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Michael Singer: Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters. One of the Beatles’s most famous songs. My favorite is Let It Be and we all think that we know what that means, but we probably don’t. Let’s walk it through. Sometimes the way to understand something is to understand its opposite. Then you know what? It’s not. Okay. What is standing still not moving? I’ve defined standing still better than just saying stand still. Okay. The opposite of letting it be is not letting it be. What does that mean? Trying to change it, trying to resist it. Trying to push it away. Trying to make it not happen. That’s the opposite of letting it be. Don’t let it be. I don’t like what you said. I’m not going to accept it. You’re not to talk to me that way. You’re not to say that you’re in big trouble, blah, blah blah. What kind of big trouble?
That depends on your culture. It depends on how serious you are about it. It could be just yelling. It could be asleep on the couch for a while. It could be a gun. The point is, I don’t accept that it happen. I’m not going to let it be. It’s not to have happened. I like that one the most. It’s one thing to say is not happen again. It’s another thing to say. I cannot accept that you did that. That’s so beautiful. You got a psychological ailment. Why? Because you’re not going to change it. No one has ever made not happen. What has happened ever in the history of the universe? If it happened, it happened. You can worry about next time whatever you want, but you cannot change that it happened. You better let that be that it happened, alright? And a lot of times you don’t do that.
You don’t let it be. No, that is not happening on my watch. That didn’t happen. I refuse to accept that that happened. That’s not letting it be. You’ve done that haven’t you? Come on. Alright. You have said words like that. You have behaved like that. That’s insane. Why? Because it happened and it’s never going to not have happened ever. So your first step in letting it be is not going that far. I’m going to do slices all the way in. Don’t go as far as saying, I refuse to accept that you did that. I refuse to accept that this is going on. Whether it be personal politics or anything going on. I refuse to accept that that happened. Well, you’re in trouble. What happened? If you refuse to accept that something happened that will never, ever not have happened, you suffer. Why? Because the event that happened, you did not experience the physicality of that event.
Whether it be a word, whether it be an act, whatever it is, it didn’t come into you. I didn’t go in there of out here. I stayed out here. It all stays out here, does it not? Well, how’s it get in there? I’ve discussed this with you time and again, we astro scientists. I don’t understand. The atoms are out there. Do the atoms get in? There is the atoms that are bothering you. They’re not in there. So what’s going on? Very simple. What’s happening is from the sense of all of the senses, but we’ll take light. That’s the easiest. Seeing is the easiest. I am not seeing you. You learn this in fifth grade science. I am not looking at you. That is not what’s happening. Ask any scientist. I am not looking out through my eyes and seeing you. What is happening is light that is in the room is bouncing off of your molecules that make up your body and that make up that piece of wood and that make up every single thing that’s in here.
The light that’s emanating from a source, doesn’t matter. The source, the sun, a light bulb, doesn’t matter. Is bouncing off of objects, does it bounce off all objects? No, it makes it right through the air. Why? Because the air is not bound together tight enough to reflect the light. The light goes right through it, but it doesn’t go right through your hand. Your bracelet, your button, they reflect light bounces off of it. So what that’s looking at that comes in, and by the way, you don’t look out to see that. It hits your optical sensory system, your eyes. That’s what it is, an optical sensory system. It stimulates your optical receptors and it stimulates the optical nerve and those impulses that were caused by the light hitting your optical sensors, those impulses get sent back through the nervous system. The neurons pass from one to the other and they make an impression on the brain.
That’s where they stop. Yoga doesn’t stop there. Yoga does more than that and you do too. You have to deal with your own experience. You’re not looking at your brain. I look at a brain, take a picture of it. That’s not what you’re looking at. When those impulses hit the central nervous system of your brain, the cluster of neurons, all that stuff, it’s picked up by a higher vibration, just like light is a higher vibration than physical. It’s picked up by this higher vibration rate called mind and it creates the image that’s out there, the light made in your mind and you are looking at that image in your mind. I know it’s difficult to understand. It seems like you’re looking out here. There’s depth perception. Your mind is creating that. Why check with someone who lost their death perception. They’re walking into walls. Everything’s the same.
No, the mind is not creating out of the information. It received. The illusion or the concept of depth color is the same. There is no color out here. No, it does not have color. Only one thing in your world has color light. Roy g biv hold a prism up to the light. You will see the colors of the light spectrum. It is light vibrating at different rates that your eye picks up as colors. The thing doesn’t have colors, it just reflects different wavelengths of light. That’s all that’s happening. So your white shirt versus your green thing versus your hair versus the pole, they’re just reflecting the molecules, which particular molecules they are, atoms they are, and how tightly they’re bound together will reflect different parts of the light spectrum. How do we know that? Have you ever seen infrared? Have you ever seen black light?
It looks different, doesn’t it? We hippies. We know about that. The posters reflected. They look totally different with the lights on and lights off. No light is on. It’s just a different wavelength of light and therefore that’s the wavelength that it’s reflecting back. But it doesn’t all reflect back the same. There’s still differences. It just depends on the atoms and go study physics. Oxygen reflects blue and it is just how tight they’re bound. They will reflect different parts of the wavelength of life. What’s neat is you live in a world that when you walk into Lowe’s or Home Depot to buy a light bulb, you better be a physicist. It used to be I want a 60 wat a hundred watt. No. Now I want a 60 watt in a oh 2000 K spectrum. Come on, you bought ’em cool white. They literally give you the numbers.
