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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.13,0:00:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.72,0:00:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the next natural stage\Nof human development.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.60,0:00:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So awakening is simply to recognize\Nthe nature of our essential being.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.89,0:00:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is not some weird,\Nmystical religious experience
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.36,0:00:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's only available to the few.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.40,0:00:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's available to everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.40,0:00:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we essentially are\Nis already fully awake, fully aware.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.20,0:00:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's totally unlimited.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.58,0:00:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your true nature is closer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.42,0:00:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the you that you think you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.54,0:00:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.46,0:00:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next step in science is to say\Nthat consciousness is fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.55,0:00:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is awakening anyway?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.39,0:01:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody explain that to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.83,0:01:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is awakening?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.63,0:01:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you call it the true self,\Nthe imminent self or "no self",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.18,0:01:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Buddha\Nnature, Tao or Christ Consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.85,0:01:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it really doesn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.68,0:01:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film,\Nwe're going to refer to it as awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.23,0:01:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.02,0:01:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the property of any religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.15,0:01:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening or realizing awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.44,0:01:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like waking from a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.74,0:01:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dream of your character
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.70,0:02:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the play of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.87,0:02:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through our characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.41,0:02:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we experience the world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.83,0:02:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of its beauty and its ugliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.50,0:02:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can call this experience of life\Nand death duality.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.47,0:02:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around and around\Nwe go, fixated on the characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.06,0:02:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoughts and sensations.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.31,0:02:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good and bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.64,0:02:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,War and peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.10,0:02:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Light and darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.40,0:02:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.57,0:02:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until we wake up and find out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.82,0:02:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are not the character.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.35,0:03:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film,\Nwe are extending an invitation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.52,0:03:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for you to directly experience\Nyour true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.90,0:03:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out directly, not intellectually...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.65,0:03:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.53,0:03:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will repeat this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.82,0:03:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invitation in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.54,0:03:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When inquiring into who you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.66,0:03:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let everything be exactly as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.25,0:03:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't\Nmove the mind to make something happen
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.38,0:03:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to find some answer\Non the level of mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.05,0:03:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, don't try to push away the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.85,0:03:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply intend to directly experience\Nwho you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.81,0:03:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Letting the mind be a "don't know"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.14,0:03:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.24,0:04:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.32,0:04:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the answer to all of the world's\Nproblems on every level.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.96,0:04:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the world's\Nproblems stem from a delusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.34,0:04:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fundamental delusion of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.22,0:04:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that delusion is that\NI am this limited character.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.97,0:04:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we're living from a small, separate\Nself,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.18,0:04:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's always some kind\Nof perpetual dissatisfaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.60,0:04:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this can be big dissatisfaction\Nlike trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.19,0:04:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it can be just this background feeling...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.48,0:04:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"something's not right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.20,0:04:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something's wrong. I'm missing something."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.24,0:04:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when I have some pleasure,\Neven when I achieve something in world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.50,0:04:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when I have a good relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.79,0:04:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I just have a pause or a moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.42,0:04:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's this dissatisfied feeling like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.09,0:05:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm isolated or cut off from something.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.80,0:05:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this feeling, which it seems like
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.68,0:05:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people have, can motivate us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.60,0:05:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to awaken from that small, separate self
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.48,0:05:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose nature is a kind of separation\Nanxiety.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.40,0:05:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This limited character has a tendency\Nto grasp for what it wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.53,0:05:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a collection\Nof conditioned patterns
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.70,0:05:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of of craving what it wants or\Ntrying to push away what it doesn't want.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.79,0:05:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's this endless process of\Nyou can say a pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.63,0:05:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,principle, you know,\Ngoing after pleasure, avoiding pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.05,0:05:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we believe we are this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.93,0:05:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,character, this conditioned pattern,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.56,0:05:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we suffer\Nand we create suffering in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.68,0:05:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world becomes a reflection\Nof that egoic consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.90,0:06:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The benefit of awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.65,0:06:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you suffer less
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.57,0:06:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the people around you suffer less.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.08,0:06:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no doubt in my mind that my initial connection with my understanding of God
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.88,0:06:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.88,0:06:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me in my life, the biggest awakening\Nthat I've ever experienced.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.46,0:06:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was very much as if I had been asleep\Nreally for 50 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.43,0:06:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking around like a robot, just doing\Nthe things that I was taught to do
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.10,0:06:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the time I was a young man,\Nyou know, I had a formula down,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.40,0:06:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get the girl, get the car, get a job,\Nget the house, get a spouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.57,0:06:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A formula\Nthat I thought was how I was supposed to work
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.90,0:06:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I got to be around 53 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.03,0:06:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that while I had done\Nmost of those things and had become
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.50,0:06:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,professionally successful to a degree,\Nthen I realized that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.17,0:07:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who woke up somewhere\Naround the age of 53, realizing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.76,0:07:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of this matters,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.80,0:07:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of this means anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.72,0:07:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was shocked to find\Nhow this literally meant,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.31,0:07:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how pointless it all was.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.99,0:07:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you stop following the script
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.49,0:07:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has been laid out for your character.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.50,0:07:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one inherited from parents, society
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.71,0:07:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and biological conditioning,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.54,0:07:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then new dimensions open up\Nwithin the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.80,0:07:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The path opens up,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.47,0:07:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is not a path\Nto reach some destination.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.64,0:07:54.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a pathless path,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.31,0:07:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stripping away of illusion to arrive
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.73,0:08:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly where you are in the now.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.20,0:08:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Rupert Spira.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.66,0:08:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I speak about the essential
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.62,0:08:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,non-dual understanding that underlies
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.71,0:08:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the great religious\Nand spiritual traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.84,0:08:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I write and lead guided meditations
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.76,0:08:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have conversations\Nwhose purpose is to lead
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.51,0:08:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an experiential recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.27,0:08:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.65,0:08:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understand that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.61,0:08:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the peace and the happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.48,0:08:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for which we all long
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.86,0:08:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above all else, can never,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.16,0:08:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by definition\Nbe found in objective experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.99,0:09:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can never be provided\Nby objects, substances,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.50,0:09:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activities and relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.38,0:09:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suggest
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.84,0:09:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understanding that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.21,0:09:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearly\Nand not spending the rest of one's life
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.68,0:09:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking fulfillment\Nwhere it cannot be found.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.18,0:09:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who is watching this movie is doing\Nso precisely because they have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.48,0:09:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either understood or at least intuited
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.65,0:09:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the peace and happiness\Nfor which they long cannot be found
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.94,0:09:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in objective experience and have begun
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.12,0:09:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this investigation into their true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.33,0:09:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the most important investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.04,0:09:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one can make,\Nand it is the investigation upon
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.92,0:09:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which the depends our
