E94: Spiritual Freedom Is Simpler than You Think

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Michael Singer: Ative. People make spirituality extremely complicated because they make all of life very complicated. For example, this is how simple life is you. You are born, you drop down this planet that’s spinning around the middle of absolute dark empty space. I tell you all the time, 1.3 million earths fit inside the sun. That’s a very big number. That means earth is extremely small, you don’t pay any attention to the rest. We’ll talk about that. That’s what makes it complicated because it’s really simple. There’s this tiny little planet spinning around a star and there’s 300 billion of those stars in your galaxy, 300 billion suns and 1.3 billion Earth fit inside the sun and you are fixated on what’s going on on that planet and you wouldn’t even stay here very long. Planet’s been here for 4.5 billion years here, 80, 90 years on a tiny little planet middle of nowheres, and I stop by telling you there’s 300 billion stars in your galaxy.

There’s 2 trillion galaxies. How often do you pay attention to the rest? None ever. That’s why your life is so complicated otherwise, it’s very, very simple. You say it on a planet for a few years, it’s spinning around a star and every day it rotates in its axis there. That’s your life. Everything else is you making a mess. Otherwise have fun. You’re on a planet, there’s things to do. It doesn’t matter what they are, they’re just things going on. How meaningful is the planet you think? What’s in front of you is meaningful. Forget what’s in front of you, the entire planet, anything going on. What’s so meaningful? If it blew up to smithereens tomorrow, total gone. A few planets would change their orbit. Nothing else in the universe would even know you were here. I just want your mind to do that. I’m sorry, I repetitive.

Okay, so you have a star, you spin around the star. That star is 93 million miles away. Miami’s 360, that’s a big distance away. That’s how far you are from that star. Where’s the next star? Where’s the next star? Lemme make sure I keep my numbers right. I believe it is 4.2 light years away the next star. Well, that number doesn’t mean anything to you. What’s a light year? If I take a photon, a light beam, hold it above the earth in my fingers, I got it, I got it. Let it go for one second. It’s circumnavigated a globe seven and a half times. Is that fast enough for you? That’s one second. Go that speed every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every year for 4.2 years and you’ll get to the next star. Are you embarrassed? Don’t think about these things. It’s ridiculous what’s going on.

Why would you make such a messier life when it’s so big that it’s lots of room? That’s the next star and there’s 300 billion year galaxy and they’re pretty much all that far away from each other. It’s called reality. Life is simple. That’s life. You drop down and it’s nothing. You’re conscious. Thanks God. Have fun. Have a good time. Have a dance on the planet for a few years because you can’t. You make it complicated. It isn’t even complicated to explain why you make it complicated or how you make it complicated. You don’t need psychology books and all this and philosophy. No, it’s very, very simple. How did you miss the fact that you fell down on a planet? You spin around for a few years and you go back somewhere or not, who cares? You’ll find out who gets the whole thing going about death and make that complicated.

Death is a once in a lifetime experience and you’re going to find out whether you’re there after you die. And if you’re not there, don’t worry about it. It’s not like you sitting there saying, oh God, I’m not here. You’re not there. See how simple it’s this is what it means to leave things simple. How did you get some so complicated that you can’t wake up in the morning and say, I’m back. I wonder what’s going to happen today and not care. Just have fun with it. It’s an exciting place. There’s always something going on. Is there not? How did you make this so complicated? Where’s the suffering? Where’s the anxiety? Where’s the worry? There’s none of that. I dunno what’s going to happen. So what? Let’s have fun with what happens. I can’t. There you go. Why not? Because I have decided what I want to happen.

So you dropped out of this planet in the middle of nowheres. I told you how big it is and you’re here for a few years. It’s been here for 4.5 billion and decided what’s supposed to happen. Have you noticed it doesn’t happen the way you want it to? Why should it happen the way you want it to? It happens the way it happens. It’s very Zen. Flowers are red water’s, blue grass is green. Now go home. Those things are what they are. Have you noticed it rains when it rains. It’s hot. When it’s hot. People are nice when they’re nice. They’re mean when they’re mean. Your body looks one way when you’re young. It looks another way when you’re old. Things are what they are. Why? Because that’s how they are. Why don’t you ask why the planet is so small At 1.3 million fits inside the sun where the closest star aways 4.2 light years.

