E146: Reality—The Doorway to Liberation

Hmm, Gigative. Tri-Masters is a word. It's very, very powerful, very, very spiritual. Perhaps, isn't our most spiritual words in our language. It's called reality. Nowadays, they may believe there is no reality. It's whatever you think it is. Whatever a lot of people say it is. That's a reality. It's no, no, no. Reality is something very, very, very real. And in adapting to accepting, working with reality, you're going to find out that all the deep spiritual teachings, the Tao, the Gita, the Bible, the Torah, the Kabbalah, Sufi teachings, they all, the doorway to those teachings is reality. If you're not in tune with reality, you're in your mind. The only thing that exists of the reality is what you make up in your mind. Your mind can make anything up. It can say anything. I'm from Mars. Let's all say it. We're the Martian people. And all of a sudden, there's this whole movement. And from Mars, the mind can do anything you want. It can also try to absorb, come harmony with reality. How different that is from what we do with our minds is incomprehensible. For example, you make up what you like and what you don't like. Wait a minute, I make it up. You make it up. You tell me what, just make something up. I like her. I like him. I could just make up whatever you want. Yes or no. Likes and dislikes are not reality. Likes and dislikes are mind. They're mind and heart. Let's get that together because a lot of you guys think that heart is a very, very important big thing. It is at some level, but not the level you're talking about. Your mind and your heart are encroached with each other. They are harmonized with each other all the time. If you have a negative thought, you feel negative feelings. If you have positive feelings, you have positive thoughts. Have you noticed? That's how it generally works. But the mind and the heart are programmed by what you've done with your experiences in life. Notice that your experiences in life last one trillions of a millisecond. They're happening right then. That's what be here now means. They don't happen before. They're happening anymore. I haven't heard it later. It's not there yet. The only time that reality exists is now. It's called the eternal now. If you're not in the eternal now and we're not, okay, you're in your mind. The only place that exists other than the reality of right now is your thinking. It's what you make up in your mind. It's that true or not. Okay? All right. I understand how powerful reality is. Reality says, "I'm real. You're not." Well, if you're out of harmony with reality, what do you do? You're ready? You suffer. That's a true statement. You will suffer if you're out of harmony with reality. Why? Because reality is real. Reality is what's actually happening. What you make up with your mind is not happening. You just want it to be happening. You're hoping it'll be happening. You dream that someday it will happen. That's mind. It's all mind. I know you all like the word hope. I do too. It's very nice. I would never take it away from you, but hope is mine. You have to hope about reality. Reality exists all by itself. It has to do a single thing that always has, always will. But I don't like it. Well, that's your mind. But I do like it. That's your mind. So all value judgments, concepts, opinions, hopes, dreams, all this stuff. They're wonderful if they're positive. It's wonderful, all right? But they're mind. Reality is not mind. Reality, I discuss it all the time. And people sometimes say, why do you always talk about the quantum field? Because it's reality. What do you mean? It's science. Science is studying reality. Science studies reality. You're supposed to enter the scientific principle. Because you have concepts of views and you step into that. You don't want it to be a certain way. Your experiment is supposed to be a pure experiment. The scientific method is called. Then any of what you got going on in your mind is not the scientific method. You have to go on in your mind is what you want and what you don't want and how to get it that way. What you want, what you don't want and how can I make it be the way I want and how can I make sure it's not the way I don't want. That is as unscientific as it can possibly exist. But that's what's going on in there, isn't it? That's the problem. So when I discuss things at the quantum field or the fact that 1.3 million earths fit inside the sun, some of you just sit there and go, "Yeah, come on, I'm talking about God. I am talking about God. I'm talking about reality. Stop. It's not just words. 1.3 million earths fit inside the sun. You should know that. Why? Because it's true. It's reality. The Russians know it, the Chinese know it, the Americans know it. It is just a truth. How do you know it's a truth? Science has explored it, challenged it, and we have evidence, evidence abundant evidence beyond anything. Nothing can challenge the fact that 1.3 million earths fit inside the sun. That's a very, very important reality because that means there's a squat going on here and it doesn't mean anything. And if you're like here and that, I'm sorry. That's a reality says, I'm sorry, but it doesn't say that. Ever. Do you understand that? It just says, "Here I am." And then you say, "Take it or leave it because you're going to take it." Never notice how after a hurricane or tornadoes and all these things, "Oh, the night of my life, you see on TV, right? The other channel, oh God, blowing things, trees coming out of the roof of the sun, it's like in the morning." Sun and beautiful. The sun comes out. The sky's blue. There's reality. But that's not just what I do wrong in my house blue. It has nothing to do with you. That's why I don't teach, you won't hear me teach about karma. Not like that. Not like that, I'm sorry. Events happen. Here's karma. Causes an effect. Events happen. Science. I studied what happened. Something will happen because they happen. There. Not right, not wrong, not good, not bad, not punishment, not reward, just reality, reality. Otherwise it's mine. You made up the rest, okay? Oh, you took care of that. You get some good karma. Somebody else says, "I can't believe you did that." You get a rotten hell forever. You get a little religion, you are. You made that up too. Am I right or wrong? Who's willing to talk truth? This is, the ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Reality is truth, truth is reality. The rest is mine. And what you do with your mind, good, have fun. Understand that? What's going to happen when you die? Ready? None of your business. You will find out. Is that okay with you? No, just talking to different in reality and mine. Is it true that you're going to die? Yes or no? It doesn't matter if you want to or not. All right? You're going to die. What is going to happen after you die? You don't know. You have beliefs, hopes, dreams, concepts. Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind. Are they right or wrong? Just talk to somebody that's saying I'm right. Talk to somebody else to say they're wrong. Is that right or wrong? How many are there out there telling you what's going to happen when you die? Come on, let's make up heaven. Come on. I like it. It's wonderful. It's mind. Is it true? You'll find out. Until then it's mind. If it is not a direct experience that you are having, you are making it up. Is it okay if it's all right? Is somebody willing to be talked to with reality and truth and not mind? Because you're going to do anything you want with your mind. Okay? So, you get to the point where you say, what do we know that can be called reality? So I have two things and I ponder them all the time. One, the quantum field. What is that? I've discussed it. It would be very briefly. You look out here and you see things. Are they real? Well, they're really there as part of reality. But what if I look really close like with an electron microscope? Is it showing me a deeper truth than what my eyes see? My eyes averaging out atoms to look like you guys. But they were really atoms. Then that's what's really there. I gave this example the other day. I used to teach in college, right in the class that they let me teach. All right? Long time ago. I have in my hand water. I don't learn anything out. Do I have water in my hand or do I have H2O molecules in my hand? Or do I have hydrogen, oxygen atoms in my hand? Do I have hydrogen, oxygen, atoms in my hand? Do I have electron-neutral protons in my hand? See, high-challenge reality? You shut up and you look to the best of your ability. And what you see at the root, as a Buddhist teach, but you see at the root, as it's really there, it really is electron-neutral protons. But they bind themselves together to make up atoms, which bind themselves together, but they're still electron-neutral protons. They didn't change. One single layer to see a science that you're free and up beautiful, okay? And they put themselves together to make molecules and they put themselves together to make compound structures that light bounces off of because you can't make it through it. Like you can make it through certain things that are bound together too tight, but if they're bound together too tightly into compounds, right? Light bounces off of them. That's what you see. You do not look out through your eyes. The light is bouncing off of objects. It's hitting your photosensitive cells in your eyes and it's being passed back to you inside. Your eyes are sensors that receive the light vibrations that come in, they pick it up, then they have to send back to you. You're inside, aren't you? You're in there? Hello? Hey, you're not out here. You've never looked outside every in your life. There's a reality. It's being sent into you. You have sensors, just like a computer, as sensors, and that's all being sent in. Well, how's it come in? It picks up these vibrations of light. Why are they patterned that look like him? Because that's exactly how the compound molecular structures are bounded together so that light doesn't bounce off one tiny millisecond to his left or right, but it bounces off his face. That's why you see it as that. Because you pick up that light and you don't pick up the light, it makes it through. Do you mind if we talk science? Because it's called reality. Did you know you don't look through your eyes? It looks like you look through your eyes. It's an illusion. They are picking up the light that's bouncing off, sending it back. How did it get back to you? You have a wiring system in there, just like a computer. It's called your nervous system. That's why it's there. Because it sends the impulses that got stimulated by your sensors back there and it renders it in your mind. Right now, you are not looking at me. Out here, you are looking at the image that got made in your mind that looks like me and you're sitting there. Your consciousness is looking at that image. Nobody will talk to you like that. What does it do? It's hit you free. You sit there and say, "Wow, I'm in here. I'm in here. I'm the end user." You are. You're the end user, okay? And it's so basically science, life, truth, 1.3 million earths, finiside, sun. So what? It means you don't have to worry. There's nothing happening. You're just looking too close. There's a bunch of atoms floating around. What are you getting upset about? I don't like the color. Is there a color? Do you know? I can't help myself. Do you know that objects do not have color? That right now look around this room? There's nothing in this room that has color. Light has color. Light has color. The light spectrum has color. Hold a prism against light. You will see the colors come out. From frequencies of light, you pick up as color. That's all that's happening. The light is bouncing off of these different objects. And depending upon what frequency bounces off, you see that the object has color. It does not have color. I'll prove it to you. Turn off the lights. [laughter] Will you turn off the lights so that there's no light bouncing off the objects that are out there coming into you? It's neat to talk about, but why? I'm telling you, if you stop paying attention