Michael Singer - Doing the Real Work for Your Inner Evolution

g g Masters there so many different aspects of spirituality that people like to hear about the one that they least like to hear about is the one that's the most real two very great Masters laid the groundwork for this Yogananda in a yogi there's a chapter called my experience in Cosmic Consciousness where his Guru yasur for the first time touched him pass shuy and master merged he just said he lost all consciousness of his body of the world he felt like every galaxy in the universe was his body he was expanding fast in the feet

of light out of the outer edges of the entire universe and he was merged and you touched me came back the moment he came back which is more important yro took a Brom room he shoved in his hand and says sweep the floor he didn't let him say a word about it he didn't ask him about it he said sweep the floor mayor Baba fully enlightened Avatar great being the only one that I've actually heard of that did this he talked against somebody he said you walk around India there's these gurus these swamis that can

reach the breathless state that can leave you can put mirrors under their nose no Vapor comes on the mirror there's no sign of breath and they can stay and that stay for a prolonged period of time he said that didn't interest me what interested him was when they came back what would they like when they came back what did they do when they came back and he said they started yelling at their disciples that you didn't get this finished I told you to do this before I was done and he said that's more important than

where you went what you did when you came back what are they saying doesn't sound like type of spirituality we all do in yoga they called tapasia you know stress ourselves and strain ourselves and meditate for hours and hours doesn't sound like that it's because the truth of the matter is and I learned this back in I think' 69 somebody talked to me about this Earth is a place that souls are sent to evolve Earth is a place that souls are sent to evolve that is what you're doing here that's what all of them except

for the fully enlightened are doing here they're here to help us evolve what does that mean to evolve it does not mean to renounce the world it does not mean to not get married does not mean to not have children does not mean anything like that why because Earth is a place that souls are s to evolve if you need to renounce something you must have a problem with it obviously it's something that causes disturbance in you that you decided I I can't deal with this okay perfectly reasonable what your life here is about is

learning to be okay with reality you do not create reality this world is not anything like what you think it is I say it to you over and over again it is a little piece of dirt spinning around the middle of black dark empty space 93 million miles away is a star of which 13 million of this planet fit inside that star and there are 300 billion of those stars in your one Galaxy and there are two trillion galaxies what does your life have to do with that nothing well that's a Pity in other words

you're missing 99.99999% of everything that's created of God of all that there is and you want to talk to me that there's something in that point 1% that comes in front of you that you can't handle so either you're going to manipulate the world around you so you can handle it by yelling at people dressing certain ways acting certain way do you understand that I'm going to manipulate that how big is that dot in front of you compared to what I just talked to you about compared to everything else that's going on in the entire

planet at the same time and 1.3 million Earths fit inside the sun that's your life too it's called reality there's nothing more real about the moment in front of you than what's going on in Mars what's going on in Jupiter it's called what's going on do you understand that can anyone get far enough away from the person to understand that there is no different none no difference between the moment unfolding before your senses and all the other moments that are not unfolding before your senses they're just what's happening there are things happening where everywhere and

they're all equal the quazar exploding in Supernova is the same as you you spilt your coffee it's something that's happening in the universe just because it's what's happening in front of your eye so what look what's happening to the left to the right up down everywhere it's exactly the same how do I know if I picked you up and put you there you'd say that was special whoa something's fishy about that it's special because it happens to be where you're standing that's what it means to grow spiritually you must die to be reborn it's not

about your meditative State it's not about some experience you had it's not not about what gurus you met it's not about that it's not about what scriptures you've read it's about are you done with you are you done with saying I'm the most important thing in my universe you're the most important thing in anybody's Universe there's a universe that's what the most important thing is there's a universe it's everywhere and it's equal everywhere the fact that your Consciousness is stuck so tight in staring at you staring at this this one thing ramach Krishna Great Master

right he didn't use the word I he did not talk about his body he called it this are you talking about this when he was dying or he was going to die because he have mouth cancer right and he was not well and they brought a doctor in Great Master raar Krishna they brought a doctor in the disciples brought a doctor in and he was both a doctor and you know or aade cons I the whole thing and he met with the master and he came out the disciples were so concerned said the guru he's