If it’s 4,500 K, it’s a certain color that’s emanating. If it’s 6,000 K, it’s more like daylight, that kind of stuff. If it’s 25 hundred’s soft white, they literally give you numbers. Those numbers are literally the vibration rate of the light spectrum. Nobody used to know anything about that. Okay, you had to study. You got it in your store, you buy those things if you needed it. That’s what’s going on. Light is everything like the yogi said it was. And light is bouncing off the atoms and you’ll receive it in your eyes and it’s sending it back to your nervous system and then it’s rendering in your mind. Now that’s a word that maybe you should be familiar with. Why? Because you deal with it every single day of your lives. Do any of you have a flat screen TV ever? Get up real close, real close right up against that screen.
What does it look like? Dots. It does not look like a movie. It does not look like a person. It looks like dots. They’re called pixels, right? And there they are. Depends on how and when you buy your TVs, they tell you it’s 4K, it’s eight K. What is that? How many pixels per inch or something like that? You’re so technological, they’re giving you these numbers. They mean something to you. That’s unbelievable. But the net result is where did those pixels come from? Did that screen make the pixels? Does your mind make the outside world? Your mind renders what came in from the outside world. It gets rendered in your mind. In the same way as there’s a ball going going on in California, there’s atoms out there, they’re playing ball and light is bouncing off of them. How do I know? Turn off the lights and tell ’em what you see.
The light doesn’t bounce off of ’em, so turn ’em on and then have a camera which is equivalent to your eyes. It’s optical sensitive. It picks up the light that’s bouncing off just like your eyes do it picks it up, it turns it into a transmittable thing. Nowadays it digitizes it. It’s kind of neat to know what’s going on. What do you mean? It used to be you tried to send the wavelengths, the actual difference in wavelengths that came in through the camera. Now the camera picks it up. It says that’s hard to send all that detail across the satellite and back down. It’s going to lose all kinds of stuff. So what we’re going to do is called digitize it. We’re going to take every single wavelength and every single, how strong it is, what color it is, and we’ll turn it into a number.
That’s what digitizing is. We’ll turn it into a number. We just have a digitizing chip that turns into a number. Then we’ll send the numbers. Well that’s real. That’s right. To set it up. They can even do what’s called a check sum. When they get it on the other end, it tells you what they should have added up to and they see if you got ’em all and they send it again. That’s how your networks work. So it gets over there. It then gets picked up by your tv, the numbers and it knows how to de-code it and turns it into those dots. And that’s what you’re looking at. That is what your mind is doing. That is what you’re looking at inside your mind. You’re not looking at the ball game in California, but you don’t know. You’re not looking at this. Fair enough?
Okay, so that’s what’s going on. So what gets in here, and that goes for sound and sight and it even goes for touch. I used to teach. What about touch? Come on man, it’s really there. I’m touching it. You are not touching it. It’s not solid. This is not solid. What’s happening is the outside of every atom is electrons. Electrons are negative. You know this, you’ve taught this. Okay, so the electrons that make up my finger and electrons that up, this piece of metal are both circling, all of that are circling negativity. And this is negative. What happens when two negative poles in the magnet push against each other? It feels pretty solid, doesn’t it? That is what’s happening. There’s nothing else happening. And it used to tell the joke, I can’t help it. Very funny, right? Therefore, you’ve never really touched your girlfriend. She finds you repulsive, but you feel it because your nervous system is picking up the resistance of the magnetic fields and sending it back and your brain says, oh, it’s solid.
Alright, so your sight touch every single thing, that’s what it is. Your senses are sensors, just like a computer has sensors. They are sensors and they’re sending the information back and it is rendering in this high vibration called your mind and your consciousness is looking at that. So that’s the beginning of understanding what it means to be alive, what it means to experience this world. It’s very different than what our brains tell us, okay? In fact, Einstein once had a quote, which I love it. He said, the world is in reality in illusion, albeit a very persistent one. It just keeps coming back looking like this. And so eventually, okay, I buy it because that’s not what’s going on. Okay? Why did I lay that down on a nice spiritual talk? Because guess what happens? We’ve now said you’re the end user. Who’s the end user?
That’s the self who’s literally receiving those signals or at least looking at what rendered in your mind, you’re rendering in my mind, who’s looking at that? The same person who looks at your tv, your consciousness, your awareness of being you’re in there. Is it a clean shot from the outside world reflecting the light coming in through my sensors, passing up the nervous system. A lot of things could go wrong. Passing through my nervous system, hitting my brain, and then rendering into this higher vibration place where I can create thoughts, I can create visions. I know anything I want in there. I don’t need it to come in from outside, do I? You can visualize a boat right now inside. There’s a world in your mind that is able to render things, okay? Is it a clean shot that comes all the way in the light, the impulses, the thing, the digitizing, the de digitizing and the rendering.
Is that a perfect trail? Not for someone who’s colorblind. Does that mean the color’s not out there? No. It means the receptor’s not picking it up. How about you? Who? What you’re looking at is upsetting you so much because it reminds you of something happened to you 20 years ago. Are you seeing properly? No. It got interfered with as it passed through your mind, it got filtered, it got adjusted. All of a sudden. I can’t believe you did that. I didn’t do anything. My father used to talk to me like that. I told you that’s adorable, right? Somebody standing right next to you, they didn’t have that reaction, didn’t look that way to them. It didn’t look that way to you 10 minutes ago and then something happened to those 10 minutes, all of a sudden, you too. Do I need to spell this out?
