The Resilient Mind - How To Free Your Mind - Michael Singer

Episode Date: July 12, 2023

Join us for an enlightening episode as we welcome Michael A. Singer, acclaimed author of the highly influential book "The Untethered Soul," which reached the coveted #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Not only did Singer achieve remarkable success with "The Untethered Soul," but his subsequent works, "The Surrender Experiment" and "Living Untethered," also became New York Times bestsellers, captivating readers worldwide.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠Source: ⁠Sound True Podcast⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to How to Free Your Mind with Michael Singer. Get access to the Mental Mastery Program and other exclusive episodes by becoming a subscriber. Enjoy. As you become clearer in life, you realize that spiritual growth and personal growth are exactly the same thing. They're just looking at two sides of the same coin. Why is that? Spiritual growth supposed to be about God,

and personal growth supposed to be out making something good of yourself, cleaning out yourself, raising yourself. I would prefer that nobody knew anything about God, that they only knew about cleansing themselves. Because if you're not there yet, God just can be a concept to you, a belief, which is of no use, nothing. If you work with yourself to raise yourself, you will come into a state where you will understand what they meant by the word God.

You don't have to use the word God. Use any word you want. It's just describing a state of being. So what does it mean to grow personally? It means to notice that you have issues inside yourself. You think you have issues outside. No, you have issues inside. There are fears, insecurities, desires, needs.

wants self-consciousness embarrassment guilt these are all words that describe things going on inside ourselves guilt is not something outside is something inside need is not something outside is something inside yes you're guilty about something yes you need something or you think you do but the actual experience is inside of you those experiences these terrible things I just talked about that's how you go to God. Those are your pathway. You cannot ignore those.

You cannot run away from those. They are literally the roadmap of achieving spiritual states. But people don't want to do that. They want to say, well, but those things are not spiritual. Guilt is not spiritual. Insecurity is not spiritual.

Embarrassment is not spiritual. So how in the world can they be the roadmap to spirituality? Because they are what is in the way of spirituality. And since they are what is in the way, They're what you must deal with. There are the obstacles you must remove. Well, if I remove the obstacles, how do I become spiritual?

Wrong. If you remove the obstacles, you are spiritual. There's nothing else to do, period, nothing. All right? If you have a river or a stream in which there's rapids and there's spray and there's currents and eddies and you look at it carefully and you say, well, upstream, it's calm, flowing nicely. But here, oh, my God, it's a complete mess. It's rapids and eddies and sprays.

all kinds of things. If you look, what you're going to see is that there are rocks, there are obstacles, blockages in that stream, that when this water flow is coming down, they're hitting those things and they are then creating currents, creating disturbance.

So if you ask me, what should I do if I want to get rid of the disturbance and I tell you, take the rocks out and you say to me, well, I understand, I could take the rocks out, but then what do I do to get rid of the disturbance? That's what I just told you. You take that stuff out of there, there's nothing else to do, period. You take those rocks out, it becomes

absolutely still and beautiful in a beautiful flow. There is nothing else to do on your spiritual path except remove the obstacles to spirituality. Once you do that, and to whatever degree you do that, it just is the natural state of things. Spirituality is the natural state of things. It is not something you achieve. There's nothing you strive for. It's not something you do something. There are no techniques to achieve God. There are no techniques to achieve God. There are techniques to remove the obstacles that you put in the way of God, right? But there are no techniques to achieve God. You see the difference? All right. So that's where everybody goes wrong. So the Guita says, of men who seek me, there are some who reach very high states. They're very reverent. They're great.

One perchance comes to know me as I am. Whoa, that's scary. Right? That's because of what I told you. You do all the tapasia and renunciations and everything you want to do and all you did was become somebody who people respect because you did all these fire ceremonies and tapasias and did mantras for 67 years and so without breathing everything, anything you want. All right. It is the removal of the blockages, then the natural stay. Really, that analogy I gave you of removing those rocks from the water. You can see that. Once those rocks are gone, you don't have to get an iron and iron out the current. You have to do anything to make it right.

It was the obstacles that were keeping the experience from being its natural state. It is exactly the same inside of you. That's why these disturbed forces inside of you are the roadmap to spirituality. They are the rocks, period. All right, those things I described, all those dirty little words, embarrassment, self-consciousness, guilt.

It's just beautiful. So what do I do with those? Now, the first is to recognize, yes, I'm a mess. Like AA, my name is Joe and I'm an alcoholic. My name is making I'm a flaming mess. You just sit there and look in there and be honest about what you see. I don't care about what you want to see. That's the biggest trap in the world.

That's spiritual ego. That's like sitting here on the side of the stream. I'm going to keep you on aware of that analogy. sitting on the side of the stream the rapids and all the currents are going and you're sitting there saying i visualize calm i'm visualizing calm i don't see calm something wrong i'm not doing it right i visualize calm what's the matter with you man remove the rocks but in order to remove the rocks you better be honest about what you're looking at all right remember shakespeare this above all to know self be true and it shall follow as a night the day, thou shalt not be false to any man. This is the truth. You have to be willing to look and see what you see.

Do not try to put nice white lights around your garbage and sit there and say, I'm pure. That's not the right. That is spiritual ego. That is, I want to be there. I'm not there. So I'll use affirmation. I'll use

this. I'll tell people I am. I'll behave in a way. I'll dress accordingly. I'll do every single thing that a spiritual person would do, then I'm spiritual. No, you're not. It's nothing. It's a biggest trap that could possibly exist. There's only one way out, and that is to do the work of removing these obstacles that are in the way of the state of absolute beauty and ecstasy of divinity. So, okay, first you recognize. Don't be afraid to recognize. There's nothing wrong with seeing the rocks. If you don't, I'm going to use this analogy. If you don't like seeing the rocks, you will never get them out,

wrong. If I sit there and somebody told me there are rocks in the water and they're causing all the currents, I'm so afraid of them because I don't like the currents. I don't want to see rocks. Do you? No, I don't like rocks. They cause trouble. They must be of the devil or something, all right? So I don't want to see these rocks. Well, you're never going to see them. You're never going to deal with them. You're never going to do anything because you're afraid of them. You understand that. That's denial. psychology, denial, fear, etc. You have to be willing to sit there and say, I have now progressed spiritually to the point of understanding that I am blocking the flow

of God, the flow of Shakti, the flow of spirit from inside of me. I am doing it. I am doing it. There, that's your first point. Right? Nobody's making you drink. Go to AA. Right? Nobody's making you drink. Oh, no, no, no, no. My drive, no, no, go. Come back when you're ready.

