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Michael Singer: There is a life that everyone can live that’s founded on peace, love, harmony, giving, compassion, all these beautiful, beautiful flows of energy. It is the natural state of a human being to be in that state. Everyone is capable. It doesn’t matter what you’ve ever done, matter what they’ve ever done. It is the natural state of your being. Like I teach that the natural state of the body is health. Is it always healthy? No. But if you were to take all the people alive today and take the minutes in which their body was healthy over the course of their life versus when it was sick, the numbers are not even close. The body knows how to take care of itself. It’s programmed, created to be healthy. There’s an immune system digested. There’s all these systems that are made to support the body. It is the same thing inside of you.
There’s a natural system inside of you that’s way more intelligent than your body’s intelligence and your body’s very, very intelligent. The systems are phenomenal, but for your higher self, for your heart, for your mind, and for the seed of consciousness, the systems are way beyond that which supports the body. So why don’t all human beings feel psychologically and spiritually healthy? We’ll call it that. We’ve discussed that a million times. We’re just going to go deeper into it and then go past that. If you were to shove into your body food or substances that it can’t handle, it wasn’t built to handle them, there are chemicals, there are foods that are things that are just not healthy for your body, well then the body’s not going to be healthy, but you did that inside. Your natural is joy. Your natural state is love. Your natural state is really, truly ecstasy, bliss, all constantly a flow, an upward flow of energy feeding you day and night all the time no matter what happens.
That’s your background. That’s your support structure underneath what happened. Exactly the same as what happened. If you eat wrong or breathe poisons or do different things, polluted air and stuff, water, the body can’t handle it well. You’ve done things inside yourself that mess up your internal system, your natural flow. What are those? It’s exactly the same as what happens when you eat wrong, when you breathe bad air and stuff like that, you have taken in situations that have unfolded in life. We’ve talked about it a lot of times, life is a happening place. Things happen. That’s just the way it is. The weather happens, people happen. People have moves, people go through different things, animals happen. All kinds of things happen all the time. That’s what’s going on in this world. If you weren’t here, it’d still be going on. It goes on all over the place and you experience the ones that are in front of you someday you’ll understand.
So this is the part of reality that I got to experience the part that’s in front of me. So what the problem is that just like you can’t digest or handle food that is not proper for your body, if you can’t handle the situations that are happening in front of you, you suppress them, you hold onto them, you push them away, have discussed that over and over again. If you store inside of you stuff that is not healthy, you didn’t do well with it and you couldn’t handle the fact that you couldn’t digest, that you weren’t digest the events that happened in front of you, what do you do? You push them away and you store them inside of you. I’ve asked you a bunch of times if you store everything that ever bothered you inside of you, what’s it going to be like in there?
I’m telling you, it’s going to be bothered. That’s why your natural energy flow, the natural flow of your being cannot take care of you. Just like if you ate wrong and did different things, your body, they can’t handle it, they can’t handle it. That’s what you’ve done. You’ve resisted events in your life that you couldn’t handle. I’m not going to say you didn’t like. Let’s not go there yet. You just couldn’t handle them. You handle some events, you handle lots of events, but you couldn’t handle those events and so what you did is store them inside of you and that has messed up your entire system. What’s the solution? Don’t throw those inside of you. I normally wait till the end of my talk to discuss that. We might as let the cat out of the bag right away, okay? If you’re having trouble and stomach aches and different things, don’t ask, where’s my pet to Bismol?
Where’s my Alka Seltzer? Ask, what am I eating that is messing up this beautiful body that’s programmed to be healthy and change your diet If you are unable to handle reality as it unfolds in front of you, learn how to that to me, I’ve been through all this growth, all this meditation, all this stuff, my God, 52 years, that’s what I came down to. You are storing inside of you stuff that is screwing up a completely natural system that will happen by itself. You have to do all this, all these difficult things and all that stuff. You just have to stop storing garbage inside of you. If you stop storing garbage inside of you, you’ll find out that you’re very beautiful. You don’t have to do anything else. If a hot air balloon, it’s natural status to go up in the air, but if it’s tethered down, don’t sit there and keep putting helium or different things to make it go up.
Cut the tethers. It’s exactly the same inside of you. You have screwed yourself up. People don’t like to hear that. You understand that there’s nothing that has screwed you up except you, but these events have happened. Yeah, but you couldn’t handle them. You couldn’t handle that. This person said this or this person did that or that it rained on your birthday or they’re driving in front of you, is driving not the way you want it to or that blah blah blah, blah, blah. You can’t handle these things. Well, if you can’t handle them, you push them away. And I’m telling you, I’ve done this a long time and I’m not the only one teaching it. Alright? The great ones taught that these are some scars. Ancient yoga taught this. You are taking these patterns that are unfolded in front of you. They come in on their way through the universe, air, the wind blows past you.