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.71,0:09:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.34,0:09:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest question of my life,\Nof course,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.55,0:09:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I believe is the question\Nmost people look at sooner or later, is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.18,0:10:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is the point, actually?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.94,0:10:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is the point of life?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.27,0:10:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, much to my surprise,\NI was told that the point of life
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.98,0:10:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had nothing to do\Nwith anything that I was doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.45,0:10:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about my job.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.41,0:10:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about my career.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.62,0:10:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about hardly anything\Nin my physical life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.75,0:10:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those four aspects of my life\Nwere not the point of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.38,0:10:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point of my life,\Nas I have come to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.76,0:10:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was for me to experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.22,0:10:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,express, demonstrate and fulfill
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.06,0:10:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my true identity, who I really am.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.06,0:10:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the biggest question
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.81,0:10:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that most people face is a question\Nthat hardly
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.77,0:10:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone ever asks themselves\Nor ever answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.11,0:10:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest question of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.86,0:10:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my understanding, is "who am I?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.16,0:11:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who am I?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.100,0:11:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I simply a physical entity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.62,0:11:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a bird in the sky or fish in the sea?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.75,0:11:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, perhaps more sophisticated,\Nbut just a physical entity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.72,0:11:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm born, I live, I die.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.22,0:11:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the beginning and the end of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.80,0:11:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or is it possible, just possible
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.06,0:11:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm more than that?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.27,0:11:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible that I'm a spiritual entity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.40,0:11:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply having a physical experience?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.28,0:11:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every experience in your life
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.08,0:11:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has brought you to this one\Nuniversal question.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.58,0:11:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.42,0:11:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't look for an answer with the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.34,0:12:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let everything be exactly as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.22,0:12:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of the mind?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.65,0:12:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feel everything that comes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.53,0:12:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of those feelings?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.37,0:12:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have a complete experience\Nof everything that comes up
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.12,0:12:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a result of your inquiry.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.51,0:12:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Donald Hoffman and I'm a professor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.72,0:12:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emeritus of cognitive sciences\Nat the University of California at Irvine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.81,0:12:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work has been teaching students,\Nalthough now I'm emeritus for
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.31,0:12:52.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't teach.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.19,0:12:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I do research.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.44,0:12:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do research right now\Non consciousness, mathematical models
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.69,0:13:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of consciousness,\Nand how physics and spacetime might arise
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.91,0:13:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a theory of consciousness\Nthat's completely mathematically precise.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.62,0:13:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My own journey has been
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.54,0:13:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both from the spiritual side\Nand from the science side.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.71,0:13:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my my father was a minister,\Nfundamentalist Christian minister.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.38,0:13:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got that on Sundays
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.09,0:13:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got science at school\Nand they conflicted,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.60,0:13:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.85,0:13:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stories I was getting were,\Ncontradictory.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.35,0:13:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so as a teenager, I realized\NI needed to figure things out for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.60,0:13:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I decided
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.94,0:13:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the question I
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.48,0:13:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to answer was,\Nare we machines? Are people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.44,0:13:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just machines or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.40,0:13:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, from the physical point of view,\Nare we just big machines?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.49,0:13:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From a spiritual point of view,\Nwe wouldn't be machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.46,0:13:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't precise enough\Nto say what we would be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.83,0:13:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so so I decided to ask the question
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.42,0:14:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientifically, are we just machines?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.34,0:14:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best way I thought to do that\Nwould be to study artificial intelligence.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.97,0:14:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so so I went to MIT
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.76,0:14:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was in the artificial intelligence\Nlab studying artificial intelligence
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.56,0:14:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also in what's now the brain\Nand cognitive science department, studying
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.90,0:14:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the human side of things.\NBecause I wanted to do both.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.81,0:14:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to see what can machines do\Nand what is special, if anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.61,0:14:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about humans and human neuroscience.\NTo answer that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.40,0:14:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that very question\Nar the spiritual traditions right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.37,0:14:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are we more than just machines
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.54,0:14:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is the physical, scientific\Npoint of view right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.91,0:14:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are just machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.29,0:14:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And consciousness is just an artifact
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.34,0:14:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of brain activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.76,0:14:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The scientific materialist paradigm that\Nhas been predominant in the last century
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.68,0:14:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denies the existence of\Nanything beyond the physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.22,0:14:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything that cannot be
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.48,0:14:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,verified by the scientific method.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.40,0:15:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science is an impasse.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.77,0:15:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot move beyond the paradox\Nthat is fundamental to quantum physics,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.53,0:15:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which brought it face to face\Nwith the observer,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.07,0:15:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with consciousness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.12,0:15:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, religions are,\Nfor the most part, functioning
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.58,0:15:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only on the level of belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.79,0:15:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've lost their original purpose,\Nwhich was to lead to direct experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.92,0:15:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the truth of who and what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.76,0:15:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The split between science and spirituality
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.93,0:15:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has rendered both impoverished.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.14,0:15:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Religions and spiritual systems\Ndesperately need rigorous methods,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.90,0:15:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can be shown to create conditions\Nfor awakening to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.36,0:15:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And science desperately needs an openness
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.03,0:15:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the possibility\Nof something beyond the physical.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.78,0:15:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not about giving up religion\Nor science,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.41,0:15:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but about going deeper,\Nbeing willing to change ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.16,0:16:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we become a better tool\Nfor investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.38,0:16:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the ones doing the experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.51,0:16:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the experiment itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.05,0:16:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Religion has been the language\Nand the container
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.76,0:16:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these traditions\Nof meditation, spirituality
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.44,0:16:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been written down and passed
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.11,0:16:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on through the generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.24,0:16:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly there is some language\Nthat is very literal,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.24,0:16:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which divides religions and divides
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.49,0:16:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultures when things are taken literally.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.41,0:16:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you feel the spirit of religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.04,0:16:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can follow the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.17,0:16:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thread back to authentic awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.42,0:16:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone has the potential,\Nwhether they have belief or no belief,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.85,0:16:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because awakening is inherent
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.98,0:17:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within our human consciousness,\Njust by our human birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.35,0:17:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whatever you call it,\Nand whenever language is used,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.15,0:17:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's certain principles\Nthat seem to be the same
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.94,0:17:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout these different religions
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.36,0:17:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spiritualities\Nand meditation traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.04,0:17:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was younger, this understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.87,0:17:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was mainly available\Nin the Eastern spiritual traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.54,0:17:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was available in the Western
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.05,0:17:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traditions,\Nbut it was so disguised and codified
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.51,0:17:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those traditions\Nas to be almost inaccessible.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.18,0:17:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many people of my generation\Nwent physically
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.89,0:17:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least intellectually,\Nto the East to find this understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.90,0:17:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Eastern culture by comparison with
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.32,0:17:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Western culture is exotic.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.32,0:17:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this understanding\Nacquired a flavor of the exotic
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.62,0:18:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the cultures\Nin which it was expressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.83,0:18:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many people, myself included
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.00,0:18:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought as a result of this
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.92,0:18:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was something exotic\Nabout the non dual
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.76,0:18:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understanding; that it required\Nsome extra ordinary way of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.85,0:18:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you had to give up family life
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.85,0:18:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or grow your hair\Nor get a special name or subscribe
