Michael Singer - Witness Consciousness - Releasing the Powerful Pull of the Personal

G gestus spirituality is always about the same thing it's not religion though the core and Crux of almost all religions come from very deep spiritual people Christ Buddha Muhammad but spirituality is about spirit it's not about your beliefs your hopes your dreams your Concepts your views your opinions your preferences your likes your dislikes those are about those things there's this thing called spirit Spirit though few talk about it this way the word spirit is the same thing as the word Consciousness they're the same thing soul is the same thing as spirit is the same thing

as Consciousness consciousness is the core of your being if you're not conscious you're not there it doesn't matter what's happening to you it doesn't matter what you like or dislike it doesn't matter what you hope or your dream or your wants your non-w wants or your fears your anxieties if you're not conscious you don't know anything about that stuff Consciousness is the beginning and end of your being you are a conscious sentient being again you need to contemplate this if you weren't conscious you're not there okay it's not about who am I if I'm not

conscious you're nothing you're not there you don't like or dislike because you wouldn't know anything about it likes dislikes hopes dreams beliefs everything all those things are things you're conscious of the world is something you're conscious of male female tall short light dark those are things you're conscious of all the in and young those are things you're conscious of you are the Consciousness itself that is your soul that's what meant by Soul the core of your being the essence of your being that's what that is so Consciousness is the essence of spirituality but humans aren't

that they're not aware of their Consciousness they're just sucked into what they're conscious of and what they're conscious of are these based animalistic drives that you know the body came up as an animal through Evolution and it still has these drives and then the psychological drives I want people to like me just all kinds of stuff gets developed in your mind mind in your heart and your body and you get lost in it and that's the state of a human being that's the predicament that you have these objects of Consciousness that are very powerful what

I want that's very powerful what I don't want is very powerful the drives of the body very powerful the guilts and fears there I just talked about id ego and super ego there's Freud it is the drives of the body the Bas drives super ego is what Society put inside your head so you feel guilty and scared to do anything and then you develop this ego of what I like and what I don't want I want to get married and I want to do this I like this and I don't like that you have things

you like and don't like they're in your mind Consciousness has none of those things Consciousness has no like or dislike it's like a camera doesn't care what shooting at it's just aware Consciousness is pure awareness so basically you come down to understand spirituality it's about Consciousness that's what it's about why how do you know that because you're going to reach a state if you meditate or you work on yourself reasonably that you're going to realize that all these drives and all these needs and all these dreams and all these hopes and all these fears are

things you are conscious of there are things you are aware of in any given moment you could feel love and then somebody say something and you feel disdain it is the same you that is experiencing all of this that's your essence but the drive and the pull of the personal let's just put that all packaged together what I like what I don't like my hopes my dreams my Concepts my views my beliefs that's your personal self is very very powerful it's one of the most powerful forces in the universe and what it does is pull

your Consciousness into it doesn't it if you see something you like you're busy doing something talking to somebody then something you like shows up boom you bye-bye byebye something you don't like boom you're gone you're running for it you're running against it it's a power powerful force don't minimize the power of the personal the personal has pulled the Consciousness the awareness of being into it and we are busy being personal this is what I like I don't like what you said I really like what you say can you say it again I love you so

much what' you say I couldn't hear you it's just the personal it's just that powerful the personal is not who you are there's not one single aspect of the personal that's you that's like saying because I'm looking at the picture I'm the picture or I'm look in the mirror I'm what's in the mirror no you're not you're the one who's looking if you have a need and a drive and urge and so strong you're not it you're aware of it spirituality says I am not that I may be having trouble with that but I am

not that I am not the urges of my body any animal can be the urges of their body does that mean I have to renounce them and play that whole stupid game of course not it has nothing to do with that it has to do with I am not the urges of my body I am aware of the urges of my body that's spirituality I am not what my mind wants I don't care what my mind wants it makes me care it draws me into it it won't leave me alone will it I want this

