Michael Singer - Fundamental Truths Will Set You Free

G g Masters so the word truth is thrown around a lot today used as weapons and anti- weapons and so on the Bible says and ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free let's talk about that kind of Truth there are two fundamental truths they're not arguable they're experiential they're the same in Russia they're the same here They're the same everywhere they've always been the same that forms a foundation that cuts through all the noise that people get themselves into one of them they're funny truths they're ones people don't want to

think about they know about them they don't want to think about them one of them is that you're sitting on a planet spinning around the middle of nowhere and I mean nowhere this is something I've learned To contemplate since I was young in my 20s and I make myself think about it all the time and I mean all the time because it's the truth I'm sitting on a planet in the middle of absolutely nowhere there's nothing but black dark empty space all around and there's this beautiful little planet I don't want you to see it

like the astronauts see it from the space station that's way too big when you come in that door the opposite wall there's a picture That Cassini took on her way to Saturn from 2 million miles out not am measly few hundred miles whatever 2 million miles out and you see the Earth like you'd see Mars through a telescope it's just this tiny little thing it's gorgeous and it's just spinning around the middle of black dark empty space why would you want to think about that all the time because it's the truth that's real truth you

don't have the right not to think think about that If you're not paying attention to what represents 99.999999% of your Universe you're not paying attention and that's why there's so much Neurosis that's why there's so much tension and so much anxiety I did 30 years of prison work at the max security prisons and I remember a young man telling me that he was locked in this cell for years and years and years and what happens is your mind becomes very small and if like your comb isn't Exactly where you thought you left it you get

upset and if your shoes aren't exactly the way you thought they were it's like your world becomes really really small and what happens is you get upset about stupid little tiny things it doesn't matter because your mind you've permitted your mind to become fixated on a tiny tiny tiny part of the universe everybody's done that not people locked up in a Cell the mind of a human being doesn't look up some of them did Einstein did some of them did it's called Universal thought universal mind as opposed to limited personal mind The Limited personal mind

only thinks about the moments that are in front of it or the moments that have been in front of it or the moments that will be in front of it that's as small is being locked in a Cell the moment that's in front of you is what part of the universe it's so small it's ridiculous It's. we call it statistically insignificant it's a meaningless thing that's in front of you it has nothing to do with you has nothing to do with anything it's just one part of the universe if you look to the right you

see a different one look to the left you see a different one run 10 ft you'll see a different one go any place you go there's a different one not just on Earth everywhere's so these moments in the universe and if you let your mind do It and we do it becomes fixated just because those are the moments that came in through your senses those are the only moments your mind knows about and so it ignores the entire universe and says the moments that I've experienced matter they don't matter they don't matter they're exactly the

same as every other moment if I moved you and put you into a different moment you would say that one matters I understand either it matters or it doesn't every single Moment in the universe is the same as every other moment in the universe it's a moment in creation it's a 13.8 billion years to get here and all of them are connected with each other so you learn that in order to have a healthy and beautiful life and you can everyone can you have to expand I'm not to say expand your Consciousness expand your thought

realm so that it includes more than your personal Little World CU your personal little world is nothing so you start by Realizing the truth that you are sitting on a planet SP in the middle of nowhere and I can't help myself myself you know I like to put it in proportion I like your mind too what does that mean spin in the middle of nowhere the sun is 93 million miles away your closest star what's in between nothing nothing I mean you know could be subatomic particles or gamma rays but as far as you're concerned

nothing there's nothing Miami's 360 miles away the sun's 9 93 million miles away and there's nothing in between every once in a while a blip of a planet might line up not usually so what is in that realm it is empty Blackness it is nothing there's no color there's no shape there's no noise there's no anything it's just nothing and you're on this planet where there's all these things going on then you I like to stretch the realm of your of your mind this what science has taught us why don't we listen that your next

Closest star to the sun is 4.5 Lighty years away not 93 million miles a term that most people can't think about 4.5 Lighty years what does that mean if you hold a beam of light above the Earth and Let It Go for one second it circumnavigates the globe 7 and 1 half times that's how fast it is go that speed for 4 and a half years every second and you will reach the next star and there are 300 billion stars in your Galaxy and they are now saying that There are two to three trillion galaxies

therefore what is going on in your little spot is nothing wake up you try to make it be something but it is nothing and if your mind wants to say why would I want to think like that because it's the truth how's that I challenge you it is the truth and if you're not paying attention to the truth you're living a lie you're you're living a fictitious madeup thing that's what the Mind ends up up doing because if Left to default your mind will get sucked into your world it will get sucked into just the