That’s its nature. It keeps moving. Well, these events are trying to pass through you. I guarantee you there people on both sides of you, they pass right through them. They don’t any problem with ’em. Not that your wife left you, they don’t know your wife, they don’t know you. It’s an event. They were there with you. You saw it, okay? It’s just passed right through ’em like the wind, but it didn’t pass through you and if it didn’t pass through you, it’s because you stopped it and I shouldn’t have used that example because that’s graduate school, but or the driver in front of you there use their blinker. They keep stepping on their brakes. They went 15 miles below the speed limit. Can you handle that? No. You have to complain. You have to get upset. You have to get disturbed. It didn’t come in and pass through you, but I want you to understand it passed through the air, it passed through all the other cars around you.
Events happen and then they have energy and the energy just flows through the universe. That’s been happening for the beginning of time, but it didn’t make it through you and there’s only one reason it didn’t because you stopped it. Do you understand that you resisted the passage of that event as it passed through you? Now I know your mindset is logical. Anybody would get said about this. I don’t care. I literal don’t. I’m telling you, you need to learn the truth. If it doesn’t make it past you, it’s you stopped it. Nothing’s stopping it be. You went in there and you stopped it. And what happens when you stop it? That’s a suppression, repression, denial, resistance. I call it psychology likes to give big names to it and talk about, well, how much did you resist it? Did you resist it to the point of denying that it even happened?
Okay, well now you got some problems. Did you resist it to the point where you never want to think about it again? You pushed it away so it didn’t exist. Don’t know to talk about it. Well, that’s suppression and repression. You understand that? That’s what all the psychology is about. The fact that you’re screwed up but you screwed yourself up. No one will tell you that. The therapist won’t talk to you about that. I’m not supposed to talk to you that way. I’m not. Don’t feel guilty. Just understand there’s no one in there, but there is no one in there but you. Your eyes didn’t resist it. Ears didn’t resist it. Your senses don’t resist it. They just pass it right through, okay? But when it came into your consciousness and you were aware and you couldn’t handle that vibration, you said, no, not on my watch.
And you did one of those psychologically damaging things of you resisted it there, call it whatever you want. You resisted it. You have hands in there, you can push things around. You think that’s innocent. You think you’re protecting yourself. You’re screwing yourself up. If something outside is scaring you and you put bars on your windows and shades all over the place so you can’t look outside, guess who lost you? Because there was one thing out there you couldn’t handle. Once you saw it or something, you thought you saw it, now you are locked into the cage that you made for yourself. That is what’s happening inside. If you can’t handle the events that are unfolding in front of you, you’re going to store them inside and they’re going to bother you for the rest of your life. Simple. Have you noticed? Alright, that they’re still there and that things could hit them.
You feel with your soft spots, your targets, things that get hit and shoot stuff up, that stuff that’s shooting up is like I do it in living in te. I say it. It’s like if there’s a stream of water flowing even, oh, it’s so gorgeous flowing. Even put one rock in that water, you have eddies sprays currents. It creates disturbance in the flow. You created a disturbance in the force of this energy that’s flowing through you. And the more of those you store, the more that the energy hits those and shoots out as your emotions. That’s what your emotions are. I don’t care what psychology teaches you, they’re not natural. You’re not a human being. You’re a great, great being made of light, of Shakti of energy. Okay? You humanness is creative. What I’m talking to you about. You say, I’m only human. You are not.
What you’ve done is shove these events inside of you and now the energy force is trying to flow up to feed you. Hits those and creates jealousy and emotion, fear and anxiety, all kinds of stuff. Alright? I think it’s you give names to the sprays. Now, it is true that biologically there is survival and fear of survival. You are living with an animal. That’s a true statement. This thing’s an animal. It evolved from an animal and it still an animal has all the animalistic needs, this, that and the other thing. Okay? You can rise above them, but that fear, the primal fear of survival is not what I’m talking about. That is not your suppressed stuff, shooting up and hitting it, but being afraid that somebody didn’t like you. Being afraid that somebody said something about you being afraid that somebody might say something about you to somebody that you don’t know who they said it to.
Now I have to worry about anyone I meet, all that garbage, all that personal stuff is only due to the fact that you have stored this stuff inside of you. So the question becomes, what do I do? I always tell you, you have two choices. You only have two choices. One, go out there and try to compensate for the mess you created inside yourself. And I know I get people write me sometimes, so therapy says they shouldn’t own it, it’s not theirs, right? They’ll feel guilty, they’ll feel no, no, feel strong. I’m encouraging you to fix it because you did it. If mommy did it, she’s dead as many years ago. If the ex did it and never hurt you, they did it. No, you did it. I want you to own it, but not guilty. Not with a sense of, oh my God, I’m so sorry, right?
