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I’m welcome. It’s good to see you again. If I haven’t seen you before, it’s good to see you for the first time. I love every one of you just the way you are. I don’t care what you do, what you don’t do. I love every one of you just the way you are. Whether you like me, whether you hate me, it makes no difference. I can only love you, for I am an embodiment of love. When I say I am an embodiment of love, I’m not referring to Robert. I’m referring to I am. I am is love. When you’re aware of the I am, you’re aware of love. It’s anonymous. Consequently, all I can do is love you. All is well. People continue to ask me, what is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of life? We seem to be born. We go through experiences and we die. We have all kinds of experiences while we’re on this earth. What is this purpose? Some say that we’re working on our karma. Some say we’re being punished. Some say we’re here to find ourselves. But this is all nonsense. The truth says life has no purpose whatsoever. There’s no purpose for being alive. We’re being here. No purpose whatsoever. Who told you you had a purpose? You don’t even exist. How can you have a purpose? You think you exist, but you don’t. If you’re only able to realize that you don’t exist, happy you would be. When you exist, you appear to have problems, situations to control, things to do. But when you realize you don’t exist, where is there to do? Where is there to go?

Where is there to resolve? Nothing. You are nothing, you came from nothing, you’ll always be nothing. But your system believes you’re something. As long as you believe you’re something, then you don’t have to worry. When something appears to have all kinds of problems attached to it. Something is always trying to resolve something, to fix something, to fix somebody, to get even, to do something. Really, if you can come to the conclusion that you’re nothing, you’ve always been nothing, you don’t even exist, then what is it just to worry about? What is it to do? What is it to think about? What appears to be a man or a woman or a flower or a weed or a bug or a bird is simply consciousness. It is consciousness consciousness appearing as, but if you go into meditation, you go into the silence and you think of consciousness or think of nothing, then you become free, totally free, absolutely free. But if you allow your mind to think of situations and ideas and experiences, whatever you think becomes a reality sooner or later. So that’s the thing. What appears to be your mind is very powerful. The mind will give you what you want if you think about it long enough, but anything the mind gives you is not for your own good at all. It’s for your detriment. The mind can never give you anything good because the mind is part of the phenomenon of unreality, of ayana, of false imagination. So it will not be a part of the new thought movements that teach you to use your mind to achieve what you want, to get what you want. When your mind differentiates between good and bad, right and wrong, it tells you If I had decided to be happy, if I had imagined I’d be happier, if I had a billion dollars I’d be happier.

That’s what the mind tells us, kind of because we do all kinds of strange things to become wealthy, to become happier, to become blissful, materially, we do all kinds of weird things. We chant certain chants, we do certain things, and Buddhists have chants for prosperity, and Buddhism has chants for everything.

This is not really the teaching of the Buddha. So when the Buddha taught nothingness, emptiness, emptiness is the real home. We really belong in emptiness.

Not in the world of phenomena, the world of phenomena can only lead you to suffering. It’s impossible to realize yourself and your spiritual entity when you’re thinking of phenomena.

Yet most of you keep on thinking day after day, year after year, and continue thinking forever. You think about things, persons, places, situations, it is the thinking that gets you in trouble. Stop thinking. Stop believing the only way to exist is to think. Not true. To think is to be human. To be human is to suffer. You get yourself into an awful mess, being born, being human, going through experiences, thinking you have a purpose in life. You have no life whatsoever. Only consciousness lives. And that sounds awesome. No thing that you can think about exists in reality. The word God, the word consciousness, the absolute reality, pure awareness. Why are they to accept words? They’re only words. When you use words you get yourself in a lot of trouble. When you become still, silent, then miracles happen. And the silence is your strength. Your reality is in silence. in silence. Not when you talk or speak words, but in absolute silence is your reality. You are not what you appear to be. You never was and you will never be. If you believe you were born, you’re a human being and you have to die also. But who dies? Ask yourself. What dies? What’s born? What goes through experiences? Is there an ego that does this, an ego that that goes through experiences. Most people will get to hang out to the ego, like to hang out to the devil. They just exchange names. You’re brought up to believe in the devil and now you believe in the ego.