a great master and he said don't worry there not a problem he has so much shaki he so much power all he has to do is three times a day bring that power down to his throat and it will heal it will go away so his disciples got all excited they went in to talk to him oh Master this is wonderful and he was like a little kid right that little kid oh for you I'll do it and so on then an hour later they heard crying coming out of his room and they went in

what's the matter Master he said I want to do it for you but I can't I can't do that what you asked me I spent my entire life taking the whole of my being and put it on Divine mother's feet I canot bring it down and put it on this and he didn't he knew who he was he knew this this is nothing it's nothing it's here today gone tomorrow isn't it and by the way it might be gone tomorrow you don't know you hear me you're busy with all your plans and all your stuff

you wake up one day and you realize Earth is a place that souls are sent to evolve we'll be getting into that how do you evolve by allowing the unfolding of the moments in front of you to be the unfolding of the moments in front of you they are no different than anything else they're not special they're not for you they're not against you I don't like to talk about Karma you won't hear me talking about Karma and and I'm not saying this is just me all right I've only been at it for you know

52 years is you look at Karma as a punishment or a reward oh she's got good karma she gives a lot away he's got bad karma he left his family that's not what karma is it's not good or bad karma is you have set actions into motion because you did there's a reason you did there's a reason you left your family there's a reason you want your name on on some donation or something like that all right there's reasons what comes back from your action is the teacher that you laid out because of your action

so it's not it's bad karma because you left your family right it's a lesson that you will need to learn that will come back around and over time this lifetime and another one you will have attracted to yourself in accordance with the teaching that you needed a't that a little nicer it's your teacher Earth is a place that souls are sent to evolve that's how you evolve you're not perfect I'm not perfect you're going to do actions you're going to say things you going to do things in a moment we'll talk about why but when

you do they set in motion energy and that energy in essence says to the universe oh I need to learn things here that's what karma is is all right you get what you need not what you deserve you get what you need Earth is a place the souls are sent to evolve so what does that mean it means that every single thing that happens to you has meaning the very fact that you think it happened to you means you have something to learn because it didn't happen to you it happened I quoted you once before

in Zen they say flowers are Red Waters is blue grass is green in other words things are what they are because of the forces that make them be the way they are what's that got to do with you that the flowers are red the water's blue and the grass is green but I like turquoise better oh you made it be about you do you understand that but I had this Rose and I was going to take it to a show and win an award and some ladybug took a bite out of it you're doing that

you know how many roses there are you how many ladybugs there are any we listening you're the one who's making it personal you're the one who's sitting there saying this isn't what I wanted this is what I wanted Earth is the place where souls are sent to evolve and that's not very evolved what if I came in or I sat down I'm going tell you right now it's wrong that Saturn has rings Saturn should not have rings I don't like that Saturn has rings I don't like that the ladybug bit a rose on the planet

Earth that's called personal you are making it personal are you not I like him why is he talking to her I don't want to get old I don't want to die what is that what is that that is you making a royal mess of your life well what is is my life what did Christ say let those who have eyes to see let them see let those who ears to hear Let Them hear there's your life here it is right here in a moment it'll be out there it'll be over there it's everywhere it's just

you happen to be standing that's the highest thing I can teach you it's happening everywhere is it not in your house in your town there's things going on in your house you don't know about there thing going on in your room you don't know about and then everywhere's else it's just it's just going on everywhere it has nothing to do with you there's a reason is there not a reason everything's happening if a roach runs across your floor in your room is there a reason that that roach exists and was in that position at that

moment to run across that floor could science track that down program all the offense of cause and effect and that roach going run across that floor it has nothing to do with you you didn't do it it's not because of you it's not for you it's not against you it is not true that it's raining on your birthday it's just raining and it happens to be your birthday why is it always rain in the weekend it doesn't know it's the weekend God doesn't like me God loves you stop it these are the real teachings you

are making a mess out of yourself out of your life and out of everybody else's life that you're projecting your silly old self onto you shouldn't have said that I can't believe you said that I don't know what see you again he has a stomach ache and he ate something and he had gas and he said something stop it you can't handle it you can't handle reality how about I say it to you that way the highest species in the planet Earth aren't you you can't handle reality what did Darwin say Evolution was about survival

of the fittest adaptability this is what spirituality is about don't make it mystical the truth of the matter is life unfolds why because it does the G say something really beautiful Krishna says to Arjuna Arjuna what is will be and what is not will not be what's so hard about that it's so beautiful that's all we're saying is it not true that what is is how about I'm going to get harder on you I'm not picking on you I'm really not all right what was was that's easier to handle right I mean what is okay

