Take A Step Backwards
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It's good to be here again to see you, be with you. It's holiday season. I think it's wonderful not to talk, to keep slow, to keep quiet. I wonder why you've been given the tongue if you're not supposed to talk. Who gave you the tongue? What did your tongue come from? Where it was for? Who are you? Why do you exist? To answer all of these questions, you have to keep silent. One of the answers you're seeking when you talk. Only when you're silent. We require everything to reveal to you and to show you. We have to learn to keep still. When we keep still, everything happens. When you make noise, nothing happens. Think about this carefully. Why don't you test yourself? See if one day during the week you can keep still to say nothing. Pick one day every week, whatever you like. And see if you can keep still for that day. And let's speak for one day and see what happens. You think you can do it? It would be very hard for some of you. What is the use of expressing yourself, you're used to talking? If you look back at your life in retrospect, what do you get from talking? Nothing. Nothing is never solved by talking. Nothing is resolved by talking. It seems to be sometimes, but it's not. Why? When a person speaks comes up with relative answers. A person is quiet comes up with spiritual answers. It's quite different, the world so to speak.
Talking is part of the relative world. But if you go beyond the relative world, you've got a line that keeps going. What else is this? People ask me, does God exist? Does the world really exist? The mind exists? Does the world really exist? If you're talking, you'll never find out. You'll never know. Only by sounds. Like you can still. We know what exists, we didn't. Again, it's hard to do for some of you, but you have to do it. All spiritual practice leads to sounds. All spiritual practice. All the yogas that you practice. Mantras that you chant. And the yamas that you practice. Everything needs to sound, and everything needs to quietness, so when you are quiet and you are still, things happen beyond your wildest dreams, you make noise when you talk, like anybody else, by the way of the world again, so you never understand who you are by talking, never, you never know what self-realization is by talking, you say you want maksha, you want liberation, of course you're not really liberated, but you don't know this, To make them lift, make you known, make you think you're earthbound. In all scriptures it says to be so. You have to have the inner vision. The inner vision comes. And the second thing you have to do is to let go of everything else. Let go of all your wants, your desires, your attitudes, your guilt feelings of the past. All these things have to be transcendent. Become free.
You can't have a heavy load, walk around with a heavy load in your mind. free to really work that way. There's no less to be given up. There's no way you're just getting a trip on a plane. You don't care any suitcase in your lap. You don't care any suitcase in the luggage department. The plane takes away where you want to go. To this nation. You really know where you are spiritually. You don't care how well it puts you in your mind. Your past, mistakes, problems. You drop it all, give it all to God. You spend everything. empty yourself out when you're finally free and clear inside reality won't be known to you you're not only carrying the heavy load you're carrying problems or troubles or information you don't need it's impossible for reality to come to you you can't have both yourself one or the other in reality you have to be quiet still and drop everything there's something within us to resolve our problems great power, power to know the way, especially in each one of us. If none of us take care of us but we can ourselves. We have to get ourselves out of the way. And this is what most of us refuse to do. I think we've got the answers. Look for the mind to help you. Surely the mind is great. We'll come up with what kind of ideas it's for you. Show you what kind of pictures in your mind to make you happy.
Your mind doesn't self-fulfilling. You have to be the ego. Therefore, you depend on your mind to solve your problems. Bring your happiness and make a mistake. Your mind doesn't need for that. It might lead you astray. Be human. So you have to go beyond everything you've ever learned, you've ever studied. And that's to show you the highest teaching around. What teaching is to show you that you may know the body of your affairs, so that you're God in the skies. Brahman, I can sit here and talk to you about these things. Only by yourself what you do. You have to practice this thing. You have to worry, threat. Remember, you have to control your life. It's true that karma controls your life. But you have to control the extent that you can give up karma. Remember being afraid of it. Give it power. You have to think about it. But turning deep within. It's such a new reality that it's deep within you. The same thing is you have to give up what you are. You have to surrender what you are. Give up completely everything you've got mentally, much physically. This thing is hard for most people to do. It has to be done. You have to mend this through in everything. May it needs all you want. May it desires. Everything. It has to be surrendered. Only you're able to do this when you see progress. And the past is finished. You exist now in this moment.