Just the fact is if I stored it in there, I can let it go. It doesn’t have to be in there. I can’t get mommy to change what she did. I can’t get the boyfriend or girlfriend to change everything. You understand that I can’t get the driver in front of me to drive differently, but I’m in control inside of me. So if I don’t store it inside of me, guess what? It won’t be stored inside of me. You can bring it back memory, but it doesn’t have all that junk attached to it of fear and anxiety and garbage that all human garbage that we created inside is not natural. You are not a human being. You are not a human being. You live with one. Just like you’re not an animal. You’re not an animal. You live with one. It has animal tendencies and my first book that I wrote called The Search for Truth, it says basically this is your pet.
It’s like a pet. When it’s hungry, it says anything it needs from an animalistic point of view. Freud quoted the id, Freud’s id. Is your body nature expressing itself in your mind? Freud analyze the minds that it egos super ego. Well, the I part is your animal talking to you. Why does that have to talk to you? Because you’re back in there. You can ignore it, you can not eat. You can get so lost in thought that you don’t eat. So it better be a part of your mind that’s representing your body. It’s only me if you read the search for truth. What was that 50 years ago? It says that id, the ID is your body’s representative. In your mind, the super ego is society’s representative. In your mind, your ego is you building a self-concept that can live with all this garbage going on, but it’s all in your mind. It’s built in your mind. So yes, there is primal fear. Fine, you do not experience it very often. Do you understand that there’s not one of you unless you’re at war somewhere, that in today’s western culture that is experiencing primal fear on a regular basis, so fine, we took care of that. But the psychological fear, anxiety, insecurity, need, there are no needs. There are physical needs, body needs, okay? There are no psychological needs. I’m going to be very bold today. You’ll be sorry you came.
There are no psychological needs, there are not. Well, don’t you have a need for love? Don’t you have a need for friendship? You can have friendship. That’s a beautiful thing. You can have love as a beautiful thing. You don’t need it. You’re filled with it naturally. You are whole and complete within yourself. When you’re clean, the Shakti will feed you constantly. I’m not exaggerating, right? There’s just this constant upward flow of love, of joy, of wellbeing. Now go out and share it. Of course you have to go move to a mountain somewhere. Go out and get married, go have children and go ahead and earn money. Anything, everything’s fine. If you’re doing it to express the beauty that’s inside of you, not if you’re doing it to find the beauty because the beauty is not inside of you. I’m out here trying to do things so that I feel okay, not I’m out here doing things.
I do feel okay, I’m not playing music because I need a living and I want to make some money. And somebody said, you sound pretty good with a guitar. So I figured if I can go out and convince somebody that I’m good, then I can make some that’s very different than I am inspired to. Oh my God, music’s playing inside of me. I can’t wait to figure an instrument, play it. I couldn’t care if anybody listens, I couldn’t care if I get hired. Those are two totally different motives for why you’re acting. One is based upon the fact that you’ve cleansed at least enough for beautiful energy to flow, creative energy, love, energy. It’s all beautiful and you’re expressing it, not I need it. So I’m not expressing it. I’m taking it out there. I’m trying to make things be the way I need them to be so that I can be okay, not I screwed myself up and all I need to do is cleanse.
I need to clean out so that I can feel the natural energy and don’t doubt that you can feel it. Every one of you is capable and like I said, I don’t want to hear that you did things wrong. Yoga used to teach that. He tell everybody, don’t tell me what you did wrong. Tell me what you did right? Because light dispels, darkness rise above anything you did that ever hurt anybody. That was out of balance, that was done out of selfishness basically that was done The other meth I just talked to you about. Yes, during my life, all of it mostly. Alright, you are out there taking, you call it giving all you want. You were taking, you’re trying to make people and places and things and finance and every single thing be the way you needed to be so you could be okay.
Why? Because you’re not okay, but I just told you why you’re not okay. You’re not okay because you blocked yourself. So you have a choice. Go out and do one or work on yourself. But when you start to work on yourself and you realize I didn’t have to do those things before I look at where I was, don’t feel guilty. There’s no place for guilt or shame in this path. If you do something and you know it’s wrong out of balance and you do it anyways, then guilt is a very good thing to have because it steers your boat. You hear me? Because you’re not steering it, it steers it for you. It’ll make you feel weird next time. If you did something in the past and we all have that, you feel that I was out of balance. Okay? The fact that you are calling it out of balance today, you didn’t call out a balance yesterday means you grew.