Same thing, no difference. So there’s no ego. There’s nothing to get rid of. Most of you are working on yourself to get rid of your ego. That’s why you’re wasting your time because there never was an ego. There’s no work you have to do on yourself. What do you really have to do? Smile and be happy. That’s it. really be happy, really smile. Everything else will take care of itself. What is it that you want?

Most of you are saying self-realization. I want to be liberated. From what? What binds you? Except for false imagination. You have created your condition, yourself, by believing you’re human and you have a mind. So you try to get rid of the mind. Again, the problem, because you never want the mind to get rid of. If you really had a mind and you had an ego, you’d have work to do. I’ve got plenty of work to do. You have to get rid of it. But since you’ve never had a mind, never had an ego, you have nothing to get rid of. You have nothing to transcend. You’re totally free right now. Accept this. Believe this. You have nothing to fear. You have nothing to fight. You have always been free. Always. From the very beginning. Why don’t you accept this for yourself and forget everything else. Stop trying to solve problems. The way you just create more by trying to solve them. You have no life of your own.

You have no life of your own. You never have. You never will. And it’s consciousness that lives with you. You’re not trying to think about this or figure it out in any way.

Just relax. Accept everything. Reject nothing. Through good and bad things, the same side of of the same coin. Two sides of the same coin. Goodness, badness, happiness, sadness. There’s no difference whatsoever. The only difference is your own mind. You differentiate. And I mentioned on Thursday, there’s no such thing as a bad time, something bad happening in your life. This is impossible. You have been trained to believe from childhood that this is bad and this is good. And you prefer to get over the bad. But everything is for your growth in your unfoldment. Everything is for your own good. Everything. There are no mistakes. Never be mad at anyone or upset over something somebody does. For there are no mistakes. Everything is unfolding as it should. It means that everything is happening the way it’s supposed to. Allow it to unfold. Don’t interfere with it. If you interfere with your life, it may appear that you’re making some headway. You may say, I resolved this condition. I better now, to my own power, to my own strength. All you’ve done is put an address in time and space, in abeyance, to come out again in full force a little later. Everything has to work itself out. Leave yourself alone. Be kind to yourself. Be gentle to yourself. Never be angry with yourself. Never be despondent with yourself or repressed with yourself. When you are God and you feel upset over yourself is blasphemy. Mental physics tells us that there is a subjective, collective negativity in the atmosphere.

And most of us pick it up and we feel bad at times. But this is all nonsense. Nothing exists except consciousness. There are no feelings, good or bad. There are no conditions, good or bad. There is only consciousness and you are that. Make things short and simple. realize I am that that’s it I am not this, I am that which has always been and always will be that’s it you’re not like anything else you are where you’re supposed to be right now any condition that they’re supposed to be the way they are do not run from them do not try to change them change yourself work on yourself if you have to by being still, quiet That’s the only real work you have to do is to become quiet, to rest in silence forever. That’s the only sad thing you have to do. Be still and know that I am God. Do you feel all as well? Some of you don’t feel all as well. How could it be otherwise? There’s no way it could be otherwise. Only when he turns the eyes will be sensitive. Your ears are sensitive. Put a cut in your ears. Something you said reminded me of when I was in therapy. The doctor used to say that each of us is inclined to say, they did it to me.

They don’t do anything to me. I do it to myself. Stop doing it to yourself. Yeah. There isn’t any individual to do it. Exactly.

