Dr Gabor Mate "Who are you?"

"Be still and awaken to the realisation of who you are" Proves to be a difficult practice to adopt because of the presence of the ego as explained by Dr Gabor Mate.

Quotes from Adyashanti and Karl Marx.

Who are you?

You are beyond the body,
mind and personality,

beyond all experience.

Be still and awaken to
the realization of who you are.

I heard this stuff what drives me crazy,
part of me drives me crazy, because

on the one hand something
in you recognize the truth of it,

but there is no way I can get there.

I have never experienced myself
as any of those things.

So I thought in preparing this talk for me
and stand up here and give you all these

spiritual truth about, you know:

when we're not addicted, we're presence

and when we're not addicted
then we're in love

and when we're not addicted
then we're wisdom

and we're being and we're
the universe and we're connection.

I'm sure that stuff is true,
but I have never been there.

How can stand and give you all that stuff?

Out of the mouth of Adyashanti,
who said that experience

and I genuinely sense that he has.

Those are not cliches, those are just
the reality, that is embodying.

But for me those words
would be absolutely a lie.

So that what now I can tell you.
That is what I can tell you at all.

The only clue I can give you is:
How perhaps to get there or at least

how to get beyond this egoic mind of ours,
because I very well know

that that little mind of mine jumps around
when Sat Dharam brings us into the presents

and that little minor mind jumps around,
all about the self

and it creates a film over my
experience of the world,

it creates a barrier between
myself and the universe,

a barrier between myself and deeper self,
a barrier between myself and other people,

and a barrier between myself and nature.

Carl Marx said that: "There is four alienation,
basically four aspects: we are alienated from nature,

we are alienated from our truth self,
we are alienated from other people

and we are alienated from our work.

Is that what we do
does not represent who we are.

So, the nature the society is that
it promotes those alienations

and the mechanism of that alienation
is that very egoic mind

that in me it is extraordinarily prominent
and is very much in charge of my mental life.

So, in this Adyashanti poem noticed the clue,
he says:

"Be still and awaken
to the realization of who you are!"

Well, "be still" he says.

The problem is really that
we don't know how to be still

and the mind doesn't know how to be still.

And so that, if I don't know
if I haven't experienced

perhaps what he has experienced

it is likely do the fact that my mind

has not been still long enough
to experiencing that stuff

and I do everything in
my power very often

to keep it from being so.

So we escape stillness.