Are you with me? So because this is the reality that it has to pass through all this and then pass through the mind, whatever already in the mind, your mind’s not clean. What if you were watching TV and you’re watching a new show? There they are. It’s news broadcaster, talking, talking, talking. But you want to watch a movie and the broadcaster stayed on the TV while you’re watching your movie. Oh my God. And not just the broadcaster from five minutes ago, the one from two years ago is still on there and you’re trying to watch the stupid movie. That’s what’s going on in your mind. You understand that spirituality is not mystical, it’s reality, but you think this is reality. Guess who’s right? Your scientists today are your preachers. They’re telling you the truth and the truth shall set you free if you walked around and realize that’s what’s going on.
You wouldn’t be the mess you are. You’ve seen somebody says something, you say, well that’s neat how it got distort when it came in. Or they say something, oh look, I talked to you this once. Alright, let’s say someone’s sitting there yelling dissing you. I mean they dissing you, man. They’re saying the dirtiest crazy stuff about you. Oh my God, right? And what you’re doing is sitting back there and noticing that the sound waves are passing out of their larynx, out of their mouth. The sound waves are passing out of the mouth and they’re hitting your eardrum and they’re making the eardrum vibrating and the hammer and the anvil bones vibrating. They hit the nerve, right? The auditor nervous system, and it goes back and you can actually hear the sound that they’re making out of their mouth. What? Make what the sound is. It’s amazing that it does that is it not?
I told you you want to feel free all the time. Make believe, not make believe, not true. By the way, there’s a little dial in there. You have to find it, yogis, find it. And it’s one of those language dials like we have now on the computers. Which language you want to talk, turn it to a language you don’t know Swahili and have them dish you. It’s fun. They’re not going to bother you while I, okay, so it’s basically you that’s doing it, otherwise it’s just sound coming in. Okay, well thank you and go bunch your business, but you can’t do that. Why? Because, alright, now let’s say what distortion, and I’ll call it distortion do you have going on in your mind that makes it so that when the world reality comes in through these impulses, all vibrations comes in and you experience it, you’re not actually experiencing what’s going on out there, you’re experiencing your version, your interpretation of what’s going on out there because you already have stuff in here.
How did you get stuff in there? I told you stuff happened in your past check, okay? And some of it when it came in didn’t feel good. What does that mean? It’s real. Everything has its Buddhist, everything has its nature. A rattlesnake rattling in front of you, believe it or not, when it comes in, does not feel the same as a butterfly flopping around you. Does it? That’s not a learned experience, that’s part of nature. Everything gives off a vibration. So it came in, wasn’t just a physical object or the cider sound, you got vibes. Hey, you got good vibes and bad vibes. You ever walk into a place that’s got bad vibes, you feel comfortable there, you don’t even know why. And then you found out there was a murder in there or something like that, right? I ever walk into a room where people are arguing and they didn’t know you were there and there goes, oh hi, yes or no.
You feel the vibes. So there’s stuff coming off out here that’s more than just the physical blame, more than just the wavelets of sound and sight and et cetera, et cetera, right? They’re energy. Energy. Every one of you know that you feel vibrations, you have to be psychic, you feel them, okay? So you’re picking that up also so it comes in. So some things when they come in, the vibrations are uncomfortable and that’s just the reality. Stand outside. When a lion’s jumping at you, oh it’s just atoms. Yeah, maybe just atoms, but there’s just some vibes coming off that stuff, alright? That comes in also and you in there, just like let’s say you’re not into horror movies and you’re surfing through channels and all of a sudden Freddy from whatever her name is, Freddy from Elm Street, is chopping somebody up. It freaks out.
You can’t even enjoy TV for the next night. You follow me? The vibes come in and you’re not comfortable with them. Who? You. You in there? It’s okay. It’s a vibration, it’s real. You do experience it. If you didn’t experience it wouldn’t be a problem. But the self is experiencing, your consciousness is experiencing it fine. So this is where the most important part of spirituality, the most important comes in. What do you do when it’s not comfortable? Remember I was talking about let it be so outside when it’s not comfortable you push it away. Don’t you protect yourself, somebody charging at you, you protect yourself. Somebody saying something you don’t like, you walk away. Whatever it is you do what you can do to push it away so it doesn’t come in and bother you. Now what you do is your business, but you do do that even if you’re a new age doobie and somebody’s dissing you and you sit there and say, I can accept you.
Talk to me that way. I just want you to know I think you’re the most beautiful person. I walked the face. What are you doing? Try to manipulate the person that they stop talking to you that way you just doing it nicely. And so basically you do it outside that way, but what if it comes in? You do the same thing inside first you try to make sure it doesn’t come in. You try to make sure it’s not going to happen. You manipulate control, do everything you can to not have things happen outside that you don’t want coming in and it’s very specific. So next year you don’t have any problem with it, but you don’t know. So you do that. What if it does come in? I’m telling you, and this is where it gets down to real yoga. What you do when it comes in instinctually is try to do the same thing inside with the energy because the atoms didn’t come in.
