Everything Makes Me Happy & Humble Talk + Meditation

Where is our energy focused? Is our body posture empowering? What is life all about? Find out in this meditation and give the gift of yourself to humanity.

Tony Samara, world-renowned spiritual teacher and author of 16 books, has been sharing deep spiritual work and energy transmission for the evolution of consciousness for over 25 years. Combining meditation, detoxing the body, a plant-based diet and a simple lifestyle, he is best known for how his work touches more deeply than words.

Transcript

Just as you prepare yourself for a space where you can be present to not just a relaxed,

Comfortable and nurturing posture and just way of sitting,

Just making sure that your body is really comfortable before we begin with the transmission.

The body can be nurtured from just the way that you hold the physical structure of your body.

So as we begin today,

Just to highlight the topics that we were covering in the last few days,

That is the intention of bringing consciousness to mundane aspects of our experience,

Mundane aspects such as thinking or feeling,

Those mundane things that human beings tend to get caught up within or into or because of,

Get caught because of these mundane aspects that sometimes just dominate the energy system of the body.

So all our energy and focus goes into not just feeling or experiencing challenges but also mostly into thinking.

And usually when such thinking happens,

If the posture of the body is not aligned with an openness or with a state of I am curious to learn about something different than that which I'm thinking about,

Then the thoughts tend to be repetitive and that experience of the mundane tends to be stronger and more challenging.

So it's very interesting to notice that these aspects that humanity has to face some point or another,

Sometimes from many,

Many,

Most of their lives,

The mundane grayness of life dominates our experience.

So our thinking and our perception is very often connected to the thoughts that we're having about whatever it is our experience is.

And if our experience is just the mundaneness of life,

Then the thoughts tend to structure around such an idea that this is what life is all about and get caught simply through their repetition,

Get caught by the mechanism which you set in motion when your energy is focused on the mundane.

So of course it's easy to say to yourself for someone else or if you read a little thing,

If you Google and you try to find the answers to your problems and read a little thing that says,

You know,

In three steps do this or in five steps do whatever else to be free,

Yeah,

It's exciting for the mind because the mind always wants to know that there is something out there that can create hope.

But actually it's a false sort of illusion because that hope that the mind gets connected to has nothing to do with this experience.

So if you're reading something that doesn't really sink in,

Doesn't make sense,

So you could read how to be happy but you're not happy.

So it doesn't really make sense as an experience,

It makes sense as a thought,

As a concept,

As something,

A philosophical discussion that you're having with people or just having with yourself as you read the book,

Oh that's an interesting thing to do,

And that will make me happy if I just do ABC or one,

Two,

Three,

Then everything changes and perhaps,

And that perhaps is the hope that we cling on to,

Which gets projected into the future.

Very often we lose that hope because of course we try the one,

Two,

Three or the ABC and we realize it's not that easy,

Just like New Year resolutions,

This year I will do things differently.

And then this year,

We're already in,

Like already into this year,

A few months gone into this year and still many seem to have reverted back,

And when I speak to many many people around the world seem to have reverted back into the very same thing that the resolutions said wouldn't happen this year,

Or maybe next year,

It's always another year,

That's the hope,

See,

That's what we project into the future,

That little glimpse of perhaps things will be different when I reach that space out there in the future,

Whatever that space is,

It's a concept that the mind doesn't even understand because it's an automated concept,

Meaning that the concept happens and you don't even realize that that's what's going on in the structure of your mind,

That the mind is pinning its hopes upon some sort of futuristic ideal,

That things will change,

That things will be better or that things will fall into place when certain other things are fulfilled or when certain other things are done or completed,

We have this hope,

It's nasty to take that hope away,

Spiritual teachers tend to do this,

Spiritual masters tend to do this,

Take the hope,

That hope that projected false illusionary hope away simply by pointing out,

It's here that you need to look,

Not over there,

That often challenges everyone,

Because if there isn't hope,

If there isn't this conceptual thought that tomorrow will be better and today is already awful,

