Michael Singer - From Fighting to Harmony - Changing Your Relationship with Life

H Jack G Masters life is a very very simple matter which we make very very complicated and the whole purpose of a beautiful life of beautiful existence is to get it back to its Simplicity but that doesn't mean that you live out somewhere and own nothing and have no relationships and create a Simplicity like that this Simplicity we're talking about is not that it is your relationship with life that it's all about it's not about what life is doing life is always doing something you get to the point I hope we can communicate it it

no matter where you are whenever you look there will be something going on if I put you're in Paris look in front of you there something going on look to the right there's something else going on look to the left there's something else going on pick you up put in Yugoslavia look to the right there's something going no matter where I put you put you on Mars put you on Saturn no matter where you are there's something going on so it's not a matter of what's going on because there's always something going on just it's

not about what life is doing that's the Folly it's about what you're doing and your relationship to what life is doing and that's I could make you write something now and make you write that down put it on your refrigerator it is not about what life is doing it is about what you are doing with what life is doing because life is doing something everywhere you know it's like you're not going to stop it from doing what it's doing you don't know what it's going to be doing all right it's just what is life doing

let's get that out of the way what is life doing all these different places life's doing something what determines what life is doing at any given moment at any given Place Einstein had this beautiful time space continuum this just it goes on forever everywhere and then there's a point well you're at that point what's going on there the right answer is are you ready none of your business what's going on there would be going on there even if you weren't there it just happens to be the spot you're looking at a wise being without even

using their mind every single moment what they are seeing is the result of 13.8 billion years of forces interacting together to create the moment that's in front of them period that's where it came from you want to know where it came from you want to know how it could do what it's doing you want to know why things are the way they are because of 13.8 billion years of everything being the way it was interacting together to create what's in front of you it wasn't like purposeful it's not like let's do it this way so

it ends up in front of him or her you know 13.8 billion years later it's just forces natural forces the fundamental forces interacting together to create the moments that happen then those moments create the next moment and all of it interacts together it's science it's cause and effect how's that it's every single thing is interacting together in accordance to the Natural laws the natural way of things to create the next moment then that creates the next moment and it has been going on everywhere for 13.8 billion years and that's how what's in front of you

got in front of you it's actually very simple it's there because it's there how's that I told you some just becomes simple right you don't want to know how it got there you don't have enough time to listen right how long would for me to explain to you all the genetic mutations and all the interactions and everything needed to happen for everything to be the way it is you'd be bored you just start at some point sit there and say oh look what's there look what took 13.8 billion years to present itself in front of

me no matter where you are there's something going on and it's none of your business it's absolutely none of your business it has nothing to do with you nothing it is completely impersonal it would be going on even if you were not there watching it you're going to go to a restaurant but you're not at the restaurant right now why you're at home there's still I know it's hard to believe that restaurant is actually there while you're at home and there are people in it and there's music playing and there's chefs showing up or not

showing up and there's food that I don't know they're determined they're special has nothing to do with you nothing it couldn't you're not even there and then you show up and somehow have something to do with you I mean a lot has a lot to do with you right I don't like the music they're playing how could they be playing that they weren't playing this last time and where's the chef who cooked the thing last time oh my God they I would have shown up and there's people smoking next to me like nothing's the way

it's supposed to be it was all fine for you showed up something is fishy something's wrong all right and what you catch on at some point is that it is all going on where you're not everywhere in the whole universe everywhere as it's going on you're fine with it you never complain about what's going on where you're not all right and but the same thing is going on where you are as what's going on where you're not it's just you happen to be there seeing that part you could be anywhere seeing any part it is

so important to reach that level of understanding it has absolutely nothing to do with you what anything do you see that it's just what is it's what is it's what's going on it's the result of 13.8 billion years of forces interacting together to create the current moment there what's it got to do with you you weren't even here and you certainly aren't everywhere where it's happening so you just happen to be at one spot of the whole universe seeing what's there congratulations I'm glad you get to see something you're not seeing much you're seeing so