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.90,0:18:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to some kind of teacher or or tradition\Nor engage in strange practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.07,0:18:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these kind of things\Nwhich had nothing to do
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.70,0:18:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the core understanding.\NThey were to do with the culture
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.16,0:18:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which the understanding\Nwas expressed at a particular time.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.08,0:18:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now the understanding\Nhas been completely divested
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.33,0:18:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the traditional cultural packaging\Nin which many of us first heard about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.88,0:18:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now just the essential\Nunderstanding is available
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.14,0:19:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that enables us to carry\Non leading our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.02,0:19:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly as they are. Family life, work\Nlife...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.56,0:19:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not necessary to make\Nany external changes in one's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.36,0:19:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The challenge we have on this planet
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.16,0:19:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we think there's more than one
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.37,0:19:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essence.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.95,0:19:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we live in a
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.100,0:19:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world of what I would call duality.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.12,0:19:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's male and female, black and white,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.08,0:19:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big and small, fast and slow, up\Nand down, here and there, before
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.01,0:19:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after,\Nbut in fact, there's only one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.18,0:19:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All things are one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.39,0:19:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is only one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.77,0:19:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it turns out that when \Nwe look deeply at everything
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.69,0:19:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that here and there, big and small, \Nfast and slow, up and down, left and right,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.57,0:19:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,male and female, are all the same thing,\Nsimply expressing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.95,0:20:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different characteristics\Nbut in no way separate from each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.70,0:20:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.12,0:20:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are individuations 
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.92,0:20:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.00,0:20:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that God exists in, as, and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.46,0:20:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through every human being\Nand for that matter, every sentient
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.05,0:20:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being in the cosmos.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.09,0:20:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I see then that\NI am in relationship to God
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.52,0:20:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a wave is to the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.39,0:20:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A wave is no different\Nfrom the ocean; it's
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.06,0:20:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply an arising of the ocean\Nin individual form.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.15,0:20:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when that individuation is complete,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.28,0:20:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wave recedes back into the ocean\Nwhence it came.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.86,0:20:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To arise again on another day.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.66,0:20:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I believe that\Nwe are all individuations of divinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.38,0:20:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when we see everything as divine,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.42,0:20:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we change our relationship with everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.22,0:21:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.51,0:21:02.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different in our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.60,0:21:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how the world changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.52,0:21:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.24,0:21:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we might well ask if consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.37,0:21:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything, and everyone\Nis obviously that, then how come
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.62,0:21:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.58,0:21:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world appears to us as a multiplicity\Nand diversity
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.21,0:21:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of discrete\Nand independently existing people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.97,0:21:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and animals and things\Nall made out of stuff called matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.97,0:21:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we reconcile this statement\Nthat consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.27,0:21:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the ultimate reality of the universe\Nwhen it appears
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.44,0:21:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a multiplicity and diversity of objects\Nmade out of matter?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.07,0:22:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the the evidence that  I'm using\Nto suggest that consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.36,0:22:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.66,0:22:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has many aspects to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.91,0:22:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is that physics itself
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.41,0:22:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says that space time isn't fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.58,0:22:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and evolutionary theory\Nalso agrees that spacetime
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.38,0:22:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and physical objects\Nare not fundamental reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.46,0:22:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, both of those theories tell us only\Nthat that spacetime is not fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.80,0:22:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't tell us\Nwhat is beyond spacetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.60,0:22:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so my argument\Nis that what the physicists are finding
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.18,0:22:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond spacetime, they're finding\Nmathematical structures,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.64,0:22:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what those are about
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.23,0:22:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not really clear. What is this\Nrealm beyond space time about?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.15,0:22:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'm proposing that the realm\Nbeyond space time is about consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.78,0:22:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would suggest that\Ninfinite consciousness has the ability
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.74,0:22:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to localize itself as numerous separate\Nsubjects of experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.29,0:22:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, all sentient beings, all people\Nor animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.92,0:23:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of us are localizations\Nof infinite consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.42,0:23:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in infinite consciousness\Nmade only of infinite consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.72,0:23:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from whose perspective it views
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.30,0:23:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its own activity as the outside world.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.85,0:23:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.18,0:23:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,appears to us as a world\Nmade out of matter
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.48,0:23:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our localized perspectives,\Nis from the point of view of reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.57,0:23:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply the activity of the one\Ninfinite consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.03,0:23:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, in the ultimate analysis,\Nthere are no discrete
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.16,0:23:36.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or independently existing things\Nor people.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.46,0:23:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one infinite, indivisible, whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.21,0:23:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The unity of being that is only refracted
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.72,0:23:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into an apparent multiplicity\Nand diversity of objects and things.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.55,0:23:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the one looks at its own activity
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.64,0:23:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the perceiving faculties
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.35,0:23:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the finite mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.27,0:24:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are awake,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.86,0:24:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we realize that there's one awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.24,0:24:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is disguised as all of these\Ndifferent beings on the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.70,0:24:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one awareness\Nshining through everyone's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.45,0:24:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we literally see ourselves in others.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.08,0:24:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that tendency to operate as an ego,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.17,0:24:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tendency to take for oneself
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.38,0:24:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falls away\Nbecause we directly realize the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.26,0:24:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is\Nthat we're all one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.76,0:24:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The experience of my spiritual self
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.52,0:24:41.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was only possible in the realm
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.65,0:24:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the physical for a very good reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.65,0:24:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because only in the realm of the physical\Nwas the opposite available.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.74,0:24:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, just use a simple example,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.87,0:24:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I wanted to experience myself,\Nif I could speak
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.62,0:24:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,metaphorically, as the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.87,0:25:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't experience being the light\Nif I was amidst the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.92,0:25:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing else around me but the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.42,0:25:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a perfect definition\Nof the realm of the spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.97,0:25:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I would come to a realm\Nwhich I call the realm of the physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.93,0:25:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there is something\Nother than the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.97,0:25:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if I want to experience myself\Nas the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.60,0:25:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just know myself as that,\Nbut experience it,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.48,0:25:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could only do that
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.73,0:25:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there was the opposite of the light,\Nin this case, the darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.53,0:25:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I brought
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.90,0:25:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this opportunity to the physical realm\Nwhere the light and the dark exist
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.20,0:25:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simultaneously, and then in that outward
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.29,0:25:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expression of myself as the light,\NI could be who I really am.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.34,0:25:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this understanding suggests
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.67,0:25:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that behind our differences\Nwe are all the same,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.59,0:25:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being not a similar being, but\Nwe are all literally one... the same being.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.72,0:26:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And love is the felt experience
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.31,0:26:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this oneness or shared being.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.73,0:26:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a theorem of our theory that\Nthere is ultimately one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.20,0:26:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.70,0:26:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have this dynamics of many,\Nmany conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.91,0:26:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the theory tells us\Nthat ultimately all those conscious agents
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.16,0:26:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really just projections\Nof a single one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.08,0:26:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The current
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.17,0:26:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paradigm in science
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.96,0:26:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has, and it has been for for centuries,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.80,0:26:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that space and time\Nare the fundamental nature of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.43,0:26:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're irreducible\Nand they are the foundation of everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.52,0:26:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And prior to Einstein, space\Nand time were viewed as separate.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.94,0:26:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, space and time together,\Na unified into spacetime are viewed
