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(song)
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When I die in the name of rest. Going to go to the place that's the best.
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Going to lay me down to die. Going up to the spirit in the sky.
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Going up to the spirit in the sky. That's where I'm going to go when I die.
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When I die and lay to rest, I'm going to go to the place that's the best
(end song)
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since I was like 10. I've been obsessed with ancient texts.
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And I do mean obsess. I read them and still read them like people read data
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reports. I compare all the versions and the translations, line by line comparisons,
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and something has always bothered me. I've been digging through ancient texts
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since I was little. And not like a handful, not like 10 or 20, I'm talking
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over 190 sacred writings from every corner of human civilization. Christian,
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Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Tauist, Gnostic, Egyptian, Mayan,
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Hermetic, Confucian, Sumerian, indigenous. These are texts written thousands of miles apart, thousands of
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years apart with no way to influence each other. And yet somewhere between the lines, they're all whispering the
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exact same message. And it's not similar. It's not a kind of like message. It's the exact same five truths
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over and over. So, this video isn't body language and persuasion, and it's
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definitely not about religion in any way. So, if your level of certainty about the world is super high, this
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might itch a little, and you know that certainty in human behavior shows up when something needs to be protected.
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So, you do not have to agree with any of this to get something powerful from it.
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All right? There's something worth considering
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regardless of your faith or your background. First, if God or ultimate
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truth is real, then it or he or she existed way before any book, any
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language, or one single tradition ever appeared, which means that truth
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wouldn't belong to just one place or one people. Second, when civilizations that
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are separated by oceans and centuries describe the same insights about reality
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and human nature and meaning, it suggests they were observing something universal
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rather than inventing something locally. And just like gravity existed before we
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ever had a name for it, and mathematics works the same everywhere on Earth,
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truth, and I mean truth with a capital T, doesn't change based on culture or
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belief. It just gets described through different and very flawed human lenses.
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This is why the deepest spiritual experiences sound so unbelievably
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similar across traditions. And I think it's why history's greatest teachers didn't try to fracture humanity, but
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they tried to wake it up to something it already carried inside of it across
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every culture, every timeline, every belief system humans have ever built.
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When I first saw the pattern forming, it didn't feel like research in any way.
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It felt like finding a message that humanity buried like fragments of a
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treasure map that we as a species were unconsciously developing for some future
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generation to find. And I think there are a few things that nobody wants to be
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said out loud. First, if truth is real, if it's fundamental, it should show up
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everywhere in every era, every tribe, every myth, every scripture. And I think
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that it actually does. But somehow, I think we miss something.
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We get lost in the arguments about who's right. We get lost in the differences,
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the translations, the rituals, the politics, and the fear. We started defending our favorite book instead of
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noticing what all the books were trying to say. If you can imagine dozens of
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civilizations who never met, they never traded language. They never shared a single word with each other all
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describing the same fundamental truths of reality. What would that mean? What
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would that force us to consider? Because if that's true, then the greatest
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spiritual secret on Earth was never hidden at all. It was just scattered
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like a puzzle all across our species story. And if all of those pieces could
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come together, we might see something pretty astonishing. But before we talk about the message
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they left us, you have to understand why these truths were actually hidden in the
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first place. And they were hidden. This isn't debated. I promise it's not
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conspiracy and churches and governments that did it. It's way older than that.
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Before we go any further, you need to understand something that almost everybody gets wrong about all these
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ancient texts, cuz I know there's a lot of videos out there that talk about them. These ancient texts were not
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trying to be mysterious. They weren't trying to be poetic. They weren't trying to confuse anybody. They were trying to
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describe the utterly indescribable by using a human brain and human
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language that was never designed to grasp any of this at all. That is truly
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the core problem. Language.
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So language, any language is a cage. It's a net with holes that are way too
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wide to catch something that's truly infinite. And the people who wrote these
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texts, they knew that. That's why lau opens the tao deqing with the most
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brutally honest sentence in the ancient texts altogether. The dao that could be
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spoken is not the eternal dao. The meaning is the moment that you try
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to explain ultimate truth, you've already distorted it and filtered it and tried to contain it. Jesus understood
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this too. He literally tells the disciples that he speaks in parables because most people aren't ready to
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comprehend the truth directly. They didn't have language for quantum physics and non-duality or consciousness models
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like we do today, which is still an infantile language. They had to compress the infinite into words. So, every
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ancient culture hit the exact same wall. How do you describe an experience bigger
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than thought itself with a language that's built out of thought? How do you describe God? Unity,
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infinity, consciousness with a vocabulary built for farms and weather
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and trading spices and chickens with each other. How do you tell people the
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universe is one before they even understand atoms or galaxies or even
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their own mind? The answer is you can't. So they did the
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only thing that they could. They spoke in metaphors and symbols and myths and
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stories, poetry and parables and riddles. And sometimes it was just
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silence. And they didn't do this to hide the truth. The truth was just too large
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to fit through the doorway of our primitive little language. If you can
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imagine standing in front of a sunrise so massive and overwhelming that words
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feel absolutely stupid to describe it. Now imagine trying to explain that
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sunrise to somebody who's never seen light before. This is why ancient texts
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seem contradictory. The problem wasn't the message. It was the translation.
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Different cultures, different metaphors, different symbols. It was the same truth filtered through different and extremely
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human limitations. And when you finally zoom out far enough, the differences
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disappear. The metaphors line up, the symbols overlap, and in my estimation,
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the contradictions dissolve. You start to see that these were fragments of
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maps. And once I noticed that, something insane happened. The patterns in these
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texts started connecting like constellations across all these continents, across millennia, across
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belief systems that supposedly are against each other. They weren't
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opposing each other at all. They were completing each other. And that's when these five truths revealed themselves.
