you see the problem is this we identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us we have a certain number of actions that we Define as voluntary we feel in control of those and then over against that there is all those things that are involuntary but the dividing line between these two is very arbitrary because for example when you uh move your hand you feel that you decide whether to open it or to close it but then ask yourself how do you decide when you decide to open your hand
do you first decide to decide you don't do you you just decide and how do you do that and if you don't know how you do it is it voluntary or involuntary let's consider breathing you can feel that you breathe deliberately you can control your breath but when you don't think about it it goes on is it voluntary or involuntary so we come uh to have a very arbitrary definition of self uh that much of my activity which I feel I do and then uh that then doesn't include breathing most of the time it doesn't
include the heart beats it doesn't include uh the activity of the glands it doesn't include digestion it doesn't include uh how you shape your bones circulate your blood do you or do you not do these things now if you uh get with yourself and you find out that you are all of yourself very strange thing happens you find that your body knows that you're one with the universe in other words that the so-called involuntary circulation of your blood is one continuous process with the stars shining if you find out that it's you who circulates your
blood you will at the same moment find out that you are shining the Sun because your physical organism is one continuous process with everything else that's going on just as the waves are continuous with the ocean your body is continuous with the total energy system of the cosmos and it's all you only you're playing the game that you're only this bit of it but as I tried to explain there are in physical reality no such things as separate events look supposing when you got up in the morning you had to switch your brain on and
you had to think and do as a deliberate process uh waking up all the circuits that you need for active life during the day why You' never get done because you have to do all those things that once so then just in the same way as you don't know you you don't Focus your attention on how you make your thyroid gland function so in the same way you don't have any attention focused on how you shine the [Music] sun isn't it doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you're
doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it never learned but you're this [Music] miracle the the point is that from a strictly physical scientific standpoint this organism is a continuous energy with everything else that's going on only we've got this little partial view we've got the idea that no I'm just something in this body the ego that's a joke the ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention it's like a radar on a ship the radar on a ship is a troubleshooter is there anything in the
way and conscious attention is a designed function of the brain to scan the environment like a radar does and note for any troubl making changes but if you identify yourself with your troubleshooter then naturally you define yourself as being in a Perpetual state of anxiety and the moment we cease to identify with the ego and become aware that we are the whole organism you realize the as the first thing how harmonious it all is because your organism is a miracle of Harmony all this thing functioning together even those Corpus and creatures that are fighting each
other in the bloodstream and eating each other up if they weren't doing that you wouldn't be healthy so what is Discord at one level of your being is harmony at a higher level and you begin to realize that and you begin to be aware too that the discords of your life and the discords of people's life which are a fight at one level at a higher level of the universe are healthy and harmonious and you suddenly realize that everything that you are and do is at that level as magnificent and as free of any blemish
as the patterns in waves the markings in marble and that this world is really okay it can't be anything else because otherwise it couldn't exist but the reality underneath physical existence or which really is physical existence because in My Philosophy there's no difference between the physical and the spiritual these are absolutely out ofd categories it's all process it isn't stuff on the one hand and form on the other it's just it is pattern life is pattern it is a dance of energy everything is standing right out in the open it's just a question of how
you look at it so you do discover when you realize this the most extraordinary thing to me that I never cease to be flabbergasted at whenever it happens to me it is that you are looking right at the brilliant light now that the experience you are having which you call ordinary everyday Consciousness pretending you're not it that experience is exactly the same thing as it there's no difference at all see the source of all light is in the eye if there were no eyes in this world the sun would not be light you evoke light
part of the universe you by being this organism call into being the whole universe of light and color and hardness and heaviness and everything uh but in in the mythology that we've sold ourselves on during the end of the 19th century when people discovered how big the universe was and that we live on a little planet in a solar system on the edge of a Galaxy which is a minor Galaxy everybody thought ah we're really unimportant after all and uh we put ourselves down see but actually it's this little funny micro tiny thing crawling on
this little planet that's way out somewhere who has the Ingenuity by nature of This Magnificent organic structure to evoke the whole universe out of what would otherwise be me Quant there's Jazz going on but do you see this little little ingenious organism is not merely some stranger in this this little organism on this little planet is what the whole show is growing there and so realizing its own presence does it through you and you are it