to the fact that you like certain colors or not, they're just frequencies and the electromagnetic spectrum. What do you mean you like one and don't like the other? All right? It's your mind. Your mind is doing all of this. So let's go back to 1.3 million Earths from inside the sun. So what? Because will you please put you, your thought patterns, your little body, your little family, your little house, your little car? How big is it compared to the entire Earth? How much space do you take up? All right. Now 1.3 million Earths from inside the sun. Now what? Stop it. What is ego? Alive. How about something inside of me that says, "I want to be important." Or not. This is called waking up. This will liberate you. It will free you. It will get rid of all your suffering, all your problems. And there's 8.3 billion of you guys running around saying, "I'm important." And 1.3 million Earths from inside the sun. And it finished. If 1.3 million Earths from inside the sun, you're pretty small, aren't you? And how long you'll be here? Few years? You can't handle it. You can't handle reality. You can't handle what's happening in front of you. Okay? Well, we'll work down to feelings. We're going to get there. All right? But the reality of the fact is, are you willing to accept that you're nothing? Are you willing to accept that you're nothing? Are you willing to accept that I'm so attractive and so pretty? I'm so handsome. You are not anything like that. You're just a bunch of atoms that bound themselves together and the little zit on your chin that you're all embarrassed about. How small is that? You're talking about reality. Are you willing to talk about reality? No, because it challenges what's going on inside your mind. What's going on inside your mind? All right, we'll do it. Right now we'll get it over with. I am a conscious being who has received the messages, the impulses, the physics, the came in through my senses. And I experienced these moments in front of me since I was born. They came in. I experienced them. All right? Well, that's fine. Right now, I'm going to have a good old time. No, that's not exactly what happened. Why? Well, let's talk about it. Because some things that come in, I stroke this way, everything that comes in has a different vibration. The colors, the sounds, the blue to say it has its nature. A rattlesnake has its nature. I couldn't, I'd been, I'd write it wrong. Not just or unjust. It has its nature. Are there natures the same? Have you noticed that when you see a rattling rattlesnake 10 feet away from you, it does not feel the same, have the same experience as a butterfly land in your arm? Which would you rather have a rattlesnake land in your arm or a butterfly land in your arm? Okay? They have their nature. Is that okay with you that things have their nature? It better be because that's the beginning and end of reality. They have the right to, they know the right of nature, they have their nature. It's not a matter of right or wrong, is it? Okay? How about a cockroach? It has its nature. What about a beautiful bird? Has its nature? What about a star? Has its nature? Every single thing has its nature. Who decided its nature? Creation. It has created that way as that's how it is. Evolution, anything. Just, that's how it is. It's got its nature. When it comes into you, when what comes into you, it is just the physical object that comes into you, a vibration comes into you. In fact, the physical object does not come into you. There's no rattlesnakes in there. The physical object doesn't come into, here, my car got inside. No, it did not. It stayed out there. All right? What came in was the light bouncing off the sound, right? It was a vibration that came in, paired with your senses, and the aura, the vibration, the nature of it. It's got to be a sea, or is orange and red and it's kind of self. It has a vibration. It vibrates. It comes in and you feel its vibration. Do you not? Okay? Fine. So it comes in. You're in here? You're conscious. What does that mean? I felt a vibration. If you're conscious, you're knowing or not. No, this is happening. But you're in there. Sometimes you wish you weren't, don't you? All right? But you are. You've been in there from the beginning. The vibration comes in and you experience it. That's who you are. You know who you are? The experiencer. You're the experiencer of what? Of the experience. If there's no experience in there, there's not being an experience. What if none of you were in there? And then does that exist or not? No. Okay? But you are in there. So you have this experience of the reality that came in. But you just admitted to me that don't feel the same. This is going to a topic that's very, very deep. And I'm not going to get deeply into it. All right? When it comes in, because your consciousness is not seeded in the divine consciousness, it fell from the garden. That is exactly what it means. Your consciousness started to focus on this tiny object called you, your consciousness. But I thought there's just one consciousness. There is. Just like there's one sun, but there's many rays that emanate from that sun and they all fall on the earth in different places. Don't but in truth they're all the sun. They're just the sun, radiating, emanating, it's being. Same thing with consciousness. There's one consciousness, but it can focus. Consciousness does focus instead of staying universal, which it is, it stays universal, but it can focus. And your consciousness focuses on your thoughts, your emotions, your body. Why? It got distracted. Can you get distracted? Here in noise, somebody said something, can you get distracted? What does that mean? Got distracted. Your consciousness got pulled down to that object. I got distracted by my thought, by my emotion, by the sound, by you. That's what happens. I focused on it more, what does it distract me? And I focused more on that than anything else. How's that for a Webster definition of a distraction? Your consciousness focused more on one thing than all the other things. If I'm outside and I see a snake, a row