, persona on ground, have I exaggerated all your preferences, all your desires, all your fears, except for your primal base animal fears?
Okay. Oh, your psychological fears. They all come from that. They all come from the fact that you stored this stuff inside your mind and not even purposely it just boom, it just hit you a certain way and you resisted. You. You used the Shakti to resist, and when you resisted it, you held it in there. So I ize about letting go, let go, let go of what?
Just let go. Alright, another word for spirituality acceptance. What does that mean? Accept the reality. It just happened. Accept the fact that you called out the Sally and she didn’t turn around and, and here you recognize that. Can you handle that? Can you accept that? Can you accept the driver? Can you accept that’s hot out?
Can you accept that you have blemish on your chin? Can you accept the fact that, that the color’s not exactly what you wanted the kitchen to look like? Can you accept things? And the answer is, of course not.
And would you like to know why you can’t accept them? Because you have stored impressions from the past. That’s, oh, that’s not exactly the color that I wanted. How do you know? Because when I was little, I was this and toy was this and go, go study Freud. It’s all the same. That stuff distracted you, you stored it, it’s in there, and now the world is coming in and it’s hitting your stuff, isn’t it?
And it can be positive, it can be negative. What’s a positive samskara? I don’t like to talk about them. I told you when you leave here, just forget everything I taught you. ’cause you can’t handle it. Well, you can’t handle the truth. When I was talking about the truth, isn’t it? That’s what’s going on inside your head, isn’t it?
Why do you want a certain type of car? I saw in a movie, James Bond was driving and no, I don’t want that because I’m, I’m into environmental stuff. And what do you mean? What do you mean? How’d you get that way? I had experience, experience, experience. The sum learned experiences. Programmed your mind now is not such a nice play pen.
It’s a nice playpen when what comes in from outside because it’s still coming in. That quantum field’s vibrating down there and it ain’t vibrating the same, but you stored in different, God, that’s so deep. How different is the storehouse of that stuff you have in your mind, which is the sum of your learned experiences and everyone’s are different.
How different is that from what comes in every day out of the quantum field? In reality, they have nothing to do with each other. Do they? What happened to you when you were five in Connecticut when you were growing up? Has nothing to do with what’s unfolding right now, but to you it does. It comes in, oh, that reminds me of my brother and he’d die when I was young.
What reminds you? I don’t know. The guy, how he sneezed doesn’t take much does it? So you have this world in there made up of the summer learned experiences. There’s a world out there that is not made up of semi learned experiences. If I say it to you, you won’t understand it. But from a scientific point of view, it’s made up the sum of its learned experiences called cause and effect.
Every single thing that happened before made this happen out there, and that ain’t what’s going inside your head. If you got that, I’m about to give you the final linchpin. You do? See, it’s the truth, isn’t it? Okay. What happens with what’s happening out there doesn’t match what’s happening in there. You don’t like it, do you?
Even, I just taught you. They have nothing to do with each other. They can’t possibly, what happens with happening out there does match. What’s going on in there? Ooh, ooh. Love for sight. I don’t know what happened. My heart just went boom. Yeah, I know. I take the, some of your own experiences and what’s happening out there, and they just happen to hit just right, and you get married and then divorced and you find out, holy mackerel.
They’re like two ships passing in the night. Yeah. There’s a point where they go past each other. I’m pretty close, right? The outside. I teach you this and you won’t ever listen to me. You don’t believe it. You fight with me. The outside has nothing to do with the inside. The inside has nothing to do with the outside.
They’re totally different worlds. They came from different places. Yours came from your past to some of your learning experiences. This came from realities past accumulating together in the current moment. I take it to the extreme. You’re standing there and somebody’s yelling at you. They’re not yelling at you.
I know it feels like it. You just have me standing on a point on the planet earth where somebody’s yelling.
It is not personal. You take it personal because that’s what you got going on in there. The summary you learned experiences is extremely personal to you, not to her, not to him. This is why you suffer. This is why there’s wars. This is why there’s disharmony, because your mind has stored the sum of your learned experiences, and not all of them, just the ones that were strong enough to leave impressions, and that makes it sound passive.
