Michael Singer: Let’s talk about something very deep tonight. You can call it yoga, but yoga has taught so many different ways. There’s so many different philosophies, and Austins and grooves and this whole mishegas. Let’s talk about what’s really going on. And bring it from the highest to the lowest level and then work its way back up.
First of all, what’s going on and science beautifully has some close, so close to getting to the core of yoga. They may never make it actually there, but they’re so close and it’s really beautiful that you live in a time with the support of your exact sciences support just within inches of the great wisdom.
The ancient rishis and the ahas and these great texts tried to teach you thousands, thousands, thousands of years ago. The whole universe is consciousness. That’s what it is. Consciousness is a thing. It’s in essence that’s like you can study the ocean, you talk about the reefs, and you can talk about the fish, but there’s the ocean, right?
The whole thing is the ocean. That’s what it is. Well, the whole universe, all of matter, and you’re gonna see everything else is made of consciousness. Well, do scientists know that? No. They say very close that. Omnipresent universe. Everywhere is all stars, all galaxies, all atoms. Every single thing in the universe is a quantum field.
It’s a field. It’s not an object. It’s not a pixel, it’s not a particle. There are no particles, no atoms. Not really. It’s a field, it’s just a omnipresent field throughout the universe. And when that field vibrates and there’s a vibration in that field, I believe there’s a totally still, like totally, as far as you can see, it’s just totally still like there’s no vibrations, there’s no interference, there’s nothing.
It’s just still that’s. The quantum feel undisturbed. There is no such thing. We’ve never seen such a thing. ’cause we can only see what happens when it’s disturbed. But we know that there’s a base state, they, there must be. Alright. So what happens when that feel? It’s agitated. They use that word that there’s a vibration of something that disturbs the stillness of the field.
It makes wavelengths. Same as a Lakewood, if you dropped a leaf in it or did anything makes wavelets, doesn’t it? But there’s a lot of things dropping in, right? So it’s making lots of wavelets and there are different heights, there are different lows, there are different amplitudes, vibrations and speeds and all kinds of stuff.
Just Wavelets can do that sort of thing. Fine. The whole universe, as you know, it is explained by quantum physics as that that’s what’s there, but there’s nothing there. That’s right. There’s just, we notice that there are these wavelets, and what happens is the wavelets hit each other and interact together, and when they interact, they create apparent qualities such as magnetism forces, and.
Ultimately particles, but there are no particles. It’s just these wavelets interacting together and behaving as though they’re a particle. That’s where protons and neutrons come from. They’re just these subatomic wavelengths combining together. Seemingly, randomly. Like a physicist will tell you, you cannot find an electron.
There’s no such thing as an electron. There are wavelets in a field of which there are billions of them that interact together, and there’s a probability that at this place there will be something that behaves like what we call electron. It behaves as or has a negative charge, it moves a certain speed.
Just that’s it. That is what is explained to you with the deepest physics that we have at this time. In other words, nothing’s really there. Do you understand that? So I wanna talk about levels of vibrations. That’s the lowest level of vibration. This thing’s vibrate, at least in form. This thing’s vibrating.
Well, where did this come from? The pictures and the people and the bodies, and it came from that. When did it do that? It’s doing that right now. There’s just this field of, we’ll call it energy. This field of energy that has not form, but it it, when it wavelengths. When it’s agitated, it has certain properties.
They call it spin and colors. I, I don’t wanna get into it. I can’t. It’s very complex. Of course, it’s complex. How do you make this out of that? That is what they’re explaining in quantum physics. That is what they’re explaining how out of nothing, these little wavelets, they can build and they can, they can build everything.
All the atoms. All the molecules. DNA, what is DNA? There’s no such thing. There’s just these wavelets. Where’d the data come from? From them? There’s nothing where’d your body come from? There is nothing. There’s just these wavelets interacting together, trillions and billions and zillions of them all over the universe interacting together, and they interact in such a way that it makes electron, protons and then molecules and then DNA and all just, and then there’s this, it’s very important to understand what’s going on.
Why for one thing. How can you be neurotic about this? It’s not even here.
Oh look, he got old. What does that mean? The, the wave lists Don’t get old. You have to really do a lot of science to understand how that one field of the quantum field of energies interacting together end up making all of this. And, and you can explain lots of it. I don’t wanna get into it. There’s nothing wrong with you getting into it at that level though.
Alright. At that’s just a very, very high level. To sit there and say things like, well, what’s color? Do those labels have color? Well, no, not really, but, and I’m not getting get into it, goes, check it out. Where’s color come from? There is no color. You notice has no color, but there’s light. There’s photons.
Those are part of what that quantum field emanates is photons. And those photons have properties and they vibrate at different levels called the electromagnetic spectrum. And that’s what wanna talk about, we’ll call it energy. They, they don’t call it energy, they just call it the quantum field and whatever, but that some of ’em call it energy vibrates at different rates.
What do you mean ice vibrates very slow. Water vibrates faster. Vapor vibrates faster. They’re all H2O molecules. There’s absolutely no difference in ice, water, and steam. The only difference is how fast they’re moving amongst each other. But the same thing is true the entire quantum field. It vibrates at different rates, the slower it vibrates.
