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Michael Singer: Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters.
The spiritual path is your life. Your whole life is a spiritual path. That’s why you’re here. Every moment of your life, that’s what’s happening. Doesn’t matter if you’re young, old, rich, poor, male, female, married, single, no matter what is happening is the spiritual path. What if I don’t know, this is spiritual path. It’s still a spiritual path. That’s all you’re going to go through. What you need to go through, bump your head against the wall and eventually you start to catch on what’s going on. Alright, so if the entire path and meaning of life is your spiritual growth, what does that mean? It means that you are of God. I don’t use the word lightly, I don’t even like using the word. I guess it’s become so bastardized. Everybody has their beliefs, but there are those who come to know God, who come to have self-realization and realize who they are and what the relationship is with God.
And everyone who ever got there said the same thing of every tradition, of every religion, period. And you’ll say the same thing as you get there. So it’s nice to hear from them because they’re like signposts along the way. Give me some idea of how you’re doing, but your life is your path. So what does that mean first, why do you need a path? Why are you not enlightened? You should ask that question. Why am I not enlightened If it’s true that really it’s God that’s inside of me, that God’s self, my higher self is of God, is of God consciousness. There’s only one consciousness. And of course your conscious and there’s only one consciousness, then you’re of that consciousness. Alright, why don’t I experience it? I usually spend my talks talking about that. We won’t. We’ll do it very quickly. You don’t experience your true being because you’re being distracted by your faults, being by your psyche, by your ego, by your mind, by your emotions.
This thing that you built around yourself and you did build it around yourself. Your psyche is something you built. You the self, the consciousness dropped down and got scared, got disoriented, couldn’t figure it out. And so I started building a false self. That’s what the ego is, a self-concept. I do it very quickly. I do it all the time. You have experiences. Some of those experiences are pleasant, some of ’em are not pleasant. That’s just the nature of things. A butterfly’s pleasant, a rattlesnake is not. But you can handle both. You could learn to handle both. You don’t have to live your life avoiding rattlesnakes or clinging to butterflies. So basically we haven’t learned that. We don’t know that if something’s not pleasant and we don’t want to experience it, something is pleasant. We want to experience it. It’s very natural. So how do we not experience that?
Which happened very quickly. What we’d do is resist it. I resisted having happened. No, it already happened. Otherwise you wouldn’t know that you didn’t like it. It already got in there, experienced it. So what do I do when it comes in there? I don’t let it come all the way in. I practice resistance. I practice pushing it away. I’m in here. I have hands in here, I have will, and I don’t like that experience. So it doesn’t matter that it already happened. I don’t have to experience it fully. And so I push it away. And when you push it away, everyone you pushed away and you pushed away a lot. All the time becomes a building block of your psyche. You hold onto it again. Why would you want to hold onto it that what you didn’t like because you weren’t able to handle it.
So the only way you knew to protect yourself from having experienced it is to keep it at a distance, to push it away. So when you do that, it becomes stored inside of you and you start picking these pieces up with it very quickly. All this stuff you stored in there, you start putting it together into I like this. I’m the person who likes this, the person who doesn’t like this. I’m the person in love with this person. I’m the person who had this bad experience. And you start defining yourself not as you, but as the experiences that you had. And that’s as your ego is. It’s what the law self used its will to put together this concept of itself, of a mask, a false self. And then you have to present it to the world. And what happens if the world doesn’t like it?
You freak out when the world does like it. You get all excited. And so you’re just sitting there presenting this thing all the time and trying to get what it wants, trying to repeat what made you feel good and stay away from made you feel bad. And you have all these views and opinions and preferences and hopes and dreams and concepts. They’re just all a collection of thoughts that got built based on your past experiences. Psychology says, man is a summer learned experiences. It’s not true. You are the self, the consciousness that’s experienced, the experience, but you’re keeping them and therefore your psyche, which is what they’re studying, their psyche, your mind and emotions, that part of your being is the summary of your learned experiences. Fine. So what does it mean now that I have this thing? What is my life like? Hell, you suffer.
How do I know you’re suffering? Because you’re doing every single thing you can every minute of your life to not suffer. You’re trying to find someone that will help you not suffer. You’re trying to have finances so you can do things you want to do so you don’t suffer. Every single thing you do is stay away from suffering, stay away from not feeling good, stay away from jealousy, stay away from fear, stay away from all this stuff. Why they don’t feel good. There’s a suffering. And so you’re busy, busy all the time doing what? Staying away from what’s not nice inside. And so we get lost in the outside world. So now the self has fallen down into the psyche and the psyche goes out into the world to try and get things the way it needs so that it’s not suffering too much. And maybe sometimes it’s happy or it feels a little bit better.