little it's so funny but you get to see it it's your gift right you get to see part of it here it is enjoy it but you don't why not because of what it's doing it's never because of what it's doing it is in harmony with all of creation every force that is unfolding is in balance with all the other forces that ever were and are that's just how it works it's called dynamic equilibrium one changes they all change and it's in balance in harmony but it's impersonal has nothing to do with you the problem

is that's not okay with you so it I told you it is not about what life is doing it is never about what life is doing it is about your relationship with with what life is doing all right now we're going to discuss that so we're going to discuss I'm done with life that's a big thing to be done with been there done that all right what's it going to do tomorrow you'll see he do the same thing it did for 13.8 billion years be the result of all the forces that ever were and depending

on where you are that's what you'll see all right so we're done with that that's science it's beautiful it's done now what about this thing called your relationship with that Force called creation called reality called what is well that's a little more interesting what should be or could be not should what could be your relationship with it well you're in here it's out there that's the real reality once you establish what's out there reality then you're realize I'm not out there I'm in here I live somewhere inside and I look out through my eyes feel

through my senses and I'm in here and it's out there so I have a relationship with it whenever there's Duality there has to be some relationship how do I interact with it what is your relationship with this force of creation that is unfolding outside of you what it could be what it could be is one of Harmony what it could be of one of saying I don't even know who I am I don't know how I got here you don't either by the way you think you do right that you say I do so I'm

I'm S Jones and I live at 1506 you know Southwest 33rd Street really so if if you move you're not you anymore right if you legally change your name you're not you anymore this just just stupid that's not who you are it's just a label it's just something you're calling yourself you are the being who lives inside and knows yourself as yourself that's who you are I'm not going to talk about anymore you know you're in there Hi in there okay that's you the one who I say hi and you say hi yeah I me

you how do you know you're in I know okay it's I told you it's simple so now there's you who's in there and there's this world that has nothing to do with you that was here way before you got here and is going on everywhere where you're not all right what is your relationship to that that is the magical question that is the entire question of your life so what could be your relationship let's do that first what could be your relationship is I'm in here it's out there wow it's like a movie I get

to see I get to experience part of creation that has never existed yet unfolding in front of my eyes and in through my ears and through my senses wow what an amazing experience every single day I wake up I am going to be given the gift of seeing what happens next no one's ever seen it before no one's ever seen it before and no one will ever see what you're about to see you're the only one standing in that spot see what's unfolding it is the most amazing thing in the world it's just this gift

of getting to experience the next moment of creation at that spot you could be in awe you could just walk around blown away you can say look what it did now could it did now who would have thought it would do that that could be your attitude that's called a relationship that is your relationship with reality you are in a state of awe you're in a state of appreciation you're in a state of acceptance It's just wow you love it you're honored to see it you're in a state really in a state of respect of

honor to get to see the result of 13.8 billion years unfold in front of your eyes there are no such thing as problems there can't be a problem in that world where's a problem you're in here and you're watching what's unfolding there's no problem okay unfortunately your life is not like that why why because you won't let it be it's because of your relationship with life it's not because what life is doing you won't let it be like that why because what you have decided to do with your life you have decided to make up

in your mind you're in there you got a mind in there too to make up in your mind what reality should be doing in front of you now tomorrow the day after yesterday is made up in your mind a conceptual model of what should be going on in front of you if I pick you up and drop you down in Paris you know what's supposed to be going on it's matter with these people don't speak English it's like you will do that understand that you just will develop a model inside your mind about what is

supposed to be going on where did you get that model did you study 13.8 billion years of forces and see how they interact together to decide what really should be happening next that's funny not even close you got it much easier you just made it up you just made it up this shouldn't be like this this should have been like that she shouldn't be doing this he should be doing that that should never have happened what that which happened should never have happened who said so the forces that caused it to happen no of course

