Never Take Responsibility

Join us to unveil the true meaning of responsibility and how it manifests in an awakened consciousness. Let's join hands and have our intentions United and focused on the evolution of consciousness. Bring a question and offer it as an offering to the divine. And let go of it.
Carly, who co-hosts the meeting, represents the silent voice of the sincere seeker.

Transcript

So welcome everybody again.

So this unique opportunity we give ourselves to walk the path together,

Even if for a brief hour,

To hold hands and support each other's growth and develop not just as individuals on the path but also as a united consciousness.

And we do that by harnessing that tension that hides between the question and the answer.

And today I wanted to invite us to discuss responsibility.

Last week we had a discussion about many things.

Some of them had to do with feeling worthy.

So I said this sentence that I'm going to play to you and we'll take it from there.

At least I'm going to try to.

It doesn't work.

Give us a moment.

Yeah,

You know,

Sometimes we are playing the good guy,

Sometimes we are playing the bad guy,

Sometimes we hurt other people,

Sometimes other people hurt us.

It's all part of the show.

That's what makes it interesting.

You don't go to the theater,

Sit there and watch people meditate for two hours,

Right?

It's quite boring.

You want to see some action.

You have to have a villain and a hero and drama.

Just remember that after the show everybody goes behind the curtain and they change their costumes and they change roles.

Then they go back on the stage to play another scene,

Changing roles.

That's life.

Don't worry about clinging to the good,

Refraining from the bad.

There is no good and bad.

It's all a game,

A show.

Enjoy the show.

This is what I'm saying.

This is what I'm saying.

Leonard Coyle in his song,

Which I keep on reciting,

Says,

Sometimes I need you to carry a child and sometimes I need you to kill the child,

Because you know who I am.

You don't know who's supposed to be happy and when and why.

Don't take responsibilities for other people's mistakes or your mistakes.

Don't blame and don't bother to forgive.

Come back.

So this sentence Carly had a difficult time agreeing with.

So I thought it would be a good starting point for the lesson today.

So feel free,

Carly and guys online,

To ask your questions that has to do with responsibility.

How did I dare to say that you shouldn't take responsibility?

You want to start?

Yeah,

I think that the lesson that you teach in a holistic type of perspective really makes sense.

When you understand that there's nothing to gain and nothing to lose,

And that ego is what's driving us to put meaning into the good things and the bad things and the judgments and this is right and this is wrong.

But I guess where I struggle is when people are asking,

You know,

You know,

What do I do with a situation where I've hurt somebody in in my past?

And,

You know,

How do I,

How do I make sense of that?

And how do I,

What does it look like on the spiritual path to to reach a point where I can put meaning into that?

So when you say something like don't take responsibility for your past actions,

To me,

That sounds like,

You know,

You don't care about what happened in the past,

And you're not there to do anything about it,

Or acknowledge that somebody may have been hurt in that experience.

It,

It doesn't make sense to me that if,

If you are becoming aware and more awake,

As you say,

That you wouldn't naturally recognize and respond to a situation from your past when you hurt somebody.

And you can,

Or even yourself,

And you can see that in a different light by saying,

Well,

I just wasn't awake or aware back then,

Or I was ignorant,

Or there was some other words,

Really great words that people used in the comments last time.

To me,

Taking responsibility for that past,

That that person in the past that was yourself,

And in those actions is actually just being coming aware and awake,

And acknowledging that that may have hurt,

Those actions may have hurt somebody else.

So when you say don't take responsibility,

Where,

What's the point of saying that?

And where is,

Where are you injecting meaning in,

In,

In your life if,

If,

If you don't take responsibility?

Okay.

So what is responsibility?

And when do we need to take or avoid taking it?

We need to understand that before we dive into your question.

Commonly,

People refer to responsibility in the context of blame.

Something went wrong that shouldn't have happened.

And because it happened,

We need to find who's responsible and punishing.

Right?

This is how people refer to responsibility.