I can do something about it what will be I sure can do something about that but what was was can you do anything about what was which one you can do something about what was it still bothers you doesn't which one of you bother by what was there I'm going to take the easiest discussion how silly is it to be bothered about something that's over you can't do a single thing about it yet you're letting it ruin your life you know what Freud taught you are you not letting the past ruin your life so you

wake up and you realize spirituality is not weird it's not some mystical mumbo jumbo thing is he sit there saying well that's pretty silly maybe you should learn not to do that maybe Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve and that's a good starting Place why cuz the cost benefit analysis of allowing your past to bother you is 100% cost no benefit you decided to get bothered about something you can't do a single thing about it's over it's not going to happen again and you still let it bother you maybe that's a

good starting point for evolution to me spirituality is just down to earth it's just the most obvious thing in the entire world you don't need all this other stuff what's it got to do with psychic nothing well but but some people are psychic yes yes if you let go of stuff and you're more open in certain areas not all psychics are high right in certain areas you see things that other people don't see so what it's just another part of reality the Bible says in my father's house there's many mansions the Great Master say there's

many planes scientists say String Theory all that kind of stuff say a Multiverse not a universe there could be other levels of vibrations of reality and so on fine what's it got to do with you nothing why do you want to see those you can't handle this one yoganand literally taught that he literally said how do you expect to handle the subtler energies of the higher Plains if you can't handle the gross energy of the atoms and stuff that's going on in front of you and you can't can you that's what it means to be

honest and so you wake up and you realize this is real stuff it's meaningful stuff beneficial stuff at all times the spiritual path is a very very great thing as long as you don't make it all this mumbo jumbo stuff if and that's what I said most people don't want to hear the real teachings they want to go somewhere why do you want to go somewhere cuz I can't handle where I am I want to see Visions why because I can't handle what I'm looking at I want to see Christ why because I don't believe

in him it will make me feel better about myself so you finally come down to what I call where the rubber hits the road and you stop and you take inventory not where I want to go not what should have happened not what I wish happened where am I right now right now in here you're in there aren't you what's it like in there don't judge that's one of the greatest things to understand do not judge what it's like in there or you will go nowhere it's not about right or wrong or good or bad

or higher or lower don't try to be High don't try to have people think you're high or like that just look in there how is it doing in here and the only way you're going to tell is when the world runs through you you can sit in a room by yourself and make up anything you want and do anything you want when you get up I want to see what happens when that phone rings when the door bell rings when somebody comes to pick you up and you go to get dressed and it doesn't fit

anymore and you look in the mirror and you're starting to get the lines the hair is turning gray do you understand that how are you doing with reality that is spirituality how are you doing with reality because if you're not doing good with reality and tell what's going to happen you're going to fight with it you're going to say I'm not okay with reality I'm not okay with how you are I'm not okay with what you said I'm not okay with what I look like and not only that I'm not okay with what might happen

oh I like that one you're not okay with what might happen anything might happen yeah I'm not okay with it either I worry a lot I got a lot of anxiety right what have anxiety about that something might happen that I don't want or that something might not happen that I do want you're doing that the world is not creating anxiety the world is just being what it is it rains when it rains it's hot when it's hot it's cold when it's cold people are nice when they're nice and they're mean when they're mean have

you noticed that is how the world is it has always been that way way and it's different everywhere and it just happens to be a certain way where you happen to be standing are you okay with it that is your spiritual growth the day you wake up and sit there and say whoa I got some work to do all right why because you're the only one in there however it is inside you made it that way no my mother yelled at me when 20 hours ago 20 years ago you not happening now well why is

