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You have to reach a state where you ve learned to let it go.
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That s what it s all about.
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It s all about letting go.
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Not letting go of life.
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Letting go of the stuff you stored inside that you couldn t handle.
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Hello there everyone and welcome to the Tony Robbins podcast.
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It s Sage Robbins here and Tony and I are thrilled to share with you this special conversation and moment with us that happened at our previous Platinum Partnership event in Mexico.
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We had the sheer and utter gift to sit down with Michael Singer, our very dear friend.
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He is just a gorgeous consciousness in all ways and his tools and his insight and his own transcendence of self and what he shares of his own inner path really plants the seeds to how to
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find ways and moments to free ourselves of the clutches of mind.
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He is a renowned spiritual teacher and the New York Times best-selling author of Untethered Soul, which is still one of my most beloved books.
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Michael Singer, we adore you and it s an absolute gift to share the gift of who you are with our audience.
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Please tune in and enjoy Michael Singer.
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This afternoon, we re going to introduce you to a person that Sage and I have the privilege of calling a friend.
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Yes.
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One of the most unique, loving, and beautiful people we know, and a man who s really brilliant, and brilliant in business, and brilliant in this thing called life, spirituality, love, joy, happiness.
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And he s going to share from the heart what he s learned over these last, basically, five decades of teaching.
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Pretty extraordinary.
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If you ve read the most amazing book, The Untethered Soul.
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Yes.
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Then you know this man, Michael Singer.
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Hi, sweetheart.
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It s such a gift.
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Thank you for your willingness to join us.
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This man is such a dear, beloved brother and friend.
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You have served our own inner world in such a beautiful way.
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And it s such a privilege for you to plant these seeds in these individuals  consciousness to flower at their right timing.
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So thank you for your presence.
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We love you.
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We love you.
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Welcome.
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Namaste.
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Say the least, I m honored to be here.
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And obviously you all have, they said four days, you ve been building your energy.
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So I m going to get right to the point.
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The whole theme of your seminar is happiness.
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So let s talk about it.
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What is happiness?
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I don t need to tell you.
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You ve been experiencing it.
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Happiness is an inner state of energy.
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It starts from, yeah, I m feeling better, to yes, I m really happy, to oh my God, it s blowing me away, to goodbye, I m in ecstasy, I m nirvana.
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It goes all the way up, that is within the scope and the different levels of happiness.
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So what everybody wants is to feel happy, the highest happiness they possibly can.
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So the question becomes, how do you do that?
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Well, there s thousands and thousands of techniques and teachers and everything out there.
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So let s take a look at, because a lot of them are often after the same thing, how to get that experience inside.
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So I ll start by asking a question.
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What makes you happy?
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aside from this wonderful seminar you re having.
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In general life, what makes you happy?
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And the answer is very straightforward, getting what I want.
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I hope that doesn t sound selfish.
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It s real.
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If I get what I want, I m anywhere from, wow, that s great, to, oh my God, this is the most wonderful thing.
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What doesn t make you happy?
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Getting what I don t want.
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Then you go anywhere from, this is messing me up, I feel uncomfortable, I m depressed, this is unacceptable, let s do this one, I can t handle this.
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You ve used the words, everyone uses the words, I can t handle this.
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So there s your yin and yang.
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If you get what you want, you re doing well.
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If you get what you don t want, you re not doing well.
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In between, if you don t get what you want, you feel disappointed.
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And if you don t have to get what you don t want, you feel relieved.
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I call that the truth table, the four quadrant truth table about happiness.
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So let s look at that.
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If what you re doing to attempt to get happiness is to get what you want,
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Let s talk about that.
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Is there anything wrong with that?
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No, there s nothing wrong with that.
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Obviously, if you do get what you want, it s easy to get happy.
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It s easy to get one stage of happiness or another.
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How easy it is to get what you want?
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Well, we call it work.
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The world in front of us has to unfold the way we want.
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Does it do that all the time?
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Of course it doesn t.
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Does it do it most of the time?
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Of course it doesn t.
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The world goes about its business, the weather changes, people change, business changes, all kinds of things change.
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And it s only if it actually matches what we decided we wanted that we are feeling a state of happiness.
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and likewise with things that we don t want and they make us unhappy, make us sad, make us make it feel that we can t handle things, they re not fair, right?
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We don t have control over the weather, we don t have control over the driver in front of us, we don t have control over many many things, in fact almost all the things in our life are the result of cause and effect, they re science-based and they re not because we want them to be that way or not want them to be that way.
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So what do we do about that?
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Well, there s two things you can do.
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One, you take my statement.
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If you get what you want, it makes you happy.
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Will everybody agree with that?
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Am I talking to the wrong crowd?
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If you get what you want, it makes you happy.
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It s a very easy way to get happy, to get what you want.
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So basically there s two aspects of that.
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One is what is the outside world doing?
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And two, how does it match what I want?
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Most people only pay attention to one aspect, which is, I know what I want, really you don t, but I know what I want, and I m gonna try and get it.
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I m gonna work with people, I m gonna change myself, I m gonna get degrees, I m gonna wear certain clothes, drive certain cars, have a certain house, I m just gonna work hard, have a whole lot of money, so that I can do what I want.
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And basically, if I can get that situation outside the way I want, I m happy.
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I like to take a moment to analyze the probability of you getting every moment of your life the way you want it to be.
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I shouldn t have to talk about that.
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I usually ask people, let s take a real peak experience state where you re really blown away.
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It s your wedding day, the first kiss, just something really high to where, how do I define that?
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I wouldn t trade anything for this.
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This is exactly what I want to experience for the rest of my life.
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It s perfect, all right?
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It s a peak experience.
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How many have you had?
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In general, if you really be honest, you could count them on one hand.
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Throughout your life, how many things really just totally blew you away?
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And the question becomes, how long did it last?
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Did you ever reach a state that when you had an experience like that, you didn t need anything else for the rest of your life?
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When you said to your beloved, you re all I ll ever need.
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You re the totality of my dreams.
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You re my soulmate.
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How long did that last that you really meant?
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I don t need anything else.
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I don t need money.
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I don t need this.
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I don t need anything else.
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It doesn t, it doesn t last.
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You get used to things.
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I, I, I went through all but a doctor dissertation with the doctrine of economics and they taught me the following.
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There s a law of diminishing returns.
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The more you get something, the less it feeds you, the less you want it.
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That s not economics, that s life, all right?
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So to go out there and say, the only way I know to be happy is to get what I want, is really a losing situation.
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Because one, you re not gonna get every moment of your life in front of you to be the way you want.
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And second, even if you did, you change what you want, everything changes, and it s not as fulfilling.
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So as a mode to happiness, that s oversold, all right?
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Getting what you want is very, very overrated.
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What was the alternative?
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The alternative is to look at the other side of the equation, which is who decided what you want?
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You did.
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How did you come up with the decision of what I want?
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You get into a relationship.
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It s working.
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The person is just the way you want them to be.
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You re really blown away that they think the way you think, they act the way you
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want when you want to be close they re close when you want some space there s some space it s acting like that okay it doesn t stay like that the person s different you re different it keeps changing so the question becomes do you go out there and attempt to manipulate the person my favorite my favorite quote when you ask somebody how s your relationship working you started dating somebody they say it s a work in process
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That s real nice, okay?
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In other words, I m attempting to manipulate the person to be the way I want them to be, and that s how I m judging the relationship.
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So if you work on trying to get the outside the way you want, that s one way to do it.
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The other way to do it is to question, how did I decide what I want?
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You were not born with it.
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It s not in your genes.
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It s not genetic, okay?
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Psychology looks at it very straightforward.
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Skinner says, man is the sum of his learned experiences.
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It s really not true.
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You are the consciousness that is aware that your psyche is the sum of your learned experiences.
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All of you are spiritually oriented.
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You know about witness consciousness.
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That part of you, the awareness, is not the sum of your learned experiences, but it is watching the sum of your learned experiences.
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That s what your psyche is.
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Your thoughts, your emotions, all that stuff,
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are based upon the experiences you had in your life.
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You re programmed, if you will.
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You re programmed by the experiences you had.
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I shouldn t have to go deeper into that.
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You should understand that.
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You sit there and you like somebody.
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Then someone walks up to you and says, you better go talk to who they went dating with last time.
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Wait to hear what they have to say.
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All of a sudden, you re not so open next time you see the person.
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You are the sum of your learned experiences.
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Everything that comes in is an experience to you, and it changes what your psyche thinks, what it thinks it likes, what it thinks it wants.
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It can change on a dime, can t it?
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You date somebody, you think they re really wonderful, they re really great, and it turns out someone tells you they re a serial killer.
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Well, that changes instantaneously.
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So this thing about what I want is programmed.
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It is not something, you did not decide what you want.
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I don t care how big you are in business, how big your ego is.
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You did not decide what you want.
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It was decided for you.
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Your parents  influence, the preacher s influence, the rabbi s influence, the first girlfriend influence, the first divorce influence, all of these things left impressions on you.
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And you are then reacting to that.
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And that s how you decided what you want.
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So there s two sides to the equation.
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One is you can work on trying to make the outside be what you want.
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And the second is you can question, how did I come up with this value system?
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How did I come up with this list of what I want?
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And is that really what I want?
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Well, it s not.
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You just said what you want is to be happy.
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That s a totally transcendent way to look at it.
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If you want to be happy, what does that have to do with getting what you want?
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It just happens to be that when you get what you want, you feel happiness.
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Why don t you feel it all the time?
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If you feel real joy inside yourself, then that means it s there.
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Yogananda said once that there s a river of joy that s flowing inside of you.
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It is there all the time.
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All you have to do is go to it, find it, get in and drown, and you ll be happy all the time.
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So we ve made our happiness, we call conditional happiness.
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I can only be happy if I get what I want.
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And so instead of questioning this question of where did you come up with the idea of what you want, trying to work inside on that, we are completely committed.
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It s just...
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It s an addiction.
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We re committed to believing that if we get what we want, we ll be okay.
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And we work on that from the day, from childhood.
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I want the toy, I want mommy, I want this, I want that.
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And certainly all relationships, everything is about getting, people do honestly believe, I need to get what I want to be okay.
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That s not the truth.
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The truth is when you get what you want, this energy opens up inside of you.
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Why is it not there all the time?
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Why don t you feel ecstasy all the time?
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Why don t you feel joy all the time?
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Why don t you feel true happiness all the time?
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Why does it require a condition outside of you to make it so that you feel something inside of you?
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Happiness is inside of you.
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So you get to the point where you start to understand this.
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There s two directions we can go, and we ll do both.
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One is, what is the probability that you re going to get what you want?
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I have found, and we ve been doing this for 50 years, all right, and I m very successful in worldly sense, people say, right?
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But what is the probability that the moments in front of you are going to match what you want?
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It s very small.
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You re sitting on a tiny planet, spinning around in the middle of outer space.
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You did not make the planet.
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You did not make the sun.
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You did not make any of the things in the universe.
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You didn t make the environment around you.
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You didn t make the ground.
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You have 25 trillion cells within your body.
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You didn t make those.
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You say you had a baby.
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You didn t make the baby.
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There was this one cell got fertilized and it knew how to grow into a baby.
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So life is happening by itself.
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That s what s happening.
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You are not in control of all this.
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If you took a list, I know we like to think that we re powerful people.
