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Good evening. I welcome you with all my heart. It is good to be with you once again, if you’re one of you unconditionally, all is well. If you only realize who you were, if you just had a glimpse of who you really are, why you’d be the happiest person in this world, if you had one little glimpse of reality for just a second, this would change your life forever. one glimpse of reality is all you need and you will never worry again about anything you will never fear anything again you will never become upset over anything just a glimpse it’s all you need if there is a reality that has absolute nothing to do with this world that reality may be called consciousness the ultimate reality it is you you are the ultimate reality if you understood this all of the gods and goddesses would pay homage to you they would dance in front of you the Krishna’s, the Shiva’s the Buddha’s the Bodhisattva’s they’re all within you you’re not suffering that it is all one and you are that one you are the Buddha you are the Christ you are the God you’re the one that you’ve been waiting for all of your life many of you have been searching for the right guru the right teacher the right teaching but it’s been you all this time you have been the one you’ve been searching for you’re searching at an end there’s no one else but you nothing can ever happen to you you can’t be hurt it’s impossible you cannot die because you were never born you have no experiences on this earth because you’re not on this earth I’ll share with you this evening the three vehicles of self-realization there was once a guy went to a psychiatrist and he said my brother thinks he’s a chicken and the psychiatrist said why don’t you turn him in and the guy said we need the eggs this is absolutely nothing I’m talking about I’ll just start throwing in three vehicles to enlightenment I’ll give you the three and then we’ll talk about them the first one is everything is emptiness the second one is there is no mind and the second one is take refuge only in yourself no disgust and fool but everything is emptiness everything is empty is this true?

To most of you everything seems to be solid you touch a tree is solid you touch a person he’s solid, she’s solid how can everything be emptiness? But you know, if you were the size of an atom, and you look at your body, you would see the universe, the equivalent of the universe that you see before you today. You would see empty space, if you look at your body, if you were the size of an atom. And you would see dots in the empty space fall away. Just as we look at this world, we look up in the world and we see dots representing planets and suns and galaxies, and they’re all held in empty space. So everything in this universe is in empty space, boundless space. You are boundless space, you’re not what you appear to be. Also when you dream, in that dream everything seems solid, everything seems secure, you can grab a tree it’s solid, you grab a person, he or she is solid, they’re only solid because you’re in the dream. But if we’re able to observe the dream, we realize the dream comes out of nowhere. The dream is subtle emptiness. True? The dream is emptiness. Yet while you were dreaming it seemed so real, so solid. And you’d never believe in its emptiness.

But in the dream one day you’d come to a teacher. You’d become enlightened. And now you’re able to see the dream. You’ve stepped out of the picture. You have stepped out of the dream and you’re watching the dream. You no longer think the dream is real. You try to explain this to people but you can’t explain it. They will not listen to you and think you’re crazy. In other words, you’ve tasted something, you’ve seen something, you’ve felt something that hardly anybody else has. You’ve slipped out of the dream. And so it is with this life. This life appears so real. Just think of the problems you’re hesitating with your life. The things that upset you, that made you angry. The things that made you happy. you accepted all of these things but if you are enlightened you’ll see it as a dream the same as the dream that you dream when you go to sleep there’d be no difference to you no difference whatsoever the more you become involved in this world the more illiterate you are the more you react to life’s situations this is called ignorance where you’re taking a dream seriously you’d also take a dream that you dream at night seriously too wouldn’t you? but you can’t help it you don’t know you’re dreaming, you’re fast asleep and the dream is so real all sorts of things take place in that dream but you’re not you’re a dreamer but you don’t know it you’re not aware of it until you wake up to the point that you have to wake up and it’s only when you wake up that you see this world as a dream and you no longer take anything seriously you laugh you observe the dream and where did the dream come from?

It came from emptiness it’s like a bubble it’s gone it’s your awakening it never existed it’s still emptiness so we can say everything in this universe is emptiness the only reason everything exists is because you exist it’s here for your pleasure it’s your dream just trying to understand what I’m talking about will awaken you if you can just grasp what I’m saying I mean superficially if you can assimilate, digest what I’m saying like through food make it a part of your consciousness you will awaken if you listen to me intellectually don’t get nowhere feel what I’m saying you are dreaming the mortal dream right now it’s all empty it has no substance but yet you’re hurtable you become upset you do things to defend yourself you see people are against you and you must defend yourself you see all sorts of enemies that you have to defend yourself from collectively the country starts wars or they feel something is wrong somebody’s trying to take something away from them that they think belongs to them and they go and fight for it isn’t that silly?

