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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.13,0:00:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.48,0:00:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the next natural stage\Nof human development.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.50,0:00:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So awakening is simply to recognize\Nthe nature of our essential being.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.56,0:00:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is not some weird,\Nmystical religious experience
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.53,0:00:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's only available to the few.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.28,0:00:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's available to everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.16,0:00:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we essentially are\Nis already fully awake, fully aware.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.91,0:00:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's totally unlimited.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.29,0:00:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your true nature is closer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.42,0:00:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the you that you think you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.21,0:00:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.90,0:00:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next step in science is to say\Nthat consciousness is fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.79,0:00:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is awakening anyway?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.66,0:01:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody explain that to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.74,0:01:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is awakening?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.63,0:01:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you call it the true self,\Nthe imminent self or "no self",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.40,0:01:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Buddha\Nnature, Tao or Christ Consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.41,0:01:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it really doesn't matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.42,0:01:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film,\Nwe're going to refer to it as awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.23,0:01:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.62,0:01:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the property of any religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.75,0:01:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening or realizing awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.18,0:01:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like waking from a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.19,0:01:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dream of your character
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.44,0:02:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the play of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.44,0:02:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through our characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.42,0:02:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we experience the world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.83,0:02:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of its beauty and its ugliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.44,0:02:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can call this experience of life\Nand death duality.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.20,0:02:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around and around\Nwe go, fixated on the characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.88,0:02:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoughts and sensations.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.62,0:02:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good and bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.12,0:02:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,War and peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.55,0:02:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Light and darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.40,0:02:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birth and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.02,0:02:31.82,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: 0,0:03:03.97,0:03:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this film,\Nwe are extending an invitation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.46,0:03:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for you to directly experience\Nyour true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.57,0:03:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out directly, not intellectually...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.12,0:03:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.53,0:03:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will repeat this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.37,0:03:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invitation in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.54,0:03:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When inquiring into who you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.98,0:03:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let everything be exactly as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.25,0:03:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't\Nmove the mind to make something happen
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.74,0:03:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to find some answer\Non the level of mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.68,0:03:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, don't try to push away the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.62,0:03:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply intend to directly experience\Nwho you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.40,0:03:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Letting the mind be a \N"don't know mind"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.08,0:04:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening is the answer to all of \Nthe world's problems on every level.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.81,0:04:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of the world's\Nproblems stem from a delusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.70,0:04:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fundamental delusion of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.04,0:04:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that delusion is that\NI am this limited character.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.77,0:04:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we're living from a \Nsmall, separate self,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.84,0:04:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's always some kind\Nof perpetual dissatisfaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.12,0:04:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this can be big dissatisfaction\Nlike trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.19,0:04:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it can be just this \Nbackground feeling...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.08,0:04:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"something's not right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.74,0:04:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something's wrong. I'm missing something."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.76,0:04:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when I have some pleasure,\Neven when I achieve something in world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.88,0:04:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when I have a good relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.07,0:04:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I just have a pause or a moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.93,0:04:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's this dissatisfied feeling like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.59,0:05:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm isolated or cut off from something.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.25,0:05:05.68,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: 0,0:05:13.48,0:05:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose nature is a kind of separation\Nanxiety.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.68,0:05:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This limited character has a tendency\Nto grasp for what it wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.53,0:05:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just a collection\Nof conditioned patterns
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.23,0:05:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of of craving what it wants or\Ntrying to push away what it doesn't want.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.49,0:05:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's this endless process of\Nyou can say a pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.63,0:05:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,principle, you know,\Ngoing after pleasure, avoiding pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.45,0:05:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we believe we are this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.93,0:05:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,character, this conditioned pattern,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.30,0:05:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we suffer\Nand we create suffering in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.28,0:05:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world becomes a reflection\Nof that egoic consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.69,0:06:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The benefit of awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.37,0:06:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you suffer less
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.23,0:06:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the people around you suffer less.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.08,0:06:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no doubt in my mind that \Nmy initial connection with
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.13,0:06:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my understanding of God\Nwas an awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.53,0:06:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me in my life, the biggest awakening\Nthat I've ever experienced.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.74,0:06:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was very much as if I had been asleep\Nreally for 50 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.99,0:06:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walking around like a robot, just doing\Nthe things that I was taught to do
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.98,0:06:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the time I was a young man,\Nyou know, I had a formula down,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.40,0:06:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get the girl, get the car, get a job,\Nget the house, get a spouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.16,0:06:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A formula that I thought was \Nhow Iife was supposed to work
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.68,0:06:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I got to be around 53 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.58,0:06:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that while I had done\Nmost of those things and had become
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.50,0:06:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,professionally successful to a degree,\Nthen I realized that none of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.20,0:07:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that matters. I who woke up somewhere\Naround the age of 53, realizing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.96,0:07:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of this matters,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.62,0:07:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of this means anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.67,0:07:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was shocked to find\Nhow this literally meant,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.31,0:07:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how pointless it all was.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.96,0:07:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.84,0:07:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you stop following the script
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.28,0:07:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has been laid out for your character.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.22,0:07:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one inherited from parents, society
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.92,0:07:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and biological conditioning,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.90,0:07:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then new dimensions open up\Nwithin the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.38,0:07:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The path opens up,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.96,0:07:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is not a path\Nto reach some destination.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.18,0:07:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a pathless path,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.92,0:07:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stripping away of illusion to arrive
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.73,0:08:02.85,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: 0,0:08:18.71,0:08:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the great religious\Nand spiritual traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.36,0:08:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I write and lead guided meditations
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.28,0:08:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have conversations\Nwhose purpose is to lead
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.51,0:08:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an experiential recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.27,0:08:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.40,0:08:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understand that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.31,0:08:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the peace and the happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.98,0:08:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for which we all long
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.47,0:08:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above all else, can never,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.86,0:08:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by definition\Nbe found in objective experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.85,0:09:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can never be provided\Nby objects, substances,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.72,0:09:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activities and relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.38,0:09:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suggest
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.48,0:09:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understanding that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.23,0:09:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearly and not spending \Nthe rest of one's life
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.12,0:09:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking fulfillment\Nwhere it cannot be found.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.81,0:09:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who is watching this movie is doing\Nso precisely because they have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.48,0:09:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either understood or at least intuited
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.05,0:09:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the peace and happiness\Nfor which they long cannot be found
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.52,0:09:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in objective experience and have begun