Right? You're the one who's drinking. You're the one who picks the glass up and pour stuff in it and puts in your mouth and swallows. right or wrong nobody else is doing it it's the same thing here you have put these blockages inside yourself and you are holding these blockages inside of yourself so if you're not willing to look at them nothing good is going to happen do you understand that all right so you start with what we call witness consciousness question remember he called it the seat of objective observation but you will not be willing to look at yourself objectively while you're judging yourself

do you understand and what that means is i don't want to see what what I'm looking at. That's what judging does. You have to be excited. I remember when I first got to the point that instead of thinking that stuff inside of me that was causing all this trouble, was what I don't want, it's terrible, it's keeping me from God. I try to meditate above it, I do anything I can to get rid of it. And then I realized, no, this is what's keeping me from God. Therefore, if I see something, it's exciting. You have to change your entire attitude about yourself. The worse it is inside, the better. The more trouble it causes, oh my God, God, I got myself a big fish.

All right? You have to feel that I am willing to deal with this stuff. I am willing to look at this stuff. Not get in it. That's the whole thing. Psychology goes the wrong way. They get you started, right? But we're going to see the difference between spirituality and psychology as we go through

this. So first, you have to be awake. If you are not awake, what does that mean I'm not awake? We talk about it spiritually, right? They're awake. Not enlightened, just awake. What does it mean? It means that normally the stuff that's going on inside is so overwhelming, it is so strong.

Not only do you not want to look at it and you can't deal with it, but you are lost in it. You're in the rapids drowning. Well, you can't very well be outside looking at the rocks. You're trying to survive. You're trying to keep your head above the water, aren't you? Right? You're trying to take a breath, trying to not go down three times. That's where a normal human being is.

They are in the fear of drowning. so they're not looking at what's causing it. They're just trying to stay, keep their head above the water. Can you relate to that? All right. Worst our times are, the more we're like that. You have to be able to get out of the water, which is, again, witness consciousness.

Your consciousness has extricated itself from being in it. It didn't get rid of it yet, but it can watch it. It can see it. And how do you do that? Meditation is great, mantra's great. See, all of a sudden there's techniques. But the techniques are not about going to God. The techniques are about first getting out of the water.

Well, why would meditation work? Because the noise that's going on inside of you is creating disturbance. When you sit down to meditate, what you're sitting there saying, I don't care how you meditate, it's your business. When you sit down to meditate, you're saying for, let's say, 15 minutes in the morning, 50 minutes at evening, that's what nowadays they teach you guys. Fine, all right? You sit down, and for this 15 minutes, it's not about going to God.

That's why people can't meditate because they just, set these standards and then they burn themselves out it's not about seeing blue pearls it's not about seeing white lights it's not about going to god it's about i have set aside 15 minutes to practice being aware of being aware that's what it is don't come to me and say i can't meditate i say why there's no such thing i don't understand why you say well every time i sit down my mind just goes crazy it won't stop it keeps talking i'm going to touch your feet i'm pronoun to you bow down i'll touch your feet. You have to come back three times where you figure out what I'm doing.

You just told me that for 15 minutes you were the witness of your mind. My mind won't shut up. It keeps talking about this. Somebody's watching. So during that 15 minutes, you actually watched that your mind wouldn't shut up. That's a very high state.

Do you see why people screw up meditation? Because they define meditation as the mind shutting up. No, that's not. That's just a state that you can have there. But if your mind doesn't shut up, and you're aware that your mind doesn't shut up, if your heart is bothering you and you're aware that your heart's bothering you, I was trying to meditate, but then this thing came back up from before that bothered me. I don't know why, but it happened years ago when my heart started hurting,

and I just sat there and watched it, like, good, good. Do you understand that? Right? At least twice a day, please, for 15 minutes, take the seat of objective observation and notice, what is going on inside. Don't judge what's going on inside. Don't decide what's supposed to be going on inside.

Do you see that? Just notice. That's your job. Just notice. Who's not capable of doing that? The truth is, you have no choice. You're going to notice what's going on inside. Okay?

Now, I'm not saying you can't use techniques such as follow your breath. What does that do? All right? I notice that if I just leave it alone, it keeps talking. Very good. At least you've noticed that. Believe me, it didn't start talking when you sat down. Do you understand that?

People tell me that. No, when I try to meditate, my mind gets worse. That is a lie. That is ridiculous, right? It's just when you sit down to meditate, you notice that your mind is pretty darn bad, right? It didn't get worse when you sat down. It's going on the entire time. You're just noticing it.

So, yes, notice. Then if you have been given techniques, such as following your breath, is a very nice technique to use, what is the purpose of that? There's nothing spiritual about following your breath. There is, but I won't discuss it. There's nothing spiritual about following your breath. What you're doing is to do. taking your consciousness off of your mind and putting it onto something else,

like the movement of your breath or counting your breath. That's why these techniques work, because you are practicing, being aware of what's going on in there, then you are practicing what I call extricating your consciousness, freeing your consciousness, liberating your consciousness from having to watch what's going on in there. You're not judging, you're not suppressing it, right? If I'm looking at you and I'm having a problem,

I just look over here. Oh, problem gone, right? Just move your conscience. consciousness. Don't mess. I don't have to change you. Right. I just stop looking. When you watch your breath, your consciousness has now taken its awareness off of the noise of your mind and it is watching your breath or counting. That's why mantra works. Again, these things have deeper spirituality also, but I'm not talking about that. Right. You do a mantra and what you've done is tell your mind. I want you to repeat, guru, gruom, God, God, whatever heck it is, whatever you want to do for a mantra, right? If I teach my mind to do that and then my mind, mind starts talking about other things, I now have a choice. I can either pay attention to what my mind is saying on its own, or I can pay attention to the mantra. That's all you have to do. And what do you see? You'll change your entire life. You just gave your consciousness an alternate place to go as opposed to sitting. Well, okay, my analogy, when you are sitting on the mantra instead of

in the mess, you just got out of the water. You're still, mess is still there, right? But you extricated yourself. You put your consciousness elsewhere. These are, are the reasons that meditation works. Do you understand that? Right? Is there another spiritual thing that the guru touched you? Yes, yes, but I'm not interested in that.