That's why when the invitation comes to take more responsibility,

Most people say,

No,

No,

No,

There's enough in my head.

I don't need more of that.

It,

It feels like a burden,

Like a weight on your shoulder.

The more responsibility,

The more weight,

The more restricted you are,

The,

The less free you are,

Because there is more responsibility.

This is how people refer to responsibility.

Right?

It's based on the idea that whatever happened should not have happened the way it happened.

Okay.

Or the way we call it here on the white path is the gap.

This is the gap,

The famous gap.

There's a gap between what is and what I believe it should have been.

And within that gap,

We are trying to fix the wrong.

And of course,

That means finding the person responsible and making sure that they understand it shouldn't have happened and making sure it will never happen again.

It could be the other person or it could be myself,

You know,

People,

Some people are very easy blaming other people.

Some people are very easy blaming themselves.

Right?

So in this,

In that sense,

What I'm saying is,

That's a total misunderstanding of the term responsibility.

Or we can look at it in a different angle.

Does it have any meaning where there is no gap?

Responsibility,

Does it exist when there is no gap,

And there is no mistake,

And there's nobody to blame?

Is there responsibility there?

100%.

But that responsibility is closer to the essence of who you are,

What you are.

That responsibility is basically an outcome of your true nature,

Which is love.

Think about it.

When you love someone,

Do you think,

I should take responsibility?

I should be responsible for them?

Or do you just feel that?

It's an outcome,

A natural outcome.

I love my children.

Should I be responsible for them?

I'm not sure.

Of course you are responsible.

I mean,

That goes without saying,

Right?

And it's not a burden.

You feel joyous by the fact that you love someone,

And they are there,

That you can be responsible for them.

Doesn't mean you need to control them,

But that feeling of responsibility,

This will not die.

It doesn't matter if I'm 100 years old and my kid is 80.

I still will feel responsible for him,

Right?

Do you see what I'm saying?

It's not a burden.

I love my boy.

In that sense,

The calling is not to increase the level of responsibility,

But increase the level of love.

Include more in your cycle of love.

And the more you include in the circle of love,

The more responsible you are,

Because it's an outcome of love.

You see what I'm saying?

My teacher has a beautiful way to say it.

He says,

If you have to worry in your life,

Worry big.

Worry about the big things.

Worry that the sun will rise and shine at the right time.

Worry that the season will change when they are supposed to.

Worry that the earth will orbit the sun at exactly 365 days.

Worry about the big things.

Don't worry about the small,

Personal drama.

Don't worry about that.

You see what I'm saying?

Increase that circle of love.

And the more you are in love,

The more responsible you are.

And it's not a problem.

And it's not something that you take.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Responsibility is not something that you consciously decide,

Okay,

This is important.

I should be responsible for that.

Responsibility is a spontaneous outcome of your very being,

Which is love.

Love that includes everything.

Yes,

You are responsible for when the sun is rising and setting,

And how fast the earth is orbiting around the sun.

Why?

Because you're a part of it.

It's got nothing to do with your doing or avoiding doing.

It's a sense of belongingness,

Of love.

Do you see what I'm saying?

In that sense,

When you say,

I should take more responsibility,

This is ego,

Trying to persuade you that one course of action is better than another course of action.

And if you choose that course of action,

You will be benefiting,

Benefiting more or losing less.

This calculation is done by the ego.

But when you are truly awake,

That calculation loses its meaning.

There's nobody there to gain or lose.

It's just a flow of love,

Natural flow of love,

Spontaneous flow of love,

Which of course binds you and you feel responsible.

Not because there is some mistake that needs to be fixed,

But because you are a part of it.

Why?

Because you love it.

Why?

Because this is your nature.

So what was the question?

The question originated from a comment that somebody said,

Where they said,

How do I,

I don't know exactly what the wording was,

But a ton or make up for a past,

My past self or actions or reactions that hurt somebody.

And so if you're saying that,

That we don't take responsibility,

But responsibility occurs naturally out of the flow of love.

