so all the things that seem to be out there the world of things is really an
inner phenomenon it's to do with mind to do with thought
we don't need to take any position here we don't need to say yes the external
world exists or no the external world does not exist
very often the answer is both on either the answer is not yes or no from one
perspective it's yes from another perspective No
so most people's life is filled up with things which on the most basic level
means thoughts mind movement one could say objects that appear in your
consciousness one after the other and sometimes they are battling falls it's
want to once thought another thought so their people's lives are crammed full
with that mind stuff and you can see it in people's faces the way they lead
their lives the way they interact with others what you can see is very often
the absence of space well it can't be absent but they don't know it's there
anymore all they know is things that appear that any sense of space is gone
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they experience their life as a continuous stream of I'm courting
Churchill again as I love to do who defined history as one damn thing after
another and if you asked many people about their personal lives they might
give you the same answer how's your life being up to this point the one damn
thing after another
and the next damn thing comes just in the moment when you thought now you've
made it success at last recognition everybody loves me and then everybody
wants something from you [Laughter]
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now fortunately I have nothing to give on the level of things although
sometimes people demand things but it's not what I have to give and no spiritual
teacher has to give things no true spiritual teacher is here to give you
things anything on the level of but simply to show you the possibility of
living not obsessed with things and I'm using that now not in a wider sense I
don't just mean obsessed with physical things that's a tiny aspect of it
obsessed with things also means possessed by things and it means
possessed by thought totally in the grip of thought one after another and after
another and another and another and you derive your entire sense of identity
from that stream of one damn thing after another me there's a me in every thought
there's a me in every emotion in every reaction there's a sense of me and my
relationship to the world is a me against the rest of the world that's the
battle I have to fight defending me completing me and looking out for more
things either to defend myself against or to accumulate to take on this part of
me
so to show the spiritual teacher is here and the spiritual teacher is not
separate from you this event he is happening in your consciousness you
don't know that I'm actually here
outside of your consciousness I'm in in you so that voice that you hear is
arising within you of course it is there may be nothing out here it could all be
an illusion but the voice is there it's arising in you and so it's pointing to
the possibility of living in a different way a life that is not a burden and to
continue seeking and continuous conflict
the possibility
of being aware of inner space in which yes in which the world of things still
happens in in which yes thought still happens and yet to be aware of a
dimension of consciousness that we could call space consciousness because as we
saw and yes you can verify when you look up into the sky tonight this objects
aren't there in their space that's basically what the world consists of and
the two dimensions are within you and humans have become lost in one so we are
here to realize that dimension and I'm not saying you are going to realize it
cannot be realized in the future it cannot be made into an object of a
search because it's here now the moment you are looking for it you create a
future now what is future it's a thought form apart from that there is no future
except as a thought form it cannot come except as now
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