I want this I want a car like that why can't I have a car like that it won't leave you alone will it but why does she have to leave why does she leave me I needed her so much this she said she would never leave anybody got one of those Minds it's a problem isn't it spirituality is not about that spirituality is about how do you know that that's going on inside of you cuz the party that knows is spiritual that's what spirit is it is the Consciousness the awareness of being the problem is

the power of the personal let call it the personal that whole package that package you that which you use the word I for I like this I don't like that I wish this didn't happen oh my God something happened I Me Mine something happened to me 20 years ago and I just can't live with it it's bothering me so much right that's the human State isn't it and so it's so powerful that the Consciousness get pulls into it and then that's who you are you think that's who you are therefore that that's who you are

it's how you act you behave that way it's what comes out of your mouth doesn't it it's it determines what you say it determines how you act it determines who you like if you like somebody and all of a sudden they say something that you totally been against your whole life you don't like them anymore one word one thing if you're ex used to slurp soup and now you got this wonderful day you've been going out the blind dat they paired you all together and here you are and it's wonderful it's wonderful and you're going

out right thank God you never went to restaurant to Ser soup yet okay and you're telling all your friends this the most perfect person it's my soulmate it's everything then you go there and you go to this restaurant and there's miso soup or borch I don't know which type of restaurant you went to doesn't matter there's that slurp that's it that's it I'm telling you that's how we are that's it it reminded you of something you didn't like and that not like projects onto that person and you're telling everybody I thought it was right but

no why I don't know why and you probably don't you don't realize that happened right it just came up and your heart closed and there you go that's how easy it is that's called the personal your whole psychological emotional physiological that's this thing and your Consciousness is staring at this thing and it gets pulled into it doesn't it there are times you feel clearer and times you're just lost I was doing well and now I'm all upset I'm not okay and I'm broken and I'm not well how'd that happen something happen something came up that's

personal change does the personal change does the personal change kind of scary isn't it it could change on a dime can it okay so you start to understand I'm talking now about spiritual but I can't talk about spiritual which is consciousness without talking about the personal why because that's where everybody's caught they're caught in the personal and therefore they don't know a thing about themselves they don't know a thing about themselves you know it's taught that a master a guru knows you better than you know yourself I've heard people sit there say How could somebody

know me better than I know myself because the only thing you know is your personal self they can look past that and see your spiritual self which is your being that's the truth of you will never ever ever reach contentment and satisfaction until you come back to self why there's just this innate sense that there's something more there's something greater no matter what's going on with the personal it will never ever feed that's what Christ went when he said man does not live by bread alone but by every word that leaveth the mouth of God

there's this sense of being inside fullness wholeness completeness that's what's meant by that and then there's the food that's coming from outside relationships and this and jobs and careers and money and cars and this all that fun nice things that make your personal feel better how you like that which would you rather have personal feels better or a personal feels worse they not even close if the personal feels worse you're all messed up you're not enjoying yourself not doing anything it talk spiritual all you want you can't hear the word of it all you want

is to get things the way you want them the way your personal wants them so that you don't be suffering so that you feel more content at least relatively feel relatively well and if you're doing that and you're getting what you want you do feel better but that doesn't wake up to Consciousness you get pulled down into that if you're suffering you get pulled into that if you're needing things and getting what you want you get pulled down into that spirituality is not about that spirituality is not about that spirituality is about transcending the personal

what does that mean it sounds like such a big word it means you are the Consciousness that is aware of what your mind is saying you are the Consciousness that's aware of what you want and what you don't want and how you feel when you get what you want and when you don't have to have what you don't want you are always conscious but you're pulling down into the personal spirituality and that's the whole purpose of meditation of yoga of Mantra of every single aspect so people say you don't teach techniques I don't teach techniques