But why do you see what I’m saying? It’s like this stuff is real, but the problem is you came down here and instead of just having a good time, it’s a fun place. This thing’s happening all over the place all the time. Is it not? When was the last time nothing was happening? Never. You’re given a body that can experience it. Where’d you get your body? A single cell. You live in a place at a single cell. One cell made your body for miraculous place you live in, but you’re suffering. Why? 35 trillion living cells make up your body every day? Liver, pancreas, this, that pineal gland, everything. Do you say thank you? No, you’re too busy in your head having to decide what you want to happen and what you don’t want to happen and then worry about how to make it happen and worry about what you want to happen might happen.

Okay? There’s your problem. Buddhist said, all life is suffering. First noble truth. What’s the second noble truth? The cause of all suffering is preference, desire. The fact that you made up what you want means you’re going to suffer. Have you noticed? So it’s simple. Life is simple. You dropped out on a planet, you say thank you. You can say thank you to parents if you want, but can say thank you to reality, the made body and keeps it. You care about what it tastes when you eat your food, what the food tastes like. Oh, thank you for cooking such nice spine. When you swallow that food, what happens then? The chemicals break down and it gets distributed through a thing to feed all the, whoa. Why don’t you say thank you to that? More important, isn’t it? This is how messed up we are. This is how we made life impossible to enjoy, impossible to live, impossible to not suffer.

Why do you have tension? People have tension, tension and anxiety. Why? Because the mind has decided how it needs things to be okay, and it’s decided how they better not be or you won’t be okay and you don’t have control of the world. I try to get across I No, I can’t. I don’t understand. There’s a moment of unfolding in front of you. See, there it is. How many moments are going on on the planet earth at the same time? That moment unfolding in front of you? 700 billion zillion quillian. Do you care about those? No. Well, that’s pretty selective. It’s just a moment in reality. No, it’s my moment. Okay, I’m going to pick you up and I’ll drop you over there in France. Now that’s your moment. What happened to the one I to pick up from? I don’t care. Why would you do that?

The moments are all tied together. It’s a system. Everything’s influenced everything else. The moment in front of you has history. Why it is the way it is. Every moment everywhere says history. You don’t care, do you? I’m picking on you, but it’s the truth. All you care about is your mind has decided what you want and what you don’t want. And all you care about is the moment in front of you. How’s it doing? Matching your want and not want. And you’re struggling. You have anxiety and see, understand why it’s so complicated. You made it complicated. It’s not complicated. Life is not complicated. It just is what it is and you can enjoy it. But what if things happen that don’t like? Maybe instead of checking the things that are happy you don’t like, you need to check why you don’t like reality. Do you like reality?

An enlightened being loves reality. A normal human being, which you don’t want to be a normal human being. A normal human being does not like reality. They like what they’ve decided to and if the world matches what they decided, they like that. So you limited your life to the moments that happened to unfold the way you decided you wanted them to. Well, they don’t. Most of ’em don’t do that. Like 99.9% of and then you kill yourself to try and make ’em do that, and it creates anxiety and ulcers and tension and so on. So if you stop doing that, stop doing what? Stop making up the way you think it’s supposed to be. What’s wrong with enjoying and appreciating and respecting reality here? It’s been here for 4.5 billion years. It’s got some history on you and things are the way they are because of this law, cause and effect every single thing in front of you as a result of cause and effect.

Is it not? Why is that person yelling at me? You don’t want to know because it’ll take you your whole life to figure it out. What did his mother do? What did his father do? What happened yesterday? What food did he eat? What indigestion does he have? All of those forces or why this person’s being the way they are? But psychology say man is the sum of his learned experiences. Well that’s a lot of experiences you didn’t know anything about, even your husband or wife, you don’t know nothing. They all had different experiences. Can somebody be a given away in the morning and have an experience at work and then come home and be different because of the sum of learned experience called calls and effect. So that’s in front of you. What’s in front you at any given moment is the result of every single thing that ever happened.

They made it be that way, including you. Why do you like some things and not others? Ever check that out. Why do you want something one way and something else? Not where did your preferences come from, but a normal human being, they don’t think about that it’s me. It’s not you. It’s that some of your learned experiences, every single preference you have, every desire you have is because the past experiences you’ve had that programmed your mind that way. So life is simple. If you don’t decide how it’s supposed to be, it is what it is. It rains when it rains. What’s wrong with that? It’s hot. When it’s hot. What’s wrong with that? She’s nice. When she’s nice, she’s mean when she’s mean. It’s so easy if you stop doing this. That’s what Buddha said, that the cause of all suffering is desire. What is a desire?

