so let's do what we've now started as a
tradition a moment of silence yes and
the question is where to put our
attention and this time I suggest we put
our attention into the feeling of
aliveness within what I call the inner
body to feel that there's actually live
inside your hands the good place to
start is always with the hands to feel
yes I could feel somehow that there is
an aliveness in here the cells are alive
and that's the beginning of feeling
being able to feel the entire inner body
the energy field as a global sense of
aliveness and just put our attention
there rather than have it in the head
and then we can enter actual stillness
because stillness doesn't happen until
the mind becomes still usually the mind
doesn't stop until you take attention
away from it and put it somewhere else
so we're putting attention into the body
and so we can go into stillness just for
half a minute or so
thank you much let us begin here on
chapter 4 which is a very long chapter
yes and you wrote this you must you
must've been at it for a while yes and
in a way it reflects all the main themes
in the books that actually already
contained in that chapter yes the
chapter is called role-playing
the many phases of the ego so before we
really begin I'd like to take a moment
and talk about one of the most
frequently asked questions that we
receive by far so many people who are
committed to to the book and becoming
aware of a new way of thinking a new way
our way of consciousness want to know
how they can relate to people in their
lives who are not yet on this path and
don't think they need to be sometimes
it's a co-worker or a friend or even a
spouse you all have said to us on many
of your emails and it can feel very
divisive and we got an email from a
gentleman who says listen my wife isn't
interested in this I don't know what's
gonna kind of happen to our relationship
so that question actually came up as one
of the last questions from Qatar the
very first session that we had but it's
an ongoing question that a lot of people
the more they become engaged in the book
or feeling and wanted your response to
yes the main thing is that the shift can
only happen inside you so not to expect
other people to also change or to expect
or say I cannot change unless somebody
close to me also changes the main thing
is to take responsibility for your own
state of consciousness and allow other
people especially people that you are
close to to be where they are not to
demand that because something is
happening inside you and you are
beginning to change not a demands that
others should also change change does
not come about in others by trying to
make them change the
powerful way of bringing about change in
others is not trying to bring about
change in the other but to completely
accept the other as he or she is so
that's that is absolutely vital they
they're even schools of psychotherapy
that recognize that so you give the
other person you complete acceptance and
that's part of this change that's
happening in us is that we step out of
the judgmental mind that continuously
judges the other so we step out of that
and if we step out of the judgmental
mind we are able to simply accept the
your partner a close friend the family
member a relative this is where they are
at right now they are still going from
their old behavior patterns what has
changed is you are no longer resisting
their present and reacting to and by
reacting reinforcing their pattern
that's right that's right so you are not
taking part in that game anymore so part
of your change has to be your
willingness not to judge you know to sit
back to be an observer in your own life
and then to more clearly see the ego and
others as you also see it in yourself
yes don't judge it no and it's just know
that that's what it is
yes and don't mistake what you're
observing the behavior that people
manifest as them not that's not who they
are
hey and that's a vital distinction
because if you mistake that for who they
are then you will perpetuate that kind
of behavior so that's not it won't work
acceptance is vital acceptance and isn't
it sort of like I mean all of you who've
asked that question it's kind of like
when people join the church or are quote
born again or you know we've heard about
being born again in the church or you
find Jesus or you find Buddha or you
discover a new way of being for yourself
and now you want everybody to go to
Jesus yes and you want everybody to
believe what you believe
that is part of your ego that now wants
people to believe what you believe
yes and so that's a trap one can fall
into even with this teaching which isn't
really based on belief at all so it's
not a new belief we are not trying to
find some new believe it's going beyond
beyond the thinking mind to into
awareness mm-hmm
but face always the danger when you
discover something new that you want to
talk with others well that's how we
ended up with this webcast because yes I
wanted to share it with them and
sometimes it works because sometimes the
other person is totally ready and
receptive and say wow I've never
realized I thought they recognized it
from within because says the radiance is
there right but the readies is not there
in everybody so some people buy copies
of the newest of the power of now for
their friends or relatives and then give
them out and sometimes they are
disappointed when the other person says
doesn't make sense to me at all it means
they're not yet ready and that's fine
maybe they put it on the shelf and maybe