I do more now you made me I don't want to teach techniques why there's thousands of techniques there's so many techniques they all work if you do them I want to teach why you would do them that's my technique is why you would bother keeping Sodom no way you'd bother working on yourself spiritually instead of just personally and so basically you get to the point where you realize I am in here I've always been in here you've always been in there you've always been in there when you're having really really bad times are you in

there you wish you weren't but you are aren't you you're aware of it when you're having really really good times are you in there yeah all right spirituality is about you the self the Atman the soul what name do you want to put in the thing you know why I don't like giving it names why you shouldn't give it names because the mind is giving it a name and you are aware that the Mind gave it a name God is the one that notices so if you give it names I I like that the Jewish

tradition the ancient Jewish tradition they don't write the word god it's g- g oror d they're not supposed to write the word God why why is that weird no it's because you're not supposed to even try to make an understanding in your mind of what this thing is that's looking at your mind let me tell you right now look in the mirror you can see what's in the mirror but what's in the mirror can't see you so if you're going into your mind to know something about the one who's looking at your mind that's like

thinking the mirror can see you that's why the teachings are to transcend your mind there's nothing wrong with your mind there's nothing wrong with your mind there's nothing wrong with your heart there's nothing wrong with your body there's nothing wrong it's just what is but your Consciousness which is everything is being lost by identifying with what it's looking at instead of identifying with the one who's looking so how does that happen and how does one free themselves from that and what does it feel like what does it mean to free yourself from it what happens

if somebody frees thems from it it's not a jump It's a staircase staircase to heaven so what's the first step the first step is witness Consciousness the first step I mean there's lower steps but I'll assume you're not here if you're still working with those your first step is your awareness I see my mind has desires I see my mind has fears I see my heart is Cahoots with my mind that when the Mind thinks oh my God hope that doesn't happen my heart goes how about yours okay so it's basically their personal works together

and I see that I have trouble dealing with that so the first step is witness Consciousness I am aware that I am aware it's a silly thing to talk about because of course you're aware you're always aware how would you know what's happening how would you know your heart hurt how would you know that you like this person what does it mean I really I met this person I really like them maybe this could be the answer to my dreams how do you know that you like them did somebody PES a note no something inside

of you changed your heart opened you felt some good energy your mind said nice things how do you know how do you know that happened well I'm in here good that's witness Consciousness not what it said and not getting involved in what it said being aware that I am the one that's aware that this feeling came up inside of me did I like the feeling yeah or did I like the feeling no but I'm aware that's what it means to take a seat of witness Consciousness it has nothing to do with what you're feeling or

what you're thinking it has to do with the fact that you're aware that these are the thoughts that are going through your mind and these are the feelings that are going through your heart that's witness Consciousness you're not judging yourself you're not saying oh my God I can't believe I thought that oh my God what's wrong with me no that's just another thought on top of the thought or oh I really like this person oh my God what can I do to attract them no that's fine the mind can do anything it wants you're just

aware there it goes again there it is talking if it's talking someone's listening it's not about the object it's about the subject so witness Consciousness is a major step and most people can't take it but it's a major step in coming back to self coming back to to your true being why can't we do it because we're trying to get what the Mind wants why if you get what the Mind wants you feel better don't you if you avoid what the mind doesn't want you don't suffer as much so it keeps pulling you into it

but that will not get you back behind it all right having an honest talk with you may not like it I'm not here to make you like it all right I'm here because somebody's got to be willing to tell the truth the truth of the matter is that's what happens inside your mind and that's what happens inside your heart and it's strong isn't it it pulls you down into it so people say things like this I like to balance my spiritual life with my worldly life B you lose that's absurd you're either sitting in the

seat that's watching and if you're watching your spiritual self talk I'm a high being now right or you're watching a worldly stuff oh I just had more money it doesn't matter what you're watching clouds in the sky they're just CL in the sky that's passed by there is no balance don't let them sell that to you it's not good enough that you go Sunday and do this or Friday night or whatever it's like you are a spiritual being and you are lost in your personal a spiritual life means you return to your seed of self

