00:22
so really what we’re talking about even
00:27
though it’s not necessarily put forward
00:30
this way is silence or at least a silent
00:36
thinking mind
00:38
so although the talks take the form of
00:42
an hour and a half of talking and
00:44
pointing and things that happen in life
00:49
through concepts which can sometimes
00:51
make it seem like a job is to think a
00:55
lot which might then seem like all this
01:00
liberation or this freedom is from me
01:04
understanding a lot and thinking a lot
01:08
that can be a bit of a misunderstanding
01:13
because really all of the words are
01:17
there in order to assist with a quieting
01:21
down a silencing of the thinking mind
01:25
and so what is described is the
01:31
different forms that the thinking mind
01:33
takes so that those forms of thinking
01:39
can be identified and seem to be less
01:46
useful and less effective than we might
01:48
have thought they were and that seeing
01:52
of them in that light is a very
01:55
important part of their slowing down if
02:00
we don’t see a certain type of thinking
02:03
as problematic or counter to something
02:09
that is optimal and in fact think that
02:13
it is part of getting us to an optimal
02:16
place then it persists it carries on and
02:20
to be frank our thinking mind is so
02:25
habitual and obsessive because the brain
02:29
has developed in that way
02:34
because it thinks that it has somewhere
02:36
particular to get and that this thinking
02:39
is going to be helpful in achieving a
02:42
certain objective and so if the
02:45
objective isn’t delivered today
02:48
then the thinking says well let me think
02:50
a little bit more in this way that I’ve
02:53
decided as useful in order for me to
02:56
maybe find the objective delivered
02:59
tomorrow the thinking says if the
03:02
objective is delivered to tomorrow it
03:04
will be because I have thought hard and
03:07
well enough and managed to shape life or
03:13
function a particular way so that
03:17
thinking gets set in place and it’s seen
03:20
as being helpful thinking when in fact
03:23
it’s not and so it persists so part of
03:29
the process by which the unhelpful
03:33
thinking which is assumed to be helpful
03:37
thinking falls away is by us seeing it
03:41
for what it really is an obstacle to
03:46
that which we are really seeking which
03:48
is really peace of mind and peace of
03:53
mind turns out to be the absence of the
03:58
thinking mind so very clearly if this
04:03
thinking the thinking of the thinking
04:06
mind remains in place because we think
04:09
it is beneficial then the peace of mind
04:13
which we’re really looking for which is
04:15
just the absence of the thinking mind is
04:17
not going to happen
04:32
and in between stage of the process
04:39
which is a very important stage and if
04:41
we find that this starts happening we
04:44
can be very grateful because it
04:46
indicates something very important an
04:49
in-between stage is where the thinking
04:51
of the thinking mind continues to arise
04:54
because it’s its root is still there the
05:00
belief that it is useful on some level
05:04
is still in the body or in the brain in
05:08
the system let’s say so it’s still
05:13
happening and another part of the system
05:17
understands that actually this thinking
05:19
is not helpful but it’s still arising
05:23
because the root is still in place
05:27
and the other part of the system
05:32
understands that that root isn’t going
05:33
to be uprooted in this moment by someone
05:38
making a whole lot of effort because
05:39
that effort tends to be actually
05:41
reinforcing that root and so if that’s
05:45
how our system has started to be
05:48
reconditioned such that it will witness
05:52
and allow the suffering to arise the
05:56
thinking mind to arise understanding
05:59
it’s coming from a deeply ingrained root
06:01
that it’s still in place and so
06:02
therefore the suffering has to continue
06:05
to arise and it then accepts it as part
06:11
of the landscape understands it it’s
06:13
very important that we have an
06:15
understanding of why it’s arising its
06:18
arising not because we are creating it
06:21
we as a doer that can stop creating it
06:25
but rather it’s arising because the
06:28
genes and up-to-date-conditioning
06:31
of the body-mind organism which is a
06:33
very complex organism the genes and
06:37
up-to-date-conditioning include the
06:41
belief from which the thinking mind
06:45
grows so if we understand that that if
06:49
that belief is in place the suffering
06:51
just has to be there it’s just simple
06:56
impersonal cause-and-effect right so
06:59
let’s look at an example if fire is
07:04
there heat has to be there
07:08
it’s a interconnected aspect of the fire
07:16
so if we understand that the heat is
07:19
there because the fire is there then we
07:22
don’t try to insist that the heat not be
07:27
there because we understand that fire
07:30
and heat come with each other so if we
07:36
can understand that if there is a
07:38
certain belief in the system that’s been
07:43
put in place by life and in reinforced
07:48
day after day after day after day for
07:50
many years that’s what what it means by
07:53
a deeply ingrained belief if we can
07:58
understand our life has put that in
07:59
place and so the thinking that makes
08:04
sense from that belief system it’s an
08:07
inevitability that means that now
08:14
there’s an understanding of why the
08:16
thinking is there it’s not a surprise
08:21
it’s not you know unexplainable we no
08:26
longer go around saying why is this
08:28
thinking happening it’s very simple
08:31
because there is a root for it and the
08:35
root is a belief a belief that you
08:41
didn’t put in place so on the one hand
08:43
you can say it’s my belief because it is
08:47
part of this body mind organism but
08:52
what’s more important is to see how did
08:54
it become part of this body mind
08:56
organism
08:57
and like all beliefs like all
09:01
conditioning of this body mind organism
09:04
it happened it got put in place as part
09:08
of life unfolding so on the one hand we
09:13
can say it’s my belief but we need to be
09:16
very careful with the use of the word my
09:18
belief it’s a belief that resides in
09:25
this body mind organism and because
09:34
we’re not the ones that put it in place
09:36
we’re not the ones that remove it so
09:41
there’s a huge amount of relaxation that
09:44
can happen if this simple dynamic is
09:48
deeply understood not just believed
09:51
right it’s easy to hear it and believe
09:54
it hopefully the rationale that explains
10:01
why we didn’t put it there
10:03
or why we can’t get rid of it and
10:06
explains that the suffering does stem
10:10
from a a cause if that’s understood
10:15
deeply then that understanding creates a
10:20
space and acceptance
10:30
so another explanation that can run in
10:35
parallel to this as another example of
10:38
how when we understand something our
10:41
resistance stood and our questioning of
10:44
it can fall away so and the other
10:48
example is that often we look at life
10:53
and say why are there handicapped
10:56
children what did they do why are there
11:00
people below the poverty line
11:02
why is it that some people get ill at a
11:07
young age and the very simple
11:15
explanation for this is it’s very simple
11:17
so it won’t be acceptable to some people
11:20
the simple explanation is that this life
11:23
that we’re aware of this life that we
11:25
live in is a life of duality on the
11:29
surface it’s a life of interconnected
11:33
opposites that this particular creation
11:37
is one of good and bad health and
11:42
disease wealth and poverty you can’t
11:44
have one without the other within this
11:47
particular manifestation now there could
11:50
be any number of other different
11:53
manifestations either past or in the
11:56
future or parallel to this one and in
11:59
those other manifestations it might be a
12:02
manifestation of not duality a
12:08
manifestation that exists on completely
12:11
different terms to this manifestation it
12:15
may be a manifestation that has nothing
12:17
to do with time and space nothing to do
12:19
with cause and effect and so in that
12:23
manifestation everything would be
12:24
according to the the the framework of
12:28
that particular manifestation this
12:31
manifestation is a manifestation of
12:34
duality which means interconnected
12:38
opposites if there
12:40
is kindness there will be evil now this
12:46
explanation doesn’t necessarily
12:55
an explanation that will magically
12:59
resolve everything so that it is no
13:02
longer duality it’s simply an
13:05
explanation that says when duality
13:08
presents itself meaning when pleasure
13:12
turns into pain or when we see pain
13:16
delivered and know it to be pain
13:18
relative to some other alternative we
13:24
can understand how this is part of life
13:26
this is not life malfunctioning but this
13:31
is life presenting as duality so then
13:40
the question why why is this happening
13:43
can fall away if that answer is
13:48
satisfying to us
14:02
and why is that important it’s important
14:05
because we have developed in a way that
14:11
includes a belief system which is part
14:15
of the suffering that arises from time
14:20
to time a belief system that says what I
14:22
am is something that requires life to be
14:29
a particular way in order for me to be
14:31
complete which means there is an
14:38
expectation ingrained in us which is
14:44
also part of the structure the route
14:47
that I was talking about from which
14:49
suffering arises an expectation gets put
14:54
in place when we have this idea of
14:55
ourselves that what I am is something
14:59
that requires life to be pleasure
15:02
pleasure pleasure pleasure so
15:05
automatically an expectation gets put in
15:08
place I need life to be pleasure
15:10
pleasure pleasure pleasure
15:11
I expect it to be pleasure pleasure
15:14
pleasure pleasure and that expectation
15:20
can be so powerful that it prevents us
15:24
from actually seeing life objectively
15:26
and being honest seeing things as they
15:34
are clearly we if the expectation is
15:38
strong enough we simply can’t see life
15:46
that way
15:46
it’s it would be too painful
15:56
so we continue with an idea of the new
16:01
age of enlightenment coming in where one
16:07
day life will be brilliantly perfect