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If you took a list, wrote down what you re in control of, and then wrote down what you re not in control of,
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which is everything.
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Every other person, if you were married to somebody and they go to work, they come back different because they had a different experience and you had a different experience.
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And yet you think that you have control over all these things.
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It s not true.
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The truth of the matter is you have control over very, very little of what s going on.
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So how are you going to be happy by getting the moments in front of you to be the way you want?
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And what you re going to find out, and you all are there, you wouldn t be at the seminar, is that s not going to do it.
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You can meditate, you can do different things to reach a state inside yourself which is nicer, but what happens when you come out?
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What happens when you deal with the world?
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What happens when you deal with business?
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What happens when you deal with relationships?
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People have not learned how to be unconditionally happy.
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They re conditionally happy and they honestly believe that getting what they want is the way to be happy.
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So let s just jump real quickly, because you guys are very advanced, you wouldn t be at this seminar, and say, okay, wouldn t I be happier if I liked everything?
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What if my preference, I came up with one preference, all right?
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That is, I prefer that it be the way it is.
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What if you liked all the weather, instead of just liking certain climates and certain humidities?
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No matter what the weather is, cold, I love the cold, I love to bundle up.
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It s hot, I love the heat, oh my God, I feel so open.
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Then you would not be making yourself unhappy, because there are different situations that are happening in your life.
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You re the one who decided what the weather needed to be, which has nothing to do with what the weather is going to be.
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The weather is based on meteorology, not based upon your thought processes or your preferences.
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So you finally get to the point where you realize there s work to do outside, which is attempting to get the world to match what I want, but there s work to do inside, which is questioning how I came up with what I want.
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And is that really what I want?
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That s why I started the discussion by saying, what you really want is to be happy.
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So why did you qualify that by saying, I can only be happy if I get what I want?
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I can only feel love, tremendous love, if the person I m with is treating me the way I want, and being the way I want, and thinking the way I want, etc., etc., because that s not true.
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That s called conditional love.
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There is unconditional love, which exists inside of every single one of us.
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There s unconditional happiness, unconditional joy.
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to jump again very quickly with you guys is, what is stopping me from feeling unconditional joy, unconditional love, and unconditional happiness?
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And the answer is you.
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You have built within your psyche, within your mind, the concept that I can only be happy if certain things happen.
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I can only feel love in certain circumstances.
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Why did you do that?
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Why not be more open?
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It s sort of like when you decide that you want something, you have limited what can make you happy to that thing.
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versus all the other things that could possibly happen won t make you happy.
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So you re just limiting yourself to a tiny little world, a tiny slice, that things have to be exactly the way you want in order for you to do what?
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Open.
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That s the key.
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In order for me to be open.
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Use that word.
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You meet somebody, you say, I felt so open with him or her.
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I m so open about this new job.
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What do you think?
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You all talk about passion.
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What is passion?
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That you re open to the experience you re having.
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Then you feel all this joy.
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You feel all this passion well up inside of you.
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Why can t you feel that all the time?
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Wouldn t that be nice?
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Wouldn t it be nice to wake up in the morning and here s your attitude.
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I m back.
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Well, I wonder what s going to happen today.
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This will be a lot of fun.
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I don t care.
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It s just going to be fun.
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I m going to do my best at whatever s happening, and I m going to interact with everybody and meet different people.
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You can do that.
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But if you limit yourself to what your preferences are, then you can only be happy with the things that match your preferences.
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So spirituality is not about renunciation of the outside world.
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Spirituality is about working on yourself to be more open.
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The more open you are, the more joy you feel.
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If you become completely open, unconditionally open, like the Dalai Lama, he s really great beings.
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They just say it s about being happy.
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And so despite these terrible things that happen in the world, I m gonna start off by being open and not closing myself.
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Then I will do what I can to help.
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It s not that you don t come into the world.
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If you re filled with joy and filled with love, you re a blessing on this planet.
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You re a rarity.
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Whoever you meet is lifted.
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I mean, look, you meet people like Tony, and people have a lot of high energy, and you get that energy.
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You can be that all the time, except that you have defined yourself as someone who s limited to being happy if only certain things happen.
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So let s take a moment and talk about where you came up with your preferences.
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Talk about the psyche.
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You sit in there and you watch an ego.
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You watch a psyche.
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Freud talked about id, ego, and superego.
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Id being the desires and drives of the body, superego being what your society programmed you with, and the ego being the attempt to build a self-concept that can
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be okay between those things.
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You sit in there as a conscious being watching that all the time.
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That s what witness consciousness is, all right?
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That s what objective observation is.
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You have a state of being which is consciousness and it is aware of what is going on inside your mind, is aware of what s going on inside your heart.
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If you start having trouble with your heart,
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I tell everybody, don t come to me for therapy.
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You don t want to.
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If you came to me and said, my heart s killing me, my boyfriend or girlfriend left me, and I have all this pain in my heart, I know what I m gonna say to you.
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How do you know?
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How do you know that your heart hurts?
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And eventually you yell at me because I m in here.
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I m in here experiencing it and I ll pranam to you.
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Because you who s in there experiencing it are not in pain.
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You re looking at and experience something that s in pain.
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So you are the objective observer, the consciousness, and you re watching this preference system that is limiting your ability to be happy.
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And it says all the time, I don t like that.
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I d rather have this.
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It s not the way I want it to be.
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It just complains and judges all the time because it s been programmed with a preference system.
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How did that happen?
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I talked about that.
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Let s talk about how it really happens.
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You have experiences in your life that are not comfortable.
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Throughout your life, you ve had various experiences that are anywhere from slightly uncomfortable to traumatic.
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You don t like experiencing that.
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That s not a nice experience.
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So what you do inside is you push the experience away.
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The experience happened, the outside actually happened, you can t stop that, but you don t have to let it come all the way into you.
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You don t have to experience it fully.
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You have hands inside and you can push away these experiences once they come inside of you.
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You push away the energy of the experience and that s called suppression.
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Repression or suppression, I call it just resistance.
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You resist the events.
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Do you know where they go?
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Again, you re advanced, I don t have to go into great detail.
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Those impressions that came into you, and now they re in there, and you push them away because you don t want to experience them, are literally going into the channel where your Shakti comes from.
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They re going into the upward, where all that beautiful upward flow of energy you have inside of you, you re blocking it with those things you push inside.
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Every one of them.
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If you sit there and say, I don t like the weather, you re not happy.
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If you sit there and say, I don t like what you did, you re not happy.
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Every single experience you have that you can t handle, that you resist, is pushed down
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on top of this beautiful energy flow that you have inside of you.
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That s the deepest thing I have to say to you, right?
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Every single thing you resist, the car in front of you is driving slower than you want.
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It s hotter than you want it to be.
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Somebody said something, at least you think they did, that you might not like.
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Every single one of those
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You are resisting the experience that you re having, and that resistance builds up inside of you.
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And that resistance is what blocks your energy.
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And that s the bottom line of learning.
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You can do all the techniques you want, when it s said and done, as long as you are doing that, you will never reach unconditional happiness.
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Why?
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Because you said so.
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You said, I don t want this to have happened.
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And that becomes a really interesting discussion.
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I purposely stuck in the word to have happened.
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It already did happen, but I don t want it to have happened.
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You tell me how that works out.
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Reality wins.
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It actually took place.
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Like we re talking about things that happened in your past that you pushed away, you resisted.
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And when you resisted them, they built up and they blocked your energy.
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You can t change your past.
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No one has ever changed their past.
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You need a time machine to go back.
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All you can do is deal with how you dealt with your past.
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And right now, you keep pushing it back down.
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If you had a bad experience, you re not doing well, somebody reminds you of a bad experience, you get uncomfortable.
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And so you push that back down.
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I can t sit there and look in your eyes up close, but do you understand, you do it all the time.
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That basically, somebody reminds you of what somebody said that bothered you 10 years ago.
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You have an ex-husband, an ex-wife, and somebody says, oh, let s go to the party, and you still think, well, I hope George isn t there, and if somebody calls out at the party, George, where s George?
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Doesn t mean it s your George, but I promise you, your heart jumps, because you stored this stuff inside of you.
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As long as you re storing problems inside of you, you re gonna have problems inside of you.
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If you store inside of you that made you uncomfortable, you re going to be uncomfortable.
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I don t know.
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We re very intelligent people.
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I don t know why we don t understand that.
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People collect all kinds of things.
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They collect coins, they collect stamps, they collect teapots from all over the world.
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You decided it would be wise to collect bad experiences.
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And that is what s in there, and that is the only reason you don t feel ecstasy all the time.
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Just make sure you get your attention, right?
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You are an ecstatic being.
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There s total love and joy welling through you all the time, period, all the time.
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And the only reason you don t feel it is because you ve stored problems inside of you.
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And so now you need to try to get situations outside to be comfortable to you, even though you have this stored stuff inside of you.
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When I did the interview with Oprah with the new book, which we all have, I heard Tony gave you the new book, Living Untethered.
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She said her favorite line in the book is,
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The moment in front of you is not bothering you.
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I ll repeat that.
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The moment in front of you is not bothering you.
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You are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.
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True or not, okay?
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The weather s not bothering you.
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You re bothering yourself about the weather.
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The driver in front of you is not bothering you.
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You re bothering yourself about the driver in front of you.
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Every single thing, it comes in, you don t have to bother yourself about it.
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You can accept it, you can let it pass through, and then deal with it.
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Nobody s saying you don t deal with life, but you don t deal with it as a way of making yourself okay.
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You don t deal with it as a way of manipulating it so that when it comes in, it doesn t bother me.
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That s very, that s just about you, that s selfish.
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Okay, and that s how we live our lives.
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And that s why we have to get the world the way we want it to be, to be happy.
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Because we stored too much stuff in here.
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And if the world is different than the way we want it, we get upset, we get disturbed.
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And we think about the future, right?
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What s the future hold?
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Well, if it holds what we don t want, you get concerned and you worry about it.
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But the main thing I like to point out, because you re very intelligent people, is the thing about the past.
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Have any of you stored
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bad experiences you had in the past inside of you.
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You notice they come back up in your dreams when somebody talks to you.
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It stimulates this stuff and the next thing you know you re uncomfortable.
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About what?
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About your past.
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Well why would we keep that inside of us?
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We can t change it.
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So this is what you start to understand true spirituality.
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You just look at it and you say, what is the benefit of having stored stuff from 20 years ago that s still inside of me?
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And the answer is none.
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There s no benefit at all.
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The only reason it s in there is that I can t handle it.
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I couldn t handle it when it happened.
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I can t handle it now.
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And you start building this collection of what we call some scars, impressions, blockages, that you now have to live your life in a way that doesn t hit those.
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And basically that s how we live our lives, right?
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We try to make it so that situations don t bother us.
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Well, if you deal with your past properly, you look at it and you say, I don t want you stored in there.
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I thought I got divorced 20 years ago, but I m still having the arguments inside my head.
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It does not have to be that way.
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There s nothing, nothing.
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Don t let them convince you of that.
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There s no super glue in there.
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There s no flypaper.
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Nothing has to stay in there.
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The only reason it s staying in there is because you re using your will to push it away.
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If you get to understand that that is what s stealing your happiness, and that s the core, that s why you don t feel ecstasy all the time.
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That s why you re not into the highest state that s possible.
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It s because you ve stored the stuff inside and you use your inner will, excuse me, to keep pushing it away.