The more gross it is, the more it behaves like form, you can start seeing it and so on and so forth. The faster it vibrates, like light, highest vibration rates and then everything in between what yoga told you and science doing very close, the entire universe is made of that. It’s made of call it energy vibrating at different rates and depending upon what rate it’s vibrating at, it manifests as things different.
For example, we’ve talked about form. Okay, fine enough, there’s form here. It is. Have fun. What about your thoughts? Do you have thoughts? I should be a scientist. Do you have thoughts? Of course you have thoughts. How do you know? Dare to ask the deep questions. Don’t assume you have thoughts because you have thoughts in your, what is a thought?
Where’d it come from? Is it made of the quantum field? What is a thought? What is an emotion? How do you know you have thoughts and emotions? Where are they these legitimate questions, and they all have the same answer. When it comes down to it. There is a field of energy deeper than the quantum field, right?
It is called consciousness. God consciousness, universal awareness, call whatever you want. And it is still, it is unmanifest. It is just there. What does that mean? It means it knows that It knows that it knows, but there are no objects of consciousness. There’s just imagine Pure awareness is not aware of anything.
It just has this quality called awareness, which is kind of magical that it knows and it knows, and it knows everything else is vibrating at a slower rate. It’s called creation vibrates at a slow rate. Consciousness slows itself down. We’ll talk about how it does it in a moment, slows itself down and every single tiny nano movement of a slower vibration creates another field of creation and your mental plane.
Is a higher vibration rate than the quantum field. The quantum field is physical. It manifests the physical field, electron, nron, protons, et cetera, et cetera, photons, and so on. It ends up manifesting those. Well, there’s a higher vibration rate than that. Ultimately, the highest vibration rate that we wanna be spiritual, the highest vibration rate is so high that it’s not moving.
It’s beyond. It’s the speed of light. That’s what’s going. It’s everywhere. It’s at once. At the same time, your consciousness in your body can be in the toe and on your nose at the same time. Can you be aware of your toe and your nose at the same time? How long did it take to move between your toe and your nose?
Nothing. Why? They’re at the same place at the same time. They’re simultaneously present your entire body’s. That way you can feel your body. It doesn’t take movement to go from one end to the other. That is what the universe is, is one undifferentiated, non-dual field of consciousness that is aware of itself everywhere.
At the same time, at the same time simultaneously. And it’s aware that it’s aware, but not doing anything. It’s just there. That’s called the Unmanifest. That’s the starting position of creation. Genesis tries to do it. In the beginning was darkness upon the earth, and then there was light, and God looked and it was good.
In other words, it came from nothing and it’s just there. So the beginning position is consciousness. It’s a very important thing to know is we’re gonna talk about you a little later. How does this have to do with you? Like I dare you. What is consciousness? Is this thing conscious that it’s there? Is your body conscious that it’s there, or are you conscious of your body?
Are your thoughts conscious that they’re talking to you or are you conscious that they’re talking to. Consciousness is this thing called awareness. Uh, there’s no words that can touch. It’s so great. Without consciousness, without awareness, what is the purpose of anything? Let’s say everything exists, but nothing’s ever conscious of it.
Talk to me about it. You might as well not exist. Maybe it doesn’t. Nobody knows. Nothing knows. So consciousness is the foundation of the meaning of existence, of creation. That there is awareness. What’s it aware of? Okay. Now you start creating objects of consciousness. Where do they come from? They’re the exact same consciousness vibrating at a slower rate, and therefore it can look at itself.
If H2O is conscious, it could become ice and see itself as water and have flowed on top of itself. So consciousness though, it’s one and will never be different just because it vibrates at different rates can experience itself at different levels. It’s not complicated in truth, if you stop thinking about it, it’s very simple.
In the lake, which is totally still, there’s no differentiation. Vibrate, all kinds of differentiations. Is there really, or is it just the lake? There’s nothing happening there. It’s just a field of energy vibrating, and because it vibrates at different rates, it makes different objects, it makes grocer and grocer and subtle and subtle things.
So your mental plane is a very, very subtle vibration rate. Of this, I’ll call it energy, of this conscious energy you get. They call it ti conscious energy. That vibration is a mental plane. Then there’s an emotional plane. Your emotions are not the same as your thoughts. Your thoughts talk to you. Your thoughts can visualize your emotions.
Can’t do that. You feel your emotions. You call ’em feelings. Don’t you pay attention? You’re in there, you’re conscious. So I get to talk to you like this because you’re a conscious being and all I’m talking to you about is what you’re conscious of, but you don’t pay attention to it. And I’ll show you why later.
But right now, you are the example of the fact that there are different planes of reality, which are not planes of reality. They’re just different vibration rates of this. Universal energy of this conscious energy. So we’ll stay down on the human plane. You have thoughts, you have emotions, and you experience them and you know you do.
If some scientist tells you you don’t have thoughts, show them to me. Save an apple. You lying. Show me you can’t because they don’t exist on this plane. But you know they exist, don’t you? At some point, if they tell you you don’t have any thoughts, how about you’re making it up? What does that mean? It’s a figment of your imagination.