You tried to push the atoms away. Don’t say that. I told you not to say it. Don’t say that, okay? I won’t say thank you. You’re trying to manipulate the outside so it doesn’t get the vibes that come in that you don’t like. But if they do come in, I’m telling you your instinctual reaction is to push them away inside suppression, repression, denial. Freud was right. That’s very spiritual understanding. They didn’t used to understand that stuff. They didn’t know what was going on. Why do people behave the way they do? He sat there and said that in the past you have pushed away what happened? You can’t push away outside because it already happened, but you don’t have to let it come all the way in inside and you do it all the time. You do it every day of your life. You do this, you don’t only do it with what comes in, you do it with your thoughts.
You can have a thought that’s not comfortable and you push it away. That’s suppression. Repression. In other words, what is suppression? I don’t want to experience this who, yes, I know what happened outside 20 years ago, but I don’t want it to have happened and I don’t accept that it happened and I don’t even want to think about it. You’re so cute. Okay, so I’m going to push it away. Where does it go when you push it away? He gave it a name. It goes into the subconscious. All I care about is it doesn’t come in all the way. Listen to me. Have you ever had anything come in all the way? Just slow down before you answer. What does that mean? It came in through your senses. It rendered up. Your nervous system into your brain came into your mind and now you’re experiencing it.
You experienced it from inside and you didn’t touch it. It just came all the way in and melted into your being. You said, oh my God, it touched me the depth of my being. It was so beautiful. I felt like within the presence of God, have you ever had such an experience? Not very often, but you have had that experience. Maybe you have an intimate moments, maybe have it with the sunset. Maybe have it because you won the lottery. The point is you did not resist you in there. The indwelling being the self, the consciousness did not resist the vibration that came in one iota. So what did it do? It came all the way in and touched you. It didn’t touch your mind. You had to make it through your nervous system, through the body, through the mind, and it made it not just through there.
It made it through you all way back and whoa, okay? That’s what happens If you truly let it be notices how far it had to come in notices how many places in between. It could have got blocked, it could have got interfered with. So there is this state of be here now. That’s what be here now means you’re just experiencing the now. It’s touching the depth of your being. Everything. You’re totally open. There’s no resistance. There’s just the experience of the rawness of life coming in and touching your being. That’s where enlightened being is. Everything comes in and touches to the depth of their being. They’re not resisting anything. Robert Krishna, they took him to the park once and he was so sensitive, he was so open that he started squirming and almost crying and they said, what’s wrong master? He said, I feel the vibration of the blades of grass being crushed under people’s feet when they walk.
And he didn’t resist it one iota. He was willing to be that. See what I’m saying? It’s not like if you’re that you’re really happy if you’re that you’re always full, you’re always real. Everything comes in alright? So that’s what it means truly to let it be. You literally did not do anything to stop it. It came all the way in. But we don’t live there, do we? We’re not there. What do we do if it comes in and it doesn’t feel good? We stop it from coming the rest of the way in. We do the same thing inside that we do outside. We push it away. How do you push it away? Do not let anyone ever tell you do not have willpower inside you. Don’t use your physical body to push it away. You use will. It is effortless. You use this force of energy that opposes what’s coming in.
Can you relate to that? Do you understand that? Have you ever closed and knew you were pushing this away and felt the force of pushing it away? Your body locks up if you close inside, that’s energy, opposing energy. That energy is real. That came in. It’s passing through you If you use your will to oppose the energy, you’ve just created tension. That’s what anxiety is, that’s what tension is. That’s what all that stuff is, is the two forces pushing against each other and then they go out in the nervous system and it locks up and the body gets sick and you get ulcers and that’s why things like acupuncture and energy work, work that always fix everything. But that’s the concept behind it is you’ve got blocked energy in there. I’m going to try and help you release that energy in the end. The only thing that really will permanently release the energy is you stop blocking it. If they fix you and you feel wonderful after treatment, but then somebody says something until you go right back. Okay? Same thing with massage. They’re wonderful. I’m glad we get to do it, but yes, we got knots in there. You’re locked up, you close. I’ll massage it out. Oh my God, we’ll get it all out. All sore spots right now. Go out there and go back home where your problems are. It comes right back. How do I know? Because they stay in business.
So until you learn to not resist, we’re having a deep talk and what it’s like to live in there and what it can be like to live in there. As long as you are going to resist reality, you are going to suffer. Why? Because you can’t undo the reality. All you can do is hold it back so it doesn’t come old and touch you, but then it’s there all the time. Do you have problems with your childhood? Does it ever come up when you go home, when you meet your first boyfriend, your first girlfriend? High school? Just like high school is a mess, right? Because when you’re really learning what you don’t like, people aren’t very nice. Probably now it’s junior high. I don’t know a old, so what is happening? They are resisting. They’re holding it back. When you hold it back, what does it do?
It stays there. You’re not stupid. I’ve said, no, you can’t come in here, but I did. I don’t care. I will not experience you. Oh yes you will because I’m energy. It can’t be created or destroyed. The only thing it can do is be blocked. I told you this before. If you block it with your will, I want you to see a flow of energy like the Colorado River hitting the Hoover Dam, a flow of energy and then you are the dam that stopped it from flowing. Does that Colorado River ever, ever stop trying to get past that dam ever? Never will it because it’s trying to finish its journey, trying to finish its natural flow. You get one little hole in that dam, boom, the whole thing’s going to open up and the river will go back to where it wants to be. Same thing here.
