Something is built into life to challenge you. And why does life do that? Because the world isn't here to make you happy.
It's here to awaken you. [Music] Something goes wrong. Uh something something that shouldn't be happening, an obstacle uh limitation in your life, one form or another.
And so the the we are being things never stay perfect in perfect order for very long. Perfect order would mean, your health is good, your finances is are good, your work situation is good, uh you have a great family, uh you have a few nice nice possessions. Everything is going smoothly in your life and all you have nice furniture.
Everything is arranged, relationships, finances, work, home, everything great. Now, if that is your situation at the moment, there may be one or two of you who say, "Yeah, well, that's what's happening to me right now. Everything is fantastic.
" It won't stay like that. Just wait a little. Because life it's something is built into life to challenge you.
And why does life do that? Because the world isn't here to make you happy. It's here to awaken you.
The ultimate purpose of the world is to make you conscious to find God within the deep this dimension of depth. The world is here to for to bring you to frustrate you. one could say to not to satisfy you.
So the whole assumption that the work is the world is here to satisfy you creates a lot of suffering because every time you get challenged you complain and say oh this shouldn't be happening and of course and then the the delusion that the world could possibly satisfy you is uh perpetuated by the technology that we've come up with because when you go on Facebook and at similar platforms you see all these humans who have achieved total satisfaction in their photos. You can see see it because you can look at their photos and and they eat one great meal after another because the photos of them look what I'm eating now. It's wonderful.
Look where I am. And but of course, and that's not enough. Another another deception comes in because there are filters you use for the photos.
So these and these filters you make everybody beautiful. And if you and then you look at them say look at these people's lives. They're so great.
What about my life? And then you think h oh oh I can do the same. I can I can then you start taking pictures of your meals and use the filters the so that is deception that the world is can satisfy you.
No, it's what the world can do is to awaken you. That's the potential the world has. And it awakens you through the challenges of life.
It does not awaken you when it gives you a moment of uh you you're in a temporary comfort zone. Ah some people think if I had enough if I had enough means to live in a place where everything is done for where I didn't have to worry about anything where beautiful meals are cooked for me all the best purest food I get at least one massage a day and beautiful surroundings the weather is great and I if I could then I could really dedicate my life to meditation and spiritual awakening. Now, you would find it might work for a week or two.
You say you're really getting somewhere with your meditation, maybe 3 weeks, four weeks, and then something else sets in. Unhappiness arises again, and or you fall asleep, so so to speak. you become less and less alert because nothing challenges you.
And when nothing challenges you, the level of alertness tends to go down. Let's have another beer. Let's watch another movie.
It's comfortable. Cuts over. I have nothing to worry about.
I get my regular income every month, every and my wife is giving me massages. I'm not everything is great. You fall go to sleep, so to speak.
You're not being challenged. The same applies to the animal realm. Animals have a high degree of alertness.
Look at birds for example. I love observing birds or any animal. Um if why are they so alert?
If you watch a bird, you you see enormous. Why is the bird so Because? Because that's it wouldn't be alive anymore if it weren't.
and and any animal has this uh or deer. We have in Canada often we have deer come up to the house uh and yes they are more trusting than in other places but they're still incredibly alert more than visually the the hearing the ears are enormous and in the slightest sound the ears move towards the sound it's slight it could be a mile away two And when there is some possible danger, the deer remains totally motionless for several minutes. So you can't the any animal cannot distinguish between the deer and an trunk of a tree or just totally alert.
Alert. Why are they so alert? Because they need to be.
They don't they they're not in a comfort zone. They need to survive. So they are being challenged.
Every life form is continuously being challenged and through the challenges there is an evolution of consciousness and humans experience the same on another level. So remember the world is here. It it is perfectly it is fulfilling its function perfectly.
Next time you get challenged, the world is fulfilling its function perfectly. It's here to awaken you. Oh, that is how and and the strange thing is up to a point the fact that you are continuously being challenged until you reach a certain point where awakening becomes a possibility or is beginning to happen.
The challenges of life produce unhappiness. they produce an unhappy happy person. Uh and then you reach when the awakening process begins the challenges that continue to arise then also can turn into its opposite.
Instead of creating unhappiness, an unhappy person, they contribute or they intensify or accelerate or deepen the awakening process. And so you instead of reacting in the old unconscious way when you're confronted let's say you're confronted with a difficult human you become you enter this state that we entered here and that perhaps you're still in to some extent even while you're listening just as I talk from being although I am doing the words arise from a deeper dimension of being I could not give a talk like this just if I were disconnected from being would be what am I going to talk I don't know what to say so there's a connectedness so you're connected to that and then uh things unfold and so when a challenge comes you become more alert a difficult person perhaps and so instead of reacting ego or a health challenge could I was challenged two years ago. I I had some trouble with part of my body and I went to a medical exam and the man said after the examination you have cancer although that's a challenge.
So I went, "Oh, of course, nobody knows the outcome because and I it was strange because I thought I could never have cancer because I'm mostly at peace. " But of there may be other reasons. The world is full of toxic stuff.
So and for a long time in my life, I did not have good nutrition. Couldn't afford it. But so there was a moment discon disconcerted for a few minutes.
That's strange. I didn't expect. And then my usual state of I'm I'm fairly present.
I'm don't do a lot of useless thinking. But that state of presence suddenly intensified enormously. And it went on for days and days and days and just incredible states of con because you never know with cancer.
You could be dead within 6 months or you could be life longer. Who knows? Nobody knows.
Uh and there was just there was nothing left of me except an alert presence. I could sit in my room just Oh, wonderful. Wonderful.
And I was ready to go and at any time and I was also ready to be healed and and then 10 days later phone call came you they will operate on you. They had to because there was something physical that had to be removed and they did operate and I could after the operation still in hospital and continued in that state of and then I had a another exam and they said after the operation that well you seem to be free now of cancer. Okay.
So that seems to be the case at the moment. Nothing is guaranteed in this world.
