I think that one's reality is the result of
your intention and your attention.
It's through spiritual practice that I've recognized that
my own impermanence, my own irrelevance,
the fact that I'm just a person shuffling through life.
I ain't really no different now from when I was a little kid.
And all I want really is not to have feelings in my stomach
that people are being treated badly.
I don't want the feeling that people are being exploited
People need to live spiritual lives. All of us.
I'm a person and it's good to have access to the infinite consciousness
that is available to all people, but through the five senses
is delineating, keeping us trapped in a material plane.
We think reality is what we can apportion through
the limited instruments of the senses, but reality is,
of course, far beyond that.
Spiritual data, we don't have the correct instruments to receive it,
and we live primarily in the realm of the senses.
Anything, that we describe through science, we're describing
through the prism of the five limited senses.
Our eyes can only see between infrared light
and ultraviolet light, there's light bouncing around everywhere.
Our ears can only hear a tiny decibel range,
can't hear the noise of a dog whistle, can't hear any high-pitched frequency sounds.
Isn't it likely than that there are other vibrations,
frequencies, energies, consciousness, moving through the universe?
consciousness is an amorphous and expanding entity.
I think that we allow our consciousness to be prohibited by our senses,
prescribed by our senses, living in the realm of these
five apertures into our reality, but reality is limitless.
Space is infinite, time eternal.
For Yoga, one can only temporarily break
the bonds that chain us to the mundane;
the mondiale; that which is or the earth.
and we can temporarily at least receive a taste of the infinite.
Now don't get to cosmic about it,
but we are just this sort of temporary blob of atoms,
endowed with consciousness, for the merest moment, in infinite space...
Meditation and Yoga, these are fundamental parts of my life.
I think it's difficult these days with religion getting
such a rough ride: the Pope resigning, bloody terrorism and nonsense.
It's difficult to find access to spirituality,
but we are by our nature, spiritual people.
If we don't have access to spirituality we suffer as individuals and the society suffers.
- We need to recognize at some point within ourselves, there's a....
there's an infinite capacity for connection for all things...
- Well I love the fact that you've described it that
you have a daily access to unseen realms of power.
- Daily access to unseen realms of power. Not just me, everyone has the access...
For me, what I've discovered is that transcendental meditation
is useful to me not because of a unique set of circumstances.
Not because of my formally secret brilliance. No. But because I am a human being.
And it's applicable to all human beings.
And what's really good about that, is literally everyone in this room is one.
Well I say is that we're basically alright human beings.
Whenever there's a disaster or an accident,
peoples impulse is to help one another.
So I'm thinking, anyone that galvanizes people
brings people together and points us to
the better aspects of our nature and help us
to overcome our basic things like fear and desire
I think these people are worthy heroes
rather than the heroes that nominated today
heroes that are low vibration frequencies
that make us concentrate on daft stuff
They want you to be talking about Justin Bieber
They want you to be talking about Twerking
And they don't want you to be talking about freekin'
They want you to be talking about Twerking
They wanna get you to shut your #**#en mouth
and watch these $#|+en #**#en morons
and I know, because I've been part of this charade
but you know, I'm awake now!
- Open it up - Go beyond the superficial
That's the problem of current affairs
You forget about what's important
You allow the agenda to be decided by superficial information
What am I saying, what am I talking about
don't think about what I'm wearing
these things are a redundancy and superficial
And I don't think that we should be continuing
to propagate the idea that famous people
are magical and special cuz it makes people
feel that their lives ain't no good
And I don't think that we should be living
in that kind of fearful paradigm
I'm like a vegetarian, I believe we're all equal
I ain't got a right to kill
say a fly comes into my house
I tolerate that little @$$hole
(laughter)
cuz I feel it's just a fly,
it's just on its journey here through life
Then I'm meditating or praying
I say the infinite creative force
that brings in to being... all phenomenon
and guides all life, I say can you move through me?
I mean, things that actually work
you sort of treat them, you sort of shirk them off
As if like, ... you owe them mony
And O I've got to avoid... Yoga and meditation
They've been portrait quite brilliantly
by the mainstream as sort of somehow
Luxury... but they're ain't luxury
or artificial or superficial.
It's absolutely integral, It's absolutely
the most authentic thing, more real than any of us
If they feel happy, they're happy
they don't need it
If there's not a problem
there's not a problem
But I think if people have some sort of
Yearning or a dissatisfaction or some
itchy irritability then..
it might be because they're not looking in
the right direction for a solution
and that they should look within and that
within them there is a limitless
infinite capacity for blissful connection
to live things
You cannot define yourself in refference to
other external coordinates, you must define
yourself internally with your relationship
with a higher entity
think of yourself as a manifestation of
some higher thing, some higher frequency
this is the visible realization and you know that
because you can't see atoms, can you?
