LAW OF EVOLUTION
- The destiny of spirits is to evolve, in an indefinite way, forever.
- In what do they evolve? In Love and Wisdom.
- Without love there is no evolution. Without love there is no wisdom. Without love there is no happiness.
- Evolution depends upon our own will and effort.
THE LAW OF FREE WILL
- Spirits have the freedom to choose their destiny, as to whether they wish to evolve or not.
- Spirits advance when they decide freely to harmonize with the law of love, because they understand and share that law and act in harmony with it.
- Spiritual progression only takes place when it is chosen and internalized through free will and through the spirit’s own effort, without any kind of coercion or imposition.
- There is evolution only where there is freedom.
THE LAW OF SPIRITUAL ACTION AND REACTION (cause-effect)
- What you do to others, you also do to yourself.
- Spirits advance spiritually when they become aware of their mistakes (acts against other beings of creation) and rectify them.
LAW OF LOVE
• The destiny of spirits is to attain happiness through experiencing unconditional love through free decision of their will.
• Without love there is no evolution. Without love, there is no wisdom. Without love, there is no happiness.
• Love is the harmonizing and revitalizing force of the spiritual universe.
For many years you have been searching every possible niche In the every corner of the globe. You tried to apply more and more and more knowledge. Pump up your brain with more information in hope that the knowledge puts you in a higher spiritual shelve.
Hopefully you realize that this process will never end. Some people still live in the notion that more is always more, but this is not true. Sometimes less is more. Sometimes in life you must empty your cluttered mind and let everything go.
We emphasize on this site importance of becoming and observer. That is learning to be a witness of your experiences.
Now, let me ask you this question: - what is that you really want the most right now, right this moment ?
Take a moment and write down the answer on a piece of paper.
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The truth of the matter is the only thing you should have written when I asked you what do you really want is a sense of total well-being. I want to feel love, I want to feel joy, I want to feel inspiration, I want to feel meaning and depth.
If your answer was different then you really have work to do. It is work on yourself. You've said - I want something outside that I think will make me feel that inside.
Certainly there are plenty of times that you said oh my God, if only this happened I'd be fine, and you know that didn't turn out that way. Even if it did for a moment it didn't stay that way.
It's not like there wasn't anything else you ever wanted and likewise if something was bothering you. You sat there and said: "if only that would go away it'd be fine". Finally you came down to the point to be eventually totally honest with yourself. It may sound selfish, but you'll see in the end it is where you say: "I want to be happy". From the moment you wake up in the morning you're turned on you're inspired you're excited, you can't wait to see what's going to happen for the rest of the day and you're embrace it totallity. Then at night you've given everything you have/ You put your head down your fall asleep. You wake up again saying - I'm back ready to go. That would be a beautiful life. That's what you're looking for !
Instead you just think you need all these things in order to get what you want, so now we go to the next step of what I really want and the question that gets asked by a person who's deep and wants to go spiritually. I want to feel OK inside. That's really what I want. The outside is not what I'm about.
I've had the experience that the outside changes how I feel inside and that's what a wise person starts to realize. If certain people walk up to you and they say certain things, that just the right time in just the right way it turns you on. If the same person walks up to you at the wrong time and says the wrong thing and the wrong way it turns you off. Now you have taken on the task of manipulating controlling everybody who walks up to you, so that they say it right what you want at that time and they don't say what you don't want.
This just comes down to: you have this list of what you want and what you don't want. Most human beings (99.9%) have devoted their entire life to getting what they think they want and avoiding what they think they don't want.
Notice the emphasis on the word think versus it becomes much simpler when you realize what I want is to be OK. I want to feel love I want to feel joy I want to feel happiness and inspiration so now as you look at that, the next question - why you are not 100% happy ? It turns that it is because your experience tells you: I can only feel those things if the outside comes in through my senses in a certain way.
The moment when you start getting into this topic through the spiritual path is to ask - why is it like that ? Why is it that if I get what I want to turns me on and if I don't get what I want (to translate: what I don't want) it definitely turns me off ?
If I don't get what I don't want I feel relieved. We take that for granted. Truly spiritual person questions everything. Why is it that the only thing that really turns me on is when the outside world is exactly the way that my society decided and wanted to be.
What it is - you want, and what you don't want. You did not make those decisions. They were programmed into you by your past experiences. All of them, so you had a past experience where something was nice with a certain person. They looked a certain way, they had a certain name, they drove a certain kind of car, whatever. It was beautiful and years ago. Now one of those things shows up. You meet somebody with that name (like the name of your Ex).