None, really. All that stuff happens by itself. You don't have to think about it. Don't even get involved in it. You understand that? If there are deeper layers of things, this is, you know, a guru gave you a mantra and it's powered with every Rishi

that ever said it, that's what they tell us, right? Probably true. All right? It says all this stuff. Fine, what's that got to do with you? It's true anyways, right? You don't need to think about it. You understand that?

So if you're sitting there following your breath and God forbid your breath stops and you go into Samadhi, oh my God, I hope you're all right, right? And then you come back, all right? It's just what happened while you were doing your work. That's not your work. Don't you ever try to go into Samadhi? Don't you ever try to achieve these high spiritual states? Because all that will do is become part of your ego.

Do you understand that? I went into Samadhi. Mayor of Baba talked against Samadhi, one of the greatest master ever walked to face of the earth. He literally, he said, I go to India. I see these people. They're totally breathless. You can put your finger under their nose. They sit there for days.

They don't breathe. All these people come around and put flowers next to them and they're bowing down to them. Right? And then they come back and start yelling at everybody. Why are you over there? You're sitting too close. Go over here. I said, I know, I'm not interested.

I'm in trouble, all right? You have work to do. Do you understand that? That's where the focus should be. So there are these techniques. You all have different techniques. You all have different personalities. you have different tendencies.

Fine. Find something that you feel comfortable with that works with you and just use it for the purpose I said. First of all, to start, can you achieve a seat of objective observation where you are watching your mind and you're watching your heart? Now, that people misunderstand even there

because they say, I'm watching my mind. Okay, I'm watching my mind. I'm watching my mind. I said, no, no, that's not watching your mind. That's your mind watching your mind. Do you understand that? You created a layer inside your mind. that thinks it's supposed to look at the other layer of your mind.

You are always watching your mind or you wouldn't know what you were thinking. Do you understand that? Do you have thoughts? How do you know? Do you have to try to know that you have thoughts? You wish you didn't know. You are always the witness. You are always there.

Does your heart ever hurt? Anybody ever have a heart that hurt? How do you know? No, I'm serious. How do you know your heart hurts? Sounds like a stupid question, doesn't it? That is the witness. the one that knows what's going on.

You don't have to try. How hard do you have to try to see that your heart hurts? How much, you know, better meditate for 20 hours so that you're conscious enough to know that your heart hurts. No, you don't have a problem.

Your heart hurts, you know your heart hurts. Who knows your heart hurts? So don't ever misunderstand what's meant by objective observation or witness consciousness. It is not something you do. It is not an act of will. It is not a place you go.

It is the state of being aware of what is going on inside your mind and what is going on inside your heart. Obviously, you know what is going on your mind and what's going on your heart, or we wouldn't be talking about it. The problem is you get sucked in. You know the waters are tumultuous, but they're so

tumultuous that you dove in and you're drowning and so on, right? The highest analogy I can give you to witness consciousness is as it follows. You walk into a room, there's people, places, things, everything going on, it's a nice place, big party, right? And there's this little TV screen in the corner, a little flat screen,

you know, not a big one, not 65 inch, right? Just a 22, 23 inch, right? And sitting over there, and all of a sudden, you're walking around and something catches your attention. What does that mean? Your consciousness starts focusing on what's on the TV screen instead of focusing on what's in the room. Perfectly normal, correct? But all of a sudden, it's really interesting. Like, something you've always wanted to know about your whole life, all of a sudden, shows up on the TV screen. you start to really get sucked in. Next thing you know, and you don't even know how, you're sitting on a couch, and there's nothing else in this room.

There's no people, there's no place, there's no thing, there's no party. There's just what's going on a TV screen. Ever happened to you? Or a book. You can do it, right? We say you got lost in the book. You got lost in the TV program. Why did you get lost?

Because it was so interesting to you that your consciousness became fixated on it and was not aware of anything else. All right? So that is the state of being. in the rapids. You're now lost in the object. The subject is lost in the object. Are you sitting there on the couch? Yes. Are you in the party? Yes. But your consciousness is not. You have projected your consciousness. Your consciousness has been attracted or distracted in any word you want to use so that it's now involved in the object of consciousness, which is the TV screen, what's going

on there, and not paying attention to anything else. That's what happens when you get lost in your mind. You're not in your mind. You're sitting on the couch of self watching the mind, just like you sit on the couch and watch the TV, right? You are aware what the mind's doing, aren't you? All right? All you have to do is be less interested, and it has to be the essence of it.

If you are less interested in what's going on that TV, you're going to find yourself back on the couch and, oh, it's boring. A commercial came on. Oh, oh, what was Joey doing? Oh, what are the kids? Oh, how much time? You woke up.

That's what it means to wake up. That's what it means to come back. to the seat of self. So if what's going on in the mind or the heart is so distracting, is so interesting, you're going to be sucked into it. So that's not witness consciousness. You're still conscious. You're still aware.

You're just too aware. How's that? You're fixated. You're too aware. It's not that you're not aware. You got a little bit too close, didn't you? And the next thing you know, you're lost in jealousy. You're lost in fear.

You're lost in insecurity. You're lost in heart pain and so on. So you need to find. now for yourself, how it is that instead of trying to build another layer of mind that you say is be here now, I'm supposed to be here now. Okay, I'm being here now. Am I being here now? I think so.

No, I wasn't there a minute ago. Maybe. That's tiring, isn't it? It's tough, man. I grew up in the 60s. It's something, well, all we're doing when Ram does put the book out, right? Are you here now? I don't know.

Am I here now? Instead, you realize you are always there, or you wouldn't know that you know that you know. you just got too close so again it's not about coming back to the seat of consciousness it's about letting go of what you're paying attention to it's always about letting go

do you understand that so when you meditate or you do any of the practice you're doing remember the purpose is that you be there and you be aware that you're there and you're aware of what's going on if you will do this and practice this during your practices

I'll quote your practices if you'll do this, you're going to find out all by itself that as terrible as it is, you're going to be there all day. At some point, you're just going to be there all day, and you'll hate me for it. You're going to notice that your heart goes through, your heart loves somebody and your mind says, oh, my God, they're my soulmate. And they picked their nose and, nah, my son, we never picked their nose. And my kids start watching this maniacal thing that's going on in there,

don't you, right? And it's not nearly as much fun, temporarily, as getting lost in the TV screen and believing that it's your life. Oh my God, we're going to get a house and it's going to be so beautiful. Right. Okay. Let me clear. Well, those rapids are going on in there. There's not a single place you can stick your head of, oh, I can breathe now. Yeah, don't worry, it'll come back over you. You understand that? You got to do the real work. So I've showed you what the real work is. Get out of that stream because you're not in it. You're just projecting your consciousness into it. Sit on the side and then notice there are rocks. This whole talk's going to do that.

