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so then here's the drama my metaphysics 00:00:00
so then here's the drama my metaphysics let me be perfectly frank with you ah 00:00:04
that there is the central self you could 00:00:11
call it God you can call it anything you 00:00:12
like and it's all of us it's playing all 00:00:18
the parts of all beings whatsoever 00:00:21
everywhere and anywhere and it's playing 00:00:26
the game of hide and seek with itself it 00:00:29
gets lost it gets involved and the 00:00:31
forest out adventures but in the end it 00:00:36
always wakes up and comes back to itself 00:00:38
and when you are ready to wake up you're 00:00:42
gonna wake up and if you're not ready 00:00:44
you're going to stay pretending that 00:00:46
you're just a little poor little me and 00:00:50
since you're all here and engaged in 00:00:54
this sort of inquiry and listening to 00:00:55
this sort of lecture I assume that 00:00:57
you're all on the process of waking up 00:01:00
or else you're teasing yourselves with 00:01:05
some kind of flirtation with waking up 00:01:10
which you're not serious about but I 00:01:13
assume me maybe you are not serious that 00:01:15
sincere that you are ready to wake up so 00:01:21
then when you're in the way of waking up 00:01:23
and finding out who you really are 00:01:25
you meet a character called a guru if 00:01:29
the Hindus say this word the teacher the 00:01:32
awakener and what is the function of a 00:01:34
guru 00:01:35
he's the man who looks at you in the eye 00:01:38
and says [ __ ] come over I know who your 00:01:44
ha 00:01:44
you know you come to the guru and say 00:01:46
sir I have a problem I'm unhappy and I 00:01:50
want to get one up on the universe or I 00:01:51
want to become enlightened 00:01:52
I want spiritual wisdom ah guru looks at 00:01:56
you and says who are you 00:02:00
you know Sri Ramana Maharshi that great 00:02:03
Hindu sage of modern times people used 00:02:06
to come to him and say master who was I 00:02:08
in my last incarnation as if that 00:02:11
mattered and he would say who is asking 00:02:14
the question he look at you and say 00:02:18
basically go right down to you're 00:02:20
looking at me you're looking out and 00:02:22
you're unaware of what's behind your 00:02:24
eyes go back in and find out who you are 00:02:28
where the question comes from why you 00:02:31
ask 00:02:31
and if you've looked at a photograph of 00:02:35
that man I have a gorgeous photograph oh 00:02:38
and you look at those I walk by it every 00:02:40
time I go out of the front door look at 00:02:43
those eyes and the humor little thing 00:02:47
Wow 00:02:48
Oh Shiva 00:02:55
I recognize you 00:02:58
when you come to my door and you say I'm 00:03:01
so-and-so I say haha what a funny way 00:03:04
God has come on today there are all 00:03:12
sorts of tricks across the gurus play 00:03:12
say well we're gonna put you through the mill and the reason they do that is 00:03:20
simply that you won't wake up until you 00:03:30
feel you've paid a price for it in other 00:03:34
words the sense of guilt that one has or 00:03:37
the sense of anxiety is simply the way 00:03:40
one experiences keeping the game of 00:03:43
disguise going on you see that 00:03:50
supposing you say I feel guilty 00:03:53
Christianity makes you feel guilty for 00:03:55
existing that somehow - the very fact 00:04:01
that you exist is on the front you are a 00:04:04
fallen human being I remember as a child 00:04:08
when we went to the services of the 00:04:10
church on Good Friday they gave us each 00:04:12
a colored postcard with Jesus crucified 00:04:17
on and it said underneath this have I 00:04:20
done for thee what doest thou for me you 00:04:25
know you felt often you would nail that 00:04:27
man to the cross because you eat steak 00:04:30
you have crucified Christ because we 00:04:33
kill the ball misra it's the same 00:04:38
mystery 00:04:40
and what are you gonna do about that 00:04:43
this have I done for thee what do is sow 00:04:45
for me you feel awful that you just 00:04:47
exist at all but that sense that sense 00:04:52
of guilt is the veil across the 00:04:59
sanctuary don't shoot down in order to 00:05:06
you know in all mysteries when you're 00:05:08
going to be initiated the somebody's 00:05:10
saying I don't you come in you got to 00:05:14
fulfill this requirement of this 00:05:16
requirement of this requirement of this 00:05:18
requirement then we'll let you in and so 00:05:21
you go you go through the mill why 00:05:21
because this is you're saying to yourself I won't wake up until I feel I 00:05:33
deserve it I won't wake up until I've 00:05:40
made it difficult for me to wake up so 00:05:44
III invent for myself an elaborate 00:05:47
system of delaying my waking up I put 00:05:52
myself through this test in that 00:05:53
Testament I feel it's been sufficiently 00:05:55
arduous then I may at last admit to 00:05:57
myself who I really am and draw aside 00:06:01
the veil and realize that after all when 00:06:06
all is said and done I am that I am 00:06:13
which is the name of God and when it 00:06:22
comes to it that's really rather fun 00:06:23
they say in Zen when you attain Satori 00:06:26
nothing has left you at that moment but 00:06:28
to have a good laugh but naturally all 00:06:34
masters Zen masters yoga masters every 00:06:37
kind of master puts up a barrier and 00:06:43
says to you 00:06:43
you simply plays your own game you know we say anybody who goes to a 00:06:53
psychiatrist ought have his head 00:06:56
examined because you when you go to a 00:07:00
psychiatrist you define yourself as 00:07:03
somebody ought to have his head he done 00:07:03
same way the Zen masters say anybody who studies in or comes to his own master 00:07:10
ought to be given 30 blows with a stick 00:07:16
because he was stupid enough to pose the 00:07:19
question that he had a problem but 00:07:23
you're the problem you put yourself in 00:07:26
the situation so it's a question 00:07:31
fundamentally do you define yourself as 00:07:34
a victim of the world or as the world 00:07:34
you 00:07:47