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Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.45,0:01:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.74,0:01:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an ancient Sanskrit word, for which there\Nis no modern equivalent.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.64,0:01:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a fundamental challenge with making\Na film about Samadhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.21,0:01:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi points to something that can’t be\Nconveyed on the level of mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.23,0:02:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This film is simply the outer manifestation\Nof my own inner journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.24,0:02:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intention is not to teach you about Samadhi,\Nor provide information for your mind, but
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.95,0:02:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to inspire you to directly discover your true\Nnature.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.26,0:02:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is relevant now more than ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.20,0:02:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are at a time in history where we have\Nnot only forgotten Samadhi, but we have forgotten
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.84,0:02:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we forgot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.70,0:03:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This forgetting is Maya, the illusion of the\Nself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.13,0:03:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As humans most of us live immersed in our\Ndaily lives, with little thought of who we
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.24,0:03:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are, why we are here, or where we’re going.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.44,0:03:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of us have never realized the true self,\Nthe soul or what the Buddha called annata
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.68,0:03:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- that which is beyond name and form, beyond\Nthinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.98,0:04:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result we believe we are these limited\Nbodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.52,0:04:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in fear, either conscious or unconscious,\Nthat the limited self structure that we are
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.87,0:04:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified with, will die.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.63,0:04:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In today's world the vast majority of people\Nwho are engaged in religious or spiritual
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.89,0:04:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,practices such as yoga, prayer, meditation,\Nchanting or any kind of ritual, are practicing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.75,0:04:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,techniques which are conditioned.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.34,0:04:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which means they are just part of the ego\Nconstruct.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.53,0:04:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seeking and the activity isn’t the problem-\Nthinking you have found the answer in some
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.48,0:05:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,external form is the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.26,0:05:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spirituality in its most common form is no\Ndifferent than the pathological thinking that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.35,0:05:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going on everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.68,0:05:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a further agitation of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.05,0:05:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More human doing, as opposed to human being.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.48,0:05:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ego construct wants more money, more power,\Nmore love, more of everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.84,0:05:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those on the so-called spiritual path desire\Nto be more spiritual, more awake, more equanimous,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.61,0:05:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more peaceful, more enlightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.38,0:05:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The danger for you watching this film is that\Nyour mind will want to acquire Samadhi . Even
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.14,0:06:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more dangerous is that your mind might think\Nit has acquired Samadhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.13,0:06:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever there is a desire to attain something\Nyou can be sure that it is the ego construct
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.27,0:06:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.12,0:06:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is not about attaining or adding anything\Nto yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.85,0:06:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To realize Samadhi is to learn to die before\Nyou die.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.83,0:06:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life and death are like yin and yang- an inseparable\Ncontinuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.36,0:06:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Endlessly unfolding, with no beginning and\Nno end.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.44,0:06:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we push away death, we also push away\Nlife.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.63,0:06:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you experience the truth directly of\Nwho you are, there is no longer fear of life
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.82,0:06:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or death.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.03,0:07:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are told who we are by our society and\Nour culture, and at the same - time we are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.16,0:07:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slaves to the deeper unconscious biological\Ncraving and aversion that governs our choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.72,0:07:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ego construct is nothing more than the\Nimpulse to repeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.36,0:07:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is simply the path that energy once took\Nand the tendency for the energy to take that
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.88,0:07:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,path again, whether it is positive or negative\Nfor the organism.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.19,0:07:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are endless levels of memory or mind,\Nspirals within spirals.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.76,0:07:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When your consciousness identifies with this\Nmind or ego construct, it ties you to social
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.53,0:07:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioning, which you could call the matrix.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.75,0:08:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are aspects of the ego that we can be\Nconscious of, but it is the unconscious, the
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.94,0:08:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,archaic wiring, the primal existential fears,\Nthat are actually driving the whole machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.37,0:08:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Endless patterns of grasping towards pleasure\Nand avoidance of pain are sublimated into
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.65,0:08:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pathological behaviours .... our work....\Nour relationships.... our beliefs, our very
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.09,0:08:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoughts, and our whole way of living.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.15,0:09:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like cattle, most humans live and die in passive\Nsubjugation, feeding their lives to the matrix.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.12,0:09:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live lives locked into narrow patterns.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.20,0:09:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lives often filled with great suffering, and\Nit never occurs to us that we can actually
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.46,0:09:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become free.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.99,0:09:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is possible to let go of the life that\Nhas been inherited from the past, to live
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.30,0:10:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one that is waiting to come forth through\Nthe inner world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.30,0:10:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were all born into this world with biological\Nconditioned structures, but without self awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.80,0:10:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often when you look into a young child's eyes\Nthere is no trace of self, only luminous emptiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.28,0:10:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person one grows into is a mask worn over\Nconsciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.51,0:10:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage,\Nand all the men and women merely players".