doesn't mean your life doesn't go on nobody said anything anunciation nobody said anything about doing and not doing you heard the word hav you it's beyond doing and not doing that's why it's beyond doing and not doing if I'm sitting in there saying I want to be a spiritual so I'm not going to do the things that I want that's the same as doing the things that you want you're still lost in the personal can one sit in the seat of objective observ what Krishna mury called it objective observation can you sit in the seat

of objective observation and notice that you notice but then what sh that's your mind jumping in well what will happen sh just be there be there and notice that you can't why do I stop being conscious no you wish you don't stop being conscious you become conscious of something that pulled you into it so that now you're not conscious of being conscious you're conscious of needing and liking and not liking and wanting and fearing you get pulled into the object and you lose this sense of me of the true self so your work your mission

should you choose to accept C it is can I sit in the seat of self and allow my life to unfold you're not going to stop your life from unfolding doesn't mean you don't get married doesn't mean you don't have children doesn't mean you don't get rich it doesn't mean you don't have go through everything life goes on hey you're not making life go on you don't make the sun come up in the morning do you you don't make the ocean flow you know I told you what 25 trillion living cells make up your body

you making sure they're doing okay right you do even know what your liver secretes it's doing it by itself when your body gets sick something happens does the immune system wake up and white corpuses go out there and fighting you doing all that come on come on get to work you make your heartbeat you make your breath go in and out you are not the doer you're not the doer what percentage of your life really are you doing 0.001 the ego says no way I did that I attracted this person I wore certain clothes but

I'm nice perfume or cologne I figured out how this needs to be and therefore I did it okay did you give birth to the person were you around for the 30 years or the person was growing up before you met them did you form their psyche and their Consciousness with all the events and circum ever happened to them did your birth their parents what did you do nothing nothing there tiny little thing in the end a point one but but he likes me did you make it so that he likes you did you form his

entire psyche all the past experiences all the movies saw all the books he read and every single thing so that then when you showed up oh I like her you're not doing anything it's all Happening by itself you do a tiny little bit and then you think I'm the doer so you wake up and you realize if you sit in the seat of self it is not that nothing's going to happen what's going to happen everything the same it's going to happen the traffic lights will turn red and green and people will stop and go

hopefully and just come on think about how many things are happening and that's just in your little world is is what you see the only thing that's going on there's there something going on outside the frame of your reference how much is going on more than what you see 100 billion zillion quillion trillion billion and just in your state what about the planet Earth what about the galaxies what about everything everywhere it's all going on you're not doing it and so you wake up and you realize that if your Consciousness is staying stable in a

seat of Consciousness it does not mean your life is not going to unfold your life will unfold but we don't know that we think nothing good will happen unless we do it and the world is essentially a bad place really all the galaxies are in balance and it's essentially phenomenal isn't it the flowers grow by themselves on the side of the road I'm sorry I can't help myself what is wrong with us that we don't understand it's all Happening by itself it's been happening for 13.8 billion years how long you've been here and it's happening

everywhere so if you come back to the seat of Consciousness and you dare to let go of the personal don't think it means the end of your life no think that nothing will happen things unfold and the point of the matter is you know they unfold because they're not always the way you want and so on and so you finally reached the point of spirituality so spirituality is not about renunciation it's not about giving up your life and a sense it's about honoring life you come to a point where I am the Consciousness inside and

I am aware of this phenomenal planet and what's in front of me and there's always something in front of me and it's phenomenal and my God now you're starting to become spiritual so it's not that you don't go to work and it's not that you don't have relationships and it's not that you don't do anything there's no doing or not doing the world is unfolding in front of you and you're going to find out it does very well it does very well and truth it's done very well because if you look at all that's happening

you're not doing it I don't know how to get it across to you are you making your heartbeat your body used to be about a foot long now is this big thing did you do it well is it important that it happened well you didn't do it did you how can all of those things happen by themselves and you sit there and say you're the doer you're not the doer you're the experiencer of life but you've developed this personal that's saying I'm doing and I have to do it and it will never be the way