Either feels better, it feels worse, but you have to work at that. It doesn’t just happen by itself and you’re taught to work at that. That is the state of a human being. Wasn’t that complicated. Would take five minutes. That’s your state. That is your state. Well, what does it mean that there’s a path? There’s a path toward liberation. There’s a path in which you in there are not so scared, are not so addicted to staring at your psyche, your ego, and then giving in and doing everything you can to let it run your life. You can free yourself from that. Freedom is not freedom for yourself, it’s freedom from yourself. True freedom. So basically your path through life, your entire path through life is learning that you are not your ego. You are the self and that you can live in this world without suffering.
You can live in this world at peace. You can live in this world and harmony. You live in this world and bring beauty and light and love and compassion no matter what’s happening, no matter what’s happening, no matter what is happening, you’re capable of achieving that state where that is a state of your being. But it’s not the one you’re living in, not the one humans live in. Humans live in their egos, they live in their psyche. And that thing gets, we talked about the other day, that thing is so sensitive. Somebody say one word, it doesn’t like it freaks out. Somebody says one word. It does freaks out the other way. And so you’re trying to do everything you can. You’re struggling to make life be something that you can tolerate in the end. Life is what it is. And you’re a peace. You’re whole.
You complete nothing can touch you. You still interact with the world, but you’re transcendent, you’re whole, you are of God. That is your natural state. That distance between those two things, your humanness and your divinity are the spiritual path and everybody’s on that path. Murder, yes, a murder’s on that path. People in jail, people that do terrible things, but they’re all, every one of them is capable of liberation. If you have taken human birth, it means you are what I described. You are the light, the consciousness of God dropped down, lost within your psyche, lost within your ego, lost within the lower part of your being, which is made up of this garbage that you created inside. And then like I said, do you go outside to try and feel better? Everybody’s out there trying to feel better. Why are there wars? Because somebody’s trying to defend themselves so they feel better or somebody’s trying to get something, they feel better.
And that’s why there are relationship problems. That’s why there are nation problems. That’s why every single thing is that. So as you go through your life that way, you’re going to suffer. You’re going to have highs and lows. It’s like sandpaper. Remember I would call the sandpaper back and forth, back and forth trying to sand off this psyche, sand off this garbage that you’ve gotten caught in. And so life will bring you things and you feel good about them and you get all excited and then they disappoint you and you get all depressed and you go up and down and things happen. Maybe you’ve noticed. Has anybody noticed? Okay. And what you tend to do if you’re human and you are, is you try to control the world so it doesn’t happen and nobody has ever succeeded that in no possible way. You can’t control the world.
The world is the result of everything that ever happened before creates the moment that’s in front of you. I’ve lectured that so often. I can’t even talk about it. I hope you get it. The moment in front of you is not yours. It has nothing to do with you. It is the result of all the forces that made it be the way it is. It is a result of all the forces. The weather is the way it is not because it’s your birthday or not because oh God, thank you. It didn’t rain on my wedding. No. It has nothing to do with your wedding. It has nothing to do with your birthday stop. It has to do with the El Nino and la Nina and the winds going across the nee mountains. The point is it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with nature.
It has to do with reality. It has to do with the laws of cause and effect. Things are the way they are because of everything that made them be that way. Did you have some influence? Of course you did. How much? Point oh oh oh oh oh one. That’s how much influence you had on the weather. Okay, I said something, I said something and now he’s leaving me. Well, I have to say that he’s not leaving you because you said this one thing. He’s leaving you because his mother beat him. He’s leaving you because his father left his mother. He’s leaving you because his first girlfriend dumped him. There’s an entire psyche sitting inside that guy. You don’t have anything to do with it. By the way, everybody is the sum of that are learned experiences. How much influence were you on the sum of that person’s learned experiences? You met them three months ago, the 30 years old.
They’ve had experiences every single moment of those 30 years. Have they not? And you’re taking responsibility or credit for what happened in front of you. Go study science, study biology, study psychology, study anything, everything. And you’re going to find out I ain’t the one who did it. The planet’s been here for 4.5 billion years having influences on everything. How long have you been here? Well, are you going to wake up someday and realize you’re out there trying to manipulate the universe of cause and effect? You’re not going to do it. No one’s ever done it. It can’t possibly happen. You can have some influence. But then what did John Lennon say? Life is what happens to you or you’re busy making other plans. Things unfold because of the laws that happened for billions of years. Oh my God. And so there’s a moment in front of you but we can’t handle it.
