The next few minutes could be the most important minutes in the lives of some of you.
If you could grasp this,
You've hit upon the secret for awakening.
You would never be unhappy again.
Nothing,
But nothing would have the power to hurt you.
And I mean that.
Nothing.
It's like,
You know,
You take black paint and throw it up in the air and keep throwing black paint in the air.
The air is uncontaminated.
You don't color the air black.
And no matter what happens to you,
You remain uncontaminated.
You remain at peace.
There are human beings,
And you know it,
Who have attained to this.
That is what I call human,
Not what people are generally living.
That's what I call being a human being.
That's what I call natural.
Not this nonsense of being a puppet,
Jerked about this way and that.
Having any event or any person tell you how to feel,
And then you proceed to feel it.
They call it being vulnerable.
Ha!
I call it being a puppet.
Want to be a puppet?
We press a button and you're down.
You like that?
So there it is.
If you do not identify with any of those labels,
First of all,
Most of your worries cease.
But ordinarily,
You're worried about what's going to happen to your career.
A businessman,
Small-time businessman,
Kind of,
55 years old.
He's sipping beer somewhere at a bar,
And he thinks,
Well,
Look at my classmates.
They've really made it.
The idiots,
They've made it.
What do you mean they've made it?
Being the president of a corporation,
You became the president of the lunatic asylum.
They got their names in the news,
In the prison journal,
Huh?
Which all the prisoners are reading.
Look at my classmates.
They've really made it.
He thinks they've made it.
Successful president of a corporation.
The other guy has become the chief justice,
And somebody else has become this,
And the other person has become that.
Monkeys,
All of them.
And so he's worried about what his children will think about him.
What will the neighbors think about him?
What will his wife think?
He should have become famous.
That's what your society and your culture is drilling into your head.
Day and night,
And so is mine.
The main preoccupation of society is to keep society sick.
And the sooner you realize that,
The better.
Every one of them.
Most of them.
They're loony.
They're crazy.
You became the president of the lunatic asylum,
And you're proud of it.
It means nothing.
It really means nothing.
Being the president of a corporation has absolutely nothing to do with being awake,
Or being happy,
Or being a success in life.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Having a lot of money has nothing to do with being a success in life.
You're a success in life when you wake up,
When you don't have to explain anything to anyone.
You don't give a damn what anybody thinks of you,
Or what anybody says about you.
You have no worry.
You're happy.
Now that's what I call being a success.