No strong enough to distract you so you held onto them. If you suppress something, you don’t happen any really bad. In the past, bad things happen to people, okay? Happen. You suppress it? What does that mean? I don’t wanna think about it. I’m not gonna think about it. It’s layers of Freud. I don’t wanna think about it.
You know, suppression, push it away. What happens when it comes back up? You push it back down. Have you ever pushed it back down? Answer me. Have you ever pushed away your playpen? The playpen doesn’t look so much fun nowadays, isn’t it? Have you ever pushed away those thoughts? Pushed away those feelings?
That’s what Freud meant by suppression or oppression. If it’s strong enough. I don’t even wanna use the word ’cause it’s scary to me. Right? Is this stake called denial. That’s way past suppression. At least. Suppression. You know, you did it, you know you did it. You know you can’t handle this. I don’t like to talk about that.
Don’t talk about it. At least, you know, but denial. It didn’t happen. It didn’t happen. My husband’s still alive. He just hasn’t come back yet. Is there such a thing? Do people find themselves in a state of denial? Wow. Now, do you understand mine? And what I like Now, do you just understand mine? Do you understand why they’re all different?
Nobody’s had the same experiences, have they? Nobody. Every place you go, you’re having a different experience from everybody else and it’s just you have this, this one little thread going through all the universe, and that’s what you experience. Very little. You think you’re, are you experienced? You’ve only experienced the moment that passed in front of you.
How many did you miss? Everything else? Would your mind be different if you experienced something different? Yes. How long does it take for it to get reprogrammed? One moment. I love you. I just love you so much until my moment, but my heart, just, Mel, I can’t even think straight. You opened your eyes and he is looking at his cell phone.
Did you change your feelings about him? How long did it take? You used to talk very nicely about him. How have I exaggerated? This is going on every moment of your life, you’re being programmed by the experiences you’re having and you don’t know how to let them go. You don’t know. I always tell, I’d like to finish that story.
You wanna know what really was going on. You are just melting in love sitting there, and he’s hugging. You’re hugging and your eyes. You don’t wanna look just melting. You open your eyes and you realize he’s got his cell phone behind your head and he, and he is looking at it. He’s, he’s looking at where you gonna go on your honeymoon when he proposes two in two minutes.
Oh, have you ever taken it wrong? You don’t even know. You will never know how much went in there and had to pass through the stuff that was already in there and influenced how you interpreted what you saw. Did I exaggerate? It’s a mess in there. And what your attempted solution as a quote, normal human being is if what’s going on outside matches.
What I want notice what you want is based on your past experience. There’s not a single thing that you just made up. Do you wanna what? I need to know what it is, blah, blah. Yeah. Like a drink. I, I just, I mean. See what I’m telling you. Your likes and your dislikes, your preference, your hopes, your dreams, your concepts, your views.
I just explained them all to you. Oh, no. Yes, they have the, some of your learn experiences, they’re meaningless. They’re just yours. There’s one to 8.2 billion people on the planet Earth and how many have been here before? And you’re real important, aren’t you? And those experiences you had, man, the one in 1,000,000,800 trillion experiences are having at the same time.
You had one. But yours is really important, isn’t it? God, I can’t believe you letting me talk to you like this. Can I keep you here for the rest of your life and just keep talking to you? Is it not the truth? But what you do is you get caught in it. The consciousness is now completely caught in the mind.
You can’t be comfortable sitting in the beauty of the sunlight ’cause you’re busy looking at the darkness. You’re busy looking at the mess that’s in there and it just stimulates it. You don’t even need something outside to stimulate your stuff. You can have a thought that stimulates three years of depression.
Wow. And that everything I said about your mind is also your heart, your emotions, your heart’s a playpen. So he can play all kinds of music. It does all kinds of stuff, right? Yeah. It got the same way. It is the sum of your emotions are the sum of your learned experiences. That which freaks you out, turns him on that.
