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…within yourself. Wherever you go, you will not find peace. Peace has to come from within. Most people believe they changed their environment, they’ll find peace. Most people believe they take a vacation, they’ll find peace. If you’re not peaceful now, wherever you go, you’ll not find peace. So the wise person finds peace first, then they see they want to go somewhere else. But once you find peace, where can you go? What can you do? You found it. You have peace with yourself in the world and the universe. But those people keep traveling around here and there, going under and to the… I was searching for something, I was searching for peace.
I was searching for harmony, for love. And I can’t find anywhere because it’s within you right now. Wherever you go, you have to take yourself with you.
It’s like having a job, not liking your job, because you can’t get along with people. And so I moved to San Francisco. People are nicer there. But how long are they nicer for? A couple of days, a week, a month? before you find the same old problem that you have here, due to the fact that you have taken yourself with you. Wherever you go, you have to take yourself. So again, the wise person stays where he is or she is, and finds themselves where they are. Finds your own peace, your own harmony, your own love, your own joy, your own happiness. You’ve got it within you. All you have got it right now within you. Any way to find it, instead of becoming still and quiet, remove the things that are bothering you. By contemplating, who am I? Who has these problems? Soon when they come, then you’ll be at peace. Peace is your real nature, which you really are. But you think somebody else can give it to you. Some personal places they can give you peace. It’s impossible. Things are neutral the way they are. It’s what you think about them that coincides with where they are. When you react to things, coincides with things that react to you in a certain way. In other words, if you want to see peace and joy in your life, become peaceful and joyous right now.
This is when things will get better. Things will never get better. In other words, things will change. They’ll never change. Right in the midst of all confusion, in the midst of all chaos, there’s peace.
Find the peace. The sun shines. There’s no shining. It doesn’t say, I’m the sun, I’m shining. It just shines. And it brings light to the world, to the universe. So when we’re peaceful, we bring light to other people. We bring harmony and joy to others by being peaceful. You lose us and understand what I’m talking about. Become peaceful right where you are. Right now, right this minute. Forget about old problems, old hurts, yesterday. It’s gone, finished. Tomorrow’s not come yet. You’re here in the moment. And you can choose. Should I be peaceful? Should I be happy? You have the power to do this. I mean it does not depend on anybody to become happy or peaceful. You are the peace. You are the happiness. You all the time. Feel this. Know this. Become this. People continuously ask me, Robert, will you teach? So they ask me today, are you teaching similar to the Nisakadatta Maharaj? Does it give the same answer? I have no teaching. No others teach. No others teach what they may. There’s no teaching here. You’re not coming here to get a teaching at all. When I speak to you, I simply relate my experiences. what I feel. I’m going to go researching in a book what I’m going to say, or some of the things you want to hear. I want to tell you that nature is such as Ananda, your real nature is happiness and joy, your pure awareness, that you know what you think you are, not the body, not the mind. I’m speaking of my own experience, a thing that you can experience also, if you will. Why do you think you have no peace? Why do you think you’re troubled and hurried? Because you keep reacting to life the wrong way, you keep seeing life in wrong picture. You were brought up a certain way to believe certain things and they become commonplace with you, the norm. You automatically do certain things to bring you to confusion and chaos.
And you don’t know where the confusion and chaos came from. You don’t understand it came from you, that you were programmed a certain way, you were brought up a certain way, and you’re simply acting your part. You’ve been programmed, totally programmed. You must become deprogrammed just by investigating yourself. You can do it for you, therapists can’t help you, nobody can help you. You can do everything you need within you. You must deprogram yourself by observing yourself, watching yourself in action. Observing what you do, seeing what you do. You’re not blaming people for anything. You’re not blaming for your lack in life, no one. And it appears they are, but it’s true. You are where you are because you’re supposed to be there. I have to put you where you are today. Your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions. I have to put you where you are today. Have no opinions. Observe yourself, see yourself. How do you react to others? Do you know that you temper easily? Do you get mad easily? Do you become angry easily? Do you judge people easily? Do not concern yourself about self-realization. Self-realization will come by itself when you’re ready for it. Since you’re ready to act, it’s nowhere for it to come to. Which means self-realization is waiting to be released through you when you become still enough, when you become quiet enough, when you stop thinking, you can save yourself. No one can save it but yourself. You get all the power you need to do it. It can hurt you or harm you, except if you believe it or accept it. When you stick pins in the voodoo doll, make an image of you, then you feel it. This only happens because you believe it. We’ve been programmed that way. This is what most Haitians are subject to this.
