E58: Beyond the Illusion: Awakening to True Consciousness

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Michael Singer: Ative, Jai Masters. there’s so many techniques that we get taught about how to grow, how to find God, how to become enlightened. When you become wise and you stop with all the spiritual ego stuff and all they’re supposed to dos and not supposed to dos, the yamas, niyamas, good, bad, right, wrong, you start to catch on that there’s only one problem and that’s the ego. The foundation of life is consciousness. Someday, and I hope I teach it all the time, I hope we understand that the scientists are just one hair away from finding exactly what the great masters found when they went into deep meditation.

I don’t know how they don’t live it. I don’t know how they don’t catch on in their daily life that they are teaching you. There’s nothing here. It’s not what you see, period. The closest I get to that really moves me is I tell you, if you get up close to a flat screen TV while you’re watching a movie, I don’t care what the movie is, good, bad, right, wrong, X-rated, R rated pg, I don’t care. There it is on the screen. Get up close to that screen and look really, really good. No, put your nose right up that screen and you’re not going to see the movie. You’re going to see dots called pixels. Nowadays with Ford k tv, that dots are really small, sometimes hard to see ’em, but basically you’ll see dots and that’s what’s there. You say, wait a minute, is there a movie there or are there dots there?

That’s like the question I used to ask you guys. I have water in my hands. I’ll go further down. I have H2O in my hands. You know, that’s water, hydrogen, oxygen. Do I have H2O in my hands or do I have water in my hands or do I have electron ucn protons in my hands? Atoms, no one answer to me, just pay attention. There’s no answer to that is it’s all the same water, H2O, hydrogen, oxygen atoms, electron nutrient protons. That’s what you’re doing when you go up close to the screen on your tv. Is there a movie there or are there pixels there? Are there dots there that’s exactly the same? Are they atoms or is it water? That’s as spiritual as it gets guys, because your mind won’t let you do that because the truth of the matter is they’re pixels. The fact that when you step back, your senses average those pixels so that you see a movie that’s an illusion.

There’s really pixels. Alright, there’s dots on that screen, but we get caught up in the perception that we see. Einstein himself said, the following life is a total illusion, but a very persistent one. The fact that you see it this way all the time is where your ego comes from. If you saw it as pixels, you would not have an ego because there’s no difference in those pixels. You say, I like that one. I don’t like that one. That one’s male, that one’s female. That one turns me on. That one turns me off. Would you? This is what all those spirituality, all the great masters are trying to teach you. Yes, you have eyes and ears and touch and taste and they pick up those pixels, those atoms, and by the time they send them back to you, they’re averaged, and so you just see this blur called this room.

It’s really very blurry. What’s really happening are those pixels, those dots are very clear, right? Then you step back, it’s blurry and you see these people, all that stuff, and then you develop in your mind a universe inside your head about the illusion, the blur that you’re seeing that is the fall from the garden. You just fell from reality, which is just dots, atoms into the illusion that your senses are sending back to you. Well, big deal, so what? That’s nice. The trouble is you develop these things called concepts. I like this one. I don’t like that one. I want this. I don’t want that. I freak out over that. I bliss out over that. The pixels, I could stop now one send you home. You need to do some work on yourself. You’re not dealing with reality. Do you understand that? I’m telling you the truth.

How do I notice the truth? Because science is telling me, I told you, in the world you live today, your scientists are your priests. Why? They’re objective and they don’t have anything going, and they’re sitting there looking down there and seeing, oh, there’s molecules. There aren’t things. There’s molecules. Oh, there aren’t molecules, there’s atoms. You should know this now I teach you. Alright, no, there are not atoms. Well, there’s atoms like there’s water, hydrogen, oxygen. There’s these things called atoms, but we found out that they’re made of something. They’re not the basic. The pixel, by the way, is not really a pixel. It’s a light beam. There’s a ray of beam, very fine ray of light making each one of those pixels. Well, they got down there and said, well, they’re not really atoms. They’re made out of something. What are they made out of?

They’re made out of electron neutral protons, which as far as we went in school. Now some of you guys are younger. Maybe you went further. I hope you did. Why? Because they’re not made of electron neutral protons. Those are not the basic elements that are making things because they’re able to break those up and we just do it very quickly. They bombard them in miles long colliders and they bombard protons against each other and they break up. They’re made of something and that’s what quantum physics is. They break it up and they find out, no, no, they’re made at aqua leptons and boons, okay? Just words doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know, but they broke into a finer apparent particle, electrons and corks and et cetera, et cetera, okay? Okay, fine, and they defined them two up corks and a down cork make a proton and two down corks and up corks make a neutron, so they’re made of something.