16:12
where everyone will love each other and
16:16
that’s just another expectation for life
16:20
to be pleasure pleasure pleasure where
16:23
we receive love from the other and why
16:28
is this perpetuated it’s perpetuated
16:30
because we have a deep attachment to
16:33
pleasure and the deepest attachment to
16:36
pleasure is the attachment to love and
16:42
the attachment to love is there because
16:44
the belief system that’s in place which
16:53
emanates not only as thoughts but as
16:55
feelings feelings of unworthiness and
16:58
insecurities lack of self-worth that
17:03
belief system says that in order for me
17:06
to be complete
17:07
I require love from society I love
17:11
require love from the other
17:25
so maybe we can see this the the seeing
17:31
of it happens just when life delivers
17:34
the right prompts and makes us realize
17:37
wow what I’m doing which sounds
17:40
altruistic waiting for life to become
17:44
perfect and trying to spread the world
17:48
of a new age of enlightenment or
17:50
something that will has already started
17:56
you know we’re now in that age that’s
17:58
saying of that happening maybe what’s
18:02
happening is we’re just perpetuating and
18:05
reinforcing our expectation for life to
18:09
be pleasure pleasure pleasure pleasure
18:13
instead of seeing it for what it is the
18:17
manifestation right now is a
18:19
manifestation of good and bad of
18:23
interconnected opposites health and
18:26
disease wealth and poverty male and
18:28
female and the great news is that when
18:34
our expectations start weakening and we
18:42
start seeing life as it really is a flow
18:46
of pleasure and pain that isn’t really
18:49
in our control we wake up in the morning
18:52
we step out of the door and we step into
18:56
life we don’t really need to step out of
19:00
the door you just need to wake up and
19:02
you’re in life what’s waiting for you is
19:06
not in our control how the day unfolds
19:10
is not in our control it happens we
19:13
might like to think it’s in our control
19:16
and if we think it’s in our control we
19:19
might experience it in our control when
19:22
we look closely we see that life happens
19:27
and it’s not our doing and so if we can
19:33
start to see that life is always
19:35
unfolding flow of pleasure and
19:38
and that it will always be that and if
19:45
we start hearing that actually that’s
19:47
not a problem if someone glares at you
19:52
that’s pain in the moment if someone
19:56
shouts at you that’s pain at them in the
19:58
moment if someone steals for me that’s
19:59
pain in the moment if someone
20:01
disrespects you that’s pain in the
20:04
moment and for as long as that deeply
20:08
ingrained belief that says my
20:10
completeness will be there when no one
20:13
disrespects me when no one steals from
20:15
me when no one looks at me in a
20:19
judgmental way for as long as that
20:22
expectation is in place we are bound to
20:25
feel resistance to the pains that are
20:27
delivered moment after moment but if we
20:33
start hearing that what we’re really
20:35
looking for in life is not for life to
20:39
be pleasure pleasure pleasure pleasure
20:40
and when I say what we’re really looking
20:42
for means once all the lack of clarity
20:46
has fallen away we’ll find that what
20:50
we’ve really been looking for even if we
20:52
haven’t been actively looking for it
20:54
because we thought we were looking for
20:56
something else when all the lack of
20:58
clarity falls away we’ll realize what
21:01
we’re really looking for is happiness in
21:03
the form of peace of mind and that peace
21:08
of mind is very much available even when
21:10
someone steals from us even when someone
21:14
disrespects us or was not honest to us
21:26
the happiness of peace of mind is a
21:30
happiness that is there when someone
21:37
steals from you and the thinking mind
21:41
doesn’t fire up and extend horizontally
21:44
in time holding hatred towards the
21:50
person that has stolen from you holding
21:53
an expectation of how that situation
21:56
should have turned out holding possibly
21:59
shame or guilt towards one’s one’s
22:02
actions that were part of the
22:04
circumstance that led to your property
22:08
being stolen
22:11
that’s the happiness happiness in the
22:17
face of unfortunate circumstance so as I
22:22
mentioned really the talks are about
22:24
silence about the silencing of the
22:29
thinking mind
22:38
so on what basis does the thinking mind
22:43
become more and more silent it becomes
22:48
more and more silent on the basis of the
22:53
core beliefs being seen to be inaccurate
22:57
the core beliefs that support the
23:00
horizontal thinking that we can call our
23:04
attitude to circumstance it happens when
23:10
the core beliefs get seen to be
23:18
inaccurate and what sees those beliefs
23:24
is inaccurate is the other part of the
23:27
brain or the body mind organism the part
23:32
that we can call the working mind and so
23:35
this talk is simply life delivering new
23:38
conditioning to the working mind that’s
23:45
how change has always happened life has
23:48
always brought about new conditioning
23:51
and we evolve so a baby that is unable
23:58
to speak evolves to a point where it can
24:01
speak because life has delivered new
24:05
conditioning moment after moment after
24:08
moment in the form of when we’re talking
24:10
about a baby learning how to speak in
24:12
the form of hearing other people speak
24:17
in the form of a parent providing
24:21
lessons about words and language so all
24:27
of that is new conditioning that brings
24:30
about change in the body mind organism
24:32
and then that change allows the body
24:35
mind organism to function according to
24:38
its current makeup a functioning that
24:42
wasn’t able to happen when the makeup
24:45
was different and so these talks
24:51
new conditioning that can become part of
24:56
the working mind which is part of the
24:58
body mind organism and the working mind
25:01
can start seeing the existing beliefs in
25:05
the body mind organism seeing the
25:08
existing beliefs that we call
25:11
conceptually called the thinking mind
25:13
and to make it simple all of the
25:17
suffering which is what disturbs our
25:19
peace of mind is based on essentially
25:24
two beliefs two deeply deeply ingrained
25:28
beliefs that life has put in place and
25:31
as I said life put them in place because
25:36
or or they got put in place because they
25:39
seem to be accurate and the two beliefs
25:44
are one i am the doer of everything that
25:48
happens through me in life and the other
25:51
is the doer of everything that happens
25:53
through them in life so that belief i am
25:57
the doer is really a way of seeing
25:59
everything that happens through this
26:03
body mind organism and through the other
26:04
body mind organism and it’s an
26:08
inaccurate way of seeing and but
26:10
essentially what i’m pointing out here
26:11
is that the belief in personal doership
26:13
is an attitude a way of seeing and
26:17
interpreting what happens so it
26:20
interprets a thought that arises is my
26:24
thought my doing I created it it
26:28
interprets the words so that are coming
26:30
out of our mouths as my words my doing
26:35
I’m in control of those words it
26:39
interprets the actions of the body as my
26:43
actions a result of my autonomy and
26:48
control and so then it sees the thoughts
26:56
and the emotions and the words and the
26:58
actions of the other in the same light
27:01
so this is the attitude of personal do
27:05
it’s a belief system a belief that says
27:08
I believe deep deep deep down inside
27:12
that I am the orchestrator the doer of
27:17
everything that happens through me and
27:19
therefore I believe that the other is
27:22
the orchestrator of everything that
27:25
happens through them and what I mean by
27:28
Orchestrator I mean some independent
27:33
autonomous entity that is insulated from
27:37
life and therefore being insulated is
27:41
some sort of controlling entity this
27:46
belief system essentially creates the
27:52
idea that there is a middle man in
27:54
inside of us like what me is that is
28:00
that the steering wheel deciding how to
28:05
function in each moment so if we’re
28:10
really honest with ourselves if we
28:11
really look at how we see ourselves how
28:16
we see the functioning that happens
28:19
through the body mind organism we’d say
28:22
like if we drop all sorts of concepts
28:25
that spiritual spirituality has given us
28:27
including these talks and we say like
28:31
honestly how do I see myself how do I
28:33
see the words that are coming out of my
28:36
mouth and the actions of the body and
28:40
when the belief in personal doer ship is
28:43
in place when we answer this question
28:47
honestly we’ll say well yeah I do
28:48
believe that I am a separate independent
28:52
entity that has complete volition
28:55
complete control over what I do next and
28:59
what I say next so if we can if we can
29:05
look at and ask ourself this question
29:07
how do I really see myself and how do I
29:11
relate to everything that happens
29:12
through me if we can say yes I do feel
29:15
like I am a separate in the
29:17
entity that there’s a degree of honesty
29:19
there an honesty means clarity now
29:28
hopefully a lot of people that are here
29:32
and listening to the recordings and the
29:34
live videos actually can look at answer
29:40
that question and honestly say well no I
29:43
don’t see myself like that anymore at
29:47
least maybe not completely like that but
29:52
let’s work on the basis that when we ask
29:56
this question how do I see myself and
29:58
how do I see all of the outputs of this
30:01
body let’s work on the basis that
30:04
honestly if we answer the question
30:07
honestly we say yes I do feel like I am
30:10
a separate independent doer meaning an
30:13
entity in control of everything that I
30:15
have ever said and feel and do and think
30:21
because that’s the that’s what I’m
30:24
pointing out as the belief that is not
30:27
in line with how things really are
30:36
so the next part is an explanation for
30:39
the working mind an explanation as to
30:45
why we’re not a separate independent
30:49
entity with complete volition complete
30:54
control over what happens next and this
31:04
is essentially the the most important
31:08