not me I said so and on what basis oh Guru G did you decide that it should not have happened I didn't like it I didn't like it so it shouldn't happen really as cute as a butt so now you Trump 13.8 billion years of forces interacting together I don't want to talk about it it just shouldn't happen that's your relationship with what's going on out there that's ego you make up in your mind how you want it to be what should happen What should have happened what should happen in the future what should be

happening right now etc etc just that whole shoulds and shouldn't and likes and dislikes that you just make up in your mind anytime you just pop up oh I want a new car just billions of things you just make them up in your mind like popcorn over and over again and then you look at to the world I'm almost embarrassed to say this for you and you say I'm right it's wrong it should be the way I said and you get mad when it's not in fact a moment ago I told you there are no

problems I betch you had a problem with that okay now let's talk about that now let's introduce problems what is a problem it's very easy now a problem is that the damn reality won't behave darn thing get with the program it won't be the way I was decided it was supposed to be and that's a problem for reality no for me reality doesn't seem to have a problem I just have a problem with it what I wanted to happen didn't happen that's a problem what I didn't want to happen did happen that's a problem what

I don't want to happen might happen later that's a problem right it's like I'm making up in my mind an alternate reality and I'm defining it as a problem when reality doesn't behave that way there that's the complexity you created and that's very complex it's unbelievable how complex that gets that is the complexity you created that makes life impossible at that point I'm telling you life is impossible it feels like a struggle it feels like overwhelming overbearing when they ask Christ how are you doing you know what he said my burden is light my burden

is light what does that mean now you understand he wasn't doing that wasn't doing what making up an alternate reality and getting mad when it wasn't that way he was honoring and respecting even terrible things that happened to him honoring and respecting the unfolding of reality in front of his eyes amazing what a model what an amazing being right and he was at peace he was completely at peace he have a single problem Buddha taught the same thing we should understand Buddha's Noble Truths they're so simple and they're so true all of life is suffering

well we just said that everybody's suffering why because everybody made up how they want it to be and it never is the way they make it up so they suffer all right so Buddha said all of life is suffering first Noble Truth second Noble Truth the cause of suffering is desire the cause of suffering is preference the cause of suffering is having a way you want it to be that you made up in your head and then it's not that way that's what desire means if you say the cause of suffering is desire what is

a desire desire is that you made up in your mind how you want it to be if you don't make up in your mind how you want it to be you don't have a desire the desire is I desire it to be this way well how did you decide that I just made it up I just did I'm so cute I made it up so if you make it up you're in trouble why because that's just how it works when you're in kindergarten they teach you to play make believe they don't tell you it should

actually be that way they say you just build your imagination it's fun don't get mad because the mountain you drew doesn't really be there when you go out no that's not how you play Make Believe make believe is make believe so if you make up something in your mind just make it up I want her to love me I don't want want her to die I don't want this to happen I want this to happen I I don't want I want to be a billionaire by the time I'm 23 not 24 23 just go on

make stuff up right make it up I want I want a person to move next to me that blah blah blah right you just make up things all the time and then they become desires I want them to happen too bad that's ridiculous there are 13.8 billion years of forces that interacted together that get to decide what's going to happen not that you want it to happen and you just made it up and that's why it should happen you just pitted yourself against reality it's like you're playing God literally the more you look at it

you realize I guess I think I'm God why because I get to make up in my mind how I want things to be and then I honestly believe they should be that way that must mean I'm all powerful at least for the moment in front of me if I had my way I'm just speaking for you we're all the same if I had my way the moment in front of me would be indep of every other moment in the universe what do I care about the rest of the moments I only care about the moment

in front of me and it should be the way I want that's really a wonderful sense of equilibrium and Oneness and you better go study some systems Dynamics and how things interact together there are no moments that are independent of the rest right it's all tied together you don't get to decide that the moment in front of me is what matters because I want it to be that way and it should be independent of everything else I don't care about the rest it doesn't work that way so if you picture yourself up against what's happening