You close down, even though it's not the same person. You meet someone with the name of who you had your first date with in high school, and it was a wonderful relationship and you open up. Likewise when you see a car they had a nice experience and it turns you on so you are programmed by your past experiences. If they were good experiences they tend to open you, when something reminds you of them when they were negative experience they tend to close you and that is where you get your list of what you want that's why all of our lists are different. Everyone's listening is totally different.
Someone tells you to listen to manipulating you because everyone has had different experiences. When you make the list of what you want what you don't want you're really making a list of your past. That's how you came up with those things even colors that you like. It could be anything. They are Impressions.
Your mind and your heart are the summary of learned experience, but you are in there noticing this so I make a big distinction. You noticing that your mind is a somebody with experiences and it is that's where psychology meets spirituality. Psychology is right about your thoughts your patterns, your likes, your dislikes, your problems and the roses. At the same time you are the consciousness, the awareness of being the one, who notices that. You come to the point where you have to decide and then say: "I will spend my life chasing after, manipulating, controlling, conniving, whatever you want the world around me, so that sometimes it unfolds the way I want, or do you want to sit there and understand that you're the one who's making these decisions ???
It's your mind who's settinging up the conditions. Why don't you just go and see where life takes you if you let it go ? It is not about getting rid of your preferences. It is about realizing that preferences limit your joy. Having to match of them, you don't have all of these likes and dislikes. You're going to find out that life is amazing. Eeven with the challenges of life it is amazing. What's wrong with challenges ? We play sports - we like challenges. Nobody wants to play a team that you beat 700 to 1 every time. You play them, you want to be challenged, you want to bring out the best of your being.
If you can get clean inside, you you do not want to be run by all these past impressions. We call them "samscaras" in Sanskrit.
You often go out into the world chasing "samscaras" as opposed to working inside on yourself to say: "I don't need those conditions life is amazing". I'm sitting on a planet it's been in the middle of nowhere and there's all these events happening. I don't worry they won't last. You can stay here but while you're here do you want to run around and fight with life and people and places and things and even the weather
to try to make it be what you think you want. Do you want to work on yourself to clean up this mess inside, so you can be open all the time that's what spirituality is about. It's not about annunciation: "it's too late you've already decided that you want something you need it to be happy but you're not going to do it". Spirituality is understanding you don't need anything !
"You don't need anything" doesn't mean you don't do anything.You don't need anything. You're a whole and complete within yourself. If you open for this truth, there is tremendous joy, love, inspiration that wells up inside you the moment you open. The moment something happens that you like. Watch how fast you feel joy and if something happens you don't like watch how fast your clclose forthat. That which is not teaching you about the outside but that's teaching about the inside that openness is where you getting close to the real you.
That is what you really want because what is opening mean it's like opening the blinds. If you close the blinds in your house your house is dark. It's like that chapter in the entire soul. Take down the walls if you close the blinds in your house. Your house is dark now. You have to run around with artificial light trying to figure out how to get some light if you open the blinds you do not have to do anything.
Most of the trime THE LIGHT is coming in, but you won't open the blinds until you're sure nobody's out there, and only the right people are in your house and everything is exactly as you want.
If you're afraid to open the mind, you don't feel comfortable, so you either decide to spend your life trying to build artificial light inside. If you decide to work on yourself, you want to leave the blinds open. Yoga true spirituality is about taking off the blinds. Take them off the windows, throw them out and never ever close them ever again.
What is the purpose of closing it ? they make you sad, make you dark. What is depression ? It is total darkness, total closeness. You have closed off to the flow of the energy there is no reason for that. There is no excuse for that. This is your world inside. It's your mind, it's your heart, it is your responsibility to not how dare you think you're going to meet somebody.
We're speaking to change things. We are dressing certain ways, we're doing all kinds of things to manipulate the moment, so that they will be the way we want and when they come inside they'll turn us on.
A being who has learned to be open all the time never does that they don't need to do that because they're already feeling what they want. To feel they're feeling joy they're feeling love the feeling inspiration so now when the momentum falls in front of them they can give to it full attention. They can take this joy and love that they have, and they can then shine that upon the moment. When people play with some things they are unfolding.
This is spirituality. Whole thing about abundance and attracting things to yourself, learning how to use mantras must have a deeper meaning. True spirituality is about not wanting. It is about being filled with joy from inside and then sharing that outside. It's not about attracting to yourself what you want. Is there a law of attraction ? Yes and you better be scared of it cuz if it's true that you attract with your mind is thinking you better take a look at what your mind is thinking. It's not only when you're sitting there, trying to attract something to yourself with that affirmation. It is also about your mind all day, when it's complaining and it's yelling to people and it doesn't like stuff. If you're attracting that way, so you eventually catch on that - it is not about getting what you want. It is about learning to find out that what you really want is to stay open and not have conditions. Then it comes down to how do you do that (?) Are people capable of doing that or is that just reserved for some special beings ?