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.23,0:09:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this investigation into their true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.98,0:09:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the most important investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.75,0:09:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one can make,\Nand it is the investigation upon
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.71,0:09:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which the depends our happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.04,0:09:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest question of my life,\Nof course,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.00,0:09:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I believe is the question\Nmost people look at sooner or later, is
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.38,0:10:02.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is the point, actually?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.100,0:10:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is the point of life?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.73,0:10:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That, much to my surprise,\NI was told that the point of life
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.98,0:10:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had nothing to do\Nwith anything that I was doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.45,0:10:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about my job.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.91,0:10:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about my career.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.44,0:10:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't about hardly anything\Nin my physical life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.12,0:10:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those were aspects of my life\Nwere not the point of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.38,0:10:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point of my life,\Nas I have come to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.64,0:10:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was for me to experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.72,0:10:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,express, demonstrate and fulfill
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.52,0:10:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my true identity, who I really am.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.69,0:10:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the biggest question
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.81,0:10:49.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that most people face is a question\Nthat hardly
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.35,0:10:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyone ever asks themselves\Nor ever answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.81,0:10:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest question of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.54,0:10:59.62,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: 0,0:11:04.100,0:11:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I simply a physical entity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.26,0:11:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a bird in the sky or fish in the sea?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.31,0:11:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, perhaps more sophisticated,\Nbut just a physical entity.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.28,0:11:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm born, I live, I die.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.86,0:11:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the beginning and the end of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.72,0:11:24.82,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: 0,0:11:27.27,0:11:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible that I'm a spiritual entity
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.98,0:11:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply having a physical experience?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.21,0:11:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every experience in your life
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.98,0:11:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has brought you to this one\Nuniversal question.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.25,0:11:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.42,0:11:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't look for an answer with the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.93,0:12:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let everything be exactly as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.79,0:12:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of the mind?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.50,0:12:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feel everything that comes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.32,0:12:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of those feelings?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.04,0:12:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have a complete experience\Nof everything that comes up
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.90,0:12:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a result of your inquiry.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.45,0:12:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Donald Hoffman and I'm a professor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.70,0:12:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emeritus of cognitive sciences\Nat the University of California at Irvine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.62,0:12:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My work has been teaching students,\Nalthough now I'm emeritus for
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.65,0:12:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't teach. And now I do research.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.20,0:12:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do research right now\Non consciousness, mathematical models
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.61,0:13:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of consciousness,\Nand how physics and spacetime might arise
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.66,0:13:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a theory of consciousness\Nthat's completely mathematically precise.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.57,0:13:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My own journey has been
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.13,0:13:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both from the spiritual side\Nand from the science side.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.47,0:13:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my my father was a minister,\Nfundamentalist Christian minister.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.92,0:13:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got that on Sundays
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.81,0:13:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I got science at school\Nand they conflicted, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.49,0:13:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stories I was getting were,\Ncontradictory.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.26,0:13:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so as a teenager, I realized\NI needed to figure things out for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.11,0:13:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I decided the question I
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.84,0:13:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to answer was,\Nare we machines?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.44,0:13:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are people just machines or not?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.62,0:13:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, from the physical point of view,\Nare we just be machines
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.49,0:13:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From a spiritual point of view,\Nwe wouldn't be machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.16,0:13:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't precise enough\Nto say what we would be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.77,0:13:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so so I decided to ask the question
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.42,0:14:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientifically, are we just machines?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.93,0:14:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best way I thought to do that\Nwould be to study artificial intelligence.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.74,0:14:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so so I went to MIT
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.54,0:14:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was in the artificial intelligence\Nlab studying artificial intelligence
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.14,0:14:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also in what's now the brain\Nand cognitive science department, studying
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.60,0:14:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the human side of things.\NBecause I wanted to do both.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.81,0:14:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to see what can machines do\Nand what is special, if anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.93,0:14:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about humans and human neuroscience.\NTo answer that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.80,0:14:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that very question\Nar the spiritual traditions right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.83,0:14:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or are we more than just machines
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.19,0:14:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is the physical, scientific\Npoint of view right?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.71,0:14:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are just machines,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.49,0:14:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and consciousness is just an artifact
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.34,0:14:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of brain activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.46,0:14:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The scientific materialist paradigm that\Nhas been predominant in the last century
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.50,0:14:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,denies the existence of\Nanything beyond the physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.88,0:14:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything that cannot be
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.38,0:14:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,verified by the scientific method.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.80,0:15:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science is an impasse.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.38,0:15:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot move beyond the paradox\Nthat is fundamental to quantum physics,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.26,0:15:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which brought it face to face\Nwith the observer,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.76,0:15:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with consciousness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.86,0:15:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, religions are,\Nfor the most part, functioning
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.58,0:15:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only on the level of belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.33,0:15:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've lost their original purpose,\Nwhich was to lead to direct experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.46,0:15:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the truth of who and what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.19,0:15:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The split between science and spirituality
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.47,0:15:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has rendered both impoverished.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.80,0:15:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Religions and spiritual systems\Ndesperately need rigorous methods,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.59,0:15:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can be shown to create conditions\Nfor awakening to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.94,0:15:46.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And science desperately needs an openness
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.79,0:15:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the possibility\Nof something beyond the physical.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.54,0:15:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not about giving up religion\Nor science,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.89,0:15:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but about going deeper,\Nbeing willing to change ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.92,0:16:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we become a better tool\Nfor investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.19,0:16:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the ones doing the experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.07,0:16:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the experiment itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.86,0:16:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Religion has been the language\Nand the container
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.48,0:16:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these traditions\Nof meditation, spirituality
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.84,0:16:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been written down and passed
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.11,0:16:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on through the generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.79,0:16:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly there is some language\Nthat is very literal,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.86,0:16:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which divides religions and divides
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.71,0:16:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultures when things are taken literally.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.00,0:16:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you feel the spirit of religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.04,0:16:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can follow the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.86,0:16:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thread back to authentic awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.16,0:16:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone has the potential,\Nwhether they have belief or no belief,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.19,0:16:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because awakening is inherent
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.98,0:17:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within our human consciousness,\Njust by our human birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.89,0:17:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So whatever you call it,\Nand whenever language is used,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.68,0:17:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's certain principles\Nthat seem to be the same
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.46,0:17:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout these different religions
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.76,0:17:16.70,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: 0,0:17:19.87,0:17:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was mainly available\Nin the Eastern spiritual traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.03,0:17:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was available in the Western