It means you learned. Don’t ever let yourself learn something and then look back and judge the you that didn’t know it. That’s not fair, that’s ridiculous. If you’re learning a sport, tennis, let’s say, and used to hit it into the net, now you’re a good tennis player, don’t feeling embarrassed. If you go see somebody that used to hit the net around you learned you grew and don’t justify it or defend it, just feel glad that you learned. Well, it’ll be the same way psychologically. If you learn behavior patterns that are more harmonious, more loving, more caring and so on, and you’ve learned that, then basically look back and said, you know what you say to your past bad behavior, thank you, thank you. If you failed math in third grade and they held you back and I have a PhD in theoretical mathematics, when you look back, don’t be embarrassed.
Third grade you failed math. Look back and say thank you, thank you. You sent me on a path that I got better with things. My teacher was better. You feel good about things. Feel good that you grew. I’m talking to you now, not about yoga, asanas or meditating about the way, your attitude about yourself and how you live your life within yourself. So I’ve just told you, no shame, no blame unless I used to have. Here’s your litmus test. Somebody comes back and says, oh, they come to let’s say, oh, I feel so terrible years ago I did this and I hurt this person. So I’d ask a very simple question. If the same situation unfolded today, would you do the same thing? Invariably they say, no, of course not. Then you grew. That’s wonderful. Throw a party, rejoice, give yourself some ice cream. It’s your birthday, you were born.
Do you understand what I’m teaching you? Otherwise you hold yourself back from where you are now, by the way it was before, it’s crazy. But they won’t teach you this. You understand that? I’m so crazy that I teach students if they study and take a test, some science tests, math test, and they get three wrong, throw a party because then you’ll learn how you are viewing it wrong and not do it again. That’s the purpose of going to school, not to get straight. If you’ve got straight A’s, all the time, you’re in the wrong courses. You’re not learning anything. But when you get something wrong, have you ever gotten something wrong? I say, oh my God, I see what I was looking at wrong. That’s wonderful. Don’t go out and get B’s. You can get A’s. But you just get to the point where you look at yourself and you realize you’re in here and you’re growing and the way you grow is to realize that if I shove stuff down in here, I can’t handle the moments that are unfolding, I’m going to be a mess.
It’s like a computer virus. Everything you shove down there, it just grows down there and it pollutes the other stuff that’s down there. And next thing you know, you start associating something that isn’t the same, but you tie it together with something that bothered you and now you’re afraid of everything. People laughed at you once in school. Now you’re afraid to raise your hand and say anything. You hear me? It just goes down there and screws up your whole life. So this is what living spiritually means. It means first understand if there’s anything wrong inside of you. And of course there is. It’s only because you stored this garbage inside of you. All this talk that the mind does, I talk about the voice inside your head if you’ll watch it, the vast majority of what it talks about is that you’re afraid that you need things.
I need them. How can I get them? What should I do? And it just goes off on this path of I’m not okay. How do I do the world to make me be okay? And just watch it talk. Watch it. Have you ever talked to somebody, had a conversation, walked away and the conversation kept going in your head? When I say that, I say, oh God, I should have said that would’ve been impressive. Yes or no? Don’t blush. That’s because you’re not okay. As it boils down to if you’re very sensitive and you diet and you screwed your body up, then everything you eat, you’re afraid you’re going to get sick. So the answer is not to go out there and make things be the way you need them to be so that they won’t bother you. That’s ridiculous. Alright? You’ll fight with that your entire life.
It’ll never go away. Check your parents, check your grandparents, check your great grandparents. Check history, check everybody. There is no person that has ever gotten it the way they wanted for any period of time and were totally okay because they married somebody or because they had this or because they were in money. Don’t understand that. Go buy a new car. How long does it last? The car will last. But how long does the excitement of getting into that car and driving somebody around in that car and showing it off, how long does that last? Okay, you wake up, you realize getting what you want is so overrated. It’s ridiculous. Getting rid of why you need things is permanent. So if you need somebody to respect you and to love you and to coddle you and take care of you, it’s because you’re not whole within yourself.
You don’t feel complete. You don’t feel whole. I’ve told you why you don’t feel whole. It is because you blocked all that stuff inside so you don’t feel the natural flow of energy coming up. But if you don’t see that, then you have to go out there and find the right person and manipulate them and get them thing, but then they got their own stuff. And relationships aren’t all that easy. That’s why. Because each person is trying to make the other person be what they need it to be. And so you eventually reach the point where you realize you don’t renounce the world. It is not about renouncing the world. You interact with the world, but you start watching why you’re interacting. If you’re interacting because you’re not okay and you’re trying to satisfy your needs and trying to attract yourself what you want so you feel better, check it out.
Just check out how busy that makes the mind. Check out how often you feel failure, check out how often you feel fear. Just check out what that does and eventually you will reach the point where you say, this is not working my entire life. I’ve tried to get things the way I want them to be and I’m a certain age now and I’m still doing the same thing. I always ask you if you do the same thing your entire life and you’re still doing it, maybe it doesn’t work. Maybe there’s a better way to do it and there is a better way to do it. Get rid of these blockages that you stored inside yourself and it’s not all or nothing as you release this stuff. Alright, let’s start this way. As you don’t put more in, you have better days. If you say something to me and a normal would’ve bothered me, but I look at it, I say, it’s okay, you had a bad day, you’re in a bad mood.
