It was amazing to see how crazy these beliefs are.
Yes.
I mean,
It's really mental,
Like institutionally mental.
And also amazing if you consider them untrue and see,
Yes,
They are.
Yes.
So I hope it will stay with the untrue and not believing in them.
No hope.
No hope.
Yeah.
It's the persistence.
You know,
It's like you've learned something.
So we don't leave the room and forget something very important that you discovered.
This is something very important.
You don't forget it,
But your old habit is still kind of.
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.
That's where the persistence is needed.
Because in a way,
What we say is you get tested.
So as soon as you pick up your shoes and go out the door,
The first test will come.
And it will trigger a belief,
Or it'll trigger an emotion maybe,
Or a thought.
And if you look at it,
It's based in a belief.
That I'm not good enough,
Or they don't like me,
Or I've lost it,
Or whatever.
Even I've lost it or I've got it,
Both are beliefs.
So in the test,
Something will come and show you a hidden subconscious belief.
And you can see,
Wait,
What am I believing right now?
And you'll see something.
Often it comes from childhood.
So you'll see something very childlike.
Nobody likes me.
That was my one.
And you can put that in the light and see,
Is that true?
Yeah,
I'm so glad.
I tried to challenge some natural laws,
And it didn't work.
Well,
The disillusion there was,
It doesn't matter.
This was,
Yeah,
Like,
There was a real difference between like natural laws or some beliefs about society or myself.
Well,
There's always one in the group.
And so,
Can you tell the difference between the natural law itself and your belief in it?
Do you understand?
Like the sun is hot.
Yeah,
Like one of his beliefs,
I tried to challenge that the sun is rising tomorrow morning again.
Yes.
Yes.
And this was like,
Yeah,
It will.
How did you know?
Because the processes take longer than tomorrow to destroy the whole system.
The light from the sun takes eight minutes to get here.
Yes.
But the processes to destroy the sun are slower.
We don't know all the processes.
We could be the dinosaurs.
There could be a comet that lands tonight and puts a dust cloud so big that we can't see the sun.
And there's no sunrise tomorrow.
Really.
I like this because we rely often on some very basic facts as a way to rationalize why we believe what we believe and that we know what we know.
But even if you look at what Einstein said,
He said,
The more answers I get,
The more questions are created.
And really,
We have to check our minds and check the difference between a belief and the thing itself.
So there's a table here.
And I could say,
I believe there's a table here,
But that belief is in my head and it has nothing to do with the table.
Yeah.
A belief is a belief.
So in and of itself,
This is important,
There's a famous Belgian artist who drew this painting of a pipe.
Have you seen it?
And it says underneath,
This is not a pipe.
So like that,
Even when you say the word sun,
What is the sun?
Do you really know what it is?
You have some words,
I know you've learned things.
It's a star,
It's a whatever.
Do you really know it?
To what depth?
Exactly.
I'm saying all the way.
What's all the way?
Really,
All the way.
Do you know it all the way?
Of course not all the way.
But that's important.
Because I can say,
I know your name,
So therefore I know you.
But do I know you all the way?
So it's important because we rest on our mind because we,
This is like in the Bible where,
I don't know who it was,
Adam or something,
Adam and Eve,
Where they start to name all the animals.
And that if we can name an animal,
It means we have some kind of ownership of it.
We can control them.
Like you read the Wikipedia or an encyclopedia and you see we know the name of a bacteria and we've given it a Latin name.
It sounds very complex,
Sounds very authoritative because it's this complicated Latin name.
We still don't really know.
We maybe have watched it,
Measured some of its behavior,
And we wrote some things down.
And then we think we know.
No,
We don't.
We don't.
I'm with the birds,
I'm with you.
So to see the difference between the thing and the thought,
That you can have a thought about the future and it's the thought and the future hasn't happened.
You can have a thought about a thing and the thought is not the thing.
This is good news.
Because our knowing is where our suffering is.
Because if you really knew that you knew nothing,
Then you couldn't possibly suffer.
Because you need to know something to suffer.
Something's wrong.
So you know something.
But what if that thing you know that's wrong,
What if you don't know it all the way through?
And everything would be easier.
Yes,
That's an understatement.
So it's good.
I like knowledge and I like history and I like behavior.
I like to study things.
But I know the difference.
I still know we don't know anything.
Thank you.
Yes.
I don't remember what the belief was,
But there's one interesting point when not believing it become like I hand over the responsibility for my own safety.
And that was very powerful.
And I think that's where .
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.
Yes.
That's the root of your fixation.
That's really huge.
Because you're not handing it over to someone you just met.
You're handing it over actually to a fully functioning survival machine whose every aspect is related to survival.
Your skin stops the bacteria coming in,
Your heart pumps the blood.
And life is a survival thing.
It's just producing,
Surviving.
And the one that handed it over is the only problem,
It's the ego.
And by handing it over,
It's lost its job.
And that's great news.
It's so good.
I can feel in your energy,
It's like there's a kind of doubtless confidence that's here,
That's just empty and open.
Yeah,
It feels like it's all where the questions are around me,
That there's just space there.
Yes.
But there's this .
.
.
It's not airy space,
It's .
.
.
I don't know,
It has like a stability or .
.
.
Yes.
Or gravity.
Yes.
It's nothing and everything.
And it's so full that there's no space for any thoughts.
Ah,
Such good news.
So happy.
That's a big one,
You know,
Giving up safety is so rare that I see that.
And by the way,
To be clear,
I'm not talking about doing unsafe behaviors because you gave up safety.
It's an internal,
Egoic,
Something that's held onto,
Where the mind says,
I need to be safe,
So I have to be careful,
I have to watch out,
I have to be hypervigilant.
And you end up devoting your entire life to this idea of safety,
A belief of unsafety.
And when you hand it over,
You're handing it over to your body-mind that is absolutely capable of supporting your safety.
You can .
.
.
Yes,
Check it out.
It's like,
It senses things,
Like you can walk down the street and it's dark and there's a figure there and you can feel nervous about it.
How did you feel that nervousness?
Because your whole system is trying to keep you safe already.
You don't need to assist it by thinking,
Doubting,
By tensing,
By being hypervigilant.
You can actually let your body do its job.
And that's not everyone's issue.
Not everyone is about this safety survival.
For some people it's actually about social safety,
Or it's about what other people think of me,
Or it's about not being bored,
Or it's about having power.
It's the same thing though when you hand it over to the universe,
So that you don't have to be in control of this issue,
And you find that the universe knows just what to do.
You actually can rest.
You can let everything happen naturally.
And you'll see,
This is not a position of like falling on the floor like a jellyfish.
You know?
It's like,
Actually your energy for life is freed up,
So that you actually can be present,
Because you're not channeling energy to holding on to something and trying to do something.
You're actually letting life take care of itself.