Then they went further, which I just love and I love teaching it to you. Why? Because it’s the truth. I said, go back. Am I holding water or am I holding electron or protons? It’s the truth. It’s just a deeper truth, correct? Spirituality supposed to be the deepest thing. I really took you, so what do you mean? There are no subatomic particles, quarks, leptons and Bos on? They said, no, no, that’s not really what’s down there. What we found out, and you should just get it once is there are really wavelets in a field. There’s a total field and just like dropping a leaf into a still water, it makes ripples or fields, the quantum fields, they’re omnipresent, they’re everywheres and then they vibrate. They become agitated and they make little wavelets and those wavelets are really what an electron is. There is no electron.

There’s just a wavelet that’s behaving like a particle. They average out if they interact with each other, and so they make these corks, reptil and boons, but they’re just wavelets and that’s exactly what the yogis taught you back. You go to ancient the they said it’s all made of a vibration. There was nothing and then a vibration happened and that vibration of light interacts and creates everything. Well, that is exactly what they found and you’re liking things and not liking which of those wave lists do you like, but why are you laughing? That’s what’s really, it is not what you see. What you see is a lie. What you see is Maya, what you see is illusion, delusion and error. That’s actually what’s there. Well, why do I want to know that? It liberates you. You don’t have to make things be the way you want.

There is no want. There is no not want. There’s no anything. There’s just these little wavelets in these fields because I’m there. I’ll just say it once. Well, why is it quantum physics? Why do they call it quantum physics? You know what a S wave looks like? Goes up and down, up and down. You’ve seen them. That’s not really, these wavelets are really individual segments that are very specific. Maybe the segment is one to 10 energy and this one’s 15 to 20. Well, there is no, I’m just making these numbers. There is no 11 through 14. They’re just completely same segments that because you step back that look like waves, that’s segment is a quantum. That’s why it’s called quantum physics and that segment is what looks like a particle, so a photon is one little segment of a wave in the electromagnetic field and then there are other segments and other segments.

That’s why you have blue green. That’s enough, but you get it. Do you see it? That’s where they’re at. They’re down at that level looking at those waves. Like they said, there is no electron. They make a big deal out of that. It’s not like there’s a little ball that’s circling around a nucleus’s. No way. There’s these wavelets, hundreds of billions and zillions of them interacting together and because statistically they end up making a behavior that acts like an electron. There I did it. That’s how nothing, this is this thing you’re given uptight about this thing that you like, that you don’t like. You understand This is literally the most spiritual discussion you’ll ever have because it dares you not to believe in something but to accept what the scientists found. How can they be against science? We’re so close to every single thing the great masters have taught.

There’s really nothing here but our senses average it out and then what happens? We get caught. That’s what happens. We see it in this form of a movie when it’s not, and then we develop in our minds. We have minds. We develop in our mind all kinds of concepts and views and opinions and preferences and hopes and dreams. How can you have hopes and dreams about a wavelet on a quantum field? Gee, I wish I did that. You understand, but everything it’s doing is what makes this be here right now. It’s not true that God created the heavens and earth God is creating at this very moment or it’s not here. That’s what’s coming out of those fields. Why do I say, God? I’ve discussed this with you. I said, there’s just a hair away from the great teachings. Why? They have said that these fields, these quantum fields are omnipresent.

They’re everywhere. It’s not the universe. They’re what black holes are. They’re what sun is, they’re what moves are, they’re what every single thing is. It all comes out of those fields everywhere. I told you once, but prior to reading that stuff, I never heard the word omnipresent used for anything but God, God’s omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. Well, all of a sudden science using the word omnipresent, oh my God, this is getting fun. That means everything in the universe comes out of those fields exactly the same. Okay, what about omnipotent? I’m not going to get into the corks, left ons and boons, but some of the wavelets make these subatomic particles, quarks and some of ’em make electrons, and then some of them are called boons. They’re the force ones. What do you mean? Well, what is electromagnetism? It’s a force and when you interacted with the other ones, it pulls things together.

That’s what makes quarks actually not the fact that two up quarks and a down quark get pulled together into a proton is number what they call the strong force. It pulls them together. It’s a force. It comes out of those waves. There’s a type of wave forces. They improve gravity, but they say gravity, strong force, weak force and electromagnetism. Those are the forces that make up the universe. They come out of that field. That means it feels omnipotent. It is the cause of every single that’s created. There’s no other force in the universe. It’s all powerful, so it’s everywhere and what they don’t get, but the yogis did and I’ll tell you how is that that field is actually conscious. I cry. I’m sorry. I make my mind live there. No matter what I’m doing, I’m looking at those fields, not literally, I’m not there yet.