Where’s that? Don’t let ’em trick you. The fact that it exists anywheres, it exists. You made it up. What does that mean? What they mean by that is you have a mind that I can’t see, that can’t see, and you can make up things, but I don’t believe you. I know I did. I saw the apple, I saw the person, I saw the feel.
I had a dream. Do you have dreams? How do you know? Where are they? They don’t exist. Of course they exist. You see them, you talk about them, you come back and they bother you. They exist just as much as the real world exists, except that other people can’t see ’em. Why? Because they’re at a higher vibration rate.
Then what can be picked up on the physical plane by your physical senses? They used to define the physical world by that, which could be picked up by their instruments that did not include ultraviolet or infrared their instruments. They didn’t know they existed. They didn’t know they were radio waves, therefore, they didn’t exist.
Of course, they did. They just didn’t have the ability to pick it up with their instruments. Then they gained the ability to pick it up. What do they do? Say it’s from a higher plane? No, they brought it down here. Yes, you’re right. Ultraviolet on this plane. Also, the entire spectrum is, but not thoughts. No, they’re not on the spectrum.
They were so, they’re just at a higher vibration rate of the electromagnetic spectrum than what we are capable of picking up other instruments. Someday they will read your thoughts. I don’t wanna be here. Do you understand that they’re, they try, they’ve been trying for a long time. They say all kinds of stuff, but they’re not there yet.
But someday they will get there. So all it is is one field of consciousness. Vibrating at different rates, and so when it slows down enough, so it’s not just pure consciousness, it manifests as the mental plane and it can create anything it wants in the mental plane, then the emotional plane, then the physical plane, all of these things exist in the same place at the same time.
You say, how can that happen? The same ray that water and ice and steam can exist in the same thing at the same time to interact with each other. So here you are dealing with all of this, but now we come down to you for a minute. What do you have to do with this one? I said it was consciousness. Are you conscious?
Yeah. How do you know I am that? I am. How’s that? I know that. I know. Okay, great. So you are pure consciousness. You are the conscious. Can you see your thoughts? Can you stop a thought? Can you push it away? Can you cling to it? Can you change its shape? Can you change what it’s saying? You are in there and you have this power called will.
That’s the power that created the universe. That’s the power that consciousness has. Do you have will? Can you make a thought coming? Can you make a thought go? Can you make an arm move? Do you have will in there that can make things happen? Of course you do. What is will concentrated consciousness. I repeat that to you.
Will is a force. It’s not one of the fundamental forces, but it’s obviously there. I can make things happen all by myself. If you concentrate consciousness, it creates a power and that power is will. So if you wanna hold on to a thought, you need to concentrate, don’t you? Look, you say it so naturally I can’t concentrate as well as I used to.
What does that mean? It means I can’t focus the consciousness enough to hold onto the object. My husband died some years ago and I little by little can’t visualize him. I used to be able to, why? You can’t focus your consciousness enough to create in your mind the image that you used to be able to do.
And math does that too, doesn’t it? Sometimes you can’t focus enough. That’s what will is the power of focused consciousness. Alright, fine. So you’re in there, you’re conscious, and you have will. Do you have thoughts? Yes. Do you have emotions? Yes. Do you have a body? Yes. Is there an outside world that you can pick up?
Yes. Here we are. All of it vibrating at different rates and your consciousness interacts with all of it. Okay. Why would we talk about such a thing and what’s it got through with spirituality and yoga? How about everything? Do you have control of your thoughts? Watch before you answer. Do you have control of your thoughts?
Well, you can say I should potentially I do. They’re my faults. They’re not somebody else’s. Do you have control over whether your house is clean or not? Not really. I’m a slut. No. You have control. You’re just not doing it. Do you have control of your emotions? Ooh, it’s a big one, isn’t it? Potentially.
Something happens. Somebody says something not nice to you. An emotion came up that hurts you. Do you have to get lost in it? Do you have to hold them responsible for it? Do you have to carry it on for the rest of your life and blame the person, or can you let it go? Potentially. You have the ability to let it go.
How do I know person gonna say, I’m so sorry that I said that to you. I swear I’ll never say, okay, what happened? You let it go. Why? Because you chose to. I ain’t letting it go. ’cause you chose not to. Will. Look how deep we’re talking. That’s what they talk to you about, intent. They’re talk to you about will, talking about commitment, talk to you about discipline.
All of that stuff is the same thing. You’re in there and you are consciousness. And consciousness is God. Consciousness is the quality of awareness of being. When Moses was talking to the burning bush and the burning bush told him, go down to the Pharaoh and let my people go, and Moses said, what is the name of the God I should do it in?
Because they had lots of gods and goddess are down there in Egypt, right? What name should I tell the Pharaoh that has the authority to tell you this? What did he say? I am that I am. What does that mean? You are the, you are. How do you know you’re in there? Because I am. So that state of being pure consciousness that knows that it knows that it knows.