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.05,0:17:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traditions,\Nbut it was so disguised and codified
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.97,0:17:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those traditions\Nas to be almost inaccessible.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.68,0:17:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many people of my generation\Nwent physically
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.89,0:17:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least intellectually,\Nto the East to find this understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.60,0:17:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Eastern culture by comparison with
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.90,0:17:53.00,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: 0,0:17:58.62,0:18:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the cultures\Nin which it was expressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.56,0:18:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many people, myself included
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.00,0:18:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought as a result of this
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.48,0:18:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was something exotic\Nabout the non dual
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.11,0:18:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understanding; that it required\Nsome extra ordinary way of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.85,0:18:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you had to give up family life
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.23,0:18:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or grow your hair\Nor get a special name or subscribe
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.42,0:18:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to some kind of teacher or or tradition\Nor engage in strange practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.68,0:18:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these kind of things\Nwhich had nothing to do
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.29,0:18:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the core understanding.\NThey were to do with the culture
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.92,0:18:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which the understanding\Nwas expressed at a particular time.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.44,0:18:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now the understanding\Nhas been completely divested
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.91,0:18:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the traditional cultural packaging\Nin which many of us first heard about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.57,0:18:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now just the essential\Nunderstanding is available
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.77,0:19:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that enables us to carry\Non leading our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.43,0:19:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly as they are. Family life, work\Nlife...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.90,0:19:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not necessary to make\Nany external changes in one's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.56,0:19:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The challenge we have on this planet
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.16,0:19:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we think there's more than one
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.37,0:19:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essence.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.50,0:19:22.54,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: 0,0:19:26.68,0:19:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's male and female, black and white,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.63,0:19:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big and small, fast and slow, up\Nand down, here and there, before
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.01,0:19:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after,\Nbut in fact, there's only one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.100,0:19:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All things are one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.39,0:19:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is only one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.64,0:19:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it turns out that when \Nwe look deeply at everything
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.35,0:19:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that here and there, big and small, \Nfast and slow, up and down, left and right,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.15,0:19:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,male and female, are all the same thing,\Nsimply expressing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.48,0:20:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different characteristics\Nbut in no way separate from each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.42,0:20:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.98,0:20:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are individuations
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.92,0:20:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.62,0:20:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that God exists in, as, and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.46,0:20:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through every human being\Nand for that matter, every sentient
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.65,0:20:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being in the cosmos.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.09,0:20:25.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I see then that\NI am in relationship to God
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.38,0:20:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a wave is to the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.95,0:20:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A wave is no different\Nfrom the ocean; it's
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.29,0:20:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply an arising of the ocean\Nin individual form.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.63,0:20:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when that individuation is complete,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.52,0:20:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wave recedes back into the ocean\Nwhence it came.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.02,0:20:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To arise again on another day.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.32,0:20:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I believe that\Nwe are all individuations of divinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.00,0:20:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when we see everything as divine,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.12,0:20:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we change our relationship with everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.76,0:21:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.95,0:21:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different in our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.26,0:21:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how the world changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.28,0:21:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.89,0:21:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we might well ask if consciousness\Nis the ultimate reality of the universe
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.20,0:21:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything, and everyone\Nis obviously that, then how come
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.64,0:21:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world appears to us as a multiplicity\Nand diversity
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.21,0:21:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of discrete and independently \Nexisting people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.57,0:21:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and animals and things\Nall made out of stuff called matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.58,0:21:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we reconcile this statement\Nthat consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.33,0:21:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the ultimate reality of the universe\Nwhen it appears
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.86,0:21:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a multiplicity and diversity of objects\Nmade out of matter?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.68,0:22:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the the evidence that I'm using\Nto suggest that consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.36,0:22:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is fundamental has many aspects to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.79,0:22:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is that physics itself
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.10,0:22:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says that space time isn't fundamental
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.02,0:22:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and evolutionary theory\Nalso agrees that spacetime
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.46,0:22:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and physical objects\Nare not fundamental reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.19,0:22:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, both of those theories tell us only\Nthat, that spacetime is not fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.80,0:22:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't tell us\Nwhat is beyond spacetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.34,0:22:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so my argument\Nis that what the physicists are finding
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.90,0:22:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond spacetime, they're finding\Nmathematical structures,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.13,0:22:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what those are about
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.65,0:22:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not really clear. What is this\Nrealm beyond space time about?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.67,0:22:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'm proposing that the realm\Nbeyond space time is about consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.48,0:22:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would suggest that\Ninfinite consciousness has the ability
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.49,0:22:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to localize itself as numerous separate\Nsubjects of experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.04,0:22:58.63,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: 0,0:23:03.42,0:23:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in infinite consciousness\Nmade only of infinite consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.34,0:23:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from whose perspective it views
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.06,0:23:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its own activity as the outside world.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.45,0:23:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what appears to us as\Na world made out of matter
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.92,0:23:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our localized perspectives,\Nis from the point of view of reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.18,0:23:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply the activity of the one\Ninfinite consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.82,0:23:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, in the ultimate analysis,\Nthere are no discrete
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.61,0:23:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or independently existing things\Nor people.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.01,0:23:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one infinite, indivisible, whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.21,0:23:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The unity of being that is only refracted
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.30,0:23:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into an apparent multiplicity\Nand diversity of objects and things,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.98,0:23:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when The One looks at its own activity
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.33,0:23:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the perceiving faculties
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.65,0:23:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the finite mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.93,0:24:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are awake,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.56,0:24:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we realize that there's one awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.66,0:24:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is disguised as all of these\Ndifferent beings on the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.08,0:24:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one awareness\Nshining through everyone's eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.99,0:24:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we literally see ourselves in others.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.69,0:24:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that tendency to operate as an ego,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.17,0:24:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tendency to take for oneself
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.96,0:24:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falls away\Nbecause we directly realize the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.26,0:24:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is\Nthat we're all one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.76,0:24:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The experience of my spiritual self
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.99,0:24:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was only possible in the realm
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.19,0:24:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the physical for a very good reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.42,0:24:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because only in the realm of the physical\Nwas the opposite available.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.39,0:24:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, just use a simple example,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.32,0:24:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I wanted to experience myself,\Nif I could speak
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.28,0:24:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,metaphorically, as the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.52,0:25:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't experience being the light\Nif I was amidst the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.55,0:25:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing else around me but the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.13,0:25:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a perfect definition\Nof the realm of the spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.58,0:25:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I would come to a realm\Nwhich I call the realm of the physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.46,0:25:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there is something\Nother than the light.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.45,0:25:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if I want to experience myself\Nas the light,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.10,0:25:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just know myself as that,\Nbut experience it,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.89,0:25:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could only do that where there was