That's where you start. You have to investigate your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts. Then you have to take a step backwards and watch your feelings, watch your emotions, watch your thoughts. Often times you allow these things to rule you, you allow these feelings to rule you to take control of you, but now as you grow spiritually, you're going to observe these things and watch this thing happening to you. You want to get involved in a situation, you get yourself as far as you can to take a step backwards and look at the observing situation. See the difference? The average person walking in the street is confronted by a situation, like for instance a crash, a car, a male's in the car. They immediately become completely involved in the situation. Like a man in grief, frustrated, upset. A spiritual person in the past will catch themselves. They think they step backward and observe what's happening to them. Plan your life, observe the accident. If you're not doing this, you'll be pleasantly surprised what happens. It'll be resolved in the right ways you're all concerned. Nobody's ever wrong or right. Most of the things they're wrong or right, following the way it's supposed to unfold. If it didn't happen anyway, it should happen. I know it was sex. Remember this. You can do this without practice. Observe something being mean to keep watching. The phones in the truck are being involved. It has a question, who is this happening?
Who is feeling this problem? This is the correct course of action to take. Inquire. To whom does this problem come? Who is feeling it? Who is experiencing it? I am. That's me, I. That's me, but I is feeling this. I is experiencing this. That's me. I separate from me. I have lived me at all. This is correct because he was laughing. Rejoice. Why is that you're going to have a problem? It's me, I, the small I, the small me, the real self, while I am, has no problems. This is the conclusion that comes to them. It doesn't matter how serious it may be, how light it may be. Every problem is the same way. It makes it the same way that it is. Whereas, perhaps, it's the same thing in between. You're doing it the same way. It's the difference in your mind, in your programming. So you think certain things are very, very serious, and you laugh at them. Same situation. Two people went bankrupt. They had millions of dollars. One laughs and one commits suicide, from what you know. The world's worth struggling yourself for. Nothing is world worth being of silver. Nothing. It's all Maya. It's all a game. You have to come to this truth yourself. You have to come to this realization yourself. Nothing exists without an appearance. That's it. When you begin to understand that the game is over for you, you're always happy. When you don't understand what I'm saying, you react to all the stories that have happened to you.
You become frustrated, mad, upset, and never solve anything. Homework you have to do. You have to pay yourself when something just happened to you, so to speak. You can't wait until the last minute of that happened. You're going to begin to say to yourself, When my car crashes and I'll be able to do something about it, it's amazing, it gets mad and upset. When nothing is happening, it's time to practice. When nothing is happening to you. So you practice, who am I? I'll be free and clear. I'll be able to practice. I'll be able to. It's like in all the scriptures they tell you, at a time of death, the last thing you think about is what you become, that's where you go. Some people don't understand this teaching saying, well, what I've got to do is think about God. I'm dying. Think about this in reality. Be at peace. Become God. I'll go to God. Sounds good, but you won't be able to do it, because you've practiced for a long time. What I'm saying is this. If you were dying right now, you'd be in intense fear, wouldn't you? If you hadn't been practicing sadhana, you'd be in intense fear. You don't even think about it at all. That'd be something foreign to you. You have to prepare yourself now. After all, where's our life taking us? To death, girls, who wants you to die? I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but where are you going because it's death?
I'm not going anywhere else for the mistake we make. When you're young, that's what should be taught to you. How to die properly. Who died? What died? Those were the children at an early age. Why is it becoming a different world completely? Put a lot of cinnamon to do that way. It's not only for certain individuals who know the truth. They're going very liberate. The others have to pull down and get their bruises. Do this as a tremendous honesty with yourself. You've got to be tremendously honest with yourself. You've got to ask yourself, what do you want out of life? What are you doing? What are you striving for? And what is it getting me? To be honest with yourself, let us solve this question. Some of you perhaps may be saying to buy a new house, a new car. It's a big thing in your life. What is it getting you? Look at you getting a new house for your diner. Don't be worried about your money. Unless you're free to enjoy life, really enjoy life. You have temperament enjoyment, but we don't enjoy it. So in many times, we try to be totally honest with you and totally correct what we're saying. It's very self-inaction. So you're going to find the press. I said I was trying to justify the depression by saying, Oh, this is psychically right. When I was wrong, I just tried to tell them I was supposed to be the press today.