it still bothering you you did that you have to own that not with judgment not guilt not shame no no no no there's no room for that there's too much work to do that's like sitting in going learn to play tennis oh just hit into the net oh I don't want to play what is the matter with you why I hit in the net CU you need to learn nothing wrong with hitting in the net you need to hit in the net you got your angle your wrist angle is wrong same thing with learning piano

same thing with learning everything same thing with learning to grow spiritually you have the right to grow spiritually you have the right to look inside and see and what you're going to see the first time you look in there and some people have been on this plan for a long time and never really looked in there what do you mean they're trying to find techniques that make it so they don't have to look in there they're trying to find teachers this that everything different stuff that will make it so it's not like that in there

right somebody must ask mayor Baba he an avatar fully light Master he said we're all caught in the Cocoon of our own past storage stuff the some scars we call some scars you stored stuff in there haven't you right can't a ma they asked them can't a master come down a fully enlightened Master with like with scissors and just cut the so out of the Cocoon you know may Rob said he said of course they could but they would never ever do such a thing you need to learn to work your way out there's a

reason you stuck yourself in there well G do it take you out you just put yourself back in right you have to evolve it's about spiritual Evolution you have to evolve enough to say I don't need that I can't believe I'm still carrying that certainly there are things in your life that you've done that with that you were afraid of and then they happen I can't believe can't believe I freaked out over that right you carried it for years then you met the person and you realize it wasn't that bad I know P people that

can't be with their parents you know can't go home and not fight and not have struggle and stuff like that and then they grow they really grow and I just love it they come say you know what I went home they're just people they're people on the planet Earth I used to teach you that don't tell your parents you know who your parents are people who if you go into their house they don't call the police sometimes it's people on the planet Earth aren't they there are people on the planet Earth like any other person

you're the one who stored all that garbage from your childhood what you didn't get and what happened and all kind of stuff and so you wake up and you realize you know I have some work to do in here and if I look in here it's a mess there all kinds of fears I have and anxieties and desires and hopes and dreams and and judgments and where'd you get all of that where'd you get all of that there's Just Flowers water and and and grass there's just life it doesn't there so you don't get scared

once you get clear what does it mean to be clear I'm not doing that in here I get up in the morning ready to see what's there and ready to deal with what's unfolding but what do you do now just right away so you don't get scared it doesn't mean you don't do anything just because you don't have hopes and dreams and Concepts and Views and likes and dislikes and preferences it means you don't have noise going on inside of you that's personal every single of those ones I just told you hopes dreams concept views

beliefs preferences likes dislikes are history psychology tells you man is the some who learned experiences all that garbage inside of you where did you get your likes and dislikes how do you know what you want to be there are Impressions that got left on you from your past that molded the way you think aren't there fine when those are all gone and there's nothing in there but you self awareness you will look out into the world and you'll see how you can help not help you not help it be the way you need it to

be so that you feel better and make it not be the way you don't want it to be because it scares you and makes you worse that's personal that's based on your stuff all right there is such a thing as the word Dharma I never try to use the word because there's nothing in the English language that touches the word Dharma what it means is what you would be doing if there was nothing in you making you want to manipulate the world to be the way you want it to be in other words what's unfolding

in front of you and how can you help and you're going to find out that goes for your job what job any job it doesn't matter any job you're doing at least at that moment the universe gave it for you to do this is your job there's something going on everywhere else isn't there everything's doing something this is your job but I'm like no no buts all right again the gaita it says better that a man do his own task though imperfectly than do the task of another though done perfectly we all have our position

in the universe we all have what's unfolding in in front of us and this is part of that you always have something to do you have something to give something to serve I never understood now I do you're going to one said for the want of a safety pin the universe would fall apart but he's saying if you didn't do your job that's in front of you something else gets messed up even if you do somebody else's job better than they would it's none of your business that's not what's supposed to happen it's not about

success or failure or Perfection or like that that it's about am I open enough to be clear enough to see what am I supposed to be doing I a mother I have a child it needs to be fed the feeding of that child is your Dharma has nothing to do with what you want to do or don't want to do or like it or don't like it or whatever the heck it is it just has to do with I'm here I have nothing else going that's the key I have nothing else going I don't need