part of the teaching the explanation is
31:14
that what we are is a very complex
31:17
biological organism a human being is a
31:24
body mind organism that is conscious and
31:32
how did we come to be this yeah it’s
31:38
fascinating how the belief is in place
31:42
because the explanation is really quite
31:44
simple how did we come to be like we are
31:48
in each moment how did we come to be the
31:51
way we were when we were a five-year-old
31:53
and then we were a ten-year-old in a 20
31:57
year old and so on the explanation is
32:01
that the sperm and the egg came together
32:03
and formed an organism that had in it a
32:08
has in it a biological intelligence that
32:13
starts functioning at that very early
32:16
stage and the functioning of the
32:19
biological intelligence is to get the
32:21
organism to grow a certain way following
32:23
a certain blueprint and now it should be
32:26
really simple for us to see that the
32:29
resulting entity that it is that is here
32:32
and the resulting entity that was there
32:35
at the time wasn’t some autonomous
32:37
controller of the growing process but
32:40
rather the growing process happened in
32:42
personally as a result of impersonal
32:46
life
32:48
and at some point the organism had grown
32:52
to such a point that there was a heart
32:54
that started beating and then the brain
32:58
developed such that certain cognitive
33:01
function starts and the arms and the
33:04
legs developed and all the muscles and
33:06
nerves and everything developed so we
33:08
ran amazing the human being is an
33:11
amazingly complex and beautiful body
33:14
mind organism that has spawned out of
33:17
life and grown out of life and from the
33:22
moment that the organism came into
33:26
existence not only did it have an
33:28
internal blueprint that developed that
33:32
expanded according to the DNA structure
33:37
you could say that’s the internal
33:38
blueprint not only was that there but it
33:42
started being conditioned by the
33:45
external environment
33:53
and the external environment became part
33:57
of the growing process and so the child
34:05
being exposed to language being exposed
34:09
to the face the visual of the parents
34:14
and at some point seeing the mother walk
34:18
in the door and for the first time
34:21
saying mama wasn’t it’s doing as
34:26
something some entity that was in
34:29
control but rather it was an outcome
34:31
that was forced out of it based on its
34:33
development at that particular point in
34:36
time an action or a oh there’s a speech
34:42
couldn’t have happened a moment before
34:46
it couldn’t have happened a week before
34:48
the the child wasn’t developed such that
34:53
that happened and then on the day that
34:56
it happened it happened because of the
34:59
circumstance that the child found itself
35:03
in circumstance being a room let’s say
35:07
and then the mother entering the room
35:08
and the child becoming aware of the
35:12
mother and as a result of seeing
35:16
something the brain functioned a
35:19
particular way and the words came out
35:21
mama and then the mother gets all
35:26
excited and the baby smiles because the
35:32
mothers got all excited and said well
35:35
done or you’ve said mommy for the first
35:36
time that’s also part of the
35:39
circumstance that the baby now finds
35:41
itself in new circumstance and based on
35:44
its
35:52
so everything in life that happens
35:56
through us is a happening an automatic
36:02
happening according to our genes and
36:04
up-to-date-conditioning and the
36:06
circumstance we find ourself in
36:07
especially and including the thoughts
36:11
that arise in each moment the thoughts
36:14
are like cookies being spat out of a
36:17
cookie machine and the cookie machine in
36:22
this case is the the brain or the body
36:24
mind organism being exposed to a certain
36:28
environment and automatically thoughts
36:30
get thrown out and then there is an
36:34
awareness of those thoughts happening
36:36
and the thinking mind suddenly jumps in
36:40
and claims ownership over it as my
36:42
thought oh I shouldn’t have that thought
36:44
or I should have more of those thoughts
36:47
I’m very good for having that thought
36:49
and I’m very bad for having that thought
36:52
instead of saying that thought happened
36:55
the thought was witnessed as a happening
36:59
arising as a result of my genes enough
37:02
to date conditioning that I can thank or
37:04
blame God for now there is no God to
37:07
thank or blame it’s just a result of
37:10
life so not my doing but an
37:18
inevitability a happening this once
37:24
again isn’t an excuse for good or bad
37:30
actions happening this is the reason why
37:34
good or bad actions happen
37:43
and to call them good or bad actions we
37:45
have to set up a certain benchmark so it
37:50
is a good action or a bad action
37:52
relative to a certain benchmark if we
37:55
and setting up benchmarks is important
37:58
for certain practical tasks in life but
38:02
when it comes to seeing life clearly on
38:05
a a bigger picture basis it’s important
38:08
to understand that these benchmarks are
38:10
all relative benchmarks that we set in
38:12
place and from a more fundamental point
38:17
of view every one just is and they are
38:22
part of the overall manifestation of
38:26
life which also is so the idea of life
38:33
being good or bad from a certain
38:36
perspective doesn’t make sense it just
38:40
it is what it is we are what we are and
38:44
so holding that perspective for a while
38:48
where we don’t label anything as good or
38:51
bad because we just see it as part of
38:54
the manifestation and therefore very
39:00
valid because we understand this
39:05
manifestation is not a manifestation of
39:07
pleasure pleasure pleasure but a
39:09
manifestation of duality meaning more
39:16
simple ways the manifestation is a
39:18
manifestation of whatever it is so we
39:24
don’t even need to label it as a
39:26
manifestation of duality it it it is God
39:30
turned into this so from that
39:35
perspective we might find that we stop
39:40
labeling and judging everything is good
39:44
or bad which
39:47
has the capacity to bring us into the
39:50
present moment
39:57
because that judging of things as good
39:59
and bad is usually a judging relative to
40:02
my expectations which is part of the
40:04
thinking mind and so as the thinking
40:07
mind is interfered with by some new
40:12
conditioning that describes life
40:15
differently describes life differently
40:18
to the working mind and so then the
40:21
working mind said hey this makes sense
40:22
let me just allow life to just be let me
40:26
see life as a happening without
40:30
continually running a commentary on
40:33
whether it should or shouldn’t be that
40:35
way and if we do this we automatically
40:42
find that our view of life widens where
40:47
we’re not really interested in seeing
40:49
what we want to see but we’re interested
40:51
in seeing the whole of what’s happening
40:58
and when the thinking mind quietens down
41:02
like that and we’re interested in just
41:05
watching life happen for the sake of
41:08
life life for the sake of life then we
41:15
find there’s more presence and more
41:17
peace or connection to what we are at
41:22
the core of our being we start to
41:27
realize our other thinking mind is this
41:29
sort of layer this obstacle that when
41:34
it’s functioning when that thinking is
41:38
seen to be valid disconnects me from the
41:44
core of my being a core that is complete
41:49
in this moment complete in every moment
41:52
even in the moments when the thinking
41:54
mind was doing its thing and creating a
41:57
sense that things were missing we were
42:01
still complete at the core but that
42:04
completeness was covered up
42:09
so whenever the thinking mind gets
42:12
interrupted and we start experiencing
42:18
life free of the thinking mind we come
42:20
in contact with the core of who we are
42:24
and a little smile can come on to your
42:28
face each time that we reconnect and we
42:33
remember that Here I am here’s the what
42:38
a relief I’m back in contact with the
42:41
part of me that doesn’t require anything
42:45
to be a particular way part of me that
42:48
is at peace that is content you know
42:57
very simple and ordinary way
43:14
so even the expectation for peace can be
43:20
a problem if we’re saying well I hear
43:29
about this peace of mind now if it turns
43:35
into an expectation there’s going to be
43:37
a commentary and a thinking about this
43:41
peace of mind as if it’s something that
43:43
I don’t have that I would like to have
43:46
and how do I get it and then the
43:49
thinking mind is continually thinking
43:51
about what it doesn’t have and how it
43:53
needs to get it and actually it just
43:54
needs to stop and then we find our
44:00
here’s the peace
44:10
so the continual seeking with a certain
44:15
attitude is actually one of the
44:19
obstacles to that which we are looking
44:21
for but that’s stopping just stop and be
44:33
that only happens once life has
44:38
delivered enough new conditioning that
44:44
generates a stop of the thinking mind so
44:49
it’s a sort of a bit of a catch-22 we
44:52
need to seek in order to be exposed to
44:57
the information that eventually leads to
45:00
a stopping of the seeking and there’s
45:04
also a very interesting phase where the
45:10
seeking carries on but where there is no
45:13
attachment to outcome where there is no
45:16
seeker trying to do seeking where that
45:21
seeking has been surrendered and there’s
45:24
just a curiosity about seeing life as it
45:29
is and so the working mind can continue
45:31
to function pointing out our loop is
45:35
pleasure and pain but just with a
45:38
earnestness with a curiosity with an
45:42
interest in seeing things as they are
45:44
without having a strong expectation that
45:47
that seeing things as they are
45:49
will deliver something in particular
45:54
knowing that actually just the interest
45:57
and the earnestness to see things as
46:00
they are without an expectation delivers
46:05
effortlessly that which we are actually
46:09
looking for that’s that’s a very
46:11
specific point in the seeking where the
46:15
seeking continues to happen where
46:19
suffering still arises from time to time
46:21
and now the body mind organism
46:24
has been changed sufficiently that the
46:29
