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Most of you are a little fidgety tonight. I know this. You can’t sit still. You have to learn to sit quietly, still, peacefully, by yourself. The mind does not like to keep still. It wants you to be active. The mind wants you to worry about one thing or another and never to remain still. For if you remain still, the mind becomes quiet, quiescent. It becomes weak. And it finally dies. And you’ll be free. But most people don’t like that. If you look at yourself in retrospect, you would see that you’re either watching television when you’re sitting down at home, or listening to the radio, or reading the newspaper, or a comic book. You always have to be doing something. You’re afraid to sit still when there’s nothing to do. Just to sit still. And forget about the world completely. You feel guilty. When some of you go to a movie, you’re already planning what you’re going to do after the movie, before the movie ends, in your mind, aren’t you? you. You say, well, we’ll go here to eat dinner, we’ll go to this restaurant, we’ll go see this play. And when eating dinner, watching a play, you’re already planning to do something else. In other words, you don’t want to be caught between where there’s nothing to do.

You’re afraid of being in that space between things, where there’s a little emptiness, where there are no thoughts. And yet, this is exactly what you must do to become free and liberated. To be in that place where there’s no thinking, no thoughts, welcome you with all my heart. If you unequivocally, I don’t care what you do, what you’ve done in the past, if you’ve been a bank robber or a prostitute, it makes no difference to me. I still love you just the way you want to, as well. In the right place, going through the experiences that you had to go through, there are no mistakes. If you will learn not to react to the conditions,

You will find that the conditions will change by themselves. True. This is the truth. I’ll repeat it again. If you do not react to conditioning, then the conditioning will change by itself. But if you react to conditioning, by the very reaction, you couldn’t do the condition to inflate, because by reacting you say, I want more of that, and you become angry over something, upset, but you’re really doing these things to the world, to the universe, I want more of that, because the universe accepts the emotion that you give out. It doesn’t care why you have this emotion, it just gives it out and it comes back to you. Therefore, one of the first things you have to learn is not to react to anything. I know it sounds strange in this world not to react. I have to always say, this is happening to me, I can’t be a doormat for anyone. I have to act, I have to take some action. It’s not up to you to take any action. Your action will be taken, but you have absolutely nothing to do with it. Pardon this. If your body is meant to take some sort of action, it will take the action it has to take, but it has absolutely nothing to do with you. You are free from all action, mentally. Never consider yourself what you’re going to do tomorrow, what’s going to happen to your life next week. What will happen is supposed to happen, in accordance with your karma, and yet it has absolutely nothing to do with you, free or above and beyond karma experience of any kind. But if you react to it, you’re causing further karma to come to you. But the very anger you show or the solution that you have.

Your job is to be still and quiet and not react to anything. You don’t even think about it. You don’t realize what I’m saying.

Just feel what I’m saying in your heart. Your heart knows what to do. Your heart has all the answers. I’m speaking to your heart.

Your heart is full of love, goodness, peace, joy. Listen to your heart and you’ll never go wrong. But listen to your mind and of course all kinds of earthquakes, cataclysms, problems. Suddenly we’re discussing a virtue called patience, and I will continue that discussion because patience is a virtue we all have to attain, a very important virtue. What is patience? Most people leave patience when you become still and all kinds of things happen to you. You don’t react. There’s the patience of Job. Who cares about Job? We don’t care about Job. I heard you suffered a lot. I went to work on the weird things. We don’t care about Job, do we? But patience is actually this. Removing the obstacles in your way that prevents you from knowing yourself. This is the definition of patience. Removing the obstacles in your way that prevents you from knowing yourself. For instance, you get up in the morning and you say, I’ve got to do these things today, a lot of work to do today. Remind yourself, who has a lot of work to do today? I do. Well, who am I? still and quiet. This is patience. A little bit about removing all of the obstacles around you that have been causing you problems and reacting to them. This is patience. Saying to yourself, not this, not this. Nithy, nithy. Whatever he follows you, you observe, you watch, you look, but you remain still and quiet. This is patience. Not listening to local gossip or listening to rumors or being afraid of something. This is patience. In In other words, you have the patience to be still, the patience to be quiet.