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.65,0:26:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the fundamental nature of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.52,0:26:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And science has then assumed that
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.15,0:26:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spacetime
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.86,0:26:56.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and objects in spacetime\Nare the foundational reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.62,0:27:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, for example,\Nwhen we talk about consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.91,0:27:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness itself then must be somehow\Na product of objects in space and time.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.37,0:27:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that physicalist framework\Nspace and time and physical objects
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.71,0:27:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any consciousness\Nare the fundamental reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.01,0:27:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And consciousness comes later on\Nin the evolution of the universe, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.85,0:27:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the big bang,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.51,0:27:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was no consciousness,\Nthere was just spacetime and energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.77,0:27:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The energy coalesced\Ninto massive particles
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.19,0:27:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually life emerged after\Nwho knows how many millions or hundreds
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.98,0:27:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of millions or billions of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.52,0:27:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then after that consciousness came,\Neven later.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.20,0:27:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that point of view,\Nwhen you die, the physical complexity
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.87,0:27:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gave rise to consciousness dissolves\Nand so your consciousness dissolves.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.33,0:27:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the physicalist framework\Nreally does eliminate consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.04,0:27:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a fundamental thing,\Naltogether
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.13,0:27:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and says that when your body dies,\Nyour consciousness goes with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.22,0:27:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this other point of view...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.13,0:28:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've done with my colleagues,\Nwe have we used evolutionary theory
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.64,0:28:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to point out
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.14,0:28:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.02,0:28:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an implication of evolutionary theory,\Nthat space and time is not fundamental,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.81,0:28:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the physicalist interpretation\Nof evolution is wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.69,0:28:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea that that space\Nand time and particles
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.73,0:28:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow have evolved due to human\Norganisms
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.07,0:28:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is is the wrong framework or because space\Ntime itself is not fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.58,0:28:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're positing a dynamics\Nbeyond spacetime that's much richer.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.75,0:28:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dynamics of consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.83,0:28:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we do not do is throw away\Nour old theories.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.29,0:28:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When physicists say spacetime is doomed,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.34,0:28:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't mean\Nwe no longer pay attention to Einstein.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.13,0:28:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Absolutely not.\NWe pay attention to Einstein.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.80,0:28:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any new theory beyond spacetime that\Nthe physicists come up with better project
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.10,0:28:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into space time and give us back Einstein\Nand it better give us back quantum theory
Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.85,0:28:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you're wrong. 
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.35,0:28:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of our old theories
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.31,0:28:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are wonderful, wonderful friends\Nand we're going to keep them
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.07,0:28:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as special cases of a deeper theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.86,0:29:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in our theory of consciousness,\Nwe have to do the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.95,0:29:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't just propose anything we want.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.08,0:29:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to have a theory of consciousness\Nthat projects and gives us back
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.95,0:29:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,space time,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.83,0:29:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gives us back quantum theory,\Nand gives us back special and general
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.42,0:29:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relativity, and gives us back\Nevolution by natural selection.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.84,0:29:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we cannot do that in precise\Nmathematical detail,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.92,0:29:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then there's no reason for scientists
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.59,0:29:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take our theory of consciousness\Nseriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.14,0:29:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if infinite consciousness puts\Non a virtual reality headset. Infinite
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.60,0:29:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness puts on a a VR headset\Nmade of thinking and perceiving.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.64,0:29:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in doing so,\Nthe moment it puts on the VR headset,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.23,0:29:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it localizes itself\Nwithin its own activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.53,0:29:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And through that headset\Nit looks out through the perceiving
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.74,0:29:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faculties of a finite mind; seeing,\Nhearing, touching, tasting and smelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.08,0:29:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it fragments\Nthe unity of its own being
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.50,0:29:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes it appear as 10,000 things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.42,0:30:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm suggesting is that
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.01,0:30:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is very much more to to the universe\Nthan the finite mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.81,0:30:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not suggesting that the universe\Nonly appears in each of our finite minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.02,0:30:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The universe exists outside of our finite\Nmind, but inside consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.07,0:30:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is the limitations\Nof our finite mind
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.99,0:30:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that give the universe its appearance.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.62,0:30:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we look out at the universe,\Nwe're seeing the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.96,0:30:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that exists prior to its being perceived.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.38,0:30:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we are seeing it through the lens\Nof our perceiving faculties,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.88,0:30:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which gives it its appearance.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.59,0:30:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea of awakening in many spiritual\Ntraditions has been the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.64,0:30:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what we have taken is reality
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.64,0:30:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,objects in space\Nand time, our physical bodies and so forth
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.90,0:30:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.65,0:31:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,final reality,\Nthat there is a much deeper reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.82,0:31:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a reality of consciousness that transcends\Nspace and time and physical objects,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.36,0:31:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we're not divorced\Nfrom that reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.03,0:31:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That reality is, in some sense,\Nthe essence of what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.04,0:31:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so awakening is awakening\Nfrom the illusion
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.08,0:31:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm just a little body in space\Nand time to the fact that I am
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.67,0:31:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in fact the author of everything\NI see inside of space and time.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.97,0:31:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I create it on the fly\Nas I look and perceive.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.73,0:31:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One becomes awakened by recognizing that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.48,0:31:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we essentially are is already
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.94,0:31:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fully awake, fully aware,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.03,0:31:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,complete, whole, fulfilled at peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.33,0:31:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like asking how does the
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.66,0:31:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sun become illuminated?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.63,0:32:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its nature is light.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.38,0:32:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is already fully illuminated.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.13,0:32:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nature of our essential\Nbeing is already peace and happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.38,0:32:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not clear to us all,\Nbecause our essential being is so
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.85,0:32:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoroughly mixed with the content\Nof experience that its innate
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.60,0:32:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peace\Nand happiness is dimmed by experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.56,0:32:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for that reason we think that our\Nessential being needs to be enlightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.19,0:32:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No essential being\Ndoesn't need to be enlightened
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.49,0:32:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any more than the sun\Nneeds to be lit up in the early morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.53,0:32:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sun's\Nalways shining with the same brightness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.20,0:32:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our essential being is always shining\Nwith the same peace and joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.75,0:32:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that peace and joy are dimmed\Nby the agitation
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.09,0:32:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lack that characterizes\Nour thoughts and feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.55,0:32:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no person that awakens.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.18,0:32:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the I that awakened
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.60,0:32:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I awakened from this Dan
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.64,0:33:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,structure at a meditation center.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.23,0:33:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a Zen center.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.31,0:33:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were doing a Zen sesshin
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.98,0:33:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a long period\Nof intensive practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.24,0:33:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Zen is amazing\Nfor creating this container
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.49,0:33:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there are\Nthese conditions of no escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.66,0:33:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the Dan character\Nthat had learned meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.25,0:33:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dan character had been doing\Nall this meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.55,0:33:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this doer of meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.68,0:33:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realized that it couldn't awaken.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.47,0:33:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like all the meditation tricks,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.60,0:33:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the practices that had been learned\Nwere of no use.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.19,0:33:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It got to the point where that character
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.77,0:33:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was trying to awaken, failed
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.03,0:33:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to awaken and had to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.49,0:33:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the character that I had been living,\Nthe character that I've been playing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.53,0:34:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all my life, had to let go or die and
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.46,0:34:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was left?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.79,0:34:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was left \Nwhen there was no doer
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.96,0:34:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there was no meditator
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.21,0:34:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meditating\Nor doing something called, meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.26,0:34:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was left was my true nature
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.72,0:34:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or me... just me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.06,0:34:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we awaken from this small, separate\Nsense of self, it's
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.48,0:34:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that we're killing the ego
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.82,0:34:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we're fighting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.15,0:34:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually we're allowing it\Nto semi retire