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.26,0:11:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In an awakened individual, consciousness shines\Nthrough the personality, through the mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.29,0:11:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are awake, you don't become identified\Nwith your character.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.96,0:11:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't believe that you are the masks that\Nyou are wearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.03,0:11:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nor do you give up playing a role.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.20,0:11:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we are identified with our character, our persona
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.16,0:11:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is Maya, the illusion of the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.14,0:12:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is awakening from the dream of your character in the play of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.78,0:12:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty-four hundred years after Plato wrote\Nthe Republic, humanity is still making its
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.05,0:12:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way out of Plato's cave.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.43,0:12:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact we may be more transfixed by illusions\Nthan ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.68,0:12:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plato had Socrates describe a group of people\Nwho lived chained in a cave all of their lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.60,0:12:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing a blank wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.22,0:12:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All they could see were shadows projected\Non the wall by the things passing in front
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.48,0:12:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a fire which was behind them.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.44,0:12:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This puppet show becomes their world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.96,0:13:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Socrates, the shadows were as\Nclose as the prisoners would ever get to seeing
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.56,0:13:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.10,0:13:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even after being told about the outside world\Nthey continued to believe that the shadows
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.37,0:13:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were all that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.43,0:13:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if they suspected there was something\Nmore they were unwilling to leave what was
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.40,0:13:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,familiar.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.00,0:13:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humanity today is like the people who have\Nonly seen the shadows on the cave wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.80,0:13:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shadows are analogous to our thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.26,0:13:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world of thinking is the only world that\Nwe know.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.78,0:13:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is another world that is beyond\Nthinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.15,0:13:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beyond the dualistic mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.03,0:14:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you willing to leave the cave, to leave\Nall that you have known to find out the truth
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.38,0:14:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of who you are?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.39,0:14:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to experience Samadhi it is necessary\Nto turn attention away from the shadows, away
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.37,0:14:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the thoughts towards the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.90,0:14:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When a person is only used to darkness then\Nthey must gradually become accustomed to the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.64,0:14:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,light.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.33,0:14:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like acclimatizing to any new paradigm it\Ntakes time and effort, and a willingness to
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.24,0:15:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explore the new, as well as shed the old.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.68,0:15:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind can be likened to a trap for consciousness,\Na labyrinth or a prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.33,0:15:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not that you are in prison, you are\Nthe prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.78,0:15:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison is an illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.27,0:15:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are identified with an illusory self,\Nthen you are asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.33,0:15:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you are aware of the prison, if you fight\Nto get out of the illusion, then you are treating
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.34,0:16:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the illusion as if it is real and you still\Nremain asleep, except now the dream becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.82,0:16:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.82,0:16:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will be chasing and running from shadows\Nforever.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.44,0:16:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is awakening from the dream of the\Nseparate self or the egoic construct.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.57,0:16:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is awakening from identification with\Nthe prison that I call me.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.61,0:16:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can never actually be free, because wherever\Nyou go your prison is there.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.69,0:16:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening is not about get rid of the mind\Nor the matrix, on the contrary; when you are
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.60,0:16:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not identified with it, then you can experience\Nthe play of life more fully, enjoying the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.86,0:17:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,show as it is, without craving or fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.70,0:17:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the ancient teachings this was called the\Ndivine game of Leila: the game of playing
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.88,0:17:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in duality.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.04,0:17:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human consciousness is a continuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.55,0:17:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one extreme, humans are identified with\Nthe material self.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.17,0:17:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other extreme is Samadhi, the cessation\Nof self.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.56,0:17:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every step we take on the continuum towards\NSamadhi, brings less suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.47,0:17:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less suffering does not mean life is free\Nfrom pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.61,0:17:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and\Npleasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.91,0:18:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it means is that there is less mind,\Nless self creating resistance to whatever