A preference. It’s that you have a way you want it to be. That’s what causes your suffering. What if you went to have your hair done and they cut it a little bit too short? Okay, hi. It looks interesting about do I expect it but it was cute. No, you freak out. I’m pen you. I’ll sue you. When you get old, your hair falls out. What’s wrong with that? And it turns white. So what do I have to wear A hair cream? I don’t want it to go. Why? Why? What’s wrong with getting old? Every single moment of your life is different. The older you get the better life is. It’s like wine. Why? When you get old enough, you don’t have to care what people think about you. If you burp anything you do just he’s old. What do you expect? He’s old, right?

It’s really neat. I like it a lot. What do you care what people think about you? It’s not fun, is it? It’s not fun. Caring what everybody thinks about you. How often you have a conversation, you finish the conversation, but it’s not over in your head. Oh, I shouldn’t have said that. Oh God, I forgot to tell. That was so impressed. Isn’t that fun being a rock? You can’t even have a conversation with somebody without the mind doing that. What if you go into a meeting and somebody’s going to ask you a question? Oh, you driving so crazy? Look, lemme get something straight. You either know the answer you don’t. Very simple. Well, what if I know the answer then tell the answer. Well, what if I don’t know the answer? Then say you don’t know the answer. No, no. It’s rough living in there, isn’t it?

It doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t matter. Why does it matter whether the people like you or not? I’ll tell you why. Because you’re not okay inside. The only reason you care whether the people like you or not is because you’re not okay. And if they like you, you feel better. If they don’t like you, you feel worse. Otherwise, who cares? Okay? Why are you not okay inside? It’s always the same reason because you decided how things need to be for you to be okay and you have to struggle to make them be that way. And so if somebody likes you, you feel better. And so you constantly need this positive reinforcement to try to make you feel better. You don’t feel good. Why don’t you feel good? Because you decided how everything needs to be for you to be okay and it’s not that way.

So if you get to the point, and it’s true spirituality where you decide I’m not going to work on making everything be the way I want, I’m going to stop letting go of what I want, but then I’ll never be happy. That’s what we’re going to talk about. If you were to reach a state true, not suppression, not denial, where literally you go of all these stupid preferences, then it’ll rain. You’re excited, it’s raining, it’s hot. Oh my god, there’s that star 93 million miles away. Oh, you just have fun with all of it. Then it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what happens. It doesn’t matter if somebody likes you, it doesn’t matter if you have the corner office or you’re in the basement. It’s fun if you don’t say it’s not fun, it’s fun. One person owns one kind of dog, another person, another kind of dog.

You look, I could ever like that kind of dog. He does. Why are you doing this? So you set aside what you like and it’s what you dislike and when you do that, you suffer. So I said life is actually very, very simple. It’s very simple. You dropped onto a planet for a few years, have a good time and you’re going to say to me, I can’t. And what you mean is I can only have a good time if things are the way I want. You should blush if I say that to you because that’s ridiculous. Who said you can only have a good time of things are the way you want. I did. Who decided what you want me? Some people say to me, I teach no preferences. I don’t. You can have preferences. You can have preferences. Just prefer everything. That’s called non-duality.

Don’t differentiate. She’s tall, she’s short, she’s young, she’s old, she’s Jewish, she’s Catholic. Wow, that’s exciting. I want to get to know her. Why can’t you enjoy things? Because you said you don’t. Your mind decided what’s okay and what’s not, and now you’re only okay if it matches your mind and it doesn’t. Why would life match your mind? The causes, historical causes that came together to create the moment in front of you has nothing to do. What’s going on in your mind? It’s not true that God doesn’t like you. That’s why it’s raining on your birthday. It doesn’t know it’s your birthday. But you say that, I’m not happy. Why one day, one day it didn’t have to rain? You do talk like that. You’re making a mess of your life by deciding how it’s supposed to be instead of enjoying the way it is. Alright, so that’s how life can be simple. Stop it. Stop using your mind to mess yourself up and then trying to use the messed up mind to decide how to be okay. Okay?

Like a car drives by God. I wish I had one like that. Okay, you get to say that’s okay. Another car drives by. That one’s neat too, but no one drove by. I wish I had one like that. Now you got to get a nighttime job. You can’t be with your family. You got uptight because you didn’t get the raise and somebody else did just because you decided it had to be the way you wanted. Can you imagine for a moment not doing that and just enjoying life? Just enjoying life. It’s not your life. It’s going on all over the place. You just enjoy it, enjoy it. I’m going to pick you up and drop you down into a restaurant in France. You never been there. Drop down. What’s it going to be like in your mind? I know what some people’s mind would say.