you are going to suffer you're going to feel stress you're going to feel tension it's going to feel overwhelming you're going to have a very very hard time every moment of your life so Buddha said all life is suffering the cause of suffering is doing this desire to end suffering and desire was very simple very clear but we mess even that up you how people get into this stuff what they think all right I've made up all these things about how I want them to be and don't want them to be those are my desires

but I'm suffering I'm suffering I'm burning up I'm suffering oh my God it's so hard it's so heavy so I've turned to Buddha and Buddha said that to end this suffering you're having you are to end desires so what I do is I create the desire and then I decide I shouldn't have it so I try to get rid of the one I created how they do it I'm telling you right now it becomes another desire I'm not supposed to have desires but I do have desires but I suppress them I renounce them I deny

them what do I know as opposed to what it means to end desire is to stop making up the way you want things to be not make up the way you want them to be and then suppress the fact that you want them to be that way it's too late it's very very simple you come back to Simplicity you look at the world and every morning you have to do this every morning when you wake up you look at it take a good look at it and say the following I didn't make you in fact

you were still going on while I was sleeping you have nothing to do with me you are the expression of the quantum particles that came up from the quantum Fields you you're just reality you have nothing to do with me and I'm honored to see you there that's very different then this is what I want to happen this is what I don't want to happen I hope this happens today oh I'm so upset that that happened yesterday that's a very different relationship with life we're coming back to my theme reality is there you're in here

what is your relationship to it you have made a complete mess of that relationship don't feel bad so is everybody else you have fallen into this trap of believing that what life is about is to make up how you want it to be and you think it would be that way you'll be okay you make up how you want it to be make up how you don't want it to be and then not only expect it to be that way that'd be bad enough if you kind of kept it to yourself and just got real

upset that it wasn't that way you don't do that you say well if it's not going to be the way I want we have ways we are going to make it be the way we want we're going to throw Tantrums we're going to do things we're going to oh my God just get out of my way because it's going to be the way I want and you use your will that you have inside to come out here and screw everything up right just and literally you try to make the moment in front of you the

person in front of you better be the way you want I don't care what they do they're not in front of me but they better be wearing what I want they better acting the way I want is that hilarious and you just become this manipulative being that believes that the Universe in front of you should be the way you want and I lately have been being very honest about this news flash the universe in front of you should not be the way you want it should be the way it is there's no reason it should

be the way you want you just made it up all right and if you go out there and try to make it be the way you want you are going to make a mess of yourself don't worry you won't make a mess of the universe it's too big it's made it for 13.8 it handled the dinosaurs it hand the volcanoes it handled collisions oh my God what it handled is unbelievable right don't worry about it the the Suns blow up and explode and supernovas everything's fine all right it'll handle you don't worry all right but

you can't handle it what you're going to make a mess of is you you're going to become an neotic mess that's what will happen you will have so much trouble with life you'll have so much trouble with life you will be afraid that things are going to happen that you don't want you will be afraid that things that you want won't happen all right you will always be this enormous sense of fear that things will not be the way you want and that's a very valid fear because they won't be right so it's like you

you built this cage for yourself in which you're going to suffer and you're going to feel tension so a wise person what a wise person does is follow the Christ teaching the Buddhist teaching they're all the same at a much deeper level they sit there and say not I need to not satisfy my desires not I need to renounce or do anything like that I need to check out why I insist on making up an alternate reality instead of honoring and respecting the one that exists why am I doing that that is what a great

being does they check it out why am I not they don't struggle with life and they don't struggle with themselves there is no struggle it's just checking it out and what you're going to see is that the reason you make up all these things is because you're not okay your heart is not okay you feel not you're not secure You're Not Safe you you don't feel well in there and so you go to your mind and say mind how do things need to be for me to be okay and the mind is very intelligent and