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.95,0:25:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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: 0,0:25:30.90,0:25:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this opportunity to the physical realm\Nwhere the light and the dark exist
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.72,0:25:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simultaneously, and then in that outward
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.66,0:25:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expression of myself as the light,\NI could be who I really am.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.08,0:25:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this understanding suggests
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.51,0:25:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that behind our differences\Nwe are all the same being,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.16,0:25:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a similar being, but we are all\Nliterally one... the same being.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.95,0:26:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And love is the felt experience
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.88,0:26:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this oneness or shared being.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.41,0:26:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a theorem of our theory that\Nthere is ultimately one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.70,0:26:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have this dynamics of many,\Nmany conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.85,0:26:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the theory tells us\Nthat ultimately all those conscious agents
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.95,0:26:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really just projections\Nof a single one consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.81,0:26:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The current paradigm in science
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.58,0:26:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has, and it has been for for centuries,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.37,0:26:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that space and time\Nare the fundamental nature of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.58,0:26:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're irreducible\Nand they are the foundation of everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.100,0:26:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And prior to Einstein, space\Nand time were viewed as separate.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.50,0:26:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, space and time together,\Na unified into spacetime are viewed
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.35,0:26:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the fundamental nature of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.20,0:26:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And science has then assumed that
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.56,0:26:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spacetime and objects in spacetime\Nare the foundational reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.20,0:27:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, for example,\Nwhen we talk about consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.87,0:27:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness itself then must be somehow\Na product of objects in space and time.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.91,0:27:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that physicalist framework\Nspace and time and physical objects
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.71,0:27:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any consciousness\Nare the fundamental reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.83,0:27:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And consciousness comes later on\Nin the evolution of the universe, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.65,0:27:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that the big bang, there was \Nno consciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.21,0:27:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was just spacetime and energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.46,0:27:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The energy coalesced\Ninto massive particles
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.09,0:27:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually life emerged after\Nwho knows how many millions
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.07,0:27:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or hundreds of millions \Nor billions of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.24,0:27:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then after that consciousness came,\Neven later.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.86,0:27:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that point of view, when you die, \Nthe physical complexity that gave
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.70,0:27:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rise to consciousness dissolves\Nand so your consciousness dissolves.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.17,0:27:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the physicalist framework\Nreally does eliminate consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.76,0:27:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a fundamental thing,\Naltogether and says that
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.58,0:27:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when your body dies,\Nyour consciousness goes with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.95,0:27:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this other point of view...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.69,0:28:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've done with my colleagues,\Nwe have we used evolutionary theory
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.36,0:28:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to point out that it's an implication
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.23,0:28:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of evolutionary theory, that space \Nand time is not fundamental,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.63,0:28:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the physicalist interpretation\Nof evolution is wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.32,0:28:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea that that space\Nand time and particles
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.42,0:28:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow have evolved \Ndue to human organisms
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.50,0:28:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is is the wrong framework, because \Nspacetime itself is not fundamental.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.40,0:28:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're positing a dynamics beyond \Nspacetime that's much richer.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.46,0:28:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dynamics of consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.31,0:28:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we do not do is throw away\Nour old theories.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.93,0:28:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When physicists say spacetime is doomed,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.24,0:28:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't mean we no longer \Npay 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: 0,0:28:40.80,0:28:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any new theory beyond spacetime that\Nthe physicists come up with better project
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.51,0:28:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into space time and give us back Einstein\Nand it better give us back quantum theory
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.63,0:28:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you're wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.64,0:28:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of our old theories
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.71,0:28:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are wonderful, wonderful friends\Nand we're going to keep them
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.07,0:29:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as special cases of a deeper theory.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.37,0:29:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in our theory of consciousness,\Nwe have to do the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.75,0:29:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't just propose anything we want.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.79,0:29:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to have a theory \Nof consciousness that projects
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.21,0:29:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gives us back space time,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.09,0:29:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gives us back quantum theory,\Nand gives us back special and general
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.51,0:29:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relativity, and gives us back\Nevolution by natural selection.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.92,0:29:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we cannot do that in precise\Nmathematical detail, then there's
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.26,0:29:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no reason for scientists to take our\Ntheory of consciousness seriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.91,0:29:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if infinite consciousness puts\Non a virtual reality headset. Infinite
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.07,0:29:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciousness puts on a a VR headset\Nmade of thinking and perceiving.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.10,0:29:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in doing so,\Nthe moment it puts on the VR headset,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.90,0:29:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it localizes itself\Nwithin its own activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.25,0:29:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And through that headset\Nit looks out through the perceiving
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.74,0:29:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faculties of a finite mind; seeing,\Nhearing, touching, tasting and smelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.74,0:29:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it fragments\Nthe unity of its own being
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.50,0:30:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes it appear as 10,000 things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.10,0:30:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm suggesting is that
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.61,0:30:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is very much more to to the universe\Nthan the finite mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.86,0:30:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not suggesting that the universe\Nonly appears in each of our finite minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.88,0:30:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The universe exists outside of our finite\Nmind, but inside consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.01,0:30:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is the limitations\Nof our finite mind
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.69,0:30:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that give the universe its appearance.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.42,0:30:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we look out at the universe,\Nwe're seeing the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.64,0:30:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that exists prior to its being perceived.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.14,0:30:41.55,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: 0,0:30:46.36,0:30:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea of awakening in many spiritual\Ntraditions has been the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.27,0:30:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what we have taken as reality
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.64,0:30:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,objects in space\Nand time, our physical bodies and so forth
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.90,0:31:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the final reality,\Nthat there is a much deeper reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.40,0:31:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a reality of consciousness that transcends\Nspace and time and physical objects,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.08,0:31:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we're not divorced\Nfrom that reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.83,0:31:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That reality is, in some sense,\Nthe essence of what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.70,0:31:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so awakening is awakening\Nfrom the illusion
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.95,0:31:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm just a little body in space\Nand time to the fact that I am
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.67,0:31:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in fact the author of everything\NI see inside of space and time.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.70,0:31:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I create it on the fly\Nas I look and perceive.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.24,0:31:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I awaken?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.09,0:31:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One becomes awakened by recognizing that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.93,0:31:45.94,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: 0,0:31:49.62,0:31:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,complete, whole, fulfilled at peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.33,0:31:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like asking how does the
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.04,0:31:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sun become illuminated?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.93,0:32:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its nature is light.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.96,0:32:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is already fully illuminated.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.04,0:32:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nature of our essential\Nbeing is already peace and happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.82,0:32:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not clear to us all,\Nbecause our essential being is so
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.46,0:32:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoroughly mixed with the content\Nof experience that its innate
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.60,0:32:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peace and happiness is \Ndimmed by experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.90,0:32:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for that reason we think that our\Nessential being needs to be enlightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.53,0:32:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, our essential being\Ndoesn't need to be enlightened
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.33,0:32:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any more than the sun\Nneeds to be lit up in the early morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.53,0:32:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sun's always shining \Nwith the same brightness.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.99,0:32:39.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our essential being is always shining\Nwith the same peace and joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.14,0:32:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that peace and joy are dimmed\Nby the agitation