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.36,0:34:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from its job of ego identity
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.70,0:34:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then relax to be part
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.46,0:34:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our team, part of our consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.42,0:34:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this gives us\Na sense of freedom immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.84,0:34:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're not looking at the world\Nthrough a small lens,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.63,0:34:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're we're open\Nhearted and open minded in a way that's
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.93,0:35:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expansive and yet
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.68,0:35:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time, more intimately\Nconnected.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.98,0:35:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enlightenment\Nis not about becoming awakened.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.56,0:35:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody becomes awakened or enlightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.82,0:35:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a recognition of the light,\Nthe light of pure knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.28,0:35:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose nature is peace and happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.08,0:35:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we always and already are.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.87,0:35:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Lisa
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.62,0:35:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Natoli,\Nand I'm known as a spiritual teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.17,0:35:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach about healing and awakening\Nand transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.30,0:35:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening\Nis the recognition of your true nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.80,0:35:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the realization of what\Nyou really are, which is consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:44.52,0:35:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And consciousness is just one word\Nfor many words that people use
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.15,0:35:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for awareness, life, love, God,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.53,0:35:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,light.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.57,0:36:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So waking up to the recognition\Nthat I'm not this body
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.20,0:36:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am, that which never dies\Nand that which is never born,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.67,0:36:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.63,0:36:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easiest way for me,\Nthat was a very difficult idea for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.67,0:36:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been on a spiritual path since 1992.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:19.68,0:36:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started with A Course in Miracles.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.97,0:36:24.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always studied it religiously.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:24.35,0:36:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I was someone who was so committed\Nto knowing the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:28.60,0:36:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Self, knowing God, waking up.\NI couldn't get it,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:34.73,0:36:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was under the belief
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.07,0:36:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that awakening was something mystical,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.41,0:36:44.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that something would happen,\Nthat something would occur,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.70,0:36:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would be like Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.83,0:36:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Buddha\Nor all of these enlightened masters
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.46,0:36:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it wasn't happening for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.92,0:36:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't understand why.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.50,0:37:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I so committed
Dialogue: 0,0:37:00.26,0:37:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm having deep moments of peace and\Nhappiness and joy... and still struggling.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.35,0:37:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to realize the simplicity
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.06,0:37:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our true nature, which is awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.27,0:37:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for someone who's listening to me\Nright now,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.94,0:37:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the awareness that's hearing this voice,\Nthat's what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.78,0:37:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it doesn't have a location,\Nit doesn't have a gender,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.16,0:37:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't have a color,\Nit doesn't have a body,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.04,0:37:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's totally unlimited.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:36.59,0:37:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So awakening is where we wake up
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.84,0:37:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.64,0:37:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wake up to the realization\Nthat I am the awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.97,0:37:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this experience right now\Nas I'm here.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.02,0:37:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's so ordinary
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.36,0:37:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we miss it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.69,0:37:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.36,0:37:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think it can't be that simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:59.15,0:38:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The recognition of our true nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.99,0:38:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't lead to happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.86,0:38:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is happiness... the nature of being
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.58,0:38:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is happiness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.12,0:38:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the recognition of our true\Nnature is the experience
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.58,0:38:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.38,0:38:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware in this moment?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.64,0:38:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind will
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.51,0:38:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look for something,\Nor try to complicate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:29.76,0:38:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You already are
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.81,0:38:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which the mind is looking for.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.73,0:38:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind will always miss it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:39.65,0:38:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't look to the mind for an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.20,0:38:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't push away your thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.28,0:38:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and don't get caught in the thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.54,0:38:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply let go of the interest\Nor attachment to thoughts, ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.12,0:38:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.79,0:39:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intend to directly experience
Dialogue: 0,0:39:00.76,0:39:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:04.42,0:39:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't try to negate the mind\Nor to achieve some state.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.14,0:39:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All doing, all manipulation,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.18,0:39:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all movement is more controlling\Nby the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.86,0:39:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Allow the mind to be as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.82,0:39:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes people can awaken\Njust in day to day life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.87,0:39:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't necessarily need practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.100,0:39:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sometimes things will happen in life\Nwhere there's an interrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.75,0:39:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the pattern of you.\NAnd there can be a spontaneous awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:44.96,0:39:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if someone's life is just going on\Nin a kind of robotic pattern
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.05,0:39:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or repetitive pattern, then
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.14,0:39:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some sort of intervention is necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.98,0:40:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if one is called to awakening\Nand that interrupt in the pattern of you
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.69,0:40:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sometimes called sadhana\Nor spiritual practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.07,0:40:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these practices are always
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.99,0:40:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioned.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.95,0:40:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thet are something that we learn\Nwith the conditioned mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.37,0:40:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they can make it more likely\Nfor awakening to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.54,0:40:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of by loosening the bonds\Nwithin the self structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.63,0:40:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they say\Nthat awakening happens by accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.51,0:40:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the practice makes you more accident\Nprone.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.30,0:40:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The techniques,\Nthe practices can be very useful
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.06,0:40:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make you more accident prone.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.56,0:40:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then at a certain point\Nhave to be let go.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.52,0:40:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if the mind\Nis continuously doing some practice
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.74,0:40:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some thing, then the mind has
Dialogue: 0,0:40:50.91,0:40:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reins, mind is in the driver's seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:54.58,0:40:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the practices are useful, very useful
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.46,0:41:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as steppingstones\Nfor making the self structure,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.34,0:41:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can say less dense\Nor enlightening up the self structure
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.88,0:41:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it becomes more permeable
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.34,0:41:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.64,0:41:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paradox with practice\Nis that when you finally awaken,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.31,0:41:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you realize that all of the practices
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.19,0:41:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were being done by the false self,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.32,0:41:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the character in the VR game,\Nand that YOU,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.45,0:41:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the true self, was never bound.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.08,0:41:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do\Nis give up the preferences of the ego,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.58,0:41:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give up the fixation on things.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.83,0:41:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anything within the field of changing\Nphenomena is not the true self,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.63,0:41:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the you that you think you are, the you\Nthat you've always been
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.72,0:41:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified with will never awaken
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.85,0:41:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you awaken from that character.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.89,0:42:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You awaken from the delusion\Nthat you were this conditioned character.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.40,0:42:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when people come to these\Nretreats, they think this
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.32,0:42:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I" this little "me" is going to awaken,\Nsome great thing is going to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.49,0:42:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at a certain point,\Nthat little me will never do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.70,0:42:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to give up, it has to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.04,0:42:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's only in that failure
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.37,0:42:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we realize who we are, that we've always\Nbeen aware, we've always been present.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.71,0:42:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just got hooked into this character\Nand we believed
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.38,0:42:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were that.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.85,0:42:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started my spiritual search\Nin the classical Advaita Vedanta
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.78,0:42:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tradition, which was a devotional path
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.49,0:42:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that involved mantra meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.20,0:43:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I practiced\Nvery diligently for 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.58,0:43:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mantra meditation involves
Dialogue: 0,0:43:03.79,0:43:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,focusing your attention on a sound
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.29,0:43:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then gradually the sound fades.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.09,0:43:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, it was
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.92,0:43:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four really when I came in touch
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.76,0:43:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the direct path that
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.60,0:43:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my spiritual searcg\Nreally reached its culmination.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.23,0:43:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in this direct approach,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.86,0:43:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't give our attention to any object,\Nhowever