anything I don't fear anything what am I supposed to be doing that's a very holy thing they tell the story I like I I never tell this story I like this story about a samurai uh Warrior when the Samurai warrior tradition somebody kills your master is your Dharma to kill them that's just how it works okay you're a samurai so this this very low-level person snuck up and killed the samurai Warrior's Master very lowly and the Samurai warrior pursued him chased him to try to find him for a long time and finally he cornered him

the guy was about to go bathing in a lake and there's no place he could go and the Samurai warrior came up drew a sword and this guy looked at him and nothing he could do so he spit in his face spit in his face the warrior stepped back put his sword back and walked away and this lowly person who had killed his master started yelling at him what's the matter with you you chicken why you running away and some War turned around because I felt anger wasn't pure anymore you understand it's not the ACT

it's why you're doing the ACT where you're coming from these are all part of Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve how evolved are you are you caught on that getting what you want is a joke it's way overrated have you ever gotten what you wanted have you ever been afraid of losing it have you ever had to F tension of keeping it did you ever find out later you really didn't want it the moment you got it you hear me all right and avoiding what you don't want again way overrated that's

not what you're supposed to be doing with your wants and not wants you're supposed to be looking at this and saying I'm sitting on a planet in the middle of nowhere is in a giant Universe with two trillion galaxies why did I make up how I want it to be and eventually you will catch on to the bottom line because I'm not okay I'm not okay I'm scared I'm insecure I feel lonely I'm not okay in here that's why I have wants and not wants fears and desires because I'm not okay in here where you

are okay you don't have those you're fine with the white lines in the road you're find with the trees you drive by I once told you that you are 99.9% in life I guarantee you if you measured it 99.9% at least of every single thing that comes into your senses you're fine with clouds in the sky air people words look how much comes in but that one he said what who said to whom wake up that's the problem the problem is not life the problem is you the problem is you're not okay and we'll talk

about why in a moment you're not okay and so you think you need to manipulate life to make it be a way that will make you be okay the trouble is you just keep doing it you've been doing it your whole life haven't you then why are you not okay when will you wake up and realize maybe it doesn't work there was a toy you wanted a boyfriend you wanted a girlfriend you wanted a job you wanted every single thing and you then wanted something else there's something you didn't want then you didn't want something

else do do I know you I'm a psychic do I got a down it's so true it's ridiculous it's so obvious isn't it and so you wake up and you look and you say that's the problem the problem is not the world the problem is not that things are not the way I want the problem is because I want them to be a certain way why am I like that why can't I drop down to this beautiful planet spin around the Sun a few times and leave I said that was fun what did you see

I saw a lot lot of things happened and did they challenge you yeah they were challenging who who wants to play a sport that's not challenging how you like you're NFL professional football team playing kindergarteners wonder how long that'll last okay it's just not a thing in the world yes it's challenging yes it brought the best of me out the best in terms of dealing with things the best in terms of handling things I grew that is an evolutionary Place St down there do you understand that they say in the scriptures the Hindu scriptures they

say the Davis and the Davis the gods and the goddesses and the higher Plains long to be born on the planet Earth where they get to grow instead of being in a place where everything's the way they want how would you like everything to be exactly the way you wanted it to be when you were 14 years old no look so good now does it that's the same always there's no such thing as getting it the way you want and have having that be something great for a short period of time of course it is

why because you had needs you had problems and it made you feel better about them how come 50% of all marriages in United St of America end up a divorce it's not what you think it is it is not true that somebody else is going to make you be okay if you are not okay in there there's a reason you're not okay in there you can put a Band-Aid on top of it somebody who treat you so beautifully and so special and they're really special and you're proud to be with them that's all wonderful I's

see how long it lasts there's a reason you're not okay it's not because you didn't meet this person you're not okay before you met the person you'll be not okay about something else later Buddha safe to get to the root of things what is the root of all this the root of all this is why am I not okay if I was okay I could be the way we've been talking about I could wake up in the morning I'm back that's how I want you to wake up I'm back oh look the room is still

here if you know quantum physics the fact that that room is still there that's a miracle this is not really there there's nothing there but a field of energy right or wrong there's a Quantum field of energy vibrating different there's no particles there's just field of energy and it puts itself together and it did it the same way for this morning look my clothes are there you'd be blown away completely all right so basically you'd wake up I'm here wow I'm back and then you'd see you're supposed to brush your teeth why CU it's there