Notice there are rocks. And then I'm going to teach you how to take the rocks out. And then it's over. You'll never have to do anything in no acts of will, no, what I need to do to maintain my spiritual state. That's ridiculous. You understand that? There will be nothing left but the highest state that could possibly exist. It will never betray you, nothing. All right? That's what I want for you.

So basically, first, you need to achieve a state of what's called witness consciousness, objective observation. But now you understand what it means. You're already there. You're already watching the TV. You're already on the couch. The problem is you have projected your consciousness into the mess so much that you lost your center, what we call your seat of self or your center, but you're still aware. So my experience is that the highest way that you can come back to seat of self is not through an act of forceful spiritual will.

It is through an act of letting go of what you're clinging to. So you're sitting there and somebody doesn't say hello to you when you call out, Hey, Sally, how are you doing? They don't say hello, and all of a sudden you feel insecure inside. Is that just me or you know anything about that? Any of you know what the word insecure means? I just made it up right. Okay.

You start feeling these weird things going on inside, correct? All right? What you need to be willing to do is notice it got weird. And the tendency is going to be, I don't want it to be weird. We still there, right? I don't like it. I don't want it to be weird. So notice is very deep.

You're going to want to do something about it. do you hear me you're not going to want to sit there and weird you want to do something about it and your tendency is to go running at either running after sally sally didn't you hear me right or to talk to george how come is something wrong with sally did she not hear me what do you think right or call up later or or make a note or text somebody or you're going to do something to try to make the weirdness feel better anybody there this is your spiritual work this is right where the tires hit the rubber hits the road all right so you want a tendency to do that if you're not doing that because you're that's if you're more assertive aggressive type person if you're somebody who's a little

shy or a little a little more withdrawn you suppress you sit there and say well i don't know why shouldn't call me i don't know i don't care i just no i don't want to think about it and you'll push it away ever do that ever push away the yikiness i don't want to feel it i don't want to feel this i can't have time for this right so you are either fight or fight you're either out there fighting changing, calling, doing something, or coming inside and pushing this away. Those are the two normal human reactions to yikiness, and you do it all the time. What one does is build up these suppressions inside of you. Believe me, push it away.

She didn't mean anything. I know she didn't mean anything. Push it away. Wait the next time you see Sally. Wait a next time you hear Sally's name. Tell me what's going to happen. You can feel the yikiness again. Yes or no.

Okay? That's because you kept it inside of you. You stored it inside of you. That is the most ridiculous thing in the world. I don't like the meal I just ate. It made me sick. Please give me more so I can take it home, taste it every morning to remind myself how sick it made me. That's what you're doing when you push yicky stuff inside of you and you push it away.

You're storing it inside of you. Of course, it's going to come back up when it gets triggered. Triggered by the name Sally, triggered by a car that looks like Sally's car. Triggered by anything. You don't want that stuff in there. All right? What about if I run after it? I call that being Mr. and Miss fix it.

I'm going to fix it. Right? I'm going to fix it. Fix her upper, right? You go, run after Sally to find out what's going on. I'm going to write her or no. I'm going to text somebody. I'm going to ask George, if he talked to, could he talk to Sally?

But don't mention that I got upset because it could have been nothing, all right? Oh, my God. I don't care how tactful you are. It's disgusting. All right? That's where karma comes from. Listen, you guys use these words and very few people understand it. If you suppress something, you build the karma, if you will,

inside yourself because you set up a spring that you push down with the potential to come back up. So you're carrying the past inside of you triggered. If you go outside because of the yikiness inside, I guarantee you in the end, anything you touch will get yicky. If you run after Sally and sit there and say, why didn't you say hello? You hit Sally's stuff. What are you talking about? I didn't do anything. You're the one.

Next thing you know, you get this whole shit going. you hear me and it ever see that happen and it escalates up and it just gets absolutely ridiculous you know you a lover right and you said i love you and that night i love you and said yeah i love you too you're like oh but you know you're not going to say anything right so three days later or i'll all of a sudden you go up to somebody and say you know i don't feel like you love me like used to. Oh, I do. What are you saying? Why are you saying that? Well, the other night, God, you're so insecure. I can't even deal with you. I didn't do anything. And now that's you're in a fight. You understand that? Anybody? I'm sorry to be so personal, right? This stuff is terrible.

That's karma. You took the garbage inside of you and you dumped it into your environment. Most of you like to think that you're environmentalist. You understand that? That you don't want people polluting and so on. You're polluting every second you're taking this garbage that came up inside and you're dumping it out into the world and it will come back. It will pollute. How's that? Pollution is its own karma,

isn't it? It pollutes. Okay, it makes a mess. So it's not, you don't, if you're in there you're not comfortable, you want to do something. It's Mr. Fix It or Miss Fix It is not going to do it. It's going to make a mess. Or Mr. Suppress it is not going to do anything. Well, what are my choices.

That's what nobody will teach you. There's a choice when the yickiness comes up inside and you are conscious of it you are aware you're in a witness and you see that I'm not comfortable with it let it go but I didn't fix it that's right but I didn't push it away that's right let it go everything needs its day in the sun so this yikiness has come up you're conscious and what you do is you don't resist it you don't go with it and you don't run away from it you just relax that's what I teach you. Relax when you see it. You are the consciousness.