The world has to fall in on you in any way. Whatever the world has to give you, take it with a smile. You don’t concern yourself about it or worry about it at all. You are not born to cry out of any problems. Even if you believe you’re a human being, which you’re not, it includes that happiness in your life, total happiness, freedom, joy. If you don’t, it’s your own fault. You know, taking the happiness that’s being given to you, free of charge, gaining happiness, the reality, happiness comes from yourself. Your mind is quiet and peaceful, happiness ensues by itself. No searching. Try to make your life very simple. Forget about the complications. The simpler your life, the happier you become. You’re never judged by appearances. Appearances come and go, which you are forever. Therefore, if you’re judged by experiences or appearances, You can be keeping yourself earthbound. And you have to repeat the experience again and again and again. Accept everything with love and peace in your heart. Never believe something can hurt you or wants to hurt you. A wonderful person is just the way you are. Just the way you are right now. When you begin to think about it, it was a way.

And it feels so wonderful. Because you’re thinking. Your thoughts will bring up everything. Your thoughts will bring up things of the past. It’s just what you forgot. It will bring up words of the future. Do not allow yourself to go along with these things. Drop them as soon as they come. Have patience and expect nothing. I’m very saying if you accept nothing. Always go back to yourself. Whatever happens, go back to yourself. Try to understand if you give birth to the situation. It is you who gives birth to the situation. There will be no predicament of no situation without you. When you’re asleep, when you’re in deep sleep nothing is happening. You’re finished with the world. You have no problems, but you’re dead. You’re in deep sleep. Yet you still exist and the world goes on. You can’t deny that you don’t exist. You don’t worry about anything anymore. Deep sleep doesn’t worry about your finances, or your health, or your neighbors, or people, or anything. Even when you’re awake in the morning, you say, I slept well. Everyone wants to go to sleep. Notice when you think you have too many problems, you want to take a nap, you want to go to sleep, get away from everything. But where is everything gone? You’re still here, but you’re just gone. This is how realization is. Same thing. If you’re not asleep, you’re awake, and you feel happy all the time. When you’re awake in the morning, be sure to remember that this is a dream that you’ve been playing with, what you’re saying right now.

It’s a dream. The mind has gone from the heart to the brain, and the eyesight becomes active. As soon as you’re awake, you begin to say, I feel this, I need this, I have to do this, I’m hungry, I’m late for work, I have to get dressed. The eyesight has been activated. And you find you’re in the eye business. So what you should do is to catch yourself. That’s the time when you really catch yourself in the morning when you first wake up. Become aware of what we’re talking about tonight. Catch yourself totally and completely. By catching yourself, I mean become aware of the eye sort. Become aware of what you’re doing. You’re saying, I need this, I need that. Ask yourself, where did this eye come from all of a sudden? Who is this eye? Who does it belong to? Who gave it birth? The eye? able to think about it, it must not be the I. Who am I? If I’m on the other side, then who am I? Never answer that question. Just pose it to yourself. If you begin to practice this, you’ll find that you’re becoming happier and happier every morning when you get up. You’ll find that you’re feeling better. Things are bothering you. You’ll have more peace of mind. Just by doing this. Catching yourself in the morning. But have patience. Have mercy on yourself. Never believe you’re not making any progress. You can never judge yourself. the obstacles by denying them all. Have patience. Remember how many incarnations are going to be here. Have patience. Surrender yourself to yourself. Surrender all of your fears,

All of your frustrations, all of your activities to yourself. Give your life to yourself entirely, completely. So try to make things happen by yourself. Life has been totally planned before you came to this birth. Never forget this. so you remember this. Your life is pre-ordained, predestined. Everything that’s supposed to happen will happen no matter how you try to stop it. And what’s not supposed to happen will not happen no matter how big elements you try to make it happen. So why worry about anything? Why be disturbed by anything? Everything that’s been planned for you. Your job is not to react to anything that happens. Instead, you become free and liberated. Because when I say that everything’s been ordained for you, planned for you, it doesn’t mean suffering. you bring for yourself by misinterpretation. Keep your head in the clouds within yourself. You’ll lecture, you’ll listen to the talk. You’ll come here to be yourself. Who are you? Where are you? Where did you come from? Are you the body of your experiences? Ask yourself these questions every morning when you get up. Have patience. The day will come when you’ll awaken to the truth, and you’ll be free, liberated.