snake, somehow I focus on it. Somehow it's the only thing that's going on in my consciousness. There are trees, there's grass, there's leaves, there's people, there were kinds of things going on. Not my world, right? There's a snake. All right? You got distracted. Distraction means your consciousness to divine consciousness. Got pulled down. That is the fall from the Lord. Got pulled down to an object or a set of objects. Okay? And so what happens is when things come in, they're not all the same. And your consciousness reacts to the vibration. How? One, if you don't like it, if it doesn't feel good, I want it to like it. It doesn't feel good. The vibration is not comfortable. How that? Like comes later. When something's not comfortable, you don't like it. But the not comfortable comes first. The vibration comes first. Then you build a concept about liking and not liking. That's how you build regals, how you build what's in there. So it comes in, you experience it and generally because you're not seated far enough back in consciousness. In the divine consciousness, everything comes in and passes right through. Everything comes in and passes right through. It's just what happened next. It's just what's there. It's called reality. The line in the Bhagavad Gita says, "Really beautiful. Talk just like this." All right? That says, you have to know the Gita. Don't worry about it. It's Krishna. The Godhead, God's words, talking to his disciple, Arjuna. And at one point, Krishna says, "Arjuna, we're not all lost. Some beings are awakened. They're fully seated in me. They're enlightened." And Arjuna says, "Whoa. How will I know such a person?" I'm paraphrasing, of course. Sitsy, walksy, talksy, like any other man. I want to know if such a great thing is free, liberated, and merged with God. How do I see him? How do I know?" And Krishna says to him, "No, Arjuna. You won't know him like that." He sits, he walks, he talks, like any other man. If you would know him, know him like this. In sorrows, he's not a wasaro. Enjoy, he's not a werejoyed. The outside world comes in and passes through. Just the same as all the rivers and streams of the earth pour into the ocean. The ocean doesn't overstep its bounds. So the enlightened one is at peace, in equanimity, whatever comes in. All right? That's what we're talking about. That's what enlightenment is. A great being is just absorbing reality and it passes right through. It's mean you can't come down and do something. We'll talk about that. Don't get there. Right? But the fact that you're not reacting to what came in. Something comes in. It comes back in your experience. I said, "You do one or two things. You either say, 'No,'" I had to say it. "You push it away. Do you not? Have you pushed things away?" Do you in there push things away? That are not comfortable to you. It's mean not comfortable. I'm telling you, it's a vibration. It's just the vibes, the dead vibes. Okay? It comes in and you couldn't digest those. You in there, the soul, the essence of your being, the self, got too close. You took it too seriously. It came in and you couldn't let it go. You couldn't let it pass through. And what did you do? You did what's psychology comes from. Freud said, "There's a thing called suppression, repression, denial. What does that mean? Push it away. You in there, the soul, the self, the power of will has the ability to take reality." Remember when we talked about reality? We started there. "To take reality." I had no reality. Because it came in. It came in and you experienced it. Was it reality that came in? Forget that you made thoughts about it. Just the experience itself that came in. You couldn't handle it. Was that mean? I don't want it. I look so there. Have you ever had an experience that was so beautiful, so unbelievably beautiful, that what you said was, "Oh my God, it touched me to the depth of my being. I felt like I was in the presence of God." It made it all the way in. That's all you're saying. Nobody touched it. It came in like somebody hugged you, you're perfect or something happened. The sun said, "It was so gorgeous. It just blew you away." Was that mean it blew you away? I said, "It blew you away." And all that's left is, "I felt I was in the presence of God. You were." Why? Because I wasn't in the presence of me. I wasn't being distracted by me. It blew me away. It blew the me away. We're talking about where that me came from. Because it's not real. So this thing comes in and you experience it and the self, the consciousness. It can't make it through. Why? We used to be evolved enough, but that's evolved enough means it's busy being distracted and hasn't learned to let go of being distracted so that it could experience where it came from. because it came from God. It is got-- you are God, you are God. It's got you are God, you are God. You are. Right now, you are sitting in universal consciousness and being distracted by you. What do you mean you are? God is. How he just says his dance is a little-- right? He's a divine sport. And we get distracted. It pulls the ray of consciousness. You're all the same ray of consciousness going back. It pulls the ray of consciousness down to your-- well, start right there. To the fact that you had this experience, it distracted you. Otherwise, you would be bothered by it. You know, bothered by the white lines in the road. You know, bothered by the cars that drive by unless it looks like you're a girlfriend or something. You understand that? Unless it distracts you. Right? Then basically it passes through. That's wonderful. But when it comes in and you resist-- that's the key word-- you resist. Resist what? Reality. Remember, it was reality that came in. Don't you dare. I'm not judging. It just reality came in. That's what came in, isn't it? Right? But you couldn't handle it. You couldn't handle reality. So what did you do? I don't want to experience what I experienced. How do you not experience what you experienced? But definitely, you experienced a thing. Nobody I don't want to have. I'm sorry. I really am sorry. It's what