Fine, let it go. Now we’re going to go down really deep. How about I say I forgive you. It’s not good enough. You do it. Do it. If that’s where you’re at, what I’ve learned is if I don’t judge what you did, I don’t need to forgive you. So the fact that you need to forgive somebody means you already judged what they did. So you can go so deep that whatever happens just passes through. If I’m not holding onto it, I don’t need to forgive you. So I want you to understand what the deep states are about. They’re about freedom, about liberation, about openness, about always feeling joy and love and inspiration as you go through your day. So if you’re willing to take that on as your spiritual growth and it is your spiritual growth, yes, you meditate. Yes you do mantra, yes, do all the techniques, but if you don’t do this, you’ll have some nice deep meditation and come back and get screwed up.
In 15 seconds the phone will ring. Who’s that? Why are they calling me? Well, oh my God, I hope it’s not. How often have you, I’m going to ask it. How often have you found your mind thinking that something’s going to happen that you don’t like? That you don’t want? Somebody says, the boss said, I want to talk to you, or somebody says, I’m going to give you a call, I want to talk about something, and your mind makes up what it is you’re going to talk about and you get yourself upset. I guarantee you what you made up. It’s due to your past experiences that somehow the teacher said, stay after I want to talk to you and you got in big trouble. And now somebody just says to you, give me a call. I want to talk to you about something. It’s just the tone of the voice and oh your mind for the next hour.
Yes or no. Again, it’s because you stored that stuff in there. Otherwise this does not have to happen. I don’t care what they tell you. You can be clean in there. It can be beautiful in there. And again, what does it mean to be strong? I don’t mean strong enough to put a barrier up. I can handle anything you say. I mean be strong enough so you don’t have to put the barrier up. The zen type thing. The wind can blow down the oak tree, but it can’t blow down the grass because it bends. Alright, that’s real strength. You know what real strength is? I don’t have to defend myself, not I’m really good at it. I can handle things that’s real strength. I can handle the moments that are passing through me. That’s the whole theme of this thing. Alright, but you can’t. So what I teach you all the time, what do I do?
You learn, you can learn. Just because you can’t do it now doesn’t mean you can’t learn to do it. And so you wake up and you sit there and say, yes, those issues are in here. I see them, I see the sensitivities, I see the fears. See the self-conscious, the anxiety, the embarrassment. I see it. I see the past situations keep coming back up. I dream about them and somebody says something, they come up and I get all weird. That’s the energy hitting your blockages. That feeling of just weird just off is the shakti, that beautiful Shakti hitting your blockages. It gets weird and you get spacey and the body locks up because the energy’s not coming into the body properly. You get all kinds of tensions and so on. Wake up. That’s all that’s going on is because you stored this stuff in there.
If you get rid of the stuff, how learn, how do you learn? I told you, I tell you all the time, take the small things that happen in your life driver in front of you. The weather, what somebody said, what somebody didn’t say, what you think somebody might say later. The ones that are meaningless, you’re causing yourself damage. They’re not even happening. Or if they are, they’re nothing. Okay? And start practicing letting go. Practice handling that. People say, what do you mean by letting go? Should I not get a job? Should I have a relationship? Is that a surrender? No, that is not letting go means just like I told you, you are in there pushing it away. Don’t let it go. That’s it. Just literally those hands in there that control and push away and protect and do all that. Practice not doing that.
Just like the Olympians practice their sport. This is your sport. The sport of spiritual growth, the sport of becoming. You want a gold medal? Let it be permanent. Win the gold, go for the gold and just keep relaxing past the part of you that would resist. You can’t do it with everything, but you can do it with these little things. You can do it. And so basically start working with yourself to let go of the things you would’ve resisted there. Now you understand what making means by let go, go of the events that are coming into you that already happened. You’re not change, they already happened, that you have hands in there, just your psychological hands that want to resist that, want to push it away. They want to protect yourself. Alright? These are practices I did years and years ago, alright, 50 years ago I practiced it. Somebody says something to you, defensiveness comes up in you. Does anybody know what defensiveness looks like? Okay, you feel it. You feel it come up. You got to defend yourself.
