Patience from the Perspective of Freedom Talk + Meditation

Tony Samara allows us to observe our belief that fulfilling our desires is the reason for living and encourages us to consider manifesting a different reality.

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

This is the topic of the satsang today,

How to be patient,

But not just patient in a moralistic way,

Or patient in a way where you're waiting or repressing yourself and whatever that constitutes your personality,

Your mind,

Your emotions,

And repressing that,

So that somehow with time,

At last,

When time allows,

Then you'll be free and celebrate.

Patience comes from a different perspective of consciousness than just desire comes from the perspective that is more free,

That is more open,

That is less rigid,

That is less occupied with the activities that very often take us into the Maya or the illusion,

Into the games that we give ourselves,

The space to believe is reality,

The dualism that comes from such activities means that we measure everything against something and hence why time becomes a very difficult thing to manage in our mind,

In our consciousness,

In our mind,

And we become restless and patience is lost in the virtues of fulfilling desires,

At least we believe that to be the virtue of what we are meant to be doing here in this world,

But of course it is much more complex.

There is no dualism,

Dualism is just an aspect of the mind that simplifies reality,

And reality is much more than just waiting for it to pop,

Drop,

Whatever you believe it to come from,

And it's much more,

And that game that you play with yourself is just interesting,

It keeps your mind occupied,

You become less bored with whatever is going on because it's so busy jumping from one end to another of the measuring stick,

And at some point you feel happy because you're close to whatever it is that you feel will make you happy,

Whatever it is that your desires trick you into believing that is the goal of your life,

The meaning of life,

The meaning of whatever existence you have,

And at other times because you're far removed from such,

You fall into the negativities of the mind which manipulate you into more negativities and more sense,

A sense of loss and a sense that you're far removed from,

From your own illusion.

So easiest is to drop all that,

It's very easy,

It comes from a sense of discernment,

To drop all that and say as mystics have in the past,

You know,

It is not your will,

It is the will of the divine that allows for things to be as they are,

And so it is best to drop that power that you believe that you have,

That ego selfish space that believes that,

You know,

From that space you will be able to bring yourself to the meaning of life or force your mind and emotions through the turmoil of reality until it pops or drops into some space that feels like you've got there,

Where you've just got to the illusion of your mind and become more clever than it is,

So you've embraced its cleverness into nothingness and the nothingness is the emptiness of desire and the emptiness of the space that you believe is your truth,

But truth is beyond such,

Truth is much more,

Truth requires patience,

Patience is the movement away from that game and allowing the will,

If you call it will that sounds like some sort of hard strong aspect of your truth,

But the will meaning,

You know,

That which allows you to move into understanding of reality and to navigate within that understanding and create your human aspect,

Your human self in that reality,

To navigate that not from the space of manipulation but the space of clarity,

And clarity is the freedom that happens when you are clear,

Not when you are overwhelmed by desires or by your concept of time or by your concept of this or that,

That is not the sacred will of the creative force that allows you to be here in this space,

That is just your will and hence why in the mystical traditions it is often said that your ideas,

Your efforts,

Your struggling,

Struggling here or there amount to nothing,

You know,

They may get you in this world somewhere,

Become famous or people clap their hands because your wisdom is beautiful or you know,

Whatever it is that you are searching for but it is not going to give anything to the truth,

It's just going to take you further away from the truth and hence why it is important to be patient,

No?

I've explained this many many times in previous satsangs,

You know,

It is like you now in your spiritual practice,

In your karma yoga,

You are planting a seed,

A seed that has potential within it and you trust that that potential is real,

You don't doubt that that potential may be not quite there or may have some lacks or may take you to a place that won't make you happy,

You just trust,

That requires patience,

Trust requires that you are patient in the space that you are in without getting caught in all the little bits and pieces that drop by as you get more connected to your truth,

Trust is saying to those parts that have always manipulated the mind,

Have always manipulated the feelings,

Take a back seat,

I'm here,

Who's I,

Who's the here,

That is the power of the sacred,

The power of the divine within you,

The potential,

The potential that with time becomes obvious in your experience,

With time grows and manifests itself in the personal,

In the self that is personal,

Not just as a beautiful concept or beautiful wisdoms that you talk about or share with others,

That's not going to help you one little bit,

That will just manipulate you out of your truth,

Words,

Ideas,

Belief systems,

Thinking,

Feelings,

They're empty,

The truth is more permanent and it is that potential that grows if you allow it to grow and that is trust,