If we go back to that space or that time or that person,

Where there was hurt or separation or an action or argument or whatever it was that we want to go back to that time to,

To heal,

Whatever,

Whatever happened there,

Then you're saying that if,

If you're just naturally flowing with love as love into that space,

That,

That the natural outcome will be taking,

It's hard not to say taking responsibility,

But the natural outcome will be responsibility for that person.

What I'm saying is you feel responsible for that person,

Regardless of the past,

You feel responsible for the person because in the present moment,

You are love.

And there is nothing,

Let me tell you a story,

Nothing that you carry along with you from the past to the present moment.

There are no past impression that comes between you.

They say that when Buddha was teaching 2,

600 years ago,

He was traveling from village to village or town to town and people would gather and he was giving his sermon.

And then at the end of the meeting,

People would go out and he would greet them and thank them for coming.

And there's a story about one person,

A very important individual with big ego that really was upset from what Buddha was saying.

And at the end of the evening,

When Buddha was greeting everybody on the way out,

He came to Buddha and he started cursing him and yelling at him and blaming him for misleading all the people.

He spat on his face and left.

And of course that person could not sleep all night and he had all those regrets and remorse.

And at six o'clock in the morning,

He left,

He left,

He went to where Buddha was sleeping and he woke him up.

And Buddha was like,

Yes,

What's happening?

And the guy says,

Listen,

You have to forgive me,

I couldn't sleep all night,

I don't know what happened to me.

Really,

I am so sorry.

So Buddha was asking,

Why should I forgive you?

So the guy said,

Listen,

Don't you remember yesterday I was shouting,

I was cursing,

I spat on your face?

So Buddha was smiling and he said,

No,

No,

No,

No,

That person is not here now.

You can go.

Do you see what I'm saying?

There is no past impressions.

If you feel that your action hurts other people in the past,

Don't blame yourself for hurting other people.

That's what I mean when I say don't take responsibility for that.

Other people choose to be offended,

Whether it's because they benefit something out of it or they just don't know better.

They don't know there is an alternative,

A sane way to meet reality.

So they are stuck in that gap between what is and what they believe it should have been.

And they are upset and angry,

Expecting whatever,

An apology,

You know,

Creating a big drama out of that.

This can be very powerful.

This can tell families apart.

I personally know of a family,

Probably you know of a family,

Where the mother doesn't speak with her child for years,

Because whatever,

Who remembers?

She did that to me,

She said that to me,

Whatever.

Tells your heart apart when you see something like that.

People prefer their ideas about what should happen over the love of their loved ones.

If you feel that you've hurt other people,

Don't blame yourself.

You don't know what other people should feel and when and how.

You don't know.

The idea that you have in your head that they should be happy,

And it's your responsibility,

Is a false idea.

You make sure that you are an expression of unconditional love at the present moment.

That's it.

That's the best you can do and it's more than what most people on this planet are taking responsibility for.

That is your responsibility.

You make sure that your expression in this life,

In the present moment,

Is unconditional love,

Regardless of the past or what may happen in the future.

You want to burn your karma?

This is how you do it.

Don't try to fix the past.

Make sure the present moment is an expression of unconditional love.

The past doesn't need to be fixed.

It's not broken.

It's not a mistake,

Never mind how it happened.

Keep reminding yourself again and again,

You always do the best you can at any given time,

So does other people around you.

With whatever the level of their maturity is,

Whatever the tools they were able to learn on their path,

They can only do the best they can and whatever manifested out of that is not a mistake.

So don't bother about trying to fix the past.

That's not how you create a different karma.

Burning the karma is being happy and content and available in the present moment.

So let me just point out one thing to you,

From your story.

The person who spat in Buddha's face and yelled and cursed at him found his way to taking responsibility for his actions.

No,

He was trying to correct the past.

Okay.

Begging for forgiveness.

Right.

Begging for forgiveness.

Yes.

But.

And Buddha was not there to meet him.

