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Michael Singer: Ative, Jai Masters. Some people say that God is all about belief and faith, and really what they mean by faith is faith in your beliefs. If you believe something, it means nothing if you don’t believe what you believe. So I’m going to be very bad and tell you that beliefs are things you make up in your mind. Not truths. A belief is never truth. I believe that you like me, I could be wrong. Maybe you do today and don’t tomorrow. I believe you’re going to give me a job. You may, you may not. I believe in God or dates somebody who doesn’t. You change your beliefs if, do people change their beliefs? Do people change their beliefs? What does that tell you? They’re not real. They are figman of the mind. You’re free to believe anything you want. I believe you came from Mars. I can tell I’ve decided with your teeth.
That’s Martian stuff. What’s really funny when we laugh, we live in a world where people make up a bunch of stuff, don’t we? You say it enough times and get enough people to say it. There it is. I believe it’s true. Do you believe this and politics today, do you believe this happened? Do you believe that? Do you believe in that? Right? It’s like you’re going to get to a point in your growth where you realize beliefs are interesting, but they’re just beliefs. They can change. They’re not truths. And so then you come into faith. Do you have faith in your belief? What does that mean? It means I’m not going to change it. I’m going to hold onto it. I have true deep faith that my belief is right, that doesn’t make it right. I have faith in you that you’ll come through for me.
I lent you some money. I have faith in you that you’ll pay me back. It doesn’t mean you’re going to pay me back. It means I have faith and a belief. So it turns out that faith and belief, they’re mental, the things your mind decides. Have you ever had faith in somebody and lost faith? I’ve lost faith in you. I believe what you said to me and I’ve lost faith in you. Okay? Then they can come and go. Well, is there such a thing in spirituality that’s deeper than faith and belief? Absolutely. Unfortunately, very few come to know it. The truth is yoga is a science that is about cutting through the limitations of faith and belief and doing something that is not about faith and belief, but it does have to do with spirituality. What’s that direct experience? Okay, let’s say you’ve been to New York, you’ve seen the Empire State Building.
Let’s say you haven’t been to New York. You have faith in what she told you that there’s this giant building shouldn’t have faith. She experienced it. She rode the elevator, she saw it. So direct experience is way beyond belief and faith. So what are we saying about God? That you can have the direct experience of the spiritual things? The answer is yes, absolutely, and if I were you, I wouldn’t settle for anything less. The fact that you’re capable of experiencing these very, very deep experiences, if you experience deep spirituality once for a matter of seconds, your entire life will change. It’ll never be the same. And you don’t have to do the word believe or faith because you have direct experience. That’s what spirituality is about. That’s what the spiritual path is about, working with whatever you need to work with to have the direct experience. I don’t want to say of God because that’s just a word of spirituality of something higher than yourself. What does that mean? It depends on how quick and fast you want me to jump into it. Let’s start from the outside. Do you have faith that this floor is here? That this column is there, that this room is here? If you do, you’re wrong.
What do you mean? Just take a minute. Intellect can help you if you’re willing to hang out to truth instead of beliefs and faith. Okay, so there were these people called scientists for a very, very, very long time. Who questioned what’s that thing made of? Where’d it come from? It’s very easy to say. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and then there was light. God said, let it be light, and the post showed up. No laugh because in the end you’re going to find out that those words are true, but not because of the way you understand them. So scientists don’t hang out there. Obviously that’s a matter of faith. I believe in the Bible. I believe in the gide. I have faith in such and such. So they take microscopes and they take different instruments, different than your eyes because your eyes see a post your eyes, see a person, your I see a wall, your I see a cloud.
Well then that’s what you see, but you’re not looking close enough. I like to give the example. I’m sure all of you have done it. If you haven’t, please do that. If you have a flatscreen TV and you all have flatscreen TVs nowadays and you’re watching this beautiful movie or a beauty contest or something, get up real close, real close, like nose close, what do you see? Dots, pixels. You can name pixels, just a bunch of pixels moving around. Red cream, blue, RGB, that’s moving around there. Well, that’s very different than what the eyes normally see. They see movies. Well, scientists took close looks and also experimented with different things, and first they came up with atoms. Well, really molecules first, but they got to atoms pretty quickly and they said it’s like the pixels, if you look really close, there’s just a bunch of atoms and there aren’t so many different types of atoms.
There are a whole boatload of each one, hundreds and trillions in Gils, right? But there’s only a thinking about 93 natural 108, something like that on the per table. I should know, but I dunno if I have right, something like that. Okay, that’s not a big number. Those are Lego blocks. And out of those, this gets built just like those pixels make the picture on the screen, and all scientists understand that. They’ve understand that for quite some time. And so that’s what it is. That means your eyes are, I don’t want to say lying to you, but distorting reality because reality is go look at the periodic table. That’s as close to reality as you’ll normally get. You all see in the periodic table, right? Little squares, the letters in it. Those are the types of atoms that there are fine, okay? Now we say, okay, it’s not what I see.