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.30,0:18:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfolds and that resistance is what creates\Nsuffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.31,0:18:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realizing Samadhi even once allows you to\Nsee what is at the other end of the continuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.22,0:18:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To see that there is something other than\Nthe material world and self interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.57,0:18:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When there is an actual cessation of the self\Nstructure in Samadhi there is no egoic thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.31,0:18:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no self, no duality yet there is still the\NI am, annata or no self.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.02,0:19:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that emptiness is the dawn of prajna or\Nwisdom- the understanding that the immanent
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.06,0:19:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self is far beyond the play of duality, beyond\Nthe entire continuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.82,0:19:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The immanent self is timeless, unchanging,\Nalways now.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.44,0:19:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enlightenment is the merging of the primordial\Nspiral, the ever-changing manifested world
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.51,0:19:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or lotus in which time unfolds, with your\Ntimeless being.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.27,0:19:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your inner wiring grows like an ever-unfolding\Nflower as you disidentify with the self, becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.70,0:20:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a living bridge between the world of time\Nand the timeless.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.58,0:20:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Merely realizing the immanent self is only\Nthe beginning of one’s path.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.54,0:20:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people will have to experience and lose\NSamadhi countless times in meditation before
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.53,0:20:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are able to integrate it into other facets\Nof life.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.63,0:20:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not unusual to have profound insights\Ninto the nature of your being during meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.22,0:20:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or self inquiry, only to find yourself once\Nagain falling back into old patterns, forgetting
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.99,0:20:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the truth of who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.75,0:21:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To realize that stillness or emptiness in\Nevery facet of life, every facet of one’s
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.95,0:21:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self, is to become emptiness dancing as all\Nthings.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.62,0:21:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stillness is not something separate from movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.60,0:21:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not opposite to movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.80,0:21:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Samadhi stillness is recognized to be identical\Nwith movement, form is identical to emptiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.16,0:22:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is nonsensical to the mind because mind\Nis the coming into being of duality.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.44,0:22:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rene Descartes, the father of western philosophy,\Nis famous for the saying “I think therefore
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.65,0:22:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am”.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.14,0:22:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No other phrase more clearly encapsulates\Nthe fall of civilisation and the full scale
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.34,0:22:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identification with the shadows on the cave\Nwall.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.11,0:22:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Descartes’ error, like the error of almost\Nall humans, was the equating of fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.46,0:22:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being with thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.74,0:22:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the beginning of his most famous treatise,\NDescartes wrote that almost everything can
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.31,0:23:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be called into doubt; he can doubt his senses,\Nand even his thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.34,0:23:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise in the Kalama Sutra the Buddha said\Nthat in order to ascertain the truth, one
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.99,0:23:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must doubt all traditions, scriptures, teachings\Nand all of the content of one’s mind and
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.32,0:23:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,senses.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:19.92,0:23:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both of these men started with great scepticism,\Nbut the difference was that Descartes stopped
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.35,0:23:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inquiring at the level of thinking, while\Nthe Buddha went deeper- he penetrated beyond
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.06,0:23:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deepest levels of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.74,0:23:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe if Descartes had gone beyond his thinking\Nmind, he would have realized his true nature
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.86,0:23:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Western consciousness would be very different\Ntoday.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.97,0:24:00.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, Descartes described the possibility\Nof an evil demon that could be keeping us
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.89,0:24:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under a veil of illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.04,0:24:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Descartes did not recognize this evil demon\Nfor what it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.94,0:24:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As in the movie the Matrix, we could all be\Nhooked up to some elaborate program feeding
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.41,0:24:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us an illusory dream world.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.25,0:24:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the movie, humans lived out their lives\Nin the matrix, while on another level they
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.40,0:24:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were merely batteries, feeding their life\Nforce to the machines which used their energy
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.96,0:25:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their own agenda.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.72,0:25:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People always want to blame something outside\Nof themselves for the state of the world or