It happened. It has a vibration. I don’t care whether you like it or not. It happened. You got to get real. It happened. It comes in and you got two choices. You let it pass through and then deal with it. I’m not saying you don’t deal with it, but listen to the difference. If you let it pass through and just handle it, experience it, fine. Now you’re clear. Now you look outside and you can deal with the actual situation. Otherwise you’re disturbed and what you’re trying to do is make the situation change so you’re not disturbed. Say you’re sorry, apologize or no, you didn’t just say that. I know you didn’t. What did you mean by that? Right? In other words, I can’t handle it. So everything I’m doing is trying to change the outside so I can handle it. Now that’s very different than I did handle it.
I was able to digest it. Now I come back and see what I can do to help. Now it’s not. I’m not okay, fix me. It’s the whole situation needs some help and I’m clear enough to be the one that can help. Maybe I’m helping you, but you said a terrible thing. I don’t care. I handled it. It’s not bothering me. Did it feel good coming in? No, it did not feel good coming in. Did I let it come in? Yes. Did it make it through me? Yes it did. Do I have to suppress it? No, I don’t have to suppress it. I handled it. I don’t have to push it away because I was able to handle it coming in, but it didn’t feel good. I was able to handle it. It didn’t feel good. If you’re a woman someday you may have a baby.
I heard it hurts like hell and they go back for seconds and thirds and fourths. Why? Because it’s worth it. You’ll someday understand it’s worth it to let it go through. It doesn’t have to be just, it doesn’t have to be fair. I didn’t deserve it. It doesn’t matter. It happened. Those are just excuses for resisting it. I didn’t deserve that. It doesn’t matter. It happened. That doesn’t make it go away that you didn’t deserve it. It just gave you a rationalization for suppressing it. Anybody hearing me? So if you suppress it, guess who loses you because it stays in there. Okay? So it’s physics. That’s all you’re dealing with is vibration, rates of energy and whether you in there are able to handle it. What if you can’t handle the heat and you live in Florida, you suffer. What if you can’t handle different nationalities of people or different colors of people or different religions of people you suffer?
It’s the same thing. If you can’t accept it, it causes a big trouble because you’re trying to make it not happen. And I like the most that you try to make not happen already happened. You got all stuff in there that happened years and years ago. That will never happen again. But it still bothers you. Why? Because you didn’t handle it when it happened. Understand that. How did you not handle it? By pushing it away. Therefore you stored it and therefore it comes up. Every once in a while you see things remind you of it. You just do everything you can to not have to deal with that. You get to the point where let it be is a very deep teaching. Speaking words of wisdom. In other words, if you don’t let it be, you keep it, it will be there for the rest of your life.
And what will you do about that? Let’s just talk honestly, what will you do about the fact that now you stored every single thing that ever bothered you inside of you? Do you understand that? I always use the same examples of people yelling if you the examples, but they’re good. You actually stored that. A driver in front of you yesterday didn’t use their blinker and drove 15 miles an hour below the speed limit moon, you were in a rush, okay? Or that the driver behind you beeped at you because you were looking at your phone just five seconds at the light. It bothered you and you told people about it and it stayed there in your dreams. And if you see a car that looks like that, you avoid it, you make sure you move off that light quickly. You are weird. You can’t handle beep.
You know you can’t start catching on what’s going on. You can’t handle reality. You can’t handle what comes in. So what do you do about it? You manipulate, you try to manipulate the world so it doesn’t hit your stuff. You just try to somehow control everybody and everything so that you’re safe. What does that mean to be safe? You know what you want? You want someone to take care of you and you want to be in a safe place and you want to make sure nothing’s going to go wrong. What is all that? Well, I can’t handle stuff and so I need the outside world to be a way that I know I’m safe. I know that I can handle, otherwise I’m scared, I’m insecure, I worry. I worry that something’s going to happen. That’s going to bother me. Alright? You are welcome to live like that if you want.
I don’t advise it and there’s something you can do about it. You do not. I don’t care. Whatever happened to you, I don’t care what will happen to you, you do not have to live like that. Why? Because it took two to tango. It took the outside world to unfold the way it did and it took you to resist. Well what if I didn’t resist? Okay, didn’t resist you. Deal with it. It comes through and it passes through. Now you’re clean. Now you can deal with things and you don’t have to carry that with you. Alright? It’s an amazing concept that you did this. No, my father, I know, but that was 20 years ago. It’s not happening anymore. I taught Mickey really long time ago. Doesn’t mean I was always good at it. If it’s not happening outside, it’s not happening inside.
If it is hot out today, but it’s cool out tonight, guess what? It is cool. I didn’t have to store the fact that I didn’t like that it was hot. I get to enjoy, go out, have a husband, wife, whatever, it’s and have a little argument before we go out to dinner. Little disagreement. What’s the dinner like? Taste? What’s the evening like? What’s store like? Hear me? You couldn’t handle that. There was a little disharmony for a short period of time and it ruined your evening. Maybe it ruined your marriage because I’m telling you a secret. You store that stuff.