moments that are in front of you I use the analogy the example of you're invited to Spielberg's house or Gates's house gorgeous Mansion everywhere's right and they're having a party there's music there's actors and actresses and oh my God it's unbelievable and you walk in and you walk by a little room just a little closet where they keep some some stuff And there's a little TV in there and the the subject matter on the TV is fascinating to you it interests you so much that it catches your attention and you walk in and sit down

in front of this little you know 15-inch flat screen and what's going on is so fascinating that you spend your entire time watching the TV were you or were you not in Spielberg's house well your body was but you weren't it was focused on this tiny little object That is what's happening to human beings who live in this world you're in a universe that goes on everywhere it's so expansive it's ridiculous if the planet blew up and disappeared I'm sorry to I don't want to frighten you I don't have any inside information but if the

planet blew up and disappeared it would make no difference I'm sorry it would make no difference a couple of planets would change their orbit not much maybe your star would warble a drop nothing else Would do anything for all 300 billion stars for all trillion of galaxies that's the universe that's what I call the truth that's my truth I don't know about yours all right but that's the truth and everybody agrees with it but they won't pay attention to it they don't make it be part of their everyday life the everyday life is just focused

on the TV screen that you happen to be interested in which is nothing which is just rounds to zero the amount of the Universe that you're paying attention to so that's the first truth is that you have dropped down somehow none of my business you got here did you take a spaceship look how long it takes to get to Mars how'd you get to earth someday you'll find out but that result is you're sitting on a planet SP in the middle of nowhere's and there's all this stuff going on you can play business you can

play doctor you can play nurse you can Play uh golf you can play Tilly Winks you can play play a saxophone you can do whatever you want it's an amazing Place go to Mars there's nothing going on go to Jupiter go to Saturn go anywhere right we have never seen anything not even a protozoa going on Anywhere But Here my God there's trees there's elephants there's giraffes Earth is God's idea of Disney World there's nothing even close people say well the universe is so big there must be life Somewhere else I don't want to say

that I have no idea what's going on all I know is we haven't found anything but we have the Hubble Space Telescope out there we all kinds of stuff we've looked at everything we have never found anything but dirt and in gases basically but yet on this planet every single second there's all this stuff going on so you have drop down onto a planet that's really special and it's spinning around a mle of nowhere so that's the First truth just contemplating that using your brilliant mind which gives you the when I was in in elementary

school they taught you that the the difference between humans and other mammals and other animals is a human has a capability of abstract thought I don't know whether others do I'm not claiming to know any other other animals right but you have the ability of abstract thought what does abstract thought mean you can think about things that aren't In front of you you can abstract from what is coming in through your senses well why don't you use that you have the ability to position yourself in the whole universe can you see what tension that would

take off of you you think it's so important what's happening in front of you what people are saying what they're doing if somebody walks by that you know and you say hello I don't I don't want to point out the Neurosis you say hello and they don't say hello back It bothers you okay why don't you put it in perspective there's a whole universe going on it's pretty neat that there are even people and that you can even understand their language whatever right I always if my mind does that I say there's 7.5 billion people

on the planet Earth they didn't say hello either all right learn to think in a way that is healthy just like you learn to eat in a way that's healthy learn to think in a Way that does not allow your mind to become like an ingrown toenail that all it thinks about is you that all it thinks about is what is in front of you and what has been in front of you and what it can think about might be in front of you all right and you're all freaked out about what has been in

front of you you're all freaked out about what is in front of you and you're sure as heck freaked about about what the Mind makes up might be in front of you and Then you wonder why there's tension you wonder why there's anxiety you wonder why life is so difficult life is not difficult life is not difficult you've dropped down into a planet that's been here for 4.5 billion years it's fascinating there's all kinds of things going on right if you want food you just pull it out of the ground and eat it is just

amazing have a body there's 24 trillion living cells that make up your body what an amazing thing so you have a Body you have a mind you have a heart and you're put onto this amazing Planet everything else in the universe I when I give you these distances we talk about everything else pretty much everything else in the universe is nothing it's not like it's second place it doesn't even rank there's nothing going on it's just black empty space even the Stars okay I told you the next closest start of the sun to your sun

is 4.5 light years away what about the next Galaxy now that you have 300 billion stars of which is nothing but emptiness there's just all that space in between your next galaxy I think is 2.4 or 2.6 million light years away just go at that speed for 2.5 2.6 million years and you hit the next of two trillion galaxies so there's nothing but empty space everywhere no color no sound no this no that just empty black space how often do you have absolutely nothing in front of you never and you Have these cells that make