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.40,0:25:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their own unhappiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.80,0:25:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it is a person, a particular group\Nor country, religion or some kind of controlling
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.10,0:25:27.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Illuminati like Descartes’ evil demon, or\Nthe sentient machines in the Matrix.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.100,0:25:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ironically, the demon that Descartes envisioned\Nwas the very thing that he defined himself
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.14,0:25:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.14,0:25:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you realize Samadhi, it becomes clear\Nthat there is a controller, there is a machine,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.76,0:25:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and evil demon leaching your life day after\Nday.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.38,0:26:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The machine is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.25,0:26:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your self structure is made up of many little\Nconditioned sub-programs or little bosses.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.23,0:26:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One little boss that craves food, another\Ncraves money, another status, position, power,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.19,0:26:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sex, intimacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.68,0:26:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another wants consciousness or attention from\Nothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.80,0:26:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The desires are literally endless and can\Nnever be satisfied.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.88,0:26:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We spend a lot of our time and energy decorating\Nour prisons, succumbing to pressures to improve
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.68,0:26:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our masks, and feeding the little bosses,\Nmaking them more powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.02,0:26:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like drug addicts, the more we try to satisfy\Nthe little bosses, the more we end up craving.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.71,0:27:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The path to freedom is not self improvement,\Nor somehow satisfying the self’s agenda,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.73,0:27:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s a dropping of the self’s agenda\Naltogether.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.100,0:27:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people fear that awakening their true\Nnature will mean that they lose their individuality
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.31,0:27:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enjoyment of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.43,0:27:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, the opposite is true; the unique\Nindividuation of the soul can only be expressed
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.52,0:27:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the conditioned self is overcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.24,0:27:41.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we remain asleep in the matrix most\Nof us never find out what the soul actually
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.65,0:27:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wants to express.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.90,0:28:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The path to Samadhi involves meditation, which\Nis both observing the conditioned self; that
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.48,0:28:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which changes, and realizing your true nature;\Nthat which does not change.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.43,0:28:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you come to your still point, the source\Nof your being, then you await further instructions
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.45,0:28:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any insistence on how your outer world\Nhas to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.10,0:28:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not my will, but higher will be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.43,0:28:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the mind only tries to change the outer\Nworld to conform with some idea of what you
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.65,0:28:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think the path should be, it is like trying\Nto change the image in a mirror by manipulating
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.30,0:28:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reflection.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.94,0:28:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make the image in a mirror smile you obviously\Ncan’t manipulate the reflection, you have
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.33,0:29:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to realize the you that is the authentic source\Nof the reflection.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.59,0:29:11.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you realize the authentic self, it doesn’t\Nmean that anything on the outside necessarily
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.23,0:29:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.86,0:29:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What changes is the conscious, intelligent,\Ninner energy or prana which is freed from
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.79,0:29:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioned patterns and becomes available\Nto be directed by the soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.02,0:29:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can only become aware of the soul’s\Npurpose when you are able to watch the conditioned
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.21,0:29:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self and its endless pursuits, and let them\Ngo.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.27,0:30:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Greek mythology, it was said that the gods\Ncondemned Sisyphus to repeat a meaningless
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.59,0:30:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,task for all eternity.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.53,0:30:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His task was to endlessly push a boulder up\Na mountain, only to have it roll down again.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.01,0:30:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.83,0:30:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French existentialist and Nobel Prize winning\Nauthor, Albert Camus, saw the situation of
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.61,0:30:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sisyphus as a metaphor for humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.40,0:30:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked the question, ‘How can we find\Nmeaning in this absurd existence?’.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.01,0:30:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As humans we are toiling endlessly, building\Nfor a tomorrow that never arrives, and then
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.39,0:31:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we die.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.29,0:31:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we truly realize this truth then we will\Neither go mad if we are identified with our
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.63,0:31:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,egoic personas, or we will awaken and become\Nfree.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.70,0:31:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can never succeed in the outer struggle,\Nbecause it is just a reflection of our inner
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.81,0:31:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.79,0:31:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cosmic joke, the absurdity of the situation\Nbecomes clear when there is a complete and