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.68,0:32:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lack that characterizes\Nour thoughts and feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.55,0:32:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no person that awakens.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.82,0:32:55.31,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: 0,0:32:57.64,0:33:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,structure at a meditation center.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.49,0:33:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a Zen center.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.31,0:33:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were doing a Zen sesshin
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.37,0:33:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a long period\Nof intensive practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.24,0:33:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Zen is amazing\Nfor creating this container
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.91,0:33:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there are\Nthese conditions of no escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.18,0:33:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the Dan character\Nthat had learned meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.60,0:33:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dan character had been doing\Nall this meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.03,0:33:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this doer of meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.68,0:33:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realized that it couldn't awaken.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.11,0:33:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like all the meditation tricks,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.21,0:33:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the practices that had been learned\Nwere of no use.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.79,0:33:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It got to the point where that character
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.20,0:33:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was trying to awaken, failed
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.50,0:33:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to awaken and had to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.29,0:33:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the character that I had been living,\Nthe character that I've been playing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.42,0:34:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all my life, had to let go or die and
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.93,0:34:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was left?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.68,0:34:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was left \Nwhen there was no doer
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.95,0:34:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there was no meditator
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.87,0:34:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meditating or doing something \Ncalled, meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.26,0:34:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was left was my true nature
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.62,0:34:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or me... just me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.44,0:34:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we awaken from this small, separate\Nsense of self, it's
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.98,0:34:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not that we're killing the ego
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.27,0:34:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we're fighting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.51,0:34:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually we're allowing it\Nto semi retire
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.88,0:34:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from its job of ego identity
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.01,0:34:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then relax to be part
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.86,0:34:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our team, part of our consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:47.10,0:34:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this gives us a sense \Nof freedom immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.45,0:34:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're not looking at the world\Nthrough a small lens,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.23,0:34:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're we're open\Nhearted and open minded in a way that's
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.71,0:35:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expansive and yet at the same time,\Nmore intimately connected.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.73,0:35:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enlightenment is not about \Nbecoming awakened.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.43,0:35:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody becomes awakened \Nor enlightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.63,0:35:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a recognition of the light,\Nthe light of pure knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.28,0:35:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose nature is peace and happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.36,0:35:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we always and already are.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.62,0:35:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Lisa Natoli,\Nand I'm known as a spiritual teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.24,0:35:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach about healing and awakening\Nand transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.93,0:35:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening\Nis the recognition of your true nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.41,0:35:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the realization of what\Nyou really are, which is consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.21,0:35:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And consciousness is just one word\Nfor many words that people use
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.15,0:35:55.93,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: 0,0:35:59.13,0:36:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So waking up to the recognition\Nthat I'm not this body
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.86,0:36:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am, that which never dies\Nand that which is never born,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.11,0:36:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was a very difficult idea for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:16.26,0:36:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been on a spiritual path since 1992.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:19.68,0:36:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started with A Course in Miracles.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.30,0:36:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always studied it religiously.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:24.92,0:36:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I was someone who was \Nso committed to knowing the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:28.60,0:36:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Self, knowing God, waking up.\N... I couldn't get it,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.52,0:36:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was under the belief
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.51,0:36:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that awakening was something mystical,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.100,0:36:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that something would happen,\Nthat something would occur,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.70,0:36:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would be like Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.62,0:36:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Buddha\Nor all of these enlightened masters
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.46,0:36:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it wasn't happening for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.67,0:36:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't understand why.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.50,0:37:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I so committed
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.03,0:37:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm having deep moments of peace and\Nhappiness and joy... and still struggling.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.96,0:37:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to realize the simplicity
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.06,0:37:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our true nature, which is awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.93,0:37:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for someone who's listening to me\Nright now,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.50,0:37:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the awareness that's hearing this voice,\Nthat's what we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:25.48,0:37:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it doesn't have a location,\Nit doesn't have a gender,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.58,0:37:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't have a color,\Nit doesn't have a body,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.04,0:37:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's totally unlimited.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:36.59,0:37:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So awakening is where we wake up
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.84,0:37:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:43.60,0:37:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wake up to the realization\Nthat I am the awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.97,0:37:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this experience right now\Nas I'm here.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.02,0:37:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's so ordinary
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.96,0:37:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we miss it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.36,0:37:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think it can't be that simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:59.66,0:38:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The recognition of our true nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.92,0:38:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't lead to happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.14,0:38:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is happiness... the nature of being
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.88,0:38:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is happiness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.73,0:38:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the recognition of our true\Nnature is the experience of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.12,0:38:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware in this moment?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.64,0:38:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind will
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.30,0:38:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look for something,\Nor try to complicate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.26,0:38:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You already are
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.45,0:38:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which the mind is looking for.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.33,0:38:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind will always miss it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.34,0:38:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't look to the mind for an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.82,0:38:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't push away your thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.00,0:38:49.54,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: 0,0:38:58.28,0:39:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intend to directly experience
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.32,0:39:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.08,0:39:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't try to negate the mind\Nor to achieve some state.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.89,0:39:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All doing, all manipulation,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.87,0:39:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all movement is more controlling\Nby the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.64,0:39:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Allow the mind to be as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.49,0:39:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes people can awaken\Njust in day to day life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:32.57,0:39:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't necessarily need practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.68,0:39:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sometimes things will happen in life\Nwhere there's an interrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.22,0:39:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the pattern of you.\NAnd there can be a spontaneous awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.58,0:39:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if someone's life is just going on\Nin a kind of robotic pattern
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.05,0:39:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or repetitive pattern, then
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.14,0:39:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some sort of intervention is necessary.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.76,0:40:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if one is called to awakening\Nand that interrupt in the pattern of you
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.66,0:40:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sometimes called sadhana\Nor spiritual practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.57,0:40:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these practices are always
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.99,0:40:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioned.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.80,0:40:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thet are something that we learn\Nwith the conditioned mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.04,0:40:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they can make it more likely\Nfor awakening to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.30,0:40:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of by loosening the bonds\Nwithin the self structure.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.16,0:40:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they say\Nthat awakening happens by accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.27,0:40:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the practice makes you more accident\Nprone.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.96,0:40:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The techniques,\Nthe practices can be very useful
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.84,0:40:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make you more accident prone.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.32,0:40:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then at a certain point\Nhave to be let go.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.52,0:40:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if the mind\Nis continuously doing some practice
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.49,0:40:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or some thing, then the mind has
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.39,0:40:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reins, mind is in the driver's seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.21,0:40:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the practices are useful, very useful
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.15,0:41:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as steppingstones\Nfor making the self structure,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.86,0:41:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can say less dense\Nor enlightening up the self structure