I want unless I make it be that way and I better decide what I want and sometimes I change my mind by the way and you're just very busy in there being personal Consciousness is aware of that it's not touching it it's aware that the personal is doing all these things and then basically it lets go that's your next step first and this is spiritual Evolution first you're aware of everything I'm talking about I'm aware yep I'm in here and yep it goes up and down and the personal is really powerful and so on but

I don't get pulled down into it but I do sometimes but what do I do if I get pulled down into it as soon as possible I let go and realize I got pulled down into it are you aware you get pulled out do you get pulled down into it have you ever done anything you wish you hadn't done and why did those words come out of my mouth why did I have to say that because you got pulled down into it and you weren't there during that time you weren't there you got sucked down

into this you're there but you're conscious of what you got pulled down into this anger and this all kind of things explains the entire human predicament doesn't it we are busy being the personal and God knows how that comes out so basically you practice how how do you practice witness Consciousness meditation well meditation is a technique why do they call those practices meditation is a spiritual practice well when I'm practicing the piano that's not playing the piano I'm practicing when I practice tennis that's not being on the court playing tennis I'm practicing well meditation is

a practice Mantra is a practice positive thinking is a practice what are you practicing for the ability to stay centered at all circumstances so that all day not just in a meditation pillow I am here aware of what is in front of me and what is going on inside of me do you know you're capable of that but isn't that hard no is it hard to see what's in front of you look in front of you right now how hard was that that's how hard it is to see what's going on inside of you you

see it but you don't because it pulls you in so if I say look how easy to see what's in front of you and then all of a sudden a rattlesnake sh you don't see what's now you just see just that pulls your Consciousness down to it that's why you can't see what's going on inside because it's a rattlesnake most of the time and it pulls your conscious down into it otherwise when you're centered and clear it is just as easy to see what's in front of you as inside of you you see your heart

you see your thoughts no effort you trying witness Consciousness is not something you try to do it's something that you are I'm conscious therefore I see what's happening so the only thing you're working with is not getting pulled down and distracted into these lower forces that are inside you see the difference but I want to tell you because people misunderstand this just as easy as it is to look in front of you no look just see there it is that's how easy to see what's inside of you and someday you will reach that state where

that's all that's happening you're just aware I'm aware I'm aware of what's Happening inside of me why wouldn't I be because it was so powerful it drew my conscience down into it and I was no longer centered that's what centered means that's what Clarity means it's not about right or wrong or good or bad or anything it's just about can you be conscious of what's going on in there so that's your work that's why you're practicing you're practicing the state of witness Consciousness the state of observation how do I do that well the teachings are

actually very easy it's up to you to decide the techniques for the teachings okay somebody says something to you at least you thought they were saying to you maybe was talking to the person behind you or at least you thought you knew what they said and insult comes up inside of you ever get insulted but what somebody says or feel rejected or insecure so this jumps up in here can you not get pulled down into it well well I can push it away I didn't say that so your first act I'm teach you what it's

like to be in there your First Act is suppression your First Act is I can't believe they said this I don't want to feel this and you push it away have hands in there can you push things around in there okay witness conscious means you don't do that witness Consciousness means I noticed it and I didn't have to do anything about it they said something it came in I felt insecure I felt guilt I felt jealousy something happened inside and then the Mind started going doesn't it do that and I noticed notice what that what

do you mean you noticed I noticed what' you do about it no no clouds go by I don't do anything all kinds of things happen I'm able to sit there inside and notice the pull has a pull doesn't it the pull that it has for me to focus on it for me to pay attention to it for me to do something about it true witness Consciousness you're practicing letting go that's what Letting Go means doesn't mean letting go of your husband or your wife or your kids or your job letting go is letting go of

the personal you're letting go of the pull that the personal has on your Consciousness can you do that right now in general no and that's why I teach in the new book living in tether start with the simple stuff start with the fact that it's hot out and you're complaining start with the loow hanging fruit let go there's a person in there complaining about the heat how did that help practice it doesn't hurt to let that go what do you mean Let It Go but it's hot let it go so let it be hot okay