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Why not take the attitude, I don t want it in there?
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I don t want anything in there.
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That s what be here now means.
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It means I ve reached a state that when I walk into the present moment, it s allowed to come into me and not hit stuff.
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I m allowed to enjoy, let s dive, diverse for a second.
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Let s say it s hot out.
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Nowadays, we have a lot of hot days, all right?
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And you complain about it.
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It s so hot, I can t handle this heat.
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It was so, I was 98 degrees, okay?
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What I ve learned to do is I ll look at Mickey and I ll say, okay, why is it hot?
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Instead of complaining, why is it hot?
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And he looks at me and says, well, because there s a sun out there and the sun is hot.
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And then you start using your intellect.
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It s called Gyanagyo.
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You start using the higher intellect of your mind that says, how far away is the sun?
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That s 93 million miles away.
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That s a long way away to sit there and be complaining about the heat.
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I live in Florida, so Miami s 360 miles away from us.
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And I ask everybody, what if all of Miami caught fire?
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Would you feel it here?
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The answer is you wouldn t feel a single thing.
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That thing s 93 million miles away.
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and you re complaining about the heat, you should be in awe.
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You should be sitting there, that s kind of neat that it s that far away and I still feel all this heat, okay?
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And by the way, if it makes your face red, you didn t get sunburn, you got starburn.
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And you start looking at things a different way.
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Wouldn t it be fun?
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Look, you all like stars.
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Do you realize you re circling around a star that s hot enough to where you feel its presence?
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So you have the right to do things inside yourself
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besides complaining, besides pushing away the experiences because they don t match your preferences.
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And you ll find that if you do that, all of a sudden it s fun.
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Now when it gets hot, you think about a star floating out there in outer space.
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And that s one star, there s 300 billion in your galaxy, and all of a sudden it starts raising you.
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The sun can be like a mantra.
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because it s hot.
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It reminds you to bring up the most spiritual part of your being.
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You can do it anytime you want.
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If you re driving behind a driver who s driving 10 miles an hour below the speed limit, you re in a rush.
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You know, you can t pass, let s say, there you are, what do you do?
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Instead of complaining, you know, I don t know, Mickey s been known to talk to the driver.
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I don t think they listen.
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I don t think they hear a word I say, all right?
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Why not sit there and say, okay, life has now presented me with a situation, I have no control, I have to relax.
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I have to relax, I ll do a mantra, I ll use this time, instead of bothering myself about it, I ll use this time to raise myself.
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So this is what spirituality is.
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It is every moment of your life realizing we ve made a mess out of this thing.
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We ve complained about everything because it doesn t match what we want, and what we want is based upon the fact that we had past experiences that bothered us and we don t want them to happen again.
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And so now we ve come over this entire value system and preference system that is destroying our life.
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So you get to the point where you start to do some work.
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And the work I wanna talk about to start with is your past.
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Because that s a real problem.
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If you have had bad experience in the past, and you all have, and you store them inside of you, then what you did is say, I m gonna store inside of me everything that bothered me.
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Then you re going to be bothered.
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Why people sit there and say, why am I bothered so much?
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What did Buddha say?
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Buddha said, first noble truth, all of life is suffering.
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That s what he s talking about.
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He s talking about that you re making yourself suffer by storing all these bad experiences inside, and now you re afraid they ll happen again.
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When you haven t had an experience yet, you re what we call beginner s mind.
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You can just experience things.
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You re open.
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You should be that way about everything.
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It shouldn t be that you ve collected these experiences inside from the past and you decided, I don t want it.
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I want to keep them away from it.
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I don t want to experience them.
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I can t handle them.
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And now I have a whole list of things that can t happen in my daily life because they re going to remind me of the things that happened before.
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Do you all understand that?
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That s a non-starter.
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You can t be happy if you do that.
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I don t care what psychiatry teaches you, right?
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That, oh, you poor little thing, you ve got this stuff stored in there.
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Anybody would have that.
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No.
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You re higher than that.
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You are the consciousness.
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You have the right to learn how to let that stuff go.
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And that becomes the essence of the highest spiritual teaching and the highest spiritual path.
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It s not about asanas.
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It s not about gurus.
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It s not about mantras.
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It s not about that.
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It s about are you willing to work on yourself to let go of this garbage that you stored inside?
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You re gonna find out that if you do, the more you let go of, it s not even an all or nothing situation,
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If you can handle the heat the way I just said, talk to yourself about how exciting it is that it reminds me that I m sitting on a little planet spinning in the middle of nowhere.
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I can t help it.
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I tell everybody.
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Did you know that 1.3 million Earths fit inside the Sun?
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How many of you knew that?
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1.3 million earths fit inside the sun.
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How small is this little dinky thing that s just spinning around and you re complaining about everything.
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The reason you complain is because you stored all these blockages inside, all these bad experiences.
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So now when the world comes in, it has to pass through your psyche, has to pass through that.
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And then it looks like there s trouble.
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There s going to be trouble.
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I m scared.
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I worry.
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Everything has to be the way I want.
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If you work with yourself,
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A start, what I teach, and the book talks about that, if I were to tell you right now, it doesn t make any sense for your past to bother you.
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It s not happening anymore.
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Do you understand that?
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I understand if something bad is happening, we can deal with that later.
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That s bigger.
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But your past is not happening anymore.
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If your past still bothers you, there s something drastically wrong with that.
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You shouldn t be bothered by things that aren t happening.
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Fair enough?
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But if I tell you let it go, you don t know how to.
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No one ever taught you to.
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They actually reinforce that you have the right to stay upset for long periods of time because something happened to you.
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in the true spiritual state, great yogis, great beings, sit there and say, no, if something happens and it s not happening anymore, I m going to let it go.
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I don t want to store it inside of me.
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I want to bring a pure being, clear being, an open being into the moments that I m experiencing.
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I can t do that now because I ve stored all this stuff.
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So the principle becomes letting go.
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Well, how do you let go?
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Because right now, if I said to you, it s easy, now I m done, just let go.
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Let go of your past, let go of everything.
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The current moment that s happening to you, don t store any more stuff, okay?
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Just when it comes in, accept it, pass it.
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Pass it through, don t resist it.
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Then you can deal with, you can try to raise the world, okay?
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You should.
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Once you re clear, you come out here, you try to help.
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You do everything you can to help, but not because you couldn t handle what happened.
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right?
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Then you re just helping yourself.
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If you couldn t handle what took place, then the reason you re doing outside is to try and make yourself feel more comfortable.
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If you let go of the disturbing circumstances as they happen, you process them, you let them pass through, then when you face the world, you re a giver instead of a taker.
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So this, this is the essence of spirituality.
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So how do you do this?
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Well, if I say to you, let go of all the bad things that happened during
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past, don t let them be in there anymore.
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That s a joke because we don t know how to do it.
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We weren t taught how to do it.
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We don t know how to do it.
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What we do is open up blogs where we can get other people that have the same bad experience as we do and see who had the worst one, okay?
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You re supposed to laugh.
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So we re just reinforcing our right to be disturbed.
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Do you understand that?
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That s what we do as a society, as a world.
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We reinforce our right to be disturbed and then we wonder why we re disturbed.
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So in living untethered, I don t start with letting go of your past.
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I don t start with being able to handle
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of bad situations that happen.
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I start with, in the current moment, there are things that happen.
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I call them low-hanging fruit.
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There are current things that happen that they don t need to bother you.
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The heat doesn t need to bother you.
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The weather does not need to bother you.
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You re bothering yourself about the weather.
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And the cost-benefit analysis on that is 100% cost, zero benefit.
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Am I communicating?
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You re all business people, right?
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Would you invest in something that had 100% cost and zero benefit?
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You re being bothered by the weather.
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It s 100% cost, zero benefit.
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Then why are we doing it?
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Most of you are evolved enough to where you don t eat food that makes you sick, right?
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You try to have a reasonable diet, right?
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Would you go there if something made you sick, just keep eating it?
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Well, why do we keep being bothered by the weather when there s no benefit to it?
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So the question becomes, take a few of these situations every day that you re bothering yourself, again, repeating what I said, the moment in front of you is not bothering you, you re bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.
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The weather is not bothering you.
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You re bothering yourself out the weather by complaining about it.
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Believe it or not, it is essential that you learn to work with that.
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To me, that s more essential than your meditation time.
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That s more essential than these supposedly spiritual things.
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You go meditate, go to a good state, then come down and complain.
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Come down and be bothered by the driver in front of you, be bothered by the weather, be bothered by what somebody said.
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It doesn t work.
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You have to sit there and say, I understand that I m the only one in here.
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It s a single occupancy apartment.
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I m the only one living in here.
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The way it is in here is under my control.
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Outside is under your control, but inside is 100% under your control.
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You re the one who decides when to resist.
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You re the one who decides when to grab.
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You re the one who decides when to complain.
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It s yours.
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You decided to be happy when you got what you wanted, but you decided what you wanted.
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It s that you re living in your own house and it s a mess and you don t understand that you made the mess.
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So you have the right to come inside and do the work every moment of every day.
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That to me is the real spiritual work.
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It s every moment while you re driving, while you re picking up the kids from soccer, while you re having a discussion with a friend or with your spouse and just work every moment of everything
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You are in there.
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Are you willing to do the work on yourself that says, if I don t resist or suppress the moments that are happening now, I won t have to carry them with me for the rest of my life?
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And I know you re intelligent enough to understand you do carry them for the rest of your life.
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Somebody says, you call out to somebody, hey Sally, how you doing?
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She doesn t respond.
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She s a friend of yours, right?
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You re going to be weird next time you see her.
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Do you understand that?
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It carries inside of you.
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It doesn t need to do that.
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It s because you resisted it that it stayed inside.
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So you finally wake up and you realize, I ve got some work to do.
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I ve got some cleaning up to do inside myself.
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And it s way bigger than just some spiritual practices.
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It s about walking into life and realizing, life is going to unfold in front of me.
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That s what it does.
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I can t control everything.
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Life s going to unfold in front of me.
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Can I learn to handle the moments that are unfolding in front of me?
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Or do I have to keep fighting with them, resisting them, to make them be what I want?
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So the low-hanging fruit is defined as following.
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If you let it go, there s nothing else to do.
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Now, if your house burns down, or the hurricanes, or hurricane things, that s not low-hanging fruit.
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right?
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You re disturbed.
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If you let go of the disturbance, you still need to deal with the disaster that took place outside.
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So nobody s saying it s all about renunciation or letting go and you don t do anything.
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No, that s ridiculous.
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You interact with the world, but not because you re not okay.
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You first be sure you re okay, that you can handle things as they take place.
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I don t want to go to hurricane yet, but you start with low-hanging fruit.
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I define low-hanging fruit as saying, if you let it go inside, there s nothing else to do.
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If you can handle the weather, there s nothing else to do.
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You re liberated, you re free.
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But if you can t handle the weather, that s something you did and it s going to bother you and you ll tell other people about it and you ll complain about it.
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So this key to understand that it s not about getting what you want.
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It s about letting go of the disturbances you re creating inside yourself that makes it so you have to have things be a certain way to be okay.
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Because you shouldn t need to have things be a certain way to be okay.
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So you start with the weather, you start with the driver in front of you, you start with, you know, go to lunch, the serving isn t the size I want, okay, or it s not hot enough, or you know, the waiter wasn t nice.
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Go on, ruin your lunch.