it's your servant and it says okay ma'am or sir I will start to think about it day and night don't don't expect to sleep much while I'm thinking about it and I will try to figure out how everyone and everything needs to be in order for you to be okay and then it tells you and that's what that talking head is in there so the people say to me why is that voice talk all the time because you told it to you said figure out how everything needs to be for me to be okay and

then figure out what I need to do to make it be that way and keep telling it to me you shouldn't have said that you should have said this that's it telling you how it needs to be for you to be okay for that to be okay and first you shouldn't have done that oh my God don't let better do that that's not going to work out well for you and that's how it talks all the time telling you everything the way it needs to be for you to be okay and then what you're supposed

to do about it and now you're a nervous wreck all right how does one overcome this how does one come to a state of Harmony a state of Peace a state of well-being no matter what is going on outside it is none of your business what's going on outside you are a witness a guest an obser Observer you just dropped in for a moment to experience this moment don't worry the moment will come and go and so will you right it ain't all staying you know 100 years is nothing to 13.8 billion you were not

here a 100 years ago not one of you and you will not be here 100 years from now but yet it's all going to be here it's just come on this is so silly it's hard to talk about right how dare you drop down here and take the attitud ude you're taking that you know how it's supposed to be and if it's not that way you are getting poed right they going to be some trouble right you don't know anything it just is now can you interact with it so now we're going to talk about

a healthy relationship which happens to be very very spiritual to move to this state a healthy relationship with the unfolding of reality that is going on around you you start by realizing that you have a problem not reality isn't a problem you have a problem that you made up all this stuff you have a God complex you made up all this stuff and then you honestly believe it's supposed to be that way I'm telling you that's a problem right you don't get to do that it's not reality so you need to work with your problem

that's your first thing is you own it I did this how does one work with their problem when it starts happening what starts happening when you start making up how it needs to be for you to be okay when you find yourself making up how everything and everyone around you needs to be for you to be okay catch yourself and do not participate in that process you have to stop the process it's a habit it'll go on for a while you don't participate in the process it's just like if you want to stop smoking you

will catch yourself you may want to stop smoking really badly but you will still catch yourself habitually trying to pick up a cigarette trying to do different things it's very natural so if you've decided to stop smoking sming what you need to do is catch yourself during those moments when the urge is to pick up the cigarette and I highly advise you to not pick it up all right if you want to stop smoking don't pick up the cigarette put it in your mouth and light it right it's very simple if you find yourself in

the process of starting to figure out how everything needs to be for you to be okay I highly advise not going there I highly advise you doing the same thing as a cigarette taking one look at that and saying B there done that as a very good B there done that because you've been doing it your whole life trying to solve your problem by making things outside be different and your problems are just as big if not bigger than they've ever been so you look at it and you say that process of me making up

in my mind an alternate reality and then trying to fight with reality make it be that way is not going to cut it and I'm not going to live like that anymore so when you start seeing it do that I suggest that you relax you just relax just let like what do I do if I feel the urge to pick up the cigarette don't fight with yourself don't hit yourself just relax relax and the arm can't move while you're relaxing you will not participate in the process of mind while you are relaxing you just relax

the hold it has on you for a while it'll be a bit of a struggle you have to go through some changes but over time you will see that you're capable of doing this everyone is capable of doing this if you're capable of of using your mind to make up how everything needs to be and then fighting with it you're capable of not you're the one who's doing it I always tell you guys you're the only one in there it's the neatest sport you'll ever play you win if you want to win just win you

this the silliest thing the whole world let's play one-on-one basketball right but you're both sides I I think you can probably do pretty good with that all right well this is oneon-one there's nobody else in there there's nobody deciding what you're capable of doing and not doing except for you so if you decide not to participate in the process the habitual process of making up how everything's supposed to be for you to be okay and just be okay with the way it is is your starting position I honor and respect its right to be that's

