Be aware.
Awareness will bring the change.
Where does compassion come in?
Where does guilt come in?
You'll know when you're awake.
If you're guilty right now,
How on earth could I explain that to you?
And how would you know what compassion is?
You know,
Sometimes people want to imitate Christ.
When a monkey plays the saxophone,
That doesn't make him a musician.
You've got to be Christ.
Then you know exactly what to do,
Given your temperament,
Given your character,
Given your situation,
Given the character and temperament of the person you're dealing with,
You know exactly what to do.
No one can tell you.
You must be what Christ was.
You will know,
But merely external imitation will get you nowhere.
You may think that compassion is softness.
There's no way I could describe compassion to you.
There's absolutely no way.
Compassion can be very hard.
Compassion can be very rude.
Compassion can jolt you.
Compassion can roll its sleeves up and operate on you.
There are all kinds of things.
Compassion can be very soft.
There's no way of knowing.
It's only when you become love.
In other words,
When you have dropped your illusions and your attachments,
You will know.
As you identify less and less with the me,
You're more at ease with everybody and with everything.
Do you know why?
Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked or being left.
And you no longer desire to impress anyone.
Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore?
Oh,
What a relief!
Happiness at last!
You don't feel the need or the compulsion to explain anything anymore?
It's all right.
And you don't feel the need or the compulsion to apologize anymore?
What could you expect of an ass?
He behaved like an ass.
But if anything had to be said,
I'd much rather hear you say,
You know,
I've come awake,
Than hear you say,
I'm sorry.
I'd much rather hear you say to me,
I've come awake since we last met.
Won't happen again.
Why would I demand an apology from you?
Ever thought of that?
Why would anyone demand an apology?
Ah,
There you've got something to explore.
Nobody was mean to you.
You missed that.
Somebody was mean to what he thought or she thought was you.
But not you.
Nobody ever rejects you.
They're just rejecting what they think you are.
If you choose to pick that up,
That's your responsibility.
But that cuts both ways,
You know.
Nobody ever accepts you either.
Ever thought of that one.
Until somebody is awake,
That's the way they're behaving.
They're accepting or rejecting their image of you.
They fashioned an image of you and they're rejecting that or they're accepting that.
It's devastating to go deeply into that.
A bit too liberating.
Very liberating.
How easy it is to love people when you understand this.
How easy it is to love everyone when you don't identify with this or what they think this is.
You don't identify so easy to love them.
To love everybody.
I observing me.
But not thinking.
Because me does a lot of bad thinking and good thinking too.
But when I watches me,
I is constantly aware.
This is a reflection.
In reality,
You don't really think of I and me.
In reality,
You're like that driver driving the car who doesn't want to lose consciousness of the car ever.
Now are you telling me you want to go unconscious sometimes?
It's alright to dream.
It's alright to have daydreams.
But never lose consciousness of your surroundings.
You're always alert.
You know it's like a mother who would be sleeping.
She doesn't hear the planes roaring above the house,
But she hears the slightest whimper of the baby.
She's alert.
She's awake.
When a person's awake,
The person's awake.
Let's get there.
Then we'll know.
One may not say anything about the awakened state.
One can only talk about the sleeping state.
One hints at the awakened state.
One may not say anything about happiness.
Happiness cannot be defined.
What can be defined is misery.
Unhappiness.
Drop that and you will know.
Love cannot be defined.
Unlove can.
Drop unlove.
Drop fear and you will know.