Because who wins in the end? even if you don’t know it’s a dream who wins in the end? is he really a winner? nobody ever wins everyone suffers goes through experiences through trials and tribulations for what purpose?

Think about this everything is emptiness has no substance whatsoever including your own body that’s the funniest thing your body has no substance whatsoever you have no body but you think you are a body because there’s always something happening to it but really you have no body whatsoever everything is emptiness this is the first vehicle to self-realization yet you have to be careful when teachers tell you what do you believe what I say where do I get this information from a book a lecture on the contrary I’ve had this experience personally this has been my experience with everything that’s emptying this only a teacher that’s been on this path and has realized the self can cause his disciples and devotees to realize the self before he can only go to the level of the teacher and never be further there are so many teachers today you’ve got to be careful if a teacher tells you that he’s had a revelation of some kind that is really far out be careful for all the revelations the teachers have had should be part of the lineage the spiritual lineage either the Buddhist lineage, the Hindu lineage the Christian lineage the Hebrew lineage the Islamic lineage I shouldn’t deviate from this what I am sharing with you is called Advaita Vedanta it was first promulgated by somebody called the Tatrya, the father of all Jnanis and Shankara and Ramana Maharshi and many others this is the lineage that I come from what if I sat in and told you something like this I had a tremendous revelation yesterday I dreamt that the whole universe would be mad out of chocolate we live in a chocolate universe and the way to enlightenment is to reach your way out of chocolate and if you didn’t know chocolate you become enlightened you have to reach the universe and the world so yeah, I need the trees and the leaves and the plants this way you all chocolate begin to do this and become enlightened.

You know there’ll be people who will do this? You can always attract people. You tell them anything, they’ll believe it. But you have to be very careful.

Very careful. Therefore, when I tell you everything is emptiness, I’m speaking of my personal experience. Everything is like a dream. It doesn’t exist. The idea for you is to wake up from a dream,

And you’re waking up from a dream by realizing that it’s a dream. By causing the mind to become still, controlling your thoughts so everything that you behold comes from your mind you are the creator of all phenomena they all come out of your own mind just like when you’re dreaming at night the dream comes out of your mind everything comes out of the mind now where is the mind located? where is the mind?

The mind is on your head some of you are pointing to your head saying my mind is on my head that’s your brain the so-called human brain what science calls the mind is in every cell of your body this means every cell can be influenced by conditions your mind is in every cell so we now realize that everything is mind everything came out of the mind we go to vehicle number two there is no mind you were aware of that one there is no mind there is no such thing as mind try to find the mind where is it As I told you before, it’s in every cell.

There’s what science tells us. There’s how far they’ve gone. But the reality is there is no mind. So where did everything come from? If things are never as they appear to be,

If there are dreams, and dreams come out of the mind, and there’s no mind. Where did everything come from? Well, this is going to blow some of you away.

Nothing exists. Nothing came from anywhere. Nothing exists. It’s all hypnosis, hallucination. We’re all hallucinating. There’s a universe, there’s a world, there are people, there are gods, there is a realization nothing exists at all you don’t exist, what are you doing here?

Get out you have never existed and you do not exist now yet you tell me I do exist and so do you, God, I can see you I can see myself I’m part of this world I’ve just proven to you that science tells us that we’re not just where you appear to be we’re an empty space we’re like the universe

That’s why some people say the universe is the body of God. You are the microcosm of the macrocosm. You are a replica of the universe. You are a universe in yourself.

This is as far as science has gotten. And I come along and tell you that nothing exists at all. Nothing ever existed. Isn’t that wonderful?