My God, they don’t even speak English. What’s it matter with them? Wow. Somebody else of mine could say, wow, look, I don’t even understand anything. I want to know how to order water. This is so much fun. Which do you want? Which way you want to be? You want to be happy, you want to fight to make yourself happy. I’m going to repeat that to you. Do you want to be happy or do you want to have to fight for things to be the way you want so you can be happy? I’d never said in those exact words before, what’s the difference between being happy and having to fight to make things be the way you want so you can be happy. You had nothing to do with the outside. It had to do with you deciding which way you want to live your life.

Make one up based on your past experiences and then try to make the weather happy and be the way you want in order to be happy or just stop that the great way. Third in patriarch, the great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. That was one of the deepest spiritual writings ever written. Very simple. All you need is one line the great way. Enlightenment is not difficult for those who have no preferences or the way I’ve changed it, the great way is not difficult for those who prefer everything same. So do you want to be happy or do you want to struggle with life to make it be the way that you feel happy not working so good is it? Who made that decision? You did. Those are the two different ways to live your life. A worldly life, which is not a negative term, it doesn’t mean money or something like that.

A worldly life means the world needs to be a certain way for me to be okay. A spiritual life means God. It’s neat the fact that there is a planet spin in the middle of nowheres. I mean literally, God, I showed you what nowheres look like. That’s pretty big nowheres. It’s the closest stars. There are 4.2 light years away and there’s 300 billion of them and there’s 2 trillion. You got this is the middle of nowhere and there’s all this stuff going on. There’s computers, there’s men and women, there’s people, there’s words, right? And you’ve got the land on this planet. I’m going to put you on Mars. You’re going to be so bored. There’s nothing happening in our Mars. Jupiter, you’ll fall right through it’s gas. There’s no place we have seen with the web or the Hubble or probes that you would want to go other than saying, I went there.

You want to come right back. There’s nothing going on anywhere else. Nothing, nothing. And look what’s going on here. There’s trees and elephants and birds and roaches and everything and instead of being blown away every second of your life that you landed here for a few years, all you do is complain. Do people complain all the time about what? Pretty much everything. Why? Because they decided how they needed to be to be okay. Spirituality says stop it. Work with your mind. Work with your mind to where it doesn’t do that. You can reach a state where your mind doesn’t do that. Your mind says, wow, look, there’s rain clouds. It’s going to rain. Oh boy. The mind looks says, oh, there’s a guy he hates my cousin. Why wouldn’t your mind do that? It’s a positive thinking and there’s a natural way to get there and I’m going to tell it to you.

It’s not something you have to force. Your mind is capable of being your best friend working with you. The only mind that matters is the intellectual, analytical mind. The computer that remembers bad things that happen and spew them up into your face and throws ’em all the time. I don’t need that computer. It’s like that’s what your mind is doing. It’s storing what you didn’t like and throwing it back in your face all the time. It doesn’t need to do that. There’s a healthy mind. The healthy mind is really good with inventing and creating. Imagine how beautiful that mind is. Being inspired by everything and writing music and doing this and coming up with solutions and creating air conditioning and what a brilliant mind and all you use it for is to complain. That’s the problem. Instead of enjoying your mind and enjoying creating and enjoying all this kind of stuff, you are not okay.

So you need to get something from things. You’re a beautiful being. You’re capable of enjoying every moment of your life. Let go of this concept of want and not want, but there are wars. Yes, there are wars have always been wars. That’s one of the things that goes on. I’ll explain to you shortly why there are wars, but in the meantime there are wars. Do I have to like wars? You have to enjoy that you’re here and maybe you can do something to help. Maybe you can be nice to your neighbor so you’re not warring with them. But you don’t have to sit there and say, I can’t be happy. There are wars now. There’s just another person not happy. There’s more suffering. Doesn’t mean you don’t interact with things. Doesn’t mean you don’t be activists. It doesn’t mean anything like that. But don’t sit there and suffer because things are not the way you want.

What did that do? It didn’t prove anything. So you just get to the point where you realize it’s not about getting things the way you want, it’s about stop deciding what you want things to be because they’re not going to be that way and then you complain. Alright, so life is simple and it can be simple. How? Stop setting aside what you like from what you dislike. Learn to enjoy and appreciate and respect the reality of life unfolding in front of you and everywhere. The fact that it’s going on everywhere is amazing. It’s just amazing. Every single person, how many people? 8.3 billion people on the planet earth. They started off as a single cell, as their body did. So that’s what you’re talking to when you talk to somebody, a single cell that knew how to make that thing that you’re talking to, wow, that far out.