Is God is a creator of the universe. Well, why don’t I experience that? Okay, we’re getting there very quickly. Why don’t I experience, I like being God. That sounds like a lot of fun. That sounds like fun. Why can’t I know that I’m God. Because your consciousness, which is that field of consciousness that is unmanifest and at the same time manifest just like the lake is still and is rippled and it’s ice, it’s all at the same time, and you are that your consciousness is that it?
There’s only one consciousness in the universe. That’s what it is. Consciousness. But why don’t I experience that? Because the objects of consciousness, your thoughts, your emotions distract your consciousness. Do you not get distracted by your thoughts? Do you sit there and say, I can’t. I’m distracted. I’m so distracted.
Who’s distracted by what? You do get distracted, don’t you? You get distracted by what? There’s an object that came in either my mind or through my senses, and it drew my consciousness away from the seed of consciousness from where I’m, I’m just conscious. Whatever’s happening, I’m just aware. I got pulled down.
In other words, concentrated on. Something outside of my consciousness, an object of consciousness, a thought caught my attention, didn’t it? A feeling I got lost in my feelings. Who got lost in what? I was here doing really well until you said that. Now I’m down there in the hurricane and you’re gonna pay for this.
And I ain’t here anymore. I’m not centered. I have clarity. I’m upset. Okay, what does that mean? It means your conscious is still conscious, otherwise you wouldn’t know you’re upset. It’s what you’re conscious of that matters. And the deep yogic states with the deep ones went to the deepest samadis. They were conscious of being conscious.
Nothing else. It was completely still. I keep mixing these levels together because it’s fun. In the deep yoga, there’s two levels of Samati I, which there’s probably plenty, but two that yoga and I spoke about sabi culpa and nbi culpa. First all. What’s Samati? You’re out. You’re not being distracted by your sense.
You’re not being distracted by your thoughts. You’re not being distracted. You went deep in meditation. You’re not being distracted by your emotions, not you’re fighting with them, not, you’re trying not to be distracted, not you’ve pushed them down so you can stick your head up. Then you’re still distracted by ’em, aren’t you?
You’re not distracted by them. They’re like the white lines on the road. You drive right by. You don’t pay as much attention to ’em. You’re not distracted. It didn’t pull your consciousness down toward them. So when it does that, you get caught in your thoughts and emotions and personality and needle and all that garbage.
What if you don’t? What if you go deep enough into meditation to where there’s just stillness and nothing is distracting your consciousness down to these lower objects of consciousness, but use those words. You got it. Consciousness and object of consciousness. Your thoughts are opposites of conscious, aren’t they?
They can be high, they can be low, they can be good, they can be bad. They can dirty X-rated Y, rated R, rated pc, pg. Who cares? They’re just thoughts and your consciousness is distracted by them or isn’t distracted by ’em. I wanna talk about, we know what it’s like to be distracted by ’em. Now I’m talking about what happened if you weren’t distracted by them.
Then the sensors go about their business, but you’re not distracted by them. A yogi, a true yogi can sit there with their eyes completely open and not see anything. You do it all the time. You get lost in thought. You don’t listen to me. Can you get lost in thought and not pay attention to what’s happen here?
You’re reading a book. If you read a book, turn into pages, all of a sudden you realize, I didn’t read a thing. I better go back. I looked at it, but none of it got in there. Why? Because I was busy being distracted by other thoughts. Now you get it. There are all these different objects to be distracted by.
What if you’re not? That’s the depth of yoga. What if you’re not distracted by the outside world? Not that it’s not there, not that you suppress it. Not that you have to fight with it. You’re just that interested. You’re not distracted by it. But truth I once told you, you are 99% enlightened. Every one of you, 99% of every single thing that ever came into your senses did not distract you.
Every true. You drove by every cloud that went by, every wind that blew by every person that walked by. How many things go in there that you’re not distracted by? You’d be busy your whole life. You’re able to not be distracted. A great yogi who meditates deeply is just not distracted. I don’t want you to think they’re fighting or struggling or suppressing or working with themselves.
They’re not distracted. I. They’re not distracted by it. Then the thoughts, they’re not distracted by their thoughts. They don’t have to change their thoughts. They’re to say mantras. They don’t do anything. They’re not distracted by the mental plane. By the entire vibration of the mental plane. They’re not distracted by the emotional plane.
Well, what are they distracted by? Nothing. Well, if you’re not distracted from where he gets distracted from something that’s called your seat of consciousness, your center, the core of your being, the self. You’re seated in the self and you’re not being distracted. Well, what happens? You feel peace. You feel the nature of the self, which they say is such an another eternal conscious ecstasy.
That is your natural state. That’s the natural state. You’re being there. Now you’re there. You start to enter into states that the yogis called samati. Alright, well, master yoga, I talked about sabi, kaba, samati. What does that mean? He went into a state where when he wasn’t distracted at all by his lower self at any level, he merged with the universe.
What do you mean? He returned to the quantum field? He returned to the field of consciousness. That was everywhere. It was all the time. He said he felt he was every galaxy spreading at the speed of light in all directions. That was his body. So that’s called samad with form. He’s experiencing form, but it ain’t down here.