up your body and you have a mind that creates thoughts you have a heart that creates emotions how did you do that make your mind make a mind nobody can do that you were given a gift of dropping down onto a planet and having all these experiences and somehow we managed to make a mess out of that we managed to become neurotic we managed to be full of fear we managed to be full of anxiety we managed to just get up tight all the Time why would you do that why not just enjoy the fact

that you drop down to a planet if you didn't make the planet you didn't make the moment in front of you you sure as heck didn't make all the moments that aren't in front of you which I I hope you're intelligent enough to understand are exactly the same at the moment that is in front of you except to you because you're making a thing out of it you have to learn to think scientifically about life Everything is moments in the universe in time and space there's a moment and one of them is in front of

you how many are not in front of you people make a big deal about the I like my favorite thing somebody says I'm afraid of missing things you are missing everything do you understand that you miss you're you're experiencing point oh oh 1% of what's going on and you're afraid of missing something right now we're going to talk About why the mind gets like that but you can't enjoy your life and you can't even be productive and giving in life if what you've done with your mind is lowered it down to this tiny little piece

that you experienced and then make a whole thing about it inside your head that you think you know something you don't know anything you don't know anything but I read some books what percentage of all the books have you read well what if you read a different Book would you think differently yes what if you had a different experience would you be different yes so it's just s of these experien are unfolding in front of you your mind is making a big deal out of them because they're the ones you experience but just because they're

the ones you experien doesn't make them special doesn't make them different if you were somewhere else you'd experience that this is what a why this is differ wisdom and intelligence Intelligence collects the little bit of data that it has and it makes a big deal out of it wisdom sits there and says I don't know Squad I don't know Squad my beliefs my opinions my preferences my hopes my dreams my Concepts My Views they're just things that I picked up their data that I picked up along the way because I read a book saw a

movie met a person got divorced whatever it is I had these experiences how many experiences seem like a lot to me They're the ones I had but they're nothing if you had different experiences your mind would think differently scander the psychologist says man is the sum of his learned experiences it's not true your mind is the sum of your learned experience your psyche is the sum of your learned experiences someday you're going to find out and I hope you've been here enough to understand that that you are in there noticing that your mind is a

some of your learn Experiences you watch your thoughts you feel your emotions okay you are not your emotions you are the feeler of your emotions you are the one who experiences your emotions you say that all the time my heart is killing me whose heart ever since he left me I just have all this pain how do you know because I'm in here was it always like that no it used to be filled with love how do you know cuz I'm in here you're the Consciousness that is experiencing the thoughts created by the Mind you

are the conscious experienc the feelings that are created by the heart and you are the Consciousness that is receiving the input that's coming through the senses fine that's you that's what they call the soul the Atman the essence self I don't know what you want to call it I just ask you are you in there and everyone always says yes I've never had anybody say no anytime I ever asked them all right so so you are in there experiencing life on the planet Earth that's one big truth that you should never forget never never I

used to do the following when I was training myself when I was 22 years old 23 years old back in the early 70s every time I got into my car before I started the car doesn't take time it just takes Consciousness mindfulness I would stop before I put the key in the ignition and I would remember that I'm sitting on a planet in the middle of nowhere's about to scoot around on a car Well that's pretty weird all right just like it was weird when we put those robots and stuff up on Mars right and

they were scooting around that was a big deal well you're scooting around on the planet Earth it's exactly the same and then when I got out of the car I do the same thing and I just trained my mind to dare to be Universal in thought to dare to think broader and it changes everything it changes everything you don't get an ingrown toenail because You've expanded it out otherwise it naturally just gets fixated like watching the TV it gets it's fixated on the input that's coming in and somehow it thinks that's that's your Universe your

universe is the universe don't create another one all right so one truth that is an absolute truth is you're sitting on a plan SP in the middle of nowhere there's a second truth you're not going to like this one either what you ain't Staying you're not we did a statistical study you know they do regression analysis and cor correlation coefficients and stuff right of things that were born and things that died very high correlation like 100% anything that was ever born died going back as far as you want to go of any species well you're

going to die too so you drop down onto this planet spin in the middle of nowhere you hang out here for who cares 80 90 100 what's the difference for some period of time and then you have experiences and then you leave I have no interest in your beliefs I'm going to tell you something you don't know where you came from you don't know where you're going right but what's exciting is that someday you'll find out that's why don't people have trouble with this someday you're going to be laying on your deathbed and instead of