Forget about your astrology chart and inquire who is depressed who is being depressed and observe the depression observe it, watch it, look at it watch yourself being depressed and just inquire who is depressed who is going through this and immediately separates yourself from the depression the depression starts to go away and as soon as you separate from the I the depression disappears so you don't feel what I'm saying because you're not that at all and you have to do it by any means necessary you have to do it by any means necessary it's up to you there's not a lot of pressure to come to you at all in other words, when you get up in the morning you feel depressed you feel sorry for yourself, look at yourself and say poor me I feel bad there, the moment is going to happen anything bad is going to happen to me, I feel terrible you're fooling yourself into this make yourself worse even if there's something serious going on in your life, it doesn't matter It's almost only serious in a relative plane, not a spiritual plane. And if you catch something in a spiritual plane, it'll stop the seriousness and disappear. So just see what I'm saying. In a material relative way, it'll get worse. In a spiritual way, it'll disappear. That's what I said. Overcoming. So practice these things. I can argue with these things so you can practice with them. The belief that's building all directions.
No direction you're going. Stay fast in the direction. The next thing that comes, just live for the moment. The soon that hits you, observe it, catch it. The soon that comes to you, let's think about it. Let's try to rationalize it at all. Get rid of it measly when you're depressed. I feel all sorts. I don't say something like, what was the same at eight last night? I don't say that at all. I don't say anything when this person told me, when my relatives told me, I'm going to be sad when you upset. Forget about that. Do not make excuses for being depressed or unhappy. Worse thing you can do is make excuses. and nip it by the bud, and catch it immediately. First observe it, observe it the way you're feeling, you're feeling depressed, you're feeling depressed, watch it. Then immediately ask the question, to whom does this come? Who feels depressed? I do? I do. Am I the eye to death? I remember the cigarette I told you. As soon as you started in a relationship with the eye, as soon as you get rid of the eye, I know it's not you. And immediately the pressure will disappear. It will disappear. It works all the time. It works all the time, but just do it. I always remember how I started the problem. There was no bad problem. There was no such thing as a small problem or a big problem, you know what I'm saying.
So then you say to yourself, well, this is a big problem, guys. It's a big problem, big problem, big, big, big. Who is it big? Who thinks it's big? And that's the next question. I do. As soon as you say I do, I really know what an I is. I is not me, who is I is not me, not me at all. Who is the source of the I? Where did it come from? Focus your attention on the light and your heart, right side of the chest. And you're done. You can go about your business feeling happy, feeling peaceful, feeling good. It's so easy when you practice to find out I'm telling you the truth. But if you don't practice practice and deliver the rest of the people in this world like going to church on sunday getting good feelings going home going back into your life again whereas sometimes you've got to change your whole life change your feelings over now you change it perhaps whatever you do it's all by looking at it by taking a giant step backwards you're going to get your life like what you're going through inquiring who's experiencing this who's going through this I am or am I, which is I. And if you have to do this all day long, you do it. If you do it all day long, all day practices, all day, day after day, you've got some people coming to the Rapa and practicing, why am I? I've been in China for many years, and I still feel the same thing that is happening.
I'm not making a special process. You end up making a special process for one reason. You end up taking the step backwards. Think about this. Think about what I just said. You're not making any special progress because you're not taking a step backwards. In other words, you're not observing what's going on. What you're doing, you said, you said, how does this come? You said, it's coming to me, I'm doing this. You're not serving yourself in the problem. You're not saying, where am I? You're feeling the problem, where am I? And that's true. In fact, you're feeling the problem, where am I? Then the problem, then you can step backwards and observe your problem. Then you can see when this problem comes to you. See how it works? I don't think you get it because it's very important when I get it. When you get up in the morning, you feel depressed. Even though the practice happens in the chair. Then you inquires when the problem comes to me or my. But it goes on the same. You start separating yourself from the problem first. But then you can jump backwards and watching yourself going through this problem. You can watch yourself go through the problem, then you can ask yourself what's going through it. But if you ask yourself before you look at it, then the pressure feels greater than asking yourself a question online, and you're feeling depressed. It's a way to get out of this stuff, remember it and look at it, remember this.
Observe it and watch it. I'll be around small. Take a step back and watch it, watch yourself learning it. Then you ask yourself when it comes. You get it now, you understand? What I do, it's all up to you. Any questions you'd like to ask? No questions, any? No one will not be on my question. That's the secret. And the secrets we get on camera at the same time. Not what I say, or what I don't say. You're going to say that. Yes. You do what you're supposed to get. Even in special areas. Don't concern yourself whether you hit me or not. That's the reason. Just be honest. It's going to happen by yourself. So why are you complaining? Because I wanted... No, you don't. Beyond where I was, the part of me that hasn't kept caught up, I was caught up with the part of it as I did then. Still, I did not see that.