the the strong seeker looking for an
46:33
outcome has dissolved
46:46
so I’ve spoken long enough given it’s
46:53
about silence
47:32
have you got any questions
47:47
or comments they don’t have to be
47:50
questions
48:14
you
48:15
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48:18
maybe I’ve asked this before sometime
48:21
they’re very tired even though it’s just
48:25
two hours of talk but I don’t know
48:28
what’s going on that there’s just not
48:32
able to do so much after the talks and
48:35
sleep long hours and need for protection
48:41
in terms of clothing or sunglasses when
48:44
I step out is it connected to what’s
48:49
going on because the talks are not
48:52
happening I don’t experience this kind
48:55
of fatigue I have a theory on that
49:00
having experienced this sort of fatigue
49:04
myself when I was engaging in certain
49:08
teachings and that is that what is being
49:13
said one comes from deep grounding in a
49:18
theme of life that way and when that’s
49:23
the case in certain and the beliefs to
49:25
the contrary have fallen away
49:27
essentially the experience of life
49:33
changes such that there is a lot less
49:37
denseness in the experience because the
49:40
beliefs tend to be very dense forms of
49:45
consciousness you could say and so if
49:48
those beliefs exit the body what we find
49:52
is that there’s a lot of spaciousness
49:54
and you could say that that spaciousness
50:00
has a resonance to it or a frequency to
50:04
it so our experience changes frequency
50:07
in a way it becomes less dense and more
50:10
light so when the speaking is happening
50:14
it’s speaking coming from that place so
50:18
the words have a certain frequency to
50:21
them and not only do the words
50:26
themselves have a certain frequency but
50:30
the concepts are concepts that are
50:32
describing that that intuitively we know
50:36
to be accurate and so when the the words
50:45
and especially if they put in simple
50:48
language when the words come into the
50:50
system there can be a bit of a battle
50:53
that goes on in the system between the
50:58
understanding that is contained in the
51:03
words and what’s in our system which
51:07
often includes some of that
51:10
understanding and some of the
51:13
misunderstanding some of the opposite
51:16
ideas so when you read certain spiritual
51:22
texts some of the things that are said
51:26
can have a very piercing effect so I’m
51:31
saying because I used to experience it
51:32
when I would read certain texts and
51:36
maybe just a paragraph needs to be read
51:38
and then I find myself having to lie
51:40
down and sleep for two hours and so my
51:45
theory is that this this information is
51:50
very charged very to-the-point and when
51:53
it’s received in the system a fight
51:56
essentially starts like in a way you
52:01
could say that this information is like
52:03
the antidote to the misinformation in
52:07
our system and this fight sort of
52:13
requires a lot of body energy it’s
52:16
almost like our immune system our wisdom
52:20
immune system is being charged by the
52:25
exposure and then the wisdom immune
52:29
system goes into action and requires
52:32
energy so it shuts down certain
52:38
faculties of the body by making us tired
52:42
just like when we’re sick
52:44
the body requires energy so it shuts
52:46
down certain movements of the body and
52:51
when that resting happens I to feel I
52:57
used don’t know I was very connected to
52:58
him but and I used to feel this
53:00
happening inside and I was very
53:05
convinced that this is the process
53:06
happening in a way where I don’t need to
53:09
worry I just need to surrender and know
53:11
that the process is happening
53:23
it takes a bit of courage also to
53:26
surrender to this rest because people
53:33
around us won’t understand this process
53:37
they’ll be encouraging us to you know
53:40
get on with life you’re wasting your
53:41
life away and so at some point we
53:44
actually have maybe doubts of our own
53:47
and so the the pressure from other
53:51
people can become too much and we resist
53:54
this fatigue which is doing the opposite
53:58
of what the body is trying to get us to
54:01
do which is to surrender and let the
54:03
process happen surrender to the process
54:06
and so my suggestion and my input on
54:10
this is that this process is probably
54:15
the most legitimate and valuable project
54:20
that anyone can commit to in life and so
54:24
if we really feel that this is a process
54:28
that is happening for us that the change
54:30
is happening it might be slow but we see
54:33
that change is happening then we just
54:35
need to keep reminding ourselves that
54:37
regardless of what other people think
54:39
which often is based on their own
54:42
misunderstanding of life where they’re
54:45
not particularly happy or successful in
54:49
a meaningful way they might be outwardly
54:53
successful but when you really look and
54:56
say do they have what I’m really looking
54:59
for which is this peace of mind we can
55:03
often find that the people giving us
55:04
advice aren’t really great role models
55:11
when it comes to what we’re really
55:13
looking for so that doesn’t mean
55:16
necessarily being rude to them or
55:17
anything but it means understanding
55:19
their functioning the way that they’re
55:22
designed to function but what they’re
55:23
saying is not necessarily coming from a
55:26
place of wisdom so if we can appreciate
55:29
that this project that life has gifted
55:33
us
55:34
is actually the most valuable way that
55:37
we can spend our time nothing is a more
55:42
useful or valid way of spending time
55:46
than a project that reveals what we
55:50
truly are and delivers what we’re truly
55:52
looking for in life
55:58
so hopefully that can bring about an
56:05
overcoming of the doubts that we
56:07
sometimes have
56:29
actually what you say based upon that
56:38
certain process starts kind of
56:42
investigation but what I have observed
56:47
in myself is that it is mainly
56:50
intellectual it tries to seep down try
56:53
to touch the feelings but somehow I feel
56:55
fear and I somehow want to know connect
57:03
with the feelings and the body but there
57:08
is some kind of resistance which is
57:12
appearing so just wanted to share with
57:17
you a resistance when you come into the
57:20
body to the body and to the emotions
57:25
like heart then there is kind of fear
57:28
resistance I don’t want to go in that
57:31
direction such kind of feelings come up
57:37
yeah just escape then I can keep on
57:43
looking for certain activities and
57:45
distract myself mm-hmm so what you
57:49
described is an uncomfortableness or you
57:53
can use the word fear um
57:55
fear might be more correct but in
57:58
general we can use the word
57:59
uncomfortableness with life or with our
58:04
self with being in that place and I’ll
58:07
just let say we encounter an
58:09
uncomfortableness and uncomfortableness
58:13
stems from the misunderstandings that
58:16
are in the system because the
58:19
misunderstandings say I am x y&z;
58:27
essentially I am the doer and I need
58:29
life to be pleasure pleasure pleasure
58:31
and that’s a belief about who we are
58:33
that’s out of line with what we really
58:36
are
58:36
and then that self-identity small s
58:41
self-identity continually experiences
58:46
life as an attack on what it is and
58:52
every time that life is experienced as
58:54
an attack on what it is
58:56
this uncomfortableness with life with
59:01
oneself or with the other is part of
59:04
that resistance to life is part of how
59:09
we feel in the face of unfortunate
59:13
situation or situation that we we didn’t
59:15
expect all we didn’t want and so that’s
59:20
been happening historically throughout
59:23
our life and so that reaction then
59:26
inherently has a lot of
59:27
uncomfortableness in it and the best
59:30
that we’ve come up with is to distract
59:34
ourselves and suppress that
59:38
uncomfortableness so that
59:40
uncomfortableness hasn’t we haven’t been
59:43
equipped to deal with it
59:45
we haven’t been equipped to see that
59:49
it’s not based on an understanding of
59:55
who we are though the false
59:58
understanding of who we are is in place
59:59
and so we feel this and we think well
60:03
that’s just how life is and so the best
60:07
we have is the ability to suppress it
60:10
the body finds a way of suppressing this
60:13
uncomfortableness and that means we’ve
60:18
got a lifetime of guilt and blame that
60:24
we’re carrying around with us and guilt
60:28
and blame essentially is an
60:30
uncomfortableness with oneself and with
60:32
the other and it’s held in the body
60:38
system so part of the distraction that
60:41
is part of the suppressing of these
60:44
energies is to escape into ideas and
60:48
stories about the past and
60:50
future where in the story we make
60:53
ourself right or we imagine things in
60:56
the future that will create a positive
60:59
sense of who we are
61:01
so we’ve found this sort of better place
61:07
than feeling the uncomfortableness in
61:12
the stream of thinking and we haven’t
61:18
necessarily realized that that stream of
61:20
thinking is not the solution it’s a
61:23
band-aid of anything and so when the
61:29
pointers start pointing out that this
61:32
being caught in in the thinking mind and
61:35
being disconnected from the body is part
61:38
of the problem we have to come back into
61:39
the body and become present with life
61:47
and start seeing life as it is rather
61:51
than seeing it through a conceptual
61:53
framework we then okay so yes okay I’ll
61:57
start coming back here but when we come
62:00
back what we encounter is all of the
62:04
uncomfortableness that’s been locked
62:06
away in the body and so then it can
62:13
start to feel counterintuitive to come
62:15
into the body so we say no this isn’t
62:19
good and we go back into the the other
62:22
place out into back into our thinking
62:27
and ultimately if we don’t come into the
62:31
body and start seeing what this
62:33
uncomfortableness is it just is going to
62:35
perpetuate it’s going to remain there
62:36
and the deeply ingrained beliefs of
62:39
personal doership and attachment to
62:40
outcome are actually contained in this
62:43
energetic load in the body so they
62:48
dissolve not only by the working mind
62:52
getting a good intellectual