What do you mean don’t try it? Just try it. Where do you see the turmoil that goes on inside? And then you’ll see why you had to do it. All the fear, the protection and all that garbage, right? So if it’s just for some small thing, somebody says to you told me yesterday that this would happen. It didn’t, right? Yeah, you’re right. I dare you. I dare you. Yeah, you’re right. No justification, no rationalization, no. Oh, but they want to like me. They might think it was stupid. They’ll never listen to me again. Yeah, okay, let it all go. And little by little you practice using life to let go of the stuff you stored inside. First it’s difficult and then all of a sudden they write me all the time say, I practiced this. My whole life has changed, my whole life has changed.
I was in a relationship with my wife and we were going to get divorced and so on and now we’re not. And we both practice this and it just changed everything. Of course it’s going to change everything. You’re not listening to the lowest part of your being. So you start practicing letting go, practicing let it go. And you can find that if you do that, you get better at it. Just like if you play an instrument in your practice, just like learning a sport in your practice, you get better. Don’t you Get better at accepting and honoring life. Now again, people misunderstand. If I say accepting, if somebody gets raises in the job and I don’t, is it wrong to go talk to the boss and find out why? Of course it’s not wrong. Of course you interact with the world in a normal way.
You don’t interact with it because you can’t handle it. If you’re interacting with the fact that you can’t handle something, you’re not going to do very well with it. You just admit it, I can’t handle it. But then you shouldn’t be dealing with it. How about I’ll tell you what, you’re going to have an operation and you heard the surgeon who they assigned to you saying, I’ve never done this one before. I don’t think I can do it. I can’t handle this. I don’t feel comfortable about it. But then you don’t have that person do the surgery. And if I get in a car accident and you’re the first person that shows up and you can’t handle the sight of blood, just keep driving by because you have no use to me. So what you do is realize I’m not going to interact because I can’t handle it.
I’m going to let go of a part of me that can’t handle it, then I will interact. Nobody says you don’t interact. You interact from total clarity and just the ability to see what is the best thing to do in this situation. Not I can’t handle the situation. What do I need to do to make it so I can handle it? Didn’t anyone here at that time, that’s a whole different mode of fraction. I’m acting because I’m not. Okay, well then you’re not going to do very well guarantee right now. The fact that you’re not okay is not going to be a basis for deciding the best thing to do to help this situation. So first, let go of the part of you that cannot handle it. That’s not okay. It won’t be perfect. It’s not like I let it go. So it’s gone. No, it is been in a long time.
It’s going to take a while. But the fact that you took the position that what I want to do is let go, that’s a major part of it. The fact that first step that I’m not going to use this to push and defend and take and fight that I’m going to use this to go up. I’m going to use this to let go. That’s what letting go means. But it does not mean that as you let go, that you don’t look and see, okay, fine, I can handle it now what’s the best thing to do in this situation? What can I do to raise the situation to make it more harmonious for everybody? And that’s what you’ll see when you start to look and see what’s best. It won’t be for you. It’s not against you, you’re not renouncing. But when you look for best, other people are part of the situation.
You look to see what’s best for everybody. It’s really beautiful. Everybody did that. And so you interact accordingly, but you don’t not interact. So I’m painting this picture of what it’s like to live inside yourself. You’re a letting go machine and where do you see how much you have to let go of? It’s going to freak you out. You’ll be sorry you came here. There’s a lot of stuff in there and it’s very reactive, isn’t it? And some people just say, well, that’s just the way I am. It is not just the way you are. You’re the consciousness aware that you have a part of your being, that you have screwed up towards your psyche by shoving all this garbage down there and now it’s a flaming mess. But the point is you can let it go. And so you practice letting go and I’m telling you, you’ll start to feel the Shakti.
They write me. It’s beautiful. It warms me so much. I was driving down the street and I’d gone through this tough time and the clouds are starting to clear it, starting to clear and then all of a sudden, oh my God, I just got filled with this love, this joy. Oh, I lasted. Thank you, thank you. That’s how you bring God into this world by getting out of the way the channel and it affects everybody. If you interact with somebody out of defensiveness, interact with somebody because you need something that’s very, very different of interacting with that person because you love them. I don’t mean love them, husband and wife, you just love them. They’re a person. I told you, the way you will end up looking at every single person once you get clear is that is the sum of that person’s past experiences expressing itself.
A psychology says you’re the sum of your learn experiences. No, you’re psyche is the sum of your learn experiences and everyone, you’ve had different experiences and that particular person had the experience that made him behave the way he just behaved. Well in that fun, in that niche, we’re all really that different. And guess what? You who’s in there watching the sum of your learning experiences and learning to let them go. That same consciousness is in there watching some of his learned experiences. When you get back inside yourself enough to see what I’m talking about and see the beauty that your conscious, the beauty of your consciousness, everybody’s the same back there. That’s what namaste means in the Hindu tradition. That which is God within me respects the God within you. And so basically you’re in there and you see your stuff, but you can’t see it until you work through enough and now you realize, well, okay, everyone else got their stuff.