for you you just will walk through your life it will present yourself things to do you will bring the whole of your being into it serving it with your whole heart and soul it'll be the most exciting experience everything will brushing your teeth will be the most exciting thing in the world even bre the most exciting thing in the world starting a car oh my God you know what it took to be a car and you can push a and it starts you you'll see it that way you're not caught in yourself you're open you're

open to all the experiences and you will go through the day and you will do what you're meant to do and it will do what it's meant to do and then at night you'll feel whole and complete and that's how every single moment of your life will be from then on that's a very high State you we'll talk a little bit later what goes on from past that why am I not there that's what I want you to ask why am I not there why can't I honor and respect everything that is why don't I

honor that I'm on a little tiny plas in the middle of nowhere and there's green grass instead of sand or gas or fire there's a lot on here isn't there why don't I just be blown away by its existence because I'm not okay because I'm not okay down there deep I'm not okay I get insecurities and fears and needs and desires and all kinds of things and those develop into hopes and dreams and Concepts and Views and opinions what do you want to happen that which will fix what's wrong inside of me that's what you

want to happen isn't it what do you not want to happen that which will make it worse is that not that simple okay then why don't we work there instead of running around trying to take classes and do things that teach you how to get what you want why don't you find out why you want it why don't you find out why you're not okay cuz the truth of the matter is you're the most beautiful thing that ever walked to the face of the Earth you are right now at this moment the most beautiful thing

that walk to face of the Earth Christ Buddha blush when they look at you and that's a true statement okay I am love I am light I am a spirit descendant that is what you are okay if that's true I'll take that one but I can't get there why because you are so distracted by the garbage that you have stored inside of you based on your past experiences you've collected every little thing that ever bothered let me answer a question if I collect inside of me everything that ever bothered me throughout my life what's it

going to be like in there bothered if I collect inside of me from my youth like Freud talked about then you know it's true everything that ever bothered me my sister did when my mother did what they didn't do when Uncle George did what I watched on TV just everything that ever bothered me I didn't let it go I collected it inside suppressed it repressed it resist I don't care what you want to call it right big words I don't need big words you do do that don't you if Sally doesn't say hello to you

today she's a friend of yours she walks by Sally she keeps walking how you doing what happens the next time you see Sally comes right back up doesn't it you kept it you kept it one stupid moment 8.3 billion people on the planet Earth they didn't sayell L either you're the one that decided no I don't like it and you did that with everything with the driver in front of you the day it rained on your birthday cake when the day this happened and that happened and somebody didn't call on time and everything and you

stored it in there I'm going to ask you the question again if you store everything that ever bothered you throughout your life small things and big things and you store them inside of your heart and your mind what's it going to be like in there bothered that's why it's bothering in there well you told me I was filled with love and light you are you are filled with love and light that is distracted by what's bothering you if I put you in the most beautiful place in the entire universe with lights going God things and

everything but I put a rattlesnake in front of you you don't see the rest do you you see the rattlesnake you get distracted by what you're staring at even though all the rest is there all the time don't you dare think there's anything wrong with you there's nothing wrong with you there's something wrong with what you did in there right what you stored in there and now you're distracted by it and so you think that's you that which you're staring at the feelings that you're feeling and all that stuff is your Consciousness is not that

but that's what you're focusing on and so that's what you feel and now in order to be okay you go out there and try to compensate for what you screwed up inside of you use that word again you try to comp say I'm lonely my my father love my sister better than he love me and I could never handle that and I tried to talk to him about it once and he just walked out of the room right and how do you treat a four-year-old like that and now every time I see my sister I

don't want to see my sister I don't to do with it right you did that no my father did that no my said no no it's an event that took place 40 years ago and it's still bothering you you did that you can learn to say okay you know Daddy treats her different he treats me is fine everybody treats everybody different I'm okay wouldn't that be nicer what a better way to be wouldn't it be you can learn to be like that that's what it means that Earth is a place for soul is to evolve