I am watching some on a TV that's not comfortable. It's just a damn TV. It'll come. It'll go. I don't need to throw some of the TV. I don't have to run out of house screaming. I can just let the moment pass by and finish its flow through me. That doesn't feel very natural, does it? Someday it'll be a natural thing. You have to train yourself to realize it is just the stuff that's inside of you that got hit, the rocks. that's why it caused the current

if you will relax and release believe it or not the water will wash the rocks away if whatever's holding the rocks in place is not there the flow of the stream can cleanse itself if you will relax inside when this disturbance happens inside of you just relax

breathe the mantra whatever you want just leave it alone which is the hardest thing to do isn't it right the hardest thing to do you're sitting there you're with your your boyfriend or girlfriend or a spouse, and they're dancing with somebody, and you think it's cute until all of a sudden

this is a little bit too close, a little bit too long, and this jealousy comes up inside of you. Right? I'm telling you, it's the same thing as with Sally. If you do anything about it, suppress it,

you're going to, you'll ruin your relationship. Understand that? You'll hold, well, I want to give her the space, you know, you push it down there, and you're never going to love that person again,

the way you love them before, because you just block the flow of love with that garbage you just shoved inside of you. Do you understand that? So you thought you were being high. I don't want to dump this jealousy on them. I've always been jealous. I don't want to say anything,

but you pushed it down. When you push it down, you are stopping and blocking your Shakti flow. Or I'm going to go out and say something. That would be cute, right? Or I could walk by and accidentally spill my drink on him or something. Right? Anything like that,

just the noise that the mind makes about trying to fix it, I'm telling you, let go. What do you mean? I don't want this stuff. inside of me. Therefore, I'm going to let it go. If you don't want something, you let it go. You don't keep it. So you relax. If you will relax, I assure you over time, not once, takes time, took time to put all that junk in there. Over time, you have created a space inside of you by relaxing into the seat of self where this garbage will get pushed up. It has to come up.

It's going to come up. You're going to feel it. It will go through. It can do what we call transmute. releases. And when you release the stuff inside of you, first it loosens up, then little chips start to block off. And next thing you know, in the exact same situation, somebody's dancing and you don't feel jealous. And you go home and you say, hey, I used to feel jealous. I guess I'm growing. That's right. That's growth. You got rid of something inside of you that was causing currents and disturbances. That's the way to deal with disturbances. The Buddhist call it working at the root. You're working at the root. You're working at the the root cause, not the reaction. Now, are you willing to do that? Ha ha ha, ha, right? That's the question of spiritual growth. Notice it doesn't sound all blue lighty and oras and chakras and fun things. That sounds like work. All right? That is your spiritual work. That is your spiritual work. That is your personal work. So what happens? First, maintain your seat of witness conscious. What does it mean? Things are going to happen, which tend to pull you in. I teach this.

and untethered, right? You'll feel a tendency to get pulled in to the disturbance. And that sounds silly. Why would I want to get pulled into the disturbance? Okay, let's say you're perfectly healthy except a wasp bites you on your toe. Okay, guess where your consciousness is going to go?

On your toe. I picked that out because you got bit the other day. But, all right? It's like, say you dropped a hammer on your toe. The last place in the world you want to put your mind, your consciousness is on the hurt toe, but that's where it's going, isn't it? Come on.

Okay, your consciousness gets drawn to the place of maximum disturbance. Whether it's, whoa, this is exciting. Okay, consciousness goes there. Next thing you're running away from your family, the golf bro or something, right? Right? Or you drop something in your toe, your consciousness goes there. It's the same thing with your inner disturbances. The tendency is because, I mean, look, let's say a giant noise all of a sudden

happened outside. Would you be listening to me or the noise? I'd say a bright light shined all of a sudden out from outside. You ain't coming back here for a while. Right? Your consciousness gets drawn to the place of largest distraction. How's that? Your consciousness gets, that's what we mean by getting distracted. My consciousness got drawn off of where it was onto something that was louder, brighter or whatever. It was distracting.

That neat? Turns out distraction is a very spiritual word. It means your consciousness got drawn over there. That's what's going to happen inside. It's totally natural. Don't try to make it not happen. If a disturbance comes up in your heart, the disturbance comes up in your mind, all of a sudden your conscience is going to be drawn to that

just like it's drawn to the hurt toe. And I feel better? It's perfectly natural. The question is, what do you do about it? Not did it happen. So what's going to happen, you're going to start to see there's a shakti pull,

there's a pull of your pull on your consciousness toward the loudest thing, the most painful thing, the most comfortable thing, the thing that's most distracting. Over time, if you will work with yourself, of I'm way beyond you now, right?

This takes time. If you will work with yourself, there will be a moment, just a moment, in which you are aware that that is happening. That something is like I'm sitting here, a noise happened. I was listening to Mickey. And right before my consciousness goes out to the noise, I'm aware that my consciousness is about to be drawn out to the noise. Well, that's conscious.

You're a conscious being. You understand that? You're aware. Your consciousness stayed. Meditation gives you this. It gives you that. moment where I'm here, I heard that, the slow motion, I'm here, I heard that, and now I'm going to be drawn over there.

All right? You understand what I'm saying, right? It's that moment they talk about, right? That's the most precious moment in creation. Why? Because you now have the right to use free will. And believe it or not, your will, now you listen to me, your will, you know what I mean, about your will?

Your will, you in there, okay? The power you have is stronger than any force. that can ever distract you or do anything to you period you are the strongest thing in there will is the power of self it is the power of chichakti of conscious energy when an event happens outside and the consciousness starts to get drawn toward it you have every ability to relax and bring it back every one of you do don't tell me i don't know i don't have very strong will every the fact that you took human birth means that your will and your soul is even evolved enough to be transcendent to every single force that can draw on it.

Did you know that? That's why people can do weird things. You know, people do all kinds of weird things. Like the Yakuza, I hate to tell you this. You ever see their whole thing? If they insult their master, they sit there and it's Japanese. Why am I telling you this? I don't know.

Because I'm showing you how powerful will is, right? And they sit before their master and their boss and they say, I'm so sorry. I'll show you how sorry I am. They take a knife, they put their finger down, and they cut their finger off. While they're talking and looking and staring at that, and they ceremonially batch up their finger and give it, give the finger in a wrap claw. And it's true, right? It's true statement.

In a rap clause, they give it to their boss, their master, they have the mafia, that kind of thing, right? To sit there and say, that's how sorry I am that I didn't live up to your expectations. All right? A lot of you're cussar around. They leave their trigger finger last, right? Because they're mafia, right? I'm in trouble. All right.

But what I'm trying to show you is that's a lot of will. That's painful. That's serious. Okay? Right? People do all kinds of things because they want to. They want to enough to where their will is strong enough that they can apply it. You want out?