It’s different than mine. They had different experiences. To me, that’s compassion. It’s not what Webster defines it as, but compassion is not sympathy. Sympathy is, oh, from just like you. I feel so sorry for you. I went through that all that’s sympathy. Compassion is I’ve gotten out enough to realize I don’t have to be him. I got one, but I don’t have to be him and I know what it’s like to not have gotten out and I respect that. I honor that and have compassion. Don’t tell them that, but I have compassion for what you’re going through. I have compassion. So it’s this tremendous openness and love for everybody. No matter what they’ve ever done, no matter what they do to you, no matter whatever happens, you’re going to only used to say, but by God’s grace there goes myself. It took me a long time to tune into that.
That’s saying the same thing. If I’d gone through what you went through, God knows how I’d be and so you’d end up not judging. That’s so beautiful. The third sin patriarch says to end the burdensome process of judging Christ said, judge, not that Jesus shall not be judged when you catch on, you don’t judge anybody. You just understand that is what the sum of the learning experiences did. Net result is you get to the point where once you get clear, the whole world changes, but it didn’t change. Your view of it changes. You came from a higher place. You stop judging, you stop taking. If you’re whole, why do you take? You don’t need anything. Imagine meeting someone that doesn’t need anything from you. They just love you. It’s like that’s all to it. And they’re helpful. If there’s anything that you need or something, they try to help, but they want to think back. You’re uncomfortable with that. People are uncomfortable. Said beautifully on giving in the prophet and he talks about how we’re embarrassed to receive
Somehow we’re lower or something. I said no. If somebody’s giving, what does he say? Raise on their gift as on wings that you go together to heaven, right? Except says people want to give and honor and respect and so on. You just get open. That’s all I’m telling you. That’s all this garbage about how things are supposed to be and not supposed to be and what you like and what you don’t like and what you want. And how do you get what you want? It all stops. Imagine that. Imagine that not going on in there. And all that’s going on in there is love. All that’s going on and there’s tremendous peace and beauty and now come out and interact with the world by all means. So that is the inner life as opposed to the outer life. But what people misunderstand is they think in order to live the inner life, you have to renounce the outer life.
That’s not true. That’s what Sid Arthur was all about, behest, that beautiful book that he ended up living the monks in that book. I don’t remember that a long time ago. The monks, the traditional monks, Buddhist monks, they did the practices and they felt he fell off the wagon and he went out there and had marriage and he had this and the money and so on. And in the end, he was the one that was completely at peace. He had gone through and needed to go through. He went through it open, he became purified, and now he just sat by the stream and was completely contented at peace. He worked through his stuff. That’s what you are doing every day of your life. You’re living that life. Unless you honestly believe that what my life is about is getting what I want and avoiding what I don’t want, then you’re going to keep your stuff.
You’ll leave a trail behind you that if you look back, it’s not pretty. You’re a taker. But instead, if you use it for your growth, you use it to let go of yourself. Then the Shakti will come in, she will, the Shakti will come in and she’s always there. She just won’t be blocked and just feel, what does it feel like to feel the Shakti? It feels take the highest thing you’ve ever felt. A moment of love, of intimacy, a moment of winning and just total just wow. Everybody’s clapping at what you did. Just feel that elation. That’s not an emotion. An emotion, the way I describe it, an emotion is something that shoots out anger, fear, need, it shoots out. That’s because the Shakti hits the blockages. There’s a flow of energy that’s not an emotion. It’s the energy itself. So elation, total joy, total love.
It’s something that flows up untouched. It doesn’t flow out, it flows up. When you’re in the arms of your beloved in a special moment, you’re not there. There’s no emotion. They want to call that an emotion. It’s not an emotion, it’s the shakti. That’s what you’re experiencing. You’re feeling a free flow of Shakti that made it around your blockages, but it won’t last very long, will it? If blockers will come right back, somebody will not say exactly what you want to hear when I want to hear it. That’s why we say you’re there just melting. I love you so much. I’ve never loved anyone social my whole life. And the person says, yeah, I love you too. That’s it. Gone. Yes or no gone.
It’s so funny you gave up beauty because somebody said something or didn’t say something. What are you crazy? Who cares what they say? You already won. Keep it. But you can’t can you? Because everything has to be the way you want to make it past your blockages. Alright? But the flow of pure shahi, the flow of pure love is not an emotion. It’s the Shakti flow itself, not being blocked anymore. And you can live in that state. You’re a very great being, but you’ve locked yourself in this little cage because of these blockages. And now you’re afraid of everything and you got to keep it close. But you’re this being of phenomenal light, okay? You have to decide. That’s what I want to do with my life. I want to become the most beautiful being that could possibly exist and offer it to everybody. How’s that is to teach you that the highest life you can live is to offer every single person you meet, the most beautiful human being they ever met. What can you do higher than that? But you got some work to do, don’t you? So don’t tell me you don’t have a career. That is your career. God realization is your career. The other is something you do while you’re growing. Well, life will come to you. You interact with it to the best of your ability.