There are great masters that were, but it’s like I just reminded my mind. He’s very kind. I taught it. You’re really looking at these fields and the fields are made of consciousness. What does that mean? It means that if you ask a quantum physicist, fine, you’ve figured it out. There’s these agitations or activations in these fields and you give it that. Give a quantum physics, that field, that wave, it can build a universe. It’s pretty far out. We’re pretty smart folks knows how to pulls together and this that. Then we have a couple of holes, but basically they can build a whole universe from there. If you ask what is the quantum field? They will tell you have no idea. That’s not our job. Our job is to explain why things that we perceive, what are they made of and they’re made to leave wavelets.

What if the quantum field wasn’t vibrating? What if it was at its base state? I think they generally tell you that they could never see such a thing. How could they ever find that? Because then nothing exists. In other words, bra, the unmanifest. How close are we getting? For those of you who know the teachings non-duality, I’ve heard those words. Isn’t that what they’re describing in the field itself when it’s not differentiated at all and there’s no wavelets that there’s a field, a non-dual field that’s omnipresent ni throughout the universe? Well, the yogis know it. They don’t know and they may never know that that field is a field of consciousness. It is aware of itself. It is doing this now. Now we’re talking about God, okay? If you do that, how would the yogis know that thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago, they wrote this stuff.

Why? Well, there’s one thing about conscience that’s very funny. You’re conscious. You may not know about the quantum fields, but you don’t have a consciousness, don’t you? You’re a conscious being, you’re aware of things. They went into that state. They stopped paying attention, having their consciousness be distracted by all this at any level and just got back to consciousness itself and every one of them that did that experienced themselves at the universe. They experienced themselves as that field. Read autobiography yogi in the chapter. My experience in cosmic consciousness yoga wrote when he reached that state for the first time completely let go of himself and just it’s called merger. The word yoga means union, union of the individual self with the over self with the whole. He merged into it. He said, I felt every galaxy was my body. I was expanding the speed of light in every direction throughout the universe.

The mayor Bob said the same thing. The great ones merged. What do you mean? It means they are that field of consciousness that is emanating the whole universe. They asked Mayor Baba once because Mayor Ba, a very great being and they called him an avatar, but they asked him, Baba, who are you? Because he felt his power. They saw who he was, they saw what was going on. They asked Mayor Baba, who are you? Everybody said, I was in the beginning before all else was created. I will be in the end after all else falls away. There was never a time I was not and there will never be a time that I’m not. In other words, I am that I am. Isn’t that what the flaming bush said to Moses when Moses asked him, who are you? He said, I am that I am I am.

That which is always was always will be has no beginning, has no end, just is and even the scientists today, the ones that go beyond just being willing to talk about what they know. If you ask these ones that say all this stuff, what was before the Big Bang? You all know where the Big Bang? Well, now you can think about the Big Bang as the original vibration that caused the field to vibrate. In other words, oh, isn’t this the teaching? Look at how they tie together and I read a couple of things. They asked, well, what was there before the Big Bang? They said that which was there has always been there and will always be there. It is infinite and eternal. There’s nothing to talk about. It’s that which is then the Big Bang came created the universe. Oh my God, that’s a scientist talking.

Is that beautiful? So you have just consciousness. Just consciousness. I know it’s difficult. It’s always been there. It’s just that which is there was no time that it wasn’t and never be a time it won’t be. It is what is I am that I am there it is. I am bra. So basically the yogis knew this way before they had the large hedge drunk collider and certain or anything how they let go of what they were conscious of so that they melted back into consciousness self and they were that field. They are that field. Christ said, my father and I are one. That’s the merger, right? There’s your foundation of spirituality. I went in my one iota. If you looked at it that way, the fact that you are intelligent enough that your mind, your impersonal mind, your abstract mind is capable of touching what we just talked about, but it’s still mind.

But wait till you see. When you start training your mind to think about truth and you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, you start thinking like this. Yes, your personal mind’s still going to have this, alright, but the personal mind’s tiny. Your mind is capable of what we just talked about, isn’t it? It’s capable of comprehending really big things, but we keep it to this tiny little thing which we’re going to talk about today. I don’t want to talk about this, but I did. But it’s good that you know that Why? Because your mind, every one of you are capable at least reasonably of understand what we just talked about. My God, that’s unbelievable. You’ve expanded your mind beyond yourself, beyond the personal self. Why? Because your personal mind is just a tiny little drop of what mind’s capable of.