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.15,0:43:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,subtle, for instance,\Na mantra, a sound, the breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:37.66,0:43:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we allow our attention to sink inwards
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.20,0:43:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or backwards into its source.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.16,0:43:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's use an analogy.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.92,0:43:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that you are watching your life\Non a television screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.05,0:43:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are identified with the character\Non the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.26,0:43:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day after day,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.59,0:44:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year after year you are involved\Nwith the story of the character
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.26,0:44:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when suddenly you wake up out of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.81,0:44:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to notice the screen\Non which the character appears
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.56,0:44:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you realize you are not the character\Nyou've been watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.11,0:44:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Objects can come and go on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:17.45,0:44:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Characters come and go,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.45,0:44:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen remains unchanged.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.78,0:44:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The character can get wet,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.100,0:44:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen does not get wet.\NThe character can be disturbed,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.04,0:44:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen is not disturbed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.04,0:44:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without the screen,\Nthe characters would not exist,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.09,0:44:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet screen goes unnoticed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:39.59,0:44:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The characters go about their scripted\Nlives.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.01,0:44:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is like the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:46.77,0:44:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like the space\Nin which all thoughts,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.77,0:44:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motions, all states of consciousness\Ncome and go.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.94,0:44:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoughts, sensations
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.07,0:45:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the entire outside world\Nappear on the screen, constantly changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:02.66,0:45:06.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the screen does not change.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.100,0:45:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the mind that changes states\Nthrough the human experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.29,0:45:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's something, that what you are,\Nthat remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.26,0:45:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that is ever present,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.97,0:45:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is aware of those changing states
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.43,0:45:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is consciousness\Nor our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.64,0:45:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as there is attachment\Nto a character on the screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.44,0:45:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sense that I am that character,\Nthen there will be suffering;
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.90,0:45:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maya the illusion of the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.11,0:45:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing you can do as the dream
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.28,0:45:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,character will help to free you.\NWhether you follow the script
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.08,0:45:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the drama of your life\Nor rebel against the script,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.79,0:45:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you act from the point of view\Nof the character,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.88,0:45:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you're caught in the illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.26,0:45:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To awaken,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.80,0:46:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop identifying\Nwith what appears on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.34,0:46:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recognize that it is all impermanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.52,0:46:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop reacting to thoughts\Nand treating the program as real.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:13.69,0:46:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I withdraw attention from the screen,\Nturning awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.73,0:46:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards itself,\Nan unfathomable thing happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.15,0:46:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness itself wakes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.78,0:46:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.04,0:46:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happening is what happens on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.79,0:46:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening is just recognizing the screen
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.96,0:46:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was always already there.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.76,0:46:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not believe your next thought
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.13,0:46:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.38,0:47:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn awareness towards awareness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.19,0:47:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have always been myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.99,0:47:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sense of my self runs\Nthroughout my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.74,0:47:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It remains\Nconsistently present throughout my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.08,0:47:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is present in me now,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.04,0:47:15.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was present yesterday,\Nlast year, ten years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:15.100,0:47:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I was a two year old child?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.59,0:47:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is this essential "I" or self
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.17,0:47:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to whom all my experience happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.10,0:47:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.30,0:47:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the nature of that one\Nis the great secret to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.64,0:47:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the direct path to peace
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.19,0:47:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness. It is not something\Nthat a person initiates.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:43.15,0:47:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something that a person recognizes.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.74,0:47:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To re-cognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.45,0:47:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is to know, again.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.95,0:47:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we've known from the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.54,0:47:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is simply forgotten, or denied\Nor failed to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.67,0:48:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we cannot initiate closeness to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.96,0:48:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can simply recognize,\Nto recognize that it's always been there
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.10,0:48:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will always be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.35,0:48:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only this direct pointing\Nto awakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.64,0:48:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this opening to what's already\Nhere that allowed me to find
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.86,0:48:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new way of
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.78,0:48:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being- a new stage of development.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:26.86,0:48:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people think it's\Na very impossible or out of reach goal
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.20,0:48:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know the self, and my own
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.42,0:48:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of purpose as a teacher,\Njust because of my own awakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.13,0:48:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has really been wanting to make it\Nvery practical, very down to Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.47,0:48:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love to teach people, it's\Navailable to everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.14,0:48:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we believe and feel
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.06,0:48:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are a temporary,\Nfinite, separate self,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.60,0:49:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are, whether we know it or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.44,0:49:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searching for peace and happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.86,0:49:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words,\Nit's not possible to be a separate self,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.53,0:49:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to feel oneself as a separate self\Nand not be in search of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.74,0:49:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is required
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.95,0:49:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this case is to reorientate\None's search for happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:21.08,0:49:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of seeking for happiness\Nin the objective content of experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.00,0:49:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to seek happiness in oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:27.63,0:49:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the spiritual practice that is required
Dialogue: 0,0:49:31.51,0:49:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to direct one's attention\Nor more accurately,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.01,0:49:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to relax one's attention into its source,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.60,0:49:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pure awareness, rather than directed\Ntowards
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.06,0:49:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an object substance\Nactivity or relationship, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.24,0:49:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the spiritual practice,\Nif we can call it a practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.62,0:49:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be this relaxing
Dialogue: 0,0:49:56.62,0:50:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the attention,\Nthis subsidence of the attention
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.91,0:50:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the heart of awareness,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.38,0:50:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resting in being as being.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.96,0:50:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:09.88,0:50:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pure love is my true self.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.72,0:50:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.10,0:50:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pure love for everyone and everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.47,0:50:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for every aspect of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.89,0:50:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even those things with which I disagree.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.52,0:50:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For one who has recognized the nature\Nof their being, they know their being
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.07,0:50:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the the source of the peace
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.65,0:50:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness for which they long.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.62,0:50:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the world no longer becomes the place
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.70,0:50:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which they seek\Nhappiness, seek fulfillment.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.38,0:50:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn't mean to say that such a person\Nno longer has desires,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.84,0:50:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the desires are not there\Nto fulfill the sense of lack
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.80,0:50:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is characteristic of the separate\Nself.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.97,0:51:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As such,\Na person has found the source of happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.39,0:51:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within themselves and their desires\Ncome from that sense of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.06,0:51:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do not go towards it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:09.23,0:51:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance,\Nin the realm of relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.86,0:51:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes a big difference\Nto our relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:14.86,0:51:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We no longer seek an other
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.87,0:51:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fulfill the needs of our self.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:22.33,0:51:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We seek another to share
Dialogue: 0,0:51:24.79,0:51:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the experience of happiness\Nthat we already have.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.67,0:51:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this relieves our\Nour friends of the impossible burden
Dialogue: 0,0:51:31.76,0:51:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of providing happiness for a voracious,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.76,0:51:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unsatisfied self.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.30,0:51:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing occurs in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.47,0:51:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is has not brought me\Nbenefit or will not bring me benefit
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.64,0:51:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense that every moment,\Nevery activity, every outcome
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.28,0:51:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moves me forward
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.53,0:51:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the process\Nof the evolution of my soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.40,0:52:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I came here\Nto the physical realm,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.12,0:52:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to evolve. 