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.58,0:41:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it becomes more permeable
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.91,0:41:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.42,0:41:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paradox with practice\Nis that when you finally awaken,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.04,0:41:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you realize that all of the practices
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.51,0:41:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were being done by the false self,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:27.22,0:41:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the character in the VR game,\Nand that YOU,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.77,0:41:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the true self, was never bound.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.90,0:41:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do\Nis give up the preferences of the ego,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.34,0:41:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give up the fixation on things.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.37,0:41:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anything within the field of changing\Nphenomena is not the true self,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.35,0:41:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the you that you think you are, the you\Nthat you've always been
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.35,0:41:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified with will never awaken
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.48,0:42:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you awaken from that character.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.63,0:42:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You awaken from the delusion\Nthat you were this conditioned character.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.96,0:42:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when people come to these\Nretreats, they think this
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.60,0:42:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I" this little "me" is going to awaken,\Nsome great thing is going to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.18,0:42:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at a certain point,\Nthat little me will never do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.28,0:42:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to give up, it has to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.80,0:42:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's only in that failure
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.90,0:42:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we realize who we are, that we've always\Nbeen aware, we've always been present.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.34,0:42:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just got hooked into this character\Nand we believed
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.99,0:42:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were that.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.50,0:42:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started my spiritual search\Nin the classical Advaita Vedanta
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.42,0:42:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tradition, which was a devotional path
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.24,0:42:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that involved mantra meditation,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.94,0:43:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I practiced\Nvery diligently for 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.88,0:43:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And mantra meditation involves
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.79,0:43:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,focusing your attention on a sound
Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.08,0:43:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then gradually the sound fades.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.82,0:43:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, it was really when \NI came in touch
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.51,0:43:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the direct path that
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.18,0:43:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my spiritual search\Nreally reached its culmination.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.96,0:43:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in this direct approach,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.36,0:43:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't give our attention to any object,\Nhowever subtle,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:34.35,0:43:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for instance, a mantra, a sound, \Nthe breath,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.35,0:43:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we allow our attention to sink inwards
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.12,0:43:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or backwards into its source.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.89,0:43:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's use an analogy.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.79,0:43:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that you are watching your life\Non a television screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.61,0:43:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are identified with the character\Non the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.73,0:43:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day after day,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.30,0:44:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year after year you are involved\Nwith the story of the character
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.72,0:44:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when suddenly you wake up out of the story
Dialogue: 0,0:44:06.47,0:44:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to notice the screen\Non which the character appears
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.05,0:44:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you realize you are not the character\Nyou've been watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.79,0:44:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Objects can come and go on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.05,0:44:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Characters come and go,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.25,0:44:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen remains unchanged.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.34,0:44:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The character can get wet,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.52,0:44:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen does not get wet.\NThe character can be disturbed,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.67,0:44:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the screen is not disturbed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.70,0:44:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without the screen,\Nthe characters would not exist,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.85,0:44:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet screen goes unnoticed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.27,0:44:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The characters go about their scripted\Nlives.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.65,0:44:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is like the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.44,0:44:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is like the space\Nin which all thoughts,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.30,0:44:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motions, all states of consciousness\Ncome and go.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.54,0:44:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoughts, sensations
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.67,0:45:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the entire outside world\Nappear on the screen, constantly changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:03.27,0:45:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the screen does not change.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.50,0:45:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the mind that changes states\Nthrough the human experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:14.04,0:45:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's something, that what you are,\Nthat remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.70,0:45:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that is ever present,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.64,0:45:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is aware of those changing states
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.28,0:45:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is consciousness\Nor our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.21,0:45:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as there is attachment\Nto a character on the screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.18,0:45:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sense that I am that character,\Nthen there will be suffering;
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.43,0:45:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maya the illusion of the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.98,0:45:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing you can do as the dream
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.32,0:45:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,character will help to free you.\NWhether you follow the script
Dialogue: 0,0:45:49.05,0:45:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the drama of your life\Nor rebel against the script,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.34,0:45:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you act from the point of view\Nof the character,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.62,0:45:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you're caught in the illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.86,0:46:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To awaken,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:00.38,0:46:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop identifying\Nwith what appears on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.96,0:46:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recognize that it is all impermanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.12,0:46:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop reacting to thoughts\Nand treating the program as real.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.32,0:46:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I withdraw attention from the screen,\Nturning awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.73,0:46:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards itself,\Nan unfathomable thing happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.92,0:46:26.64,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: 0,0:46:30.70,0:46:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happening is what happens on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.46,0:46:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening is just recognizing the screen
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.32,0:46:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was always already there.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.40,0:46:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not believe your next thought
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.93,0:46:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead, turn awareness \Ntowards awareness itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.98,0:47:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have always been myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:03.65,0:47:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sense of my self runs\Nthroughout my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.41,0:47:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It remains\Nconsistently present throughout my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.69,0:47:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is present in me now,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.55,0:47:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was present yesterday,\Nlast year, ten years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.82,0:47:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I was a two year old child?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.23,0:47:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is this essential "I" or self
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.93,0:47:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to whom all my experience happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.72,0:47:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.12,0:47:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the nature of that one\Nis the great secret to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:35.47,0:47:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the direct path to peace
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.86,0:47:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness. It is not something\Nthat a person initiates.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:43.94,0:47:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something that a person recognizes.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.42,0:47:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To re-cognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.24,0:47:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is to know, again.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.65,0:47:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we've known from the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.83,0:48:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is simply forgotten, or denied\Nor failed to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.67,0:48:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we cannot initiate closeness to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.96,0:48:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can simply recognize,\Nto recognize that it's always been there
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.10,0:48:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will always be there.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.69,0:48:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only this direct pointing\Nto awakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:17.40,0:48:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this opening to what's already\Nhere that allowed me to find
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.86,0:48:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new way of
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.30,0:48:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being- a new stage of development.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.37,0:48:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people think it's\Na very impossible or out of reach goal
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.82,0:48:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know the self, and my own
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.82,0:48:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of purpose as a teacher,\Njust because of my own awakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.89,0:48:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has really been wanting to make it\Nvery practical, very down to Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.26,0:48:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love to teach people, it's\Navailable to everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.44,0:48:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we believe and feel
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.73,0:49:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are a temporary,\Nfinite, separate self,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.60,0:49:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are, whether we know it or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.11,0:49:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searching for peace and happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.67,0:49:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words,\Nit's not possible to be a separate self,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.08,0:49:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to feel oneself as a separate self\Nand not be in search of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.46,0:49:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is required