If let’s say you were standing there and all of a sudden a little piece of dirt jam grew up before your very eyes and started cussing at you, you tell everybody, every other thing started cussing at me. It’s unbelievable, right? Use your mind for something constructive reality. Everything I’ve said so far is reality, isn’t it? But you ignore it. You only care about this tiny little thing. Call your preferences that you made up based on your past experience. Is it not true that you had different experiences? You have different preferences. Somebody was mean to you in high school, what he looks like, what his name was, what he said, how he acted, what he drove. If you see the car, if you see this even 10 years later, you close, it bothers you. You did that. No, he was mean. Yeah, but he’s not there anymore.

You literally took the time to store inside of you, every single thing that ever bothered you, and then you wonder why you’re bothered. Did you not store everything that ever bothered you inside of you? Self suppression? Troy talked about it. Things happened. They bothered you. What’d you do? Let ’em go. You did not. You pushed them away and kept them inside. You didn’t want to feel them. Then that’s what’s in there. If you store everything that ever disturbed you inside of you, what’s it going to be like in there? Disturbed. Are you scared? Are you insecure? Are you tense? Do you worry? Of course you do. Of course you do. Do you worry? The things that happened before that bothered you might happen again? Of course you do because you stored it in there. Even your parents got divorced when you were five. That’s still in there.

You didn’t like your stepdad. Now anyone has his name. Anyone talks about divorce? No, no, I don’t want to get married. We live together. I’m not getting married. Why? I don’t want to talk about it. Why I don’t want to get divorced. My parents got divorced. I suffered. I’m not going to do that to a child and I may not even have children because this world’s tough place. Why would I bring children to this world? Tell me. People don’t talk like that. You stored this garbage inside of you and now it’s running your life and you wonder why it’s so difficult. Would it be difficult if you decided he wanted everything to be, I want the weather tomorrow to be such and such temperature between this, this and the other thing. Otherwise, I’m going to be very unhappy tomorrow. And that was not an exaggeration by the way.

People do that. What’s the probability you’ll be happy? That’s one way of living and it’s not very much fun and you made it very complicated. Now you have to fight with everything and everybody to get it. The way you are there, your whole life’s fighting. It’s a struggle, okay? The alternative I told you is to not do that. To not do that, to sit there and say, I’m here. I’ll be here just for a few years. I can handle it. Go into camp where I am and people are different and people go through things. Sometimes people do things that may my heart hurt. What’s wrong with that? Glad I have a heart. Okay, fine. It hurts. It hurts, and sometimes it feels good. Just be fine with everything and then life is easy. You wake in the morning, I told you, you wake in the morning, I’m back.

Oh, it’s still here. Wow. I gave you that whole talk too. What is the probability? If it’s true, I’m going to do it very quickly. If it’s true that all that out there is atoms, that’s all it is. Molecules made up of atoms, made up of nutrient protons made up of little activations in a field of energy that vibrates. There are no cent protons. There’s just quantum level field that gets agitated like a lake that’s still and a leaf drops in it. Then there’s ripples. There’s ripples. There’s no form, there’s no particles. They’ve already seen that. There’s just wavelets and those wavelets interact together to form the appearance of particles. What’s going on? So when you wake up, in my mind literally does this. You wake up in the morning, look around, it’s still here. What’s the probability that’s still there that those wavelets, it’s not like God created the heavens and earth.

It is being created Every single moment that those wavelets are moving, it’s creating protest in the atoms and they’re still here. You have a dresser, you have a bed, you have a body. It should be miraculous to you. Einstein had a quote. I like this quote. I like Einstein a lot. He said that reality is just an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. So those wavelets come up, they create this and it’s still there and all you care about is to be the way you want. Blown away that these little wavelets end up making all this and making your eyeballs that. See it this way. It’s phenomenal. You look for miracles. It’s a miracle. The whole thing’s a miracle beyond your comprehension. Alright? That’s why life can be simple. First, you see why it’s complicated. You made it complicated. It’s really very simple. You sit there and it happens.

You get to appreciate it and be blown away and you get to interact with, it’s fun. It’s like playing a video game. You go out to. Sport is a sport. You have to interact with life, but you have to understand what you’re interacting with. Just this creation, this planet. Oh my God. Alright. Spirituality can be very simple and that’s what I want to talk about. If you stop screwing things up with your mind, we talked about that. How do you do that? Stop setting aside what you like from dislike. Just enjoy the thing. What’s going to happen? You wouldn’t have that stuff stored in there. How would you like to not have that garbage stored inside of you from your past? The things that happened five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, five minutes ago. What if it didn’t get stuck in there?