Life is about teaching you to wake up and realize there are ways you can handle it. There are ways you can respect it. There are ways you can honor it. There are ways you can serve it. There are ways you can raise it but not there are ways that you can decide in your mind based on your experiences, how everything’s supposed to be from now on everywhere. And guess what? No one agrees with you. No one agrees with you. They can’t possibly, they didn’t have the same experiences did they? Every single moment in your life you had the experience that no one else had, and then they’re all linked together on a pearl necklace and those are your views in your opinions and you’re pre and your hopes and your dreams and your concepts and you go out there and you dump ’em onto the world and try to fight with everything to try and make it be the way you want.
That’s the way it can be. Okay? Life is here to teach you that that is not truth and you will never succeed in doing that. And someday you will wake up. Why? Because you suffer too much or because something happened that raised you above it. Love can do that. That all of a sudden I don’t care what happens, I’m in love. I just feel love. I just feel peace. It’s okay. What happens? I’m okay with what happens, right? Not my will, but I will be done. And all of a sudden you start to wake up in certain areas, right? But close another. You have a relationship, you’re really happy at home, but boy, you fight at work. You’re okay. Most people are not. But you’re okay with a one-to-one relationship. You’re not okay with money. You’re not okay with this. You’re not okay, okay? Life is here to teach you to be okay with absolutely everything.
That is why. Because reality is reality and what you made up is meaningless. He just made it up based on your past experiences. Okay? Everybody’s got one. But reality is reality. If there’s a storm, there’s a storm. If there’s sun, there’s sun. If a person’s nice, they’re nice. If a person’s mean they’re mean. Now what are you going to do about it? Eventually you catch on what you’re going to do about it. As you evolve, that’s what happens. Life causes you to evolve hope. You’re learning. What’s it like if you evolve events unfold in front of you and you understand that’s the nature of things. They’re very Buddhist. That’s the nature of things. This is the result of all the forces. That’s how you should look at things. The moment in front of me is not mine. It is a result of all the forces from the beginning of creation that caused it to coalesce into this moment.
If anything was different, it’d be different. I told you, if your car is made in Japan and the Japanese person has put into brakes and had a fight with his wife and because he had to fight with the wife, he didn’t torque the bolt tight enough on the brakes, but it took four years for it to get loose and you’re driving down the street and you step into your brake and you veer off to the right and you get an accident. That’s not an accident. As a result of what he did, what the wife did, every single thing is so complicated you don’t want to talk about it. That’s how many cause and effects. There are every single thing that ever was. Cause the next thing, then they all coalesced together to create the moment in front of you and eventually you wake up and you sit there and say, oh, that’s what happened.
And you’re okay. You’re at peace. You’re in serenity. You feel understanding. Okay, this is the nature of things. Now what it doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it. It does not mean you don’t deal with it. It means you deal with it out of compassion, out of understanding what can I do to help this moment? Not how mad can I get because it wasn’t fair. I didn’t deserve that. It had nothing to do with fair has nothing to do with justice. Just allow life to be life. The result of all the forces that ever were coalesced together to come in front of you. And don’t worry, it won’t stay. Nothing stays. It all just comes and goes, but not in you. It doesn’t. If you didn’t like it, you keep it inside of. You can’t keep it outside. It just comes and goes. But you keep it inside and you make a mess of yourself, but then you go blame everything.
I don’t need to tell you what it’s like to live in there. So life is about evolving. Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve and that’s what’s happening to everybody. But what about people that are not evolving? They are so they’re having experiences and it’s just having an effect on them. And it may be over time, like if somebody’s an alcoholic, they drink a lot and so their family leaves them and this happened, they end up in AA and all of a sudden something happens a little bit, something happens and they have a sponsor and this happens and they at least try to get themselves together. It happened because life put them through that. It did not leave them alone. I did 30 years of prison work, maximum security prison. They’re people just like you and me. They just did things. They lost themselves.
They acted based on some very low energy within themselves and many of them talked to me and said the best thing that ever happened to me was being in here. My life was on a total collision course. There’s no way I’d be alive. I didn’t understand anything. This caused me to stop for a moment. Not everybody’s that way, but it caused me to stop and look and learn. And there’s people in here that help me. It’s amazing. There’s a subculture inside of Max Security prison and it’s not all fighting. There are things that get pulled together. And so you’re here to evolve. They’re here to evolve, ever is here to evolve. What does it take? I have nothing to say. It takes everything there is. How’s that it takes from the lowest thing they could possibly be to the highest thing they could possibly be and every single thing in between, that’s the yin and the yang.