This is why I made transcripts. I didn't get several back there. No, I didn't even repeat it. Nothing. Question. When I get down to feeling nothing, you know, in terms of just, you know, feeling no thoughts and all of that, that's fine. But quite frankly, I don't find it, as a total system, very attractive.
Is that the question? The question is, where's the payoff in nothing? If you're really feeling nothing, you feel beautiful. You feel wonderful. You feel great. Nothing. If you're feeling something, not nothing, so you have a problem. If you're really feeling nothing, well, you're supposed to feel nothing. You'll be blessed out. If you're really feeling nothing, you think you're feeling nothing, you're feeling something. You go deep, you go beyond that. You try to go deep in the night. If you think you're feeling nothing, you go beyond that. the real self you'll feel some beauty and joy so it has to be those good people and I will be honest see what I'm saying? I didn't do it many people have a void when they're so far and they hear the void is good and blissful they don't feel the bliss it's because you're hearing the wrong void
Oh god I'm aware that desires don't necessarily bring happiness, so it's a payback in the system, that when certain desires turn out, the desires that seem to cost you a more amount of money seem to be better desires. And I tend to think that certain physical comforts really make a difference, really produce a result. So I just have tried to find my way into spiritual freedom by setting up a lot of encroachments of pleasure and bliss in my life. I have gotten rid of the desires, I've had some movement on that also. But anything you can tell me about how I can let go or process out or reduce some of the desires that seem to come around? I'd be happy for that. Of course. I'm seriously like I said before, and quite all am I. I don't know where the desire comes from, where it comes from. That's what you have to do. You become still observing desires in your mind, and quite when they come. That's what you have to know. Who has these desires? Where do they come from? They come from me, I. I suppose you're something else. That's what you have to know. You've got to try to go deeper all the time. When you do this, go deeper inside. Take everything else I care as well. Just go deeper. I'm going to make this tonight. It'll be available. Don't think you have to hand me. Don't have to hand me. Just be here.
Just be here. Go on this wall. Don't worry. It's okay. It almost will. Thank you. Thank you for you people who don't know about it. Robert has his second volume of the 1991 talk that he has given. And we have a new shipment of books in. Eric, in regards to the Christians, because they make a wonderful place for Christians. Also, there's a band, you know, and also we have the case of David, There's a place and things that are Bhandara, and I only have four of those left here on the table. And they make wonderful gifts also. Here's the song. How many of you came out? The tapes that came out. They're beautiful. They're true. And also, that brings us up to Bhandara, which is the day after Christmas, December 26, at 1 o'clock. and we'd like to bring the best canning dish, if you will, and bring your fans also. There will be a few of you with me. Alright, we'll have some cake. Are people still interested to bring toys like next to Thursday? Yes, it's a little clear as I have. That'll be the last day? Yes, yes. David also has gone to that and David is the one that makes the tape and the money goes to underprivileged children and toys are given to the underprivileged children also. Is that okay? Sure. Great.
This is about meditation. What we feel the importance of meditation is, my meditation is to be concentration of I'm curious about when you see the value of meditation over a period of time, as long as quiet in the mind. Any suggestions for a lucky like life, like myself? Yeah. Meditation has been going on all day long. I'm going to tell you that the soul has come. He's fine. Just meditation. Soul meditation is good. But an object is in the sphere. So you have to go beyond the object in the sphere. Therefore, it depends on what stage you're at. Keep meditating, but go beyond meditating all that long. True meditation is when you know that the world is false. True meditation is when you live in a false world. You realize this. You get rid of it. True meditation is when you see things that you really love. When you keep practicing hard-mire, that's true meditation. Hard-mire's real meditation is okay. Real meditation is done 24 hours a day. We're denying the world by saying it's not true, nitty-nitty, this is false, this is false. It's all false, everything that you say is false. It's real meditation. You can't read anything. It doesn't really follow anything at just a certain time. But it depends on the truth of the soul, where you're at. We're going to meditate all day long, it's denying the world. If you say, Faith, this is not true, this is no, where am I?
Did you do this? I think it will happen.