They can study physics, it can go build rocketships. He can do everything and he can also complain because things aren’t the way I want ’em to be and I wish she would like me instead of him and I can’t believe what she said. Oh my God, how could you didn’t tell anybody? Oh my God. That’s what you’re doing with that mind instead of what we just talked about. Oh my God, help. That’s ridiculous. So you are capable. Well, but it’s still mine, but there’s a type of yoga branches of yoga called Yana. Yo Yana yoga is a yoga wisdom. It is. The masters taught you to think like this. You can have high level thoughts. Well, why? There’s still thoughts here, but they’re really close to God. You’ll get to a point when you learn to look at at the look outside, look how beautiful it is.

There’s sudden and there’s light and there’s clouds and there’s colors and there’s trees in there. No, there’s not. There’s vibrations in the quantum field. Oh my God. Ever say thank you. You can change your whole life to start to look at things with truth, but you have to bring your mind up to that level. But we’re taught mind is a problem. Well, Ram Krishna fully enlightened me. He saw light, his disciples once asked him, master, you do really weird things. He was invited to the Prime Minister’s house. He was a very famous yogi master and was invited to the Prime Minister’s house for dinner and he got up and started singing and drooling and just being ecstatic and his disciples, they’re trying to build an Armstrong hero. What’s going on here? I get the prime minister. They asked him, how can you do that? Don’t you get embarrassed?

They would talk to him that way. They’d yell at him. It adorable, right? You know what he said? How you said you see abarition sometimes ghosts coming and going. That’s how I see your world. I’m just see blinding light shimmering all over it. Every once in a while, a building that you’re talking about will start to take form, then fade away back into the light. So basically you get to the point and what I was going to say, what Robert Krishna said about mind, not ego mind, right? He said the purified mind is no different than the self. I’m talking to you really high today. The purified mind is no different than the self. What does that mean? Mind is a field of energy that is capable of forming thoughts and then we’ll talk about it. You get caught in those thoughts. What if the mind is pure?

It’s not creating these stupid little thoughts. Well then it’s no different than self. It’s just one field of energy, mind consciousness, everything. If it stops developing these personal thoughts and drawing you into them so you stay caught in that you’re very close to God. So very, very high thinking that’s impersonal. That has nothing to do with you personally, what you like and what you don’t like and what you want and what you don’t want. Okay? You’re getting back to pure consciousness. There’s nothing drawing your consciousness away from itself because you’re not all caught up in yourself right now. You’re distracted by your thoughts. You don’t know how not to be distracted by your thoughts. That’s why you meditate. I told you start by saying there’s so many techniques. I’m giving you a totally different technique. Don’t call it meditation, call it guana yoga, liberating your mind by raising your thoughts at such a level that they’re not personal.

You don’t get drawn into it and in fact, at some point you’ll think the way I just talked to you about, you’ll go into ecstasy when you can just in your mind see that what you’re seeing is this field vibrating God emanating from the base up and it looks like this. How great God, how great are, give me a break everywhere throughout the universe that’s happening. That’s what everything is. It’s just you become silent, it drops off and you go into ecstasy. So that yoga, and that’s why the purified mind is more different than itself because if you’re not creating thoughts that are disturbing and distracting and drawing you down into them, which all your personal thoughts are, all these personal thoughts, they draw your consciousness down into them instead of allowing your consciousness to expand to what it’s capable of. So where do your thoughts come from?

I said the mind is a field of energy that is capable of creating thoughts. You can create thought forms, they create thoughts. You can visualize something, you can have a voice in your head talking about something. Those are thoughts. They’re thoughts in the field of mind. Where did yours come from? It’s so easy to talk about really, science helps me so much. Teach spirituality. Why? Let’s go to psychology. What’s does psychology say? They go way further than they should. They say here it is basic te of psychology. Man is the sum of his learned experiences. Just take a breath, man is the sum of learned experience. Obviously they mean women. Also a person is the sum of their learned experiences. No, I’m not. I’m the consciousness, the witness consciousness. That’s a aware that my thoughts and my emotions are the sum of learned experiences and don’t you dare think they’re not.

They’re the sum of your learned experiences. Like somebody bear my thoughts, I like them, I like them. I feel emotion, feel love there. That’s what’s going on here. Alright, see an article in the newspaper about them that says they’re a mass murderer and they finally found them. How you doing? Same thoughts, same emotions, the sum of your learned experiences. And then find out it was April Fool’s Day and a friend gave you that paper. How you feeling now? The sum of your learned experiences. You did not decide what you like, you did not decide what you don’t like. It is the sum of your learned experiences. If your parents were different, if this was different, just Gen X has something to do with also right? Part of your learned experiences carried ’em down with you. But the main thing, psychology is your mother did this, your father did this.