So you’re here to evolve. How do you do that? You can either just let it happen and then you get knocked to pieces and chips off pieces and maybe you wake up, maybe, maybe that maybe had a relationship and it didn’t work out well. You were doing this or somebody was doing that and so it got ugly. And then maybe next time you learn something, you understand it’s like going to school. Maybe you’ll learn something. Maybe you didn’t. Okay, you can go to school and take a test and get a D and get all upset and yell at the teacher and never go back again. You can do that. You learn much. Or you can sit there and realize, oh my God, I’m not going to pass. I better get this together. And all of a sudden you’re studying a little bit more. Anything can happen.
That’s what life is. That’s what your life is. That’s what it’s always been. That’s what it is. All your past that you don’t like, all your past that you do, it’s not about avoiding what you didn’t like. It’s not about getting what you do like it’s about did you learn? It’s like when you’re playing a sport at the Olympics, which you had the Olympics, do they study? Do they study very much? Do they try very hard four years totally devoting themselves every second to their sport, they’re sitting there making something great of themselves. Are you doing that? Are you looking at your past and make those terrible things ever happen in your past that you can’t even think about them? You suppress ’em so deep they freak you out. Did you learn? Because if all you did was hate them and push them away and never talk to somebody again, and how could somebody do that to me?
All you did was need to learn more. So I can say you’re like that kid that got the D and ran away and never went back to school as opposed to you’re able to look back at your life every bit of it and you’re all different and you all went through it. You need to go through and if I say that, you get offended. You all go through what you needed to go through. Why? Because if you didn’t need to go through it, you wouldn’t have gone through it. You wouldn’t even knew you went through it. If somebody else went through it, they didn’t even notice it. You went through it because you had this garbage from your upbringing or something like that and it freaks you out completely. Everybody handles things different because of what they built inside themselves. And so you eventually get to the point where you look back at your past and you know what you say, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the third grade teacher that failed me at math because now I have a master’s degree in mathematics and inspired me very, very good.
Thank you for the coach who yelled and screamed at me every time I hit into the net when I was trying to learn. Not that way. Turn your hand this way or football, any sport you’re trying to learn, coaches yell at you to try and wake you up to encourage you, not yelling at you. They’re encouraging you to do better, to bring the best you have. And if you run away, you lost because that what you’re already good at. You already know I read that one somewhere, right? The spiritual path is not about the things you’re good at, it’s about the things you aren’t good at. You already good at the things you’re good at and you want to sit there and here, go learn tennis and really suck at your backhand and get a coach who only hits forehand. You love him. It’s great.
I’m doing so well. No you’re not. So you wake up and you realize I am here to be challenged. I am here to be pulled through the mud. I am here to let go of anything I stored inside myself that couldn’t handle whatever happened to me. I’m here to grow, to learn every moment, every second of my life. It’s not about getting what you want, it’s about finding out why you don’t like the rest. You’re on a planet. It’s an unbelievable, is it not an unbelievable planet? Come on, go to Mars, then come back after a little while and tell me how much unbelievable earth is. Oh, don’t bother with Mars. Go to anyone of any single place in the entire universe. The James Webb telescope and how they really see pretty far what have you seen is they found an amoeba. They’ve been on the front page of the entire newspapers all over the world.
They never found anything, any sign, not even a sign of life, they make a big thing. Oh, maybe these chemicals might someday make life on that planet. We ain’t seen any. And you got new life around you now. There’s grass, there’s trees, there’s animals of every sort and you live on the planet. It’s pretty unbelievable. And there’s whales and dolphins and snakes and things and people. There’s people and there’s things to do. You can go play with a computer, you can listen to music, but you wake up. There’s nothing anywhere else that we found. And all you do is complain if it’s not exactly the way you want it to be, you complain. How’d you decide what you want it to be? I made it up. You made up how you want it to be and now you’ve ruined your life. Alright? And the purpose of life is saying, Hey guys, I’m bigger than you are.
I’m life. I’m all of creation. I came for the big bang 13.8 billion years ago and every single thing that got created happened since then and you guys showed up and made a mess. So life is teaching you, that’s God. It’s teaching you. Earth is a place where souls of sin to evolve, but we don’t get it. We’re still out there trying to say there are things that I like and things that I don’t like, and now I want to make life be the way I like and I want to make sure it’s not the way I don’t like and I’m going to struggle and I’m going to lie and I’m going to cheat and I’m going to steal and I’m going to do every single thing I possibly can to manipulate everybody and everything. So it’s the way I want it to be. In other words, I don’t want to grow.
