Most people are carrying such a huge baggage in their mind as if they're carrying the whole universe on their head.
This is their own psychological condition.
I ask you,
When are we going to figure out how to create this whole universe?
This is their own psychological condition.
I ask you,
When are we going to figure out how to create a foundation of peace?
How to befriend the very essence of life that is challenging us and bringing all these difficulties into our experience.
So the individual must dedicate at least a little piece of themselves in every moment to be present and dissolve the fabrications of the mind that project things have to be the way that they want them in order to live well here on earth.
Your assumptions that there is a better place coming after death is not within your experience.
So you have to believe it will happen.
But if you don't want to have to make assumptions and be let down when expectations don't get met,
Then,
You know,
This is not a very good insurance policy for yourself.
It's not the best way to learn how to manage your basic faculties of thought and emotion now while you're living.
This one thing you must clear up.
That we are not the issue in our lives.
There's going to be many,
Many challenges that already are coming your way from the universe.
Chaos is around every corner.
But we have this moment to do our best and be a part of the solution for ourselves.
And if truly blossomed as an individual,
We can share that with the world.
If you want to heal,
You have to take radical responsibility for the way that you are.
What you are is a possibility for growth and transformation.
See,
Life as most people know it is a collection of mental impressions,
Emotional blueprints,
Physical pain and pleasure.
But that is not actually what you are.
That is only what you have gathered over time through what you've experienced.
If you've experienced something different,
You would have a different understanding of what you are.
That's why when we have moments of deep meditativeness and connect with the higher grid of intelligence,
So much of our strife and mental garbage just gets flushed away.
Because we've just been affirmed as a part of a greater web of life.
We've been put in our place in a very beautiful way because we just learned how to turn it off,
Switch the channel,
Tune in to that station dropped out from all the noise.
So how do we attract what we want in order to experience what we desire?
Or in other words,
If you want to transcend the limited scope of experience that you have already been exposed to and really go forward opening yourself up to the extraordinary nature of this phenomenon we call life,
Then you have to go within to experience that.
It's not out there in the world waiting for you.
It's inside.
You have to let go of this external world in order to really get connected with the internal universe that is inside you and everyone.
Please remember that in our purest essence,
In our divine order,
Without the fluctuations of the mind,
Body and heart,
A human being is a possibility.
No one else but you is responsible for allowing the flow of creation to initiate that possibility inside of you.
And you're not going to find the flow of creation out there floating somewhere in the wind.
It's inside of you.
It's the energy that gave you life and has sustained your life up until now.
The fundamental reality that you are mortal is the most important thing to gain clarity.
The fundamental reality that you are mortal is the most important thing for your clarity because you have a limited amount of time.
If you're on the spiritual path,
If you've gotten to here,
You have all these wonderful raw materials inside of you,
All this pain and trauma and juicy bits of life that have stuck around with you.
It drives you.
But if we forget that we have a limited amount of time on this earth,
We're going to get wrapped up in all kinds of things.
We're going to get distracted.
We're going to start going down a different path.
Before you know it,
A decade's gone by,
15 years have gone by,
20 years have gone by and we suddenly wake up and go,
Where have I been?
Or we were thinking all the time,
What will I do tomorrow?
Or,
Ah damn,
What did I do yesterday?
Right now,
This present moment is the only place that we have our power available to us.
There's nowhere else to be or where you want to be.
So this is the first part of spiritual practice.
It's realizing that the life that you perceive as you is not as you think.
It's not simply yours.
There's a part of you that's part of the earth.
That's your body.
There's also a part of you that's your ego.
That's the fabrications of your mind.
There's a part of you that is the silly notions that we have of life,
What we think life is.
But that's actually the universe.
It's the universe's territory.
But do you know what part of what you truly are is everything else?
See,
There's a greater intelligence functioning within you when you close your eyes,
When you put your body in a particular position to be relaxed and alert,
When you find your mind settled and clear,
When your emotions are settled.
There is another form of intelligence that comes awake within a human being when these things are in order,
When there's a certain atmosphere of conductivity.
We are on the grid every moment of our life.
We are constantly transacting with the world.
So we have this consistent,
Never-ending flow of information coming into us,
Our physical bodies from the universe,
Just through our breath.
Everything that it takes for the life forms to flourish and create oxygen for us in the air,
This huge,
Beautiful network of experience.
So when we breathe,
We can feel amazing just to be breathing,
Knowing that there is all this life already supporting us.
We came from this.
This is what we are.
The experience of breathing is the first point of contact for a meditator because if you were to stop breathing this moment,
Spirituality would not be at all in your experience.
You'd be focused on survival again.
So the fact that we can even focus on our spirituality,
The fact that we can even walk this spiritual path,
It's a blessing.
It's something that we should never take for granted.
So it's important to know that this body,
It's not actually us.
Who you are is not the body.
Who you are is not all these fabrications being created by the mind.
Who you are are not the undulations of motions up and down,
Left and right.
What you truly are is integrated,
Is a part of everything else,
Is a part of the universe.
Challenges do not appear in your way in order to stop you.
Challenges do not appear in your way in order to stop you.
Rather,
They appear in divine order to strengthen and sculpt you in your destiny.
Rather,
They appear in divine order to strengthen and sculpt you in your destiny.
Challenges,
Chaos,
And the darkness are not your enemy.
Challenges,
Chaos,
And the darkness are not your enemy.
They are your secret allies,
But only if you befriend them as potential teachers,
As you ride the flow of creation.
They are your secret allies,
But only if you befriend them as potential teachers,
As you ride the flow of creation.
Only when you are brave enough to explore the darkness and truly open to learn,
Will you discover the infinite power of your light.
Only when you are brave enough to explore the darkness and truly open to learn,
Will you discover the infinite power of your light.