Give up the idea that you’re a doer. Stop being a doer. Consciousness doesn’t do it. There’s no individual consciousness. Actually, consciousness doesn’t do anything. Everything is nothing. There’s nothing happening. We want to blame it on consciousness now. What we call consciousness just is. Are you saying that there’s no place for the mind at all? There’s no mind whatsoever. The mind doesn’t exist. What is the mind? A linking place. A garbage can. That’s all the mind is. All the mind is a conglomeration of thoughts of the past and thoughts of the future. I know if I abandon my mind, I’m in trouble. Because I cannot go above the practical aspects of my life without my mind. Says who? That’s a false belief. You can. Does an orange tree have to sink to bloom? does the grass have to sink to grow, does the sun have to sink to shine, just right to maintain life, to sustain life, everything in the universe just is. We as human beings who appear to be human beings are egotistical, unbelievable, we have to make things happen for ourselves, that’s ridiculous, the mind gets us in trouble, that’s all it does, when we transcend the mind we will be free, that’s called liberation, there’s there’s no more mind. But you’ve been trained to believe if you don’t have a mind you’ll not be able to function. That’s not true. It doesn’t function very well, thank you. Better than you’ve ever done in your life without a mind.

In the living, you can’t do that without your mind. So do. Everything your spirit gains. Your mind? What other people are interacting with you? Of course. You think that’s the mind? That’s not the mind at all. There’s no mind doing that. it’s the self but everything is pre-ordained predestined what’s going to happen to you is going to happen to you no matter what happens no matter what you do therefore why make your life a mess and start using the mind to make things happen and also it’s going to hurt you to begin with become peaceful let the mind drop off and go into the heart and then be spontaneous everything will be spontaneous everything will be done the right way the way it’s supposed to be done the mind is really your ego that’s what the mind is it’s your ego, nothing else we want to believe I alone I did this, I did that we want to believe that we alone are responsible for what we do yet we’re not responsible for anything because we don’t even exist that way it’s a little dream the only thing you can do is turn within that’s the only freedom you’ve got turn within, become still to really still stop trying to make things happen stop thinking too much everything will take care of itself beautifully when you get yourself out of the way there’s a lot of you believe you’ve got to think to do things and that’s what will happen it goes without thinking you have to make things this way and that way you’ll always be working hard to make yourself the way you want to be forget about all that, make it easy for yourself watch your thoughts observe your thoughts let them come, let them go pay no attention to them whatever they tell you and something else will finally take over some bliss will take over some joy something you’ve not experienced before will take over completely and totally and leave you on the right path where you’re supposed to be, where you’re supposed to go so remember you’re not a doer you’re not a way to do it you don’t want to be a doer you want freedom in the shorter mind you’ll have freedom. As long as the mind exists, you’ll have problems.

That’s the way it goes. No mind, no problems. Mind, plenty of problems. Two occasions in my life when I was functioning without any thinking whatsoever. And there was such an enormous sharpness of it. I didn’t have to decide what to say. There was no pre-thinkings to what to say. There was an exact knowing when to keep quiet. And the one thing that was clear on both times was the absolute 1,000% of effortlessness. Absolutely not the slightest effort in the world for each other. That’s good. I don’t mind if they’re thinking in the world scheme. That’s how it should be. Did all this training come from this lifetime? No. It appears to have come from any lifetimes. But again, they never were any lifetimes to begin with. You can imagine all these things, that’s good, you can imagine everything, it’s called false imagination. If you imagine imagination you’ll be free, as long as you identify with a body then there are many bodies who identify with many lives. As one does self-inquiry, if one were to question into all of the imaginary ego place in this lifetime, then it’s just more after that and more after that and then eventually There’s no bottom. But what you’re saying is true. If you want to inquire to whom these things come, to whom comes his body, to whom comes his mind, to whom comes his problems, if you want to inquire that, then all this opinion will become free.

Are you becoming free? Yes, and it seems like there’s, beneath this lifetime, or it seems like, the major chunks have dissolved, it seems, and there’s, and I don’t seem to be, it seems like there’s a lot more. It doesn’t come to any conclusions, just keep practicing, and keep chipping into the chunks, like you’re doing, and it won’t happen by itself. Once we get ourselves out of the way, everything will take care of itself. Do not believe you are a doer at all. You are not a doer. There is nothing to be done. Just be yourself.