Do you understand if every single thing was exactly the way you want it to be, you are stagnant. If every single thing, every minute is exactly the way you want it to be, it means that the stage, alright, I’m going to take you back to when you were 12. How’d you want it to be? You don’t know. I like this and I like Barbie and I like this and I play with my dolls and I did this and I did the thing and I’m talking, right? Okay, we’ll make it all be like that for the rest of your life because you ain’t going to change if it is the way you want it to be, you just keep it that way. It’s wonderful. I’m happy. It is the challenges in life that challenge you to look at yourself and say, why don’t I like things?
Why don’t I appreciate things? Why aren’t I happy? You ask yourself, why aren’t I happy? But your answer is because I need to find somebody because I need more money. I need to travel. That’s not why you’re not happy. The reason you want to do those things, which you’re not happy. It’s not why you’re not happy. I tell you the example I always give you go eat some food and get really, really, really sick. And then somebody comes around, a friend comes in, what are you doing? You’re running like a maniac. I can’t find the pep Bismol. That’s my problem. My problem is I can’t find the pep. No, your problem is you ate something that made you sick. The Pepto Bismol, it does not fix that. It hides it. That’s all everybody’s doing is trying to hide the inner problems they have of why they’re not okay, I’m lonely, need to find somebody. Pepto Bismol.
I don’t feel respected. I need to have a Ferrari or nowadays Tesla or something, right? Pep Bismol. It’s a placebo. It’s just something to placate the fact that you’re not okay. A spiritual person asks not what can I do to make believe I am okay or to feel better? Why am I not okay? And you start to look, the life will hit you over the head enough where you start to catch on. You guys are here. You start to catch on. I’m not okay for one stupid reason. I made up how everything’s supposed to be and I’m not. Okay. Not that way. I made up, don’t you tell me I’m right. Everybody thinks they’re right, but I have evidence. Look at all the facts what happened to me? Yeah, it’s what happened to you. Totally different things happened to everybody else. Take a major event in your life that helped mold your psyche.
What if it didn’t happen? Would you be different? Would you think different? But of course you would. Therefore you just made up while you were having that one experience. How many experiences were you missing? Every single place on the planet, the whole universe. There’s something happening. All of time, space, Einstein time, space, continuum. There was something always was happening. So you had one moment. It was a moment in a time space continuum. I got in a car accident. Now I don’t drive. And I know like anybody who does and I thought it was fair. Okay, great. You let one moment define your life. Do you hear me? And boy, probably in a car accident probably was your 12th grade girlfriend or something. High school’s really good at screwing you up because that’s where you’re forming yourself, right? You form yourself concept and then you go through life thinking it’s supposed to be the way you want.
That’s why you’re not okay. I don’t need a big lecture. You are not okay because you decided everything needs to be and now you think if it bes that way, I’ll be okay. And if it’s not that way, I’m terrible. And you’re not looking inside, you looking inside saying I did this. I set this game up. I’m the person who ruined my life. Life didn’t ruin my life. Life just what about his business? I’m the one who decided it. It should not have rained. Yesterday I was going hiking with somebody I really like a lot and I finally got a date with ’em and then it rained. It should not have happened. Go check out meteorology. It had to happen yesterday, but not for you. No, you made up this thing inside your head and that’s why you suffer. So life is a place where soul center to evolve.
That’s what we’re talking about evolving. You eventually evolve and you say, what am I doing? Getting mad at God because it rained. So what life is here to teach you is you shouldn’t ruin your life over any event. Every event in life is an event you experienced in life. If you’re evolved enough, you can handle things. You can handle things. I told you that I love the quote from the Gita. It was very deep. And so it’s Godhead Krishna and he’s talking to his disciple or juah and he tells him about these very high beings that there can be enlightened beings in this world, not just humans. It’s much higher than our June asked him, how would I know such a person sits? He walks, he talks like any other man. And Christian says to him, oh yes, he sits, he talks, he walks like any other man, if you would know him, know him like this.
Enjoys his not of joy and sorrows, not of his sorrows. He lets goodness come when it will and when it will depart and lets darkness come when it will and when it will depart. He sits as a sojourner, a stranger in the midst of the qualities of natures. He said, just as all the waters and streams of the world pour into the oceans and the ocean does not overstep its bounds. So the world of sense pours into the yogi and leaves him as it found him. Serene content equanimity is yo that beautiful. You are capable of that. Just not right now. You need to. That’s a very evolved soul that’s able to handle what Christ handled. He sat there in the garden, he saw what was going to happen to him and he said, may I pass this cup. The minute he said that, he said, no, not my will, but thy will.
