I cannot say that I'm enlightened. I can say that I'm curious, and
because of my curiosity, I'm very open to learn and to experiment, and
to accept and to realize everything that I don't know. I think realizing that
is part of the enlightenment. Realizing that you don't know you know, and
what you may have believed to be an absolute truth isn't necessarily an absolute truth.
I used to be afraid of dying, and I'm not now now.
Okay, let me rephrase that I'm afraid of the process. I don't want
it to hurt, you know. Yes, I have a healthy fear of
that, But after that, I have no fear. I believe that we
create our own reality, and in my reality there is no hell, there
is no devil, so that doesn't exist here. Why would that exist in
what I call a spiritual plane of love? So I enlightenment, I can't.
I'm not an expert on that. I can just tell you my experience.
And like I said, it's about being curious and about understanding that other
people have those curiosities as well, and trying to bring those together in a
safe place. Yeah, that's a tough question to answer. But here's my
thoughts. Indian culture has seen a number of enlightened masters, and some of
them have actually made it across to the West as well and have tried to
show us the way to be enlightened. For lack of a better word,
but to me, enlightenment is the ability to surrender and be a part of
the universe. When you mentioned is it power, is it money? All
that, it comes right back to control. It comes back to fear.
It's fear of not having enough money. It's fear of if I don't control
my environment, things are going to happen to me. I don't want to
happen to me. Things like that. An enlightened being is someone that understands
that the universe is going to provide exactly what you need at the exact moment
in which you needed. And the act of surrendering to that knowledge is the
act of enlightenment because then you no longer have to fear or control. You
no longer have to live thinking that we are living in scarcity because you know
that the universe will provide. Now, sometimes we're on this planet to have
experiences, to go through things in order for us to truly understand ourselves,
and sometimes experiences happen they're contrary to what we would hope would happen because there's
a reason behind it. There is something that we need to go through experience
in order to come out on the other side and become much better, much
bigger person than we Wereperience, for example, is a perfect example of that.
When I went through my existential crisis, I had to go through a
period of time where I hated myself. I had made awful decisions and affected
people that I loved because of traumas that I had in my past. But
ultimately it was decisions that I made that were not the right decisions for me
at the time. Because I was trying to solve a wound, solve for
that little boy who was hurt back in his childhood, and because I was
living in constant fear the time without realizing it, I made decisions that were
not good for me. And when I learned to let go of that fear
and process bring these emotions out, work through them, work through them.
And it is a difficult process to go through, but I do believe,
I know that I am a way better person now having gone through that experience
than I could ever have hoped to have been had I not gone through that
traumatic experience, the act of going through it and processing it and working my
way over it, and that's what made me the man that I am today,
and I hope to continue down that road. And so now I'm I'm
a human being and things happen our contract to what I want to happen.
That's no, I didn't want to not get that job. Well, there's
a reason for that, and the reason might be that I'm too stuck in
my ego. I need to let that go. I need to be more
humble and understand that the right thing is going to come. The universe is
always going to say, don't worry, the right thing is coming as long
as you live in the right way. And that's what I'm trying to focus
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