The Greatest Secret That Everyone Thinks They Know

This is the greatest secret unknown to man today we try to tackle the hardest thing to convey to another person. With references to eastern and western mysticism in just a few moments you can change your perspective and maybe your whole outlook on life.

Transcript

Lao Tzu once said that the truth once spoken becomes a lie.

What Lao Tzu meant by that is what we're going to get into in this discussion over the next 15 minutes.

So my name is Douglas Gromins and thank you again for joining me.

For those of you that don't know who Lao Tzu was,

Lao Tzu was basically the founder of what they call Taoism.

And it's a Chinese philosophy of understanding dielectrics and understanding that when you realize that good and bad are dielectrics and they're equal and opposites,

That together combined they become one whole and one whole entity.

And understanding life in this totality,

This wholeness,

Helps you to become centered and live a spiritual life much easier.

And to understand where Lao Tzu's coming from,

Lao Tzu spent most of his life living in China.

He was a Chinese man and he was living in China and he shared his thoughts on the Tao.

And although Lao Tzu became very famous as a very wise,

Mystical man,

He never wrote anything down.

So for 40 years as he traveled through China and preached the Tao to different followers and ascetics everywhere,

He never wrote anything down.

And the reason for that was that because you have to understand that truth has to be experienced.

Truth can never be conveyed through words.

And when it does get conveyed through words,

It becomes a lie because you haven't experienced it.

Once you experience it,

Then you understand that that is truth.

But words are only here to help describe truth.

And as many have found listening to my tracks and the work that I've done,

Almost every time I do a track,

I never feel satisfied with it because there's always something I forgot or didn't say,

Or even if I did say it all right and everything came out perfectly as I meant to convey it,

You the listener might take it in differently and interpret it differently.

Because there's so many different variations and so many different minds and your education,

Your upbringing,

Your conditioning.

If you have a Western conditioning,

It may be very hard to accept the ways of the East.

And when I mean the ways of the East,

I mean the inner journey.

The journey that we go inside and try to find the center within us that's not moving.

You might ask,

Why is it so important to find the center that's not moving?

The center that's not moving contains truth.

The center that's not moving inside of you that has never moved.

In fact,

It hasn't moved since the beginning of the universe.

The center is this stillness,

This serenity,

And this calmness and peacefulness that contains love and abundance of bliss and everything.

It's non-moving because in essence,

It is everything.

But it has a center.

And as humans,

We've found that if we can dial into this centeredness,

Then our lives become peaceful and calm and still and compassionate and beautiful and all those other things.

So if the truth can't be told,

Then why do we keep trying?

Why make the effort?

And I guess my answer to that is that there are those of us out there that are trying our hardest to talk about truth,

Not directly,

But indirectly.

We talk about things close to the center.

And those things you can understand because they're abstract.

There's an essence to them that can be grasped.

The center can't be grasped.

And the more you try to grasp the center,

Then the more you get pulled away from it and more towards the periphery.

And the more towards the periphery you are,

The farther off balance you become.

Whether it is being too spiritual or just the opposite and being too indulgent in everything.

To help you understand this a little bit more,

Buddha,

The great Guatamala Buddha,

The great Buddhist called his way the middle path.

And to understand what Buddha meant by the middle path is that it could be understood by this following little story I'm getting ready to tell you.

So Buddha had many followers,

Many monks that they basically ate once a day.

They lived very minimalistically and they didn't want to be a burden on society.

So this great prince one time heard of Buddha and heard what a great man Buddha was and wanted to follow Buddha.

And Buddha had heard of this man before,

This prince.

He knew of him because he was a great musician.

He could play the sitar better than just about anybody.

He was one of the best sitar players in the whole country of India.

But anyway,

The young prince came to Buddha and asked if he could be initiated.

And Buddha said,

Well,

I don't know.

Maybe it may not be a good fit at this point in your life,

But I can't turn anybody away either.

So you go ahead and accept your sannyas.