And he just let it unfold. He was able to, you’re capable of that state, but you have to understand what it means to assist evolution instead of fighting evolution. So our normal state is to say, if things are not the way I want, they’re wrong. They’re wrong. You should not have said that. Why it hurt me. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? It’s not. You said it because your father died yesterday and you’re upset and you didn’t sleep at all. And so you said something stupid. Now I hate you. I’ll fight with you. How dare you say that to me? Well, you didn’t understand why it came out. You don’t even care. You only care what effect it had on. You don’t. You shouldn’t have said that. It hurt me. Evolution says it’s not about me, it’s about reality and it’s about my ability to handle reality.
All the experience of life come in and they pass through and they leave me at peace. Then I can deal with them from a higher place. That’s an evolved being. Alright? I find how do I help this evolution participate in the process of evolution as opposed to fighting it because you don’t want to evolve. I want it to be the way I am. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Just be nice to me and don’t ever criticize me and don’t say anything that bothers me. Alright? And so that’s not a very evolutionary thing to do. So what do you do? You take a breath and you listen and you catch on. Do you want to stay? Which one of you? Alright, God’s going to come down here. Any one of you, I can touch you. God says and make you stay exactly the way you are right now.
How would you like that? I don’t think one of you would say yes. No, I don’t think so. It’s not so nice in here and I’m struggling. I’m constantly protecting myself and defending myself and doing every single thing I possibly can to make it not worse. I don’t want to just stay like this. Very good and God says, fine. Okay then let’s put this with some growth. There is no growth without change is there? Think of a plan, think of anything. There’s no growth without change. So if you want to grow, you have to be willing to change. Life is challenging. You will you change about this. What you do is you start to wake up. I told you, you wake up in the morning if you meditate, whatever it is, I don’t care your business, but at least sit for a moment and remember why you’re here. You’re on a tiny little planet. I told you can’t help myself. I’m addicted. 1.3, 1.3 million earth fit inside the sun. 1.3 billion Earth fit inside the sun and the sun is one of 300 billion stars in one galaxy and there are 2 trillion galaxies. What exactly is not okay with you? And you sit up in the morning and you say, okay, I’m on this tiny little planet in the middle of nowheres and I’m going to do a 360.
I told you, somebody asked you, what’d you do today? 360. And so you wake up in the morning and you realize that’s what’s going to happen to today. You spend a day on the planet earth, aren’t you? Can you handle it? Of course not. I mean, yes. And you say to yourself, I’m going to go through this day and I’m going to have a good time. I’m going to be on the nicest planet that anybody ever found anywhere. I told you planet earth is God’s idea of Disney World. There’s something going on everywhere. It’s an exciting place. The happening place. You wake up in the morning, you sit down and you take a breath and you say, look, I woke up on the planet earth. I’m going to spin around its axis once today and that’s going to be far out and I’m going to have experiences which ones, how do I know whichever ones there are there?
Which ones come in front of me? But what if you don’t want that one too bad? It’s the one that happened and you literally sit there and say, I’m going to learn. Have a good old time sitting on the planet, spin the middle of nowheres and that’s that. Then you go through your day and you remember you set up little benchmarks. I used to do that. Oh my god, I don’t have to do it anymore. But in my early days when I first moved out here, if I got into my car, I didn’t start my car until I stopped and remembered I was sitting on a planet earth spin, middle of nowheres, about to scoot around the planet in my little car. Alright? I’d take a few breaths, then I’d start the car. Before I got out of the car. I’m serious. Every single time I’d do the same thing.
Then I get out. So okay, I got that down. Now whatcha going to do? I noticed that the mind was starting not like things right away. So I need more benchmarks, consciousness points. So I decided, okay, I noticed that I walked through doors periodically. Have you noticed you go through doors a lot? Okay, before I walk through the door, nobody will notice. Just takes a second. I’ll do my mantra or I’ll think I’m walking through a door on the planet Earth. It’s pretty funny. There are doors on the planet earth, every single door, front door, bathroom door, this door, office door, whatever. It’s just stop for a second, take a breath and go through the door. Well, that’s far out. Okay, so I’m doing that. It’s working out. Then they gives me this big business to run and I got all these phone calls and so I started, okay, here we go.
Every time, every time before I pick up the phone, we’re going to do that. So it takes an extra ring, it just one extra ring. I got to remember, I’m sitting on a planet in the middle of nowhere and there’s a telephone ringing and someone’s going to talk to me where that’s weird. It doesn’t happen on bars or Saturday anywhere, right? Wow, man. And so I pick up the phone, have the phone call, hang it up. The moment I hung up before I did anything else, remember that’s what happened. I was on planet Earth, I talked to somebody somewhere and that’s all that happened. And she kept setting these benchmarks, conscious moments. Guess what happened? Eventually this one touched that one, then it touched this one, then it touched that one. And then you’re there all the time. You have to do anything. You’re conscious, you’re present, you’re always present. Said, okay, you do what you need to do. But that’s called helping evolution. Alright, so now that you’re conscious and you’re not reacting to what happens because you don’t like it or you do like it and dislike are the same exact thing, do you not get weird if something happens that you really, really like? Do you not get weird or something happens that you really, really don’t like? You just get weird inside?