You’re going to learn yoga, true yoga, true spirituality. All we’re going to discuss. Just imagine for a moment, there’s no stuff in there. Doesn’t mean you have memory. You can bring it back if you want to, just like a computer can bring back. But it’s not stuck in there trying to get out, trying to release the garbage you stored in there. That’s why your mind’s negative. That’s why you have all these problems because it doesn’t want to be in there and it causes big trouble. How would you like to not have that in there? You have to wake up in the morning and the past is the past. It happened. I was fine with it. I dealt with it. I handled it. It’s gone. Bring it on. I’m right here. Be here now. I’m right here. What is going to happen as you get there?

It’s not all or nothing. I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen. You’re going to learn about this stuff called Shakti. It’s beyond my comprehension that human beings don’t know what Shakti is because that’s what you’re going to find is that when you don’t have that garbage in there, there’s this flow that just starts coming up inside of you and it’s always going up. It doesn’t go down. It just goes up. Just like when you get high, it’s up. That’s why it’s called high. Every single high experience you ever had was a Shakti experience. Everything. Second chakra winning love. Every single thing is the same thing. When your stuff is not in the way this Shakti flows, there’s just this upward rush of energy. If it comes out a given chakra, then it behaves a different way. Eventually you catch on. If I don’t have stuff in here, it doesn’t have to come out, it just goes up.

It just wave upon wave of ecstasy, pour through your being all the time, day and night. Like everything in the lower centers, they look like child play. There’s nothing as high as a constant upward flow. It’s just pouring inside it. That is your natural state. Every single one of you, that is what’s going on in there. You have to do anything. What you have to do is not do something which is block it. Your natural state is where the great masters are. It’s this constant upward flow of Shakti. Now. You don’t feel it unless certain circumstances, you get what you want. You feel it. Why? Because you blocked it by not getting what you want. You blocked it with all your preferences and all the garbage you stored in it from your past. All the stuff you stored in there, all the stuff you shoved down in there is blocking your Shakti flow.

It’s not about having to get things to be a certain way. So you get to have Shakti, you have to stop needing things to be a certain way and you let go of those preferences and the judgments and all that garbage. The more you thin out in there, the more shock do you feel. And it’s not all or nothing. You just start feeling more. You just happier. Even when you get happy, you fall in love. How long does it last? How long does that puppy love? First love of first sight, oh my God. It can’t wait to see each other. What happened? Can it not flow all the time? Can it not feel that? I don’t remember. I’m talking about the honeymoon phase where you just feel this love pouring through your heart. You can’t wait to see somebody. You see them excited. Think about ’em.

Just think about him. He goes, surely you felt that. Does it last? Of course it doesn’t last. Why? Because something happens in the relationship that you don’t like. They didn’t say what you wanted them to when you were with your parents. Something happened. They forgot the anniversary of, there you go. You have these preferences you built in there. And so now what you do is you store the fact that you didn’t get what you wanted. And so now if every single thing you store in there blocks your Shakti flow, you know it because of love. Can people do things that turn you off? Can you love somebody tremendously and have them do one thing? You don’t even need ’em to do anything. Can you think that maybe they might do something? You don’t feel as much love as you did before? I had that thought.

See what I’m telling you? I’m proving to you, you are blocking your Shakti flow with that stuff you store in there. If you get rid of that stuff, you have no idea how high you are. But instead of getting rid of the stuff, you try to manipulate the world so that you feel open. It’s a losing situation. What you need to do is stop closing. How do you stop closing? I told you, stop setting up these likes and dislikes. So spirituality is about cleaning out inside. It is about cleaning out the stuff you have in there. What happens if you do that? You start feeling the Shakti flow. Why don’t you feel the Shakti flow? It’s very nice. It’s very nice. So all of a sudden you like it more than you like the feeling that somebody else said what you wanted. What if you were so filled with ecstasy that you don’t care if you think about you, it’s just pouring inside of you.

Somebody walks up and says, you stupid idiot. You can be nice and don’t laugh. Just feel talking about handling your liquor. There are great beans can handle the Shakti. You can walk through this world feeling a tremendous flow of energy and just sit there very nicely and let people talk and bring that energy out. That Shakti is creative, tremendously creative for everything. Anything you do. I’m going to talk about Shakti. So that is a natural energy. It’s your divine energy, God energy. It’s a shakti flow that flowing inside of you, inside everybody. So you just get to the point where you understand it is all about Shakti and it’s all about the blockages. And yoga we call the blockages. Some scars. Every one of ’em is some scar, a blocked energy flow that’s stored inside of you that is messing up your Shakti flow. But you know that the more something matches what you like and they shift around.