really big of You by the way all right but I honor and respect that this took 13.8 billion years to show up and I should pronom to it I should pay attention to it I should at least respect it enough to honor its existence and that's what you do instead of making up an alternate reality you pay attention to what's in front of you you're missing every other moment in the universe please don't miss the one that's in front of you it's the only one you can experience but the way you miss it is by

getting involved in your mind all your judgments and all your preferences and all that stuff so you let go of that and your starting position is you pay attention to what's happening all right but what if I don't like what's happening let go of that I'm telling you it's happening you can't it's happening I my favorite would shut you up once the FR but what if I don't like what already happened if it already happened it already happened I can't make it not have happened nor can you you're wasting your time you're wasting your energy

you're not going to change it it already happened all right to sit there and not like what already happened is to make your so sick sick over something that cannot be changed so you get to this point that's all spirituality is about is this Simplicity of being reasonable it's just coming to a reasonable level it's not hard it's simple you has to be willing to do it so you come and you start working with yourself that's what this is called you start working with your relationship with life you start off by saying I'm going to

honor and respect that you have the right to be there the Christians say this is the day the Lord hath made you just decided to say well okay I'll accept it I thought that's really big that's great of you all right so you in science sister and says these are the quarks and leptons and bans coming out of the cosmic soup of the quantum field popping up creating everything you see you just said H I guess that's okay with me that's really nice of you that's really big of you so either you want to look

at signs you want to look at God it's the same you're not the boss and so you start by honoring Respec and accepting the blessing and the reality and the right of what is unfolding in front of you if you don't like it you look at that it's disharmonious you let go of yourself and that's Christ said you must die to be reborn that's what we're talking about you literally do the process don't get mad at yourself for being a certain way just don't participate in that part of your being you don't have to get

mad at your hand because it wants to pick up a cigarette just don't pick up the cigarette in fact if you get mad at your hand you'll probably be so stressful you will pick up the cigarette then you definitely need a cigarette and same thing we're drinking just don't do it don't get mad don't do anything just don't participate in the process that will not take you where you want to go so if you find yourself make up an alternate reality I am begging you to just let it go if you find yourself not liking

the reality unfolding in front of you I am begging you relax and let go all right that's not the end of your relationship with life that's the beginning of your relationship with life you now are at least have a relationship with life you're actually interacting with the reality that's unfolding otherwise you're only having a relationship with yourself life unfolds you don't like it you are interacting with the don't like you're interacting with life you're interacting with the party that doesn't like it life unfolds you start making up an alternate reality that you wish it was

that way or wasn't that way you're not interacting with life you're interacting with your mind's Concepts so all of a sudden you decide I'm going to have a relationship with life itself so it starts to unfold you let go of the party that wished it was doing something else you let go of the party that doesn't like it and the next thing you know you find yourself in direct interaction what self me the one who's in here is in direct unfiltered interaction with the reality of what's unfolding in front of me wow you understand I

could just stop the entire discussion you have just reached a state that is unbelievable you know sometimes you turn the corner when you're driving and the Sun is setting and it's like the giant ball and it's just so beautiful that it takes your breath away it's like a spiritual experience that is what it feels like for you in there to directly interact with reality without a filter in between it blew your mind as literally what it did it blew your mind away so now there isn't one of those things in the way all right there's

just you interacting with reality maso called it a peak experience that's what a peak experience is where you got up Beyond you and now you your true self your your conscious being your aware being is interacting with reality nothing in between the Buddhist call it just tree there that's the expression of Buddhism he saw just tree I didn't see my concept of tree didn't see the tree that was like when I was young didn't see the tree that a person shouldn't be climbing on I just saw tree there was no me in between the more

you able to do that the more you will feel fulfillment that is beyond your comprehension when you're in love with somebody and you sit in the presence and that magic energy moving back and forth you're not doing anything about it you're just in it it's so beautiful that you melt into it that's just tree that's just you experiencing the reality that's unfolding in front of you you should be experiencing that all the time listen to me all the time but you can't why because reality is always unfolding you're always there why can't I do that