You don't keep looking to see if the seed is growing,

Pulling it out and say oh yeah there it's got a nice root and oh look at that,

That looks like something,

The area,

My potential is real,

You know,

You just allow the seed to be,

You allow the seed to be and to be nurtured by that which you do not understand through the selfish aspect of self,

That which you know but you still have not allowed an experience of to be present in your body,

Mind and emotions,

That which is there but it's not quite there,

That which is obvious but is not so obvious,

Hence why Kabir in his sutra speaks very clearly in a poetic beautiful way,

You're not the first,

You're not the last person to struggle with this aspect of reality,

To understand that patience sometimes is not so easy because we get too impatient to be patient,

Kabir speaks about this by saying patience is like the fish in the sea,

You know,

Everything is symbolism in poetry,

Fish,

The sea,

The water,

Everything,

So look at it as parts of yourself coming back home to the supreme Atma,

To the union that is the world,

That is the creative force that allows you to be who you are,

The sutra goes like this,

The fish,

The fish in the water is wrecked by thirst,

I hear about it and burst out laughing,

When you're looking for,

What you're looking for is right at home and yet you roam from forest to forest full of gloom,

Without self-knowledge the worlds all make belief,

As you breathe in and breathe out you are the fish,

You are the water,

You are the thirst and the eye will burst out laughing if you don't give the fish time to recognize that it is in the ocean swimming in the beauty of life,

That this beauty of life,

The fish just gives a little bit of time,

A little bit of patience,

A little bit of space,

A little bit of itself to recognize what is right here in this moment and it will see that the thirst is a laughable matter and that is what happens when we look at patience,

That is what is so wonderful,

When we understand that our being that is not patient,

That is losing itself in the stress of not wanting to be patient and wait for truth to set it free,

We realize that such is so very laughable because patience is not an attribute that we can force upon the mind or force upon ourselves or teach ourselves in the same way as the ego wants us to do,

But patience is born out of connection,

When the fish realizes that it has always been connected to the water that it is swimming in the midst of water and that truth sets the fish free and not only does it drop its gloom,

Not only does it drop its intense search from one thing to another in the mind,

In the complex forests of the mind,

But it realizes that patience is right here and that patience is born from this moment,

It is born simply because when we are here there is no there,

There is no anywhere,

There is only here,

There is only this moment and when there is only this moment you only laugh,

You burst out laughing because tomorrow is the theater and the theater was interesting,

Is interesting,

Has never been interesting,

Is there,

Has never been there,

It is like when you go to a circus and you walk through that tunnel with all the funny mirrors that reflect at you,

Images that are just so funny,

You burst out laughing,

You think how can I look so funny,

How can I be so funny,

Do I really have such a funny face,

Do I really have such funny arms,

Do I really have such funny eyes,

What are you doing when you are enjoying this moment,

What are you doing when you are laughing,

Where is consciousness when you are in the midst of the depths of laughter,

It is not there,

It is not anywhere,

It is in being when the fish realizes that its being is perfection,

That its being is the sea,

That thirst is part of perfection then there is no searching and that is the self-knowledge that sets us free,

That is the self-knowledge that allows us to see that the world is all make believe,

The Maya is not worth our time,

Is not worth our effort,

Give some of that time,

Give some of that effort to your truth,

To the sat within,

The sat that allows for the atma to be experienced,

For the atma to be present in the activity of life,

Give some time in your karma yoga,

In your spiritual practice rather than all the time that we give to the make believe world,

Give time from the timeless aspect of yourself in your spiritual practice,

Understand that it is not the hour or the two hours or the three hours that you sit in meditation but it is that timeless aspect that you put into your practice that comes from the space of being and that one moment of giving from that space of being allows not just for you to enjoy and celebrate the laughter of the spiritual practice,

The laughter of the karma yoga but for everyone else to relax and be patient,

Be patient to receive the gift of the potential,

The potential of being.

May your karma yoga today and your spiritual practice today be a reminder that we are here together,

We are here as one to experience the potential,

That that potential when we allow to be from that space grows into itself and that is the beauty of spiritual practice,

That is the beauty of karma yoga,

It is not what you are doing,

It is the attitude and the space that you are doing from.

Thank you.

Reviews

Simply remarkable 🙏. Thank you for giving value to the effort in which we take on the things that bring us great joy 🙌

Just the wisdom I needed! Thank you! Deep and wonderful reflections...

Love the thought of patience already being inside of us all

Thank you Tony for your helpful and thoughtful words of wisdom.

Thank you for sharing these inspirational insights🙏🌈❤️

Thanks for reminding me that what I seek is within me always to discover.