See, you're Yakuza, but for a different reason, right? You're a great being. You want liberation? You don't remember what's like to have the garbage going on inside of you? Are you willing, when you get conscious, consciousness, awareness, that the moment you see it's about to get pulled over here or over here, are you willing to relax? Are you willing to just relax?

You let it go. And I always explain it this way. People think you have to be strong to do this. You do not have to be strong to do this. It's not a question of strength. Let's say you're doing a tug of war with, I always say the entire Gator football team's on one end and you're on this end. All right? And you want to go home and have lunch, but they're pulling it a wrong way.

all right and you're pulling you're holding you learned every technique you learned how to bend your knees you learned how to do you know the karate stuff you learned how to dig your heels in you learned to wrap it around your waist and oh my god you've turned every single tug-of-war technique you could possibly exist and you're going they're pulling you all right and all of a sudden Yoda shows up right little yoddy sitting down there look let go and he says let go if i let go I go pull me face first. Let go of the rope. Whoa, you see, Yod is very smart, all right?

What do you mean? I'm trying, I'm playing. See where your hands are? See where your hands are holding a rope? Yeah, let go. Relax your hands. What will happen? Many of you do, go home to lunch.

Do you understand that? The minute you do, that's why relaxation is always the answer. so when this distraction the jealousy the insecurity the whatever it is starts pulling on you and you need you to have that conscious for one moment

to where instead of saying the solution is to run after the solution is to suppress it right I say you're attracted to somebody it's inappropriate right you're married and almost a sudden

you get attracted to somebody what are you going to do I'm going to suppress it it I didn't happen no it's terrible oh my God and you suppress it well you're in big trouble

I'm telling you're in big trouble you just destroyed your life You destroyed your relationship with your spouse. You destroyed everything. Because you just block the flow of your energy with this thing you shove down there. Suppression is the worst thing you can ever do. Understand that. All right.

Or, okay, I'm going to sit there and deal with it, you know, express it or do what the heck it is. Try to fix it, right? No. The right thing to do is if something comes up to relax and release. And what you've done then is allowed the room for the cause to pass through. You'll now love your spouse more. You love everybody more because you release the blockage that cause the reaction. Do anybody understand what we're talking about?

Okay. So this thing about the rope that's big, right? You're there. You're conscious. An event takes place that triggers you and all of a sudden you start to get distracted. It starts to pull. It's a pull. It's like a water skiing.

Have you ever water skied? The boat pulls you. That's what this distraction does. It pulls your consciousness toward it. Relax. Relax and release. I call it R&R. You need some R&R, right?

You relax and release. And what will happen is the energy will not pull the consciousness out and you will have transcended and transmuted the power of that energy. Now you listen to me, right? I'm literally saying the power that that had over you, when you are able to relax your way through it,

that power comes back to self every single time. And it builds the power of self. Next time your will be a hundred times stronger than it was this time. Do you understand that? So you're either giving your will to what's pulling on it. If you're trying to stop drinking, every single time you don't drink, you are more likely to not drink. Do you understand that?

Every time, oh, but I had a bad day, you made it through it. You didn't do it. You built the power of will in the power of self. And likewise, every single time you do drink, after five years of not drinking, you got all your chips together, go have one drink. And tell me how easier the second one is. Does anybody understand? The power of not doing it that you built over five years is almost totally overcome by drinking once.

Go ask AA, they'll tell you. The same thing goes with any of these habits. Because your neuropathways are carved to do it, if you refeed them, they flow right back there. So it's the same thing here. If you are willing to let go, that's what I'm talking about, the deepest state, I'm in the witness, I see what's going on,

I've been given the grace. At first it's just a moment. moment, just a moment, but no one can tell me that they do not see what's going on. I did 30 years of prison work. Those are not exactly the most self-controlled people. Everyone on max security, murder, rape, everything. They're in there for life, okay? And we would talk like this, and every one of them, everyone told me that before they did what

they did, there was a moment in which they were perfectly aware of what they were about to do. If they started to get angered and just all of a sudden be there, it starts somewhere. It starts to build up and then it explodes. You deal with it, the moment it shows up, let go. And then you come tell me what's going to happen to you because I'll see it in your eyes. The power that it had over you gets transmuted to you, to the self. And all of a sudden, this tremendously powerful center of being is what exists.

And all of a sudden, if you do it with jealousy, the power you built in letting go of jealousy is there for food. It's there for this. It's for everything. You're building the power of your being, right? That's why he's talking about personal growth. Right? You know, when you work out, they talk about core, building the core of your being.

This is the core of your being. Now you're doing core workout. You're building the center of your being to be strong enough to let go of the pull that these habits and tendencies have over you. Every single time you let go, a piece of those rocks that are, are causing disturbance are purified.

And this is real spiritual growth. And this is yoga. Right? The reason you do all your practices is to learn to sit in this seat and let go. Well, how often do I let go? Every single time. But aren't there times I need to deal with something? That's what you want to say. Don't you? You need to deal

with something. Of course there are times you need to deal with something. But you don't deal with what's outside until you've dealt with what's inside. If you don't let go first of your anger, your jealousy, your insecurity, your your need, then everything you're going to be doing outside is for you. Understand that.

If I'm attracted to you, right? And I say, I'll have to deal with that. I have an attraction. You're not dealing with that. You're dealing with your attraction. It's going to run your life. It's going to determine what you say, what you don't say, right or wrong. Same thing with your fears and insecurities.

If you don't let go inside, the inside will run the outside. Does everybody see that? I always use a terrible example. You're a kid's 16 years old. You've got a call from the principal in the high school. we found drugs in your kid's locker. You need to come down here right away, blah, blah. Okay, well, that's not fun, is it?

It's exactly what I'm talking about. It's the same thing. All your junk comes up inside. What did I do? Oh, my God, and my husband finds out he already thought our relationship was bad. He's going to blame me. Right or wrong.

Okay? What will the neighbors think? Oh, my God, if I have to go down there, people will see me. They'll see me walking in the principal's office, and I don't want to have a kid that does drugs. Oh, my God, it's so, all right? Not a single word that went on inside.

You had anything to do with that child. It all had to do with you. Right or wrong. It hits your stuff. Okay? What did I do wrong? That's what you said to the kid. Why did I do wrong?

Why'd you do this to me? That'll help a lot. Right? You're not even trying to help the kid. You're trying to help yourself. Do you understand that? So when it hits, it's going to come up inside. You always let go.