They shift all the time. Are you moody? A yogi, a great mean has no moods. There’s no moods. Here’s the mood. Whoa. I’m telling you that is your natural state period. Don’t let anybody tell you anything different. You’re a human being. That’s your natural state. You evolve to the point that that much Shakti is pouring through you. You have blocked it with that stuff you stored inside. So Shakti and some scars, those are two things you want to know. Every single thing there’s about, alright? The Shakti flow is the meaning of life. It’s everything you’re doing. Everyone’s doing is trying to get Shakti flow. They don’t know that I’m trying to get her to love me. Why? I get my Shakti flows. Everything is some scars on top of the Shakti. So spirituality is always the same. It is about you don’t have to find the shakti.

The shakti is finding you. It’s there all the time. You have to let go of the blockages. You let go of the blockages and you stop putting more in there. That’s your spiritual path. Let go of the some scars and stop putting more in. If it’s true what I said to you and it is that underneath all that is this beautiful flow of spirit of Shakti pouring inside of you, then when are you going to go find it somewhere? It’s inside of you. You shouldn’t have to do anything to get what’s there. You have to stop blocking it. So all of spirituality, all of yoga, all of everything is about letting go of the blockages. Then the question becomes how do you do that? How do you get rid of these? Some scars. Don’t tell anybody. I told you this. I tell you a secret.

They want out more than you want them out. It is not natural to your heart or your mind to have that garbage stored in there that they blocking the energy flow. They want the energy flow. People say, well, why is my mind so negative? Because you stored negativity inside of you. It is trying to release and in order to release it has to make it past your mind. Therefore, all this garbage is coming inside your mind. Why is my heart so sensitive? Because you store all this garbage inside and it’s sick. If your body’s sick or the immune system tries to get all that junk out of there, your temperature goes up. This happened. Pain, all that’s part of the process, isn’t it? If my body’s trying to cleanse your higher bodies, your mental body and your emotional body, they’re trying to cleanse that garbage out of there.

That’s why it keeps pushing it up and there’s a secret. How do I get it out? If that’s true and it is, believe me, that the Shakti flow’s the most beautiful thing. It is the only beauty of ever experience in your entire life. You hear a piece of music, oh, you melt into it. Wow, you’re Shakti open. I’ll tell you what, have it be your song that you fell in love with somebody and it’s our song. You know what I mean? It’s our song, right? Every time you hear it, you say, oh, you bliss out. Now break up and see. The next time you hear the song said bliss, you out freaks you out. You did that. It’s the same song. Am I proving this to you? Yet? You are screwing yourself up by storing this stuff inside. How do you get rid of it?

Do you have to do all this intense yoga intense? Have you noticed it comes up by itself? Have you noticed? You see a sign makes you think of something. You hear a word. You have a smell. Walk into a kitchen, reminds you of your mother or the cooking, or last time you got sick at a restaurant. It comes up by itself. It is supposed to do that. Your heart and your mind are trying to cleanse you of the stuff you stored in there. The trouble is when it comes up, you don’t like it. You tell people. I told you not to talk about that. I don’t like to talk about that. In other words, I like being blocked. Leave me alone. Just don’t touch it. Don’t touch it. So it doesn’t hurt. Your attitude has to change to grow spiritually. It has to be come on up.

I don’t want you in there. It was stored with pain. It’s going to come back with pain. You stored the energy of the experience, then stored the emotion, stored in the thoughts, stored everything, doesn’t it? Have you ever had experience where something happened and you just went back to your childhood? You just felt like you did when you were seven? People say that. I can’t believe it. I went and visited my house where I used to grow up and all these thoughts and feelings came back, was really either wonderful or freaky. Yes or no. Why? Because you store them in there and they’re being stimulated. Spirituality is about saying, I’m not going to do that. Can’t get there all at once. Just say you don’t learn to play piano all at once. You practice. You don’t learn to play a sport all at once. You practice.

You practice how to let go of these things, of the sun, scars when they come up instead of trying to build a life that they don’t come up or they do come up if you like ’em. Now, your entire reflection of your life is just the projection. All that junk you stored inside, it should be. All you see is ecstasy. Beauty to creation. God, it’s unbelievable. That’s all you see. It’s unbelievable that will exist, but you have to be willing to let go of your stuff. And so first you change your attitude. You change your attitude. Wait a minute, I want this stuff to come up. Do I have to go find it and make it come up? No, it will find you just fine. It finds you every single day of your life. Every time you see somebody, you don’t see somebody, somebody says something.