And you certainly can't see
the forces that hold atoms together
There, in the micro quantum world, Richard
lie the answers to everything
We can't understand it with our logical rational minds
but we feel it intuitively
Get yourself in alignment with that stuff
and you'll beam like the sun
The dead human ape has fulfilled its potential
The dead human ape has not evolved
for the last 10,000 years
These are the achievements of the dead human ape
Now we must transform, become enlightened
so we can access the next realm of consciousness
necessary for our evolution
so I think we elect to ignore the spiritual
our own causes of deficit
for ourselves and our culture and for our planet
I think that we're too easy to identify
ourselves as individuals, that idea is fortified daily
through, as we said before
the stimulation of primal desires
that which anchor us to the self
and we ignore that we're here for such a short while
that we're all basically the same as one another
we're all connected to each other
and we have a collective responsibility
God is not something that's about
thinking you're better than someone
or a reason to have a war with someone
it's what within us, beneath and beyond our
identity as human beings,
driven by fear and desire, defined by the realm of
the senses and the material self which is transitory
There is a divine self
that is connected to all living things
but it is a part of an infinite source of creativity
you could probably describe that using
quantum physics or science if you want
I choose to believe in god
because I think, what that is,
is the recognition that there is divine
beauty in all of us
and if we prioritize that over our own
selfish material needs,
then we will naturally create
a culture more in harmony with our planet
and we'll have a chance.
I think it's one of the great sadnesses of
our modern life because of our disfranchisement
and disillusionment with religion
that we don't have access to these ideas
And Yoga and meditation for me is a way
in the secular world of
accessing very very beautiful principles that'll
perhaps make us happier at a time
when people feel disillusioned with the economy,
concerned about the ecology,
worried with politicians,
don't trust what their being told on television,
you got to let go of temporary transient ideas
like individualism,
the nature of the monotheistic faiths,
these dead desert religions, is to encode us with
the idea that individualism is more important than paganism
Ideologies that integrally relate us to the earth
so that we know that we are integrally
indefatigably, related to our environment
and we live in the service of our environment
because self is a temporal illusion
The first element of truth is oneness
that this is a temporary illusion
that we temporarily occupy these flesh puppets
we believe so much in our identities
we believe in our individualism
and I talk cuz I'm very so egotistical man
look at my hair
look at these braclets
look at these ridiculous boots
I'm a person who believes in the nature of
of my own individualism and my own identity
but on a deeper level, I recognize that
all these things are transient
and what's more important and more defining
are the things that we all share
love, unity, togetherness
as long as we have a cultural narrative
that shoo these ideas that oppress these ideas
in favor of negative human traits,
greed, selfishness, lust
as long as these ideas are promoted
we will exist in opposition to one another
and we'll be exploitable by corporations
that prey upon these negative facets of humanity
the line between good and evil runs
not between cultures, religions or creeds
but from every human heart
so I'm recognizing myself with the capacity
for selfishness, for lustfullness
for egotism, and because
I recognize these qualities in myself
I will prefer a culture that didn't
celebrate, exacerbate, stimulate the most
negative aspect of our species
inculcate them, reward them financially,
till we get to a kind of a cultural hysteria
where we're destroying the planet
The reality is, there is one planet
there is a certain amount of people on the planet
there is a certain amount of resources on the planet
none of them things are gonna last for ever
so we need systems in place that acknowledge the reality
not systems that benefit elites
but systems that acknowledge the reality
people need to have access to the resources
you can't lie to people so that people in power
can continue to augment and grow
their own power and satisfaction
while normal people are exploited (applause)
we need systems that get the resources to
the people while respecting the planet
any systems that are detrimental to the planet
are detrimental to the people
because it helps one or two budz
f**# it off, we're allowed to do that you know?
we are creatures of the planet
we are mammals, look at the faces of the people
that we've been asked to vote for as leaders
look at them, look at them,
feel it in your hearts,
that ain't who's meant tobe leading us
Happiness cannot forever be sustained
like some glistening borball
It's a transitory thing, like a butterfly
alighting on snow white's finger
in that bit of snow white
so.. like.. you know, I'm happy mostly
I'm happy mostly when I'm being nice
to other people, then I'm happy
you know, when they analyse the semantics
consistently through mythology and theology
of words like love, god
they find that the common theme, John,
is union, that we just want to be connected
to something higher
that can be another person
that could be god
that could be a relationship with nature
that could even be a relationship with West Ham United
I think the important thing is to have this
central tenant of your being,
love, compassion and tolerance
everyone knows that
you know, like the realization that this is
only a very temporary thing,
that the only thing that matters
to any of us is love
that everything underscoring everything is love
you know if it's a biological and anatomical
human condition, the idea of acquasition
and the survival of the species, then that
2% that distinguishes us from the great ape
somewhere within that is that divine spark
that philosophers have always espoused upon
and written about, that some were within
that is the truth that we're trying to head towards
what it felt to me was like, that this
illusion of my idea of myself like
I felt like, separateness evaporated
I felt this tremendous sense of oneness..
I find it, I'm quite an erratic thinker
quite an adrenalized person
and through meditation,
I felt this absolute beautiful serenity
and a selfless connection,
you know, my sort of tendencies towards selfishness
I felt kind of exposed,
as a superficial and pointless perspective to have
I felt a very relaxed sense of oneness
I felt love
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but basically carry on doing what your doing
being happy in your hearts