you are going to face that which you stored inside yourself even if it's not out there it's going to hit you you're mind your own business 40 years later and somebody says God my father loves me so much you'll start crying but they don't tell you is it doesn't have to be like that yes it's true you did that yes it's true you stored that stuff in there yes it's true it's screw up your entire life and yes it's true you're trying to compensate that with everything you do you hear me you meet somebody whose

father didn't treat them as good as their brother oh you're bonded baby that's a nice foundation for a relationship isn't it and so you finally wake up and you sit there and say wait a minute this is my house I live in here there's nobody else in here nobody else in there you only went in there and it's going on in there you did it you didn't handle what happened and so on and so you wake up and you say now that's yoga now we've just defined spirituality I got some work to do in here

just look in there see what's going on well there's so much in there how do I know what's going on you'll know it'll come up wound it and you've done everything your whole life to make sure it doesn't that's spirituality that's the paradigm shift I don't want this in here I don't know how to let it go I stubbed it in there it's suppressed it's hidden it's whatever it is I made a mess but I don't want to be like that I want to wake up in the morning and be happy I woke up regardless

of anything I want to walk through the day and be grateful that I got to have the moments of the day that took place in my life I want to wake up so much that I realize the moment that's unfolding in front of me has never unfolded in front of anybody for the history of time and never will right now what you're looking at no one has ever seen she's not seeing it's a different angle and it will never be here again you're pretty special aren't you that's an amazing universe that every single creature not

just people every single creature experiences a different moment that was made for them that was never there before and will never be there again wow maybe you could respect that and you start thinking like that and you start realizing that while you have all this garbage excuse my word while you have all this garbage inside of you you can't live like that because you're afraid of that moment and you're afraid of the next moment and you're resentful of the past moment and that's what's going on in there and then you're trying to build a new

life for yourself on top of the garbage [Laughter] maybe that's what Christ meant when he said you shouldn't build your house on Sand but you have to realize you can do something about this so basically how do you do this now that we spent an hour talking about that is the meaning of is it not the meaning of your life the meaning of your life is not to find somebody who compensates for the fact that you're screwed up the meaning of your life is to work with yourself to release this garbage that you stored inside

how do you do it my new book I go into in great detail I'm very impressed how many people read that book and want that book all right you don't start you can you can do anything but you don't start by saying oh my God the most terrible traumatic thing that ever happened to me was this how do I get rid of this there's 800 million other things that happen to you that you are easier to let go of you don't start the piano by playing chopan or be ofen you start with the scales you

don't start tennis playing the William sisters you sit there and get a tennis coach or a ball thrower and you practice this is exactly the same it's not about tackling that stuff you can't handle that's like literally that's like saying okay I want to play the piano give me path by Beethoven what are you crazy play the scales and the ca scales first and play them and then try another and try another and then try twinkle twinkle it's the same thing here that's my experience the same thing here just take a breath and say I'm

going to walk into this day oh excuse me this day is going to walk into me you really haven't much of a choice it's going to rain when it rains and people going to say what they say right or wrong this day is going to unfold and it's going to come into me and it's going to hit my stuff not I don't have stuff no it's going to hit my stuff the tiniest thing the driver in front of me is driving slower than I want them to go they didn't use their blinker tiny things happen

don't they and they bother you don't they they don't have to bother you you don't start with the past you start with now what's the purpose of trying to get rid of the past if you put more in there told you spirituality is very logical all right so you start by saying I can handle this I can handle that he didn't use his blinker I can handle that it's rainy when I don't want it to I can handle it okay I can handle the power went out I can handle things it's amazing if I want

to I can handle things and so you start practicing handling little things that happen every day that you used to bother yourself about I told you when I did the interview on the new book with Oprah she picked out very deep line she said her favorite line was the moment in front of you is not bothering you you're bothering yourself about the moment in front of you you dropped catchup on your pants that is not bothering you there's catchup on the pants but you're bothering yourself about the catch on the pants and so you wake

up and you say well maybe I need to learn not to do that wow at least it's in my control you're in charge it's your life it's your inner State how do I not bother myself it just naturally bothers me it's called a habit it's just like a drug habit or any other habit you have a habit of being bothered by everything don't you so practice not being bothered how it's so much fun once you learn to do it so much fun you need to go back to work and you're wearing slacks or a skirt