Today is now. Right this moment, now. Now is the time. There’s no other time with now. But how do you feel about that? Do you feel human? Limited?

Fragile? Do you feel as if you have to manipulate others? Play mind games with people? Get your own way? By oneself. And you are that.

If whatever you’re doing all the day, you’re doing it to yourself. No one else to do it to you but yourself. Love in your heart.

And you’ll see love everywhere. Because you’re seeing yourself. Learn to be still. None of you are sitting here waiting for me to say something profound. I’m doing the wrong thing. The reality is within you. You’re the reality, not me. Don’t look at me for anything, you’ve got it all. It’s all yours. All is well. Peace. Feel free to ask questions. Everybody’s chicken. I don’t ask any questions. Okay, I’ll ask myself a question. Robert, what are you doing here? I just woke up one morning and found myself here. brave man, because the guy doesn’t know anything. The guy doesn’t know a thing. He’s mental. He knows absolutely nothing. He can always come from the guy. Talk is cheap. And why are you doing that? I don’t know. If you come here, I can’t just say it by itself. I have four questions, and I’ll hold them up, and I’ll rest them home in practice. You can. And it doesn’t matter a hundred years from now, I don’t care, nobody cares, I don’t care, I don’t care. You have four questions, go to my home. A good place to be home. Turn them up and throw them away. Is the reason why a lot of us don’t experience happiness with peace that we’re experiencing, Because we’re trying to hold on reality all the time, like having a reason for being here or, you know, what’s going to happen tomorrow, but the mind is always working and holding on to reality it seems.

So there’s no space left for joy or peace. Indeed. Who knows? So stop doing that. When there is thinking there cannot be peace, no matter what you’re thinking about, even if you’re thinking about good things, as long as there are thoughts, you cannot have peace. People stir themselves out of confusion. All thoughts must go. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, all thoughts. Yes. Is that what you’re doing tonight? No. You think before you spoke? No. No. So you’re speaking without thinking? No. Can you explain yourself? No.

Is this the cosmic joke? Yes. The jokes are new. Apparently. You don’t want to think, you don’t want to think. Thinking and not thinking are two sides of the same coin. If we are not thinking, then you think that you are not thinking, aren’t you? If you are not thinking, then you are thinking, then you are not thinking. If I’m not thinking, I’m not thinking. Then you’re saying that you’re not thinking. If I’m thinking, I’m not thinking. So you’re thinking. Yes, because if you really weren’t thinking, there would be nobody to say anything. I wouldn’t think anything. You wouldn’t know that you’re not doing it. You wouldn’t know you were not thinking if you were not thinking. So when my mind goes blank, that’s a good sign. When my mind goes blank, when you transcend thinking and not thinking, that’s a good sign. Would you explain this to me? I’d better left it unsaid. sneaky way to get out of that when you’re not thinking and you know you’re not thinking because you’re thinking about it’s when I’m not thinking and I don’t know that I’m not thinking that’s it it’s kind of like if I’m driving in the car say on a long trip and then all of a sudden I look around and I notice my god did I pass such and such a place It’s like an absence of awareness for a period of time. That’s good. It’s like when you’re walking in the street and you go up a curb and down a curb.

You don’t think about a curb. Do it automatically. You sit up on the curb when you cross the street. You don’t think, I stepped on the curb and now I’m sitting down from the curb. You don’t think about that. You just do it automatically. It’s just the doing, not being aware of what you were doing. Indeed, yes. Any person who wants to read something for us? Sure. And Guido’s going to read something for us today.