You know what? You have as much trouble if somebody says something as if they didn’t say something or how they said it. So what do you do? You practice being okay if you want to be okay, practice being okay. It’s called unconditional love. Unconditional wellbeing, not conditional. Conditional means it has to be the way you want for you to feel. Okay? I don’t want that. You have to fight to be okay. I want to just be okay. Alright? And you can. You are, but you can’t with all that stuff in there. So every day you wake up in the morning, this is my prescription for spiritual growth. You wake up in the morning and you say, I’m back. I know I have a bunch of junk in there. I can’t get out all at once, but this is, I’m going to devote my day. I’m not going to put more in today.

You keep putting more in. There’s no reason to get any out. And plus it’s a LIFO stack lasting first out. When you push stuff in, that’s the stuff that comes up first. And then the deeper stuff doesn’t come up until something happens. So you just devote yourself to say, I’m going to make a game today. I’m not putting more in. How do you do that? Things are going to happen that make me not feel comfortable and I’m going to let go. I’m going to say, come on up. Welcome. You’re welcome me here. I don’t want you down there. I don’t want you down there. And if somebody says something, a friend of yours doesn’t act the way you expected them to. Big deal. I can handle it. That becomes your mantra. I can handle it. I can handle it. Handle what reality. And you just keep letting go.

How do you let go? How do you let go? You don’t resist. Something comes up. You have the tendency to resist it. I don’t like it. I don’t want to deal with this. I don’t want you to say what you said. I don’t want you to do what you did. There’s this resistance. You know what I’m talking about? You pushed away in there. Fight. Don’t do that. That’s all you have to do is don’t resist. Relax. Relaxation is the opposite. Resistance and repeat that. Relaxation is the opposite. Resistance. When you’re resisting not relaxing. When you’re relaxing, you’re not resisting. Relax. But it hurts. Yeah, it does. You can’t handle the big stuff yet. I know. But you can handle little stuff. You can handle the weather driver in front of you. What somebody said, what you think that somebody might have thought, then you just did it yourself.

What if he’s thinking that? How do I know he is not? Stop it. What do you want to make a mess of yourself for? Just relax. Let go. Let it go. Don’t fight it. Let it go. It will pass over time and then you’ll get better at it and better at it. And you’ll start to feel that Shakti flow. It doesn’t take that long. People write me from all over the world. Oh, I felt this rush of energy because you’re not blocked and then you keep letting go and you never stop. I told you spirituality is simple there, but spirituality relax through the tendency to resist. Just keep relaxing. And then some big will come up. And when you get a really big one, you got some stuff in there, don’t you? And it comes up and it hurts. You say, I don’t want it in there.

I don’t want it in there. Relax. Oh, it’s hard. It, well, no pain, no gain. When you’re lifting weights, look at the Olympics. The Olympic people are running the Olympics four years. Look what they go through. What do they get? A medal. You get shucky, unending flow of ecstasy. Every new joy, it’s worth going through it. And so you just keep relaxing every day. Little bit at night. You sit down, did I keep anything? And the answer is, of course you did. Nobody’s perfect at this. You don’t want to be perfect. You just want to do it. You hear me? Practice makes perfect. You just keep practicing, letting go at night. You see stuff still in there, neutralize it. Think of something positive, offer it to God, let it go. Think about the fact that if it’s in there, it takes that much, much longer for me to feel that Shakti flow.

And so you let it go. It’s inspiring. And then eventually I’m telling you, you’ll feel this flow and you’ll notice that that flow will be there till you decide to not have it be there until somebody says something you don’t like. And you traded this beautiful flow of Shakti for the person not saying what they said, who cares? You’ll get to that point. It’s fine. Say what you need to say. You had a bad day. Fine. Not a problem. I’ll tell you what, I’ll set up a little stand and I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll give you a dollar for every a hundred dollars you give me.

Come on. That’s what you do when you give the Shakti flow is what somebody said or didn’t say or did or didn’t do. So I started this conversation by telling you, life is very simple. You see a little planet spin around space for a few years, whatcha making a mess? And I told you why? Because you decided things had to be a certain way for you to be okay and then you made a mess of yourself. So spirituality is about saying, I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to do that. I’m going to let go. Things happen and let go. Again, back to Zen. Flowers are red. Okay? Flowers can be red. Waters blue. Oh, okay. The water can be blue. Grass is green. Not that too. Yes. Okay, there, you’re free. That’s what’s teaching you. Zen is teaching you that level. Okay. Alright Shakti, some scars as you let go of some scars, do you feel as Shakti as you put more some scars in there? There’s more blockages. Makes it all conditional. Alright, I hope you understand these things because you’re a very great beam. Jai.

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