It’s kinda like feeling the nature of consciousness. Then there’s Neal, somebody, uh, now you’re talking high stuff where the great ones truly great ones went. What? You went past form, you went back into the state of consciousness before creation, which created it is in the non-dual formless state, and there’s complete peace and a complete wellbeing.
Why am I talking about this? This is who you are. There’s nothing I’m talking about. That’s who they are. You’re the same consciousness period. You’re the exact same consciousness. What Christ tried to tell you, as I sit by the throne of my father, that’s the state of consciousness as I sit by the throne of my father, so you shall sit by my throne.
And these things, which I do, you should do these and even greater things. In other words, tag you’re it. Why don’t experience it? I told you because consciousness has every vibration. It’s all there, and you’re being distracted all the time by the vibration of your thoughts, your emotions, your body, and what’s coming in through your senses, and you say that’s who you are and it’s not who you are.
It’s what you’re being distracted by and therefore defining yourself as it’s called your self-concept. You made up a you. Now we’re to the level I always talk to you about, but I created the whole universe to do it. You understand that God didn’t go away, he just focused. The ray of consciousness on your thoughts, your emotions, your body that’s coming through your senses, that’s what’s happening.
And because you’re always staring at them, you identify with them and you say, this is who I am. I’m a 52-year-old woman and this is what happened to me and I grew up over here and these are my parents. Hello. You are the consciousness staring at that collection of thoughts, that collection of emotions.
That particular body, which keeps changing. I don’t know how you keep identifying other things. Were you in there yesterday? Were you in there last year? Were you aware of thoughts last year? How about when you were 10 years old? Did he look in the mirror? Did he look like that? No. He looked like a 10-year-old.
Who’s looking, who has the continuity of consciousness that knows it was you looking? The thing it should look different, didn’t it? Have your thoughts changed since you were 12? How do you know? Because you’re in there. Yes, you can have memory of what they were, but you know they were there. You know, you played with your thoughts.
So your consciousness doesn’t change what you’re conscious of changes. But I’ve already said to you, everything you’re conscious of is just a different vibration rate of consciousness. If you got that, you’re getting the big stuff. It’s just, it vibrates at different levels and then it captures your awareness and you become this human.
You are not a human being. You’re God consciousness distracted by the collection of thoughts and emotions and body and outside world that’s coming in through this one. Tiny I’ve, I’ve been teach you lately how tiny you are. How tiny is that stupid thing you’re paying attention to? Psychology says, man is a son of learned experiences.
It’s not true. You are the consciousness that’s aware that, yep, I picked up this stuff throughout my life. So I believe the way I do and think the way I do and act the way I do. But someone learned experiences, but I’m the consciousness that’s paying attention to that. So it’s not true that your semi learned experiences, you know, the conscious awareness that is addicted.
Distracted constantly by what you picked up in your mind throughout your life. That’s why you believe what you believe. If you had a different experiences, you believe something different, you can change your core beliefs in one minute. Just fall in love with somebody else, or have somebody tell you, I’m leaving you.
I can’t believe you did that. Okay, I’ll never do it again. I promise you I don’t have to be like this. How do you want me to be? Was that proof it you, not who you said you were. It’s made something up. Okay. So you are staring at this collection and I, I’ll just do it. It doesn’t take too long. I wanna show ridiculous.
It is. So the collection of experiences that you picked up in your life. Every single moment. I, I stop myself all the time. I say, well, I’m here looking at this. I’m looking, I’m there looking at something, right? I’m there experiencing something. What does that mean? I’m not somewhere else. How many elses are there?
How many elses places could I be looking at? 700 billion, zillion. I just happen to be looking at that one, then that one, then that one, then that one, sew them together. And you got nothing. You think you got something, you got nothing. You missed everything. What is the ratio between what you experienced every moment versus what you missed every moment?
What else was going on? You could have just as well experienced that. That’s when you understand now you’re touching reality. Now it’s why I wanna talk to, I talk to you, right? You look at that, say, if I tell you you’re nothing, don’t get embarrassed. Of course, you’re nothing. Your ego is nothing. Your self-concept is nothing.
The thoughts you picked up over the course of your life are 0.00, whoa, whoa, whoa. 1% of what’s going on. And the mind would think completely different. The emotion would be completely different if you had picked up different experiences and you know it, even admit it. So I’m trying to tell you the ratio between what you experienced and what you missed is not even funny.
And that helps you spiritually tremendously. And stop paying so much attention to the stupidest stuff you’re doing in your mind. ’cause it’s meaningless. If it could change that quickly if it got formed because it was arbitrary. It rained on your birthday when you were five. I hate the rain. I wanna live in Arizona.
I, that talking thing going out in your head is the sum of your learned experiences. I love that they said that, but they will tell you and your learned experiences are nothing. But I watched a movie and it really made a big impression on me. How many movies did you not watch? What if you had eaten something bad the night before and your stomach hurt tremendously?
So you were distracted and couldn’t watch the movie too good. Did it have a big impact on you? Every little thing determined, the nothing that’s going on in there. But you wanna think that it matters what’s going on in there? He looked like my brother and I called out to him and he didn’t even say hello.