When you’re brought up from little boys, little girls, to believe something makes you lose all of you, you’ll feel it, and you do, but you have to be above and beyond these things, how can it hurt you, this is going to hurt you, it can never hurt you, it’s only a belief system, you don’t try to analyze it or figure it out, just do what you have to do to get rid of it, and then it’s to turn within, where all the power is, and realize the truth about yourself, realize who you are, what you are, say to yourself, you can’t fool me any longer, I am not a body, I am not a mind, I am with my affairs, I am living what I appear to be. In reality, I am such an ender. More peace, more harmony, more joy comes by itself. The next thing, you keep living the kind of life you’re living, it’s going to continue. Everything will continue the way it is now. It’s up to you. Exists as yourself. Everyone exists as yourself. There’s no other power anywhere. There’s no God up in the sky with power. There’s no beings from outer space with power that hurt you. Anything on this earth that can hurt you, lose your belief system, your policy problems, and fight them, try to change them.
You’ve been trying this for years and years, it hasn’t worked. Again, the only way you’re trying to change the situation, you’re knowing you’re trying to change the situation. You’re knowing you’re trying to change the situation, what you really are, what you really are. This and this alone will change everything for you. You sit quietly here, what goes through your mind?
There’s thoughts that come to you when you’re sitting silently. There’s thoughts that come to you in peace when you’re physically up in the morning. Do you want me to come? Give them to me. Who brought the kind of mind to me? Who brought the fear to me? Where did the fear come from? Where does harmony come from?
You keep inquiring and asking for this question over and over again. Keep inquiring over and over again, over and over again. Until you see the change.
Do not worry if you don’t see any results soon. Remember, it took you so many years to be where you are now. It took you so many years to be what you believe system that you have now.
It took you so many years to be what you are right now. You’re programmed and you think when it’s true it’s false and when it’s false it’s true. You’ve got to change the whole situation. You’ve got to turn everything around. Don’t practice for a week or two and say nothing is happening. It comes you up to this point. Look at what are the things that you believe. The things that frighten you. They make you angry, make you upset. Come from where I have. My opinion you’re going through. Where do these feelings come from? You keep questioning yourself again and again. And the mind becomes weak. When you question yourself, the mind becomes weak, it will frighten you, it will tell you all these things, it will show you it. And when you become very weak, and soon you will find freedom. But it’s up to you. You can do it. The world shows you. Life is just about a split second in time. It’s all the things you think that you think for the first time, you’re here for the first time. Man and humanity to man. All the deathly things that are going on in this world seem to be new to you. At the beginning of time, the moon is the north of the sun. Remember this planet Earth has been destroyed millions of times with our civilizations here more powerful than we have today. It’s been wiped out, clean, and started again and again.
So you find yourself in the 20th century in a place called the United States of America and you’re male or female with experiences. You have no idea what you’re doing here, how you got here. It’s been going on for millions of years. You’ve appeared somewhere, somehow, in millions of years ago, and you’re here today. You know what the experiences going on in this world are brand new. Nothing is brand new. It’s all old stuff. Happened before, happened again. The point I’m trying to make is you don’t belong here. You’re going to make this world a better world in which to live. It’s a piece of work. Everything changes like everything must. It’s time immemorial. You are pure consciousness. You are the source. Most people think you’re in the wrong way. like cause and effect. There is a cause that is a very blind effect. It’s a source of the cause. I don’t want to refer to it all. I refer to the source beyond cause and effect. The source beyond any explanations. The source you can’t understand. The source of which there is no way to describe. Only the cause of this planet or the cause of this universe. The source which is beyond the source of the universe. The source which you can’t comprehend. You can’t experience. You are that source. The universe. The source you become the source. the source and become free and liberated in the life of existence right now. Drop your problems, your worries, and your toys you’ve been playing with. Drop all these things.
See the light within you. You are the light for salvation.