A very big aloha.
My name is Reverend Cindy Paulus,
And I wanted to talk about what's real.
And what's not real.
And the subject gets pretty deep.
Compounded with the fact that AI has become increasingly hard to detect.
I have been listening to a lot of music,
Been involved in music all my life.
I do my own music and my own words,
And I post,
And I don't use AI at all,
Although I have friends who do.
They use AI made for the music,
And now there's AI that sounds the same as what is actually being recorded by real people.
And there's this one artist that.
.
.
I happened to be thinking it was just wonderful,
Listening intensely to this wonderful,
Inspiring music,
And I found out it was AI.
And there was no notification on.
Spotify that it was AI is like,
Wow.
It's getting that unbelievably real.
So,
And of course,
This reflects on an interesting point that I wanted to talk about as well.
Which is what is reality anyway.
We are living in a world where there's a lot of illusion.
And the illusion is becoming stronger and stronger.
And some Buddhists,
Especially Zen Buddhism,
Which I'm a member of for a long,
Long time,
A group of Zen Buddhists that are based in Northern California in Sonoma County.
But in Zen Buddhism.
There's really at the base and core of that.
You know,
There's a profound.
That says nothing is real.
Everything is nothing,
Nothing is everything,
No thing is.
And it goes on into detail about how nothing is everything.
Is real.
And what's the point of that?
Why do you think that for?
Hundreds and hundreds of years.
Zen Buddhists such as the ones that follow the tradition of following the insight that comes from meditation.
Have been meditating on what's real and what's not real.
It's the illusion of life is very,
Very thick and very,
Very tricky and very,
Very believable.
And people have to accept it.
We create a lot of illusions in our life without even being aware of it.
Now this can go into so many levels of deepness that it's fascinating,
But When you go into nothingness,
There's no thing.
In nothing,
The word nothing is made up of no,
Dash things.
So when you have no thing.
What do you have when you have no things you can have indeed?
The absolute truth because there's no things involved,
Just the energy field that it's from.
Now,
I happen to not only be a Zen Buddhist,
But I'm also a mystic Christian.
And there is some people go,
There's very different being a Buddhist and being a Christian.
But for me,
I've been able to.
.
.
Combine the energy of both.
When I go into meditation.
And I also find that in meditation,
That's one of the few places where.
The fake stuff that's created out there in the world,
The phony stuff,
It can't and hasn't,
So far as I know,
Has not been invaded.
And taken over by AI.
And so it's a very precious tool to be able to go into meditation.
And to getting into that point where you can connect with your true self,
Your inner self.
Not an AI self,
But your true self.
That you can delve into in depth and go to the heights of that awareness that you can get to in meditation.
And this is really quite an amazing gift that I think is going to become even more and more precious.
As we see more and more AI.
Invading what we are looking at.
AI is actually going to be invading more and more movies.
They're using AI to create movies now.
Using AI obviously have taken over a lot of music that you aren't aware of that is music.
So you don't know it's AI music.
You think it's real.
I did with this one group.
I thought it was real and I really liked it.
I found out it was AI.
So we can easily get fooled.
By what's happening with AI.
AI takes a lot less time.
Than a person creating something.
And it's a shortcut,
Right?
And it's a shortcut that people are using more and more and more.
And so when we.
Really want to be true to what's real.
We need to search.
To find out that reality of what is present that is real.
And then look at that reality and realize that reality can be duplicated in many cases these days.
But in meditation and going within.
And going to that space inside you.
Within your heart and soul.
That's.
.
.
Can't be duplicated as far as I know yet.
Who knows,
Who knows how that can get duplicated.
But thank God that that's a safe space at this point.
And I think that makes it even more important and more valuable.
As a resource for you.
To go to the source in that resource is one of the greatest gifts you can have.
And the thing is,
It's absolutely free.
There's no charge.
You can go to that place inside and it's really valuable to try to cleanse yourself of all the stuff that's kind of.
Fooling you.
The world today.
It's a safe haven when you go inside to meditate and it's a fabulous gift that you can go to and I I'm so very,
Very grateful that I can reach out to you here and that I can connect with you and that.
I can encourage you to realize the importance.
Of that time that you have in meditation.
A time of going within and connecting to your true self,
That inner self that's so precious.
And I bow in deepest gratitude to you.
Gratitude to you always for being there and I appreciate that.
And I send you my love always.
Welcome to the home,
The place of peace that remains.
Welcome to the clear,
Clear light that is the soul's domain.
For we are all one together here.
We open up the door to the higher realms where light resides in the soul's domain.
The soul will carry us to a place where our love can find others who work for our destiny to find the soul's domain.
Will you know how to dance and laugh here and be at home like you've never quite felt before?
There are angels reaching out to you.
Can you feel them watching and guiding you on?
They'll guide you and protect you.
It's their job to watch out.
It's true.
So many blessings are there inside in the soul's domain.
Find the peace that lies inside and find it and you can claim a chance to be that peace and a chance to feel the real love in the soul's domain.