Experience, experience, experience, experience, experience, experience. Have you had some experiences in your life? How many count ’em? I want to know. I’m talking about every little experience. How many experiences have you had? Your personal mind is the sum of your learned experiences. All my learned experiences, no white lines in the road go by all the time. You don’t make a thing out of them. You don’t develop a self concept out of the white lines or the clouds or air or lots of things. In fact, 98%, maybe 99 of every single thing that ever came through your senses went right through. You’re walking down a field, it’s a big field. There’s grass, there’s dirt, there’s clouds, there’s sky, there’s trees, there’s leaves. There it is, right? And then there’s a rattlesnake.

Guess what? You know that song? I only have Eyes for You dear. All you saw is that rattlesnake in it. All you saw was that rattlesnake. And when you go to tell somebody what happened, you don’t talk about the grass, about the trees, talking about the clouds. That rattlesnake was 0.1% at the most of everything that was coming through your senses. Take a breath. I’m teaching you something very deep here. This is how to transcend and go really deep in spirituality. It’s true what I said, isn’t it? So that which makes the biggest impression on your mind stays whether you liked it a lot or didn’t like it a lot. If it was just passing through, it does a very great thing. You’re be here now about the trees, about the cars, about this, about everything. Just be here. Now you’re just experiencing it comes in, it goes through until there’s a tree that looks like the one you fell out of when you were little and all of a sudden you’re telling everybody about it and then you have nightmares. Now you see why I say that’s least 99% of every single thing ever came through your sense, throughout your entire life. You were very zen about it just went through. Flowers are red water’s, blue grass is green, very zen. Well, everything just was what it was, wasn’t it? And it didn’t cause any trouble did it? It just passed through. But then there are these things that made a bigger impression. You want to go deeper. Why?

Who separated those out? I guarantee you right now what? You stopped over. He didn’t. And what he kept, you didn’t. In fact, if I took his mind with his preferences and hopes and dreams and concepts and put ’em inside your head, you go, what the hell are you doing? What do you care about that for? I don’t care about that. Why are you afraid? Snakes? I like snakes. My family had snakes, my brothers had snakes. We used to play. And you’re not going to go into field ever again. You’re going to take a walk. The sum of your learned experiences, basically that is what is going on in your head is the summary of learned experiences and that’s what keeps going on. And every day new ones come in and you develop a psychology calls a self-concept. What is self-concept? It is something in your mind, in this field of mind you can build thoughts.

Some thoughts come in and they go right through. Some thoughts come in and they stay a little bit. Now I was going to tell you, how come your state and yours didn’t happen? What’s going on? What makes it stay? Is it really like super glue when it gets in there and it does this thing? I told you that I’m getting much more open. I used to be a sixties hippie guy, alright? But now I respect everybody, the military, everything. I respect people doing their thing. There are people who when they go to war that when they’re running across that field with bullets shooting at ’em, they get traumatized. I think that’s very reasonable. But anyways, they get traumatized. They come back with PTSD and so on. They don’t have nightmares and there are other people that keeps signing up.

They love it. That danger, that thing. What’s that? I don’t understand. Either it is this way or it’s not that way. See, I’m teaching you some things. It’s neither. It’s just is what it is. But what happens? What makes it stay inside one person and side the other? There’s only one force. Do we have all these forces outside? There’s only one force inside will you have will? Do you have the ability to push away a thought? Do you have the ability to say, I don’t like this and try to keep it? Do you have ability to push away a feeling and emotion? Do you have hands in there that can manipulate your inner stuff? You’re different than everybody. You’ve evolved to different levels. I’m not saying somebody who can handle bullets is more evolved. I’m not judging any of it. I’m just telling you your consciousness that is focusing on your thoughts and emotions is individualized.

Ultimately it’s the same consciousness, everyone consciousness, but it’s focusing. It’s ray, focusing on your thoughts and emotions and basically some people are comfortable with what’s going on one way and not another. When you’re not comfortable with it, when it hits you in a way that is not comfortable to you, you push it away, don’t you? You don’t want it. I don’t like it. And you do Freud, call it suppression because psychology and physics are all about spirituality if you understand them properly, okay? Every single thing that’s truth is part of spiritual. So Freud talk about suppression, repression, denial. I talk about resistance. There’s just the level of degree. What happens when you’re in there and you resist an event that actually took place, came in through your senses, it stays in there there. That’s why it stays. It’s so easy to talk to you about this.