It gets weird in there. Energy change and shift around and Christ, okay, so if you’re conscious, you’re the witness, you watch this, you notice that you have this ego that you have thing that you’re carrying. So it seems like, I used to think of carrying him around, why don’t have to carry this guy around under me? Once I got conscious enough, he just was always talking. He was always complaining. He always had something to say about everything and I took a long time for me to figure out. I used to beat him up. No, you don’t beat him up and doesn’t help one, I single aorta. But you learn to raise it. You learn to work with yourself. But the point is now you’re helping evolution. Let’s say you go home and visit your parents. That’s always fun. If you’re young enough, you go home and visit your parents.
Usually it brings up all kinds of stuff, especially when you’re in college. You go home and visit your parents. Everything they ever said to you or your groom reminds you of this and that, but you’re conscious now. You worked with it. You notice that your ego is getting all weird and it doesn’t want to do it and be defensive and it could actually start acting like when you were young. It start putting the same stuff back. People tell me all the time, I was like, I’m going visit my parents. I’m 18 years old. Everything was, I might as well been 15 or 14. So much resistance. I didn’t like this. And I went, same person came up. Be conscious. Be conscious. This is the time to grow. That’s a wonderful time to grow, to be put into an environment where a past part of yourself starts expressing itself and coming up, but you’re conscious now.
That’s the witness. You see it happening. So what do you do? You don’t give into it. You don’t have to throw it away or anything. You just stay centered, calm, and you let it go. That’s what I found. You just let it go. What do you mean? You’re welcome to say in there what you want to say, but I ain’t saying out here what you’re saying in there. No way, no way. I’m dumping you out there and polluting my environment. So if you need to be standing in there, I can handle it. I’ve evolved enough so I can handle the garbage that’s stored inside of there. So let’s say you go to sleep, you have a dream and you wake up and you feel all weirded out with a bad dream, you’re all weirded out. Oh, so I do let it go. What do you mean it was a dream?
You want to analyze it and get into where it came from. Or you want to sit there and say, wherever it came from, I must have stored some garbage down there. Okay, I stored garbage down there in the subconscious. It expressed itself. What should I do about it? Handle the fact that it expressed itself and you’ll be able to handle when it comes up during your day. If you can’t even handle the dream, you’re not going to be handled what it felt like down there. If it comes back up, just keep saying, I can handle this, I can handle this. I’m evolved being, I can handle this. And then some things will happen to you that you say, I can handle this. And you lie to yourself. You didn’t handle it very well at all. You can remember that back in the early days, maybe some conflict with somebody and I don’t like it. They didn’t like it either, right? But we’d get into some argument or something and I’d sit there and say, okay, I know I have a tendency with this person about that subject, so I’m going to get centered, clear. I ain’t bring up that subject. I’ll talk about something else. I just want to see that I can do that. Walk in within 15 seconds the subject comes out of my mouth.
It is a sport. Alright? I fell off the bounces beam. Okay, what are you do when you fall off the bounces beam? You get back on, do you get back on you? Try again. It’s a game. It’s a sport. It’s called the sport of evolution. It’s the highest sport there is, alright? And you’re going to play it whether you like it or not, and guess who your coaches God. And so you basically realize I’m here to work on myself. I’m not here to get you all to be the way I want you to be so I don’t have to work on myself. I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’m going to go to the Olympics and if I don’t get a 10 diving, I’m going to change the rule book to wherever you said I did. My legs were spread a little bit. They didn’t go right.
That’s the highest way to dive. Those are a 10 from now on. That’s a 10. You’re stupid, isn’t it? That’s what you’re doing. You’re sitting there saying, it’s supposed to be the way I want. If it bothered me, it’s wrong. And so you start working on raising yourself and you do this and it’s so much fun. Eventually, at first it’s not fun at all because egos going to fight back. It’s like you get a spoiled child. They throw tantrums all the time and you spoil them. Whatever. They throw a tantrum, you give ’em exactly what color, which one do you want? Oh my god, I don’t want to meet that kid. That’s what you did to yourself. You said to the ego, the lowest part of your being. What do you want? What do you hope? You said, how do I get him to say it?