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That s what you re doing.
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Come on, look at me.
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You re just ruining all these moments of your life.
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And then you re wondering why life is so tough.
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All right.
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You don t need to do that.
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You have the right to sit inside and say, the more open I am to the unfolding of life, the happier I m going to be.
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And I m going to do that.
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I m just going to work with myself.
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I m going to change my attitude about all the things that are happening and
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It could do positive thinking.
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That s a nice positive thing to do.
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I could talk about the sun.
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There s a star and it s heating me, so I like that.
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You can talk about the driver in front of you.
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You can do many different things.
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Or what I have found, you can relax.
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I have found that to be the highest technique there is, despite all the different things that are being taught.
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If something happens outside and it comes into me and I feel resistance, and you know what I m talking about, I feel weird, it starts to get uncomfortable inside, relax, just relax.
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All right, and people say to me, but the disturbance won t relax.
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Of course the disturbance won t relax.
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Disturbance doesn t know how not to be disturbed.
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It is by definition disturbance.
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You who experiences it, the self, the Atman, the consciousness, the witness, you can relax.
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From that point inside of you, behind, it s always behind.
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People ask me, why do I point back here?
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Because you re back here looking down.
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looking down at your psyche, looking down at your body, looking out of the mirror.
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The consciousness is back here.
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It s behind all of that.
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And the consciousness does not have a single problem.
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The light doesn t care what it s shining on.
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Do you understand that?
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Okay, you can shine on something ugly, something beautiful, something old, something young, something broken, something new.
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It doesn t matter.
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The light is just light.
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Consciousness
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is aware of good things, bad things, happy things, sad things.
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It s just awareness of being.
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And so there, from that place where you re experiencing the complaining, experiencing the disturbance that got created by something for no reason, it just didn t match what you wanted,
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So you let disturbance happen inside.
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Relaxing is the highest technique you can do.
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Not just relaxing through an asana, not just relaxing through meditation.
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Relaxing the moment the energy gets weird inside.
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Relax.
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Now what does that mean?
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Why does the energy get weird inside?
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Because it hits your blockages.
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I go into this in great detail in Living Untethered.
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All right?
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These blockages are real.
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They re like taking a rock and putting it in a stream, a clean flowing stream.
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Put one rock in it, what happens?
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Eddies, currents, sprays, those are what you re experiencing.
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These blockages you push down into your energy flow are causing all these emotions and all these disturbances that you re feeling all the time.
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And you know what I mean.
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Somebody says something you don t like, what do you feel inside?
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It just gets all weird inside.
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That s because you have these stored blockages, the energy comes up and it hits them, and what you do instead of dealing with the blockages, you try to make sure that nobody ever says it again.
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You try to make sure that everybody is the way you need them to be.
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Business unfolds the way
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the way you need it to, the newspaper is the way you want it to be, et cetera, et cetera.
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So if it isn t, it creates disturbance.
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So that s a point I wanted to make.
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What are these disturbances inside?
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They are the shakti, if you don t mind, I will call that energy shakti, that s a yogic term.
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They are the shakti hitting the blockages, which in yoga we call samskaras.
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They re the shakti coming up, hitting the blockages.
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That s what causes all your emotions
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Anger is energy coming up.
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It starts to come up and it gets blocked and it wants to shoot out, okay?
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All of these emotions, all these disturbances are caused by the blockages.
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If the blockages are removed, you re going to find out who you are.
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You re going to find out that there s this river of bliss, of ecstasy, pouring inside of you.
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It comes out the top of your head, it pours out your third eye.
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Literally, you feel it pouring out of your hands.
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That s what healers do when they heal.
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But there s the highest thing to do, is relax behind it.
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Because the Shakti, the energy, will push the blockages out of the way.
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That s what she s doing, that s her job.
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The energy is supposed to come up, it s supposed to feed you.
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That s what the Bible means.
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I m a nice Jewish yogi, I always qualify that, but I read the Bible once in my life, 45, 50 years ago, and when I m talking, I hear it.
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I don t know why, but I hear Christ talking.
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He said, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that leaveth the mouth of God.
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That s what we re talking about.
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You re not living off of what s coming in from outside.
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There s this beautiful energy that flows inside.
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Christians call it spirit.
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Yogis call it shakti.
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East, they call it chi, whatever.
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It s all the same stuff.
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There s this beautiful energy inside of you.
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When you re experiencing that energy, you feel joy, you feel happiness.
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When you re not, you get depressed or you get disturbed because the energy is hitting and the energy is shooting out by being disturbed by the blockages.
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Like, God, I hope you get this, all right?
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That s the essence of understanding.
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They don t teach us this.
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That s the essence of understanding what s going on inside of you, which is what your life s about.
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If you push that stuff down there, it is blocking your energy flow.
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Now, if you go outside to try and compensate for that by relationships and this and finance and cars and all kinds of things, which are wonderful, you re not renouncing anything.
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A real spiritual guide does not renounce anything.
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Well, I guess they can handle everything.
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How would they choose what to renounce?
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But what renunciation s about is I can t handle it, so I better renounce it, so it s not bothering me, all right?
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That s not openness.
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So you get to the point where you understand these blockages are serious, and there s only one reason those blockages are in there.
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You pushed them in there, and you re keeping them in there.
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And that s like, in the 80s, we like this whole thing about empowerment, right?
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You were completely empowered.
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Your state of being is not dependent upon your spouse, or your children, or your finances, or your business, or the world.
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You re in there.
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It s yours.
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You can have beauty inside, beautiful.
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And then, I keep qualifying, then of course you come out and help.
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It s not that you just go to sit off in a mountain somewhere, all right?
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You take the beauty that you found inside yourself,
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and you express it, you share, you give.
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It s a beautiful thing.
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So don t think that this is about just yourself and being selfish and trying to feel good.
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It s about raising everything around you.
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When you raise yourself, you raise everything.
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So it s all about the blockages.
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First of all, it s all about Shakti.
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It s all about Shakti.
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It s all about that love.
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What is love?
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Shakti, the energy rising up to the fourth chakra and pouring out the fourth chakra.
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That s what you call love.
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and tuning with somebody who you like.
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If they talk the way you want, dress the way you want, act the way you want, etc, etc, you open and then the energy can come up and you feel this experience of love.
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But what if you re not closed?
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What if you re never closed?
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Then it s all love.
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You know what it should take for you to feel love?
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Anytime you want.
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Just wave your hand in front of your heart, and bliss pours through your heart all the time, anytime you want.
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That is what it means to reach a state of happiness, a state of pure, unconditional happiness.
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It s inside of you, it s available to you, anything.
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I once was with a very high-evolved yogi, and it was years and years ago, and I was driving him somewhere, and I felt the, he had a lot of energy, I felt the energy of the car just get tired, get a little weird, and it wasn t me.
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And I m telling you, I watched him, he did this.
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The whole energy in the entire car just almost blew me out, all right?
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Just two breaths, that s all it took to completely change the energy flow.
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You have that ability.
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You re the most beautiful thing that ever walked the face of the earth.
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You re whole, you re complete.
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There s nothing wrong with you except that you have blocked yourself.
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And because you re blocked, you feel protective and defensive, et cetera, because you don t want things hitting your blockages.
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So the answer is one, you want Shakti.
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If anybody asks, what do you really want?
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If God comes down and says, what do you want?
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Say, Shakti.
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I want an infinite flow of Shakti pouring through me all the time.
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Now I ll come out and I ll work with the rest of the world, okay?
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Well, why don t you have that?
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Because I, I blocked it.
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Nobody else did it.
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Yes, somebody else did something when you were 10 or 15 or 20, whatever it was, that disturbed you.
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I m not saying nobody did anything, but you re the one that couldn t handle it.
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You re the one that blocked it inside of you for the rest of your life.
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You have to own that.
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It s something you did.
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And I m glad, I m glad you understand.
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I m glad you did it, because you don t have to keep it in there, right?
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It keeps coming back up.
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You understand that, doesn t it?
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Something reminds you of it.
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Somebody says something.
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You see a poster, right?
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You hear a name, and the past stuff comes up.
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You have to reach a state where you ve learned to let it go.
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That s what it s all about.
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It s all about letting go.
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Not letting go of life.
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letting go of the stuff you stored inside that you couldn t handle when life unfolded in front of you.
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And so basically what do you do?
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I told you the highest state is to relax, but we ll work with some other things.
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Highest state is the moment you start feeling disturbance, you should get excited.
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You should say, oh boy, it s time to grow.
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It s time to let go of more of this stuff that I stored inside myself and committed my life to letting it run my life.
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It runs your life because you re afraid of it or you stored something really nice and want it to happen again.
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Those impressions run your life.
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They don t have to, all right?
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But right now, if I sit there and say, let go of everything you store from the past and accept everything that s happening right now, you should laugh at me because you don t know how to do it.
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Why?
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You were never taught how to do it.
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When you went into, I tell the story, you went into calculus class.
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You guys all probably know how to do all that stuff.
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You went into calculus class, first day, and you sat down, the teacher walked in, professor walked in and said, okay, this is Calc 101.
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You raised your hand and said, oh, I m in the wrong room.
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Why?
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I don t know any calculus.
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Again, you re supposed to laugh.
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The net result is that s why you re here.
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You re here to learn.
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Of course you don t know how to do it.
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Of course you don t know how to let go of all these impressions you stored inside yourself over the course of your life.
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Then when they come back up, they re disturbing and they re hard to deal with, and the tendency is to protect yourself from them and push them back down.
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You never learned.
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If you go into tennis, go play tennis against Borg or McEnroe for the first time, you pick up a racket.
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That s a joke.
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It s the same thing with this inner work.
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You have to learn to do it, just like playing the piano.
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You don t start with Beethoven or Mozart.
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You start with this thing called the scales, and that s what I call low-hanging fruit.
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By being able to handle the weather instead of complaining about it, by being able to handle the driver in front of you instead of complaining about it, working with yourself, using those opportunities to learn to relax and release.
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So R and R, that s a new type of R and R.
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right?
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You relax and release.
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The energy comes up, it hits something, and you let it go.
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And you re going to find out that all of a sudden the heat is fun and the driver in front of you is fun because you let go.
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There s no cost to doing that.
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All that happened is you re a happier person right then, right there.
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But people don t think it matters.
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They don t think it matters and they complain about everything.
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Of course it matters.
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You re building a psyche that is complaining, and therefore it gets disturbed by things.
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You don t have to do that.
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You have the right to be in there and say, okay, today I m gonna start working on myself.
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Instead of working on everybody else to be the way I want, I m gonna work on myself so that I m letting go of these disturbances that build up inside.
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When you learn how to do it with the low-hanging fruit, with the weather, with the car in front of you, with what I think she said something I might not like,
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Now there s a real nice thought.
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I think she says something I might not like.
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Well, then why are you disturbing yourself about it?
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Why don t you just decide, I think she says something I like.
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Why would you make your life so miserable by allowing your mind to think like that?
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And so basically you start letting go.
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And what s going to happen is, and people write me all the time, every one of you can do this.
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And it s a major change in your life.
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What happens is you ll start finding that it s easier and easier to let go of these little things.
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They just come up, you relax and release, and then you deal with the moment in front of you.
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it didn t need to be disturbed by them.
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And that what s going to happen is somebody s going to come up and say something to you that is not low-hanging fruit.