Which freaks you out yesterday. Turns on today. All you have to do, have another experience. Right or wrong. I don’t, I don’t wanna go with Billy. No, I don’t like him. I’m like him. Do you know that Billy’s really rich and he sometimes gives people nice cars. Maybe he could come
or I think more No, no. I am not comfortable. Do you know that he told me the other day that his philosophy about life and about politics is exactly the same as yours? Really? He can come. Don’t you wish I was exaggerating? I’m not, am I? Okay, so now you woke up. So your emotions are programmed based on the past experiences and your thoughts are programmed and you are caught in that.
You can’t handle that. Therefore, distraction, they distract you constantly. You’re constantly distracted by your thoughts and by your emotions, and mostly your negative thoughts. Now, what do you do about it? I’ve noticed just like you, that if the moment in front of me matches what I want in here. I’m doing grace, and if it doesn’t, I’m not.
Therefore, the purpose of my life is to make the moment unfolding in front of me, match what I want inside. And don’t you dare tell me that’s not how you wake up in the morning and spend your entire day every time, every second. Well, we just got through saying the outside world has nothing to do with that.
I’ll make it have something to do with it. It doesn’t bring harmony. What is harmony? Okay, we got one minute left. Ready?
Learn to let go, learn to not store that stuff in there. Experiences are real. Yes, we have experiences. Some of them are intense energy, some of them are beautiful energy. Are you able to handle that? Can you handle reality? You are the highest species then. So they told me you’re the highest species on the planet.
And what did Darwin say Evolutionary species was about adaptability. How adaptive are you in there to what’s happening out here? Zero. It is supposed to match what I want, and guess what? If it doesn’t match what I want, ready, it’s wrong. What you said was wrong, it hurt me. Well, that’s ’cause all the experiences you accumulated throughout your life and because it didn’t fit good in here, it’s wrong.
Wow. No one day you all can’t get along and so you wake up. You sit here and say, okay, I don’t wanna be like, I don’t. I don’t wanna be like that. I moved out to the woods in 1971, dropped outta my doctoral program, which I was a very great student, everything, and just moved out to the woods. Say, I ain’t living like that.
Once I saw that, once I woke up and saw no way, I’m spending the rest of my life in there with that stuff. No way. I don’t care what it takes, and I try it all. I’ve meditated at least six hours a day. I, I’ve been around the block a few times and I’m teaching you what I learned. There’s a reason the mind is the way it is.
Don’t fight with it. You made it that way. I told you, are you in there? Who else is in there but you? Nobody. Oh, then you did it. If your house is a mess and you don’t wanna live there, alright? That mind is the way it is. ’cause you couldn’t handle the situations that happened to you either. You got all involved in them, he ran off, or you got all scared by them.
So you now have fear and desire based upon that stuff. What do I do? Crash course. Crash course on spiritual growth. There are moments that are happening to you right now. You’ll walk out Right now, it’s hot, loud. It might rain. Oh, I wanted to go skiing and you can’t handle it. Can you handle the weather all the time?
No, I don’t want it to rain today. It’s my birthday. It doesn’t know it’s your birthday, and you have no right to say that. That is about the stupidest thing you could ever say. But can you get upset because it’s cloudy before your birthday? Well then maybe you have some work to do and maybe it’s on yourself instead of everybody else, and maybe that’s the cloud.
All that stuff we just talked about, those are the clouds that are blocking the sun. It’s still there shining, but you built this veil around yourself. It’s made out of those garbage things that you stored over the course of your life. You can’t see it through that veil can you? But you can see through what you see is the veil.
You look outside, you see yourself. Ever say, I can’t believe she did that. I would never have done that. She had a different life than you. What kind of meaningful statement is that? I would’ve never done that. Well, okay, very good. If you had a slightly different experience in your life, you would’ve done that, judge.
Not that you shall not be judged. The whole thing is the spiritual teachings. You hear me? The Bible? Say a judge, not that you shall not be judged Thursday and patriarch to end the burdensome practice of judging. Why do you judge? How much basis do you judge me? I guarantee you judge anybody or anything, you’re judging it based upon what I just talked to you about.