Ultimately, you are not working ever. You’re serving. And that’s not me telling you you should be serving. It’s that you don’t need to work. There’s nothing you need. But yet life is presenting you with things to do. And so you do it as a gift to God. You do as a gift to life. Every moment of your life, everything you’re doing, you’re not doing for yourself. There’s nothing to get. You don’t need a paycheck. I told you, if you’re living properly on Friday, they give you a paycheck. You have no idea what they gave it to you for. Whoa, thanks. Because all you did was honor and respect the flow of life that was passing before you and serve it to the best of your ability. You go live like that and see what happens. So it’s all about letting go of yourself ultimately. And different situations will mirror yourself.
They will show you where you’re caught, won’t they? Like I said, the person will say, yeah, I love you too. Well, why would you give up love, beautiful, beautiful love because of somebody said or didn’t say. That’s a very bad trade, isn’t it? And so basically you start noticing your self-consciousness, your embarrassment, your need and this and that. And you use every situation to let it go. That’s what you do all through your day, you let go. You let go. So you’re not surrendering life. You’re surrendering the part of you that can’t handle life. Can I repeat that? Because people get it wrong. You’re not surrendering life. Life is unfolding. It’s bringing itself to you. You’re interacting with it. You’re surrendering the part of you that can’t let it pass through. And then people say, well, isn’t there some time you should act? And so yes, I told you once you have let go, at least wanted to, your intention was to let go of the garbage that hit inside of you and you have some clarity.
Yes, by all means, interact with what’s in front of you to raise it to the best of your ability. But not because you can’t handle it. I’m a very strong talk tonight about how to live inside yourself. Other people can teach you meditation. Other people teach you mantra. They do all kinds of stuff. Fine. By all means do these things, do they help you? But if you don’t live like this inside, it’ll just be an experience that you had. Oh, I had this deep meditation. Oh, I had this experience. I went to see this guru in Alaya. What are you doing now? I don’t know. Life isn’t working the way I want it. Alright? And you just get to the point where you understand there’s work to do in there, real work and life will naturally unfold. And it’s helping you because as it unfolds your best part of life.
Yoga Shakti gave us a dur statue. Very great saint once said, problems are the nectar of life. Why? You only have a problem because you can’t let it go. You can’t let that part of life pass through. So they’re showing you where you need growth. And so you become a person who catches on how to breathe, how to let go, how to let things pass through. And I always give you a warning sign if you can handle the day, not put more stuff down there, I’m telling you the old stuff will start coming back up. Don’t write me and tell me something went wrong. That stuff’s in there. It’s suppressed and it needs to go in order for the Shakti to flow. And she’s going to push it up. And now that you haven’t pushed more stuff on top of it, it’s going to start coming up by itself.
The Shakti will push your stuff up. It will push it up naturally. When it’s ready. It does it by itself and you just have to be willing to let go. Eventually you catch on. This is nice. They like soul birth. Childbirth has pain if it’s beautiful and a child, right? Soul birth has pain. What pain? The pain that you stored from the past needs to come back up and pass through. Are you willing to breathe through it? Just like you breathe ous, take a yoga class. They tell you, oh, it’s tight. Just relax and breathe through it. Do the same thing inside and eventually you’ll catch on that no amount of inner pain, psychological pain is not worth going through, period. Because on the other side of that is complete liberation, complete freedom. You have to worry about anything ever again. The only thing your mind thinks about is the task in front of it.
Be here now. It’s not a worry. Imagine never worrying. Am I not being afraid anymore? Would that be nice? Not because I’m strong enough, I took classes. How to defend myself. How about I don’t need to defend myself? Would that be beautiful? Alright, that’s a life that’s waiting for you. If you’re willing to let go, you’re willing to live this. So I think I painted it stronger than I normally do of every minute, of every second of your life. That is the meaning of your life. Earth is a place that soul are sent to evolve. Earth is a place that souls sent to evolve. How are you doing? Are you evolving? Are you letting go every day? Literally. It can be a state where when you go to bed at night, you’re not the same person that woke up in the morning. You can live like that if you let go of your stuff.
It is different when you put your head down than it was when you woke up because you let go of some stuff and eventually every time you lay your head down, it just pour shakti come pouring through you. When you sit down, eat anything, all it does is she chest has they call divine mother. She flows and feeds you inside. Alright? You’re listening. You understand how beautiful it can be. You’re a very great being. You’re a very great being and nothing you ever did will ever take that away. You just have to be willing to let go and not store the garbage inside of you and you’ll find your own greatness.
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