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Good afternoon. I welcome you with all my heart, and it’s good being to you again. I hope everyone will be unconditionally, unequivocally, just the way you are. Always remember the reason for you coming here. You come here to sit with me. That’s the main reason. I’m not going to listen to a sermon or a lecture or words, but just to sit quietly, and whatever we do is okay, all is well, there are no mistakes, everything is in its right place, rejoice, for all is well. People continue to ask me, Robert, I seem to be close between the devil and the deep blue sea. I seem to be spiritual on one part and material on the other part. In other words, I seem to be spiritual, knowing that I am effortless, trustless, pure awareness, and all is well. There’s one part of me, the spiritual part. Here’s the material part. The material part of me is caught up in the knife, so to speak. Needs, desires, wants. So one does the material part surrender to the spiritual part, and I become one with everything. We’ll discuss this for a while, from the highest viewpoint. viewpoint in reality there’s no spiritual part there’s no material part all this is illusory don’t go around saying i’m spiritual or material it all emanates from the mind why it makes you think that you’re spiritual makes you think that you’re not and yet there’s no mind upon this there’s only emptiness feel the emptiness it’s beautiful you don’t want to feel material or spiritual you’re free the mind coding anything for you then you’re double free think about this. You’re totally empty. Emptiness. Feel the emptiness. If you’re unable to feel what I’m saying, you’ll feel happy, serene, joyous. Why? Because you’re boundless space. There’s nothing that can hurt you or make you fear. How can it be when you’re boundless space? You alone exist and nothing else. You exist as bounds of space, and there’s nothing else. There’s no implication, there’s no karma that is holding you back, there’s no scars that are binding you, there’s no sins that you have to go through, there’s no retribution. You’re free, totally free, right now, right at this moment. Nothing binds you, nothing. You’re not even in your mind because you have no mind. Can you feel the freedom to refer to? Can you feel the emptiness right now, the silence, the peace. You are the one. There’s no one else but you. You encompass the entire universe. This is where you are. There’s boundless space and effortless choice of pure awareness. This is your essence. This is what you really are. You don’t allow yourself to think of anything else. There’s nothing else to think about. This is that very interesting spiritual life or material life or any kind of life when one life is you. The absolute reality is you. Can you feel what I’m talking about? Can you really feel it? Feel the emptiness, the total emptiness. Complete total emptiness. You’re empty of everything. There’s no past, no future. There’s nothing that can possibly hurt you or bother you. When you feel fearful or hurt or bothered, this is called false imagination. Somehow you’ll hypnotize yourself and believe that something’s wrong. The world in the mirage, the snake in the rope, the sky resting on the mountain.
It all seems so real. Upon investigation, you find it false, the optical illusions. So every time you think it’s an optical illusion, every source you think about whatever you see in your mind, whatever you allow your mind to do is an optical illusion. It doesn’t exist. There’s nothing there. You are free. Rejoice. You are free. Totally, completely free. What do you fear? You’re not just looking at the world. It’s so funny to me that we only have so many years to live on this earth. Most of us will all be gone by 50 years from now. Instead of trying to find ourselves, we find out who we are. We get involved in all kinds of nonsense. We take life so seriously. We’re so into our bodies and our minds. We have to accomplish something, we have to do this, we have to do that. Who came here to accomplish anything? Nothing has to accomplish, absolutely nothing. There’s one accomplisher that’s the self. That self is very complicated and it has to be accomplished. There’s nothing else to be accomplished. It’s all done, and you are that. So again, feel your freedom. It’s only free right now, completely free. Feel it. This is the way you are. There’s nothing you have to do to end it. Just be. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop the woes made out of tune. Stop everything. Drop it. Drop it all. Drop everything. You are free now, this moment. But you keep on thinking, and this binds you.
Every time you think, it binds you. When you think about what will be materialized from the living of your life, that’s why there’s so much confusion in the world. People keep thinking about all kinds of things, and things keep materializing in the world. The more that you see before you is the collective consciousness of human race. The more that you see before you is the collective thinking of humanity, good, bad, and indifferent. There’s one who’s getting bad in the world or they’re getting bad thoughts. You need to go beyond thinking.
Think can never make you happy eternally. It can make you happy for a while. If you’re just thinking of a certain condition you’re liking, you’re achieving a condition, you’re happy. How long does it last before it changes?
I’m saying there’s nothing in this world that can make you eternally happy. Nothing. Because everything is under the law of change. Everything must change.
The pendulum swings one way and then the other way. Or caught up in the pendulum, idea of living. saying that you still have to live a good and a bad life. You’re beyond that. You’re beyond the swing of the pendulum. You are the imperishable self. You are the absolute reality. You’re one. You’re only one. You’re one of these things. All day. All night. Life will pass you by. And you’ll be gone. What’s more important than finding yourself? Yet, when most of you leave this house, you’re hoping you don’t go out, When you start to think about your problems, your things, thinking of the wrong with your life, thinking of what you need, the thing that you want, it’s a mistake. Try not to understand that there’s nothing that you need. You need to embed from what’s in.
They don’t know if they’re coming from outside. They’re really coming from within you. It was just learning to trust and be still. Trust the power that knows the way. It was just in newspapers and television and radio where people say, be yourself. Feel your reality. There’s reality emptiness. When I say, feel the reality, that’s the thing you think about it. I say, feel the emptiness, feel the reality of emptiness. Total pure emptiness. Feel it. And as soon as your mind starts saying, I, catch it, burn into it, stop it. I’m missing the emptiness again. Your eye says, I’m hungry, I need food, I’m tired, I’m peaceful, I’m happy. When your mind comes up with an I, subject before it goes onward. the second syllable catch the eye before it goes to the second syllable and look at it observe it witness it and it’ll find you empty again it’s only when you feel the emptiness that you feel wonderful it’s true you feel wonderful when you feel emptiness and you just believe if you feel emptiness you won’t be able to function you don’t believe this many people are afraid of feel emptiness because they feel they’re able to function in their job, in their school, in their home. Isn’t that true? Emptiness is your real state. Your own self is emptiness. And because of your real state you’ll be able to do things better than you’ve ever done before by feeling nothing, feeling emptiness.
Emptiness is God, Brahman. Are you feeling the emptiness or are your thoughts controlling you? Are your thoughts controlling or you’re fearing the emptiness? Ask yourself. Am I controlled by thoughts? Your thoughts are only your past programming. There’s all sorts of honor. Your programming. You’ve been programmed since you were little. Unless you get them power. You get them power by fearing them, by thinking they have power to think they’re real. Don’t ask thoughts. Nobody. Stop thinking. Go home this afternoon. See how long you’re going to stay quiet. mad, getting angry, and once you can keep still. Everything’s okay, just the way it is. This will tell you where you’re at. Again, let me emphasize the important parts. There is no spiritual life. Spiritual life is a cosmic joke. There is no such thing in spiritual life. There is no such thing in material life, like a dream. No life whatsoever. Hold on to. You’re completely free. What does a free person need to hold on to for anything? When you’re bound, you have to hold on to something. You want a crutch. So even if it’s a personal god, a guru, a buck, it’s going to be a crutch. But stand naked. There’s nothing to hold on to this with you. Choose my desk. Dad, read for us.