He forgot the anniversary. He wasn’t nice when he came home. Had a bad day at work. He brought it home. I wanted to have a nice for them, but I wasn’t in the mood. Blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Every little one gets stored and eventually I don’t like this relationship anymore. I don’t think I’m getting what I need and all of a sudden it’s gone. You close. What if you didn’t do that? What if you were wise enough to understand things happen outside? That’s not the question. Can I handle it? Can I handle when the things that happen outside come in? And the answer is, of course not. I’m human. You say that I’m only human. No, you are not only human. You’re the consciousness that is experiencing the event. You’re not the event. You’re not the vibration of the event. You’re the experiencer of the event.
Are you not? Then be that and learn to let it be. Learn to let it come in. Learn to let go. Learn to not resist. These are the words I always use. Surrender non-resistance, letting go, let it be. They’re all saying the exact same thing, but you think when I talk about surrender, they write me, what am I supposed to do? Be a doormat and let the world walk over me. No, absolutely not. Surrender has nothing to do with the outside. Nothing. Surrender means when the outside comes in, it’s already happened. Can you surrender to the reality that it happened or are you going to resist because you didn’t like it? If you’re resisting, you didn’t like it. It’s going to be like that newscaster on your TV screen while the movie’s going on, it’s going to be in there for the rest of the day and the rest of your life and everything’s going to be superimposed on top of it. It’ll remind you. You’ll meet somebody, they’ll remind you of somebody you didn’t like. You don’t like that person. Then they got to strike against ’em to start with. They’re blonde blondes are stuck up. I dated one once in high school.
Can you relate to this? Well, what’s it saying? You have a choice. You do not have a choice of what happens outside. Some things you’re going to have some influence over, but there’s no way in the world that you are in charge of the moment that’s going to fold in front of you. The moment that’s going to fold in front of you at any given moment has a history behind it. Like you have a whole history. Why you behave the way you do. I don’t know anything about it. You grew up, you have a different one. You have a different one. Plus the day unfolded different, the weather’s different. All of those factors determine what’s in front of me. I don’t determine what’s in front of me. I wish I could, but I don’t. Can’t determine how you act or what day you had or what the weather’s like or anything.
So basically I stand in front of this moment, every moment and I have a choice. Accept it and honor it and then work with it or judge it and resist it and fight with it and get messed up. That’s your choice. That’s the spiritual choice. When I talk about, there’s two words that I don’t like them because people misunderstand ’em, worldly and spiritual. What worldly really means is that you think the solution to your problems is in the world. You need to find somebody. You need to get a better job. You need to earn more money, you need to travel, need more vacation. I’m not, okay. And these are the things that I think will make me be okay. The solution is out there. Spiritual is, I understand I’ve made a mess in here. It is a flaming mess. The probability that anything can happen that doesn’t disturb me is getting less and less every day.
The driver, the weather, every person, what they’re wearing, what they said, what they didn’t say. Are you kidding me? So the problems in here, they’re for the solutions in here. So am I looking for the solution outside? I looking the solution inside. That’s worldly spiritual. Fair enough? It’s not that you’re a worldly person, you have money, you’re dressed a certain way. No, it has nothing to do with that. As to where do you think the problem is? Because where the problem is, where the solution is, and you’re looking for love in all the wrong places. Why? How can I say that? Because when you feel love, where do you feel it? You feel it inside. Well therefore, if you don’t feel it, it’s there’s something gone inside of you. The fact that someone could show up that matches your stuff, that matches your stuff just right.
They’re not blonde or redheaded and they remind me of my mother and oh my God, I was so close with my mother and just their behavior patterns and the way they eat, the way they hold their fork, the little things right. That’s so beautiful. They like dogs. They say the same kind of dog I like. What’s that got to do with love? Absolutely nothing. Love is an experience you have inside of you. But if all these patterns that you stored in there across your life are being stimulated in a positive way, feel like same dog as me, right? Oh, she went to Paris. We were in Paris at the same time that far out. What do we met? All of a sudden we are open. It opens you. The music opened me the place opened me. Her vibration. Her his vibration opened me. What they were wearing, what they said, what they looked like.
It opened me. What happened? When you’re open, you feel love. Why? Because you’re open. It’s always there. Peace is always there. Love is always there. God is always there. Joy is always there. It is always there. If you can feel it inside Richard, where you feel peace, love, joy, all that kind of stuff, it can be there all the time. It is there all the time, period. Don’t what you’ve ever done. You can’t ruin it. It can’t not be there. It is there. Well then why don’t I feel it? Because you closed, because you stored all this stuff on top of it. Everything that ever bothered you, you stored inside of you. I used to ask the question, I’ll ask it to you. If you store inside of you every single thing that ever disturbed you, what’s it going to be like in there? Disturbed? Is it not? And you only say it’s not disturbed. Now I met somebody that you’re still disturbed.
Why do they do one thing you don’t like? How are you? I’m disturbed. I’m more disturbed. I thought this was the right person. You know what you call your soulmate? The one that all their patterns match mine. They know how to talk to me. They know how to behave. They know what to wear. They know what to think. Oh my god, it’s so amazing. Let’s see how long it lasts. I always teach you, you do have a soulmate. You are it. Okay? Okay. And so you get to the point you understand, okay, there’s joy inside of me. There’s love inside of me. There’s God inside of me. There’s beauty. Oh my God, there’s light. There’s just such beauty all the time. Why don’t I feel it? Because you blocked it. The sun is always shining. I got example. Is not the sun always shining? Does it shine during a cloudy day down here and shine it just the same to shine in winter, summer, fall, spring.