62:55
understanding but by us becoming
62:58
familiar of the misunderstanding
63:01
contained in the body
63:03
and as we see the misunderstanding
63:06
that’s contained in the body then the
63:11
intellectual of the intellectual
63:13
understanding of the working mind gets
63:15
to be applied to that misunderstanding
63:17
and that means that the understanding
63:21
goes deeper and deeper and deeper so
63:25
what you’ve described this is simply a
63:28
description when I come into the body
63:30
there is an uncomfortableness um what is
63:36
that and what to do think how to
63:40
approach it and so the description I’ve
63:43
given is that uncut that
63:44
uncomfortableness is the
63:45
uncomfortableness of the past
63:49
that happened when life unfolded and we
63:52
interpreted it from a point of view of
63:55
personal do ership both myself in the
63:57
doer with attachment to outcomes where
64:00
we believed that we needed life to be a
64:02
particular way in order for it to be
64:04
okay and it was repressed my description
64:11
suggests that the deeply ingrained
64:12
beliefs of doer ship and attachment to
64:14
outcomes are not only held in our
64:18
conscious mind but a large store the
64:22
root of this doer ship an attachment to
64:25
outcome is connected in the body and
64:30
contained in these feelings so if we can
64:36
understand that these feelings can’t
64:38
actually hurt us they can’t kill us
64:41
although that’s what it feels like when
64:44
we rest in there the feeling is that
64:46
this is going to kill me because that’s
64:52
what the circumstance in the past was
64:56
interpreted as by the self identity when
65:01
life doesn’t turn out the way we feel it
65:05
needs to essentially that is felt like a
65:08
an attack on Who I am and if that attack
65:12
is big enough it will its sense that it
65:14
will kill me
65:16
not necessarily physically kill me but
65:18
but it is a such an attack on my
65:22
self-identity that if the attack is
65:24
strong enough it will kill me
65:29
so those feelings of uncomfortableness
65:32
in the body essentially if we rest there
65:35
it’s telling us get out this is going to
65:38
kill you but it won’t it can’t those
65:42
feelings can’t kill you they can’t hurt
65:44
you they can’t even touch you so slowly
65:52
and I would suggest we do it slowly you
65:55
stay there just a little bit longer
65:58
knowing that it’s very important to
66:01
become aware of what has what’s unseen
66:05
what’s in the subconscious what’s
66:07
contained in the body because it will
66:10
reveal the particulars of your belief in
66:13
personal do ership and attachment to
66:15
outcome they will reveal certain hatreds
66:18
towards yourself and towards the other
66:21
because of certain outcomes that were
66:25
not in line with your preferences and
66:27
then the concept of belief in personal
66:30
doership and an attachment to outcome
66:32
which is a general a generic explanation
66:35
will be seen for yourself for your own
66:39
particular makeup so it then starts to
66:44
become not just a generic explanation
66:47
but you start to see the particular doer
66:49
ship an attachment to outcome that’s
66:51
contained in your system and that’s when
66:54
the real change starts to happen because
66:56
where you’re now coming in contact with
67:00
what is really there what’s in place so
67:03
you’re not just conceptually saying oh
67:06
well there are these beliefs in doer
67:08
ship and attachment outcome but you’re
67:09
seeing them yeah because the event that
67:13
happened in the past where someone lets
67:16
you down
67:16
at that point in time there was a
67:19
feeling I hate you for what you’ve done
67:22
that’s that’s the belief in personal do
67:25
oh sure blame towards the other for what
67:28
they have
67:29
the delivered pain to you and so when
67:32
that feeling is encountered we really
67:37
get just to see the doer ship that is
67:42
existent in our system and I wouldn’t
67:50
suggest you take this on as a practice
67:52
where the doers where some do or enters
67:56
it entity says I have to feel these
68:00
energies at all costs because that would
68:03
be more of the thinking mind trying to
68:06
take a description as a prescription so
68:10
what I’m describing is that if the body
68:13
mind organism gets reconditioned a
68:16
certain way there may be more
68:20
willingness more capacity to be with
68:24
these uncomfortable energies knowing
68:26
that it is useful to be with them so I’m
68:30
not suggesting that we push ourselves
68:33
beyond what naturally happens so just
68:38
the discussion that we’re having here
68:40
might have created a new reason for the
68:46
body to offer awareness attention to
68:50
rest in the uncomfortable feeling of
68:53
being in the body a little bit longer
68:55
than it would without this explanation
68:59
and in doing that
69:03
who knows what follows who knows what
69:07
insight comes or what’s seen but once
69:13
again the attitude of non-dual
69:16
means that if we if we’re watching and
69:20
we drop into the body at a certain point
69:23
in time we see that happening and if
69:27
there’s an uncomfortableness and then we
69:30
find ourselves moving away from that
69:33
distracting ourselves and not being
69:36
interested in looking in that direction
69:38
see that as a happening
69:40
don’t resist it and say oh no I have to
69:44
not distract myself just notice the
69:47
distracting happening and then you can
69:51
notice when the distracting HAP happens
69:53
and I don’t get to feel okay so just a
69:56
description just an observation of what
69:58
is without insisting that it be
70:01
different and then the next time that
70:05
you drop into the uncomfortable feeling
70:09
you might just find you’re witnessing
70:12
this you drop in and are witnessing this
70:15
and you feel the uncomfortableness and
70:18
then you might witness yourself staying
70:20
there longer than before
70:23
so the process really is a process that
70:26
happens well ideally it’s a process that
70:29
happens that’s what I was talking about
70:31
where the seeking gets to a point where
70:34
we’re not interested in making it happen
70:36
today we know that we can’t make it
70:40
happen today it might be a gradual
70:43
process and that’s when the seeking
70:48
continues to happen but it’s much less
70:50
much more effortless because there isn’t
70:55
someone insisting on it being a certain
70:59
way
71:03
and if you do manage to remain in the
71:07
feeling long enough that it starts to
71:09
reveal more about what it is because at
71:13
first it can seem like just undefined
71:19
uncomfortableness what’s really
71:23
beneficial if it starts to become much
71:25
more defined which might mean we start
71:29
feeling some uncomfortableness in more
71:34
detail from the past which might mean
71:36
then some thoughts of extreme blame or
71:40
hatred towards someone and if our
71:46
working mind isn’t equipped a certain
71:50
way we might draw the conclusion that
71:53
though this isn’t helpful this is me
71:55
being very unenlightened you know
71:57
blaming the other for what they’ve done
71:59
but actually what’s happening is we’re
72:02
tapping into a blame that has happened
72:05
in the past and needs to be atoned needs
72:08
to be seen in a different light and in
72:12
order for it to be seen in a different
72:13
light it needs to be seen in the light
72:15
that it exists in right the blame itself
72:18
needs to be seen they’re seeing it in a
72:21
different light happens simultaneous to
72:23
the blame presenting itself in its full
72:26
force so what I’m suggesting here is if
72:31
the uncomfortableness starts to change
72:36
from being undefined uncomfortableness
72:40
to now being the remembering of a
72:42
specific event that has a very defined
72:46
uncomfortableness in it that’s very
72:48
useful and not to think that that coming
72:53
up is in opposition to your
72:55
enlightenment it’s not in opposition to
72:59
the end of blame it’s actually
73:01
supportive of the process of the end of
73:03
blame so this this is where a bit tricky
73:05
because we think well here I am sort of
73:08
we might think that we’re reinforcing
73:11
the story or believing the story by
73:15
allowing it to come up
73:17
but what you’re doing is you’re allowing
73:19
it to present itself in the way it was
73:21
locked away in the past a way that we’ve
73:24
suppressed so allow it to come up and so
73:31
finding a private space you can go into
73:33
where you don’t have to worry about
73:35
other people and what they might think
73:38
about this expression and put words onto
73:42
it allow it to develop however it
73:47
develops you know so the motion might
73:50
become very intense and you might start
73:52
shouting you might start crying just
73:55
witness all of that as the movement of
74:00
an energy that has been suppressed in
74:02
the body and essentially is what
74:03
continues to force you to see the other
74:09
in this moment through the eyes of doer
74:11
ship and attachment to outcome and as
74:14
more and more of this starts to come out
74:18
of the system less and less doer ship
74:23
and attachment remains in the system and
74:26
then automatically we find that our
74:29
relationship to the other starts to
74:32
change in a surprising way we find
74:34
someone delivers pain and our reaction
74:38
is surprisingly different we might have
74:41
a biological reaction to the pain but we
74:44
find that the suffering doesn’t get
74:47
extended in time the story gets dropped
74:50
the only reason it’s got dropped is not
74:52
because we are now doing the dropping
74:54
but because the ingrained doer ship an
74:57
attachment to outcome that was in the
75:00
body that was forcing the previous
75:03
resistance to happen has started to
75:07
leave the body and so now we’re seeing
75:11
things without any effort more naturally
75:16
you could say or more in line with the
75:18
way they actually are we automatically
75:21
see the other as an instrument that is
75:25
part of life delivering pleasure or pain
75:27
as is destined
75:30
we might biologically react one way or
75:35
another we will biologically react one
75:37
way or another and then horizontally in
75:41
time the resistance which is the load of
75:44
suffering on top of the biological
75:46
reaction doesn’t happen
75:57
thank you thank you