happened. And you experienced it. But I don't want it to have happened. And we got someone in there like that. I don't want it to have happened. OK. Get in a time machine. Go backwards and stop it from happening. All the side fives are right about that. It doesn't end up good. They say, don't touch it. When you get back there, don't touch it. You'll screw everything up. You hear me? But you say that I don't want it to have happened. That's adorable. Well, it's probably definition. It did happen. All right. So what do you do? You can't make the event not have happened. All you can do is refuse to experience it. But you did experience it. But I don't want to experience it. So you push it away. You push the vibration. The entire vibration of a canine. You use your will. That's what's called will. Power within you. The power of self is will. Instead of using it to release and open and experience God's creation, you use it to say, no, I don't want to experience this part of God's creation. So what do I do? I don't want to show my sense of having experienced it. It's called suppression. I push it away so that I don't. I told you, it touched me that the death of my being. That thing ain't touching me. That if my being there no way that's coming in here, ever said it, ever felt it. There's no way that's coming back here. I am going to protect myself. I am going to resist not the event, but the experience of the event. Are we making sense to you? Do you understand this? It all came from. This is the problem. So now you push it away. Where did it go? Oh, it went away. It did not go away. There's no way it went away. Energy comes in. It has to pass through the universe. It's on its way. All right? That song across the universe by the Beatles, the other song, right? Maharishi taught that when they were in India. He taught them everything is supposed to just come in and merge with the universe and all just merge across the universe. Well, Oh, okay. So basically it didn't make it. Did it? But energy doesn't stop. Energy can't stop. Energy's waves of force. So what happened? You use the force, you're a powerful being. You use the force of your will to stop that from coming back closer to you and you hold it in there. And what it does when that energy comes in and you resist it, where's it going? It has to keep moving. It forms a circle. That life's circle is such an important shape form in creation because energy can stay in one place and keep moving to see it. Listen to me. If a circle is around itself, it's still moving but it's staying in one place. That's what you did. You took the energy of the event that you didn't want to experience. You pushed it down and it started a circle around itself. What did? The sight, the smell, the taste, the thought, the emotion, every single thing about it, you suppressed it. You pushed it away, you resisted it. Where did it go? It didn't go anywhere. It stayed right there. And you'll call that as some scour. That is a some scour, a pattern of energy that you resisted and is circling around itself. Does it come back up? Can something that happened to you when you're five years old, when you're seven, they come back up? Can you have little sensitive subjects that we don't talk about? Because they hit your stuff. They stimulate the some scour. They awaken that. And it comes back up in full glory, doesn't it? Can you walk into a room, a kitchen where somebody's cooking, and it smells like a spice that your mother used to use? And she died many years ago and you were very close with your mother and you start crying. You start feeling all of a sudden, and mommy comes back, no, no, no, you walked in a room with a smell. And not mommy, not for you, because you stored that stuff in there. And it's coming back up. Good things, bad things. You store stuff in there. That is so important to understand that's reality. Reality is you do those things and reality that's what's gonna happen. That's what psychology is all about. If you don't do that, they're out of business. (audience laughs) It's because you can't handle reality that you push it away and it gets stuck inside of you. Well, what happens to it? Ready? Because it's in there and you know it's in there. How do you know? You're the one who's keeping it down there. Not necessarily your conscious waking mind. That's why it comes up in dreams. It comes up whenever it can. Well, I guess it's supposed to. Why is it keep bothering me? 'Cause you didn't let it go. That's why it keeps bothering you. I don't want it to bother me then let it go. Can't let it go. It hurts. It's gonna hurt more. I'm so sorry. It's physics. It's metaphysics. It's energy. It's gonna try to come back up. Do you know that? You have to go out of your way to live in certain places where there's no rattlesnakes. I've been divorced and all my exes live in Texas. I don't go to Texas. You are avoiding the stuff you shove down there. That's what your likes and dislikes are. You dislike things as you had experienced in the past that weren't comfortable. You stored them and now you'd propagated that out to say, well, I don't like blondes or I do like blondes. I don't like foreigners. I like foreigners. I don't like Jewish people. I like Jewish people. Just every single thing that you've ended up storing down there is determining your likes and dislikes. There was a reason Hitler was the way it was. I don't like it. I'm Jewish, right? But there is a reason to go check it out. What happened with his parents? What happened with his? His parents were in the past lives, but I don't know. I don't want to know. Everything has a reason, right or wrong. Everything has a reason. Everything has a cause. It's all a cause and effect. So it's passing through. But if you can't handle it, then you store it. You suppress it. You push it away. Like there's denial, repression, suppression. I just say resistance. Do you resist things in there, including the car in front of you who's driving slower than you want to drive? Including the temperature outside. It was either cold or hotter than you wanted to