The point is, if you stop looking at it, Einstein’s relativity, start looking at it from the relative point of view of you on this earth and just go there and space where the sun exists, but the star exists. It is shining the same. It’s the same thing inside. It is always flowing down inside of you. What is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever take? The highest you’ve ever experienced. You were open. When was the last time we felt high? Because you were closed. What doesn’t say you felt just exciting? Somebody hate was talking to you. Never. When you’re open, you feel high because you are. That’s who you are. The being who’s in there, the end user is the highest ever walked. The face of the earth. Every single great one taught you. The Buddha taught you that. Christ taught you that. I have a nice Jewish yoga guy.
Love Christ’s teachings. Christ said, what? The kingdom is within you. What does that mean? It means the kingdom is within you with you. The you who’s in there, you who’s experiencing the thoughts, you’s experiencing the emotion. You who’s in there experiencing this? That’s the entry door to the kingdom. That’s where the great masters went. They went back there instead of coming down, instead of staring at the party of that’s complete mess. Watching a movie that’s Freddie and Elm Street combined with every relationship that ever was terrible, but they wore the roses. Let’s get all these movies together. Put ’em together on a screen and how do you get screwed up? That’s what you’re staring at, except yours is personalized to you because in the experiences you had, her experiences don’t bother. You have her talk to you about everything that went wrong in her life.
Yeah, you’ll listen because you like her. Alright? But now tell her about your stuff. You’ll be into it. So you’re sitting in earth using this beautiful consciousness. That’s the highest you ever walked the face of the earth. It’s in nirvana all the time. It’s in Christ heaven, which is within you staring at the garbage that you store inside yourself. What is a great enlightened master? They’re not doing that. That’s all. They’re not doing that. They say in zen there’s a thing called a satori. Alright? It’s not full enlightenment or anything like that, but they have a satori. They have an experience. And they said when a zen meditator, true zen practitioner has a satori, they just laughed their head off. Why? What if you realized that you were looking down at this garbage and just for a moment you weren’t. Wow. Is that what’s going on the whole universe?
I’m staring at this idiot who made a mess inside themselves staring at the mess. That’s called enlightenment. It just becomes light. Well guess it is light. What if you were the sun? This beautiful star. Oh my God, you’re so beautiful shining, right? But your rays are falling on the planet earth. Are they not? What if you were a conscious star, conscious rays, and they’re looking at that earth so much so that they forget who they are. They’re just busy being what they’re looking at. That’s who you are. Did the sun stop being the sun when it got identified with what it was shining on? No, it’s still the sun, but it’s busy projecting its consciousness, its sunlight onto an object and then you identify with the object. You say, I’m Sally, I’m this, I’m that. You are not any of those things. You define yourself as the experiences you had.
I’m so-and-so’s wife, so’s husband, so-and-so’s mother, so the father, I’m the one who played Dorothy in the fifth grade. I’m the one who won the trophy. I’m the one who did. I did this. I’m the one who got divorced. I’m the one who got mistreated. I got robbed when I was little. No, no. Those were experiences you had. You would still exist that they didn’t happen. Do you understand that? Did you exist before he got married? Then you don’t have the right to say, I am his wife. I am means that’s what I am. I’ve defined my identity is a very special word, English language, Spanish. It’s se that’s what I am cannot be. It’s what I am. And you just said, I am hungry. I’m tired, I’m upset. I’m his wife. I’m her husband is. Anyway, listen to me. My God, what happened? Here I am the self noticing what’s unfolding in front of me.
Everyone’s the same inside, way back inside conscious. It’s what you’re doing with your consciousness that builds the psyche that builds, but you have to live within there. Alright? Great beings, really great beings, very rare, very great beings have let go. What did Christ say? You must die to be reborn, die of that junk that you stored inside of the personal self, of the personality you built that you’re staring at to be reborn in spirit. We’ve gone back up. You hear me now? You’re the sun. You’re not what you’re looking at. How long does that take? The sun got lost. It’s staring down at it’s not real. It’s still the sun shining with these rays emanating. The problem is you identify what you’re looking at. Are you what you identify? No, I’m not. I’m sitting here looking at that picture. I could get so fixated on that picture for whatever reason, because I love it or hate it that you are not here anymore.
All that I see with my consciousness is that picture. How long does it take for me to not do that? Just stop doing it. Am I able to? Of course you’re able to. If I tell you to do something that you’ve never done, you don’t know how to do it, you might not be able to do it. If you’re doing something and tell you not to do it, you’re always able to not do what you’re doing. You, there’s nothing going on, right? The problem is you’re so fixated at identifying with it that you don’t know you’re able to do it. That’s what your habits are. That’s what your addictions are formed. This whole habit, the nervous system, every single thing is now tied into behaving that way and it’s not that easy to stop. But are you capable? Of course you’re capable. Can people stop drinking?
They do. Can people go through withdrawal and stop doing drugs? They do. Can people fix relationships that seem totally broken? They do. It’s all up to you. You’re in there and that’s what it boils down to. And now we get to why we had this talk. You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve wanted to face with the earth. Every single thing that the great ones told you and tell you is true. You’re a great being, but you’re staring at something that you built. You built it. You built your psyche. What did psychology say? Where’d your psyche come from? Your ego. The sum of your learned experiences. Did you have the experiences? Yes. Did you let them go? No. You stored them. Everyone was a brick and you made a house in there. That’s your ego. That’s your self concept. Do you understand ego? It doesn’t mean some egotist.