76:13
it’s it’s interesting that you mentioned
76:17
a while ago that an individual in whose
76:22
case the beliefs in doership and
76:24
outcomes have dissolved as probably a
76:27
certain energy emanation or a frequency
76:30
emanation I mean the words are if I
76:34
could simply put it as presence so could
76:37
you shed more light on this topic in the
76:40
sense that sometimes is it also true
76:42
that just being in the presence of such
76:44
an individual can start triggering
76:46
processes within you which you may not
76:49
necessarily bring about yes but I
76:53
wouldn’t want this topic to be
76:56
misinterpreted as if someone has
76:59
something that you don’t have and that
77:01
they can give you something you don’t
77:05
have which is often how this topic of
77:09
transmission is related to so
77:14
essentially I the way I would address
77:18
the topic is that the human being is an
77:21
energetic well you could say let’s look
77:24
at it first as a biological organism
77:26
very complex biological organism but
77:29
clearly that biological organism
77:31
includes very powerful energetic
77:35
components to it the thinking process in
77:39
the brain is electromagnetics
77:42
form of there’s just energy throughout
77:44
the whole system everything in life has
77:48
a an energetic component to it and so
77:52
the body is producing heat all the time
77:54
and many different other forms of energy
78:00
so our whole system is an energetic unit
78:07
and depending on our makeup that
78:12
energetic formation or structure would
78:17
be will be different and so the notion
78:21
that I put forward is that certain
78:23
beliefs have a fairly dense
78:26
energetic frequency and therefore we get
78:30
to experience life and it will include
78:36
that denseness if those beliefs are in
78:39
place so what we might feel is that if
78:45
we’re next to someone with very heavy
78:50
belief systems we might actually feel
78:52
heavy just because the body is an
78:56
energetic system and so the energy
78:59
emanates outwards and with energy I’m
79:03
not a physicist but in a sense the
79:07
energy will continue to emanate out
79:09
indefinitely but it will get less and
79:12
less strong as it gets further and
79:14
further away from its source but in
79:19
theory it will continue to extend out
79:22
infinity into infinity but getting
79:27
smaller and smaller in a sense but never
79:28
ending so the notion is that the energy
79:33
emanating from all of us is one big
79:38
intertwined energetic system and so very
79:45
simply I guess that if the beliefs
79:47
aren’t there and there is a connection
79:49
to form of consciousness or an
79:54
expression of consciousness that is less
79:56
dense and what we could call the core of
80:00
who we are so not a belief of who we are
80:04
not a thought of who we are but maybe
80:08
that consciousness that just is that has
80:12
an energetic blueprint frequency and so
80:20
it makes sense that we might then be
80:24
able to feel that
80:25
and so the
80:27
analogy would be like a two tuning forks
80:30
and one tuning fork has the capacity to
80:34
bring the other tuning fork into the
80:36
same frequency as it vibrates that um
80:40
and so what we often find is if we are
80:43
in that space the concepts that are put
80:46
forward makes so much sense it’s like
80:50
our yeah well I get it because we are
80:55
now in a way we’re resonating or
80:58
vibrating at that light of frequency
81:01
where things just are seen that way and
81:05
then if we move out into the world and
81:10
the frequency changes again then the
81:13
concepts we have this sense where I’ve
81:15
made so much sense then I but now I
81:18
can’t put my feel as as clear the
81:24
insight in a sense isn’t there and so
81:30
this can sound like we don’t have what
81:35
the other person has but really what it
81:37
is is we have a little bit extra in
81:41
terms of extra beliefs that have an
81:45
extra density to them and the process is
81:48
really about those beliefs diminishing
81:51
and revealing the core that we all have
81:56
so the the lighter frequency I’m
82:00
speaking about is the core of the human
82:03
being
82:03
so everyone actually has it that there’s
82:06
just this other addition that prevents
82:09
it from being felt so it makes sense
82:12
that our process can be aided by being
82:16
in certain places and there are places
82:21
on the planet that have this seem to
82:23
have this vibration not just people it
82:28
can be aided by being in the presence of
82:30
a person but in my opinion it’s the the
82:34
aid is where we not it’s the
82:38
the purpose is not just to sit in that
82:39
being that’s part of it so it’s very
82:42
important in this process to drop into
82:44
being regularly but also to start
82:48
contemplating because the contemplating
82:52
starts undoing being part of the process
82:54
of undoing the core of the thinking mind
82:57
and as that happens when we then move
83:00
away some of the load has been reduced
83:06
which means we can move away and have
83:08
more of our own clarity
83:10
so really it’s always about revealing
83:14
the wisdom within ourselves which we all
83:17
have and if someone becomes too attached
83:20
to the feeling and thinking and thinking
83:23
it’s about the other person then you
83:27
know it becomes an attachment and
83:29
expectation so I’m sort of a bit
83:34
reluctant sometimes to speak about this
83:36
I know that I experienced it when I was
83:40
with Ramesh but it also become became
83:43
very clear to me than as the
83:45
contemplating and the process happens
83:49
within our own system we have our own
83:51
guidance system that’s what the Satguru
83:53
is where really the external information
83:58
really just becomes the basis of our own
84:01
contemplation and our own realizations
84:03
and then we find that this energy that
84:06
seemed to be belong to one person is
84:10
what we all have inside of ourselves
84:47
it’s so amazing how you in your talks
84:55
you bring out impersonate that
85:00
neutrality that you point to or guide to
85:04
it’s like it’s not separate from the
85:07
details of how you say what you are
85:12
pointing to is exactly what it is in the
85:16
saying itself I just I was just too
85:20
amazed
85:27
thank you very much I did have a
85:30
question which I was getting from the
85:32
first session I didn’t ask it may not be
85:36
very relevant here but I’ll still speak
85:38
it out if you feel we you might want to
85:42
discuss it next time it’s also alright
85:46
you often mentioned dropping to the
85:48
heart and this is something which
85:52
puzzles me often and I’m wondering if
85:57
it’s also a just a description kind of
86:01
in my experience when it happens it
86:03
happens when it does not happen it does
86:04
not happen there’s nothing I can do to
86:07
drop into my heart because when I try to
86:09
drop in my heart that’s exactly when I’m
86:11
not exactly dropping into my heart so if
86:15
you can say a few more words about it it
86:18
might clarify it yeah so all of the the
86:21
deeply deeply ingrained understanding
86:24
well it’s not even deeply deeply
86:27
ingrained the absence of the opposite
86:30
understanding is that no one ever does
86:34
anything as a as a doer but rather life
86:40
is always functioning so in each moment
86:41
it’s simply the genes and
86:44
up-to-date-conditioning of a human being
86:47
functioning and there’s no separate doer
86:52
other than the body mind organism
86:55
functioning and so there never is
86:58
whatever is said is never a prescribed
87:02
– a doer to do anything even if it can
87:06
sound on the surface like it is vigor
87:10
usually it sounds like an instruction or
87:12
a prescription because we’re so used to
87:16
knowing our self or thinking of ourself
87:18
as the doer so whenever we get told
87:22
about something or something described
87:25
we interpret it as an instruction but it
87:30
isn’t an instruction it’s a description
87:32
like you said so everything that is said
87:34
is a description of what may happen and
87:40
not a prescription for someone or for
87:44
something to do oh not a prescription
87:48
for something for someone to do so
87:52
dropping into the heart so even if I say
87:56
drop into the heart it can sound like a
87:59
prescription hmm it can sound like I’m
88:02
telling someone to do dropping into the
88:04
heart
88:05
but actually it’s a description of what
88:07
might happen as you were walking down
88:09
the street that dropping into the heart
88:13
might happen so usually I would say if
88:16
you like if you drop into the heart
88:19
which really means if dropping into the
88:21
heart happens the thinking mind gets cut
88:25
off so once again the doer will hear
88:29
this and think oh the thinking mind will
88:32
get cut off if dropping into the heart
88:34
happens therefore what he’s telling me
88:36
to do is to drop into the heart in order
88:39
for the thinking to stop so that would
88:42
be the doers interpret interpretation
88:45
because it’s attached to an outcome it’s
88:47
attached to the thinking mind stopping
88:49
so it says okay so I have to do dropping
88:52
into the heart
88:52
many if anyone who’s listening to the
88:56
talks if they can keep in mind that the
88:58
talks are always descriptions of what
89:02
might happen and not a prescription of
89:05
something that someone has to do so
89:09
let’s talk about dropping into the heart
89:15
because it is something that can happen
89:17
and it can happen as a result of the
89:22
body mind organism becoming
89:24
reconditioned with information that
89:30
leads to our dropping into the heart
89:37
which if it happens is not someone’s
89:41
doing but simply the functioning of the
89:45
body mind organism that has been
89:48
equipped with some new information not
89:52
only new information but basically the
89:55
new information has changed the body
89:59
mind organism so in my process at some
90:05
point when I was reading I am that and
90:08
the teachings of nyssa Goethe after
90:15
months and years it becomes very clear
90:18
that he’s teaching is essentially
90:22
telling us you are not the body you are
90:26
consciousness not that that’s the truth
90:29
but it’s a important bit of information
90:34
that can aid in a movement in a change
90:40
in the way we relate to life so his
90:44