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.38,0:52:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remain open.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.21,0:52:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feel your inner aliveness,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:15.76,0:52:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,letting energy circulate freely.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.01,0:52:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't try to make anything happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.06,0:52:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of that energy,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.35,0:52:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that inner aliveness?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.57,0:52:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice the mind's tendency to control\Nand manipulate,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.45,0:52:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.87,0:52:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without the use\Nof your memory or language,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.04,0:52:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.46,0:52:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beyond the mind and senses,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.00,0:52:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.55,0:53:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.44,0:53:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people who are hearing these ideas\Nfor the first time,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.74,0:53:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've never even heard this idea\Nof the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.12,0:53:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my mind,\Nthere's two different camps of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.12,0:53:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are those who are on a spiritual\Npath and they have heard this idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.33,0:53:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're trying to reach the self,\Nthey're trying to be the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.92,0:53:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're seeking, they're searching.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:38.22,0:53:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's other people\Nwho have just been living their life.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.01,0:53:44.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've never heard of these ideas before.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.39,0:53:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've never heard of Know Thyself.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.51,0:53:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people think\Nknow thyself means know the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.44,0:53:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know yourself, be yourself,\Nbe authentic.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:53.44,0:53:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it really means, to know\Nthyself is to know what you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.03,0:54:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know what you are in truth\Nand to really know your true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.28,0:54:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words know thySelf were carved
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.04,0:54:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the entrance of the Temple of\NApollo in Delphi, and as such
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.04,0:54:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stand as an
Dialogue: 0,0:54:13.21,0:54:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invitation that the dawn of Western\Ncivilization to humanity,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:17.80,0:54:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suggesting that to know thySelf\Nis really the foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.63,0:54:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all civilization. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.05,0:54:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because our Self stands at the center\Nof all our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:31.48,0:54:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever we are experiencing,\Nit is we who are experiencing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.82,0:54:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever we think and feel, our thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:54:39.73,0:54:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and feelings arise on behalf of our Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.57,0:54:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever activities and relationships\Nwe are engaged
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.99,0:54:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in, we engage those activities\Nand relationships in service of our Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.54,0:54:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So our Self stands\Nat the center of our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.17,0:55:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what could be more important\Nthan to know the nature of our Self,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.30,0:55:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would it be possible
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.60,0:55:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know the nature of anything else
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.60,0:55:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we do not first know the nature of that\Nwhich knows it?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:16.48,0:55:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think awakening is
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.90,0:55:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about ending the nightmare
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.19,0:55:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stepping into the dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.74,0:55:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By that I mean
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.49,0:55:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we desert or\Nfinally abandon the nightmare of what
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.87,0:55:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been told about life, about God,\Nand about ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.96,0:55:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we step into the dream\Nof our grandest notion.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:41.63,0:55:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often ask,\NWhat do you think your life would be like
Dialogue: 0,0:55:46.30,0:55:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you found yourself\Nstepping into the highest
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.68,0:55:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grandest, most wonderful thought\Nyou ever had about God, and about life
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.06,0:55:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:56.69,0:56:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this recognition of our true nature\Nis not only the recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.23,0:56:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brings our desire\Nfor happiness in the world to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:07.66,0:56:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also the recognition that enables us
Dialogue: 0,0:56:10.66,0:56:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live in a way\Nthat is consistent with the understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:56:15.66,0:56:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that at the deepest level,\Neverything and everyone, are one.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:22.34,0:56:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This understanding would
Dialogue: 0,0:56:23.50,0:56:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring kindness, compassion, justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.97,0:56:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tolerance, understanding into our society.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:33.10,0:56:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our society would be revolutionized
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.27,0:56:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by this understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:38.48,0:56:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As humanity lets go of ego\Nbased approaches,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.06,0:56:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then science, religion, politics
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.53,0:56:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and economics\Nstart to reflect the perennial wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.20,0:56:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it is the native traditions\Nwho realize
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.12,0:56:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great Spirit in all things,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.12,0:57:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the Egyptian/Kemetic traditions\Nwho describe the human
Dialogue: 0,0:57:00.33,0:57:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evolutionary journey from the lowly scarab
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.04,0:57:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the one source,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.88,0:57:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or when we hear the words
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.38,0:57:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the mystics of the Christian, Hindu,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.59,0:57:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim, or Buddhist traditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.68,0:57:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the teachings of Plato and Plotinus\Nwe find that
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.06,0:57:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who have realized their true nature\Nspeak of groupings of conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.40,0:57:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course,\Nthey used the language of their culture
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.61,0:57:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and times\Nto express the one perennial truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:33.49,0:57:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science is now
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.66,0:57:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting to see\Nnot a world of unconscious particles
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.83,0:57:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fields, but a universe made of
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.92,0:57:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:44.92,0:57:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something new is emerging\Nin the world of science.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.67,0:57:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Nikola Tesla said,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.30,0:57:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the day science begins to study\Nnonphysical phenomena,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:57.14,0:57:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will make more progress in one decade
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.56,0:58:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than in all the previous centuries\Nof its existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:06.02,0:58:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That day is today.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:14.91,0:58:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time that we've had\Na mathematically precise advance
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.16,0:58:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in science,\Nit has opened up new technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.12,0:58:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that look like magic compared\Nto what we had before.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.92,0:58:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my feeling is that this theory\Nof conscious agents beyond spacetime
Dialogue: 0,0:58:30.96,0:58:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will give us technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:58:33.43,0:58:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will be truly mind boggling.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:36.01,0:58:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.72,0:58:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right now,\Nmost of the galaxies that we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:41.81,0:58:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think 97% of the galaxies that we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.44,0:58:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can never go to. They are receding from us\Nfaster than the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.03,0:58:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they're not moving through space\Nfaster than the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:52.40,0:58:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Space itself is expanding so quickly\Nthat they're