I can understand that it is made of these atoms. I’m just doing it very quickly and then we’ll talk about what it has to do with deep spirituality. Well, some wise guys come along and say, wait a minute, what are atoms made of? The belief was the atom was the bottom. It was the elementary particle. There was nothing smaller than that. That was what things were made of atoms. Okay? Well, they managed to start smashing the atoms about that atom and they broke into protons, neutron electrons. Every one of you know that you set it in school and the structure they said was you have protons and neutrons in the middle and a nucleus, and now these are electrons on the outside electron rings. You have to know about that. You’re welcome to. It’s very interesting how they join together and et cetera, et cetera, what the laws are.
But the reality is there are no atoms. There’s just electron protons, and every proton is the same as every proton and every electron is the same, that every electron and every neutron is the same other neutron, whole mg. There’s only three things in the universe. They made up all the stars and all the moons and all the air and all form, and every single thing you see is made of three things and they’re all the same. Well, that’s not exactly what we interact with every day, is it? Yes, it is. We just slide ourselves. So what you believe is the truth, which is that there’s people sitting in here and you have a body. Well, your body’s made up of 25 trillion cells and the cells are made up of molecules. The molecules are made of a atos electron protons. So you really don’t have a body.
You think you do, and it’s bonded together of the laws of electron, nuclear, proton, electromagnetic laws and different things. Okay, fine, fine. Well then some wise guys come along and sit there and say, no, you got it wrong. Electron nuc, nuclear protons are not elementary particles. Okay? Neutrons and protons can be split. It takes like a what? 15 mile long accelerator cyclotron that’s underground, and they take a proton and they aim it at ultra high speeds at another proton. And that’s what the accelerators are, the CERN accelerators and stuff like that, right? And they hit it and boom, for a billionth of a trillion of a second, they have these detectors. They’re enormous. They see something came out. They see quarks, ltil and boons. They give ’em weird names. It’s kind of funny. You might as well know this, right? So they see there’s these particles that come out, six different types, and they say, well, okay, let’s call it quarks.
What do you want to call it? Quarks. There’s six different kinds. Well, there’s an up quark, a down quark, a charm, a strange and a bottom and a top. And the names mean nothing. They just named them. And if you take two up quarks and a down quark, it makes a proton. If you take two down quarks and an up quark makes a neutron, an electron doesn’t split. It’s an elemental particle. So now you’ve got a very interesting world going on down there. Okay, fine. So now we’ve got this. It’s called a standard model. You can go look it up. They’ll show square with all these little boxes of types of corks and leptons and boons and so on, and there aren’t very many of those things. And they thought, that’s it. Well, why am I talking about this? That’s pretty far down. Why am I talking about it?
Because that’s what’s real. What you see is not real. You have to have faith. Every scientist in the world, Russian, Chinese, anything, if they studied it, this is it. This is what they say at the bottom, and they’ve done it experimentally. They’ve experienced it. The math makes it every single thing the best they can do to figure it out. Then somebody comes along, some people come along and they say, well, what is an up cork or down cork? What are the corks made of? What are boons made of? What are the lepton is made of these different, so-called elemental particles and they realize that there are no particles, not that those aren’t the particles. There are no particles, period. That’s not what makes it a universe. There’s fields, there’s some different fields that are omnipresent throughout the entire universe. It’s what the stars and galaxies and black hole.
They’re all come out of these fields, and what happens is the fields interact and they agitate each other like an ocean is a field. It’s not a spot. They’re fields. So they get agitated and they start making waves like waves in an ocean. And that’s what’s happening down there. There’s just waves, waves in a field, and those waves show characteristics. They show characteristics of electromagnetism and characteristics of this different characteristics as they do the little wave thing. There are no particles. It’s just the fact that they act like characteristic things. And when they all average together, we can say that that’s where it is. The truth is there is nothing there. There’s nothing just waves like light. The ancient yoga they’re talking about ancient yogis said it was all made of light. You’ve heard that. And we got back to the Bible in the beginning.
It was the word north of the God. And God said, let there be light. And from light, all things were created. OMG. That’s a long time ago they wrote that. They didn’t have psycho trons that have all this. So what’s that all about? And so the scientists, now, if you ask a quantum physicist, okay, they’ll talk like we did. It all does the fields and they act this way and therefore they interact and they join together and they make the different stuff because the properties of those fields, if you asked what is the field made of, they will look at you and say, how would I know? I just know it behaves a certain way and by saying what’s happening, the rest we can build, we can build the universe out of a wave in those quantum fields mathematically this, that way. That’s pretty far out there.
They’re very smart. They’re pretty good. What are they down to? They’re down to nothing. It’s made of nothing. Now, if you ask the quantum physicist, what is a field made of? They pray, rightfully say, we don’t know. We don’t know. If you ask a yogi who’s enlightened, who has gone deep enough where away on a light into a near-death experience or out of the body experience, no, no, that’s not yoga. If you have an out of the body experience, how do you know you had it because you experienced it. Who experienced it? The same has in-body experiences. You have a near death experience and you come back. I saw my father and my mother, this white light in the tunnel. And how do you know? You know I was there. Okay, very good. Who was there? Same person Who’s here talking to me now? Yes, it’s the same consciousness.