What are your so-called problems, your nonsensical things you go on with every day, your fears, your frustrations? It doesn’t exist. What are the things that you’re trying to do in this world to succeed, to go forward? to be recognized, fame, name it doesn’t exist you are hallucinating it’s like mass hypnosis there is no mind we go to vehicle number three take refuge in the self in Buddhism, the basis of Buddhism is the three jewels take refuge in the Buddha take refuge in the Dharma and take refuge in the Sangha but I tell you that the Buddha the Dharma and the Sangha are well within yourself you are that so the only refuge you can take is in yourself you see what I’m getting at? within yourself are all the answers all the power all the Buddhas all the sages all the teachings that are within you right this minute by turning within and taking refuge in yourself you will awaken and become liberated the only way to become liberated to become free thinking refuge in the self is by sitting in the silence and pushing all the thoughts away as they come to you good thoughts, bad thoughts, all kinds of thoughts only by not thinking will the truth be revealed not by thinking about it, or by thinking about anything but by not thinking at all every time you think you’re using your mind what we call the mind as a matter of fact the mind is nothing but a conglomeration of thoughts that’s what the mind is it’s supposed to be about the past it’s supposed to be about the future it’s supposed to be about what’s earning you now what’s going on in your life today the whole idea is to get rid of those thoughts to stop the mind from clicking then you will see there’s no mind there are no thoughts there’s no body, there’s no self, there’s no universe those of you who come here are special people you’ve been through the world and it’s nonsense and you’ve all had various experiences You’ve all practiced sadhana, practiced yoga, message, raja yoga, laya yoga, raja yoga, all kinds of yoga, karma yoga, and you come to this point where you begin to understand that doing yoga, doing anything is unnecessary.

Meditation is not necessary. The only thing that’s necessary is for you to awaken, to wake up. And the fastest way to really wake up is to understand what I’m talking about. As I mentioned before, to digest it and assimilate it, which you are, nothing. Emptiness. If you just ponder this, it’ll make you feel light and peaceful, relaxed. And not consider yourself with how much time it takes. Forget about time. Just endeavor to comprehend what I’m talking about. I’m practicing every day. Just have a feeling of emptiness. Feel emptiness. Total emptiness. Look at the sky and the trees and the earth and feel their emptiness also. That’s what you have to do. There was once a guy who wanted to become a Zen Buddhist monk. So he moved to Japan, went into the Zendo, was accepted. Had an interview with the Roshi. The Roshi explained all the rules and regulations of the Zendo. And he said, by the way, I forgot to tell you this. We have a vow of silence here. We only speak three words every ten years. So the guy said, okay, I can accept that. Then we went to his squ risk.

Ten years passed. He had an interview with the Roshi. The Roshi says, well, we got anything to say? The guy says, the food sucks.

Goes back to his squished. Ten more years passed. He had an interview with the Roshi. The Roshi says, you have anything to say? The bed’s hard.

Goes back to his squ現. Ten more years passed. He had an interview with the Roshi. The Roshi says, we have anything to say. He says, yes, I quit. And I would say, don’t blame me, I’ve been bitching ever since I got here. That’s where we are. We’re always bitching, bitching, bitching. Why aren’t I enlightened yet? Why is this happening? Why is that happening? We’re so concerned about our bodies, our affairs, and the people. Forget about everyone and everything. I always want to be anti-social. I’m telling you mentally to become one with yourself. To look at the world objectively. Ask yourself the question, what have I got to do with this world?

Keep questioning yourself again and again and again. Over and over again. If I am emptiness, who am I really? Where is emptiness? Where is my real nature?

Where am I? How did I get here? Keep asking yourself these profound questions. Watch on TV tonight. Where did I come from? Only you can help yourself.

But you must want to become free. Libre is. If you really want to become free and liberated, you will stop reacting to this world. You will stop believing somebody is trying to hurt you, you’ve got to get angry with people. You will not do things to the contrary to the Dharma. You will become a loving, gentle being. You will flow with life. You will understand everything that comes to you is karmic. If I react to it, I’m acquiring more karma, that’s all. Everything that I react to, that’s more karma I’ve got to work out. It makes a difference whether I’m right or wrong, but secondary. It keeps saying that to yourself again and again. Every time I react to a situation, I’m growing more karma that I’ve got to work out eventually. And it keeps me balanced to this earth. It makes me take on body after body after body after body. It’ll never end. And so I learn myself to let go, to leave people alone, leave conditions alone, leave situations alone. And again, what comes into my life is a result of my karma from before.

So I’m not going to fight it, I’m not going to be growing more karma. I’ll watch it, I’ll observe it, I’ll laugh at it, and I’ll leave it alone.

Then I neutralize the situation, and it’ll never come back to me again. But every time I react, I’m asking for more of the same thing that comes to me.

Whatever you react to means you want more of that. And you’re getting more and more and more, and you’ve got to react, react, react. It never ends.