teachings saying you’re not the body you
90:46
are consciousness you are formless
90:47
awareness that which is aware of the
90:52
body that which is aware of the whole
90:55
universe what he means by universe is
90:58
the universe as its presenting in front
91:00
of you right now so this essentially is
91:04
the universe if we think that we are
91:08
awareness aware of the whole universe is
91:11
something very big will one will have
91:14
this expectation then one day I’ll bump
91:16
into or shift into being some godlike
91:21
awareness that is aware of the whole
91:24
universe light years of galaxies and
91:28
um planets and and we might be waiting
91:31
to have the awareness of the universe as
91:34
a universe some conceptual universe that
91:40
is out there as I came to relate to the
91:47
teaching you are not the body you are
91:49
awareness your consciousness in which
91:51
the universe or the world arises and
91:54
he’s talking about the world as it
91:56
presents in the present moment so within
91:58
the field of awareness and the other
92:03
part of his teaching is and I’m
92:06
simplifying it but rather relevant to
92:09
this topic abide in I am
92:15
that was what Nyssa got out as guru
92:20
instructed or necessarily instructed as
92:25
a prescription but as new conditioning
92:28
told him abide in I am that’s all that
92:31
is required and so Nyssa katate said
92:35
that I trusted my guru and so I found
92:42
that abiding in I am happened and after
92:45
three years of this movement of
92:49
returning to I am returning to the heart
92:54
self-realization happened so abide in I
93:02
am is a very powerful part of his
93:06
teaching and the question is what does
93:09
it mean
93:16
for me what it came to mean is that you
93:19
isn’t there’s the thinking mind and the
93:23
thinking mind is not who I am the
93:27
thinking mind is a self-identity
93:30
so if you abide in the thinking mind
93:32
you’re not in touch with the core of
93:37
your being and then there is a pointing
93:42
to what you truly are is to be found in
93:47
the heart let’s say not the physical
93:49
heart but what’s referred to as the
93:50
spiritual heart in the body or it’s not
93:54
actually in the physical body but it’s
93:56
not necessarily to be found out there
94:02
but rather by dropping into the
94:05
spiritual heart and knowing yourself
94:12
prior to any thought knowing what you
94:16
are that doesn’t require you to think it
94:19
into existence so what I found
94:26
started happening automatically was that
94:30
thanks to the pointers that I’m putting
94:35
forward that talking about suffering in
94:37
practical terms there was a clear
94:41
understanding that guilt and blame and
94:43
pride worry anxiety expectation an
94:46
attachment to outcomes are all of the
94:49
different forms of the thinking mind and
94:51
all of the different forms of the small
94:53
self all of the different forms of
94:56
remaining outside of a connection to
94:58
what we are so that became clear
95:02
intellectually and then I also started
95:08
experiencing the dropping out of that
95:11
thinking where life is able to be
95:18
observed or witnessed without a stream
95:21
of thought and a sense of who I am as
95:26
awareness or beingness or consciousness
95:29
presents like a it’s like a different
95:33
gear where we can rest feel our
95:39
existence witness life but without
95:43
needing to think about our own existence
95:46
without needing to label everything and
95:49
so this understanding intellectual
95:53
understanding and experiential shift
95:57
into this place of being meant that an
96:02
effortless practice started to happen
96:05
and that effortless practice was that
96:08
whenever the working mind and awareness
96:11
recognized that the thinking mind was at
96:13
play the thought I am arose and the
96:18
thought I am was included in it
96:22
essentially all of my understanding
96:24
about how suffering is not based on an
96:30
understanding of life and who I am that
96:34
it’s not actually going to get me where
96:36
we really want to be which is a
96:38
connection to oneself and so as the
96:42
thought I am arose it effectively cut
96:47
off the thinking of the thinking mind
96:50
and reminded me to drop into the heart
96:53
and just be and at first what I’d find
96:58
is that I drop into that place of being
97:01
and before I knew it would get dragged
97:04
back out into the thinking mind and
97:09
that’s okay that’s just how the process
97:13
works because the thinking mind can be
97:15
very can have quite a momentum to it and
97:24
I did let’s say dragged out back into
97:27
the thinking without even realizing that
97:29
that had happened and maybe 15 minutes
97:31
later awareness of their thinking having
97:35
started up again happens and the thought
97:38
I am just arises cuts off
97:42
the thinking and we get to drop into
97:46
this other place of being where we
97:49
realize I am what it means when we know
97:53
that there is this place of being where
97:55
I don’t need to think it into existence
97:57
I already am it essentially means that
98:02
all this thinking about what I need in
98:04
the future is all misunderstanding
98:07
it’s the misunderstanding that has
98:10
forgotten no you already are so once
98:17
again when the awareness becomes aware
98:18
of the thinking mind the thought I am
98:20
arises and says that’s not necessary you
98:24
exist
98:25
now rest there and so we don’t make the
98:32
dropping into I am happen because we
98:36
don’t make the awareness of the thinking
98:39
mind happen we don’t make the thinking
98:42
mind happen either so what the whole
98:44
process is a process where the thinking
98:47
mind starts oh it’s already going and
98:51
then the working mind and awareness
98:54
recognizes that the thinking mind has
98:58
has been going has been happening which
99:02
in itself is a happening the recognition
99:04
is a happening and then the thought I am
99:07
which contains in it all of the
99:10
understanding that that thinking really
99:12
doesn’t serve a purpose that arises as a
99:16
happening and the dropping into I am or
99:22
being happens not something that you do
99:26
the whole thing is a sequential
99:29
happening based on your genes and
99:32
up-to-date-conditioning so listening to
99:33
this explanation is not a prescription
99:39
of something for you to do but it’s new
99:41
conditioning that becomes part of our
99:44
up-to-date-conditioning and then the
99:48
body starts functioning automatically so
99:50
you don’t need to go out and make
99:53
this happen it happens if the
99:59
conditioning becomes aware of the
100:02
thinking mind that very same
100:05
conditioning of the working mind might
100:07
throw up the thought I am and then a
100:11
dropping into being might happen or
100:14
automatic now the thought I am could be
100:17
replaced by any other word or thought
100:20
you like it could be stop and drop into
100:26
being now once again it sounds like I’m
100:30
saying you have to drop into being but
100:31
it’s it’s this automatic sequential
100:34
movement recognizing of the thinking
100:38
mind the thoughts stop stop contains in
100:43
it stop this is not helpful this is not
100:45
useful this is actually the obstacle to
100:47
where you need to be but we don’t need
100:49
to keep saying that actually it’s much
100:52
more effective if it’s just a sharp
100:55
thought that just arises that thought
100:57
becomes like a bookend for the thinking
101:00
mind and then we have the capacity or
101:04
not the capacity a movement happens of
101:06
dropping into being and over weeks so
101:10
you might this might happen once a day
101:12
it might happen 20 times a day why not
101:16
if the thinking mind kicks up 20 times
101:18
and it’s recognized we might find this
101:22
stop arising 20 times in the day or a
101:26
hundred times in the day at first we
101:29
might find ourself resting in being for
101:31
a second or two for half a second but in
101:35
time the capacity to rest in being
101:43
increases
101:46
it becomes more known as our home and
101:52
that means less of the thinking mind
101:57
what it also means is we get first-hand
102:01
experience all knowledge of this part of
102:05
the human being that the part of our
102:09
self as a person as a human being that
102:12
we were completely disconnected from a
102:16
part of ourself that isn’t interested in
102:20
changing life but more interested in
102:22
being part of life witnessing life
102:35
thank you very much you’re welcome
102:40
can I ask one more question um this is
102:46
probably again to understand a little
102:49
more about this itself it’s about that
102:57
place where we where we start to feel
103:01
intense joy sometimes it’s that in any
103:06
way connected to this or I mean can you
103:10
just say anything about that I don’t
103:12
know how to ask the right question about
103:14
it um intense joy is I guess you could
103:20
say an aspect of ourselves but it’s not
103:25
the aspect of ourself that can be there
103:28
on a continuous unbroken basis the
103:31
aspect of ourself that can be there on a
103:33
continuous unbroken basis to me is the
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peace because an example of this is if
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your mother is dying that’s saying does
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it make sense that you’re going to be
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experiencing intense joy and to me the
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answer is no certain circumstances don’t
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support certain feelings certain
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expressions and yet on the other hand
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the basic nature of ourself that which
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I’m describing as peace with
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circumstance is something that can
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happen when your mother is dying
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there can be a biological sadness
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happening but there can be this
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background of equanimity and knowing