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You know, your boss calls you in, so I want to have a talk with you about some of your work, okay?
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And you start feeling, well, that s disturbing.
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But because you work with the low-hanging fruit, you understand it does no good to get all neurotic about the fact that you re gonna go to a meeting with your boss tomorrow.
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You ll be in the worst shape you could possibly be in if you worry about it the whole time.
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So all of a sudden, you now have an ability that very few people have to say, okay, I ll deal with it tomorrow.
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I mean, tomorrow, I ll do my best.
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If I have to prepare, I m not saying I won t prepare, right?
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But I m not gonna make myself get all disturbed inside or allow myself to get all disturbed inside because I m afraid.
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or desires, whatever it is.
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So I relax through it, but now I can, because I learn, just like you learn to play tennis better, and you ll be better at it.
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Take the piano.
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If you play scales, you can play twinkle, twinkle.
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Play twinkle, twinkle, you can start to play some music.
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You know that.
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It s called learning.
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Have you bothered to learn how to do this inside yourself, not to store these things inside?
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Then what will happen?
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something from the past will come up that always bothered you and you re going to find out it doesn t bother you as much because you re capable you ve learned how to handle these things and so you relax through that and that s when it starts to get really nice you relax through some of the bigger things that you ve carried throughout your life that were running your life by avoiding them and all of a sudden and again don t take my word for it i want you to experience it
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this that started as disturbance when it was coming up, and I looked at it, there was something in the past, and usually I push it back down.
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I have to take time to push it back down.
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This time, because I learned how to be back here and relax and let it go through, it starts to go through.
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And the started as disturbance comes up as ecstasy, as joy.
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It s called the transmutation of energy.
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That s the essence of yoga.
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It s the essence of spirituality.
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You don t express the energy.
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You don t suppress the energy.
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It transmutes by letting go of the blockages that it s pushing up.
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If you can keep letting it go, those blockages will go.
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They will go.
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It s just amazing.
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You know, your body has a thing called the immune system.
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What does that mean?
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You don t have to do anything for small bacterias and small little things to get in there.
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It s just white blood cells come up, they take care of it, they fight it off.
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It s happening all the time, isn t it?
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Your energy body, your shakti body, your energy body is way more intelligent than your physical body.
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It wants to cleanse.
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Your heart does not want these blockages and these fears and insecurities that keep you from being able to feel love.
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And it will push them out, but you push them back down.
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You call that a bad experience.
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okay if something happens and disturbs me if this shook me up because reminding yourself in the past you should be excited about that you change your whole attitude of what s going on what s going on is you re being given the opportunity to release what s blocking your whole life blocking your happiness so it s not about going out to get something that matches so you can feel happy it s about letting go of what s blocking your happiness inside
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Most of you have heard of somebody called Rumi.
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A beautiful, beautiful 5th century Persian poet, whatever he was.
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This is what he said about love.
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It is not for you to seek love.
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It is for you to seek and find all the obstacles you have put in her place.
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That s exactly what we re talking about.
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You re out there trying to find a lover, but you ve blocked love.
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So you re trying to get somebody.
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I ve met somebody and all of a sudden they can get around my blockages.
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Believe me, it won t last.
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Your blockages are real.
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They re going to come back up.
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The newness of the experience, the relationship will wear off.
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And next thing you know, you re not feeling all that beautiful attraction and love like that.
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You all know that.
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But you can.
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You can feel it all the time if you remove the blockages.
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So it s not about finding things that will compensate for your blockages.
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It s about being willing to remove your blockages.
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And what you re going to find out, it s the natural state.
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That s what you re here for.
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You took birth to do this.
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Look at me, right?
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Literally, you took birth so that when you leave, you leave with less than you came down with.
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That s what evolution, that s what it means, spiritual evolution.
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You re evolving.
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The question is, are you doing this every minute of your life?
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You re trying to earn money every minute of your life.
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You re trying to have relationships be good every minute of your life.
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You re trying to have people like you trying to be accepted and have approval every minute of your life.
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But are you doing this inner work that is the purpose of your life?
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Because if you do that, everything else works out.
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Everything else falls into place.
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It doesn t mean, you mean I ll get what I want?
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This is a law of attraction?
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No, it s not a law of attraction.
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It s a law of evolution.
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And what happens is as you evolve and stop getting all caught up in all these personal energies, you ll notice that life unfolds.
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It s an amazing thing, right?
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There s 300 billion stars in your galaxy.
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They all work together.
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There s 25 trillion cells in your body.
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They all work together.
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Or he said to you, a tiny little single cell
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You know, as a woman who s had a child, don t you dare say you made that child.
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You didn t make the child, right?
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The best you did is not screw it up by smoking or drinking while it was making itself.
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A single cell made itself into a baby.
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It made a, you know, pancreas, a pineal gland.
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You don t even know what these things are.
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That s the world you live in.
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You re part of that.
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Your life is that.
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All of life is that.
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Except for the fact that we ve made this mess of ourselves by blocking the experiences in life.
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And now we are out there fighting with life to try and make it be the way we want instead of understanding what s called the Tao.
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The fact that there s this balance, this flow.
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But when you start letting go of yourself, you ll start noticing it.
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You ll start noticing that you re much happier than you used to be.
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And you ll start noticing that all your relationships are better.
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Of course they are.
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You re not trying to take from people.
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You re fine inside yourself.
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How would you like to have a relationship with somebody that was filled with love all the time, no matter what?
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If you messed up and were late and forgot the anniversary, it s not going to affect the love.
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You just know that love is unconditional.
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It will never change.
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That s a nice relationship, isn t it?
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Why don t you offer that to your spouse, to your significant other?
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That s the gift you can give to everybody.
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What if you were, I ran a big business, not a big business, but you know, a billion dollar business, but basically,
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if my employees come, how would you like to have an employee that every time they came to work, they were so passionate, they were so excited to come to work, I couldn t wait, I woke up early, every single day they came in here and any job you gave them, they said, I wanna do that one, oh my God, right?
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How well would that employee do?
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They d be elevated up very, very quickly.
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You can be that.
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Instead of having to have things be the way you want, which is based on your blockages, that s how you came up with your wants.
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That which compensates for my disturbances.
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Instead, you get rid of your disturbances.
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You can.
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You let them go.
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And the more you let go, the higher you get.
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And the higher you get, the easier it is to let go.
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And you re on this thing called an ascent.
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That s the true ascent, right?
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Meditation helps.
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Yes, yoga helps.
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All these things help.
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but this is what they help.
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When you do meditation, you know what they say?
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You do your practices today, don t they?
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This is what you re practicing for.
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You re practicing
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for coming into life and saying, you are my teacher, you are my guru, you are bringing up what s blocked inside of me, you re a mirror that s showing me every moment why I m not enlightened, all right?
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And what I m gonna do is honor and respect that whatever disturbs me inside, I m gonna use that to let go of myself, all right?
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It s like an inner fire walk, okay?
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All right?
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Because when it comes back up, it hurts.
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If we re stored with pain, it s coming back with pain.
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You understand that, okay?
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It s going to come back with everything you stored it with.
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Can you handle that?
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And the answer right now for us, no, no.
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Okay?
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But you learn to.
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Just because you can t handle it right now, doesn t mean you can t learn.
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And that s what I m teaching.
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That s what we re talking about, is that you have this ability to
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to let go of the disturbances, which makes you stronger, and then you learn to handle more disturbances, more disturbances, until eventually...
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you get to an amazing state, which is the day doesn t scare you.
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You can actually live in the moment and say, this is a gift.
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There s no other planet like the planet Earth.
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I understand where there s global warming, we re making all kinds of problems, but still, we went all, we sent probes out to all the planets.
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You understand that we landed on many of them, right?
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We ain t found squat.
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If we want to go live on Mars, it s sand.
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Okay, Jupiter, it s gas.
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There s nothing.
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And we have these giant telescopes, the James Webb Telescope and the Hubble that have looked so far, no one has seen anything at all.
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and nothing s really compared to the planet Earth.
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There s flowers, there s fish, there s... Oh my God, I can t talk about it.
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Do you understand?
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Earth is the Garden of Eden.
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Don t go look for it in Iraq.
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If you look at that little tiny planet spinning through outer space and nothing s going anywhere else and you have all this stuff to do and situations and people and animals and plants and... My God, it s a heck of a place.
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And what do you do?
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Complain.
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because you develop these preferences that can t appreciate what you ve been given.
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So what you do is you, like there s a saying in the Thursday Patriarch, one of the deepest writings ever written, that says, the great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
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Well, that s very deep, very beautiful, very Buddhist, right?
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But then people say to me, how do I have no preferences?
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I have preferences.
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Am I supposed to suppress my preferences?
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No, no, not at all.
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You re supposed to accept that you have these preferences and then look to see why you have these preferences.
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Not get rid of the preferences, get rid of the cause of preferences.
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And I m telling you, and again, you read the book or read your life, right?
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The preferences are created by your blockages.
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They are the mirror image of your blockages.
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If I got divorced and had a bad relationship, when I start dating somebody else, they better not have any qualities that match, that remind me of my ex, right or wrong, okay?
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So you ve developed your preferences because of your blockages.
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So you don t have to get, don t get rid of your preferences, get rid of your blockages, and your preferences will fall off naturally.
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They just shed right off like the skin of a snake.
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God, I hope you re hearing me.
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It s like, we can have such a beautiful life, right?
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John Lennon, imagine all the people.
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If everybody did this, they wouldn t be invading other countries.
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They wouldn t be killing each other.
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We wouldn t need the Ten Commandments.
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I always say, I think the Ten Commandments are an insult to humanity.
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God comes down here, he doesn t say, oh, have a beautiful life, love everybody.
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No, he sits there and says, don t kill each other, don t eat each other, don t steal each other s spouses, don t lie, don t cheat, don t, whoa, you don t think very highly of us, do you?
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But you know, he s right.
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Because we have these blockages, we fell from the garden.
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and now we have to work by the sweat of our brow to try to be okay.
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That s quote direct from Genesis, all right, but instead we don t do that.
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We just go out there and try to work by the sweat of our brow and we have the most powerful wins.
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No, you work inside to release these blockages which you put in there and you keep them in there.
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Nobody can put a blockage inside of you.
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Nobody.
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You re the only one in there.
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Do you understand that?
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That s a single occupancy apartment.
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There s nobody in there, but you, your consciousness.
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Things can happen outside that are disturbing.
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They can, they do.
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All right.
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But when they come in, you have the right to process them, to say, the highest mantra is I can handle this.
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I can handle this.
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I can handle this.
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Well, if you can handle it, then you re not going to push it away.
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Okay.
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We ve handled it.
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Now, what do I do?
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How do I help?
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How do I serve?
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Okay, well, this is the, I ve lost track of what an hour is, what an hour and 15 minutes is.
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Okay, I see it s on the screen here.
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So basically, you learn to go inside every moment inside yourself, every moment of every day.
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and ask of yourself, are there things that I m blocked inside myself?
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And kind of let them go.
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They will pass in their own time.
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You don t have to fight with them.
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You don t have to go tearing them out.
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It s not about a struggle or a fight.
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That is not strength.
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The real strength is judo as opposed to boxing.
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Judo says if a force comes at you and you try to resist it, it could be stronger than you and you re going to get hurt anyways.
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If you lean away, relax,
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it will pass through you, then you can deal with it.
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So this is what you re doing inside.