freaking out That you don't want to die or you know you didn't experience what you want to experience which I already told you was about you haven't experienced anything you sit there and realize one of the greatest Mysteries that has existed from Aristotle Plato all the way back to whenever people could think is is there life after death will I still be here well you're going to find out and I just don't understand why people have a Problem with that you want to have an adventure there's an adventure you want to explore there's an exploration

but basically the second truth that is an absolute truth is you have dropped down to planet Earth that's the first and you're not going to stay here what does that mean how could you have such a big problem if you go on a vacation you stay in some place you know you're just going to be there for a day or two come on man you can handle stuff You understand that well it's the same thing here you're a guest you're you're a guest you have dropped down into a planet that's been here for 4.5 billion

years in a universe that took 13.8 billion to create you didn't do any of it nor did anybody else and you're just down here visiting and you're going to stay for a little while and then you're going to die you're going to leave you're not going to be on the planet Earth so it's not a Problem it's just reality that's the second truth so what does it mean it means it's crazy to not enjoy your journey you are supposed to be enjoying every single second of every single minute of your life why you're like this

kid that was given all these gifts a body with 24 trillion cells a mind your mind can do anything what a gift you were given you understand that and and your heart oh my God it can be sad it can be happy it can Be excited oh it can feel all these different emotion like an orchestra it can play all these different tunes and and you get to walk around and see all the different things like if you go to a Botanical Garden there's all these orchids and this and that they all came from Earth

nobody made them understand that you go to a zoo there's all these animals they're really on the planet you were dropped down in a fish in the sea God how can you not be having a blast Every single second of your life that's with those truths and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free free of what of this mess that we're doing in with our minds so let's talk about why most people in fact almost nobody is able to literally be in a state of ecstasy to be in a complete

state of total well-being for the entire Journey that you're sitting on this planet you were sent on a vacation here you drop down this is what you get to do I like to play with students to sit there and say may believe that we're not on Earth that we're way back there looking at that picture I was talking you about 2 million miles out there's a planet down there and I'm your guide and you're just Souls your spirit right and I tell you we're going to go down and visit the planet Earth and it's an

amazing place and explain you all the different things that there are there and the trees and the grass and the Things they all take care of themselves and and there's there's an irrigation system built into the planet that the heat absorbs from the ocean and forms a cloud and it floats over it like a little watering pot and it Waters oh my God it's an amazing place you get to go there we all very excited but you won't stay we'll just stay for a little while a few years all right what do you want to

do Just for kicks we're going on a field trip what do you want to be what Do you want to do and everyone you get all excited I want to be a fireman I want to go I want to be a scientist and figure out things I want to be a musician and play the greatest things right all that stuff right and I read every one of them and it's amazing not one of you said not one I want to go down there and become an neotic mess wake up and can't sleep at night and

I'm scared to death and I'm afraid what people going think of me and I'm afraid What I look like and I get a little zit on my face faceing I'm freaking out and nobody wrote that why and so you start to question what's going on how did you blow this how did it happen that you drop down in this amazing place and there's just total fear and anxiety and tension and stress and so on and for so forth can we talk about it okay what happens is you drop down here let's make believe you're clean

there people who say you Don't come down clean but we're not going to discuss that you drop down here and say it's empty Buddhist talk about empty mind you're clean well what happens is the lowest function of your mind is that it receives your senses that's the most basic function runs your body and it receives the senses if if you were not receiving your senses you might as well not come down here if you don't have sight sound taste touch so on you're not experiencing the planet Nothing wrong with you you're still in there but

you're not experiencing the planet Planet so your first function of dropping down onto the planet is to have a robot if you will a body that's able to experience at least the moment that's in front of you doesn't experience more but it can at least experience that so that's what happens when you drop in is you start experiencing what is coming through your senses and your mind receives this for you and you experience It you're like s you're like I always say you're the end ususer people say should I call it the self the Atman

the soul no the end user you're the enduser you receive what's coming through the eyes you receive what's coming through the ears you are back there being conscious of what is being sent in through your sensors excuse me senses but they are sensors all right and they come in and you receive them what happens is everything in life has its Nature a rattlesnake is scary not because you said it was it means to be if you see a rattlesnake rattling and all coiled up you don't have to know that it's dangerous it's giving off vibrations

that say danger a butterfly doesn't do that a butterfly is soft and loving or whatever gentle so when you experience these things the physiology of them come in so does their vibration and you in there experience this so you're going to feel some fear some Uncomfortableness because of the rattlesnake it's natural it's its nature you're going to feel excitement comfortable whatever pleasantness about the butterfly these are natural things and now here's where the fun starts you in there don't like depending upon the evolution of your being you don't like the r snake I don't like