Every experience you ever had in your entire life, you had gu your conscious. If you were not conscious, you didn’t have that experience, you don’t understand that. You don’t know if it happened or not. You had to be aware, conscious you are consciousness. That is the core of your being. You’re talking about the core of what the outside world is made of. When you work your way through yourself, you’re going to realize, let’s say you’re depressed. How do you know? Let’s say you’re in love. How do you know? How do you know? I feel it. Who feels it? What does it mean? I feel it. I experienced the feeling before there was loneliness. I experienced that. Now there’s love. I’m experiencing that. Was it the same one that experienced the loneliness, that’s experiencing love or they have to make a phone call to each other?
You are the conscious awareness that is aware of what you’re aware of. So when you’re awake, you have all kinds of emotions. How do you know? Because I mean you’re experiencing them. It’s the same. You experience depression, experience, elation, same. You experiences fear. That experiences strength and joy and enthusiasm. There’s every single thing is something you experience when you go to sleep, you dream. How do you know? I can’t believe they spent all this time talking about dream interpretation, which is nothing compared to who is experiencing the dream. You are experiencing the dream. Are you not? Do you or do you not have dreams? Do you not be in them and get married and see things and experience things and get scared? And when you wake up, don’t you say, I had this amazing dream. Oh, is that the same I that was in the dream.
I was in the dream and I was flying. Wait a minute, I don’t understand. You’re out here now talking to me using the word I, that’s me. But you said I was in the dream and I was flying. You are the consciousness that’s experiencing whatever you’re experiencing in the outside world. You experience what you see, what, who sees you, what you feel, what you think. Do you have thoughts? How do you know you don’t care? How you know you care about the thoughts? Can your heart hurt? Can it feel good? Can it be open? Can it be closed? That’s what you care about, not who’s experiencing the closed heart, who’s experiencing the open heart? Who’s experiencing the dream? Who’s experiencing the near death experience? Who’s experiencing the out body experience? Who’s experiencing everything there is to experience you? The consciousness. So that’s the core of your being.
And guess what? That’s the core of the bottom of the whole quantum stuff. It’s made of consciousness. How do you know that? Okay, here we have to believe. Do what you want, but great masters don’t have to. Some people use the word enlightenment, so embarrassing, shallow, I had this enlightening experience. I’m enlightened. No, you’re not an enlightened being. What does it mean? You’re going to call it self-realization. That’s a state of enlightenment. What does that mean? You realized who’s in there experiencing all these things? What is the source of consciousness? Where did you you in there? Hi, you in there. Where’d you come from? Where’d you come from? What is the source of consciousness? You are a center of consciousness and from that center, you look out and you experience it comes in your eyes, in ears, experience the whole outside world. You don’t see it the way it really is.
You don’t see corks left tons of little wave was in a quantum field, but that’s okay, but still you can understand. Your mind can help you. But then you’re aware of your mind, your thoughts and everything. Who’s in there? What are you made of? Well, we know that consciousness, awareness. What is that? They let’s 60 you. They alright, I’ll do a they don’t know, but they postulate theorize that very complex neuron combinations in the brain make consciousness. They’re wrong. Why? Because yogis have gone back to the source of consciousness, how meditating. When you meditate, you drop back behind what you’re looking at and you can get to states where you are the one who’s looking and not thinking on those who’s looking. You are the one who’s back there. And when they did, when the great ones did and they let go, their drop of consciousness that was watching their mind and their emotions in the outside world fell back into the source of consciousness and to where it came from.
Just like if you follow a ray of the sun, as you could isolate one ray of the sun falling down here and follow it back to where it came from, where would you end up in the sun? In the source of all rays. That’s what the masters did. They followed their consciousness back to the source of consciousness, which became the ocean of consciousness, the oneness. And that’s what they said. Christ said, my father and I are one. That’s what he meant. Christ said, you must die to be reborn. You must stop being a ray in order to fall back into the source of your being. You must die as an individual, as this little consciousness looking down and let go and you fall back. The great ones did that as an enlightened being and they experienced themselves as the universe. If you read Yo Hernandez chapter, in my experience in cosmic consciousness, when he fell back the first time, his body was all the stars.
He was expanding at the speed of light in every single direction and all the galaxies were inside of his being. He was one. Alright, I’m going to tell you a story. You don’t have to look it up. There was an astronaut named Edgar Mitchell. He flew to the moon. Well, he went to MIT was Caltech graduate, brilliant engineer and got to be serious to be an astronaut. And when he was coming back, he told me this story personally when he was coming back and it took days to come back from the moon, he was alone in the back of one of the modules and he just saw the universe. He just was so blown away by just, there’s nothing else to look at but the whole universe, right? And he merged. He had never had such an experience before. He literally merged. He told me just all of a sudden he was one with the whole universe, his consciousness.
He wasn’t looking at the stars, he was the stars. He became one with everything. And when he came back, he was so blown away that he formed at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the institute that studied consciousness because he wanted to know how consciousness but related between C form that he was able to merge with all the form. They’re still out there doing studies and stuff, but the net result is people have had these experiences, some very, very great people. There are people who study Walt Whitman and by studying his stuff, many have sat there and said, you can see that he’s had that experience. He had the divine experience. So it’s not that no one has it, but people have it.