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You re sitting inside consciously, meditation helps do that, and as the energy gets disturbed inside, you re not trying to figure out how do I stop it, you re trying to figure out how do I let it go.
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And you will learn, I m telling you, you will learn, every day you ll learn.
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It s not that when you were born, you don t wanna go back up when you die with the last thing you came down with, every day you re a different person.
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Listen to me.
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You woke up in the morning with a certain amount of stuff.
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You went to bed with less.
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That s all I ask of you.
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If you do that over time, you will start to feel this joy.
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Now let s talk about what real joy is.
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First, you re not complaining, you re not disturbed because you accept it.
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You accept the weather, you accept the car in front of you.
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If you can t do anything about it, accept it.
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Don t bother yourself about it, because there s nothing you can do about it.
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That s what we re going to sit there and say.
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There s no way to find low-hanging fruit, right?
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The only thing you can do about it is bother yourself about it.
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Well, what is the purpose of that?
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You can t change what s happening in that situation, so don t bother yourself.
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Release, relax, and it will train you to be able to do it with bigger things.
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So what happens?
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At some point, you let go of enough, I m assuring you, I m promising you, to where from behind you, a flow of energy starts to come up.
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The same flow of energy you felt when you fell in love, the same energy when you got married, the same energy when you won the lottery, it s the same energy, it s all Shakti, but now it s not blocked.
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Now it s open and will start to flow and feed you every second of your life.
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You have this joy flowing inside of you all the time.
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The only thing that can take it away is you.
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If you decide, no, I don t like what you did and I m gonna stop my joy.
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That s a pretty funny thing to say, okay?
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And instead you say, no, I m never gonna stop my joy.
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Once you start feeling this energy really, you fall in love with it.
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You realize, oh my God, this is all I ever wanted in my whole life.
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This is what all relationships were about.
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This is what all money was about.
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This is what all success was about.
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This is all being accepted by people and being clapped when people see you, all right?
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It s because it made me feel this.
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But now I feel this inside, naturally.
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It s just a natural high and it s going on.
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So what happens now?
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Now you start to fall in love with that energy flow.
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Really, why would you not?
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It s what you felt when you felt love for somebody else, but now it s coming from its source.
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And then you start to fall back into it.
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And what happens is the more you feel, the more you realize, I don t need anything.
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Doesn t mean I don t interact with it, but there are no more needs.
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I mean, the physiological, fine, you have to eat, okay, because the body will lie.
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But by the way, you don t need that.
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right?
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You re just feeling all this joy.
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I m telling you, it s overwhelming.
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You just feel all this joy all the time.
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And then you make sure that you let things not take it away.
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That s your choice.
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You want to trade the joy?
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You get what somebody did, and you say no.
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And so then it gets
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stronger and stronger, and you keep letting go more and more blockages, and at some point it becomes a torrent.
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It becomes this tremendous rush of holy waters.
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I quote the Bible again, all right?
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I m a yogi, I just think it s neat that Christ tried to teach you this.
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He failed, all right?
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He manipulated his teachings to where they don t make sense.
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That is what s meant by the rush of holy waters, the Shakti flow.
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My yoga talks about the Shakti flow.
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And it gets stronger and stronger all the time, and you ll see that the only way it stops is if you stop it.
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If you decide, no, I can t accept this, okay, keep letting go, and at some point, it starts to pull you into it.
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It s not a matter of, before, letting go meant letting go of the stuff that s below you.
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Now letting go means letting go into the flow.
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The flow has a source.
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Wonder what the source of that is.
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We talked about what happiness is, feeling that flow.
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What is the source of that flow?
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and that becomes real spirituality.
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I talk about the high states that the great ones go to.
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You start to seek the source of this beautiful flow you feel, and it starts to pull you into it like a vacuum cleaner.
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It just pulls you up.
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It s hard to not go with it, all right?
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The great masters like Meher Baba and others, Meher Baba specifically said, the first time he reached the state of enlightenment, of total openness,
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His consciousness had been a drop of water looking at himself.
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All of a sudden that drop fell into the ocean.
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Find it.
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Find the drop.
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You ll never find it again.
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That s what Christ meant by my father and I are one.
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That s what s meant by merger.
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That s the high states.
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Every single one of you has that going on inside of you right now.
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Instead, you re doing this.
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Instead, you re protecting yourself and blocking the energy and complaining and thinking you have to have certain things to be a certain way to be able to be high, to be able to get what you want.
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No, you re whole and complete within yourself.
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But I keep stressing, that does not mean you don t interact with the world.
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But you don t interact with the world in order to get what you need in order to be okay.
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that s taking.
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You interact with the world giving.
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I feel, now I feel all this love, all this joy, and the world can t bother me.
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Now I can serve.
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Now I can come out and give.
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And I don t have to think about what to give.
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Give to the moment that s unfolding in front of you.
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Well, what about my job?
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Give to your job.
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What about my marriage?
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Give to your marriage.
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What about my kids?
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Give to your kids.
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All of a sudden, you enjoy driving under the soccer.
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Instead of sitting there thinking, God, I d rather be doing this or doing that, I gave my life to my kids.
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You don t ever think like that, ever.
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because you already have everything you want.
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You re filled with this beautiful energy, and now you can enjoy taking the kids to soccer.
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You can enjoy bringing them up, all right?
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You can enjoy this tough one.
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You can enjoy the terrible twos when you re standing in a store and the kid s throwing a tantrum, right?
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What do you do?
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First, you say, okay, they re two years old.
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That s what terrible twos mean.
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And you re okay.
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You re not embarrassed, not ashamed.
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You don t pick them up and hit them.
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You don t get them what they want.
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You re just centered.
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You re clear without trying.
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There s no effort.
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It s a natural state that s happening inside of you.
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And then you deal with the situation.
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How?
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There s no answer to how.
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You re there.
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Only you will know how to deal with the situation.
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There s no formula for life.
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There s just this understanding that if you let go of yourself, how Christ said, die to be reborn, if you re willing to let go of yourself on a regular basis, something higher than you is inside.
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And that s God.
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That s the whole spiritual energy.
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That s what all spirituality is about.
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Mickey, that was magnificent.
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Tell me, I loved your description of saying, you know, you don t have to worry about letting go of your preferences.
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You just let go of the blockages and they kind of drop away like a snake.
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Could you amplify a little bit about that?
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Because the other thing you talked about is just letting go of those things that you can t control.
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But I think a lot of people in this room have a hard time telling what they can and can t control.
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Right.
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So I d love to hear your perspective on that.
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Fine.
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That s beautiful.
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Beautiful question.
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Well, I can only share what I ve experienced, okay?
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That doesn t mean everybody else s teachings and so on.
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What I ve experienced is that Mickey, this guy in here that I live with,
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has issues, okay?
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And if he doesn t get what he wants or gets what he doesn t want, whatever it is, there s these shifts in his energy.
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It s all a question of experiencing these shifts in energy, okay?
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I don t call him good or bad.
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I just notice he s getting nervous.
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I notice he s self-conscious.
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I notice he s embarrassed.
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I notice he s judging himself.
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Whatever it is, all of it causes a shift in the energy.
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then the answer is, you have to understand it, you have to analyze it, just relax.
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Because that is the Shakti attempting to push these blockages out of the way.
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But you can t handle it, learn to handle it.
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Not tomorrow, it always takes time, just like playing tennis or piano, right?
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But if you were willing to do it to the best of your ability, that s all that s asked, the best of your ability,
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you will find that your preferences were due to the fact that you were not okay.
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If you look at your preferences, right?
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I wanna have a new car, why?
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I m not okay and I wanna impress people and I wanna do this or that, whatever, right?
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You re serving yourself because you re not okay.
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You re a beautiful, beautiful person, right?
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But do you see that, right?
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That we generally want things to compensate for the fact that we re not whole and complete within ourselves.
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so that as you let go of your blockages, those preferences naturally fall off because you are okay.
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So sometimes people say, I need a vacation, I want to go to Hawaii, I want to go to Alaska, I want to do something, I need to get out of here.
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Okay, fine, go, don t not go to vacation, but you re doing that because you re not okay.
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All right, what if you were okay?
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What if you were just perfectly, you loved going to work so much, it was as much fun as going to Hawaii?
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Now, not too bad, is it?
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Okay, so that s what it means.
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It means as you let go of these disturbances, you re not disturbed.
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And when you re not disturbed, there s no reason to have all these preferences.
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When this shows up, even today, if this shows up for you, your way of relaxing, is there a trigger for you?
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Like taking a breath?
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Is it a thought process?
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I m curious when you say that, because relax, everybody has a different view of what that means.
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What s your trigger for going into relaxation?
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Yeah, well, first of all, my trigger, my trigger is that the energy shifted.
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Right.
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And I ve been doing this long enough, that s all it takes for me, right?
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The energy shifted.
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Then what do I do?
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How did I notice it shifted?
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But that s the key.
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The key is, the only part of it that s really okay is the consciousness.
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The consciousness is always okay, all right?
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How did I notice that this energy shifted?
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And then instead of getting into the energy shift or what to do about it, my first act is, okay, I am the experiencer, not the experience, and I m willing to experience the experience, and I will just relax from the place I m experiencing.
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You tell me, Tony, whether that makes sense to you.
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There s a place I m experiencing from.
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Right?
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Rather than getting involved in the object of consciousness, I relax into the source, the seat of consciousness.
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And I know you know what I m talking about.
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And even as you do that physically, I notice you kind of drop back physically.
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Is that a typical situation?
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Yes.
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So it s almost breaking from the pattern, dropping back.
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That s right.
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Okay.
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And did you take a breath?
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Do you take a breath when you come back there?
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I know you re not maybe conscious of it, but I m curious in making that shift to consciousness, is there a breath change in you?
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It s a natural thing, right?
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Instead of leaning forward and resisting, when you lean back and relax, obviously your breath changes.
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It all changes.
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That s cool.
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Thank you for sharing that.
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It s a natural process.
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That s the key.
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It s a natural process.
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It s just natural.
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Yeah.
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Beautiful.
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Nikki, it s such a treat to be with you again.
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Today, there s just so many gems, and you made this so incredibly simple and yet relatable.
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I love how you reflected not only our own beautiful internal nature, but just the beauty of this existence.
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The threads of low-hanging fruit.
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I find so applicable.
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If somebody s going through something more acute, maybe they re going through, you know, an illness or cancer or something like that, or, you know, their beloved is maybe passing, you know, is it that same practice?
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Do you also have an internal frame of a dialogue of, okay, Nikki, you know, you re stuck right now.
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Let s take a breath.
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speak internally as well to yourself that helps to guide consciousness through?
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Or is it more of a... I don t want to speak, I m actually just curious.
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Well, I don t generally talk about myself.
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We re all different, right?
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But I will say I used to do that, okay?
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And then you just get to a point where it s, come on, man, 50 years.
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I hope I grew enough, right?
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You get to a point where it just happens.
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It s like, I ve certainly, all right, I ll tell you, here s a beautiful example, Ramakrishna.
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You ever heard of Ramakrishna, the great saint?
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All right, very great, fully enlightened, one of the highest beings on the face of the earth.
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I love him to pieces, right?
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Somebody asked him, does an enlightened master ever feel anger?
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And I was shocked by his answer.
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He said, yes, but it s like riding on water.
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It just passes through.
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What s the difference then, right?
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It doesn t express itself.