the feeling that came in and I don't want to have experienced that now you listen to me the deepest thing I can ever teach you Is right here this is in truth the original sin this is the fall from the garden you'll see it someday if you go deep enough why the event comes in the the Ratt snake crawled away it's over but it's not over for you why because you didn't like it you did the funniest thing in the world you kept it you didn't like the experience so you did what Freud called suppress

repress he's talk about big things I like talk about you resisted it how's that suppression Or repression or just serious or denial those are serious resistances but it's the same process you are resisting the experience you had so that when but you had the experience you can't undo the experience you can't get rid of the experience you had it right but when it came in it formed in your mind that's where you received it inside you are watching it all in here on a flat screen TV of your mind you're not I told you I

shouldn't have to tell you this you are Not looking out through your eyes do you understand that you have never looked out through your eyes light is bouncing off of objects reflecting back stimulating your Optical receptors light sensitive nerves cells and then it's being passed up the wires of your nervous system and it's rendering within your mind and you are literally looking at me in there do you know that this is not yogic this is this is science right that's the same with sound same with Everything you are in here and your mind is so

brilliant that it gives you a sense of depth perception ex but you're just sitting in there watching TV you're all couch potatoes all right you are sitting in there watching TV a flat screen of the mind okay so it sends it in now the Ratt snake goes away but the whole experience that came in which would pass if you let it everything passes the white lines on the road pass the trees pass the people pass the cars Pass the clouds pass that's what it's doing it's coming and it's going just like watching TV the scenes

on the TV go away why so that the next one can be there but you didn't do that with that rattlesnake did you it came in you weren't able to handle its vibration so you resisted it and by resisting it you kept it what does that mean it means you saw the snake it crawled away and now all of a sudden something else is in front of you but you don't see the Something else is in front of you all you see is the snake but it's not there all of a sudden there's a rope

coiled up you get all scared you wouldn't have done that about the Rope before you saw the snake it doesn't it shouldn't sound trite to you this is what's going on you held that inside your mind where inside your mind you just build a little packet of the energy and left it there now your consciousness you the Consciousness the One who watches TV or doesn't right has a competition as to whether I'm going to receive what's coming through the senses whether I'm going to pay attention to what is stuck inside my mind it used to

be you just experience reality here it is coming and going but now you let your mind become fixated on this packet of energy that you resisted there's actually Freud was not the first one to talk about this in the ancient piranhas and upas the yogis called this a samcara That is part of yogic philosophy for thousands of years ago that is a samsara why would yogis know because they meditated what did that mean they noticed there was this junk inside their mind right and that they couldn't get out unless they let it go and that

was the whole process of meditation that's why they lock themselves in caves to try and not take more stuff in you don't have to but remember Newton said I'm standing the shoulder of giants I See For Miles we can listen to what they found out what they found out is there's some junk in there and that junk is drawing my attention and therefore I'm stuck in here I'm stuck watching the TV do I have to be stuck well it's kind of nice to know you don't it's kind of nice to know that's what it's all

about is you do not have to be stuck watching the TV of what you stuck inside your mind but if you don't work on it you're going to be stuck why there's a Reason you kept the rattlesnake in there if it was neutral it would have made it right through you kept it in there because you're not comfortable with it so every time you resist something and don't let reality win this is the experience I had now it's gone here's the next experience here's the next experience I am learning from every experience I'm having I'm

enjoying my experience on the planet Earth I'm having all these experiences I'm Becoming a greater being because I'm having these experiences there are no good experiences or bad experiences there are just experiences a person that had a relationship that lasted their entire life for 50 years they were married to the same person it lasted a whole time and then there's another person got married and after 3 years they got divorced who's better off the person who had a relationship lasted their whole life didn't get to Experience what it was like to go through a divorce

and love somebody and then all of a sudden there's all this garbage going on and then you have to recover from that all right and the person who went through the short marriage didn't have the experience of having the long term so nobody's better off every single experience you have is evolutionary to you you have experiences you become better because of that you grow you become a greater being because You had an experience no one will say that to you there's no experience that life can bring you that is not to your benefit if you

are willing to learn from it Grow from it expand from it that's just what's going on all right but you're not and so you push away things that are not comfortable to you if you push them away they stay inside of you they run your life if you stop pushing them away there's just the experience of life but We don't do that we naturally instinctually push them away and when we push them away they keep coming back up and so now during the day not just at night I call them daymares instead of nightmares is

this stuff comes up and then it talks all the time and you have Insight well what if I did that what oh my God I can't believe I said that that was so stupid yes or no all right next thing you know you're full of this garbage going on inside your mind that Makes it you can't enjoy your life how could you possibly enjoy your life with all that stuff going on you're driving down the road having a good time experienc something and somebody's driving in front of you slower than you want to go you