He probably wasn’t my brother, but he looked like him. Is making up all this garbage inside your head and causing yourself problems and getting yourself upset. That’s what a human is. You don’t wanna be one, especially since you’re not. You are the awareness, the consciousness, the same consciousness, not the same consciousness that created the heaven and earth, the same consciousness that is creating the heaven and earth.
The consciousness manifests in the quantum field is your consciousness. Well, why don’t I know that? Because you’re being distracted by this collection of thoughts You picked up and emotions, and you think they’re all so important. That’s why you’re not even interested in the quantum field. Most people go, oh, that’s interesting.
All right. Why? Right, so the world is not what you think it is. Your awareness is not what you think it is. Your ego is absurd thing to have. This is who I am, who the person who played Dorothy in the fifth grade and the person who married so and so and then we got divorced. Who are you? If it didn’t happen, I don’t know.
Maybe I don’t exist. Of course you exist. He would just have different experiences if I could ever talk to you enough to get you to the point. Where you feel, it doesn’t matter what experiences I had, they’re just coming and going. They were there one minute and gone the next, but I held them on inside my head and built a whole self-concept based on what happened to me.
What a dumb thing to do, right? Why can’t I just, here I am, I drop down to the planet Earth. I’ll be here for a few years. Bye bye. Where did that come from? I dunno where I end up. I dunno. I’ll find out. But I’m gonna have a good old time. I’ll sit down here and get neurotic and worry about everybody thinks of me and what they said and what happens to me and how much money did I have and what I look like when I’m young.
When I’m old, I don’t wanna look any different. What is you doing? You just drop down on the planet. You have these experiences and you just have fun. Enjoy yourself and we’ll talk about that in a minute. Why can’t you do that? Because you couldn’t handle the moments that happened to you. Mommy did this and Freud found out that Daddy did this and this happened and that happened.
And her first boyfriend, ah, that one’s so good. And this happened. And that happened. Right? And the car that you first kissed in, right? You saw driving down the highway the other day and it made you cry. What were you doing? That was 30 years ago. Tell me you don’t do that. That’s why it’s a mess. The world is unfolding.
Everywheres, I try to teach you. You just happen to be standing in a particular place to have a particular experience. It ain’t personal. Turn to the left. Ivo have a different one. What if somebody disses you but you’re not listening? Didn’t bother at all. What are you doing? You’re taking this all seriously.
Just a moment passed in front of you. It could have not passed. It could have. It could have anything. You could have not paid attention. Then you sat there and held onto it and built this concept of yourself inside your head, which isn’t even there. You just made it outta these vibration rates. How’d you hold onto the fact that what he said, you’ll never forget it.
You concentrated on it. I am not going to forget what you said to me. Don’t you worry. I will never. What are you doing? You’re concentrating your consciousness on that particular thing. Therefore, it stays, and that’s what your ego is, your self-concept. That what you define yourself as, that what you define yourself as is not who you are.
You’re the one who did it. You’re one who decided to define yourself as something. So the great ones, they didn’t do that or they worked their way through it so they’re not bothered by their mind now. Well, why? Because they’re not bothered by their mind. Now they understand that the world is here and it’s unfolding everywhere.
And what happened to me is meaningless. Oh, I love it. If you could do that. Alright. I was sitting there driving down the road and I parked a car and someone stole a thing. All right. What’d you do? Call the police. It’s fun. Did they find it? No. What do I walk? Who cares? Right? Okay, so now we’ve got ourselves.
Creations created. God is God, but it got distracted. That’s the fault from the garden. I’m telling you. The fact that your consciousness got distracted by this personal thing. It was called the tree of self knowledge. It got distracted by you and now you’re busy being you, and you have to work by the shred of your brow to be okay.
Oh, it’s, there’s deep stuff in there. So basically, here you are. Now what? What has this got to do with what’s going on? You’re caught in yourself. You’re caught in this tiny little thing on the planet earth with everything else going on. Not to you only what you collected that is bothering you. Now you define the purpose of your life.
Well, let’s go a little slower. I wanted to get there, right? What do you now do with your life? ’cause I know what you do. I don’t even know you. You have things inside of you that you held onto that are disturbing and you don’t wanna happen again, and you have things inside of you. Not many that are inspiring, encouraging, that look like to be fun, and guess what?
You want them to happen. So you’ve now devoted your life. To collecting experiences I ran, whatever it is. Some of which bothered you, most of which bothered you by the way, but some of which inspired you and now you devoted your life to saying, I want the outside world to unfold in front of me the way I want it to.
Wow, I just told you that outside world came from, it’s the quantum field vibrating up and manifesting creation and everybody else’s thoughts are the some of their learned experiences. You don’t know a thing about ’em and you want the moments unfolding in front of you to be the way you decide you want them to be based on your experiences, and I’ll bet you’re having trouble.
I bet you’re having trouble. I bet sometimes you get disappointed. Sometimes you’re scared that you lose what you want or that it won’t happen what you want. Well, then you’ll have to get what you don’t want. Anybody worry? Does anybody know what the word worry means? You know what it means is I made up how I want it to be and it might not be that way.