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.76,0:32:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,utter failure of the egoic self to awaken\Nthrough its futile pursuits.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.09,0:32:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Zen there is a saying, “Before enlightenment\Nchop wood, carry water.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.70,0:32:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After enlightenment chop wood, carry water”.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.02,0:32:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before enlightenment one must roll the ball\Nup the hill, after enlightenment one must
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.02,0:32:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also roll the ball up the hill.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.84,0:32:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What has changed?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.45,0:32:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inner resistance to what is.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.75,0:32:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The struggle has been dropped, or rather the\None who struggles has been realized to be
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.68,0:33:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,illusory.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.93,0:33:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The individual will or individual mind and\Ndivine will, or higher mind, are aligned.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.65,0:33:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Samadhi is ultimately a dropping of all inner\Nresistance - to all changing phenomena, without
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.69,0:33:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exception.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.88,0:33:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one who is able to realize inner peace,\Nirrespective of circumstance has attained
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.41,0:33:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true Samadhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.19,0:33:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You drop resistance not because you condone\None thing or another, but so that your inner
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.07,0:33:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom is not contingent on the outer.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.18,0:33:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s important to note that when we accept\Nreality as it is, it doesn’t necessarily
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.58,0:34:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mean that we stop taking action in the world,\Nor we become meditating pacifists.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.17,0:34:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually the opposite can be true; when we’re\Nfree to act without being driven by unconscious
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.33,0:34:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motives, then it is possible to act in alignment\Nwith the Tao, with the full force of our inner
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.30,0:34:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy behind us.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.03,0:34:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many will argue that in order to change the\Nworld and bring about peace we need to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:34:35.81,0:34:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harder against our perceived enemies.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.90,0:34:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fighting for peace is like shouting for silence;\Nit just creates more of what you don’t want.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.66,0:34:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days there is a war against everything:\Na war against terror, a war against disease,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.49,0:35:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a war against hunger.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.54,0:35:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every war is actually a war against ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.37,0:35:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fight is part of a collective delusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.15,0:35:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say that we want peace, but we continue\Nto elect leaders who engage in war.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.40,0:35:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lie to ourselves saying that we are for\Nhuman rights, but continue to buy products
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.40,0:35:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made in sweatshops.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.96,0:35:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say we want clean air, but we continue\Nto pollute.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.31,0:35:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want science to cure us of cancer but won’t\Nchange our self-destructive habitual behaviours
Dialogue: 0,0:35:42.66,0:35:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make us more likely to be sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.67,0:35:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We delude ourselves that we are promoting\Na better life.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.59,0:35:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t want to see our hidden parts that\Nare condoning suffering and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.57,0:36:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The belief that we can win a war against cancer,\Nhunger, terror, or any enemy that was created
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.69,0:36:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by our own thinking and behaviour, actually\Nlets us continue to delude ourselves that
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.03,0:36:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don’t have to change the way that we\Noperate on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.59,0:36:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inner world is where the revolution must\Nfirst take place.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.70,0:36:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only when we can directly feel the spiral\Nof life within will the outer world come into
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.59,0:36:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alignment with the Tao.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.95,0:36:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until then, anything we do will add to the\Nchaos already created by the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:41.99,0:36:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,War and peace arise together in an endless\Ndance; they are one continuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.37,0:36:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One half cannot exist without the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.03,0:36:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as light cannot exist without dark, and\Nup cannot exist without down.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.91,0:37:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world seems to want light without darkness,\Nfullness without emptiness, happiness without
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.08,0:37:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sadness.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.77,0:37:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more the mind gets involved, the more\Nfragmented the world becomes.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.34,0:37:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every solution that comes from the egoic mind\Nis driven by the idea that there is a problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.43,0:37:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the solution becomes an even greater problem\Nthan what it was trying to solve.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.95,0:38:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you resist persists.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.54,0:38:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human ingenuity creates new antibiotics only\Nto find nature getting more cunning as bacteria