and you just let go and you're going to practice and you're going to see you can do it if you can't do it with the weather do with the car in front of you I always use these examples why because we all do this why are they driving so slow oh my God they use their blinker what's going on around here oh my God how do I get around them that goes on in there doesn't it that's practicing tennis that's doing your scales on a piano that's how you practice being centered start really simple you

start practicing spirituality with these simple things that the complaints and the things start coming up inside there's no benefit to them it doesn't hurt at all to accept the way the person is driving in front of you they'll turn two blocks from now you'll be 15 seconds later than where you were going you pay attention and you see I can let this go can I let this go can I let go complaining about the driver in front of me okay do it because what you're doing is practicing remaining centered practicing witness Consciousness that's how you

practice it you let go of what distracted you from it oo I'm getting there aren't I do you get distracted in there by this stuff and it pulls your conscious in it does it so quickly you don't even notice slow it down slow it down practice practice just keep practicing and of you're going to find out things start moving in slow motion inside it's not like anger shoots up you start feeling some weird vibration down the lower belly the disturbance in the force and if you leave it alone you keep going next thing you know

you lose it start there start where it starts I'm tell you you will reach a point tell you very deep you will reach a point that it will start to get Disturbed in there you can feel it can't you you don't even know why good I don't even want you to know why I want you to let it go when it starts whoa now you're ready why do I care why I don't want to be disturbed how about you I don't want the world to be able to disturb me I'd rather be centered and clear

and then deal with the world I think I can do better right did you ever sit there and say I can't handle this that's just to be analytical for a second what does that mean I can't handle this I think it means you can't handle it it means well somebody can hit a tennis shot at you I can't hit backhand well what's that mean you're not gonna play tennis if you can't handle it you shouldn't be there because you just admitted you can't handle it so you catch yourself and you realize I don't care why

it's getting Disturbed I want to let go of that and then be present so that I can handle it I want to be able to handle it so that I can deal with it and do it reasonably so this is not about renouncing you know C of wood somewhere it's about sitting inside with Clarity and being able to handle yourself ultimately when you say I can't handle that what you mean is it caused something to happen inside of me that I can't handle it's not true that I can't handle what she said I can't handle

what happened in me because she said it what happen if she said it your mind and everything say said oh boy I like it then it be fine there' be no problem can you handle what she said sure but what if it comes up I can't handle what she said I can't handle this well then you can't so I'm begging you I told you this conversation is about spirituality this is how you grow spiritually not by ch changing anything by not leaving the seed of self so it's wonderful if you meditate meditation is a wonderful

thing it's about achieving a state of Center where you're clear and keeping it the most important part of your meditation is when you get up I don't care where you went I don't care if you saw lights I don't care if Christ himself and chrishna were holding hands and came down they do by the way all right and and okay fine you had an experience it's gone you should see experience I had I don't care what you had I care about your state of being so basically when you get up from meditation you may feel

peace you may feel Clarity it may be quiet in there I want you to notice why it doesn't stay I'm telling you when you get up if you had a deep State and you're clear I want you to notice what happens just notice why does it go away because all you did was come closer to the seat itself that's all you did in meditation is the mind wasn't so noisy and the Heart wasn't cing and the world wasn't bothering you and so the Consciousness didn't get drawn down you what I'm talking about Consciousness gets drawn

down into object of Consciousness in a meditation in a deep meditation it doesn't and so you feel the nature of Consciousness you feel peace you feel expansiveness it's quiet we'll talk about that in a moment what happens when you get back to that state so you get a taste of that that's why it's a good thing it's good it's good but then why does it get pulled back down that's what matters then how can I practice not getting pulled back down that to me is what I found out was as important or more than the