Isn’t that what worrying is I made up in my mind, which was made up of my little experiences, which were nothing compared to everything else. I call ’em statistically insignificant. And I made up with that how I want the moments to unfold in front of me. And if they do, I’m a happy camper for a while at least.
And if they don’t, I can get depressed. Nothing will be the way I want and I can’t handle it. I can get really dark and I can have all kinds of problems and I can never be totally open ’cause I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I have lots of money. Have we noticed a lot of people have a lot of money and don’t get everything the way they want?
Who’s noticed that yet? Or power or anything else? Listen to me. There’s nothing you are going to do that will make every moment unfolding in front of you. Be the way you decide you want it to, to be. Okay. So now you get to spirituality. That’s what Buddha taught you. Buddha’s Noble truth. All life is suffering.
What’s the cause of suffering? You have a way you want it to be. He used the word desire, the cause of all suffering is that you have a way you want it to be. In other words, a desire. What is a desire? A way you want it to be the need. If you have a way you want it to be, you’re gonna suffer. Why? What is the probability that the quantum field.
It’s going to manifest from down there, putting everything together, creating all of the universe up here based on the loss of chemistry and physics and psychology and everything. And the moment in front of you, which is one of 700 billion zillion, is going to be the way your mind made up and wants it to be.
Gimme the probability, how?
I have hope. I’ll bet you do.
That’s why we suffer and that’s why this plane is not a very high plane because you get 8.3 billion people having had totally different experiences throughout their life making up. What they want and what they don’t want, and then making up with their beautiful intellectual mind, how to manipulate everybody else and everything else to make the moments be what I want them to be.
Well, I wonder why they’re wars. I wonder why. There’s just harmony. I wonder why it’s so hard. Everything. Relationship is hard. Of course, it’s hard. It’s not gonna be the way you made up you want it to be. Why? Why should it be the person next to you? Doesn’t want it that way, do they? Who wins? Spirituality is about taking this entire, that’s why I started the whole way you understood the quantum field, that it vibrates and manifest atoms and molecules and they all put themselves together and they make everything.
And you are gonna decide how the one in front of you is gonna be, or which makes it a little easier for you to understand every person. You interact with every person that you interact with is the sum of their learned experiences, not the sum of your learned experiences, but you want to be. You want do it true way, don’t you?
And you get upset when they don’t. You don’t only get upset. You say they’re wrong. You should not have said that. I can’t believe you said that. I would never have said that. Of course not. You did not have the person’s experiences. You did not have those impressions. I told you I wanna have a deep talk.
Can you understand what I’m trying to get across to you? No wonder it’s a mess. No wonder everybody’s suffering. What is spiritual? What are you doing? Holding on to past experiences and defining what life’s supposed to be now in relationship to those experiences. I had a really good time when I dated his first in 10th grade.
Now I, all I know is pretty much I’m looking for the same person. I just didn’t have to look the same, but really the same qualities and the things I liked about them and the different traits. You stored this stuff inside and now you’re trying to make the outside world match what you like and not match what you don’t like, and that’s what everybody’s doing.
And it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. How can the outside world match what you want? What is a desire you feel desires? A desire is an energy inside of you that’s trying to get out. You feel it. It’s like an impulse that’s pushing towards something. Why is it doing that? Because you stored it inside of you.
You blocked it. This event happened and you felt good, and then this person left you and now you wanna have it flow again. You wanna feel the energy. It’s all energy. It’s the vibration rates that they’re gonna taught you. It’s all energy vibrate in different rates. Okay, well you blocked something in there.
What does that mean? You held onto something, you suppressed something, you blocked something, it’s blocked inside your energy system, and now you don’t feel love and now you don’t feel fulfillness and, and acceptance and all the needs that you have. What are needs? There are no needs. There are no psychological needs.
It means you blocked your Shakti, you blocked the flow of energy, and now there’s something that has to happen outside that allows you to feel more open, that allows it to connect with you. Oh, we connected. Why aren’t you always connected? Why are you separate? Okay. Spirituality is way deeper than you’re giving your credit for.
You are a great being. You’re filled with Shakti, you’re filled with love. If you hold your hands out, they Shakti pours off of you, of every single one of your chakras. It just pours out like light beams all the time. If you walk through a hospital, as you walk down the corridor, you feel it pouring out of you bringing healing, you are a great being.
You have tremendous energy. You have no knees. That’s news to me. Why you blocked yourself. You blocked your energy flow. How? By not being able to handle the experience that happened to you. Experiences happened. We said they happened, right? But they didn’t make it through. You held onto ’em, you stored them, you suppressed them.
Everything. Freud taught you. All of psychology, you hold onto stuff. Well, if you hold onto it, that’s a vibration rate that’s heavy and energy can’t pass through it. And so now you have to try to make things happen in order for the energy to flow. And that’s what your needs and desires and all that stuff are.