How can I make things be the way you want? You give into that every single thing she says, do you understand that? He said completely pampered that thing to death to where now it’s spoiled to death. It honestly believes you. You left what you want. You honestly believe things should be the way you want you. How I know if they’re not, you say they’re wrong, and so you just decide, no, I’m going to evolve. I’m going to grow. I’m going to use every moment in my life to the best of my ability. You will do it perfectly in no way and shape or form just because you get a coach. You don’t play tennis perfect. You’re going to play piano perfect, but you work at it. You work at, that’s what you’re doing. You’re helping the process of evolving and eventually you’re going to come to me and say, it’s pretty amazing as though exactly what I needed happened to me.
Exactly. This book came right when I needed it, and this came a thing. And then I was going through this challenge and all of a sudden this happened. It’s like you start noticing life was always working with you, but you were working against it. You thought it was bad, it was wrong, and it’s not giving me what I want. But once you catch on that freedom of freedom, not for yourself, but from yourself, you start seeing it. Life’s on your side. Life’s literally helping you so that if you need backhand, all of a sudden God sends a coach who’s a backhand specialist, right? You start saying, wow, exactly what I needed showed up. When you start working with the evolution, you start realizing, okay, what is this about? It’s about me learning to handle reality. That’s what it’s about, me learning to handle reality. Why?
Because reality always wins. Why? Because it’s reality. And living untethered, I had to define reality because I’m giving a discussion, right? Well, people write books are reality. One line reality is that which already happened. If it happened, it’s reality. Nobody has ever undid what already happened. But what if he’ll make him apologize? It still happened. It still happened. There ain’t no way. You’re making it not happen right or wrong. So you make that the purpose of your life. I’m going to assist evolution. I’m going to accept what takes place. Doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it. Acceptance does not mean you’re just a doormat and everybody’s running over you. Acceptance means you can handle what happened. Now, what can you do to help? Not help you because you couldn’t handle it. God, if you get that, you’ve got everything I’ve wanted to teach you. If you’re out there working with it to try to make you feel better, you couldn’t handle it, that’s terrible.
You’re just basically, I don’t want to evolve and you guys are going to pay a price as opposed to, I’m going to learn to handle it. Now what? Is there something I am supposed to be doing or can be doing to raise the event outside that took place? Not I can’t handle it, but because I got put in this position and maybe I can help you become a servant of reality. When you can accept reality, you become a servant. When it’s raining out, there are some things you can do that are good to do in the rain as opposed to complaining or wishing you could be doing something else. I always talked about there’s a bumper sticker out there. I’m sure you’ve seen it. I’d rather be sailing. I’d rather be fishing. I once said the bumper sticker I was talking about, and they actually made it.
They used to sell it to book table. I’d rather be doing what I’m doing because then you’re a happy person. You’re doing great. So you start working with evolution, and you’re going to find out so much. You’ll learn so much. You’ll never question the presence of an intelligent force running the universe. Call it whatever you want. You’ll start seeing. It’s working with you. It’s working with you. I told you, it’s like, let’s take a giant marble slab, beautiful marble, but it’s just a square marble slab. And that’s you to start with. And then all of a sudden something hits you, it chips off a piece. Oh my God, it hurts. What’s going on? Why is he chipping at me? Right? And another chip. Another chip with chip. Oh, stop, stop. And then start seeing Michelangelo’s David coming out of your formal, oh my God, what’s that norm?
It’s gorgeous. That’s what’s happening. Do you understand that now either you’re assisting or you’re resisting, and that’s life. And so you learn how to do it. How? Remember, always remember this talk. This is the purpose. You took birth on earth to evolve. That’s the purpose of it. Are you fighting it or learning from it, assisting it, working with it every minute, every second. There’s not one part of your life that’s spiritual, another part that’s not, that’s ridiculous. Every second of your life is your spiritual journey. And the more you work with it, the more you grow, the way you change. And eventually it gets to the point where it’s like, bring it on. Bring it on. I want to grow. Okay, so we’ve talked about evolution. Now to understand what happens when you evolve enough, everything changes. All of a sudden, there is no sense of resistance inside of you.
You appreciate the path, you love the path, you welcome the path, and therefore there’s no resistance. And all of a sudden you feel love and you feel appreciation. And then all this energy inside of you starts going up. It doesn’t go down anymore. It just rushes up, feeding you all the time. You feel love, joy, inspiration, power, all coming up inside of you. And you learn to work with that because then that’s the next stage of your evolution. Now it’s spiritual evolution instead of human evolution. Eventually the great ones went so high that their consciousness, instead of having to deal with this thing down there, is looking at let go and merged with the source of consciousness, which is what the word God means, the oneness of the whole universe and pure ecstasy and nirvana, all the nice things that they all talk to you about. Alright, evolve, evolve.
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