Then and whoever says it's all here,

The mind just refuses to believe that that is a better way and immediately before you even realize it creates another concept of this hope in the future,

Ah okay I understand,

When,

Because,

This,

That,

And the problem is we have lived throughout the ages with this hope,

It's actually almost a paradigm within the mind to constantly seek a solution in the future,

It's just,

It's a paradigm,

It's a structure of the mind even,

The mind cannot see really,

The mind can't see clearly what this moment means,

Because to understand this moment it has to project itself into the future to see what this moment is all about,

So it's an automated process to look into the future and the mind is formed simply by time and space,

So for the mind to exist there needs to be a definition of time and space and that means that this moment here is not as important as the space and time that it takes to define how the mind is thinking,

Okay,

So the mind is an accumulation of thoughts because of what happened in the past and because what you think might happen in the future and so you create this idea which we call mind that thinks for itself,

It's almost like a separate entity within oneself,

It's almost like a dimension outside of oneself that has the ability to somehow conceptualize all experiences into a form that the mind recognizes,

But it doesn't mean that those experiences are not as valid,

But for the mind they're not as valid because of course the mind only validates its own thoughts,

So your thought about an experience is more valid than an experience,

So when the spiritual master says look at your experience rather than look at your thought or your perception of the experience,

Makes no sense because it's just not something,

Not a paradigm that the mind can comprehend,

It almost has to restructure itself,

You almost have to step outside of that dimension that is mind,

Once again another dimension to look at mind from this other more detached dimension to see how the mind is playing the game with the experience of this present moment and so it's almost like for most people it gets very confusing because where am I,

Am I the mind,

Am I the experience,

Am I this,

Am I that,

What am I in this other dimension,

What does it mean,

And already the mind is there trying to make sense of it so we bring all the spiritual multi-dimensional experience,

We bring it all into this space which is defined by the mind which still lives in hope that even in another dimension if it jumps ahead of the experience,

It jumps into the space where it can look at the mind from another perspective then perhaps it will make sense,

Another perspective meaning from another way of thinking,

From another way of looking at things,

So in the end it's very difficult to truly change and some on some level the mind knows this,

On some level you know this,

It's one thing to write the resolutions yeah it's nice and takes a little bit of energy,

You have to stop what you're doing and find a paper and pen and you know think a little bit about all the things that you appreciate and all the things that you don't really appreciate and sort of prioritize what's important,

Write them down,

That doesn't mean anything in the end,

You can do that for the rest of your life,

Some people do,

They have like journals that they write down into and you know that's a good thing but writing down all these things that are important to do or important to appreciate but no time to do so because the mind is already too busy because it's within this time-stressed frame of thinking and it's very difficult then to find the timeless within the experience which is here in this moment and appreciate those things that you've written down in your journal or you've highlighted in your mind or that perhaps you know deep inside you already know and understand as being important but somehow you just can't get there,

It's difficult because it's almost like you're really thirsty,

The water is right in front of you but you can't get there because the water is just a dream,

So the mind thinks and then you try to wake up from the dream and some part of you doesn't want to wake up from the dream because realizes that if you wake up from that dream the water will disappear but spiritual master says wake up because when you wake up then you won't be chasing the dream,

You'll realize that you're sitting right here in the midst of all that can quench your thirst in the midst of the purest essence,

The spring of life will be right at your feet just like when all mystics meditate the spring of life is right there,

I had a dream last night of this amazing place which perhaps a few of you have heard about called Lourdes and what made Lourdes famous originally were the healing springs and it said when it's difficult for the mind to restructure itself beyond the egoic realm of always hoping for something out there in the future wanting salvation,

Wanting God to change the situation,

Wanting the master to just tap the magic wand and a bit like Walt Disney,

You know,

The magic wand and change all things around or whatever the hope that is pinned out there on some form or another when such activities take place and challenge you it said that it's important to come back to the essence and a symbol of that essence is water and Lourdes being a place where a lot of healing used to happen and still does but originally was a place of healing,

Pilgrimage,

Place where people truly walked to or slowly came back to the essence so that healing could happen naturally.