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.69,0:49:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this case is to reorientate\None's search for happiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:21.84,0:49:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of seeking for happiness\Nin the objective content of experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.82,0:49:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to seek happiness in oneself.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.42,0:49:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the spiritual practice that is required
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.27,0:49:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to direct one's attention\Nor more accurately,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.61,0:49:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to relax one's attention into its source,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.30,0:49:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pure awareness, rather than directed\Ntowards
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.60,0:49:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an object substance\Nactivity or relationship, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.94,0:49:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the spiritual practice,\Nif we can call it a practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:54.26,0:49:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be this relaxing
Dialogue: 0,0:49:57.21,0:50:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the attention,\Nthis subsidence of the attention
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.50,0:50:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the heart of awareness,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:05.06,0:50:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resting in being as being.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.63,0:50:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Love.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.62,0:50:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pure love is my true self.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.30,0:50:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.72,0:50:18.25,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: 0,0:50:20.89,0:50:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even those things with which I disagree.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.36,0:50:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For one who has recognized the nature\Nof their being, they know their being
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.84,0:50:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the the source of the peace
Dialogue: 0,0:50:33.40,0:50:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness for which they long.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.32,0:50:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the world no longer becomes the place
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.61,0:50:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which they seek\Nhappiness, seek fulfillment.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:45.70,0:50:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doesn't mean to say that such a person\Nno longer has desires,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:49.34,0:50:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the desires are not there\Nto fulfill the sense of lack
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.41,0:50:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is characteristic of the separate\Nself.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.69,0:51:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As such,\Na person has found the source of happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.11,0:51:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within themselves and their desires\Ncome from that sense of happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.55,0:51:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do not go towards it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:09.83,0:51:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance,\Nin the realm of relationship,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.58,0:51:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it makes a big difference\Nto our relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.43,0:51:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We no longer seek an other
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.56,0:51:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fulfill the needs of our self.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.07,0:51:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We seek another to share
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.54,0:51:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the experience of happiness\Nthat we already have.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.33,0:51:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this relieves our\Nour friends of the impossible burden
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.26,0:51:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of providing happiness for a voracious,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.76,0:51:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unsatisfied self.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.23,0:51:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing occurs in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.21,0:51:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is has not brought me\Nbenefit or will not bring me benefit
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.42,0:51:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense that every moment,\Nevery activity, every outcome
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.28,0:51:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moves me forward
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.03,0:51:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the process\Nof the evolution of my soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.92,0:52:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I came here\Nto the physical realm,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.12,0:52:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to evolve.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.04,0:52:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remain open.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:13.96,0:52:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feel your inner aliveness,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.52,0:52:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,letting energy circulate freely.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.67,0:52:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't try to make anything happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.64,0:52:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware of that energy,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:29.10,0:52:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that inner aliveness?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.27,0:52:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice the mind's tendency to control\Nand manipulate,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.21,0:52:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:44.35,0:52:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without the use\Nof your memory or language,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.70,0:52:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.19,0:52:54.78,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: 0,0:52:57.55,0:53:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is aware?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:08.96,0:53:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changing the World
Dialogue: 0,0:53:18.12,0:53:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people who are hearing these ideas\Nfor the first time,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:21.60,0:53:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've never even heard this idea\Nof the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.84,0:53:28.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my mind,\Nthere's two different camps of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.85,0:53:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are those who are on a spiritual\Npath and they have heard this idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.86,0:53:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're trying to reach the self,\Nthey're trying to be the self.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:36.32,0:53:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're seeking, they're searching.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:38.92,0:53:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's other people\Nwho have just been living their life.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.45,0:53:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've never heard of these ideas before.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:45.02,0:53:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've never heard of Know Thyself.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.15,0:53:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people think\Nknow thyself means know the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:51.24,0:53:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know yourself, be yourself,\Nbe authentic.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.21,0:53:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it really means, to know\Nthyself is to know what you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.93,0:54:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know what you are in truth\Nand to really know your true nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.83,0:54:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words know thySelf were carved
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.54,0:54:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the entrance of the Temple of\NApollo in Delphi, and as such
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.74,0:54:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stand as an invitation that the dawn\Nof Western civilization to humanity,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.46,0:54:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suggesting that to Know Thyself\Nis really the foundation
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.35,0:54:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all civilization. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.73,0:54:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because our Self stands at the center\Nof all our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:32.13,0:54:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever we are experiencing,\Nit is we who are experiencing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:37.50,0:54:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever we think and feel, our thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.44,0:54:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and feelings arise on behalf of our Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.72,0:54:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever activities and relationships\Nwe are engaged
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.59,0:54:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in, we engage those activities\Nand relationships in service of our Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.54,0:54:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So our Self stands\Nat the center of our experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.84,0:55:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what could be more important\Nthan to know the nature of our Self,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.05,0:55:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would it be possible
Dialogue: 0,0:55:09.62,0:55:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know the nature of anything else
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.19,0:55:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we do not first know the nature of that\Nwhich knows it?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.03,0:55:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think awakening is
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.52,0:55:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about ending the nightmare
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.85,0:55:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stepping into the dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:27.49,0:55:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By that I mean
Dialogue: 0,0:55:30.12,0:55:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we desert or\Nfinally abandon the nightmare of what
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.43,0:55:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been told about life, about God,\Nand about ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.65,0:55:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we step into the dream\Nof our grandest notion.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.48,0:55:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often ask,\NWhat do you think your life would be like
Dialogue: 0,0:55:46.79,0:55:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you found yourself\Nstepping into the highest
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.26,0:55:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grandest, most wonderful thought\Nyou ever had about God, and about life
Dialogue: 0,0:55:55.06,0:55:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:57.54,0:56:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this recognition of our true nature\Nis not only the recognition
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.80,0:56:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brings our desire\Nfor happiness in the world to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:07.98,0:56:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is also the recognition that enables us
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.28,0:56:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live in a way\Nthat is consistent with the understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.49,0:56:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that at the deepest level,\Neverything and everyone, are one.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:22.96,0:56:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This understanding would bring
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.18,0:56:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kindness, compassion, justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.45,0:56:32.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tolerance, understanding into our society.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:33.83,0:56:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our society would be revolutionized
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.98,0:56:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by this understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.49,0:56:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As humanity lets go of ego\Nbased approaches,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.72,0:56:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then science, religion, politics
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.79,0:56:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and economics\Nstart to reflect the perennial wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.76,0:56:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it is the native traditions\Nwho realize
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.84,0:56:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great Spirit in all things,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.69,0:57:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the Egyptian/Kemetic traditions\Nwho describe the human
Dialogue: 0,0:57:00.33,0:57:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evolutionary journey from the lowly scarab
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.54,0:57:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the one source,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.48,0:57:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or when we hear the words
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.27,0:57:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the mystics of the Christian, Hindu,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:12.09,0:57:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim, or Buddhist traditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:15.18,0:57:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the teachings of Plato and Plotinus\Nwe find that