You need books. It’s not complicated. You resisted, you used will. Don’t ever let them tell you don’t have will. There’s a whole field psychology, somebody told me about it that says, oh no, you don’t have will. But they’re saying is since your psyche is a summary of your learned experiences, it’s not some personal act of volition or will. It’s that summary of your learned experiences acting. And guess what they are right to a great degree. You’re being of habit. If something happens, you see the snake, you’re going to behave according to you because you saw a snake, different youth, et cetera, et cetera. You can change that in a minute. You are in there, you’re transcendent to everything you’re looking at. That’s what witness consciousness is. Now we get into spirituality. Can you see that? You’re afraid of a snake? Yeah. Well the fear comes up.

Can you stay calm in the midst of that fear? Do you have to behave based on what your thought or emotion is doing? You are married, you go take tennis lessons and he’s really cute, okay? And you feel some attraction come up inside of you. Do you have to run after it and leave your family? Answer me. Are you capable of asserting will? But normally, unfortunately, what you do with that will might as well talk about it is push it away. And this is wrong. I shouldn’t do this. It’s wrong. That is not the proper use of will that creates suppression. What does that mean? It means just don’t dream of it. The guy, right? It means when someone says you want to take tennis lessons than me, you say, no, no, I had enough tennis.

Wait, why are you laughing? It messed you up. You suppress something. And so now you can either be forward or against it, but you’re going to be weird about it because you have this thing stored in there. And that’s what they mean when they say don’t have free will, but you know, have free will. A yogi knows the following and then they’ll say to you, if you don’t do it, your super ego has been developed to not do it. So even that’s a learned experience. And so it’s just a combination. Learned experiences determine how you act. Well maybe that’s true of the people they analyze. It’s not true of a yogi or yogini. Why I’m in here. I see it. I see that it’s uncomfortable. I see the tendency to push it away. And guess what I do? I keep my hands off of it.

I don’t want it stored inside of me. I don’t care that there was this emotion. I don’t care that there was this thought. Fine. A thoughts of thought and emotions and emotion. They’re neither right nor wrong, nor good nor bad. If I can handle them, they just pass right through and I don’t have to be weird about them anymore. And I actually grew, grew spiritually because I was able to handle a situation that I used to have to resist. And so now I can see the guy that I felt attracted to and laugh and I can go play tennis with somebody else. I’m not afraid of myself. Did you see the difference? You have will. You can use that will to let go instead of using that will to resist. Isn’t that the essence of my teachings? That’s everything I ever taught you in all my books.

You can relax, you can use the will to relax against this tendency to resist. That’s free will. You’ve now exercised free will. Okay? There’s no pattern inside of you that’s a sum of your learned experiences that is asserting that relaxation of letting go. You’re letting go. And when you let go, it doesn’t say stored inside of you. Therefore it does not become the sum of your learned experiences. Did you experience it? Yes, I learned. I learned I can handle this. I learned I’m fine. I learned that when I went to war and I did my first tour, I did my first tour. That part of me that I don’t necessarily, I wanted to devote my life to liked this stuff, but I think I want to let that part go. I want to use my energy for something higher than the fear of survival, which is what’s happening.

It’s first chakra stuff, okay, perfectly fine. No judgment. You’re not judging anybody else. You’re just looking inside and saying, I see it. I see the tendency. I would like to raise that energy up, not suppress it, not push it down. It’s called transmutation. That’s a very deep spiritual word. I want to raise that so that it’s coming higher, not going out at that level. Anybody understand what I’m talking about? Are you capable of doing that? That is free will and what you’re doing, evolving your being. Somebody wants to ask me if consciousness is God and it is, consciousness is God. That’s what God is consciousness. He was borrowed a little of his or he focused on you. Then what is the evolution of the soul? How is God not perfect? God is perfect and that’s your talking is so deep now you don’t want to fall from the garden.

So God is the universal consciousness creating all things then looking down into what he created. So the consciousness manifests up and then pure consciousness looks down into it. Like an artist paints a painting and enjoys looking at it. You don’t have to sell it, you don’t have to do anything with it. It’s just creativity. So God with his creative force expressed itself himself created everything out of a vibration of his own being, right? That’s all that’s down there is vibrating consciousness. Just like you made your dreams out of your consciousness and it comes up finds. So here it is manifest. But then the high consciousness, the pure consciousness, the unmanifest consciousness looks down into it and that’s who you are. You’re so great. I can’t even talk about it. You are the emissary, the ambassador, the emissary of God to experience the moment that he created and he wants to see that moment and you’re the only one seeing it. I teach that all the time. The moments you see are the only one that ever saw them and no one will ever see them. And no one ever did see them and it’ll never happen again. OMG. So it is God looking down into his creation through the manifestation of your eyes. He created the body, created the world and looks down into it. And what do you do? No, I don’t like it. He says, thanks a lot.