all the time because you have something to say about it and you're rather loud a reality starts unfolding and something inside of you starts saying whether it likes it it doesn't like it the way it should have been the way it shouldn't have been what do you want to do about it it's like it starts making all this noise and so now it's not you interacting with reality it's you interacting with your own noise and all the likes and dislikes so you learn to cleanse yourself of that you learn to relax and not participate in

that process and more and more when the world unfolds in front of you you are there with it and it's like At first it's like wow where have I been my whole life and like I didn't even know it was there I was like walking around in a daydream all right I was just walking around lost inside myself with a fishbowl over my head and now look at that there's a world out there you still are only just starting your relationship with life you used to have relationship with you not with life right now you

have been introduced to reality there it is it's raw too it rains there storms and wind and tornadoes sometimes it's bomy and soft and beautiful it's reality it's real stuff okay and you just you're open to it now what happens once you get comfortable being with reality this is very deep this is what L Sue tried to talk about in the da now that you are willing to to let go of yourself your personal self and interact with reality your awareness is now experiencing reality you will find that there's not one single moment that unfolds

in front of you that is not calling to you to interact with it it is there you are there because you are meant to be with each other that's how perfect it is it's like the most perfect relationship people looking for their soulmates it's right in front of you it's called life it is the most perfect fit for your being that's why you're there and it's there all right and you will feel it and you will know what to do I'm telling you you will never ever have trouble making a decision again for the rest

of your life you will never wonder you will never have any any angst or anything it'll just be the universe it's sort of like listen to me you're on the ocean on a surfboard how do you know when to go up and when to go down you don't the wave does it for you you just ride the wave the wave comes up you go up the wave goes down you go down but what if I want to go down when it goes up you fall what if I want to go up when it goes down

you fall it's like you just interjected yourself into a system that you're supposed to be in harmony with and if you are in harmony with it you will know exactly what to do because it's telling you what to do is that telling you with words but it is telling you what to do isn't it it's telling you what to do it's said go to the right go to the left feel it be in harmony with it that's how you ride a wave that is the da that is what Lau is talking about how you ride

life if you're not busy in there wanting it to be other than it is then you are in harmony with what it is and when it moves you will know your dance with it and you will end up and I used to say to you you do this but now it's higher what will end up happening if you do this is that everything that interacts with you in front of you will be raised because it's interacting with you you don't have to do that I've been saying to you just make it so the moments that

unfold in front of you are better off because they did that's still left you with too much responsibility the moments know where they're going they're part of a Harmony that's moving through time and space you are here to experience that and participate in that but you don't have to do anything it is happening to you you're happening with it and then you're going to see that what happens you start just being with it and everyone looks at you and says oh you're so good at everything you do yeah doing anything you're not doing a single

thing but you're neither doing nor not doing that's the deepest of all the teachings you are there with it it's doing something the ocean is doing something so obviously if you're on the ocean and the ocean's doing something it looks like you're doing something you what I just told you is the entire bhavita it's the deepest teaching you will ever even come close to everyone will think you're doing things you're not doing a single thing but you're also not not doing either right you are just being on the ocean and being with it and the

ocean knows where it's going therefore you will be the one who's in harmony with everything it's so simple that we miss it if you want to play baseball and you want to pick up a grounder I do not think that what you should be doing is guessing where it's going to go next you should be watching it why cuz it knows where what going next you see that scene so weird you're the smart one you should be the one who can figure it out I guarantee you right now that ball knows more about where it's

going than you do the ground and the ball and the interacting with them knows way more about what's going to happen next than anything you're going to figure out that's why they say keep your eye on the ball they don't say keep your eye on your mind they don't say that they say keep your eye on the ball in every sport why cuz the ball knows where it's going it just it's the forces of nature therefore it knows where it's going it is perfectly in harmony with all the forces that it's interacting with isn't it

