I had said many times in talks this talk is not going to be on the news tonight
and I had been right for a long time and suddenly somebody came and they wanted
to film part of a talk and put it on the national news in Canada and they did I
was wrong I was very happy I was wrong it was only three minutes and yet it was
there that was a miracle in itself because this is not something you would
normally see on the news because we are not smashing anything up we're not
blowing of ourselves or throwing bombs and yeah it was on the news in bed
tonight go into your inner energy Fiat be there as an alive presence not a
thinking little being thinking about the end of the retreat what you're going to
do don't activate so much the concern with your life situation whenever when
you truly need to think about it and take action then you'll be present with
that but don't revive whatever's personal life situation you have and
everybody has one don't continuously revive that in your
mind because that will absorb everything the alive situation which is
thought-forms past and future my story absorbs most people's entire life
they're continuously lost in their life situation they miss life just now so
make life the focal point of your life and life situation is on the periphery
you deal with it when it comes not reviving think oh I have so many
problems you do so it to me where is it where is the problem
here my bank account is zero all I can see is a figure on a piece of paper just
a siren I lived for many years not knowing where the next day or the next
week the income would come from and it always came from somewhere it wasn't a
problem I didn't feel poor in the eyes of the world I was poor probably live
below the poverty line for several years and then it improved somewhat but still
reserved just a minimum and that was fine and even for two years when I
didn't have a home or a job on income oh I've looked after me because I trusted
in life which is present moment don't let your live situation absorb your
attention completely especially when you're in bed at night go into sleep
from the beauty power that is you inhabit the body as you live in bed it's
best if you do it lying on your back and feel the intense aliveness that is in
every cell the presence that you are
going to sleep from there and if you wake up in the middle of the night and
the movement of thought wants to start immediately notice it and say okay I'll
go into the body with an instant you can change what would have been a sleepless
restless night with agonizing thoughts useless thoughts because there's nothing
you can do right there and you're not threatened you're just in a state of
fear because you're fearful concepts in your head you're impaired you're not
being threatened by anything but the concepts in your head are threatened
you what's going to happen what could happen what do I do if that happens what
and if I lose that I don't get that and all those concepts that you then
identify ways are very threatening they're like little animals in your head
and you take them to be real it's unreal it's like a phantoms that the mind
creates fear thoughts and always to test the reality of the situation what is the
reality here now what is the problem here and now none or if it has reality
then here's something you can do about it or you can surrender to it well the
problem is I'm in prison okay break out apply for parole or
surrender to what is and if you are planning to break out or planning to
apply for parole you still have to surrender first otherwise you will be
unhappy there may be certain illnesses and with a healing or not is possible
you don't know but it is more likely in the state of non-resistance books have
been written about it even medical research has shown that in those cases
where spontaneous healing happened it did not happen when people were making
the illness into an enemy it happened through deep acceptance with each comes
peace and it's only the peace that is the healer Byron Katie spiritual teacher
was visiting a woman suffering from advanced cancer throughout her body
maybe only a few more weeks to live and ceased can be quite radical in the ways
he expresses herself but straight cutting from mind so she visited the
woman and the woman looked of course extremely unhappy and
suffering and Byron Katie said to her I don't see a problem and the woman
thought woman was got angry and she took off the cover of her bed and she sold
her her right leg was three or four times the size of her left leg it had
already swollen to jerk and you because of the disease and she said you want to
see a problem I'll show you a problem since the patient she said look at this
and Byron Katie said oh I see your problem is that you think your right leg
should be exactly the same size as your left leg and at that moment for the
first time in a long time the patient laughed because in that
moment the patient dis identified from thought structures thought structures
that were saying this should not be this should be otherwise and what was
ultimately causing that suffering that may have been physical plane but
suffering was caused by the thought structures in her head that could not
accept what is that argued with it insane Wow so the suffering always comes
out of thought suffering is thought mate pain is possible physical pain yes but
the two articles we are related suffering can end before physical plane
ends suffering can end a few days before you die of some disease you can come to
the end of suffering and you will have fulfilled the purpose of your life on
earth the flowering has happened the liberation has happened you stepped out
of identification with mind the flowering of consciousness has happened
for the flowering of consciousness to happen you don't need a lot more time
you don't need any time really and if it should be so for you that you are not
sure whether you're going to live a few more months which by the way nobody
knows in this room whether they're going to live because forms are unstable
we just don't know but if the likelihood in you seems to be greater for some
reason that you may not survive for more than a few months I love that too one
could almost say force you into presence because life has taken time away from
you life has taken future away from you which to the ego is the most dreadful
thing that could happen to anybody but is in fact the most wonderful thing
that could happen to anybody the future is taken away the mind cannot seek
refuge any more in future you're either in intense suffering or you are forced
into intense presence and I know some people to whom this has happened one
passed away two years ago another friend of mine was in that situation now and
the friend who passed away two and a half years ago became radiant in the
last few weeks months of her life as the body wasted away she could almost see
light coming through her and peace her eyes came totally clear Oh
what greater thing could happen to a human being than that of course to
everyone here in this room it will come sooner or later the impending end of
this form and even if you're only 25 now there's no guarantee that you will go on
to 95 or hundred you may you may not so don't
wait for life to take future away from you although when it happens it's good
relinquish future as a psychological thing not on a practical level for
practical level you say okay tomorrow I'll catch a train tomorrow we'll meet
here at 9:30 again practical level no problem
practical future no problem psychological future is the problem and
on that level you relinquish future needing to become someone and so on a
practical level you can do all kinds of new things explore new things learn new
things create things play around with creation create this or that but
foundation for creation is the inner state of alignment with life then what
you create is more empowered and will be for the good and not create more
suffering because what he create out of the egoic state creates more suffering
karmic so you could built a gigantic corporation out of feeling inadequate
and it has happened people have bailed gigantic enterprises and become multi
billionaires and then collapsed of stress and before they collapsed they
looked inside what was all that about and in the meantime the thousands of
employees also for in with stress and unhappy so what you create out of the
state of alignment will be different from what you create out of ego and
it'll be more empowered it'll be different because it'll be an alignment
with consciousness where the whole cosmos is going and what it is we don't
know it depends on you some may not create anything you may just be happy
sitting there and talking to whoever comes to you well you may continue to do
your job but it becomes just a cover for consciousness
you could do the most simplest job like handing out tickets in a cinema and
every person you look at you look at little presence here you are enjoy the
film here you are and you can continuous meditation then maybe you'll stay there
and change many people's lives you contribute to something new this little
seed can come even there to anybody who is has some readiness even a minimum
degree of readiness that moment can be a trigger and it will be for some they
will never know it perhaps in that mold was the trigger for an inner change or
it may be that you do that for a while and then life takes you some wells and
suddenly you have a group in front of you and say well here we are
which is always a good way to start it's our job to deepen presence just this to
accept what is to be friendly with what is and if on the surface of things what
is doesn't look so great you can use a little mantra that in
front of mine came up with when something happens that goes wrong this
to this also meaning it is my job to say yes also to this this to it's always
wonderful when little things go wrong during the day they always do on the way
on oh that's beautiful
because then every time you can find a space you know it is a game oh that is a
game and you smile when it happens sometimes you get a sequence of four or
five things not working as they showed
you have a spacious relationship so things that happened then compassionate
even towards things that happen or don't happen as they should happen
compassionate towards life
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