be. Do you resist? And therefore you store this stuff in there. I don't like cold weather. I don't want to go to the north. You must have had an experience. I don't like snow. You've never been in the snow. Yeah, but I saw a movie. No, that counts. Any impression that God in there will you pay attention? That's what's going on. You want to talk about what you're distracted by? You're distracted by that. That's the biggest distraction you have is the stuff that you couldn't handle and you shove down by definition, you can't handle them because you didn't handle them. That's why you push them away. When they try to come back up, you push them back down. Or you try to manipulate the world so they don't come back up. And I have to say that on the fair, that's a negative some score. A pattern that you pushed away because it was very uncomfortable and you don't want to experience it and you push it away. Are there positive some scores? I don't like talking about them and I don't want you to hear about it. If you could get away from the negative ones, you're doing great. I was a positive some score. Oh my gosh, she's so beautiful. I was love it for sight. She's my soulmate. I feel I have to be with her. I feel so open. I got a problem. She's not here anymore. She went to work. She went to the store. Hear me? I'm not okay. Because I'm only okay. I only have eyes for you dear. An event took place. Did it take place? Yes. Did it hit you so beautiful? There's touched the depth of your being. You just merged it. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes it did. Then what? Well then we go about our lives. No, no, no, no, no. We want that again. We don't go about our lives in the world. You go right here and don't talk to anybody else. And all of a sudden, there's positive scores causing all kinds of problems. But it is, it is something you held onto. That was an experience you had. I know it's beyond your comprehension to say, I am experiencing the reality of God and I am open. Then there's no subscribers. Positive or negative. Are you telling me that I feel madly in love with somebody? And I feel that love and I just merge into it and that's the end of it. If you don't touch it, it will keep happening. But you do touch it, don't you? Your Buddha is called a clinging. You cling to it. I want it to happen again. I want it to stay. I'm not going to let this go. You stay with me, right? It's a very human thing in it. So we push away the bad vibration and we cling to the good vibration. They are not something you made up. They are the result of experiences you had. And this is how you dealt with them. There's lots of experience you have that don't do that. They make it right through. I would say at least 95% more. 95% of every experience you ever had made it right through. Who would you mean? You walk down the street, you saw some people, you didn't know them. You were able to let it go right through. Then it's not bothering you. Go to a badger. What happens then? You're not being distracted. What if I'm not distracted? Then your conscience is not being pulled down to you. What happens to it? It starts noticing that down there is a mess. It's called witness consciousness. It was the mess that I made. The mess that I stored inside of me that I'm trying to run away from my whole life, run away from myself, run away from all the stuff that I've built in there. But if you're not being distracted by the outside world, then you're a piece. You're open. You're open. And then things happen and you stay open. Okay, they happen. Let's tell you what they know. Do you deal with them? Of course you deal with them. Life is an interactive sport. It's not just, get me off the planet. You're here for a reason, but you don't deal with them because you can't handle them. That's not why you're dealing with it. I can't believe what you said to me. I cannot handle that. Where do you sit? No, no, no, no. That's not how you deal with it. You deal with it by handling it. I can handle this. Yep. You're in a bad mood. You said something. It felt yucky when it came into me. Here it goes. I can handle that. Now what? I don't have to come out and change it because I can't handle it. All I'm doing is bringing the yucky that's inside of me and pushing it out on top of you. But if I can handle it and just say, all right, okay, fine. I can handle this. Then what? Then I can look outside and say, how can they help? Not how can they help me? Now can you say you're sorry? You better say you're sorry. I'll never forgive you. In other words, you figure out what to do next so it neutralizes the garbage I have stored inside of me. So I feel more comfortable. No, you get to the point where you're true spiritual growth is about. Reality's reality. I can handle reality. That's your mantra. I can handle it. I can handle it. Okay. If you can handle it, then let go of the tendency to resist. Don't let go of the event. It really happened. The problem when I talk about surrender and acceptance and non-resistance, it means it came in. I have my initial reaction because of all my garbage I stored in here is to push it away. I'm not going to resist it. What do you mean? I'm going to be lost in it. Don't bury myself in it and feel, no, I'm not going to resist it. I'm back here. I have the right to not use my will to push this thing away. I have the right to use my will to live. Let it go. Me, grab it and throw it away. No, no. To literally let it pass through me. Just the same as when I said it was so beautiful, it touched with the death of my being. I wanted to touch with the death of my being. 