Buddha said,

This person that you're talking about is not here.

Buddha lives in the present moment.

Right.

And doesn't let past impression cloud his vision to meet that person with unconditional love.

I understand all of that.

But in reality,

And most people's situation,

The people that are,

Quote unquote,

Hurt by actions,

Often will carry that with them.

And often they are having difficulty with their expectations and wanting to have an apology or some sort of acknowledgement for that hurt.

And,

You know,

That sits here for lifetimes,

You know,

And probably passed on generation after generation.

We know that this happens.

And that's one thing.

But the person who may be out of their whatever situation they were in,

Then comes to a realization,

Oh,

What,

What,

What was I thinking then what,

You know,

I was so ignorant,

I didn't know what was happening.

They are awaking to something within them.

So at some point in the night,

That that person came to some sort of realization.

And yes,

He was going and asking for forgiveness.

But in that action,

He is,

There is some level of responsibility,

Which to me just means an acknowledgement of something that happened,

Not that you're acknowledging or saying that it was a mistake,

Or it shouldn't have happened or anything like that.

But just simply coming around to the,

Wow,

Where was I in that,

That,

That,

You know,

I,

I aspire to something different or something bigger,

Or I want to grow and evolve as a human being.

Yeah.

So if,

If you feel that in,

In the past,

Or just one hour ago,

You were carried away by your ideas,

Deep into the gap.

And now you wake up and realize this is not where you want to be.

Okay,

So take a deep breath,

Come back to the present moment,

Let go of whatever happened in the past and be present again.

So I guess,

I guess a question related to all of that is,

Do you think that,

So there's,

There's one,

There's one piece of just having that awakening and acknowledgement within yourself to go,

Wow,

Okay,

That's,

That's amazing.

Then the secondary piece of that is,

Is there,

Is there a point or a sense of meaning?

If we,

If we take the next step of actually approaching a person,

We think maybe in our past that we hurt in order to create that,

To lessen that gap and create that connection.

Again,

Not that you're acknowledging that what was done was a mistake,

But simply sort of awakening to the,

You know,

Reaching out,

Hey,

I,

I really love you.

And,

And,

And creating a stronger bonding connection with another person.

That question bring us dangerously close to asking what to do.

Yes,

Yes.

And you know,

I don't go there,

You do the right thing.

Sometimes the right thing would be to put it behind you and not referring to it.

Sometimes it's go there and ask for forgiveness.

Sometimes it's being a doormat,

A beautiful doormat and let other people tremble on you until they feel that they've released all their anger.

I don't know what's the right thing to do.

You know,

How do you know?

When you do it with love,

Not,

Not,

Not guided by fear,

But by love and love will guide you.

Love doesn't carry any remorse or regret or blame or shame.

Love doesn't need anything from the other person.

You don't come to the other person because you need him to forgive you so you can be free.

This is mostly why we go and ask forgiveness because we feel restlessness and that we ease when the other person said,

No,

No,

It's okay.

I forgive you.

I'm not angry at you anymore.

Usually this is why we go.

So love doesn't have that feverishness.

So if that flow of love takes you there to apologize,

Then you do that.

If that flow of love keeps you at home and let the other person boil in his own juices until he relaxes,

Then this is what should happen.

So,

So you're saying that when,

If you're,

If you're waiting or holding on to something until somebody can forgive you for an action or say,

Oh yeah,

No,

It's okay.

I'm fine.

Then you may as well hold your breath for the rest of your life.

We are about freedom,

Right?

Free consciousness.

Your consciousness cannot be free if it's depending on somebody else's actions or decisions,

Right?

This is slavery,

Not freedom.

Right.

That's,

That's the fundamental understanding of any type of relationship you have.

You don't maintain a relationship because you depend on what other people are doing or feeling towards you or in general.

Because then you're codependent.

That's not freedom.

The natural way to carry a relationship is free of dependency.

What bonds you is love,

Not need,

Not want,

Not fear,

Not lack.

Not expectation.