So I become mature. instead of feeling sorry for yourself instead of believing something is wrong somewhere instead of trying to get the best over people be humble to grow up with tremendous humility whenever you look at your fellow man whenever you look at the trees or the flowers or the universe you look at yourself and you are God especially God wherever you look and not try to analyze it or figure it out just do it this is the reason some of us can’t do this because we try to analyze it we try to figure it out I’m trying to make sense out of it. You can’t make sense out of it because it’s beyond sense. You’re not going to understand who you are, emptiness. You’re going to understand that you have no mind. And you’re going to understand you have to take refuge in yourself. Do all these things and you’ll be happy ever after. Peace. Can I ask questions? Can you bring my push button with me so you can ask questions? Nobody will insult you. Do you become enlightened? Fall out of enlightenment? No. Once the person becomes enlightened, they transcend the ego and the body. So there’s no one left to fall out of it. Every person falls out of it means they have an ego left, the body, because the ego falls out of it. If you become the imperishable self, you transcend the ego totally incompletely. There’s no ego left whatsoever.

There’s nothing to fall out. It’s gone. It’s probably gone forever. But if you go to certain points, you’re going to fall back. back at certain levels. You can fall back because the ego is still there. And the ego is being influenced by outside forces. This is the reason why you can see you fall back. Because outside influences have grabbed a hold of the ego and you’re going to get to reverse itself for a while. This is what many of the old scriptures read. It says, On the road to enlightenment you take three steps forward and one step backward. This is the way of most people. You take three steps forward and one step backward. But one you’ve touched enlightenment, that’s it. There’s nobody left to do anything. You’re totally free. By observing your mind, watching yourself think, looking at your thoughts without reacting to them, let your mind think all at once. When you don’t react to the thoughts that come to you, when you don’t react to the thoughts that come to you, the mind becomes weaker and weaker. That’s all the thoughts falling and disappearing. The mind is like having a friend, your friend comes in and talks to you and you don’t respond to them or her. That’s what’s going to happen. Your friend will go away and never see them again. This is the way it is with your thoughts and your mind. When the thoughts bombard you and you just watch them, you have no reaction to them, they become weaker and weaker and weaker.

They go away and they will come back. But if you react to them, it’s like having a friend that’s talking to you and reacts to the person by talking back to them. And you have a conversation. And a friend stays and you have a good time. Your friend will not leave you. But if you keep telling you, watch your friend talking, you don’t talk back. And your friend’s talking, talking, you don’t talk back. Just look at your friend, don’t say a word. Your friend will think you’re out of your mind later. And you are out of your mind. and a friend will never come back again.

So this is the mind, the same thing. As the mind stops receiving a response from you, it becomes a week-end, a week-end, until the day comes when the source disappears completely completely.

And you can also practice that in the vichara, self-inquiry, by inquiring to whom these thoughts come, who’s thinking of these thoughts I am, and who am I,

Who is the source of the I, and follow the access to its source so you discover what its source is and when you discover the source again you’ll be enlightened and be free use those methods this is the kind of dream that you’re having this is your dream and you’re having with people who think the same way just as if you had a dream tonight you have a dream when you go to sleep that you go into a class like this and you’re sitting with people thinking about the same things there’s a teacher talking about the same things And you’re asking the teacher the same question. I said, you’re dreaming. You say, how can I be dreaming? We’re all dreaming the same thing. It doesn’t sound right. Then you wake up. It’s all gone. You were the one that’s been dreaming. Excuse me? No different whatsoever. Same thing. There are no others. It’s only you. You’re not the one who appears to be like you are. You’re not appear to be the way you are. You’re not the body of the words. In other words, you’re not the body, you’re not the mind. There’s nothing completely different. You are the Self. sat-chit-ananda and Vāna. The teachings of the sage to the followers. What do the followers mean to them? The followers and the sage are one. There’s no difference. The difference is when the person sees the difference. Differentiation is when the person looking at things is differentiation.

In reality there’s no difference between the sage and the followers. You’re one. Just an appearance again. An appearance that I’m sitting here and you’re over there.

But in reality, I’m sitting here and you’re not over there. Nothing that is happening. In other words, I’m like a mirror. A mirror can’t see itself. You only see this reflection.

Therefore, when I look at you, I see myself. I see consciousness. I see pure awareness. I see joy. Absolute reality. Bliss consciousness. it’s only myself I’m looking at I don’t see my reflection now you can say the same thing about yourself you’re a mirror also but you can’t see yourself you don’t see your reflection therefore my question to you is what do you see?