or something and drop something on it and there it is and the immediate reaction is oh my God and another layer of your mind says I love it it's like modern art like people rip their jeans to make them look special they pay hundreds of dollars for ripped up jeans I get to have this cash up on my pants nobody else has it you get to do that don't you if you wanted to you could do that it's called positive thinking that's one you do it another level is you teach yourself to do a mantra

that's going on in the back of your mind all the time so now you're going about your business and somebody doesn't use a blinker it falls in your pants and you hear I can handle this I can handle this how that going on in there I can handle this it's over that what did you do about it I handled it that's doing something about it isn't it and then ultimately what I teach is relax and release what does it mean to relax and release it means I'm in here I'm okay before the catchup hits the

pants a moment in the universe which is pretty small takes place and some atoms fall on top of some other atoms okay but what happens inside of me is right or wrong something comes up and something comes up all right there it is relax what I can't make it relax I didn't tell it to relax I told you to relax you in there that exper experienced that this stuff came up inside of you take a breath put your hands to your side relax your heart relax and just let it go where will it go it

will pass through just like everything else does everything passes through until you stop it don't stop it whoa take some practice learning how to do that it's not easy at first is it why you're trying to protect yourself from it what you're doing is pushing it back down that's how it got there you know somebody made fun of you CU you dropped something when you were in kindergarten you hear me and now you stored all that garbage so instead you reverse the process you say I can handle this and you relax and next thing you

know over time you will learn that there's a distance between you the Consciousness that is experiencing the reactive energy and you learn eventually you'll become a Letting Go machine the minute it starts to come up you're relaxed and eventually and some people don't understand this but I like they do not only do you relax but you realize there's some space now between the energy coming up and you experiencing it then the moment you can feel it going up and relax lean back what does that mean it's three-dimensional in there guys it's not just what you're

staring at there's a whole universe inside of you above behind why not you're two-dimensional onedimensional staring at your stuff when you learn to let go you you realize I can lean back just lean back that's all I beg you lean back it's nice back there it's quiet back there it's beautiful back there and eventually you'll get to stay back there and your whole life will change you don't have to get pulled down to this stuff and all of a sudden it becomes easy to let go because not only do I not have to go down

to the garbage but I get to stay in the Bliss I get to stay in the shaky I get to stay in the beauty of the peace that's inside and you start voting for that and it gets high toward you in the end they'll go higher right that's high that's very beautiful they say that the nature of self is such an eternal conscious ecstasy you'll start to feel that not think it not try you start to feel more joy than you've ever felt in your entire life why because that's where the joy came from you

felt Joy because you got what you wanted and your mind shut up and your heart opened and so you're able to feel energy flow now now you're feeling it at its source and it doesn't go away if you don't leave it it doesn't leave you it's a true statement okay it's there it's always been there the entire time but you've been leaving it by staring at your stuff it pulls you in so you start practicing and leaning back and it gets stronger and stronger and stronger meditation helps things help techniques help stay back there but

it's not about the technique it's about your ability to let go of what would have pulled you away and eventually it's it's not strong enough anymore to pull you away and then you start to really go deep then it starts to show you that last time it starts to pull you up this does not pulling you down as you let go of enough and it keeps letting go there's nothing pulling you down and it starts to pull you up and you feel this tremendous pull inside intoxicating you pulling you up and where the great ones

went which are the pictures on the wall and and others all right is they let go that's the ultimate letting go they died to be reborn they let go of their personal sense of individuality and they merged back into God back into the universe back into who they are you are the universe your Consciousness is everywhere the ocean is is the ocean every drop of the ocean is the ocean every drop of Consciousness is consciousness that's what is back there that's God Consciousness and your drop of Consciousness is just a drop of that consciousness that

can fall back into the hole and that's what yoga means Union Oneness so there's the work now you understand Earth is the place where souls are sent to evolve every day every moment of your life you are given an opportunity of Liberation Liberation from what from yourself from the bondage of what you stored in there is it work it's wonderful work artists look how much energy they put into making a piece of art look how much intellect people put in solving something right you're taking on the highest task that could possibly exist self-realization finding the

secret of the whole universe who are you where' you come from these are answerable questions but not through your mind through direct experience Cheri