ten years later they're ready quite
possible absolutely absolutely so now
for class number I wanted to get that
question out because it comes up over
and over and over again on our message
board so now we're ready for a classroom
before tonight we're going deeper into
identifying the ego in all of its forms
chapter four role-playing and the many
faces of our ego let me start by saying
that I think the essence it's a long
chapter so we have a lot to cover in a
short period of time these 90 minutes
but I think that the essence of this
chapter is what you say on page 104
everybody that you are a human being
what does that mean mastery of life is
not a question of control but of finding
a balance between human and being mother
father husband wife young old all roles
that you play the functions you fulfill
whatever you do all that belongs to the
human dimension it has its place and
needs to be honored but in itself it is
not enough
for a fulfilled truly meaningful
relationship or life human alone is
never enough no matter how hard you try
or what you achieve I just love that
sentence I loved it so much I wrote Wow
yeah where Wow human alone is never
enough no matter how hard you try or
what you achieve then there is being it
is found in the still alert presence of
consciousness itself the consciousness
that you are human is form being is form
less human and being are not separate
but into woven that's the essence to me
of this chapter
yes and one could say the essence of the
whole teaching in a way yes way of
putting it
so and of course human alone is never
enough no matter how hard you try or
what you achieve and that is the essence
of why people learn such suffering and
such struggle and such you know angst
against themselves in life is it not and
it's why they play roles because the ego
plays roles because there's an awareness
that within you there is the source of
all power so people who are out of touch
with the power within or the place where
all power resides the aliveness itself
consciousness itself then they feel a
sense of lack why are they not in touch
with it because they are not present
they are not in the present moment
because the present moment is the entry
point into that place of power within if
you're not present mm-hmm you don't
realize that there is a source of power
within and then you believe that you
need to get secondary power from someone
or some situation or other people then
you the ego plays roles to manipulate
the environment and other people to get
what it thinks it needs not realizing
that all the things that it thinks will
give it the power that it seems to lack
all that is already already within you
if you could only be present in the now
I got it
okay so the question is how not to lose
ourselves in the human dimension how not
to by being present in the now yes and
by realizing that whenever you lose
yourself relearn a human dimension in
the unit's all the stuff that's being
here that being human brings with it
yes the on the most primordial level
losing oneself means losing oneself in
that continuous stream of thinking that
go through people's heads so you it
drags you along it takes all your
conscious attention remember we started
today with taking attention away your
mind and putting it into the body right
another thing you can do is take
attention away from thinking and put it
into sense perceptions and really look
and listen and and touch things so like
a lot this arises you know what I found
by doing this I don't know about all the
rest of you but I have found by being
more present just doing that one
exercise putting yourself if I'm walking
along a path in the woods near my house
be there and not be you know in my head
thinking about what I need to do just to
be there and what I found is I don't
know if y'all are realizing this too you
are just less stressed they're stressed
or just less you're calmer yes and you
don't carry the heavy burden of of a
personality or me with a burden of past
and future my problematic future my
problematic past you know you're much
more your light and free when you walk
in in presence okay but my hairdresser
Andre asked me this this morning so I'm
gonna ask you then how do you ever plan
for anything if you're not thinking
about the future how do you ever get
anything done you plan in the present
moment when the time comes to plan and
the time is not when you're walking in
the woods and when you're walking in the
woods the time is to be present unless
you want to go to the woods to plan you
could go to the wood you could yes you
could but it's much more likely that
your planning is going to be fruitful if
if it is preceded by a period of
presence and stillness all right any
mind activity is much more likely to be
beneficial and to be creative if it's
preceded by presence and stillness and
then you apply the mind and say okay
what do I have to do to
day and then you make a list so if
you're going to be in in the future do
that as a concentrated event your
experience yes hey now I'm going to sit
and plan yes and John don't and then
about tomorrow once you've done that
then you know this is what I have to do
so that you're not continuously in the
next moment you don't project yourself
you play mental movies about what you're
going to say when that situation arises
mm-hmm
so you can you trust in life that
whatever it is that you need when the
future comes we'll be there uh-huh
so that's the well as far as practical
matters are concerned future is simply
something that you use like I call it
clock time you make an appointment for
tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow yes so you
don't continuously project yourself away
from the now right to some future
believing that it's more important going
to be more important and then now it's
not because what you say on page 122
anybody who is one with what he or she
does is building the new earth yes
that's how you do it being one with what
you're doing means being total in what
you do so that the main focus of your
attention is not where you want to get
to you know where you want to get to
right but the main focus of your
attention is on the actual doing now so
this is what yet the energy flows fully
into this the energy doesn't is not
diverted from what you're doing now
through mental dysfunction because
you're wanting to get there because then
whatever you're doing will be stressful
because whatever you give your 100%
attention to is going to be better
anyway yes absolutely
there was a Zen master he was he was
watching somebody in a competition
artery and a man was trying very hard to
win this competition but he just
couldn't make it and then somebody asked
the Zen master what's he doing wrong and
the Zen master said his need to win
drains him of power Wow and so it's Nita
wins of some future he wants to have
some
a moment where he's going to be
fulfilled so his attention is not
totally in the now so the now we're all
power resides Wow this power that
resides in the now cannot flow then into
what you're doing the openness isn't
there because to have mastery in any
endeavor whatever it is you me to be
total in what you do that's what
athletes now the great ones now fake and
then they when they enter that they call
it the zone yeah there was this great
article this week as a matter of fact
those of you saw it on Tiger Woods and
USA Today saying that he's perhaps the
greatest athlete of all times because
that's what he knows how to do is to
focus and be 100% present yes it's just
him in that ball I'm stupid yeah yeah of
course yes okay so another question that
was on the message boards a lot last
week when Kidada from California called
and was saying was on skype and she was
saying that as a young person she's
thinking about the future and thinking
about wanting to have a career and
husband and so forth I think a lot of
people felt but unsatisfied by your
response
I've heard that which a lot of people
were like I feel the same way Kidada
feels a lot of people are wondering
where the passion goes where the
ambition goes and how they relate
passion and ambition which is what I
think Kidada was saying okay with with
this this new awakening yes so did we
now just we're just also awakened and
that we become passive people know that
passion is much greater when you are
totally focused on what you're doing now
there will be far the passion will
become stress the more you're focused on
where you want to get to the more the
passion will degenerate into stress you
may still have a high energy but it's
there's a lot of negative energy that
comes in mm-hmm so if you want to remain
truly in your power then you need to be
total and that applies to the smallest
thing that you do during the day
right because even great endeavors
consist of small steps
even the greatest thing you are doing
wonderful work but every day that you
spent consist of small steps you arrive
in the studio you get dressed you get
ready you speak on one sentence at a
time it all consists of what needs to be
present as you are that's where the
power comes from every moment and not
look to some future moment which
promises some kind of greater
fulfillment that is the delusion it does
not mean that you don't have a plan you
can have plan you I want to achieve a
build to build up a business I want to
do this or that but the main focus must
be in the doing and if the main focus is
in the doing now that's the passion is
there and the deep enjoyment is there
and an intensity of energy an intensity
of energy all people often say then
again what the Zen master said that his
desire to hire tubing drains him of
power desire to win drains and is made
to win he trains him of power so the
right night would be being yeah it's
being present you just focused on
whatever is necessary in that moment in
that moment sure that struck a lot of
people that that Zen master quote yes
because you're so you got a win you got
to make it you got to succeed you gotta
gotta gotta and that's draining energy
from you instead we should be focused on
this moment this step and then the next
step and then the next step that's right
well you may win is if you try very hard
are very stressed occasionally it
happens that you do win but it's not
really worth it because you became more
depleted and after a while you lose the
enjoy lose the joy of life if you if you
spend five years of stress and finally
you achieve what you wanted is that
worth it right enjoyment is very
important am I losing and I is is that
joy in what I'm doing is there any
lifeless I mean intensity that's the
question
people believe sometimes high energy in
our civilization when there's high
energy in what you do
often people believe there must be
stress they cannot imagine
high-energy in what you do without
stress because that's how we are
conditioned because we are always
conditioned to look to the next thing
but there is a much more powerful state
of high energy and intensity if I say
when the energy is intense and focused
no no stress at all or stress at all
you
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