Nobody believes me. You always let go. always there is never ever a time that the highest darmic right thing to do is not let go all right okay here it comes here's all the personal garbage do the best you can to let go of yourself every single time now what now that you are clear clearer anyways all right now that's not perfect you're not going to be perfect but at least you didn't go with the initial reaction you stayed centered and clear, now that you are clear, look outside. Is there something to deal with? Not that something to deal with is you. You don't ever deal with you. The only way to transcend the

personal self is to transcend the personal self. There's nothing to do about it. What do I do about it? Nothing. You let it go. It's all right. If it's inside of you, let it go. Let it go. That way you're using it to go to God. Every single thing you let go of know, how the bigger it is, the better. and you just keep letting go. Now, if you look outside and it's still there. Now, Sally not saying hello, when you're done with letting go of your insecurity, Sally, not there anymore.

There is nothing to do. I'm telling you, my experience is 95% of these situations, there's nothing to do. It's just that it hits your stuff, right? And if you let it go, there's nothing to do. You know, well, what if Sally's mad at me? You'll find out later. What if she didn't hear me?

No one will find out. It doesn't matter. It's completely irrelevant. The only problem was you. How's that? If the only problem is you, let it go. It's much easier. It's great. Not only was it easier and better for Sally and your relationship, but it actually took you to God because you let go of a piece of the garbage that got hit. It is always the highest thing to do to let go. Do you understand that? You relax and your release. It's not easy, is it? Right? That stuff that's getting hit, that's stored down there because you didn't like it when it happened. Remember, you pushed it away. If it was stored with pain, I am telling you, it is coming back up with pain.

Let's get this straight, right? There's no, can't I purify it? Can't the guru come down and purify it? So it's beautiful. I love the guru. I worship all the time. All right. Literally, Mayor Baba actually talked about that. They're amazing. He was amazing being. Some disciple raised the hand and said, but Mayor Bob, you're talking about getting rid of all this stuff, the cocoon of karma that's built inside, the subscaric seeds. Why can't the master just come down with a scissors and cut the cocoon and free the soul? There you go. That's a good idea.

All right? And he answered very sternly and strongly. He said, first of all, the master can do anything. If it's truly a master, merged with God, he has all the power in the universe. He would never, ever do it under any circumstances, ever. Because then you did not evolve enough, which is the purpose of life. You did not evolve enough to liberate yourself. Therefore, you didn't come back to God.

You're not strong enough. You didn't go. That's like sitting there saying, well, I'm in third grade, and I want to go to Harvard and get a law degree. Okay? Could they give me the certificate? Well, they could, but I don't want to go to you as a lawyer. Like, I mean, there's this thing called learning that's supposed to happen in between.

You understand? It evolving. That's the exact same thing with the soul. So it's not about the stuff not hurting. It's about you weren't able to handle it when it happened. You couldn't handle it. Sally didn't say hello. Come on, give me a break.

There's 7 billion people on the planet Earth. They didn't say hello to you, but you couldn't handle one of them, all right? That's I have to look at it. So there's something, there's not something wrong with Sally that you didn't say hello. There's something wrong with me that I can't handle the most simple things in the whole world. Correct?

All right. So you let it go. You use it wisely and you release it. If you will do this, like I said, you will find that you stay centered. What does that mean? I don't get pulled away by the distraction. Now you have a definition of what it means to be centered. The consciousness remains in the seat of self, even though a distracting event took place and began

to pull on it. It came back to its center. It didn't go all the way out. It started to go out. It's like, whoop, whoop. That's what it feels like inside. Whoop, right? It starts to pull out.

You relax. You don't pull it back. I'm telling you, don't try to be stronger than the noise that's distracting you. The key is to relax. If you relax, you stay. That neat. It is the relaxation that does it. So you relax through these disturbances.

Every one you relax through makes you stronger for any other one. And eventually, I shouldn't tell you this, right? It's not that there's this one moment that something starts to distract you. It all gets into slow motion at a level that's absolutely ridiculous. It feels like you have 10 hours to decide, am I going to go out there? I spent years and years I've invested. Look what I've invested. Sometimes you'll get to the point where you realize

I let go of 7,000 things for all these years. Now something bigger happened. Am I willing to give up the pain, the strength, the work I did of letting go of 7,000 for this one? Right? You see why I use the analogy of alcoholism, of AA? I got chips five years worth of chips.

Now I got this situation. Am I really willing to give it? give all that up that I did what I went through exercising that will because this one thing is stronger and you'll start finding that you know you want to build on your investment so it then goes into slow motion and all of a sudden you have all the time you need and then only a fool only a fool would consciously say ah what the hell I'll do it anyways I'm serious your mind will sit there and say well I don't want to be a goody-gutty I just sit there and what's wrong with this is a good opportunity so opportunity we'll come back later right

I just go do this and have a drink. I want you to equate it. The going with the energy that's pulling you from your center, I want you to equate it to going back on heroin after you went through withdrawal and got off. I went now bigger than drinking. Okay? It's like, really?

You really want to do that, do you? Because I'm telling you, if you go with that energy, right? You will have given up. If it takes a 100 to not go with it, once you go with it, it offsets 600. I'm serious. I'm not exaggerating. Ask AA.

If you stop drinking 10 times and then you take one, it totally offsets the 10 times completely and utterly, doesn't it? Okay? So you learn to work with your center. I've taken it to a beautiful place, which is I'm in here. I am aware that I have crap in here with me. How about you? Right?

And it can get hit. That's stuff you stored from before. It was stored with pain. I wasn't able to handle it when it happened. It's going to come back up. Am I capable of handling it now? So Sally went by. Now I hear the word Sally.

Obviously it's not as big as the first time, but I feel a discomfort. The slightest discomfort, I will not accept any, not a tinge of it. If it moves, I'm letting it go. If it happens in the heart or it happens in the mind, first reaction, relax and release. Right? Then look to see, is there something I'm supposed to deal with? If there is still something out there, then you're clear enough to deal with what's out there

instead of being distracted about what's going on inside of you. Does anyone hear me, all right? If you are distracted what's going on inside of you, I don't want to be around when you're dealing with what's outside because you're not dealing with what's outside. You're trying to manipulate the outside to make you feel better inside, aren't you? Okay?