You become a bhikkhu,

A follower of Buddha,

And take your alms and live the Buddhist way as these monks did.

But he had a problem because I guess he wanted to do everything in a hurry,

Kind of a Western attitude.

If the Buddhist monks ate once a day,

He would eat once every three days.

And if the Buddhist monks prayed for an hour,

He would meditate for like five hours.

And anyway,

He kept this up for a little while,

But his body started getting sick,

And he started getting ill.

He was feeling all spiritual and everything,

But his body was suffering because of his ascetic,

The way he was living his life.

It was too much.

So Buddha noticed that this young prince was not looking too good.

So he went up to him and said,

You know,

Hey,

I forget the young prince's name,

Forgive me for that.

But Buddha said to him,

I know you love the sitar.

And I know you're a very beautiful sitar player and everything.

So what happens,

He said,

Buddha said to the man,

What happens if the strings are too tight on the sitar?

And the young man replied,

Well,

It's chaotic and noisy,

And it doesn't sound right.

And he goes,

Well,

Then on the same factor,

What if those strings are too loose?

And then he says,

Well,

Then the music becomes dull,

And it doesn't sound good,

And it's off tune.

And then Buddha said,

Okay,

You've become like the strings that are too tight.

And others go about their lives with their strings too loose.

And Buddha carried on and said that it's not the middle path.

The middle path is not indulgence,

Nor repression.

It's right in the middle.

In order for music to sound alluring to the ear,

It has to be in tune.

Music has to have a certain beauty to it that allures people and makes them feel peaceful.

I've often asked myself sometimes,

Why does mankind love music so much?

And I think the answer is that it just makes us feel so good.

And also,

I think it puts a timestamp on things too,

That certain memories can be sparked or reignited when you listen to a song that you used to listen to when you were growing up.

For me,

It's music from the 70s or the 80s.

And I love how Kate Bush's song,

Running Up That Hill,

Became famous again.

I put the song out of my mind.

I haven't played it in years.

And it used to be in the 80s.

I was actually in England when the song came out.

And it came out in England a little bit before it came to America.

But I just absolutely loved Kate Bush's song.

And I loved her style,

And I thought it was very beautiful.

And now it's kind of really cool that this younger generation,

The millennials have rediscovered her.

And she's made it to the number one on the charts again.

I mean,

It's just so beautiful.

But when I listen to the Kate Bush song,

It just brings back so many memories.

And music has that ability.

It has that essence to it that can timestamp things for us and help us to retain certain things.

And a lot of really smart people have learned that when studying for a test or something,

If you can associate music to what you're trying to memorize,

Then it makes it a lot easier to memorize it.

But that's getting off track a little bit.

Let's go back to our centering.

To find this centering,

To experience the centering,

My words can only indicate you,

You will have to take the jump.

You have to take the leap yourself.

This is something that you'll have to find the courage to do.

But I will give you all these encouragements and words of advice to get you to the point where you can pierce time,

Basically.

Time is linear.

You could call it it's on a horizontal plane.

And the future is to the left and the past is to the right.

And right in the middle of this plane,

You could draw it like the Christian cross.

And right in the middle of the cross,

There's a pinpoint.

And that pinpoint is what we call the present moment.

And in the present moment,

Everything exists.

Because life is a continual present moment by present moment.

And it always stays that way.

And your consciousness becomes aware and centered when you realize that you're into this present moment.

Things pull you away from the present moment.

Fear will pull you to the left or to the right,

And greed will pull you off your center and pull you to the left or to the right.

And Jesus said that every man has his own cross to bear.

And Jesus said this long before he ever even thought he was going to be crucified.

So what Jesus meant by everyone has a cross to bear is that when you're living life in the center,

In the very center of the timeline and in the present moment,

A miracle happens.

And what the miracle is,

Is that the law of levitation starts to apply.

Some energy is pulled downwards towards the earth to ground you,

Which is a beautiful thing because you need grounding.