And if they became everything and everything was coming out of them, then they know what the source of the quantum field is. It’s consciousness. That’s what’s down there. I don’t expect scientists to get there. I’ve talked to you about before. Why? Because their consciousness is looking at their mind studying what consciousness is. You looked in the wrong direction. That’s like trying to find out what you’re made of by looking in the mirror. No, you can get an nice reflection, but how can consciousness go into mind and the thoughts are there and you’re studying the thoughts to try to understand who you are. No, that’s why meditation look inside only that can come back to the absolute truth. That’s why there are who say including me, that yoga is the deepest science that has ever been found in all of creation, all of humanity. Because it studies that study potential yoga sutures, it studies how to go back into that source of consciousness and what that experience is like, et cetera, et cetera, right?
Whereas in the western world, we’re looking at the mind to do great things like figuring out what Adams are made out of in the quantum field and so on. But you’re not going to find consciousness because you’re looking in the wrong direction. You’re looking for love in all the wrong places. You’re looking for God at all the wrong places. So that’s why I spent this time talking about the physics of it all to go down. So now what happens is, okay, we’re not all enlightened, but you can start having experiences as you meditate, as you do the different techniques, the different lifestyles that help you let go of yourself, you’ll find something happens. You’ll start to feel some energy. Let’s talk about that. Every one of you feels energy more or less at different times of your day, of your life, et cetera. If you get what you want, you feel tremendous energy.
If you get what you don’t want, you feel very little energy. It’s not because you ate different, just go fall in love and you won’t be able to eat. Just be so filled with love with candy, but you can’t even sleep. You’re so filled with energy. People have psychological problems and they go through therapy, Freudian therapy, and they dig down there for years and things and all of a sudden they were breakthrough, psychological breakthrough and they were just totally different. They’re filled with energy. They can’t sleep for days. They don’t want to eat. They have to look at a spirituality. Just look at what we’ve experienced. Why is that? Because it’s about opening and closing. If you are open, we’ll talk what that means in a minute. If you are open, you can feel this energy. What energy? The energy that’s always there. Which energy?
Oh my god, I’m going to tell you the same one that builds a quantum field and the same one that the great masters felt when they went into it. Oh, what is love? That energy was enthusiasm. That energy. What is depression? Not that energy. That’s all that’s going on. You are the highest species and you’re capable of experiencing directly. God, the God I just talked to you about that true God that created the universe out of itself. The omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being of which what I think is neat, I say of which everything was created. We now have it right down to little wavelengths of what yogis called them. Viti vibrations in the mind, little vibrations. Yogis say that ohm was the original vibration that when I said the be was the word. Well the Christians say amen. Oh, amen. The point is this ocean of unmanifest consciousness bra vibrated.
And what’s amazing is years ago we would never seen, okay, it vibrated how did it make the universe? We now know how we made the universe. They don’t know that talking about God. Yogi Yogi knows that all it took was that vibration. And we can build the universe. Who can? The scientists that field vibrates and then they see how the different qualities of the magnetism and this and that f gravity yet, right? They postulated a thing called a graviton, but they haven’t found it. So I want to get into that. But basically they say there’s basic forces that interact with the quarks and leptin, the little subatomic particles or non particles. And there’s only four fundamental forces in the entire universe that make the entire universe electromagnetism. Strong nuclear, weak nuclear. And then they get into gravity. And then they found the Higgs Bo song you ever heard of that studied years ago they found this thing called the Higgs Bo song.
I’m not going to talk about it. It was like that was a great breakthrough that they isolated. That what gives these non apparent non-existing things mass, it interacts with a Higgs bow on. They all come out of nothing. They’re nothing. And we’re sitting here saying, consciousness vibrates and look how close that is. How look close science is the spirituality. There’s just a thin little thing and where they can’t get because their consciousness looking at a brilliant, brilliant mind and form machines, that’s not going to find consciousness. D, you’re it. You don’t need all that. You are consciousness, the source of your being.
Meditate on the self honor and worship your own being for God dwells within you as you. And by the way, Christians believe that, but they say the soul is of God, but it’s just a word your it. The essence of your being is consciousness and that consciousness is one. And so basically I’d like to talk about it. I’m glad you’re listening. Look how close spirituality and science are and they sit there and say they’re distant from each other. It’s right that little tiny veil between consciousness vibrating and that is what the quantum field is, but they’re not going to find that. But that’s okay, you can now as you’re working with yourself. So now we’ve sat here and said exactly what Einstein said. Einstein says, it’s all made of energy equals mc squares not an atomic bomb equals mc squares means what? It’s all made of energy.
And I can tell you how much energy it takes to make a certain amount of mass and how much mass if you break it up, make a certain amount of energy. So they’ve proven all of this and the entire universe is made of energy. Well that’s what the scientists are seeing at the quantum level. Okay? So I would love that once in your life you understand how close spirituality is to quantum physics, to the basic understanding of all the science. Now the question is how are you going to get there? Can you get there? And what is the path along the way? And we started talking about it. Now that we understand it’s all energy and we understand the energy puts itself together to create form and the energy puts itself together to create your thoughts. And though you have something to do with that and you have emotions, what are they energy?