Not expectation.

Just love.

What bonds you is love.

And love doesn't know all those lack-based emotions,

Right?

Because love itself is abundant.

It cannot feel lack.

Abundance cannot feel lack.

Abundance is the opposite of lack,

Right?

So don't worry about what other people think.

Don't be a football of other people's opinions.

I guess part of,

Part of it too that,

That bothered me when you said that sentence last week is I'm always looking for ways that ego can kind of wiggle its way in there without us really realizing that that's where we're acting from instead of the purity of love.

Yeah.

So,

You know,

If,

If we walk around,

I mean,

This is fairly overt and obvious,

But if we walk around going,

You know,

I don't need to take responsibility for anything,

You know,

You know,

And meanwhile you're,

You're slapping people left,

Right and,

And center out of your way,

Then that's,

That's a pretty obvious.

Yeah.

That's why spirituality has a bad reputation.

You know,

Since the 60s,

It,

It was like a refuge for people who refuse to take responsibility.

Right.

This is the stigma,

The spiritual,

That spirituality has.

Like people are looking for the easy way out of dealing with life,

Of taking responsibility for their lives.

La la li la la la.

Yeah.

When that happened,

When ego is trying to adopt spiritual knowledge for its own benefit.

Right.

Okay.

There's a way here I can bypass the difficulty,

Use this as a spiritual excuse,

Not to deal.

That's not what I'm saying.

And,

And actually,

Interestingly,

It seems like what you are saying is that the person who is hurt and trying to blame other people or put it on other people to take responsibility for their actions is most often the one.

Refusing to take responsibility.

Who is refusing to,

To find that love within?

There's something there that's,

That's really blocking.

Make sure that that person is not you.

Make sure that that person that blames other people,

Blames the world,

Blame his situation,

Is not you.

That's an interesting turn of events.

Yeah.

Make sure it's not you.

You know,

This is the easy way out.

No,

No,

I'm so,

I cannot be happy.

How can I be happy when you do that to me?

How can I be happy when I'm stuck in this work or,

You know,

With not enough money or with three kids or whatever,

You know,

You give yourself excuses why your suffering is justified.

This will never end.

You know,

Even if you solve one problem and two other problems will rise to make sure that you are never settled.

You're never content.

When will you be content?

When you stop that dependency on other people's on situations.

When you realize that joy is not something that you squeeze out of life,

But it's your very nature.

Love is not something that you gain because you prove yourself to be worthy.

Love is your very nature.

When you stop that eternal search for those outside of you,

And you wake up to realize it is you,

Then it will end.

Then it will truly end.

Do you see what I'm saying?

What did they say?

I just wanted to go back to some of the comments.

Yeah.

Colleen way back said that happened to me today.

And punishment is not the answer.

It was something about what we were saying in the beginning.

And I never intend to be the bad guy.

I am just me.

If someone chooses to feel hurt because of their interpretations of me,

Is that my responsibility?

Yes,

But not because you are the one to blame.

It's your responsibility because you are involved,

You're a part of it.

Do you see it's a completely different angle.

Don't try to avoid responsibility.

Try to be more in love.

Responsibility will be a byproduct of that.

Don't worry about responsibility.

That's what I'm telling you today.

That's what I'm saying.

Yes,

You are responsible,

But not because you are the one to blame.

But because you are a part of that and love bonds you and everything that happens to the other person is as if it's happening to you.

That's compassion.

So you are responsible.

Of course you are.

How can you not be?

Do you see what I'm saying?

You need to forget about the fact that responsibility and blame goes together.

They don't.

Drop the blame.

Funny how?

You take responsibility.

You like these verbs.

Once you take the verbs out and you just are,

Then you just be everything instead of trying to achieve,

Trying to do something with it.

Yeah.

Remember,

The secret is never in the doing.

That's why I refrained from going there and giving you advice that has to do with what to do.

It's not about the doing.

It's about the being.

You are that.

You are responsible.