look to see if you can pass you can't pass you're stuck behind this person how are you doing you should be doing wonderful it's just you scoot you around the planet Earth in a little car and there's a car in front of you Driving 10 miles hour below the speed limit believe me a few blocks they turn off but that's not what goes on come on buddy do you see the speed limit thing when you use new blink what's wrong with these people they must have no place to go and you realize you're driving yourself

crazy how could you possibly enjoy your life yes there are moments you enjoy which ones the ones that fit your stuff you suppressed all this stuff and all of a sudden you heard we just Passed a law that they're they're going to get rid of all rattlesnakes within 100 miles of where you live I'm having a good day how about you unless I happen to be a reptile collector and a student of reptiles and now I lose my Master's Degree it's just whatever you have stored inside your mind if the moment that's unfolding in front

of you matches it yes I agree you feel good but if it doesn't match it you either feel bad or don't feel good and of course the Moments in front of you are not going to match it's the most important I would ever teach you the moments in front of you that happen to be the result of all the forces that cause them to be the way they are you're the tiniest little input that possibly could exist you understand that you're not in charge of the weather you're not in charge of the 24 trillion cells

and everybody else's body and in charge of what happened to everybody else throughout their life there a lot Of variables so the moment unfolding in front of you is not going to match what you want I hope you've noticed that by now all right there's not a reason in the world that would match what you want you made up what you want based on this garbage that you stored from your past experiences either you didn't like your past experience so you made up I don't want it to happen or you really didn't talk about this

part there's are negative some scars and now there's Positive some scars what does that mean in event happened that you really really liked you clung to it what do you mean you kept it inside your mind because you wanted to the other one you kept inside your mind because you didn't want to experience it so you tried to push it away this one you hold on to so you meet somebody body and they turn you on and for the next we say you're floating on a cloud what does that mean for the next 6 hours

you don't see people places things You better not be driving you're not out here experiencing reality so what you have built inside your mind the data you held inside your mind are the experiences that you didn't want to have and they keep trying to come back up you keep having to push them away or rationalize them or do something you're busy in there and then the experiences you did want to have which by the way aren't that many right that felt really good and you held those in there but now They ruin your life why

cuz you want them to happen again so now you can't experience reality I saw the cutest little puppy when I was little right I keep trying to find it again I I want a dog but he's not anything like that dog right I had a relationship when I was in in eighth grade ninth grade with Johnny it was so amazing and and and his parents took him away before we ever had a fight it was just and I'm keep looking for Johnny even go on the web I look for Him all right on Facebook and

stuff whoa and we consider this normal Behavior do we all right what happened to all the other people you met what happened to all the other experience that unfolding in front of you they weren't Johnny do you see that that's why yogis teach you the great teachings that these SS scaras are a problem they're not a solution if you store things inside your head that you don't like you have just stored reasons for fear I'm now afraid I'll see a snake I'm afraid I'll get divorced you can't get married again why am I get divorced

there are people that their parents got divorced when they were little and it was so hard for them that they refuse to get married because they don't want their children to go through what they went through I hope that didn't sound rational okay but you know Darwell I'm not stretching it all right so you end up unable to enjoy your life because you stored all this garbage In here so you're either trying to avoid what made you feel bad before or you're trying to cling to or find again that which felt good and now you

end up building a model inside your head saying this is who I am well obviously not who you are you're the one who built the model okay you're the one who's experiencing what's going on inside your head and so basically what you end up doing is saying this is who I am the person that Likes this person doesn't like this person who believes in this person doesn't believe in that all my concept my views my opinions my preferences my hopes my dreams those are mental thoughts where did you get those they're based on the experience

you've had no matter how strong you feel about something if you had a different experience I'm telling you you would feel differently Your Man in love with somebody you think that're your soulmate Is so perfect somebody walks up to you and tells you something about that person you didn't know they ain't your soulmate anymore until you find out it was April Fool's Day and they were kidding you you understand that that's how quick it can change right or wrong and we live with this that's crazy so instead you take a look at this and you

say my life is now limited to getting what I want and avoiding what I don't want but that means I have to be a war With life I thought I'm going to come down here and have fun I'm going to have a good time and enjoy my experience right no no cuz I'm only okay if the moment unfolding in front of me including the weather and everything else and the driver in front of me and what somebody says to me or doesn't say everything has to match this model I built inside my head of how