They have depressed. What’s depression? Lack of energy. You use the word, you use the words all the time. Oh, I’m drained, I have no energy. Don’t understand how deep you’re talking. Is that the Einstein’s energy with Mc square? Is that the energy of the quantum field? Yes, it’s all the same energy. There’s just energy, this force, force. And sometimes you feel it and sometimes you don’t. And I told you, when you feel it, you feel it when you’re open. We haven’t said what that means yet, but when you’re open you feel energy. Don’t you get all excited and enthused and all this kind of stuff, alright? And when you don’t feel energy, you get dark. I feel really dark. A depressed person is dark, aren’t they? You look at them, they’re dark. You have to see auras. They’re dark. And a person who’s in love a bride glowing yes or no.
That’s really true. It’s the question of are you letting energy in or are you blocking the energy and it’s all the same energy, all of it’s the same energy. So basically what happens, you start working on yourself and we’ll talk about that in a minute, what that means. And you’re going to start to feel energy. How? By learning to be open, by learning to stay open. The way the western world teaches you how to stay open is to find what you want. Because when I get what I want, I feel wonderful. So go out there and get what you want, decide what you want and go out and get it and decide what you don’t want and avoid it. That’s what everybody’s teaching you. It have a lot of money, you’ll get what you want, have a lot of power, you get what you want. Look beautiful or handsome, impress everybody, you’ll get what you want. Be a great artist that’s famous how fame will do it and you’ll get what you want. So go out and do it. You’ll go and teach that. He always sits there and says you’ll never win with that one. You never always get what you want. It was the last time you got what you wanted and didn’t want anything else. Go on. I’m waiting. Okay, and by the way, when was the last time you got what you wanted and got tired of it?
You remember? I went through all the dissertation, doctorate, economics. They taught us the law. The law of diminishing returns. What does that mean? The more you get what you want, the less you care about it and so you start realizing that it’s not about getting what you want, that’s not what it’s about. You don’t have to renounce, it just doesn’t work. What’s it about? Understanding why when you get what you want, you feel energy. It has nothing to do with what turns you on. Turns her off. Guess what turns you on yesterday turns you off today you’re madly in love with somebody. Then you found out that they were mass murderer in their past. They forgot to tell you that they broke out of jail before they met you.
How are you doing now? It just went from light to dark. It doesn’t take another day. Does it? Have somebody do one thing that you don’t like one thing, say one thing or not say one thing. Do or don’t do something that you expected or liked or didn’t like. Bam, you closed, don’t you? That’s spirituality learning what is going on. On the one said that entering meditation is entering the laboratory of soul research. And so you start looking at yourself, pay attention. So we basically have gotten the point where you have two choices. Go out there and try to get what you want to avoid what you don’t want or find out why you’re like that. Why do open and close and is there anything you can do about it? Lemme tell you a secret. You’ll sometimes get what you want. You’ll be open and sometimes it won’t work out lots of times and sometimes you’ll get what you don’t want.
You’ll really get freaky sometimes you get one thing you don’t like, you’ll be screw up the rest of your life. Just go talk to psychology. Is it right or wrong that somebody can have a traumatic experience? PTSD, they give names the ones that when you experience them, they’re so bad they screw up your whole life. Well you’re not going to have fun if you haven’t caught on that you’re in there. It’s your life, it’s your energy, it’s your heart, it’s your mind and it’s nobody else’s. And if you think you need something outside of you for you to open, you’re not going to have a very nice life. You’re going to worry. You have anxiety, you’re going to feel insecure. You’re afraid you did something wrong. So instead, one day I hope it’s today, you wake up, you say, wait a minute, this takes two to tango.
It takes me to want something and then for it to happen, why don’t I work on the me who wants something instead of taking that as God? Of course I like that. Of course I like someone who says they love me. Of course I like it. I make a lot of money. Of course I like if I’m famous, of course I like my years when I’m beautiful and handsome and everybody s over me. Okay, well guess what? It’s got a time limit stamp on. It expires. All of it does. Alright, and so you wake up and you say the other side of the formula is I’m the one who decided what I like and I’m the one who decided what’s going to make me happy. Why don’t I work on that? That’s spirituality. Rumi once said the great Persian poet yesterday I was clever so I was trying to change the world today I’m wise so I’m changing myself.
Why? Because if you change yourself it all works. What if you liked more things then you would be happier, wouldn’t you? There’s only three foods that I like and if I get them I feel really, really good. But they have to be made exactly right with the right spices and the right chef has to make them and they have to be the right size portion and everything has to be just right. Then I am in heaven. Okay? How often? It happened three times in my life, but I’m looking, I’m moving places, I’m hiring people, I’m doing everything I possibly can. What if instead of doing that you decided just decide there’s a fourth dish. Maybe I could like a fourth dish or maybe I could like it not cooked exactly this way. Who’s better off the picky person or the open person who’s better off?