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.82,0:38:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets stronger.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.84,0:38:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite our best efforts in the ongoing fight,\Nthe prevalence of cancer is actually increasing,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.50,0:38:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the number of hungry people in the world steadily\Ngrows, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.74,0:38:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continues to rise.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.27,0:38:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s wrong with our approach?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.20,0:38:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Goethe’s\Npoem, we have taken hold of a great power,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.89,0:38:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but do not have the wisdom to wield it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.11,0:39:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem is that we do not understand the\Ntool that we are using.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:03.23,0:39:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do not understand the human mind and its\Nproper role and purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.01,0:39:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The crisis is born of the limited conditioned\Nway in which we think, the way we feel and
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.13,0:39:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.00,0:39:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our rationalism has robbed us of our ability\Nto recognize and experience the wisdom of
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.51,0:39:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many ancient cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.06,0:39:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our egoic thinking has robbed us of the ability\Nto feel the depth and profound sacredness
Dialogue: 0,0:39:54.67,0:40:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of life, the numinosity of life, and to realize\Nentirely different levels of consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.76,0:40:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are now almost lost to humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.29,0:40:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the ancient Egyptian tradition, Neters\Nwere archetypal forms whose characteristics
Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.53,0:40:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be embodied by those who purified their\Nphysical and spiritual bodies in such a way
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.42,0:40:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they were fit to house higher consciousnesses.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.63,0:40:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The original Neter, or the divine principle\Nof this wisdom was known as Thoth or Tehuti.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.79,0:40:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often depicted as a scribe with the head of\Na bird or Ibis, and represented the origin
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.75,0:40:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all knowledge and wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.09,0:40:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoth could be described as the cosmic principle\Nof thinking or thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.72,0:41:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoth gave us language, concepts, writing,\Nmathematics, and all the arts and manifestations
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.01,0:41:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.94,0:41:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only those who had gone through special training\Nwere allowed to access Thoth’s sacred knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.17,0:41:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The book of Thoth is not a physical book,\Nbut is the wisdom of the akashic or etheric
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.03,0:41:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realm.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.32,0:41:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Legend tells that Thoth’s knowledge was\Ndeeply hidden in a secret place within every
Dialogue: 0,0:41:32.71,0:41:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human being, and was protected by a golden\Nserpent.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.39,0:41:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The archetypal or perennial myth of the serpent\Nor dragon guarding a treasure is one that
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.58,0:42:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permeates many cultures and has been called\Nby names such as kundalini shakti, chi, holy
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.25,0:42:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spirit, and inner energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.11,0:42:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The golden serpent is the egoic construct\Nwhich is bound in the inner energies and until
Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.78,0:42:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is mastered and overcome, the soul will\Nnever be able to attain true wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.45,0:42:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was said that the book of Thoth brought\Nnothing but suffering to any individual who
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.87,0:42:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,read it, even though they would find the secrets\Nof the gods themselves and all that is hidden
Dialogue: 0,0:42:32.38,0:42:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.87,0:42:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What must be understood is that the book brought\Nsuffering to any individual who read it, any
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.50,0:42:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ego that tried to control it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.42,0:42:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Egyptian tradition awakened consciousness\Nwas represented by Osiris.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.86,0:43:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without this awakened consciousness, any knowledge\Nor understanding obtained by the limited self
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.41,0:43:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be dangerous, disconnected from higher\Nwisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.24,0:43:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The eye of Horus had to be open.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.85,0:43:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The esoteric meaning that we find here is\Nsimilar to the more familiar story of “the
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.48,0:43:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fall” in the garden of Eden.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.71,0:43:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The book of Thoth parallels the book of knowledge\Nof good and evil whose fruit Adam and Eve
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.40,0:43:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were tempted to eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.96,0:43:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humanity of course has already eaten the forbidden\Nfruit, already opened the book of Thoth, and
Dialogue: 0,0:43:49.20,0:43:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been cast out of the garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.91,0:44:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The serpent is a metaphor for the primordial\Nspiral that extends from the microcosm to