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.61,0:57:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who have realized their true nature\Nspeak of groupings of conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:26.08,0:57:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course,\Nthey used the language of their culture
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.18,0:57:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and times\Nto express the one perennial truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.15,0:57:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science is now starting to see\Nnot a world of unconscious particles
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.64,0:57:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fields, but a universe made of
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.42,0:57:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conscious agents.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:44.92,0:57:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something new is emerging\Nin the world of science.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.67,0:57:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Nikola Tesla said,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.59,0:57:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the day science begins to study\Nnonphysical phenomena,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:57.14,0:58:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will make more progress in one decade
Dialogue: 0,0:58:01.31,0:58:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than in all the previous centuries\Nof its existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:06.02,0:58:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That day is today.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.67,0:58:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time that we've had\Na mathematically precise advance
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.82,0:58:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in science,\Nit has opened up new technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.78,0:58:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that look like magic compared\Nto what we had before.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:26.65,0:58:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my feeling is that this theory\Nof conscious agents beyond spacetime
Dialogue: 0,0:58:31.66,0:58:34.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will give us technologies
Dialogue: 0,0:58:34.01,0:58:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will be truly mind boggling.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:36.78,0:58:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, right now,\Nmost of the galaxies that we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.61,0:58:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think 97% of the galaxies that we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.26,0:58:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can never go to. They are receding \Nfrom us faster than the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.25,0:58:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they're not moving through space\Nfaster than the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:53.52,0:58:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Space itself is expanding, so quickly\Nthat their speed
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.95,0:58:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving away from us is greater \Nthan the speed of light.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.68,0:59:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we could never travel through space
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.80,0:59:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to 97% of the galaxies\Nthat we can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.39,0:59:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's all this real estate out there\Nthat's waving at us and saying, hi,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:08.02,0:59:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're out here\Nand you can never come to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.18,0:59:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's if you go through spacetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:12.40,0:59:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if you realize that spacetime\Nis just your headset?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.80,0:59:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just the format of a game
Dialogue: 0,0:59:18.98,0:59:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're not stuck inside the headset.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:21.62,0:59:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can play with the software\Nthat's running the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:26.65,0:59:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's like someone who's like in Grand\NTheft Auto, you're a
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.99,0:59:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wizard of Grand Theft Auto,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:32.65,0:59:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you know how to use the car
Dialogue: 0,0:59:34.44,0:59:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drive the roads and you can \Nbeat everybody in the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.87,0:59:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But suppose you actually know the software\Nthat runs Grand Theft Auto.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:41.50,0:59:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you step outside of the Grand Theft\NAuto headset
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.13,0:59:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can play with the software.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.89,0:59:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you can take the gasoline\Nout of the tank of the wizard.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.86,0:59:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can give them a flat tire.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:50.68,0:59:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can change the geometry of the roads.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:52.67,0:59:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do whatever you want to.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.50,0:59:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So once we understand\Nour space time headset,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:57.53,1:00:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we won't have to travel\Nto the Andromeda Galaxy
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.98,1:00:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through space time,\Nwhich would take us 2.4 million years.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:04.47,1:00:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can just go around space time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.19,1:00:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the world around me as stepping into
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.82,1:00:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a quieter expression and experience\Nof what it means to be human
Dialogue: 0,1:00:20.83,1:00:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it means\Nto be an aspect of divinity.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:24.34,1:00:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't think that we have\Nan endless amount of time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.10,1:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get a sense that time is
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.00,1:00:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running out, that it's now or never time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.30,1:00:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we're on the right path.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:36.88,1:00:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a sense of optimism\Nthat because of the kinds of opportunities
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.87,1:00:44.52,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: 0,1:00:46.93,1:00:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ways that we didn't have even\Na few years ago
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.05,1:00:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are creating the possibility\Nthat we can get to that place of critical
Dialogue: 0,1:00:55.17,1:00:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass, that we can reach critical mass
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.05,1:01:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before our time runs out.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.84,1:01:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we would be mistaken if we think\Nwe have an endless amount of time
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.53,1:01:09.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:09.38,1:01:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When each individual
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.90,1:01:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disidentifies\Nfrom their conditioned character,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:15.56,1:01:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they're no longer\Nacting as an egoic entity.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:19.67,1:01:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that brings\Nabout a transformation on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.86,1:01:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This brings a new Earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:26.31,1:01:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life as we know it right now\Non this planet,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:29.64,1:01:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we need to make some changes\Nand make them quickly,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.01,1:01:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dramatically and radically
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.68,1:01:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want to see the tomorrow\Nfor which we've all dreamt.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:38.80,1:01:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, could this understanding\Nbecome mainstream in our lifetime?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.35,1:01:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:46.39,1:01:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The challenge we have right now is\Nnothing is working,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:49.45,1:01:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the time has come for us\Nto stand up and say that's true.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.83,1:01:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely we can do better than this.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.80,1:01:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:59.84,1:02:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can expand our understanding\Nof who we are
Dialogue: 0,1:02:03.37,1:02:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our expression of our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.84,1:02:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to pay attention
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.91,1:02:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our environment,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:11.40,1:02:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our politics, to our economics,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.64,1:02:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to our spiritual process\Non this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:19.80,1:02:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the problem in the world\Ntoday is not a political problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:23.92,1:02:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not an economic problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:26.70,1:02:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a social problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.60,1:02:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a spiritual problem.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:33.88,1:02:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to do with how committed we are
Dialogue: 0,1:02:36.57,1:02:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with stepping into the highest\Nspiritual truths.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:42.08,1:02:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not New Age philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:45.56,1:02:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These ideas have been around
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.98,1:02:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:54.78,1:02:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The perennial wisdom has been expressed\Nthrough
Dialogue: 0,1:02:58.17,1:03:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countless traditions and cultures\Nand like awareness
Dialogue: 0,1:03:02.48,1:03:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself, has always been hidden\Nin plain view.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:07.79,1:03:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:09.65,1:03:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas contains
Dialogue: 0,1:03:12.50,1:03:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,direct pointers to our true nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:16.50,1:03:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disciples asked Jesus,\NWhen will the kingdom come?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.33,1:03:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said,\NIt will not come by waiting for it.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.91,1:03:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will not be a matter of saying,\NHere it is, or there it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:30.22,1:03:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, the kingdom of \Nthe father is spread out
Dialogue: 0,1:03:34.23,1:03:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon the earth and people do not see it.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.88,1:03:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Kingdom is not here or there. \NAwareness is not here or there.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:45.99,1:03:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not fixed in time and space.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:49.80,1:03:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are waiting for something to happen
Dialogue: 0,1:03:52.72,1:03:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some outward event or some state,\Nsome ascension,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:57.73,1:04:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some healing or some energy, then
Dialogue: 0,1:04:00.25,1:04:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your conditioned mind is still seeking.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.78,1:04:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is still mediating your experience
Dialogue: 0,1:04:07.05,1:04:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the now.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:10.19,1:04:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Buddhism they say samsara,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:12.26,1:04:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world of suffering and nirvana,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:15.85,1:04:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world of liberation\Nare not two separate worlds.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:21.66,1:04:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are one and the same.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:24.76,1:04:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't manipulate or change things
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.46,1:04:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to arrive at some mystical reality.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:31.19,1:04:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we awaken,\Nthe perfection of the world is revealed
Dialogue: 0,1:04:36.23,1:04:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly, as it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.84,1:04:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible to simply be here\Nand now in this moment,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:49.42,1:04:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unmediated by that seeking mind?
Dialogue: 0,1:04:54.38,1:05:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it possible to be okay\Nwith this moment as it is?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:01.44,1:05:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To simply be.