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So that s what starts to happen is you ve been around the block enough times to understand the heart can hurt because somebody did something, something you re close with didn t do what you expected, right?
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Or somebody died that you were very close with.
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It should hurt.
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It s natural.
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You understand that?
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If somebody dies that you love, don t giggle.
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when you believe you re happy, right?
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Instead, you look at it and you say, thank you, heart, for playing a tune that s in harmony with the situation.
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I feel loss.
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I feel some pain.
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That s like saying I love you.
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That s what I think that it means when you hurt because somebody died.
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Well, it s wonderful to say I love you, but you re okay.
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You re not fighting it, you re not resisting it, you re not hating it, you re not afraid of it, right?
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There s a key, right?
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I m afraid of this pain, but how will I be?
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You just relax through it, and you relax, and you welcome its right to play the tune it should be playing.
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So being, I m so glad you asked that.
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People so misunderstand.
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Being happy, unconditionally happy, does not mean that you don t feel human things.
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It means you honor and respect the aspect of your being that s human, that has a humanness, and then it s clean.
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It helps cleanse.
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So somebody dies, you feel lost.
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Somebody does something you didn t expect, you feel a little uncomfortable, trust, and this and that, and you smile like a child.
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You smile at the child, it s okay.
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So anyways, it s wonderful to talk your way through it, but you ask me, at some point, that s not what happens.
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At some point, there s just a relaxing, riding on water.
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Am I perfect?
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No way, shape, or form.
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Ramakrishna was perfect.
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Am I something perfect?
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Go talk to him.
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Yeah.
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You had mentioned, you know, just the external experiences, like once we let go, as well, our consciousness notices more beauty.
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Because if we re in a disturbance, we re usually missing that because we have an internal frame.
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And so, would you say that that s part of, really, that s the mindfulness, that s meditation extending beyond the sit meditation, is as we relax and let go in real time,
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we are noticing our perception or consciousness includes or recognizes more.
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Would that be an accurate statement?
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Absolutely, completely, of course.
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They say the man who has seen God sees God everywhere.
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And that was just the extreme of what you said, right?
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So when you re filled with God and God s energy and God s consciousness, that s all you see.
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You see what created this amazing creation.
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Beautiful.
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Some questions from the audience.
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Yes.
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Thank you, Professor Singer.
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You ve been very enlightening today.
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This is an intriguing concept for me, so I appreciate it.
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So I m interested by this concept, okay?
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You remove your blockages, which then removes your preferences, right?
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So if you remove all the preferences and are accepting of all and everything and every moment,
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For these more highly evolved beings that have achieved this, what would differentiate these highly evolved beings from one from the other?
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If you re just happy with... If I take... Right.
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What s your name?
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You can tell me your name.
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I m Nomad Tina.
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Nomantima, very good.
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So I ll let Yogananda answer you, because he s higher than me, right?
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And he literally said once, when you reach the final state, there s no difference between any one master and any other master.
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They ve all merged into the same oneness.
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So if that s the level, I m not sure, but if that s what you re asking, right, there is no difference.
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Okay, but what, I would, you have more of a question?
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Is that what you were asking?
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I m still going after that, but finish what you were saying.
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I m sorry.
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No, no.
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I want to make sure that I understood your question and just ask it better, more.
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That definitely answered the question, so then I guess I would follow that up with, so then
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maybe the majority of people don t really want happiness all the time as much as they say they do.
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I think a lot of people are pretty attached to other states and some kind of differentiation and motivation.
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But from what this is sounding like, it kind of takes away some of that differentiation, motivation, and desire for
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better meant in the way that we, most people in the world, would see it, I guess.
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I don t know if that makes sense.
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No, I did actually think when you first asked the question, that s what you were really getting at, but I answered that question about the masters.
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So here s the answer, okay?
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What you re saying is, and people ask this all the time, right?
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If you re totally satisfied and whole and complete within yourself, forget enlightenment, that s a whole other thing, don t worry about merger, let s just talk about a high being who has learned to accept and honor and is happy all the time and so on, why would you go to work?
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Why would you have a relationship?
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You would go to work, you d have a relationship because you re so filled with love, love wants to share itself.
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Love loves to give.
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Why would you go to work?
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Because you have to feel passion to create.
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You re still doing everything everybody else is doing.
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You re just doing it for a totally different reason, right?
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And if somebody s in a state where they re not okay, but they find that if something happens it makes them okay, what you re saying is, why would I give that up?
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because what you feel when it makes you okay, you have all the time.
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But then why would I do anything?
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Because you love, loves to express itself.
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Everything loves to give.
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And so you have more expression, not less.
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You have more expression because you re whole.
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It s not like you go sit in a closet somewhere.
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Does that answer you?
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Yes.
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I think so.
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The conflict between, we mentioned yesterday, which is more important you to be special or to be happy.
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Exactly.
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I think that s what it comes down to.
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I know.
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And I m suggesting to you that if you were truly in that place where things were flowing, that happiness is special.
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It s the most special thing of all.
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And also, Tony, the only reason we want to be special is because it makes us happy.
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So if you go to the root of right or wrong, right, is that true?
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You want to be special because it makes you happy to feel special.
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But if you are already happy, then you can be happy no matter what happens.
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But the main point is you do give.
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You end up giving.
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That s what you do.
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You don t not go to work.
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You know, if it was all said and done, if you read the deep Buddhist teachings, is if somebody looks at you, you look the same as everybody else.
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No special clothes, no special this, no special name, no special anything, right?
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Except you re different.
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Anyone who interacts with you is raised, you re raised, the people around you, it s a very beautiful thing.
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Don t be afraid of it, okay?
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Don t be afraid of being happy all the time.
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It s just difficult to imagine the no preferences aspect, and so that
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That I m wrapping my head around.
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So, I appreciate the explanation.
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Okay.
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Well, thank you.
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Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you, Sage.
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Thank you, Tony, for this space.
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It s beautiful.
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Appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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My name is Bernice Vasquez.
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The question is, how do you interpret the ego in this learning?
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How can we name the ego?
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Do we dance with the ego, with the fear, like Tony said?
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Or how can we interpret the ego this?
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I would love to hear your knowledge.
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All right, that s very beautiful.
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Somebody wants to ask Yogananda.
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I love to let the master answer the deep questions.
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Somebody ask Yogananda, what is the ego?
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Right?
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And he said, the masquerading self.
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And it takes a moment to contemplate.
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In other words, you are the self, the consciousness, the awareness of being, correct?
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That s who you are in there, the self.
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Because you drop down into this body,
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It s separated itself, it has all these inputs coming in now, all these senses and world and all kinds of stuff.
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And so it needs to grab something, it needs to hold on to some solidity, because it doesn t know itself as God, it knows itself as this body and all that.
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So it builds a mask, the self-concept.
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The ego is the self-concept, right?
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So Bill, I am the one who married this person.
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I am the one that had this experience.
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You re defining yourself by the experiences you have.
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That s what the ego is, okay?
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It s the concept of yourself.
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It s not the self, right?
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And the self can watch the ego, can t it?
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It can watch it be an ego.
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It s kind of funny, okay?
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So that s what the ego is, and that s where it came from.
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What happens as you go deep enough?
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It thins out.
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It thins out.
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It doesn t need the thing.
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Now it comes to know itself as itself.
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The self knows itself.
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It doesn t need this false concept of itself.
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So it lets it go little by little.
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The great masters say there always has to be a little bit left to stay in the body.
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Okay, so don t worry, it won t all go away, all right?
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But all the noise, all the noise, and that s what Buddha meant.
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You guys are so beautiful.
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Buddha said all of life is suffering.
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He s not negative.
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He s talking about the fact that it s suffering.
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You re not always getting what you want.
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You re worried that you won t, you re scared, you follow me, right?
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And the way to end suffering is to let go of preference, to let go of the desires.
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But, all right,
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All right, so basically that answer, that s what the ego is.
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It s something you developed to hide yourself in because you lost yourself.
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Beautiful.
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So basically I created my own ego.
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You did, indeed.
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Not just I, the self did.
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The consciousness got lost when it dropped in here and it was uncomfortable, so it built a self-concept.
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If you ever had a child, you ll see it does it very early.
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It builds a concept of what it likes and doesn t like.
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All right, thank you.
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Mickey, for those of us that have little ones on the path, our daughter right now is 18 months, and just a pure being of light.
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You ve seen her.
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You know, is there anything that we can do as parents to hold a container ship?
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Or is it just a part of the human experience is to experience and recognize our false self so that we transcend it?
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I m just curious of your perception of that.
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Is it a part of the journey until it s not, until we find a way home and there s nothing that we can do to stop that?
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People ask me that question a lot.
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It s very beautiful, right?
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And I love, you know, your daughter s gorgeous.
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You re probably exceptional.
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There s a beam of light.
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But basically when parents ask, what can I do?
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to help my child learn this earlier, to be more open, to be more spiritual, et cetera.
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And my belief and understanding is the only thing you can do is to let go of yourself.
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In other words, is your child better off with Sage as a mother or God?
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Yes.
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Okay, as you get out of the way, what s left is the purest, most beautiful thing in the world, and she will learn from that, and she will be nurtured by that.
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And so that s the answer, right?
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Perfect yourself, and that helps your whole family.
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Hi, Michael.
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My name s Nuria Rivera, and I want to thank you
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because you ve been a big teacher for me the last few years.
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And all of your teachings, putting them into practice, have helped me let go more, do a lot of healing, and also I m still working on it.
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But I did have a question on your last book.
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You talked about how we re not the creators of life.
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And in my studies, I ve felt that.
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really learning to take responsibility for my life.
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And in my perception of this spiritual journey is that I am the creator of everything that s around me due to me being connected to source.
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But there was a part on your book where you said, we re not creating life.
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And that kind of threw me off.
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And I got stuck on that.
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And I d love to perhaps get a distinction from you
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on what that really meant.
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All right.
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So that s a very, very deep question, obviously.
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Okay.
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And it depends on what level of honesty and depth you want to interact with, I m not insulting or anything, but like this whole thing with the law of attraction, for example.
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My experience is that the universe is perfect and you will be presented every moment with exactly what you need in order to go to God, in order to grow.
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So the question becomes, how can it happen if 10 of us are experiencing the same moment
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As great as God is, how can it be that that moment is perfect for every one of us to go to God?
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The reason is because you re looking at the moment through the veil of your ego.
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You re looking at the moment through the veil of your blockages.
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Therefore, one person sees this, the other person sees this.
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It s all the same thing, all right?
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There s just a world out there that is independent of you, and you re looking at it through the veil of your stuff.
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Fair enough?
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Therefore, it s perfect.
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for everybody to grow.
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So you understand, I don t have to go into detail, right?
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So it s like a Rorschach test.
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I go into a new book, you know, remember the inkblot tests?
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Okay, a psychiatrist shows you an inkblot and you see people fighting, you see people making love, you see whatever, all right?
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What you see is yourself, it s a reflection of yourself.
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So to that extent, you are the creator of your universe.
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I ll talk at different levels, but at that level,
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You are creating your universe because you re projecting yourself out onto, onto what, by the way?
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Onto a quantum field of energy that has no form?
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That s what the scientists said, right?
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It s not even atoms.
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There s no person there.
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It s atoms.
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There s no atoms there.
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It s electron, neutron, or protons.
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There s no electron or protons.
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There s quarks, bosons, right?