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.98,0:44:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the macrocosm.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:06.73,0:44:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today the serpent is living as you.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.55,0:44:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the egoic mind expressed as the manifested\Nworld.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.80,0:44:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have never before had access to so much\Nknowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.59,0:44:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have gone deep into the material world,\Neven finding the so-called God particle, but
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.13,0:44:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have never been more limited, more ignorant\Nof who we are, how to live, and we do not
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.42,0:45:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understand the mechanism by which we create\Nsuffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.43,0:45:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our thinking has created the world as it is\Nnow.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.23,0:45:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever we label something as good or bad,\Nor create preference in our mind it is due
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.53,0:45:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the coming into being of egoic structures\Nor self interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.05,0:45:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The solution is not to fight for peace or\Nconquer nature, but to simply recognize the
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.00,0:45:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truth; that the very existence of the ego\Nstructure creates duality, a split between
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.67,0:46:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self and other, mine and yours, man and nature,\Ninner and outer.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.73,0:46:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ego is violence; it requires a barrier,\Na boundary from the other in order to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.66,0:46:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without ego there is no war against anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.18,0:46:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no hubris, there is no overreaching\Nnature to create profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.94,0:46:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These external crises in our world reflect\Na serious inner crises; we don’t know who
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.97,0:46:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.33,0:46:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are completely identified with our egoic\Nidentities, consumed by fears and are cut
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.00,0:46:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off from our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.67,0:47:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Races, religions, countries, political affiliations,\Nany group that we belong to, all reinforce
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.88,0:47:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our egoic identities.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.90,0:47:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost every group that exists on the planet\Ntoday wants to claim its perspective as true
Dialogue: 0,0:47:10.22,0:47:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and correct, as we do on an individual level.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:15.01,0:47:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By claiming the truth as its own, the group\Nperpetuates its own existence in the same
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.13,0:47:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way that an ego or self structure defines\Nitself against other.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.92,0:47:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now more than ever different realities and\Npolarized belief systems are co-existing on
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.97,0:47:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.97,0:47:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is possible for different people to experience\Ncompletely different thoughts and emotional
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.56,0:47:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reactions to the very same external phenomena.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.53,0:47:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the same way, samsara and nirvana, heaven\Nand hell, are two different dimensions occupying
Dialogue: 0,0:47:56.72,0:48:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very same world.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.12,0:48:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An event that may appear apocalyptic to one\Nperson, could be seen as a blessing to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.84,0:48:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is becoming obvious is that your external\Ncircumstances don’t have to affect your
Dialogue: 0,0:48:17.32,0:48:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inner world in any particular way.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.48,0:48:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To realize Samadhi is to become a self-propelled\Nwheel, to become autonomous, a universe unto
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.37,0:48:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.49,0:48:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your experience of life is not contingent\Non changing phenomena.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.78,0:48:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An analogy can be made with Metatron’s cube.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.61,0:48:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metatron is mentioned in various ancient Christian,\NIslamic and Jewish texts, and is archetypally
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.16,0:49:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,related to the Egyptian Neter Thoth, as well\Nas Hermes Trismegistus of Greece.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.30,0:49:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Metatron is intimately connected with the\Ntetragrammaton.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.34,0:49:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tetragrammaton is the fundamental geometric\Npattern, the template or primordial emanation
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.40,0:49:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of physical reality, which has been called\Nthe word of God or Logos.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.96,0:49:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we see a two dimensional representation\Nof the figure, but if you look a certain way,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:31.99,0:49:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see a three D cube.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.52,0:49:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you see the cube, nothing has changed\Nin the figure, but your mind has added a new
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.85,0:49:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dimension to your seeing.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:46.24,0:49:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dimensionality or one’s perspective is simply\Na matter of becoming habituated to a new way
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.01,0:49:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of perceiving the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:56.32,0:50:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Upon realizing Samadhi we become free of perspective,\Nor free to create new perspectives, because
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.96,0:50:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no self invested in or attached to\Na particular viewpoint.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.55,0:50:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The greatest minds in human history have often\Npointed to levels of thought beyond the limited
Dialogue: 0,0:50:23.25,0:50:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.10,0:50:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Einstein said “The true measure of a human\Nbeing is determined primarily by the measure
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.98,0:50:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sense in which he has attained liberation\Nfrom the self.”
