Perceiving Life The Way It Is

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Perceiving Life The Way It Is

Do you think of yourself as a yogi, a mystic, or a guru?

I have not wasted time thinking about myself.

What would you rather be thinking of?

I don’t think usually. Really. For me, see, this whole thing because of the type of really mediocre education that’s being taught today, we have raised thought to heaven, unfortunately. Thought is a simple thing. I know this is against everything your believe in because you’re also believer.

No.

Believer in talk.

Yeah. I believe in being able to ask questions. That’s what I do for a living. I must believe that it is possible to ask questions.

You asked for happy living. My life is full of questions. Now, the thing is what you call a thought is coming from the limited data that you have gathered from the experience of your life. Every person does the same thing. How much of it we have gathered? It’s still too small compared to the size of the cosmos and the way the phenomena of life is happening. From this limited data, you can recycle things and generate talk or in other words, nothing new ever happens. Seeing preconditions and premonitions of the same thing will go on forever. There’s sense of what we’re teaching in the name of engineering these to engineer yourself in such a way.

Every moment of your life is a new possibility. If it has to become a new possibility, what is needed is perception. When I say perception, people think opinions. No, I’m talking about perception as you see here similarly enhancing your perception, so that you perceive life. Right now when we say thought, emotion, we are talking about expressing life. Expressing is not too important. Once in a way, we can express. Perceiving it is important because this phenomena is too fantastic. It’s not a small thing. Regret is phenomenal. It’s happening here as life itself. If you want to know this phenomena, the only way you can know, the only doorway for you to know life is yourself. See, right now, can you see me?

Yes. I can.

Can you use a finger and point out where I am? You are wrong. You know I’m a mystic from south India. Now, this light is falling upon me, reflecting, going through your lenses inward, you know the whole story. Where do you see me now?

Still in the same place.

No.

I do.

You see me the way I’m projected in the firmament of your mind. You cannot see me here in the very nature of your visual apparatus. Where do you hear me right now? Within yourself. Where have you seen the whole world? Within yourself. Now, if there is a grasshopper here, he doesn’t seem the way you see me. He sees me differently. He sees the whole world differently. Now, you can think he’s no good. This is the fundamental problem that we think his perception is no good. No. No. His perception is very good for his survival. Your perception is very good for your survival, but it’s not good enough to know the nature of life. Now, what do I know means I have enhanced my perception the way it is important to know the nature of life, not just for survival.

If in your engineering as a spiritual technology is something that works, I ask you again why do we need gurus because that means the answers are within us?

You’re speaking so much language. Did you learn A, B, C, D, all this stuff?

I think so.

Do you remember when you’re 4 years of age that damn A, how complicated it was?

Yes.

You had to write it 100 times to get the damn A. Today, you can close your eyes and write. It doesn’t matter how simple something is. Without a certain guidance, could you have picked up A, B, C, I’m asking? No. Similarly when something new you have to approach, if you don’t have the right kind of guidance, you won’t pick it up.