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that this is not in any way an attack on
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Who I am
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that the fact that a parent is dying is
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not part of who I am being taken away
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and so from that point the biological
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the biological sadness the biological
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pain of seeing them in pain for example
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can be there and yet there is an
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equanimity and a peace whereas to
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understand that there is the biological
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pain and sadness of seeing that event
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and simultaneously joy to me doesn’t
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doesn’t make so much sense and so often
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when people talk about bliss and and joy
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and love when you if I if I point out
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certain things to them they’ll agree
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actually peace is a better word for what
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they are talking about and this is one
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of the problems in a way that if we use
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words like joy and love and bliss to
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describe peace then that can be create
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the opposite of clarity it can create
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confusion because we were waiting for
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this bliss or joy to arise and I don’t
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believe that’s something that’s
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available on a continuous unbroken basis
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whereas peace to me makes complete sense
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that you can be at peace by being
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grounded in yourself and still find
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yourself in unfortunate circumstance
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having said that out of the peace and
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the connection with oneself from time to
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time if circumstance is supportive we
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find these more complex expressions of
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self like bliss and love and joy and or
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but those are they they rise and fall
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and so we can enjoy them and appreciate
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them when they when they’re there but
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not relate to them as though they need
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to be or can be the lowest common
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denominator and denominator unbroken
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experience
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yeah and to the same effect I see that
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in me the thought of that being at them
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being a distraction Rises quite a few
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times it is I also wanted to clarify
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it’s it’s a neutral standpoint that
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works best I believe there also but it’s
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difficult to have neutral standpoint you
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have intense when you have intense joy
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or intense suffering intense joy yeah so
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these these gushes that come in often
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are related somewhat to the phenomena of
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contrast when our life starts changing
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such that the suffering which has become
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like a background and we’re so used to
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it when that starts falling away and the
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absence of that is is there which is
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sort of like having a headache and then
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the headaches stopping the contrast
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between the two states can make it seem
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like the experience of it can be as if
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something positive is added in so when
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the headache stops we have ahh this is
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bliss but it’s only bliss relative to
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the uncomfortableness or the pain of the
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headache and so if suffering was there
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and suffering is as strong an
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uncomfortableness and then it stops an
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actually mistake piece for bliss because
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of the contrast effect whereas if the
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headache stops what’s really there is
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normal health that’s saying and when
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normal health is there consistently you
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no longer have the contrast and so you
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don’t experience it as blissful you
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don’t that’s bliss and in the same way
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when the piece becomes more consistent
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it becomes known as actually just peace
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not something relative to the absence of
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peace and on top of that when this
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shifting is happening and maybe we’re
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not completely familiar with this is our
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true nature as what we are a lot of
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thoughts of appreciation and gratitude
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can come in and that the thought of the
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gratitude gratitude to God for bringing
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these shifts in can be experienced as
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joy and or and so if we look at it
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closely we see are actually the joy is
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not just the lowest common denominator
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of our true essence but that
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appreciating the life we’re in and the
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thought is that there’s a thought in the
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appreciation thank you and what more can
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I ask for and that can then turn into a
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feeling of joy and appreciation
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gratitude and so they’re all beautiful
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things I’m not trying to dismiss them or
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reduce it down or say they’re not
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significant I’m just trying to create
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descriptions that allow us to appreciate
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them for what they are essentially and
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so that which is available according to
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this teaching on a continuous unbroken
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basis regardless of the circumstance is
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a very simple internal equanimity and
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peace that equates to the absence of the
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thinking mind the absence of suffering
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and a connection to the core of our
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being which means we know our connection
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to source and that connection to source
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provides a very subtle but powerful
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sense of
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peace and contentment