meditation is to practice everyday life why am I getting pulled down because the person didn't turn the blinker on why am I getting pulled down because of car cut in front of me why am I going to pull down cuz somebody said something why you going to pull down cuz somebody didn't say something that expected them to say or I wanted them to say why am I going to pull down because the phone didn't ring phone doesn't ring lots of how many phones don't ring but I wanted his call I expect to the call he

said he would call you're getting pulled down by everything why you getting pulled down cuz it's too cold it's too hot it's too human or hair frzy why am I getting pulled down about these absurd meaningless things why is that happening that's spirituality now you woke up you want to have a beautiful life clean up what does it mean to clean up notice that you're being pulled down out of the seat of self out of Consciousness for absurd reasons you can learn to handle things and what it means if I can handle it is I

don't have to go down out of the seat of self and get all involved in the mishos so that's your work is meditation good yes is Mantra good yes is positive thinking yes all these things are very very good they are practices they're not the end somebody comes to me and says but I've been practicing positive thinking for 15 years and now everything that happens I just make it be positive thoughts I'm sorry you don't want to tell me that cuz if I really answered you I would say how come you have to do that

what do you mean why do you have to do positive thinking all the time why because it's negative that's the only reason you do positive thinking is because if you didn't it wouldn't be now positive think is a very good thing I'm not talking against it but pay attention the question isn't just can I do positive thinking it's why is this thing coming up like that and you realize it doesn't have to you can change the foundation of everything in there so that it's positive natural naturally so it's beautiful naturally it's not something you're supposed

to be doing but but do it right I'm saying this is like practicing tennis every understand what I'm telling you you may have noticed it's kind of naturally a little negative in there about things that happen complaints and worries and anxieties and okay so basically you understand we're back to our Basics you're a conscious being and you have a personal self there it is your spiritual practice is to be able to sit in the seat of self while every day unfolds your every day unfolds you can unfold anyways and not get pulled down into all

this garbage that's inside the fears the anxieties the needs the desires the hopes the dreams the beliefs this and that and the other thing all right so now we understand what's happening spirit is consciousness now let's talk about the nature of Consciousness we haven't done that yet we talked about you're there your witness conscious you're there let's say you get to stay there every once in a while some going pull you down again ramdas did a beautiful was a talk back in the 70s used listen to his talks and he said I'm standing on a

bridge watching the water flow by underneath every once in a while the spray touches me and I remember I used to live in there so witness Consciousness is your here your centered it's not a thought you're just centered and you're able to handle that your thoughts do different things and your heart does different things and the world does different things as your starting position is I'm still here you still there oh yes now what now deal with it nobody saying you don't deal with it if there's something to deal with deal with it but you're

going to find out that at least 95% of every single thing that pulls your Consciousness out of your deep seat is meaningless you're creating hell for yourself the new book again my favorite line of the new book Oprah said the same thing her favorite line the moment in front of you is not bothering you you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you why you going to go in there and bother yourself and then wonder why you're bothered and then wonder what you should do about it stop bothering yourself and you're going to

find out that I'm telling you 95% of the things you're bothered about will never happen they don't happen they're just meaningless you're just bothering yourself and so you practice this what will happen if you practice this you will stop being bothered so much it will naturally happen every day less problems not that there's less World unfolding but you stop bothering yourself about every single thing that could ever be that's not going to be anyways and you just work with yourself that's a letting go now what happens you end up finding yourself there you're not thinking

about it because you're not being distracted by the personal self it now you don't seek self you just cease to leave any party that seek seeking self is not self you are self you are Consciousness you just notice that you're being pulled away from yourself and eventually you'll start feeling it as energy eventually you will get to the point thoughts aren't like they used to be they're feelings you actually feel a thought pass through your mind you feel the thoughts start to be created and then go back down if you let it go it's energy

they are energy and you are just conscious enough now to feel the energy and then when you don't get pulled down you'll notice the energy of the thought goes back into self that literally it's being pulled away from Consciousness and it returns to Consciousness and eventually you will be able to sit not trying you will cease to be pulled away from your natural seat there that's how I want to say it you're not making yourself go there you're just ceasing to be pulled away because you neutralized all this garbage inside of you now what happens