So you eventually get to the point where you catch on. I made a mess in here, but nobody’s willing to tell me that. They sit there and say It’s the outside world did it to me. No, it did not. The outside world unfolded and you couldn’t handle it. No. You don’t understand. In fifth grade, they bullied me. Well, that’s not nice.
Why did they bully you? ’cause they’re screwed up and they dumped it on you. That’s what’s going on. Right. Okay. That was in fifth grade, but I’ve always had a problem. I’m always afraid people reject me. They bullied you. You held onto it. Is it possible that you could be mature enough and grown up enough that by the time you hit sixth or seventh grade, you looked at that and said, wow, poor people where they messed up, it’s okay.
I forgive them. What if you could do that? What if you let go? What if you didn’t hold it inside? If you just feeling well, I say, fine. That happened to me when I was young. It’s not now. And I’m fine. And I don’t hold it against anybody. Wow. Now you’ve opened, it’s called opening, isn’t it? And what’s gonna happen is the shock’s gonna flow because you’re open.
You’ll start feeling all this energy. I would love that you could go through a single day and not hold stuff inside, get to the end of the day and say, wow, that was far out. What? What happens? You’re sitting on a little planet in the middle of nowheres and you care what happened today. I know what happened today.
You did a 360 on your axis. That’s what happened today. You couldn’t handle it well. There were some details, and you eventually wake up and realize, you do not have to live like this, but you’ve trained yourself to live like this, and so now your consciousness is distracted by this garbage that you held inside, and you’re caught.
Well, you this thing called yoga’s called liberation. You learn to liberate yourself. It’s no, it’s way greater than the asen or gurus or philosophies or that. It’s like saying you’re in there and you’re a great being, but you’re distracted, but it’s garbage you held inside. What should I do? Let it go.
That’s, I’m finish. We’re out of time. You want the spiritual path? Let it go. I’m serious. That’s the entire spiritual path. If you don’t have that stuff in there, it’s not gonna distract you. But how do I do that? It’s simple to talk about, not easy to do, but it ain’t that hard. Do you understand that? You little by little, every day, be aware you’re the consciousness and you got garbage in there.
But yesterday you talked to somebody you didn’t like their tone. Not sure what they meant by it. I didn’t like their tone. Wow. Okay man, let’s make a big deal out of it. And today you saw them coming around the corner and you didn’t wanna see them and something inside of you. I tried to walk the other way and not have them see you ever done it?
Well, maybe that’s stupid. Maybe that is saying, man, am I screwed up? I’m gonna stay that way, as opposed to. I don’t know whether anything happened or not. It may have just been in my mind and it doesn’t matter anyways, I’m just sitting a planet in the middle of nowheres. There you 1.3 million Earth fit inside the sun, 1.3 million Earth inside the sun, and you care what that person said yesterday out of 8.3 billion people and there’s 300 billion stars in your galaxy.
Wake up and what you do that day, you see ’em. You feel your heart start to do this. You know what I’m talking about? The stuff that’s down there starts to come up, which is why you don’t feel love and shock to all the time. ’cause you shove that garbage down there. I’ve isolated one event, somebody said something yesterday and you catch yourself and you sit there and say, I don’t wanna be like that.
I wanna be free. I don’t care whether they said something, didn’t say something. Maybe I have a stomach ache. None of my business. I can handle it. That’s your mantra. I can handle it. I don’t need to check out why it happened. I don’t. I don’t care. I wanna be free. And you don’t walk away. Whoa, wait. You see, the first time you do that, your egos, you go like, well, it’s noise inside.
All that energy get all stirred up and you just breathe through it, and you go there and you behave normal. The next thing you know, you’re glad you did that. You didn’t have to carry it. You have to have another sun scar, another pattern that will bother the rest of your life. And next thing you know, it’s easier next time, it easier next time.
It easier next time than you do with a driver in front of you. Okay, fine. They drive the way they want none. My business is okay. I won’t be that late. A couple of minutes, right? And you just start letting go of yourself. And that’s the entire spiritual path. And now you see why if you stop storing like robbers inside of you, it won’t be in there.
Then the old stuff will come up. You let it go. What am I supposed to let go if I’m, you’ll let it all go. But what is somebody meant to be mean? So what? I’d rather be free. It’s so funny, I’m a nice Jewish yogi. I don’t read the Bible. I read once in 1972. But Christ’s words are yoga. They’re amazing. The other thing, turning the other cheek means don’t hold it against that.
Just let it go. Isn’t turning the other cheek, letting it go. Let it go. Just let it go. Why not? Who cares? I don’t want this stuff inside of me. And you just keep doing that day in day, and you keep letting go. Wait. You see what happens? All of a sudden, all this Shakti just pouring through your being and start feeling all this love and joy, and eventually things don’t bother you.
Why? Because you let them go and then you’re the one that isn’t distracted. Next thing you know, you’re up higher. Next thing you know, you fall naturally into these great, beautiful states of ecstasy, of nirvana. You are a great being. You’re not settled for being this little thing that’s lost down here, right?
It’s, that’s not who you are. And you can grow no matter what you’ve done, no matter where you are. It’s not true. You’re the consciousness that is caught looking at this problem you created. When you let it go, it will go. Well try.
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