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.25,0:50:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s not that thinking and the existence\Nof the self is bad, thinking is a wonderful
Dialogue: 0,0:50:46.23,0:50:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tool when the mind is in service to the heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.54,0:51:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Vedanta it is said that the mind makes\Na good servant but a poor master.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:06.36,0:51:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ego perpetually filters reality through\Nlanguage and labels, and is constantly judging.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.95,0:51:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preferring one thing over another.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.70,0:51:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the mind and senses are your master,\Nthey will create endless suffering, endless
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.85,0:51:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,craving and aversion, locking us into the\Nmatrix of thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.46,0:51:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to realize Samadhi, do not judge\Nyour thoughts as good or bad, but find out
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.52,0:51:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you are prior to thought, prior to the\Nsenses.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.79,0:51:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When all labels are dropped then it is possible\Nto see things as they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.31,0:52:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The moment a child is told what a bird is,\Nif they believe what they’re told then they
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.28,0:52:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never see a bird again.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.69,0:52:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They only see their thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.26,0:52:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people think that they are free, conscious\Nand awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.61,0:53:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you believe you are already awake, then\Nwhy would you do the difficult work to attain
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.54,0:53:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you believe you already have?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:08.93,0:53:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before it becomes possible to awaken, it is\Nnecessary to accept that you are asleep, living
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.13,0:53:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the matrix.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.43,0:53:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Examine your life honestly, without lying\Nto yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.92,0:53:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive\Nlife patterns if you want to?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.14,0:53:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding\Npain, are you addicted to certain foods, activities,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.08,0:53:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pastimes?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.52,0:53:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you constantly judging, blaming, criticizing\Nyourself and others?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.31,0:53:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus,\Nor are you completely fulfilled just being
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.49,0:53:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in silence?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.33,0:54:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you react to how people think about you?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:02.20,0:54:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you seeking approval, positive reinforcement?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:06.41,0:54:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you somehow sabotage situations in your\Nlife?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.13,0:54:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people will experience their lives the\Nsame way today as they will tomorrow and a
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.86,0:54:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year from now, and ten years from now.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.83,0:54:29.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you begin to observe your robot-like\Nnature you become more awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:29.39,0:54:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You begin to recognize the depth of the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.81,0:54:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are completely and utterly asleep, lost\Nin a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:41.69,0:54:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the inhabitants of Plato’s cave, most\Nwho hear this truth will not be willing or
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.50,0:54:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,capable of changing their lives because they\Nare attached to their familiar patterns.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:55.53,0:55:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go to great lengths justifying our patterns,\Nburying our heads in the sand rather than
Dialogue: 0,0:55:02.50,0:55:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.68,0:55:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want our saviours, but we are not willing\Nto get up on the cross ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.30,0:55:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are you willing to pay to be free?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.74,0:55:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realize that if you change your inner world,\Nyou must be prepared to change the outer life.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.30,0:55:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your old structure and your old identity must\Nbecome the dead soil out of which new growth
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.47,0:55:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.87,0:55:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first step to awakening is to realize\Nthat we are identified with the matrix of
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.12,0:55:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the human mind, with the mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.67,0:55:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something within us must hear this truth and\Nbe roused from its slumber.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.25,0:56:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a part of you, something timeless,\Nthat has always known the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.35,0:56:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The matrix of the mind distracts us, entertains\Nus, keeps us endlessly doing, consuming, grasping,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:31.75,0:56:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a cycle of craving and aversion with constantly\Nchanging forms, keeping us from the flowering
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.16,0:56:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our consciousness, from our evolutionary\Nbirthright which is Samadhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:47.83,0:56:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pathological thinking is what passes for normal\Nlife.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.38,0:57:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your divine essence has become enslaved, identified\Nwith the limited self structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.33,0:57:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The great wisdom, the truth of who you are\Nis buried deep within your being.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.72,0:57:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,J. Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure\Nof one’s health to be well adjusted to a
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.04,0:57:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profoundly sick society.”
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.76,0:58:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Identification with the egoic mind is the\Nsickness and Samadhi is the cure.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.81,0:58:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The saints, sages and awakened beings throughout\Nhistory have all learned the wisdom of self-surrender.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.68,0:58:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How is it possible to realize the true self?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.09,0:58:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you peer through the veil of Maya, and\Nlet go of the illusory self, what is left?