Buddha and homeless bum and every being that have walked the face of the earth, everybody is capable of that. How do I know that ?
If I tell you to pick up 5,000 pounds you may not be able to do that. in fact you won't she won't be able to do that so I've told you to do something that you have never done and you're not doing it so you may not be able to do it but if you're actually already doing something you already doing it and it tell you not to do it you're always capable of that cuz you're the one who's doing it so inside you are the one who's closing your heart you close it you are the one who's closing your mind you do that they're your thoughts it's your feelings there's nobody else's so you are in there doing these things so if I tell you the way to stay open is to not close I don't teach how to stay open that's more like finding out how to get what you want I'm interested in you learning to not close but a difference if I say to you I want you to open your heart right now you wouldn't even know how to start but if I say to you somebody says something you don't like don't close you know where to start because it's happening inside of you and you see the tendency to do it all I'm asking to do is don't do that I'm telling you that will take you the whole way don't worry about opening worry about not closing
There are going to be events that unfold in your life that naturally open you. A beautiful sunset, bird singing, sometimes you get what your mind wants. All right you open. Nothing wrong with that. Just don't close, because often you see a beautiful sunset, you feel like "Oh my God I looked in the face of God", then you go right back into your mind with all your problems. Why don't you learn to not close once you get some openness. Start to work with yourself to not close and this is how to get what you really want. The deep spiritual teachings are not really a teaching how to get what you want, because what you want is to feel love and joy and happiness all the time. If you can get that from within you, then you can share it and again this is not selfishnes.
What a Jesus Christ say ? One of his favorite teachings says: "Right man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that leads us to our father". Only a Yogi, a spiritual being knows what that means. It means you don't live off of what's coming in from outside. Bread is much bigger than just eating it. It's all of these circumstances that we need to feed us all. You do this by tuning into the energy within every word that leaves of the mouth of the father. That's where the spiritual energy is coming from is coming from spirit. As you're in there working with yourself you will find out that if you don't close you have access to that energy all the time and I mean all the time no matter what happens to you no matter what falls on you.
If people are just honest with you, if you don't get what you want, if somebody else gets a job you want, if you don't get the raise you want - these are not terrible things. These are things that make you close and when you close you give up the meaning of your life, you give up your joy, you give up your beauty, you give up your love.
You fall in love with somebody that's beautiful. It's wonderful ! They do something, they slurp their soup, they leave the cap off the toothpaste, they whatever it is.......
They pull the blankets off in bed. They just do some silly little thing and you're going to close for a stupid little thing. Your mind not liking some little trait that somebody has.
I'm encouraging you to look at it that way and say I'm ruining my relationship and giving up love by deciding to not like what this person does ? or deciding to not accept this or accept that.
That's why now you're at the core of spirituality. Acceptance, acceptance, surrender ! What does it mean ?
It means I'm not going to let the outside world close me. I have the right to have a beautiful inside. Nobody has the right to take that away from me this is my world. I live in here and that becomes your spiritual work.
and so I I fought many times I teach you my books you can read the course I do sound street you can take it goes into how do you learn not to close cuz that's what matters something happens you will see your horse start to close you will see your mind start to complain I always tell people start with the easy stuff somebody's driving 15 miles an hour below the speed limit in front of you you're in a rush watch what you do to yourself you're not talking that driver they don't hear you you're not doing think of any meaning but you're in there bothering yourself you're in there closing yourself I can't believe he's doing that look the signs right there why can't he read this what's wrong with people what are you doing you're making yourself miserable stop it that's where spirituality is don't worry about finding what you want that's too limiting learn how to stay open in the face of whatever's happening if it rains when you don't want it to if it's too hot don't let your mind close you why would you close about the weather you don't want any weather weather is a nice thing it's good that it rains the plants really need it all right and you need the plants learn to accept to honor respect and appreciate the experiences that are unfolding in front of you they won't match your past experiences of what you wanted it didn't want they're not supposed to and they won't the question is you're capable of letting go of this mess you've made inside so that whatever experience I'm falling in front of you keeps you open or cause you to open if somebody's standing in front of you yelling at you and you don't even know who they are it can be fun you don't have to freak out like this is neat I'm standing planet earth somebody's yelling at me I dare you to try and be like that I dare you to work with yourself little by little to where nothing can close you I like you I care for you I love you right that's the teaching Don't close don't expect somebody else to protect you so you don't close don't expect somebody else to open you after you've closed this is your inner environment you are responsible for it learn practice like your practice piano your practice math you practice tennis practice not closing start with a simple stuff if you will do that you will find there's this beautiful river of joy that flows inside of you all the