What you see is yourself, that’s all I’m trying to say if you see anything wrong if you see hate humanity is a man love, peace whatever you see is yourself there’s only one there’s an appearance of money but it’s only an appearance and truth is only one and you is one if you see anything wrong anyway you’ve got to work on yourself change the image on yourself and be able to see two things to the oneness to the reality to the peace to the love to the joy, the bliss when I’m meditating especially if I’m meditating two or three hours that nothingness that you talked about becomes very evident. But then when I get up from the meditation it gradually fades. First of all, you know that’s a method to this reality. Half hours are not sufficient.

I think it’s a method with your eyes open while you’re in the world. Look at the people, look at the marketplace, look at everything. At this point you see. You can ask yourself that. anybody can go into a deep state of meditation from practice and feel good and they come out of it and they feel the world so the important thing is not the meditation it’s how you feel when you’re in the world it’s when you’re working yourself it’s when you have to ask yourself who sees this world how do I really see where am I who feels this world the way it is I do who has decided it does This is why self-inquiry is such a good method, because it’s generally in the waking state and doing your meditation. In meditation, anybody can go into the void. After practicing meditation for years, you can go into the void. But the void is not good enough. You want to go past the void, into reality, into the absolute reality. And if you get into the void, it will do hard to get out of it. One thing, though, is that usually it takes about an hour and a half, not always, but sometimes it takes about an hour and a half for me to go into that deepest place that’s possible at that time.

And if I only meditate for half an hour, an hour, it doesn’t, you know, sometimes it takes almost an hour and a half of thoughts just to calm down enough so that that quality can come through. And again, forget the word meditation. You don’t think that you have to meditate. Let’s say you sit in the silence. Sit in the silence and watch. Watch your breath. Watch yourself. Watch your thoughts. Watch your feelings in your body. Become aware of those things. That’s what you have to do. Then practice things that we can do in the world. That’s more important to practice things in this world than it is in meditation. You can do it. You and I both know people who have been meditating for years and years. I have a person who’s just three weeks of meditation. He goes into a nirakapa samadhi, looks like he’s dead, and been meditating for 35 years. But when he awakens, like you just said, he becomes worldly. Someone bumps into him and becomes angry. He keeps telling people what a good meditation he’s got. What good is it? You want to go beyond meditation. Ask yourself, who has to do meditation? What is the stress of meditation? And if I don’t you are, you’re the stress of meditation. Who am I? Keep questioning yourself this way over and over again. In an waking state, those things will happen. All is well. A type of dream and illusion, to create a condition which is useful to me in some way, or is it just a mistake or confusion?

Both are wrong. You’ve never really created anything. you think you have. Find out those things they have, those things I’ve created something like this. Ask yourself, who’s one of those things these sorts that have created this condition? It appears that I have, but who am I? Keep pushing yourself this way, and all those sorts will cease. See, the whole object is to make those sorts cease. The whole object is to make those sorts cease. To sort of say these things, that I’ve created this and I’ve created that, it’s my fault. and choose you haven’t created a thing, nobody’s created anything, everything just is, you just are, you’re neither this nor that, just be yourself, observe everything but don’t react to it, observe yourself thinking but don’t react to your thoughts, inquire how did these thoughts come, where did my thoughts come from, what is the source of my thoughts, when you find a source you’ll be free.

I was feeling my life both in myself and then my dog was there next to me and I was like feeling my dog’s life and it was like I was my dog. And at that point my dog’s tail started wagging. And this happens to me with animals. Do animals know that? Yes. We don’t, because… Animals have a beautiful intuition. They have what? Intuition. They remember many things that you don’t. Animals are part of our lives. We should be very kind to animals. It happens all the time. It’s like I have a carrot and I want to… I’m thinking about going out and giving it to my horse, and he’s right there by the door waiting for it. It happens so much and it’s like they know something that we don’t. Many animals were human beings at one time. They sort of fall from grace and became an animal in this life. So be kind to all animals, love animals. They’re more honest than most people. Of course, they’re very natural, very honest. That’s good. Remember to love yourself, to worship yourself, to praise yourself, to bow to yourself, because God dwells in you as you, God bless you, peace.

We have prasad, prasad pears, more prasad pears, more prasad pears, this prasad pears is all we have? A bunch of cheap ones. Everybody should take a turn bringing prasad. so don’t let Tony bring it all the time go to Brown’s Bakery and bring apple strudel