Don't try to take responsibility.

You already are responsible.

Why?

Because you are love and love bonds you,

Binds you with everything around you.

Sharon liked your being a football.

This is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

It's not me.

Anne said,

Make direct amends to such people wherever possible,

Except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step nine of 12 steps program of the AA.

Okay.

Yeah.

And then Amanda asked,

What about taking all the blame?

Like even for what goes on around you that is not due to your own actions?

Like perpetual guilt?

Yes.

Go for it.

See how well that serves you.

You are basically saying,

The only place I allow myself to live and to exist is in the gap.

That's it.

Everything is a big mistake.

And everything is because of me.

All that mistake,

All that existential mistake is because of me.

So what's the difference between that and being a doormat?

Let's see how that works for you.

Being a doormat,

Meaning you don't bring your own agenda to the meeting anymore.

Right?

And if the other person requires a doormat,

Because I don't know,

This is where his psychological state is at this moment,

Then you become a doormat.

So what?

A beautiful rug and a doormat.

What's the difference between them?

If you come with no personal agenda,

You can adjust.

You know what's beautiful about love?

Love knows where to go and how much to feel.

Wherever it finds lack,

It knows.

You don't need even to guide it.

You don't need to do anything about it.

Love knows.

You be the fountain and love will go and fill all the lacks around you.

You don't need to take responsibility for that.

You just allow that.

Let me tell you a story.

Many,

Many years ago,

I was in the ashram in India,

And I saw my teacher,

Shishiravi Shankar,

Conducting a ceremony,

Puja.

And there was a group of kids,

Maybe 10,

12 years old,

That are studying in the ashram to become priests.

So they learn this whole long verses in Sanskrit.

It's a language they don't speak.

They have to learn it by heart.

And they chant it again and again and again and again.

It's like an hour.

So I was looking at my teacher,

Guruji,

Conducting the ceremony,

And I saw that he was looking at the kids from time to time.

And I was looking at the kids to see what he's looking and what he finds there.

And I saw one kid was so excited,

And he forgot the Sanskrit verses all together.

He was just white.

And at some point,

Guruji,

While he was busy with the puja,

He told the kid to come,

Like to sit next to him.

And that kid was sure he's going to be blamed and punished,

You know.

You see how he was terrified.

So Guruji sat him beside him and asked him to help with the puja,

Which is a great honor,

Like only the top priests are allowed to do that.

And for me,

It was such an amazing lesson to see how love just flows,

You know.

And if you didn't pay attention to the details,

You just miss it.

No drama,

No big,

Just natural flow events that went through the puja.

It was so beautiful.

He felt that lack.

He allowed love to flow,

Fill it up,

And continued.

Naturally,

It's not thanks to you and your great,

Amazing ability to feel compassion.

It's not about you.

You just allow that flow to happen through you.

And if that requires you to become a beautiful dharma,

Then that happens.

You can become a dharma.

So,

You see what I'm saying?

And Al says,

Is there a difference between blaming someone for an action or recognizing that another person is responsible for their own actions?

Is there a difference between blaming somebody for an action and recognizing that another person is responsible for their own actions?

Yeah.

When you blame someone,

You don't take responsibility.

You don't feel responsibility.

You don't feel love.

You feel lack of love.

And you expect other people to change,

So you will be happy.

There is no responsibility there.

And recognizing other people.

.

.

That another person is responsible for their own actions.

Of course they are responsible for their own actions.

They are responsible for everything.

Their own actions,

And the actions that they don't do,

They refrain from doing,

Just as much as you are.

Why?

Because everything is our responsibility.

Everything.

Reality is a creation of our state of mind,

State of consciousness.

The universal state of consciousness creates reality for us.

So,

How can you not be a part of that?

How can you not be responsible for that?

Let me say that sentence again.

Reality is a creation of the united consciousness that you are a part of,

Whether you like it or not,

Whether you recognize it or not.

So,

How can you not be responsible for everything that is happening,

Whether you consider it to be good or bad?