I want it to be and how I don't want it to be if something even starts to happen that Smells like it might turn into something I don't want to be I'm not okay well then you're not going to be okay you're going to have serious problems in there and you won't know what it's like to be free yoga we talk about Liberation Freedom it doesn't mean freedom from life it means freedom to experience life it means freedom from yourself freedom from this mess and that becomes the entire spiritual path is instead of devoting your

life to your mess that you Limited your experiences to they have to be the way I want them to I agree if you if things unfold the way you want them to be you get happy why because you're not closing your yourself you're willing to open yourself to the experience what if you were open to life those are the teachings what if you appreciate that you dropped down to the nicest Planet there was and everything that happened is an experience and you wake up in the morning you say I'm back I wonder what's Going to

happen it doesn't mean you don't go to work it doesn't mean you don't do the best you can but you don't go to work in order to make everything be the way you want it to be so you can be okay that's called taking not giving you don't go to work cuz you're scared of failure and you have to do something to make sure that people accept you you go to work because it's fun whatever your work is you go to work because you're filled with love filled with Excitement filled with gratitude to be alive

and this is the job the chore that was given to you it's your part of the universe's work right everything in the universe is in balance it has Harmony it has things to do you have this to do and it doesn't matter what it is if you're picking up garbage if you're doing operations it doesn't make any difference it's all the same you are sitting there expressing the beauty and love that is inside of you that you came Down with you're open you're clear if you're sweeping the floor you do the best job you possibly

can sweep in the floor and you are totally satisfied and if you swept that floor every single day you would be excited to go back and do it the next day that's a healthy being but instead we're listening to this garbage we built inside of our head there's nothing wrong with your mind yoga is not against your mind yoga worships your mind it's brilliant what You have a great mind you have a great mind it took the Earth and flew to the moon it's like what it did it took darkness and made it light it's

nice and nice comfortable temperature in here you have a great mind but to do this with your mind that personal garbage that everything has to be the way I want it to be for me to be okay that is the definition of ego everything is about me we don't like to think we're egotistical we're way P people extreme egotistical We say oh he's egotistical the truth of the matter is you think that what's happening in front of you has something to do with you that's hilarious right there's something going on everywhere all over the universe

it has nothing to do with you you're just here experiencing the moment in front of you good enjoy it help it work with it raise it but don't be neurotic about it don't sit there and say that moment in front of me better be the way I decided it Needed to be for me to be okay or I'm going to get upset all right a yogi a truly spiritual person looks out at the world and says wow I can't even believe you're there I can't believe you're there it's hilarious right there was nothing after the

big bang but gases thick thick clouds of hydrogen gas nobody touched them and they made themselves into you how can you not be blown away how can you not think of that right how can You not say thank you in awe you start with a you start with Wow look what it made God made science made I don't care you didn't do it it's pretty awesome isn't it okay so you sit there and you look at it and your starting position is acceptance respect honor this is the day the Lord hath made this is the

the science forces right there's four fundamental forces go study the standard model right just four forces you don't have to be a physicist Electromagnetism gravity strong nuclear and weak nuclear give me those forces and some Cork leptons and bons and I'll build the universe that's what your scientists have told you those four forces are exactly the right charge in relationship to each other that if you leave them alone for 13.8 billion years this is what shows up how can you not be blown away because it's not what I want it to be well who did

who gave you that right to drop down here into a system That existed for 13.8 billion years and made this look around oh my God and you're say but it's not what I went I don't want it to rain today I'm going camping I don't want the car the fact that there is a car I don't I can't even talk about it I should blow your mind right I always say to you the bottom line is this the world is not bothering you you are bothering yourself about the world is that a true statement or

not how can the weather bother you it's Weather it's been here forever you bother yourself about the weather the car in front of you cannot be bothering you you're bothering yourself about the car in front of you it's everything and so you wake up and you realize you don't have to change anything except yourself you don't change what you're doing you don't change your relationship you don't have to do any of that has nothing to do with that and it doesn't take time it's not like I have to go meditate for 3 Weeks right it

means you wake up and realize I am a thinking intelligent wise human being and boy have I miss this right I gave total importance to this limited model that I built inside of my head because of the limited experiences that I had which were nothing right but I think they're all I had so that's all I got it's not all you have have life brings before you something that is connected to all of life every moment in front of you is connected to every other Moment through time and space if your great great great grandmother

never met your great great great grandfather you're not here and you had nothing to do with that that is true of every single moment that caus the moment now to be the way it is so you start with this openness that's what all about openness not closed-mindedness openness and you start appreciating and respecting the moments are unfolding in front of you every human being is a Miracle it's a miracle everybody's got 24 trillion cells that devoted their life to give you a body how can you not respect that person do you understand that right and