'Cause the alternative is just suppressive. The alternative is to store it inside of me. And then now I don't like it anymore. But I apologize. Yeah, yeah, you'll do it again. I know you will. You wanna talk honestly? Let's talk honestly. Somebody does something really hurt you. He said something, did something, whatever. Okay? And they were sincerely trying to apologize. And eventually you accepted their apology, okay? And based on their discussion, when something like, but don't ever do it again, promise me, promise me, promise me, you won't do it again. You know what that means? It's not done. Do it again. I thought it passed through. No, no, no, it didn't exactly pass through. I just was willing not to push it away so hard. Two years later, that person does something that reminds you of what they promised they would never do again. It's right back, right or wrong. You didn't forgive squat. Forgiving means letting go completely and that serious spirituality. In other words, I pushed it away, gross mistake. Have you noticed that it takes one second for something to bother you and could take years for it to stop bothering you? Now do you understand what I'm teaching you? This is the reality of the inner world, not just the outer world. This is reality and you guys don't deal with it. You don't understand, you push that thing away. I used to have a motto, you touch it on it. Well, what do I do? You learn, you learn to accept reality, meaning if it happened, it doesn't mean I won't deal with it. I told you that, get me wrong. But if it happened, it happened. Am I okay with it? Do I like it? Of course I don't like it. Is it fair? What's it got to do with fair? It happened. It obviously happened. It's reality. Can I handle the reality that had happened? And the answer right now is no. I can't. I'm a mess. Ornith. I'm a mess. Things have to be the way I want them to be for me to be here. Things have to be the way I want them to be for me to be okay. Well, they're not going to be the way you want them to be because they are the way they are. Has that to do with what you want? What you want got built inside because you resisted all this garbage, but he wants, she doesn't want it at all. And what you wanted yesterday, you scared the death of today. It's just stuff you're doing with your mind based on these some scars, based on these patterns stored inside. That's why everybody's different. So you get to the point where you say, wait a minute, if I want to be happy, if I want to feel joy, if I want to get closer to God, if I want to be a greater being, I have to accept reality. I started with the word reality, didn't I? I have to be willing to accept reality. But what is not fair? I told you, fairness is something that you made up in your mind. Is it fair that a tornado came through? No. I didn't do anything wrong. As somebody once told me that there was flooding in a subdivision down the road, when many years ago, and the house was a flooding. We all went down there to help with sandbags and all this stuff. This beautifully, I'll never forget how I'm gonna say this, 20 years ago, this beautiful old lady comes out of her house. She says, I don't know what I did wrong. I've been to church every Sunday. I didn't miss any. Mine. You hear me? It's just all mine, isn't it? So you get to the point where you realize, if I'm going to be in here, experience the reality, and you are, all right? You know what I'm going to do? I don't care if you drop out, you're going to experience reality. What is it going on? If I'm going to experience reality, I have to learn that my primary reaction to reality is acceptance. I started talking to you about, but will. We use our will to protect, to push it away. When you push it away, it's staying in there. Please listen to me. It's going to affect your marriage. It's going to affect your food. It's going to affect every single thing you do for the rest of your life. Okay? It's like a virus, a computer virus. It just gets down and it spreads out to everything. No one is like to live in there. Well, it's the alternative. Learn to accept reality while you have no choice. You're going to suffer and make others suffer. That's why the whole world is the way it is. Everybody's trying to make it be the way they want. It's not the way they want it's the way it is. Does it have to stay that way? Of course not. There's cause and effect. But the past is going to stay that way. No one's ever undone the past. See, it better be okay with it. Okay, me now. I like it. No. It passed through me. I am at peace with it. Now what can they do to help? Don't forget that's the next step. Now that I'm not doing it for me because I can't handle it, I can handle it. What can I do to help? To help what? Me? No. To help my mother know. To help the situation. You can always do something to raise the situation. Okay? It's amazing what acceptance does. And until you can reach a point that everything fits inside of you without judgment, with compassion, with understanding, then you can look outside and bless it with peacemakers. That's what I was blessed with peacemakers because they don't hear it the earth. You're not peacemaking by yelling and screaming and fighting. It's when you understand when the whole situation, both sides, fit inside of you just fine. You're at peace. You understand that's called compassion. I've compassion. Of course you don't see the way I do. How could you? Yet different experiences than me. You suppress different things. That's a very great being. That being can bring peace. That's Gandhi. That's King. And so how do I do that? What do you do? You stop thinking that the world is supposed to be the way you want it to be because it's not, it's just not that way. You have to be able to accept reality. How do you do that by not resisting? How do you do that by relaxing? It's all set and done as it boils down to. The opposite of resistance is relaxation. In order for me to fight you, I need to resist, bring my energy down if I play judo. All right. And I relax. You fall past me. I have to be able to let it flow through and it can all flow through. It can all flow through. It doesn't seem possible. Why? 3 million Earths, friends, side of the Sun. And I didn't finish my discussion yet. The sun is one of 300 billion stars in your galaxy. It's just one of those little twinkly things just close enough to where you see it and feel it 300 billion and 1.3 million Earths and inside one of those and what are you saying is wrong? What are you complaining about? What I don't even