That is something that you can do in meditation,

Something that you can do in your spiritual practice.

It doesn't really require that you dream about something out there,

Simply requires real practice and real practice means that you come back to that which is beyond the mind,

That which is beyond your thoughts,

Not coming back to what you feel about the world or what you think about the world or what you have thought about the world or what you have felt about the world but just to this moment beyond all those thoughts.

See it's very difficult because as soon as you do this the mind will come into the picture but it is possible just as all the pilgrims who walked to the sacred springs or the sacred sites have done in the past it's possible to practice with diligence,

To practice with clear focus,

To practice so that there is nothing that you're aiming for,

That you know that your walk,

Your talk takes you back to yourself,

To the essence of yourself rather than just to a projection that is mind or senses or egoic realm thoughts feelings.

To the self that is a very humble way to come back to understanding spiritual practice and a vital thing to remember during these times not to worry you not to to create any drama out of the situation but obviously when you're aware of the situation beyond your thoughts or beyond your feelings and you see things as they are not as your mind or your feelings or other people social situations translate that information you see things as they are so then red is red blue is blue green is green it's not a perspective it's just what it is and when you begin to see things from such a perspective then choices are made naturally because you can let go of that which is obviously irrelevant to the reality of what you are seeing yeah if you're humble it's very easy to let go of the egoic games that are being played but you have to understand humility not as a concept but as a real experience that is part of the migration that is happening in the world now we are migrating from one dimension of consciousness to a new dimension of consciousness but in the migration there are dangers so I don't say this for people to sort of get caught in the worry about such dangers or such situations but just so that we don't look at those situations that sometimes come up to the surface and challenge us and are negative in themselves or could be seen as negative in themselves just so that we don't judge these situations as indicators of our spiritual practice as soon as we do this then we're caught in the mind perception and mind conceptualization of situations and then we're again lost rather than walking as the pilgrims and the mystics of past have done walking back home to the essence then we walk to another idea another picture that our mind is throwing out there as the hope as the picture that we need to follow the situation that is real we forget then what it means to come back to the heart during these times this work is more important than ever and it is not that I'm asking you to do anything different I'm asking you to be more real with yourself be more real in your practice to be more full of humility to be more humble in the way that you're doing things and to remember that we are facing a time more than ever before where this idea that there is a future is a perception and it seems to me highly unlikely that the way that we're going as collective consciousness as humanity that there is much hope for the future if we look in a clear scientific and just down-to-earth way everything says that if we continue as we are doing things now not just as industrialists or economists are carrying on in the world but just as human beings as if we continue utilizing this paradigm as our orientation within the world then we truly lose our perspective and at a certain point the scale tips and then there is basically no return once you create a certain agitation or movement within consciousness that reaches aggressive or and deluded states of mind as we see more prevalent today than ever before as we tip the scale to this point where agitation becomes the normality of seeing and understanding the world even our spiritual practice even ourselves even others then we lose our perspective we lose what it means to be humble we lose our perspective and we forget what humility actually feels like what it what it's like to put that into practice and when that is lost by enough people then the world is no longer the world that we know so spiritual practice today coming back to the essence is not just something that you're doing for yourself it is for the future of humanity and for me after so many years of meditation after so many years of teaching and working with thousands of people I think now it's not just something that you write down in your journal or hope for as a new year resolution but now is the time to put this into practice so as you breathe in and let go of the mundane and come back to the essence listening to the Hulu meditation the vibration of consciousness manifested in the mantra and repeating this mantra deep within yourself deep within the breath and allowing the space of consciousness of the Hulu to let go of the mundane and come back to the essential quality of reality of space you you you you you you you you you you you

Reviews

A very interesting, insightful and helpful practice. Thank you Tony.