You get the same joy, you get the same openness, you just get it more often and you start catching on. What if I liked even more things? What if I liked even more things? What if I don’t even know what I like? So I’m going to try all kinds of stuff and it’s exciting that I get to try it. I don’t know what it’s going to be like now all of a sudden you’re liking all this stuff. Who’s better off the person that changes themselves or the person who holds onto themselves and insists that everybody else and everything else in the whole world be the way they want it to be? That’s how you are, especially with the people that are supposed to help you open your loved ones. They have to be exactly the way you want. Hey, I married you, I picked you out of the 8.3 billion other people on the fricking earth behave.
Act the way I want you to wear what I want you to wear. Say what I want you to say when I want you to say it and so you start realizing I’m the problem. Everyone else is not the problem. I’m the problem that I limited my willingness to be open and to feel enthused and excited and inspired to very few things. Why don’t I work on myself to increase the buffet? I’m telling you when it’s all said and done, that’s what spirituality is. I it is not about renouncing never. It came from the fact that you believe the only way you can be happy is to get what you want. And so you put every bit of your energy and focus and mind and thoughts to try to do that. Well you went in the wrong direction, right? So they know that that that’ll work out so good. So renounce what you want? No, that’s stupid. Now you don’t get anything.
Didn’t make any sense at all. Only three things I like they said, I can’t have ’em no increase. What brings you joy And you’ll have joy. Increase what you’re turned down by. Increase what you think will make you happy and you’ll be excited about more things will happen. Alright? The problem is you’re not taught no grade school. You ever took college, all both Doctorate teaches you this. They don’t teach you that you can increase the things that you like. They say to you, find your passion and go get it. Yoga does not see that. He says be passionate about everything and you’ll always be passionate. Otherwise, your passion’s limited to getting what you want and keeping it not only keeping what you can but you won’t always want it. You have to keep what you want and then you have to keep that you got it and you have to keep that. It changes the way you change. Good luck. That’s why people get married and eventually they sit together for the kids. No, you were passionate. What happened? I changed. She changed. We went through situations together were difficult so it closed us. And so you learn this is what you learn how to stay open.
That is what spirituality is, is the path of never closing. People once asked me, you’re talking about staying open. I understand that. How do I stay open? And I said, don’t close. And they wrote back saying, that’s so stupid. What kind of answer is that? It’s the correct answer. Why? Because you don’t know how to open. Do you understand that if I say open, open your heart right now. Don’t close you feel it closed, don’t you? You feel a tendency toward closing? Don’t do it. Now we’re down to real basics. How do you not close? If you don’t close, you’ll be open. If I don’t close the door, it’s open. Eventually you take the door off the hinges and you throw it away so it’ll never ever close again under any circumstances ever. I’m nice Jewish yogi. I don’t know why I talk so much about Christ, right?
I read the Bible once in 1971, every single thing Christ taught you with what I just said. What if they mistreat you don’t close. What if they slap you in the cheek? Turn the other one. That’s just physical. Don’t close. No matter what happens, they send the disciples out, they’ll yell at you, they’ll kill you. Don’t close. Don’t close. Hang on the cross. Forgive them Lord. They know what they do. What an amazing being. He would not close. Do you understand that? That thing in the garden, he’s in the garden praying and he sees what’s going to happen to him. He hung it across and the rhythm, his OB spirit and crown of thorns and oh my God. And he said, may I pass the S cup? Do I have to go through this? And he said, forget it. Not my will, thy will. In other words, I will not close and he didn’t.
I’ll not close. As all those things happen to me. I’ll do it as your will. I’ll not close. That’s what’s all about you. Practice not closing. Oh my God, that’ll kill me to try to never close. Know what anybody does or says or treats me or anything like that. That’s right. It’ll kill you. You must die to be reborn. So he taught the path. Christ taught yoga. He taught the essence of yoga. The essence of yoga is don’t close. Why? Because if you don’t close even a little bit, he’ll do it along the way. You’re not going to be able to do it with everything. But right now, if the weather’s not what you want, you close. It’s so hot. Oh my God, I can’t handle this. You’re closing. You having fun? When you say that all excited about everything, no because you closed, you close is the weather.
You close because the driver in front of you is driving slower than you want them to. They all of a sudden turned off and didn’t use their blinker and it bothered you. Told every like, oh my God, 80 didn’t even use a blinker. You real open, it turns you on. No, it turns you off. You closed the closing. Just doesn’t mean some major things that may hurt you or something like that. You do it all the time about the stupidest things. You go out to eat and the portion is smaller than you wanted it to be. Or you drop something on your slacks and you don’t want to go back to the office because you’re embarrassed. These are closing. They don’t bring you great energy, do they? You’re not enthused. You close all the time and therefore you get depressed. Therefore you get tired, therefore you get anxious.
Therefore you get you not only close when something happens, you close because you’re afraid something will happen. You close more than all the things I just said to you. You close because of what happened. It doesn’t happen anymore. It happened when you were a baby. It happened when you were five, 10 years old high school and you close today because of that. That’s not even happening. This is spirituality. Now you understand the spiritual path. I shouldn’t have teach you anything. So I say don’t close. You got some work to do. Have any of you stored stuff inside you from the past that every time you think of it it closes you? Yogi’s called us some scars, patterns that happened that you couldn’t handle. You store them inside Freud column suppressions. Any form of resistance that stuff’s stored in there. It closes. You stored stuff that bothered you, it’s going to keep bothering you.