You created it.

Well,

How can you not be responsible?

What I'm hearing you say is that if we are an expression embodiment of love,

That love naturally takes care of finding that balance and flow.

So,

If you can tap into that and really be an expression of that,

There's nothing that you have to worry about.

There's nothing that you.

.

.

Yeah,

Yeah.

You need to worry about when the sun rises.

Yeah,

Right.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah.

But there's just this.

.

.

Everything just is natural and,

You know,

To quote Osho,

Loose and natural.

Totally.

This is what you wake up to when you stop dreaming.

You know,

In that sense,

An awakened individual is the most natural individual.

Nothing unique about it.

The most natural,

Simple expression of humanity is an awakened consciousness.

There's nothing unique about it.

You wake up to realize,

Yeah,

I'm a part of that flow.

You stop creating turbulence in that flow.

So,

There is no karma built anymore.

Karma is that turbulence.

You see what I'm saying?

Sharon said,

If the person is emotionally immature,

Is the person who is emotionally immature still our responsibility?

Everyone is your responsibility.

Everyone.

Mature,

Immature.

Don't try to grade them on a scale.

Everyone comes with qualities.

A wise person looks beyond the qualities to find the divinity within.

The divinity unites us.

Different qualities divide us.

Look beyond the qualities.

When you meet someone,

Find God first.

Then you look at the individual,

At the persona.

But first you meet God.

Same when you look in the mirror.

Or when you look through the eyes of your spiritual teacher,

You can see the divinity before persona.

Bear says maybe the issue is not being a doormat,

But being a doormat and then resenting it.

Yeah,

Resenting it is going back to the gap and bury yourself in it.

That's it.

Are we all resolved?

So,

From today onwards,

Make sure you never take responsibility again.

Remind yourself,

I am that.

I am love.

Responsibility is just a byproduct of that.

Of course I am responsible.

I created it.

I am the creator.

Can the creator say,

I'm not responsible.

This is not my thing.

This is your problem.

This is your problem.

This is your problem.

This is sound like your problem.

This sounds like your problem.

It's a Hebrew term for divinity.

The shekhinah resides within each of us for sure.

In Sanskrit,

It's called Atman.

Atman is shekhinah,

The divinity within.

Ann says,

I often say to myself,

Am I coming from a place of lack in this situation?

And it helps me and I thank you for this message.

Good,

Good.

This is beautiful.

This is what we are here for.

We gather every week to keep reminding ourselves what we easily tend to forget.

This is why it's important.

You keep coming.

You keep showing up.

Be focused on that.

I want to remind myself,

This is what is most important in my journey here.

Whatever 80 years,

90 years I have here,

This is what's most important.

Dedicate yourself to that.

So next week we'll meet again and bring a friend.

Think about somebody who can benefit from that teaching and make sure he's with you there.

I think Christine agreed with me.

She says,

Thank you,

Carly,

For getting a clarification on this.

I wonder how many people heard you say that last week and said,

Hmm?

What?

Let me just finish with this.

It's not about getting the point.

It's not about trying to figure out what did he mean?

Because as soon as I figure out what he actually meant,

Then I will be whatever.

Sorry.

It's not about getting the point.

Everything we say,

You listen to with one ear.

The other ear is available to find the silence that hides behind the words.

The invitation is always to go beyond the intellect that tries to understand and figure it out.

I guarantee this is not a journey you're going to figure out.

It's not about getting the point.

It's about remaining in the origin point.

Settling down back in your origin point.

So it's good that we debate,

No?

Then we clear misunderstandings.

But don't get stuck there.

As soon as the intellect is settled,

Move beyond it.

You know what I'm saying?

So thank you very much people for your attention and your beautiful questions and the fact that you chose to share your path with us tonight.

And I look forward to meeting you all next week with your friend.

El said,

Of course,

I'm responsible to bring all my friends.

Exactly.

Sandra was listening.

Yeah.

See you next week.

Bye bye.