you stop with all this judgment and all this garbage and opinions and preferences and hopes and dreams and Concepts and Views and beliefs and you just cool it and you sit down and you start letting that stuff go that's how you grow spiritually the next time time you judge somebody you let it Go you think you think of these two truths right I was dropped down on a planet and this is what's going on it's pretty amazing and I'm not staying so I'm going to enjoy every single moment of every single second if you do

that little by little over every day every moment you keep letting go of what we call your personal self of your ego you just let it go I don't want to do the dishes it's kind of neat you're sitting on a planet in the middle of nowhere That's how I used to do dishes when I had to right i' put Mickey way up on top of the planet big way big you know like Gulliver Right Way Big up there and he's got a dish Rag and he's looking out over the universe washing the dishes it

becomes fun and you just start enjoying what you're doing by getting your head straight and you keep letting go of the resistance and you make a vow to yourself that stuff you stored in there that's a problem right you stored this Stuff inside that you couldn't handle and now you built your house on that stuff your whole mental way of thinking and so you sit there and you don't take any more in whatever happens today if somebody says something doesn't say something somebody yells at you somebody criticizes you whatever it is first let go you

just first let go let go doesn't mean you can't respond back but you don't respond back with defensiveness or immediate reactiveness because that's Just you protecting this thing you built inside anybody know anything about protecting that thing in there you decide I don't want to do this I don't want to do it I don't want to devote my life to the lowest part of my being the garbage I stored inside and so you learn to let go you keep letting go and they write me from all over the world all they do is start doing

that and everything changes of course it changes cuz you've opened up some and then what You're going to start to feel is this beautiful energy inside what energy the energy that you feel when you get the way you want is because you didn't resist so if you're not resisting more you will feel that energy more it is not that because she said she loved you that you felt love what if you didn't like her or him and they came up there when you had your friends around and they said oh I love you so much

you wouldn't feel love you would feel resistance it Is not somebody's words or somebody's actions it's your receptivity so if you are open to more things you're going to feel more joy you're going to feel less tension and so you just decide I don't get to decide life I didn't make it it's the result of all the forces that cause it to be the way it is I can work with it but I cannot resist it so when it unfolds in front of me the first thing I do is pronom to it and say thank

you I honor you I respect your right to exist Because you are the result of all the forces that made you be the way you are and you practice that it's called practicing acceptance of practicing appreciation gratitude and you just keep letting go and you're going to start to feel more and more good energy and then the energy will become so strong inside of you that it becomes a palatable Force you actually feel it flowing up inside of you and it starts lifting you your heart is always lifted up you're always Smiling because it's raising

your muscles up in your face and you're just feeling sharp and clear there's no more spaciness this is Yoga right yoga is that energy how to get and work with that energy and so it gets higher and higher and eventually it will get so high that it literally intoxicates you you just feel it pouring up your spine and through your whole being every day every moment lifting you raising you I was in the spirit of the Lord's Day Called Spirit called shaki called shei I couldn't care less right you're going to feel this energy and

it becomes your life and then your thoughts start trying to be weird but the energy so beautiful you don't want to do it it's the energy you feel in the arms of your beloved the energy you feel when you first hold your first child or you succeed is in there all the time except you limited it to things being the way you want when you stop doing that now you see the path It's not that hard right when you stop doing that the energy is there all the time and what the great ones have told

you including Christ and Buddha and all the great masters of every tradition is when you let go enough it pulls your Consciousness into it cuz is so beautiful it's not a struggle it's so beautiful that you you keep being pulled into it until eventually you let go and Christ said my father and I are one in Buddha into Nirvana the great master Master mayor bab one of the great masters of India Great yogic Master said my Consciousness was a drop it fell into the ocean find it you will never find that drop and you start

understanding yoga means merger Oneness like the Shay right the Lord is one you just realize your Consciousness is capable of Experiencing God it's capable of experiencing the consciousness of the Universe I want get into that but start off where you are and understand the Journey is phenomenal it's beautiful by all means you keep doing what you're doing because you're serving you're helping you're serving I'm going to close that with one thing I've ended up teaching most of you right is the highest life you can live is that every moment that passes before you is better

off because it did there a highest you can't live a higher life than that that if every moment that passes before you is raised because it passed it before You it's just better off because it did and so you do that with your life instead of defining this limited thing and then struggling and fighting and getting all neurotic very good so focus on those two truths I told you all right you're sit on a planet M of nowhere and you ain't staying here now you should remember on a regular basis to check back what am

I doing with my life based on those two truths G