so if you keep your eye on the ball you have a better chance of being where it's going because you're paying attention to where it's going you're not guessing you're not figuring you're not using logic you're not worrying you're not anting you're not hoping you're not praying even a good religious coach if you say coach when the ball is hit should I close my eyes and pray that I get it or should I watch the ball they're going to tell you to forget the praying stuff at that time pray that you can keep your eye

on the ball all right you are supposed to keep your eye on the ball and it's the same thing with life I'm telling you it's exactly the same you come into harmony with the moments that are unfolding in front of you well why would I do that I'm not even going to answer you if you sat here this long because they the moments of sitting in front of him but if I don't like him it has nothing to do with like and dislike does it it has to do with Dancing with it what if I

don't like what the waves are doing then don't surf because you're going to fall and it's the same way with life so you sit there and you do this amazing thing which you're going to freak you out the first time you do it and you close your eyes and you say life do your thing instead of Life do my thing right you said life do your thing and then you little by little take your arms down then you little by little open your eyes and you little by little realize you know what that's all it's

ever been doing is its thing I was just making believe that I could do something about it and like you know it's the result of everything ever was I don't just I can't understand how you think that the whole universe can go on by itself but the part in front of you you have to do it defies logic It's the funniest thing i' ever heard of it's all going on by itself and it's all been going on by itself forever but no this can't go on by itself okay well it can and it does and

the day you let go of that part of you that thinks you're in charge when you're not and you use your Consciousness to pay attention to where the ball is going you keep your eye on the ball let's be here now you come right down here and you keep your eye on it and you be willing to let go of your likes and dislikes and your preferences and your hopes and your dreams and all that garbage that you made up and you let where it's going be who you are not my will but thy will

you come in harmony with reality that's what all of spirituality is about all right and the next thing you know you're going to be shocked and what happens it knows where it's going and where it's going it's beautiful it's holy it's great it will take you to places that you would have never dreamt of going it will caress you to your Jabron says it will caress you to the highest branches and will shake you at your roots that's beautiful why because you need to be Shook at your roots and you need to be caressed at

your highest branches right not when you want to not the way you want to just life it needs to rain when it rains it needs to blow your hair up in the wind when it needs to blow your hair up in the wind and you need to enjoy the entire experience because it's higher than the experience you would make for yourself and more and more as you let go you realize this and you come in harmony with this until eventually you let go so deeply that you're not there you realize there is no need for

this separateness to be there thinking about it you can just be in harmony with it and you emerge you'll emerge it's like a drop falling into the water you fall into life we always talk about meditating back behind right this the path is you stop separating yourself from God separating yourself from reality it's a very deep path the willingness to surrender to life so that becomes the simple path I told you it's actually life is very simple the Buddhist say right the grass is green the flower is red and the sky is blue what does

that mean that's very Zen means things are what they are are you willing to come in harmony with that instead of trying to make them come in harmony with you to the extent that you do this life becomes very simple well what if I'm going to school you go to school what do you mean what do I do want I go to school you get your homework you do your homework you go to class when it's time to go to class why because there's nothing else to do it's like there's no part of you I'd

rather be fishing no I'd rather be doing what I'm doing I'd rather not be raing it's much more fun to like what you're doing than to rather be doing something else and so if you're in school you go to class you learn why because somebody's teaching you it's very nice of them right and then you do your homework you go to class and what will happen you will enjoy the experience why cu is the experience you're having you won't be thinking about something else and just pretty much more and more you live the life that

is unfolding in front of you with your entire heart and soul you put your whole being into the moment that's unfolding in front of you and you trust it you trust it it knows where it's going you give yourself to it life is your teacher life is your friend life is God made visible it's a very very great thing so this gives a good starter course on how every moment of your life can be used for your spiritual growth and how you can stop this neurosis and enjoy every second of your existence become something very

holy very beautiful all right work on these things chra