So basically you learn this practice. This is your spiritual practice. What? Letting go. When? always every single second the driver in front of you is driving too slow let go behind you beeped you were sitting there at the traffic light you're looking at your little smartphone and you didn't go with the traffic light meh right i mean really obnoxious it was only two seconds an obnoxious beat all right

stuff's going to come up isn't it right you're going to say something to that guy he don't hear you you you hear a word right nothing going on in there right let it go there's an excellent opportunity you understand that you're you're driving you need to deliver something somewhere and it starts pouring and you have no time frame you have to get there and it's raining and if nothing you can do you are going to get wet let it go let well go getting wet you wish you could let go of the resistance to the reality of the situation that's in front of you do you hear what I'm saying why not what do you want this garbage why don't I talk in a low he's rains and like to go somewhere god doesn't like me What are you doing?

Let it go. It's not a game. Work with yourself constantly, relentlessly. A yogi works with themselves every single second. You work with everybody else every second. It's a full-time job to get everybody to be the way you want, isn't it? Right? You're out of manipulating, controlling, do everything.

Instead, you work with yourself and you just keep letting go. And wait do you see what happens. I'm telling you what will happen. I laid it out. I've never talked to you this way before. I've laid it out for you. At first, it's hard, right? Because you want to fix it.

Either suppress it or fix it, right? No, relax. You'll learn to do it. You'll practice, just like learn a piano or learn to play tennis. Practice. Practice. Just practice. Don't get hard on yourself.

Don't worry if you fails, right? What if you play on the piano, you make a mistake? I don't want to play. Well, that's ridiculous. Right? It's good. It means you need to learn things, right? If you sit there, you're trying to let go.

And obviously you didn't. You get caught somewhere. And you wake, oh, my God. I should have let that go. Don't get guilty. Don't get this. You were practicing the piano and you made a mistake. Just get back up.

You're saying next time, be a little wiser next time, all right? And it helps you. And you just keep letting go your whole life every single second. And then like I said, what will happen is you'll get used to feeling from inside this tendency for the consciousness to be drawn away from the center

toward the distraction. I love that I taught you to that. That's what's happening. It's being pulled toward the loudest, distraction, right? Relax, it'll come back. Relax, it'll come back. And every time it comes back, the power of the distraction gets invested into the seat of self. And all of a sudden, your center, you can't even talk about it. You become what's called the being of power. And you feel it. That power you build inside, this is Shakti. You're building the power of being of yourself

back to the center of self. Well, if I start coagulating and consolidating power in one place, it gets powerful, doesn't it? All right? And you'll That's where all the power comes from. So healing comes from, where Shaktipa comes from, where everything comes from, is from building that center and not letting pieces of it

get drawn away by the distractions. Doesn't mean you have to go into the amalias and not get distracted. I would rather have you work in your everyday life and not get distracted. I'm not impressed if you can go into a sensory deprivation cave and not be distracted, right? I'm impressed if you can stand your everyday life

and not be distracted by this garbage is going on inside of you and the growth is way best. better too, you understand that. This is how you use every moment of your life to go to God. It's fun, isn't it? All of a sudden, it's this exciting journey of transcending yourself, as opposed to getting what yourself wants so you don't have to transcend yourself. It's happening now. Your needs, your desires, your likes, and your dislikes are the reflection of where you're caught. Something bothered you before, so you now wants something to happen,

doesn't bother you. You saw somebody had a nicer car than you, and the girl or a guy went with them in high school, and now all of a sudden you got this thing about a nice car. It's just you're just reliving your garbage with your likes and dislikes. Instead, you're relaxing and release, relax and release, relax and release, relax and release. All right, then it will build your center like we talked about, and it gets stronger and stronger. And eventually you will reach a point where the joy, the love, the power is feeding you from inside. And there's nothing that can come in from outside that's more beautiful than what's going on inside. Every one of you have that center, right?

My Yoga Ghanata said, there is a river of joy flowing inside of you. Find it. Go there, get in, and drown. That's yoga. This is how you find it. How do I find it?

Don't go looking for it. Don't get a map. All right? You don't understand. I want to know. Letting go. You see the power of that. The power of relaxing and releasing

to allow the chi, the Shakti, to build back into your center. And then eventually it starts flowing up. That's what it does. Because you're not going with the pull down, it changes direction. I literally changes direction and starts flowing up and feeding you. Now, if you're smart, you realize this is more beautiful than the I ever experienced.

I'm going to hang out with this. And now you start really, really building a center inside yourself. And you would never let it take it away from you. And then it gets stronger. It just does nothing but gets stronger all the time. And eventually it gets so strong. What does? The joy, the beauty, the bliss, the ecstasy flowing up inside of you.

that you can't stand it. Literally can't stand in his presence. It starts pulling you into it. You're not doing anything. It's not an act of meditation. It's just pulling you into it. And it's so beautiful that you want to just melt. You don't even want to exist.

You want to just melt into it. Now you're being pulled naturally into the higher states. You fall into a breathless state with that going on. Now, that's very honorable. You understand that? Because you purified. Those states don't come. come and go. Now you become, that's what the great

masters lived. They merged. They just released the personal completely. And now you have Christ saying, my father and I are one. So it, notice I started with the personal garbage. I want you to get from this talk. I started with the dirty stuff, didn't I? Your laundry. And we ended up in God. But permanently in God. Not some experience I had.

It's my state of being because you let go with the rest. So this is called, what I've talked to you about, which I've never really talked to you this way before, right? that is called the evolution of the soul. That entire process I just talked to you about is the evolution of the soul. It is becoming stronger and stronger and stronger because it's able to let go of what was pulling it down.

It becomes healthier and healthier. And eventually there's not a single thing in this world. Nothing. We chant to Sri up McGee in the morning. There's a line that says, the man that has tasted the bliss of the self may move amongst objects of sense without fear. His mind never clings to the world's misery

his heart is with God and his soul is set free. How does that sound? Like what we just talked about? Right? And it's called Jivan Mukta. You're now a liberated being. So you all are beautiful, beautiful people. You wouldn't be here, right?

You turn to yoga, you turn to Easter teaching, you turn to meditation. That's really beautiful. Never forget what we just talked about because that is the evolution of your soul. That's the reason you took birth on this plane. Earth is a place that souls are sent to evolve. Do you understand that?

So this is what you're doing. You're doing your Dharma. People say, what's my Dharma? I just told you. That's your Dharma. The rest will happen naturally by itself. Thank you. Thank you for being interested in these things.

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