In fact, that’s what I’m talk about, the energy. Do you have stuff inside of you that when it comes back up you push it back down? Everyone you’ve know I’m talking about you’re in there. You’re consciously experiencing the junk that you couldn’t handle before and you consciously push it back down. That takes energy. You have infinite energy. What are you using it for? Well, I’m using it to suppress the stuff that I don’t like and I’m using it to keep it suppressed and when it comes back up, right, I’m using it to manipulate people, placing things around me so they be the way I need them to be so that I feel better. Why? Because I don’t feel good. I ate all this junk from the past and stored it all. I use it to think about what needs to happen for me to be okay and then think about how to make it happen and think about what would happen that would make me not be okay and then think about how to make it not happen. Every thought you have is energy. So now we see where your energy is. You waste a lot of that stuff, haven’t you? All the time. What happens when I start to work on myself? Now you know what it means to work on yourself, what it means to learn not to close. I swear if that’s all you get from this talk or in my teachings, I did my job, closing sucks.
Closing is not any fun. It’s not fun when you’re closing, is it? No, but you’re the one who did it, nobody else in there. So you get to the point where you try to not close. How do you do that? I teach it all the time, but people think they write me. Why don’t you teach about tougher things like people dying or people leaving you and you talk about cars driving in front of you and the weather, right? Because if you can’t handle the car in front of you, you can’t handle the weather, you can’t handle anything. Do you understand that? If you can’t practice a piano and play the scales, you can’t play Beethoven. You need to practice not closing. Just like you practice a piano, just like you practice a sport you’re not good at to start with and believe me, you’re not good at it.
And so you practice how you start with the simple things. You don’t start with your mother died or your husband left you and give me a break. That’s ridiculous now, now you’re playing kowski and you never touched the keyboard in your life. People ask, well what do I do? If all those things happen, you do your best to go through it, then you go back to ground zero and start practicing. Because if you can’t handle the simple stuff, you’re not handling the big stuff but you don’t practice. You think it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that I can’t handle the heat, it doesn’t matter. I don’t like that. Doesn’t matter. I like the cold. Doesn’t matter if that, I don’t like what you’re wearing. Doesn’t matter. I don’t like what you said. Hear me. So you start practicing. Practicing what? Not closing, but I don’t like what she said.
Okay, fine then you’re not going to be happy. Practice being okay even though you don’t like what she said. Should I deny myself? I don’t like what she said. No, just don’t get lost in it. There’s a driver driving in front of you 50 miles probably below the speed limit. Can you handle that? Do I have to like it? No, I didn’t say that. I understand there’s energy coming up inside that don’t feel good. Are you okay with that? Can you handle the five blocks until they turn or do you have to make your rule your day because there’s idiots driving like that And so you practice letting go. That’s what I teach. Letting go. You practice, okay, it doesn’t feel good. I know it doesn’t feel good. Lemme tell you something. Drive into town when you’re in a rush and have every single light you pass, turn red just before you get there.
You’ll be a neurotic mess by the time you get into town. Practice letting those lights be your teacher, they’re your tennis coach, they’re hitting balls at you. Practice letting go. Practice saying of course it doesn’t feel comfortable. I am okay with it not feeling comfortable. I am back here experiencing this tendency to close and I’m breathing through it. I’m using mantra, I’m using affirmation. What does that sound like? Thank God there are red lights. We’d all be hitting each other. Alright? Praise the Lord for you can play you make it fun for God’s sakes. Make staying happen. Be fun. And now all of a sudden you’re not wasting your energy resisting stupid things. It takes energy to resist. Do you understand that practice non-resistance to the soul in the chapters is the spiritual path of non-resistance. Now you understand that is the spiritual path. Now what happens if you start practicing that a very amazing thing is going to happen and they write me from all over the world, you’re going to start feeling more energy.
Well of course you are for one thing, you’re more open and for the other thing, you’re not wasting your energy closing. So it’s a double whammy. You release the energy by not closing and then it comes out and you will start feeling it. You feel we call it Shakti yoga calls it Shakti. There’s just this, I’ll explain it to you. You’ve experienced it. You don’t call it Shakti, you feel it when you feel love, you feel it. When somebody says something really nice to you and you feel energy come up, that’s the same energy. It’s all the same energy, it’s all the same Shakti. And so you practice opening, you start feeling it coming up more often. You’re a bird sherp in the morning and all of a sudden your heart opens. Never did that before. You’re more open and because you’re more open, you’re going to experience more energy and eventually you’re getting there toward the end of the talk.
What happens? It starts flowing so much and so powerfully that you don’t have to study the chakras. You experience them. They’re not beliefs. You start feeling this stuff come out of your heart, start feeling this stuff in your third eye, pouring out and coming to the top of your head and there’s just this energy doing this dance inside of you that didn’t used to be there. It did used to be there, but you were too busy manipulating everybody and everything to experience it and wasting it to do these crazy things that you do to close and to argue and to complain and to do all that stuff right? When you stop doing that, it starts coming up. It starts flowing. What do I need to do to keep it? Leave it alone. It’s your natural state. Not in three days, not because you did some drug, but over the years of practicing letting go, this starts never going away.