To be a balanced and spiritual and a radiant being who's full of life and is healthy,

Then you have to have grounding.

And then once you're grounded,

Then energy reverts and rises upward and the law of levitation applies.

And the energy that rises upwards opens up different chakras,

Different energy centers within your body.

And these energy centers coincide with what's going on with the maturity in your life.

Your physical maturity starts first in the first seven years of life,

Then the emotional maturity in the second seven years of life,

Then the intellectual and the third seven years of life.

And then usually by about 21 years old,

You're ready to start getting into spirituality.

You've developed and this new dimension opens up in life and you want to experience that dimension.

And that dimension is in the very center of our beings because there's three chakras below the heart center,

Which is the center,

And there's three chakras above it.

And the three chakras above are more associated with the beyond,

What's not so much this world but more of the other world,

The inner world.

But to enter those other chakras,

To have them open up and to experience them,

It takes a little bit of time meditating and maturing yourself.

And that's all you're doing when you're meditating is you're maturing your body,

You're maturing your soul.

And you may have lived millions of lives and maybe you never had this opportunity presented to you in this way to mature yourself because most people don't know much about anything past the heart.

Jesus takes you up to the heart.

Jesus knows at least that much.

And at the heart is where our center is,

Like I said,

And that's where God lives inside of us.

If you believe in God,

You don't have to believe in God to experience this center.

But I guarantee you if you raise your energy up and you become centered and still and you know this peacefulness and this calmness and you let go of greed and you let go of fear and you stay at the middle of that cross,

Then you'll experience things that no other has ever experienced or few others have ever experienced.

Some people experience it doing things actively.

And when you get caught up into doing something actively,

What happens is that the mind kind of stops and consciousness kind of takes over.

And you might be running,

You may be swimming or surfing or like I do in skydiving,

I make skydiving a meditation.

I don't,

It's not that I don't think,

But I try to keep centered while I'm skydiving.

And when I do that,

Like all the fear disappears.

All the greed and fear disappears and I just enjoy the jump.

So in a nutshell,

It's like,

You don't want to be all spiritual and no life or no living.

You have to find a balance in life.

And that's why Buddhist path,

The middle path,

And I'm not confounding Buddhism.

I'm not a Buddhist myself.

But what I'm confounding is that this centered way was also what Jesus was talking about.

It's what every mystic talks about.

But every time we talk about it something,

It gets misconstrued by millions of different opinions.

And all these opinions have never experienced the truth.

They've never experienced the centeredness.

And they talk as though they do and that they have experienced it.

And that keeps them from actually experiencing it.

So most experience this centering from meditation.

And some experience it from active sports and being active.

And we call that being active a form of Zen.

And Zen Buddhism has its own beauty to it.

It's active consciousness without thought.

And it has a beauty to it.

And it has an allure by many millions of people who have fallen in love with this essence because it's almost like instantaneous enlightenment.

You feel so close to God when you're experiencing this moment to moment existence,

Just being in the present moment.

I hope these words resonate within you and vibrate your soul and motivate you to try and experience this centeredness.

I grew up my whole life not really understanding or knowing anything about this spiritual center.

Even though I was a very spiritual person,

I didn't know about the centering.

It's not discussed in the West.

In the West,

It seemed like the more spiritual you were,

The more God would love you maybe,

Or the more godly you would seem to be.

But the balance is lost.

And God is life.

And as far as we know,

Really,

Life is all that there is.

We don't know death.

No one has ever known death.

So if we experience life and this centering while we're still alive,

It is an opportunity for us to get to know God,

To know godliness,

To find this center that's never moving and that has never moved.

All right,

Folks.

Thanks again for joining me.

We'll pick it up again because I'm sure in about two days from now I'll be like,

Oh,

You forgot this,

You forgot that.

We'll pick it up again the next time.

Thank you again for joining me.

Namaste to all my spiritual friends and aloha to all my fellow surfing friends.

Take care of yourselves.

Blue skies and adios.