you start to feel Joy why I didn't get any that's right you didn't get anything nothing happened you just start to feel Joy why that's the nature of self self has a nature Consciousness is aware in the yoga scriptures the teachings they gave a name to Consciousness sat Eternal conscious ecstasy that's the truth and that's what you're going to feel you're going to feel a constant state of Joy welling up inside of you for no reason but there is a reason you didn't get pulled out of that state now if you have absolute joy and

ecstasy and love going on inside of you why are you being pulled out because W of person is driving I think I'll give up Eternal conscious ecstasy cuz he didn't use his blinker or let's get a little closer a little more serious I'll give up absolute love and joy being fed from inside because when my husband and wife came home they had a bad day and they didn't say hello they just went right to the room you willing to give it up for that and more and more you start catching on I ain't giving this

up and guess what nothing can make me give it up I'm in here I'm conscious only thing it can do is stimulate something inside of me that I can't handle and I give up Joy ecstasy love God to go down to garbage am I willing to give up such an an un Eternal conscious ecstasy going on inside of me all the time it just flows in there eventually when you stop going down it all comes up to you you don't realize that it doesn't want to be messed up you're the one who pushed that stuff

down there you suppressed all that stuff you're the one that used your hands inside because you couldn't handle your insides and you pushed it down there and now you have a storehouse of garbage inside don't you and it keeps coming back up if you clean that out and just keep letting go eventually the energy comes up but it's not garbage it's pure clean Rush of holy water as the Bible calls it there's this tremendous Rush constantly going inside of you literally constantly the time you wake up they go to bed during sleep it's going on

there's just this constant up flow pouring inside of you feeding you why would you give that up for some personal stupid thing that's going on in there so you work with yourself to learn not to get involved in all that stuff it's not renunciation is it it's a letting go of the garbage that you stored inside and what will happen is the shaki shaki CH spirit it's an energy flow and it will get more and more until eventually now I'll close down till eventually it's Fe in you that's what it means man does not live

by bread alone by every word that leaveth the mouth of the father of God yoga is about this and so it's feeding you and eventually you just make that commitment there's nothing I need outside I just need to stop letting the outside take me away from this beauty that's inside of me so I can deal with the outside perfectly fine no matter what but I'm keeping this flowing all right now what happens eventually it gets deep enough and not just the meditation in everyday life it gets deep enough inside you start noticing not noticing I'm

there I'm there all the time it's filled with joy and ecstasy where' that come from That's The Next Step where did your Consciousness come from you can't know that when it's not centered it's all being pulled in 50 different directions you know the river comes from somewhere Consciousness comes from somewhere when you get to that point where that's what you're looking at what you're realizing you're not thinking it it's just an intuitive knowing it comes from somewhere you realize it's coming in from behind you not in front of you where your thoughts and all that

stuff is there's a flow from behind and you start to get pulled into it and the more you can let go of your anchor the more it pulls you in and it pulls you in it pulls you in that's called the ascent and now deep spirituality is taking place and eventually you realize all that's been happening is this expans of consciousness that's everywhere the whole universe it's God is focusing on your thoughts your emotions and your body and what you see through your senses what a waste why am I focusing down on that and it

won't focus anymore it'll pull back and pull back and that's the deeper States that's I always use mayor Baba he said as he moved back into that state which happened to him suddenly his Consciousness was a drop it was like a drop of Consciousness looking at himself and as it let go it fell into into the ocean of Consciousness find it next time you're at the Ocean Take a drop drop it in find it again not chance that's my father and I are one that's the merger that's what yoga means it means Union Oneness and

it merges and you experience you're not supposed to think about God or believe in God you experience that it is everywhere throughout the Universe and you are that that thou art so now we talked about spirituality didn't we work with with yourself agative