understand. You can't even see the Earth. How many places there are in the galaxy that you could look with the biggest tell us could be ever had and you never see the Earth? Billions of them and there are 2 trillion galaxies and you shall know the truth and the truth so set your free. Who is willing to let go of their stuff that they built inside their mind based on their past experiences that they liked and didn't like on all the kind of garbage in order to say OMG. Because that's God. All the galaxies, all the things that's reality and it should be your reality. Contemplate it. Next time you don't like the driver in front of you. How they're driving? Take a little step. Take a step back and sit there and say wow I'm on a little planet, a little carcass of scootaround. Give me a break. Then I understand why we talk about reality now. How do you work with it? Because we're not in harmony with you. You're in harmony with you. You're in harmony with reality. Everything about you is me, me, my children, my this, my clothes, my this, what I like, what I don't like. How do I get this? How do I get what I want? I mean mine. You are distracted by you. It's not a distraction, it's an addiction. What happens if you don't get what you want? And you get what you want. You get weird. You get weird. Right or wrong. If you don't get what you want, you get weird. You get what you want, you get weird. All right. So you practice how? And that's what I finish. What it comes down to is okay, we're not there. We're pretty lost, aren't we? You have to start practicing. Practice what? Practice acceptance. Practice accepting reality. So the driver in front of you is driving slower, not using blinker or whatever heck it is. You don't tailgate them. You don't beep that of them. You sit there and say, you know, I can't handle a lot of things in life. I think I can handle this. If I want to, I could probably handle the driver in front of me. Right? Do it. Just for kicks. Just for play. What do you mean? I feel this tension. I feel this anxiety. It's just passive sign. It says 65 miles an hour and they're going 40 and a single lane highway. And you're in a rush. Hear me? Okay. It's called reality. Can you handle it? What does that mean? It means you will feel the tension. That tension and anxiety is due to resistance. You're pushing away reality. That's what you're feeling. When two things push against each other to force a great tension. That's what you're doing. Well, how about we don't do that? I always sit there and say, okay, I always love it because you're doing that, right? And it's really bad. He's good about it now. Much better. And it's better. All right. And you go down and push in terms three blocks later. I look at it. You know, I do it. Stay away tongue out. and Mickey. (humming) You close all that trouble for three blocks. And the other one I really like is if I'm driving slow and I can pass, right? And I can't too long and I find the not-align and I pass, okay? And I go to speed I wanna go. And then I get to the highway and I stop at the stop sign. And 15 seconds later they pull up behind me. (laughing) This is called having fun with yourself. It's called understanding what it means to say I'm going to work with myself. And then you start letting go. How? Relax instead of resist. It's high, relax instead of resist. Find some positive way to think about it. Do whatever you want, but do the opposite of this tendency to protect yourself from reality. And what happens if you can do it with the driver, if you can do it with the weather, if you can do it with little things that aren't the way you want, have fun practicing letting go. You practice, that's what surrender means. It doesn't mean surrender that the outside world can do whatever it wants. I told you that, it's not like some drug deal that comes up to you and says, "Hey man, you want some heroin?" Well, make you say surrender. (laughing) No, that is not what it means. It means if you feel resistance toward that person instead of understanding it's God lost inside the garbage that's causing this to happen, right? Let go of the resistance. Maybe you talk to him, maybe you don't. It doesn't matter, but use it to let go of yourself. That's what surrender means. Surrender is inside. So basically if you'll do this, next thing you'll know, your husband or wife will come home and add a bed day and they'll come in and they'll go to the bedroom, close the door and you'll feel rejected, you'll feel bed. I made a dinner, I did this, so I want to go out, right? Said, "It hits you wrong, can you handle that?" No, can you handle that? Here's the checklist, did it happen? Yes, can you handle it? Yes. 'Cause the alternative is you will suffer and so will he or she when they come out of that room. So it's not about right or wrong or just that they don't. It's about can you handle it? It happened, can you handle it? And when you sit there and say yes, I can handle it. You just let it go. Relax, relax through it and your energy will make it through you. It's called transmutation of energy. It comes in as anxiety or anger or guilt or fear and you just relax, relax in the face of it. But I want to, I know you don't want to. You'll never want to do it anyways. And you just relax through it and over time the energies will make it through you and all of a sudden things will bother you anymore. Well, I could you learn to handle them and you'll become a positive force, not just on the earth. In the moment you're interacting, you will find a way to lift that moment and it doesn't matter smile, not yelling, not reacting. You just lift the moment, do what you can to lift the moment. Some people are in positions where they can really do a lot to lift the moment, but not out of anger, not of hatred. You know what I mean? Out of love. All right. Now you understand the word reality a little better? Oh, Namaste. Thank you. (soft music) You've been listening to the Michael Singer Podcast, produced by SoundsTrue in partnership with Shanti Publications. 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