time nothing can take it away from you except you it is only by closing yourself to it closing your mind and closing your heart that you won't feel it and eventually you'll realize it is the nectar of life that inner flow of spirit that inner flow Shakti they never slow energy is the beauty of life and if you have that you can share with others you become a blessing on this earth but if you are willing to keep your personality closing and allow yourself to ruin your life by closing it's not going to happen so that's the half hour I've communicated what I wanted work on yourself don't expect somebody else to do it you have the right everyday to stay open every day to work every moment it's not meditation it's every moment and second of your life you work on not closing and I guarantee you if you do that something very beautiful well up inside of you and it will eventually get so strong that it will pull you into it and those are the great High states the great High spiritual states Very good thank you for listening I always tell people thank you for being interested in these things because this is how you fix the world that's how you fix everything is your work with yourself thank you Catherine thank you so much Lightenment keep an eye out they should be arriving any day in the mail and we're so excited to share them with you take good care
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When you cultivate who's around you you're cultivating who you are you don't think. When you are submerged in thinking, you think those thoughts are just your friends or they are killing time with you. think it's for fun you are you are whittling yourself you are sculpting yourself out of those people you just don't think about it that way but that's what's happening toxic people we get it right we all understand that we want to get rid of toxic people that's more obvious the real danger I think is ambivalent relationships so these ambivalent relationships are the people were either you don't know how you stand with them so you don't know if they like you or not and they're also the people where you don't know if you really enjoy hanging out with them or not and the biggest thing that happens with friendships is they do go stale and it's a very weird thing to say but there are people I'm sure you can think of someone in your life where every time their number pops up on a text message you're like it's been a while I better call them or you know you see them out of convenience or out of location and I think that those are the kind of friendships that really drain you there's actually a city that was done on ambivalent relationships they did a research study with police officers and they asked police officers to identify the amount of toxic people in their workplace and the amount of ambivalent people and they found that the police officers who had more ambivalent relationships we're sick more often had less happiness at work and didn't like their job as much then police officers who had toxic people and the reason for this is because if you have a toxic person boundaries are easy They asked you out to lunch and you're like no thanks great like you know it's a no thanks where's that ambivalent person asked you out to lunch or after their birthday party or you asked you to work on something it takes his mental energy where you have this thing where you're like will it be good would I rather eat alone at my desk or would I rather have lunch with this person and when it's not always easy that's incredible drain on our emotional energy and if you are an introvert or an ambivert an ambivert is someone who is kind of splits between extra virgin introversion your energy is finite and our mental space is finite I thought that mental space was sort of endless right you can learn forever you could think about things forever but actually we only have a certain amount of mental time every day and if we are dedicating that to trying to figure out if someone likes us or not which is a very important thing we all like to be liked whether we admit it or not that I think is a waste of mental energy why would we want to spend it towards that and that's why I think I move on people are more dangerous are you ever doubting that they're really happy for you that's the only question you have to ask yourself and it might be An Inconvenient Truth I don't answer it off the cuff like don't answer it really quickly like try to think of all the times in the last 6 months you've seen them and shared something did you feel like they were as happy as you were about your happiness a really true good friend will mirror and match that excitement with you someone who's not as happy for you will come in with dream killer questions what happens is I started to see friends who are not only lying to me but lying to themselves and I had to make a choice so that either going to have fewer high quality friends or less quality but more quantity friends and this was right at that stage where I also was trying to figure out how what kind of friendships that I want to have on social media and it's the same I think question that we all have to ask ourselves I think of social media friendships like cotton candy there's a lot of substance there's a lot of nutrition you wouldn't text them if you were going through something hard you wouldn't you know call them if something happened to them but it's a fun exciting friendship the thing is is you eventually need to have a meal right like cotton candy is okay every once in a while but if you have too much of it your teeth begin to like rot from it you know they ache from the sugar and they give you a sugar headache and so I think that it's about what are the friends that give you nutrition and then which of those friends that are kind of the surface ones and that was a big decision I had to make you know you think all I only hang out with these guys cuz they live near me but they're cool we just play video games they're not like my real influences you know if you're playing Xbox on Friday to blow up steam but then that same guy crashes on your couch and then you order some pizza and then the next day you sleep in and then you crack a beer and you go out for breakfast that's fine once every couple months but if that's what you're doing all the ty friends like doing that was you man that's who you are that's where your tim