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.28,0:58:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving away from us\Nis greater than the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.78,0:59:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we could never travel through space
Dialogue: 0,0:59:00.95,0:59:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to 97% of the galaxies\Nthat we can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.25,0:59:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's all this real estate out there\Nthat's waving at us and saying, hi,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:07.08,0:59:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're out here\Nand you can never come to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:09.46,0:59:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's if you go through spacetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:11.59,0:59:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if you realize that spacetime\Nis just your headset?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.30,0:59:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just the format of a game
Dialogue: 0,0:59:18.51,0:59:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're not stuck inside the headset.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:20.89,0:59:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can play with the software\Nthat's running the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:26.10,0:59:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's like someone who's like in Grand\NTheft Auto, you're a
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.19,0:59:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wizard of Grand Theft Auto,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:32.65,0:59:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you know how to use the
Dialogue: 0,0:59:33.40,0:59:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,car and drive the roads\Nand you can beat everybody in the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.28,0:59:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But suppose you actually know the software\Nthat runs Grand Theft Auto.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:40.58,0:59:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you step outside of the Grand Theft\NAuto headset
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.12,0:59:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can play with the software.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.41,0:59:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you can take the gasoline\Nout of the tank of the wizard.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.08,0:59:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can give them a flat tire.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:49.88,0:59:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can change the geometry of the roads.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.55,0:59:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do whatever you want to.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:53.17,0:59:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So once we understand\Nour space time headset,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:56.72,0:59:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we won't have to travel\Nto the Andromeda Galaxy
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.56,1:00:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through space time,\Nwhich would take us 2.4 million years.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.68,1:00:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can just go around space time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:10.48,1:00:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the world around me as stepping into
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.19,1:00:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a quieter
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.82,1:00:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expression and experience\Nof what it means to be human
Dialogue: 0,1:00:20.12,1:00:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it means\Nto be an aspect of divinity.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:23.58,1:00:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't think that we have\Nan endless amount of time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.29,1:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get a sense that time is
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.00,1:00:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running out, that it's now or never time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:33.80,1:00:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we're on the right path.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.96,1:00:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a sense of optimism\Nthat because of the kinds of opportunities
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.26,1:00:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we see today in the world\Nto communicate
Dialogue: 0,1:00:44.52,1:00:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerful and important ideas
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.93,1:00:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ways that we didn't have even\Na few years ago
Dialogue: 0,1:00:50.90,1:00:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are creating the possibility\Nthat we can get to that place of critical
Dialogue: 0,1:00:54.73,1:00:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass, that we can reach critical mass
Dialogue: 0,1:00:58.74,1:01:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before our time runs out.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.24,1:01:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we would be mistaken if we think\Nwe have an endless amount of time
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.79,1:01:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:08.66,1:01:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When each individual
Dialogue: 0,1:01:10.96,1:01:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disidentifies\Nfrom their conditioned character,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.92,1:01:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they're no longer\Nacting as an egoic entity.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:18.88,1:01:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that brings\Nabout a transformation on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.35,1:01:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This brings a new Earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:24.72,1:01:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life as we know it right now\Non this planet,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:28.98,1:01:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we need to make some changes\Nand make them quickly,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:32.56,1:01:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dramatically and radically
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.07,1:01:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want to see the tomorrow\Nfor which we've all dreamt.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:38.19,1:01:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, could this understanding\Nbecome mainstream in our lifetime?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:42.57,1:01:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.87,1:01:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. The challenge we have right now is\Nnothing is working,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:49.16,1:01:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the time has come for us\Nto stand up and say that's true.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.25,1:01:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely we can do better than this.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.09,1:01:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:59.84,1:02:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can expand our understanding\Nof who we are
Dialogue: 0,1:02:02.72,1:02:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our expression of our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.31,1:02:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to pay attention
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.43,1:02:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our environment,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:10.81,1:02:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our politics, to our economics,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.31,1:02:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to our spiritual process\Non this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:19.36,1:02:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the problem in the world\Ntoday is not a political problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:23.32,1:02:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not an economic problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:25.87,1:02:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a social problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:28.100,1:02:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a spiritual problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:33.17,1:02:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to do with how committed we are 
Dialogue: 0,1:02:35.17,1:02:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with stepping into the highest\Nspiritual truths.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:41.22,1:02:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not New Age philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.89,1:02:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These ideas have been around
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.10,1:02:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:54.14,1:02:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The perennial wisdom has been expressed\Nthrough
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.40,1:03:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countless traditions and cultures\Nand like awareness
Dialogue: 0,1:03:01.86,1:03:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself, has always been hidden\Nin plain view.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:07.12,1:03:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.74,1:03:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas contains
Dialogue: 0,1:03:12.04,1:03:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,direct pointers to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:15.96,1:03:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disciples asked Jesus,\NWhen will the kingdom come?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:20.84,1:03:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said,\NIt will not come by waiting for it.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.05,1:03:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will not be a matter of saying,\NHere it is, or there it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:30.22,1:03:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather,\Nthe kingdom of the father is spread out
Dialogue: 0,1:03:33.56,1:03:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon the earth and people do not see it.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.40,1:03:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Kingdom
Dialogue: 0,1:03:39.65,1:03:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not here or there. Awareness is not here\Nor there.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.24,1:03:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not fixed in time and space.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:48.95,1:03:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are waiting for something to happen
Dialogue: 0,1:03:52.04,1:03:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some outward event or some state,\Nsome ascension,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:57.08,1:03:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some healing or some energy, then
Dialogue: 0,1:03:59.79,1:04:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your conditioned mind is still seeking.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.26,1:04:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is still mediating your experience
Dialogue: 0,1:04:06.30,1:04:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the now.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:09.39,1:04:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Buddhism they say samsara,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:12.26,1:04:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world of suffering and nirvana,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:15.77,1:04:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world of liberation\Nare not two separate worlds.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:21.06,1:04:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are one and the same.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:24.03,1:04:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't manipulate or change things
Dialogue: 0,1:04:26.86,1:04:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to arrive at some mystical reality.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:30.70,1:04:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we awaken,\Nthe perfection of the world is revealed
Dialogue: 0,1:04:35.87,1:04:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly, as it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.09,1:04:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible to simply be here\Nand now in this moment,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:48.55,1:04:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unmediated by that seeking mind?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:53.56,1:04:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible to be okay\Nwith this moment as it is?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:01.44,1:05:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To simply be.