And then you start realizing if you complain, it’s less if you close because this person ripped me off and they lied to me and they took this money and they did this thing. Okay, very good. Now they did that. Are you willing, I’m going to cry. Are you willing to give up that Shakti flow because they did that? That’s Christ’s teachings. That’s what turn the other cheek means. It doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it, but are you willing to give up love because somebody said something or did something or took your money? Are you willing to give up that flow that is so beautiful because somebody else’s ignorance and you get to the point where you notice that if you start complaining it does reduce and you let go and that’s really beautiful just right there. You just let go and it comes back up and all of a sudden it’s your teacher.
The Shakti is the guru. The Shakti is your teacher. How By not holding onto the garbage that’s blocking her, you start realizing she’s the most beautiful thing that is. And I want to go higher. And the more you let go, the higher you get, the more you let go, the higher you get, the more you’ll go, higher you get. And then eventually, like I said, the masters may have reached the highest state, but along the way you realize what they taught. It is not that you don’t get to have the direct experience. You experience that as I let go, there’s more Shakti, what did Christ say about that? Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that leaves with the mouth of the father. What does that mean? It means you don’t just get energy by the stuff you take in from outside, not just bread.
People place this thing success. It’s coming in from outside. Man does not live by bread alone but by every word to leave with the mouth of the father. That’s the word of God. That’s the word that they said in the beginning. In the beginning was the word. It’s spirit. It’s that flow and it’s flowing inside of you. And you start to, I don’t usually talk about this. You start to naturally truly relate to that shakti, that flow as God’s energy. He taught. You experienced this. Like I said, you can have some deep spiritual experience for 10 seconds and change your life because it’s so much higher than he ever experienced before. People say that it’s true, but now it’s not 10 seconds. Now it’s every day of your life all the time. It’s just flowing up and you keep going higher and higher and the energy gets stronger and stronger at your different centers and you realize that’s where the masters went.
I have a very, very dear friend I’ve known for many, many, many years, has a very high being and he has the ability, I’ve seen him that he just does some yoga or does something like that and raises his eyes up and goes, bye-bye. He’s able to completely let go and he’s not there anymore. And the energy goes up to that yoga non had ability. There’s videos out there you can look up for yoga, non don sleep, I think it’s called something like that. YouTube has stuff and he’s not showing off. He’s just wants people to understand what’s possible. And he’s got tur on and he comes out and he lays down, it’s funny, it was old. So they’re moving very fast, right? Lays down in a little bed, rolls his eyes up and gone, instantaneously gone, merged and then back when he wants to come back and gone when he wants to go. That’s what the great masters are. That’s the state of Samani where you’ve let go of yourself completely. You just merge back. You are capable of these great states. What’s beautiful though, you have to wait for that in between. There’s this beautiful energy that will feed you, that will sustain you. And the more you feel it and the more you’re willing to devote yourself to it, meaning I’m not going to do anything that closes it. Why not? Because you want to go to heaven. It is heaven.
You’ve all heard Christian teachings. You ready for the biggest one? The kingdom is within you. Christ taught yoga. He taught true spirituality. And so basically you are a great being. The source of your being is of God and you are capable of letting go of yourself. That’s what you’re doing When you don’t close, you’re letting go of the ego. You’re letting go of your likes and dislikes because you’re trading them off for ecstasy, which do I have? Ecstasy or ice cream? And it’s not that. If I asked you what you would rather have ecstasy, pure total waves of love and ecstasy or nice girlfriend or boyfriend that talks nicely to you, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have relationships. Well, now that I have all this, why would I do anything? Because love loves to express itself because creativity loves to create because inspiration loves to you understand that you’re not doing because you want something.
It’s just like, wow. So yes, you have relationships, but not to get something to give to share. But if they don’t want it, fine Here, here’s a bunch of money you don’t want to find or just giving it to you want some love here or here’s, there’s just flowing off of me. You’re welcome to have it. I don’t want to think back. Why? Why don’t you want to think back? Because you announced it. I don’t need it. There’s nothing higher that can come in from outside that’s higher than what’s already going on inside. And now you have great being and you’re just bringing love and light down and eventually you thin out enough to where That’s the great ones. I’ll stop here. Why do you think we have pictures of great masters on the walls? Enlightened beings like Mayor Baba is very, very high, very high being people.
Consider him an avatar. Reached the highest state. He was sitting there in ecstasy. He’s always in ecstasy. They asked him, Baba, who are you? Who are you? He said, I was in the beginning before all else was created. I will be in the end after all else falls away. There was never a time I was not, there will never be a time that I am not. That’s who you are. That’s what Christ meant by my father and I are one. Alright, so now we’ve talked a lot about nice stuff. Notice why tied in quantum physics because it lets you understand how your consciousness can experience the creator of the universe because tag you’re, it blows me away to see how close the quantum physicist with their field theory. I read an article NASA years ago that said the quantum quantum field is omnipresent. I thought God was omnipresent. Quantum feels honored, present. It’s everywhere and all it has to do is vibrate. And you go from consciousness to creation. Alright, thank you for listening home. Jai.
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