Ego means that the self, the consciousness which is eternal and infinite and the most beautiful it ever was. What did they in the Bible? And then we’ll say that man was made in the image of God. That means God’s got two arms and legs and hair. That might be blonde or black or sure, no, that’s God was made an image of man. Man was made. An image of God means the infinite conscious force that’s eternal, omniscient, and omnipotent is who you are. So it’s about letting go and it’s about letting it be. How do you do it? I’ve talked about why you would want to do it. I hope you get it once in your life. You come here that you get who you are. You are not depressed. You’re staring at a depressed psyche. Simon says, take a step back. Not so easy, but that’s what let it be means.
Start with the moments in your life that are happening now that you think you can’t handle. Somebody said something, somebody didn’t say something. It was hot. Little tiny little things that you resist, don’t you? And start learning how not to resist you Practice just like you practice a piano. So you practice a sport, you’re not good at it but you practice. Practice being able to handle reality. That’s my technique for you. Practice being able to handle reality because you have no choice. Your choice is handle it or get screwed up. Handle it or suffer. And so you decide, okay, I’m going to learn to handle, learn now. You can do it now. Learn to do it. Just how do you do it? Relax. That’s the answer when it comes in. I have to stop now by a time, but I’ll show you. This is a technique. It comes in and you’ll feel yourself start to resist, won’t you? You’ll feel the pushing. You’ll feel the stress. You’ll feel the attempt to push it away. Relax. What? What’d you say? Relax. No. Yes.
Why? Because if you don’t relax, it’s going to stay in there. If you do relax, it’s going to be something you experience that will be over. Why not have it be over? Why would you want to store everything that ever bothered you inside of you? And so you start with the little things. I know you can’t do the big things yet, but you just start with the little things. Just let them come in and let them pass through. Just keep your hands to yourself. I used to say, sit on your hands. You have inner hands. Sit on ’em. You want to do a mantra? Fine. There’s all the techniques are about how you can exist in there, letting go, breathing, asanas, mantra, whatever you want. They’re all saying do this instead of resisting. Breathe instead of resisting. Focus on your breath. Come out of your nose instead of resisting.
All of it is can you be in there and let reality pass through you? And right now, I know you can’t, but the big stuff, all the stuff you store from before and stuff that bothers you now, but you can with the little stuff, but you just don’t bother. I’m telling you to bother, bother, relax through it and it’ll be over and start learning how to do that Next thing you know you’d been do a bigger thing and a bigger thing. The next thing you know, some stuff will come up by itself that was from before that you used to not even want to handle it any way, shape or form. And you’ll be challenged. Can I let this go? Can I let this go? Can I let this go? Can I let this go? And the answer’s always yes. That’s why. Because I would love to feel Shakti pouring through my being day and night from the moment I wake up in the morning, even during my dreams, just all this beautiful energy rising up inside of me feeding me.
But Christ say, man does not live by bread alone, but for every word to leave at the mouth of God. That’s what he’s talking about. There’s this inner flow of energy that’s feeding you from inside, not outside. You can have both. Nobody told you, renounce the world. Don’t renounce anything. But wait until you feel all this beautiful joy and ecstasy and shucky pouring inside of you. All of a sudden the world is fine. Do your thing, but I’m fine. I want you to be fine all the time. Unconditional wellbeing. That’s who you are. As you let go of your stuff, you’ll start to feel this. But they remind me from all over the world, amazing, embarrassing all over the world. You changed my life. I did not change everybody’s life. I told you to change your life. I told you how to stop resisting reality and you’re going to start feeling this energy and all of a sudden your marriage is better and all of a sudden this is better.
All of a sudden everything’s better because you’re better. So that’s your choice. Try to get it outside, conditional wellbeing and then try to hold it and try to keep it the way you want. Or come in here and stop messing yourself up. Let go, let go, let go. Alright, I hope we’ve communicated. Hope helps. You are a very great being and don’t you let anyone tell you you’re a sinner or anything like that. Things happened in the past. You were asleep, you’re sleepwalking now. You woke up the minute you wake up. Don’t even think about it. I always tell people, what about the past? Here’s the past. If the same thing happened again, would you do the same thing? No. Then you learned, fine, get on with it. No guilt, no shame, nothing. All that does is hold you down. Now if you say yes, I do it again, well okay then we need you to have guilt and shame.
But you normally, you grow past it, fine. You can’t own your past. That’s ridiculous. You can’t own things you did here. You wet your bed when you were young. Shame on you. Well, I’m 40 years old. I haven’t wet it for 40 years yet. But you wet it before. That’s ridiculous. Don’t you dare do that. You just accept that you’ve grown and the past is, the past has nothing to do with you. There’s no karma. Don’t you dare let them lay that on you. Once a karma seed, something you carry inside yourself that will attract what it needs to let go. That was very quick. That’s literally what it is. Alright? If you let it go, it’s gone. If you truly let it go, you learn. You’re here to grow. Earth is a place of souls sin to evolve that before you have a right to evolve. Don’t hold yourself back. Alright. I still what I want to say. It’s not true. I would keep you forever. Alright. Thank you for listening. Jai.
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