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In other words, there s nothing even there.
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But you are projecting yourself, your stuff, onto it.
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To the extent that you re enlightened, you re not doing that.
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Ramakrishna literally saw light.
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That s all he saw was light.
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He said, every once in a while, you know how you guys see ghosts in your world?
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I see the buildings and the different things you tell me are there, kind of come in and float back out.
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Otherwise, all I m seeing is God.
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That s a deeper way to look at it, and I can t answer what everybody else teaches.
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I can only answer what I ve come to know, and that is you are projecting yourself out onto the screen of God, and what you re seeing is yourself, and that s perfect, because that means you re reflecting yourself back to yourself, and you re having problems with yourself.
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I mean, what does science tell you?
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There s nothing out there.
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It s just a homogeneous field of energy throughout the universe that s manifesting into subatomic particles which become atoms, which become this and become that, but there s nothing there.
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So I don t teach what other people teach about your universe
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you can create whatever you wanna create.
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Because my question is, how are you deciding what to create?
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And you re gonna find out it s your blockages.
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All right?
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I wanna have a child.
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Okay?
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There s nothing wrong with having a child.
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It s wonderful to have a child.
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It s a very natural thing to do.
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But if you re 10 years old and you decide I better have a child by the time I m 22, 23, my biological clock is ticking, you re just projecting all your ego and your problems onto the world.
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So,
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So I answered you two ways.
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One is you are projecting yourself onto the situations you re seeing, that s why we all see them differently, and that s perfect because then it reflects back to you and you have to deal with yourself.
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As you thin yourself out, and there s less of that,
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There s no reason to attract your universe.
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You re not trying to attract your universe.
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You re trying to experience the universe as God created it.
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It s too deep to answer for people who want to attract their universe.
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Okay?
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But I always have to answer the deepest level I know.
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Okay?
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So is there a law of attraction?
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Absolutely there s a law of attraction.
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But where are you deciding what you want to attract?
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You wouldn t have attracted the same thing 10 years ago.
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You would ask for something different.
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You might have asked something different five minutes ago.
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right?
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That s getting pretty hard to deal with.
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And all of us want something different.
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It s like, there s so much conflict.
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So to me, that is not the depth of it.
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It is a part of the spiritual path.
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It s wonderful, but it s not the depth of the spiritual path.
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The depth is, I ve let go of myself, and all that s there is God.
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So I m not attracting or repulsing or I m not making decisions of that kind of thing.
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I m just letting go of myself.
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There s this tremendous joy and that joy then merges with the universe.
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And that s the highest way to deal with this stuff.
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So I m not going to deny anybody else s teachings.
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Okay.
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And in the end, they re right.
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It is all God and you are God.
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Therefore you are creator of the universe.
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The trouble is you don t know it.
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If you re an enlightened being telling me, isn t it all God, and aren t I God?
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Yes, but we re not, and therefore it s our egos and our personal self that s saying, I wanna be able to create my own universe.
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I m sorry, I have to.
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I m sorry, that s awesome.
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Last three.
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How about, yes.
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Hey guys, Sean from LA.
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Thank you so much for being here, for sharing your wisdom through your three books.
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They re just such clear guidance of what reality is and how I can work on myself to clear through, to become a channel so that I can help show God through myself as much as possible.
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Thank you.
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So in that desire,
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So let s say I m working on this for a while.
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I ve worked on the low-hanging fruit, and then things happen.
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I feel it, and then I let it go, and I let it go.
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And I m really interested in what you said about, am I working on this every day?
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So let s say those things don t happen.
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but I wanna continue to work through these.
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Is that what meditation is for?
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That I sit there and then allow things that actually don t come in this waking life arrive, and then I work through the samskaras?
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Meditation helps you center back to the seat of self.
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That s what meditation does, okay?
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The problem is when you come back
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to this and the internet world, that s what I m interested in, okay?
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Can you maintain that seat?
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Or when you come back out, are you getting all involved in all your problems?
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And if you sit there and are saying to me, which I m sure I heard it right, that, well, what if I don t have enough things bothering me?
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Well, namaste, but in any event.
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I m not there yet.
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Okay, you will every moment of your life be challenged at one level or another, okay?
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That s why you re here, all right?
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And when you re not, then your whole life is meditation.
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There s no difference between sitting in the deepest state.
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The great masters, they meditated.
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Then someone asked Robert Christian, why are you still meditating?
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He said, I don t know, I always did.
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You gotta do something, might as well do that, okay?
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Because he didn t need to.
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He was out, he was finished.
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So that s the best I can say to you is, yes, meditation is wonderful.
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It is wonderful.
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My guru, my guru, Yogananda, that s all he taught was meditation, okay?
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But to mature spiritually, you realize it is your daily life.
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that is tempting you and teaching you how to let go of yourself.
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And the fact that you understand that and you re working with that is very, very honorable, and you re not perfect at it, and none of us are perfect at it, and that s wonderful, because that means we have, somebody once asked Baba Muktananda, right?
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Do you ever regret anything, right?
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Do you have any regrets?
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He said, yes, I regret that my sadhana, the days of my sadhana are over.
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They were so much fun.
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Okay?
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Does that answer you, Sean?
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I guess the answer is I don t need to answer that because it s all going to keep coming and coming and coming.
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You shouldn t even be thinking about your growth.
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You should only be letting go of the here and now and leave it to God, leave it to the Shakti, leave it to the masters.
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You hear me?
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And you don t have to even know who they are.
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You don t have to know anything.
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You just have to be willing to let go of what s keeping you down.
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All right.
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Beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Hi.
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Sorry, I have to give my own body a moment to not be nervous when I pick up a mic.
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I want to thank you so much.
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I read your book a few years ago, four years ago, and it turned into an owner s manual of every breath of my life returning to that seat, every moment as an opportunity to release.
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The stage I m at now, which is so beautiful, so again, thank you.
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is that the mind, the body, doesn t really have a place to really capture purchase.
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It kind of floats.
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It s there every once in a while.
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It turns into circus clowns and hijacks.
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But my seat of consciousness is still aware, which is such a gift.
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And I m just curious, in the evolution of this,
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How do you experience the mind as you continue to progress through this?
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What does that experience for you or for any masters that you suggest I look at next?
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I go into it deep in Living on Tether.
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Living on Tether goes very deep.
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It takes a couple of reads.
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I mean, you get it, they get it the first time, but it goes deeper the next time, all right?
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So what I look at with my mind, for example, when I look at my mind,
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I appreciate it.
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I say thank you.
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It wrote a computer program that did all this stuff.
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I was like, what the hell?
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Where did that come from?
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I am not my mind.
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I didn t make my mind.
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I have no right to be proud of my mind being intelligent or be ashamed if it s stupid.
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Do you understand that?
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It s just where did it come from, this thing called mind, all right?
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So when I look at mind, even if it s misbehaving, you know, complaining about something, it s like an adorable thing and I just am in awe that it exists.
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You understand that?
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Where in the world did intelligence come from?
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And I understand the philosophy is that God is infinite intelligence and since it dropped down into the body, it made all these different koshas, all these different levels, the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body, you understand that?
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But for me, sitting in here, you just appreciate it.
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You say, thank you.
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There, that s how I deal with mine.
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I look at it and almost cry.
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Just thank you, thank you, thank you.
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You re so amazing and beautiful.
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What a reflection of God.
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imperfect, because it s still in form, you follow me?
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But that s how I look at mine, that s my experience with mine now.
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Does that answer you?
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Now, if you want to go to the great masters, which I m not, okay?
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Ramakrishna said, and this is very deep, I m gonna leave it with you to contemplate, the purified mind is no different than the self.
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In other words, when you don t have these blockages in there,
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The mind doesn t need to be personal.
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You understand that?
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So it becomes a perfect mirror of who s looking at it.
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Like a lake, if you look at a still lake, your reflection is in there.
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But if it s all stirred up, it s all garbage, right?
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So the purified mind, doesn t mean the mind that doesn t swear, right?
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It means the mind that s still, right, that s not making personal noise is reflecting the self.
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So the purified mind is no different than the self.
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Otherwise, the mind is reflecting the samskaras, the problems from underneath.
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It can reflect from above also.
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Beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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One more.
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Thank you so much.
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I have read your book, The Untended Soul, and learned a lot from it, that when there is an experience happening, to step away and look at it like it s a movie or objectively.
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Emotionally, emotional intelligence tells me to do that.
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However, on a day-to-day basis, when things happen,
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consistently that I don t want them to happen.
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It throws me off my game.
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And then I think and I get riled up.
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So and then I have to mindfully do the work and take back and say, OK.
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deep breathe, it s okay, surrender, accept.
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All of these things are emotionally there.
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What is the best tip that you could possibly give that allows us to go with the flow and navigate through life on a day-to-day basis using these teachings more accessibly?
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I don t know if I m articulating this well, but... Oh, that s a beautiful question.
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What s your name?
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Ishali, that s a beautiful, Ishali, okay, beautiful name.
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That s a beautiful question.
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It s perfect for the last question, for the final question, okay?
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First I ll tell you that that s why I wrote Living on Tether, okay?
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So when you get a chance to read that, you will see it answers your question of what I can do on a daily basis, all right?
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So what s happening is you re not done yet.
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okay that you know it s very sensitive the heart is very sensitive the mind is got all kinds of pollution in it and so on so that when the world unfolds we lose our center we get pulled down into it right so by practicing don t don t judge yourself don t that don t think that s wrong all right you just you know if you re playing tennis and you hit into the net that s a good thing because then you know how to do it different next time
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All right, so that this is your growth, the stuff you just described to me.
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You re sincere in your growth, and I love that, and you go through these different stages.
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Don t judge her.
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Just come back as soon as you can and sit there and say, okay, I went through that one.
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I m more capable of going through another one.
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Do you understand that?
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And you just keep letting go, you keep letting go, you keep letting go.
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So that is the advice, is your life is your friend.
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There was a saint I once met who said the following, I wasn t ready to hear it yet, it was back in the early 70s, problems are the nectar of life.
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Okay?
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Because they cause you to grow.
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They stimulate an understanding of where I m still not done yet.
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Don t judge that.
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Love that.
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Treat her like a child.
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You don t yell at a child because they have a problem, right?
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I hope, right?
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You see it as an opportunity to raise them.
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The Gita says one should raise the self with self, not trample down the self.
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right, talking about capital A Atman and lowercase Atman.
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So you just, every situation you go through is a learning experience.
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It s all wonderful.
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If you fall, fine.
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As long as you re doing your best.
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Now, if you don t even try, that s a different story, all right?
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But if you re doing your best and trying to stay conscious and trying to stay clear and putting some time aside for meditation and so on and so forth, and then something happens that knocks you off your game, right, that s wonderful.
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That means I have work to do in that area.
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So you just do a little bit better next time.
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You try to understand or see what the blockage is that got hit.
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And then you look at it and you say, boy, what will life be like?
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How should I look when a blockage gets hit?
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Instead of worrying what to do, just look and say, what will it be like when it s no longer there?
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Look at me.
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What will it be like when that s not there?
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What will my life be like when I don t have that in my heart to cause all this trouble?
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And look at it that way, and then be grateful that you have this opportunity, step by step, right, to let go of yourself.
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But don t judge.
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No shame, no blame, just growth.
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Fair enough?
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Fair enough.
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All right.
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And you let me know how you do with that type of soul.
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