You want to be awakened,
You want to be happy,
It's so simple a child could do it.
The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings they're not even aware of.
You're not going to drop them.
Just look at it,
Period.
Don't try to fix it.
And if you're tending to condemn yourself or to approve of yourself,
Don't stop the condemnation now,
Don't stop the judgment,
Don't stop the approval,
Just watch it.
I'm condemning me.
I'm disapproving.
Oh,
I'm approving.
Just look at it,
Period.
Lots of people have negative feelings they're not even aware of.
Lots of people are depressed and they're not aware they're depressed.
It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they were.
You're not going to be able to deal with a cancer that you haven't detected.
You're not going to get rid of wolves in your farm if you're not aware of their existence.
So the first thing you need is awareness of your negative feelings.
What kind of negative feelings?
Globiness,
For instance.
You're feeling gloomy and moody.
You feel self-dislike and self-hate or guilt.
You feel that life is pointless,
Makes no sense.
You've got hurt feelings.
You're feeling nervous.
You're feeling tense.
Get in touch with those feelings first.
Second step,
Understand that the feeling is in you.
It's not in reality.
Now that's such a self-evident thing.
Do you think people know that?
They don't,
Believe me.
They've got PhDs.
They're presidents of universities.
They haven't understood this.
They didn't teach me how to live at school.
They taught me everything else.
Like the guy who said,
Well,
I got a pretty good education and it took me years to get rid of it,
To get over it.
Yes,
You really need it.
That's what spirituality is all about,
You know,
Unlearning,
Unlearning,
Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.
Now that negative feeling is in you.
It's not in reality.
So stop trying to change reality and our bosses and our friends and our enemies and everybody else and everything else.
You don't have to change anything.
The negative feeling is in you.
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy.
Very important.
There is no event on earth that has the power to hurt you.
No event,
No condition,
No situation,
No person.
Actually,
Nobody told you this.
They told you the opposite.
That is why you're in the mess that you are in right now.
That is why you're asleep.
They never told you this,
But it's self-evident.
Rain washes out a picnic.
Who's feeling negative,
The rain or you?
What's causing the negative feeling,
The rain or your reaction?
When you bump your knee against that table,
The table's okay.
It's busy being what it was meant to be,
A table.
Reality is all right.
Reality is not problematic.
Problems only exist in the human mind.
Reality is not problematic.
Take away human beings on this planet,
And life would go on,
And nature would go on in all her loveliness and her violence.
Where would the problem be?
No problem.
You are the problem.
You identified with the me.
This is the problem.
Understand that the feeling is in you,
Not in reality.
Third step,
Never ever identify with that feeling.
There's nothing to do with the I,
Your essential self.
That feeling isn't you.
It has nothing to do with you.
Don't define your essential self in terms of those feelings.
Don't say,
I am depressed.
You want to say depression is there,
That's fine.
You want to say gloominess is there,
That's fine.
But not I am gloomy.
You're defining yourself in terms of that feeling.
That's your illusion.
That's your mistake.
You watch it.
There is a depression there right now.
There is a hurt feeling there right now.
Let it be.
Leave it alone.
It'll pass.
It's not just the feeling passing,
But everything.
Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with your happenings,
Have nothing to do with your essential self.
Your depressions and your thrills are the swings of the pendulum.
If you're seeking kick,
You're seeking thrills,
Get ready for the depression.
One end of the pendulum swings to the other.
This has nothing to do with I.
This has nothing to do with happening.
This is the me.
You know,
If you remember this,
If you say this to yourself a thousand times,
If you try these three steps a thousand times,
Maybe you won't even need to do it three times.
There's no rule for it.
But do it a thousand times.
You'll make the biggest discovery in your life.
You're free.
You don't care anymore about being accepted or rejected.
Try it about a dozen times today.
Get in touch with that negative feeling.
Don't try to change that negative feeling.
Let it be.
Leave it alone.
Trying to change reality.
There's always the feeling of,
I feel good because the world is right.
Wrong.
The world is right because I feel good.
That's what all the mystics are saying.
When you awake,
When you understand,
When you see,
The world becomes right.
