WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.980 --> 00:00:22.940 He said, I am without form, without limits, beyond time, beyond space. 2 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:37.800 I am in everything. Everything is in me. I am the bliss of the universe. Everywhere am I. 3 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:45.180 I am absolute existence, absolute knowledge, absolute bliss. 4 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.540 Tat Twa Ma Si, I am that, I am that. 5 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:55.120 And he also said, and this is a mind blower for you I suspect, he says, 6 00:00:55.620 --> 00:01:01.540 I have no scruple of change, nor fear of death. 7 00:01:02.860 --> 00:01:09.260 I was never born, nor had I parents. 8 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.260 Nor had I parents. 9 00:01:16.460 --> 00:01:19.380 Do you understand the predicament you are in? 10 00:01:20.020 --> 00:01:27.640 What man is really all about is on a sequence that is moving towards consciousness, towards awareness, 11 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.720 towards full understanding, towards becoming one with God, towards knowing himself. 12 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:35.440 And this is the business of waking up. 13 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.780 And as Gurdjieff, the Russian philosopher, says it very beautifully, he said, 14 00:01:39.260 --> 00:01:42.880 you don't realize your predicament, you are all in prison. 15 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:53.940 But he said, if you are to get out of prison, the first requirement is you've got to realize you're in prison. 16 00:01:54.700 --> 00:01:57.700 I mean if you think you're free, you can't escape. 17 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:00.240 See that? 18 00:02:01.720 --> 00:02:05.200 I mean if you think, man, well this is the best of all possible worlds, 19 00:02:05.860 --> 00:02:10.160 and I'm grooving and I want to have this chick and this family and this scene, 20 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:14.200 and I'm going to get a really good car and have a good home and a good job and plan my future, 21 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:20.160 and that's really what it's about, go do it. Grooving. Do it for another hundred lifetimes. 22 00:02:20.820 --> 00:02:25.820 It's okay, there's no rush, there's no time. It is outside of time what I'm talking about. 23 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.920 Everybody is becoming conscious. At the rate everybody can become conscious. 24 00:02:31.100 --> 00:02:34.320 In any one lifetime, you may wake up or you may not. 25 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:38.000 Now you notice I'm sneaking in all kinds of references to reincarnation, 26 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:40.220 which almost all of you have been trained to reject. 27 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:47.380 And it got rejected out of Christianity in the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinople, 28 00:02:47.980 --> 00:02:53.920 and it did not come into, except for some of the Platonic and Pythagorean thinking, 29 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.240 it did not come into the Greek-Roman tradition. 30 00:02:59.140 --> 00:03:03.800 But I will now give you another one of those perhaps unpalatable facts. 31 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:11.780 Reincarnation exists, and you are at this moment merely going through one round of a series of rounds, 32 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.620 and you've elevated into being a real big deal, 33 00:03:15.320 --> 00:03:22.620 and your ego is the only way nature works because you've got to understand that who you are, 34 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:26.060 and this is a hard one, who you are is not part of nature. 35 00:03:27.780 --> 00:03:31.000 Nature is the package in which you are living at this moment. 36 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:35.680 Nature is the temple. You honor nature, you love nature. 37 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:38.100 Nature is the divine mother, and nature is beautiful. 38 00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:41.420 You need nature in order to have the temple, in order to do the work. 39 00:03:41.420 --> 00:03:44.900 You honor nature. You honor all of beauty. 40 00:03:44.980 --> 00:03:49.240 Nature includes all your desires, the desires for reproduction that keep the species going, 41 00:03:49.880 --> 00:03:52.140 the desires for food that keep the temple alive. 42 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:54.520 You need them as long as you need them. 43 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.840 But don't confuse who you are with the temple. 44 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:06.700 Once you understand the yogic systems of India, the Buddhist systems, the Taoist system of China, 45 00:04:06.700 --> 00:04:18.620 the Greek Orthodox Esoteric Christianity, the Kabbalah and the Zohar, the American Indian mysticism. 46 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:25.860 I mean, here's Black Elk Speaks, the beautiful book about an old Oglala Sioux Indian, 47 00:04:26.420 --> 00:04:29.580 who's describing his first visionary experience when he's eight years old. 48 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.700 He says, it was the pictures I remembered and the words that went with them. 49 00:04:34.700 --> 00:04:40.860 For nothing I have ever seen with my eyes was so clear and bright as what my vision showed me. 50 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:45.780 And no words that I've ever heard with my ears were like the words I heard. 51 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:52.520 I did not have to remember these things. They have remembered themselves all these years. 52 00:04:53.220 --> 00:04:58.160 It was as I grew older that the meanings came clearer and clearer out of the pictures and the words. 53 00:04:58.200 --> 00:05:02.140 And even now I know that more was shown to me than I can tell. 54 00:05:03.020 --> 00:05:11.120 The fact of the matter is that what we are talking about cannot be talked about because talking is symbols. 55 00:05:11.620 --> 00:05:14.080 And symbols plays to your rational mind. 56 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.580 And what we are talking about is behind the rational mind. It is meted to the rational mind. 57 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:23.460 It is not knowable rationally. 58 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:29.960 And the problem is that what I am talking about you cannot know you know. 59 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:31.760 You can only be.