I’m so proud of you sat through listening to what’s going on in there and it’s not so impressive, is it? So you basically wake up some day and you say, I got some work to do, and it’s on me, not on everybody else. I should be able to handle the weather. I should be able to handle the driver in front of me.
I should be able to handle that. Somebody said something that they were in a bad mood and they said something not nice. Can you handle it? A friend of yours, a really bad mood. I should really be in mean, and she said something mean. Can you handle it? Of course you can just handle it, let it go. Can you handle that?
Your husband or wife come home and for work, had a really bad day, you’re wanting to have this beautiful evening, and they come stormy and slam the door of the bedroom. Can you handle it? Can you handle reality? Or when they come outta that, are they gonna pay for that? You don’t treat me like that. You will treat me like that again.
You’ll be on account for three weeks, as opposed to, wow, you must have had a bad day. What can I do to help? What made me cry? What can’t you be like that? It’s not that you can’t deal with him who came or her that came home like that. You can’t deal with you. Well, how about we start working on ourselves?
And so what you do is little by little. A mantra becomes, I can handle that. That’s what I learned all these years. I can handle that drive in front of me. Oh, I can handle that. You can use positive affirmation if you want. That’s probably your grandmother. The last years she’ll get to drive. Right? Why don’t you tailgate her and speak a little bit?
No. Okay, grandma. That’s fine. Let’s get five more minutes. Take it. Enjoy your last year. You can do things like that. You can use positive thinking, use mantra, but do something. Do not let the default. The default is you get distracted. It gets stored in there. Pay for that for the rest of your life and so will everybody else you interact with.
You are not your mind. You’re this beautiful being, looking at this disturbed mind. Okay? And the answer is not to suppress the mind. It’s not, the answer is to see why it’s, your mind is just echoing what you did. You did it. And so change how you deal with yourself. Okay? Can you change? You can’t do the big ones at first.
Don’t tell me that. Don’t come to me. Well, you don’t understand. My wife left me and you died and this happened and I, and I feel so much pain. How do I let go of that one eventually? You’ll be able to see the beauty in the fact that you loved somebody so much that when they died you felt such deep loss and such pain, that you saw it as saying, I love you.
You accept it so deeply that it had a beauty to it. You didn’t try to push it away and get rid of it and suppress. You. You hugged it, you held it, you offered it to God. You used it to raise yourself and raise everything around. You hear me? It has to do with the depth of experience that the consciousness gets to have, isn’t it?
And eventually you get to where as an enlightened being is, and enlightened being is a being that life comes in all of it and passes through and they experience it for what it is. I’ll stop AK Krishna. They once went to him. A fully enlightened master. Does an enlightened master feel anger? Yes. But it’s like riding on water.
What’s the problem? We need to ride on water. Nobody can read it. It just goes right through. Okay. Somebody does something, anger, it hits something comes up, pass right through. So what there, okay. Did you learn something? You’re a beautiful being. When this cloud gets thinner, which you can do every day of your life, wake up in the morning, say, I’m gonna handle the day.
Well, you won’t be able to. Things will happen. Good. Good. Catch your breath. Bring yourself back up. Try again. I’ll do better. Just like when you’re playing the piano, you make mistakes. Good. That’s why you practice. Practice letting go. Practice accepting. Sometimes you have to deal with stuff, but first, accept it first.
Accept that that person said something and they’re gonna off and bother somebody else. Honor it. Respect it, accept it. Look to see if you can help. So it’s not that you don’t act. You don’t react based on that stuff that we just talked about. That’s in there. Alright. I don’t wanna stop, but I will. Thank you.
Thank you for listening. Thank you. You’re great beings. As you thin this stuff out. Where do you see what happens? All this Shakti starts pouring up in you naturally. You don’t do a single thing. There’s no action. There’s no nothing. It’s just just feeding you. And so Christ, remember when he said, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that leaves at the mouth of God.
That’s the inner energy is feeding you. The sunlight is not being blocked now. Right? Work on yourself. Raise yourself.
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