I’m trying to experience these things. Who are you? Where’d you come from? Well I came from that as you look down my Lord, down into your creation, all is one. It’s all the same thing. There’s no duality. And when I look down, things came up that I got caught. I got caught in what I was looking at. Instead of being the one who’s looking, instead of being the witness of what I’m experiencing, I got so close to it that I started being distracted by it and identifying with it. Are you your body? No. You are not your body. Are you your car? You laugh and say there are some people that identify with their car. Alright, you’re touching my car. I break your face.

There are people that can’t handle that. Somebody beeped at them in traffic. They get out with a gun road rage. They’re identified so much with something that they behave accordingly. There’s no one in there dealing with it. So what happens is consciousness looks down and it gets distracted by form. That’s the dance. That’s the fall from the garden. So I am my body. I am the mother of this child. I am this, I am that. I am this person’s wife. I am. You are not. You’re the consciousness that’s aware of those things. That’s why you have so much trouble with life. I’m his wife. No, I am the consciousness that met this person, felt love and married them. That’s who I am. The consciousness that had those experiences, I am not the experiences I had. I am the one that had the experience. But if I am his wife and he leaves me, I am in trouble.

I feel that someone ripped me apart. I don’t know. Wow. Good. Some of you guys are therapists. You understand what I’m talking about, right? You know what you’re saying. Now I don’t know who I am anymore. Ever been there? I lost my sense of self. I don’t know who I am. I don’t know. Of course you don’t. You define yourself as this person’s mother or father or wife, husband, whatever the heck it is. And you literally define yourself as that. That’s who I am. I can’t live without this person. I can’t exist that they died. These are very, very human emotions. It’s a very human state. Trouble is you’re not human. You live with one. You’re watching one. What happened? What happened is the consciousness that knows who it is.

Shiva thou art. So I am he, right? These are the great mantras. That’s who you are. A ham MAs. I am bra who’s braa bra is the unmanifest you extract. He taught us that traditional India, there are no temples for rama. There’s temples, rash, Shiva temples, Vishnu Haman, everybody. There are no tells for bra. Whoa. Why Brahma’s Unmanifest. He’s the the feel before it vibrated. So therefore you can’t have something manifest for him. So you say smi, I am Brahma. That’s who you are. That’s who you are. That pure consciousness that created everything and is everything. It always was looking down at itself. What happened? You got lost. That’s the fall from the garden. How does God get lost? Because consciousness can get distracted, can’t it? You get distracted. You know what? You get distracted from you. I was in here thinking about something and then I heard a noise.

It distracted me. You’re already so distracted. It’s ridiculous. You’re so distracted that you identify with what you’re distracted by. That’s a sentence if I repeated it to you, you got it. Namaste. You are so distracted by the object of consciousness that you identify with it as who you are. Wow, that’s pretty distracted, isn’t it? That’s a human God distracted and identifying with what’s attracted by now. Do you understand that? Do you see how I can say that? So what do we do? Well, I know what you do and I honor it. I respect it. You’re in there, you’re lost. You’ve had experiences, you identified with certain ones and you built a self-concept. Say psychology. Well, it’s not self-concept. A set of thoughts that I say I am. Whoa, that’s scary. You’re not a set of thoughts. Those are just thoughts You created a set of thoughts.

The ones that stayed were the ones you resisted or clung to because you liked them. I can get into that, don’t you? When you like something, do you let it go? So if you don’t like something, you stored it. If you do like something, you clung to it. And those are the things that make up your ego. Your ego is just a set of thoughts that you stitch together, that you held onto and they’re in your mind. And I don’t care. The wonderful person, terrible person. That’s what’s going on. And that’s when you stop judging. You are standing in the presence of the manifestation of the quantum field making up all 35 trillion of her selves because they’re all atoms. They’re just vibrations and nothing. And God descended into it having developed a self-concept. So you’re stand in the presence of God who’s lost in the sum of her learned experiences.

Oh, you’re lost in yours. That’s why you say she’s wrong and you’re right and you argue with her. So now you understand what’s going on Now what do you do about it? Let’s get down to I told you there’s techniques I just taught you. In my opinion, it just my opinion, the highest technique you’ll ever learn how to live your life. I told you once people teach meditation, you notice I don’t. I meditate, but I don’t teach meditation. Why? I teach what to do when you’re not meditating, do that and you’ll fall into meditation spontaneously. You live what I just talked about. You understand that. Now, can you respect another person no matter, even if they totally disagree with every single thing you do, they’re the seminal learn experiences, yoga nun to say. But by God’s grace, there goes myself. If it’s true that your thoughts and your opinions and your likes and your dislikes are the sum of your learned experiences and darn well they are, how dare you judge somebody else as the sum of their learned experiences.

That doesn’t mean you can’t still interact and be an activist and change things in accordance to how you see things at your contribution to God’s world. But there’s a detachment there. It’s not I’m right. It’s called your dharma that some of my learned experiences is the holy thing. They were my experiences and I’m the only one that had ’em. So I’m going to interact with the world, with love, with compassion, with understanding, with my dharma. Some of my learning experiences, most people will never read the Gita, which is fine. That is the essence of that book right there. It’s like fight the battle. God’s telling Arjun to fight a battle. How honorable is a battle that exists unasked for unwanted by a trained warrior. It says, your job, don’t do it to get anything. Renounce the fruits your action. Just act in accordance to where you’re put.

Let me God, let me run the world. Who said it, Christ, not my will, but I will. If you understand this, I’m telling you this is the highest path. I’m sorry. Because it’s your entire life. It’s what you’re doing with your whole life. And you’ll find out you’re living Christ’s teachings. You’re living the Dal LaMi teaching. You’re living Buddhist teachings. Even you’ve never read ’em. You’ll find out if somebody wants to ask yoga, when he came to America with a tur on his head and in the twenties, are you a Christian? You know what he said? Follow me for a day and you tell me, I beautiful. That’s what you bring into this world. You still do your thing. You still be a mother, you still have a child. You have this. You have that. Can you get married or not? Whatever it is, you’re doing the thing, but not because you’re not.

Okay? This is the essence of what I teach you. You have fallen down into the cellular experiences. You’re identifying with your ego completely. That’s what yourself concept is, your ego, and you’re trying to do what? Make everything match the semi learn experiences. How about I say it that way? Okay, I’ll be nice. Let’s say make it match your ego. Make everything match the semi learn experiences. Okay? So what’s the way out? It’s the way out. It’s very, very simple. Raise your thoughts. You can have ’em. You can have thoughts. Raise them. Raise them up. Let God be God. How’s that? Let God be that vibration. The one who created the vibration. He went, oh, and big man took place and his whole being vibrated and all of creation came into being. Oh my God, that’s so beautiful. How about that? God, all you say is, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

You stop identifying with yourself. How do you do that? I’ll give it. So Nina, I always only have time to lay down what you need to hear. Alright? You are going to find out that you’re going about your business walking with some friends and your mind’s going to say, I want to talk about something. I wonder if I bring this up. That’ll be interesting. Don’t blush. Yes or no. Does it do that? Do you want to talk and be heard? That’s your ego. It’s just I have a self-concept. I’m not comfortable if for not talking, I’d rather talk about me. I just don’t. You dare be embarrassed. That’s ego. Ego is about me, period. It cannot be. I want my ego to be about somebody else. It will not. Here’s how ego is about somebody else. If I’m nice to her, she’ll like me. Ego is about you. That’s what ego’s about. It’s about, I mean, here, I’m not, okay, what do I need to do to make it better in here? It’s about me. Or if I donate a lot to everybody and everybody thinks I’m very charitable, me, listen to me. Don’t listen to any of this. Just go about your business. But watch, notice. Notice that tendency to sell yourself, to impress people. Do you like to impress people? Do you like people to like you? Do you like to have a lot of likes on Facebook?

You think God cares? I mean, are you serious? He’s everything. You are everything. You’re the highest being ever walked. The face of the earth caught in this set of thoughts like you. How about if you want to do a Sona, I’ll give you a Sona. You wouldn’t want to do it. I don’t want you to do it right. Let go. What do you mean? If you’re sitting there walking with some people or being with some people and so on, and you get this tendency to want to talk about yourself or say something that interested you or do something. How about not doing it?

That’s not comfortable. Good. See how uncomfortable you get and realize, wow, that’s really there. That’s really a very powerful thing. This psyche that’s about me that’s got built in my mind. Right? And I’m not telling you go into silence. No, just once in a while, I dare you to play once in a while that somebody says something, God, did you put on some weight? And instead of no, look at you. Does anybody see the tendency to be defensive? Answer me. That’s ego, is it not? What if somebody said, God, it looks like you put some weight. Yeah, thanks for pointing it out. I said, can you let go? That’s how you let go of ego. You have the right to use every minute of your life to go to God. By the way, I don’t like saying it like that. I like saying the right to use every moment in your life to stop leaving. God, you are seated right there, right now, but you are focused on your garbage. Right? Start letting go. Well, we had a nice talk. Thank you. Work on yourself. Raise yourself. Raise yourself. Jai.

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