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So here's where we go next. If every civilization on Earth discovered the same truths, if humans who never met
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somehow described the exact same reality, the question becomes,
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what exactly did they all see? Here's what they all agreed on. This is
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the first truth, the one the ancient world tried their absolute hardest to
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communicate to us. And it's also the one that we've gone the farthest away from.
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You are not separate. You never were and you never could be.
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Every single ancient civilization on earth figured this out. In the
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upanishads in from India, they had a saying called tatwam usi. I think that's
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how you pronounce it. But it basically means you are that not connected to it,
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not loved by it. You are the divine wearing this human costume. Jesus even
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said this. He said the entire kingdom of God is within you. Not in a building or
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book in you. In the ancient Sufi texts
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they said you are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. If you look at hermetic texts all
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is one. If you look at Daoism, everything is the Dao expressing itself in 10,000 forms.
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If you look at the ancient Mayan text which is called the Popal VU, you see heart of sky, heart of earth. This is
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the universe as a single living being. Even looking at Buddhism, there is no separate self. If you look inside the
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Cabala, which is one of my favorite quotes, they say, "Creation is one emanation divided only in appearance."
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And if you look into quantum physics, what are we starting to discover? Everything is one field fragmented by
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perception. Different cultures, different metaphors, same exact truth. There is no you versus the world. There
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is only this one universe like experiencing itself from your point of view. Separation is what they're trying
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to show us is a hallucination. Being divided is a glitch in humanity and
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isolation is not really real. This is the kind of the metaphor they're trying to get us to understand. When a wave
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rises up out of the ocean, it looks separate. It has its own little shape. It has its own motion, its own lifespan,
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but the wave is not actually a thing. It's the ocean just for a few seconds,
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expressing itself in a temporary form. When you were born, that was the ocean rising. When you die, the wave goes back
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into itself. You never stopped being the ocean. You just forgot for a minute. And
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when every ancient texts says things like one spirit, one God and father of
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all, as above, so below, you are that. The kingdom is within. All is mind.
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Everything is the Dao. They're all trying to point at the same thing. You are the universe aware of itself. You
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are the divine looking out through human eyes temporarily. You are not the world. The world is in you. And here's the
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super raw part that they didn't say outright. Every mystic hinted at this.
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If you aren't separate, then your entire life, your entire identity, your whole entire world view might just be built on
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a misunderstanding. And that misunderstanding is what makes most of us suffer. Because the moment that
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you've believed that you're separate, you start fearing loss and death and rejection and scarcity. And we start
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chasing significance and validation and control. We start defending our little ego like it's sacred. But the moment
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that we remember what we actually are, the fear goes away. Conflict all
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dissolves. Loneliness goes away. Death changes meaning entirely. And life
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becomes something that we can finally understand. A single field of consciousness somehow playing out as
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billions of expressions trying to remember itself. This is why truth
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number one sits at the foundation of everything else. Because if we are not separate from each other and if you're
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not separate from the universe, then what comes next is the operating system
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of reality. Number two, fear is an illusion and love is the truth. So if
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the first truth is that you're not separate, the second truth is the one that keeps shaping your entire life
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without you realizing it. Fear is the greatest lie ever told. Love is the only
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thing that's real. Every ancient text, it doesn't matter the culture, it doesn't matter what language, repeats
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the same idea so many times it's almost suspicious. The most repeated phrase in the entire
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Bible is fear not or do not be afraid. A quote from Jesus says, "Perfect love
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casts out fear." We hear the Buddha say, "Hatred does not cease by hatred. By
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love alone is hatred healed." In the Bhagavad Gita we read the path of devotion, love leads to liberation. The
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path of ignorance, fear leads to suffering. The Daqing we see courage
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comes from love, paralysis comes from fear. In the Dharmapata
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we read the mind is everything. Meaning that fear starts in the mind and not the
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world itself. In ancient Sufi wisdom, we specifically see from Roomie, "Your job is not to
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seek for love, but to find and remove the barriers you built against it." How
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beautiful is that? All these civilizations that never spoke a single word to each other somehow arrived at
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the same conclusion about reality. Fear is an illusion that keeps us asleep. And
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love is the frequency or the thing that wakes us up. Fear shrinks self and love
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expands the self. Fear breeds ego and love dissolves it. Fear isolates you and
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love reminds you who the hell you actually are. Fear makes you chase approval, validation, and money and
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control. It makes us compare oursel to everybody else. Fear makes us live like
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something is missing. Love in the ancient sense isn't romantic. What they
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mean is oneness. It's alignment. It's essentially the recognition that we're
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made of the same stuff, the same light or the same source, whatever you want to call it. That's why fear feels bad
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because it's biologically incompatible with what you actually are. Every mistake you've ever made, every
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relationship that blew up, every regret you carry, every time you sabotage your own potential, it's all fear.
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Every spiritual leader across time was basically saying you're suffering because you're believing a lie. The
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moment that you drop fear, you don't just all of a sudden find love. You're not finding love. You're returning to
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it. It's your default state. That's why we're born with it. Is the only real thing underneath all the noise is just
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that. But all the ancients didn't stop there. They all said the same thing next. something that modern science is
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finally catching up to. And if love is real and fear is an illusion, then who's
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creating the illusion? Your mind. Which leads us to truth number three. Your mind is not a camera. It is a projector.
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So your brain doesn't record reality. It generates reality. I'm talking about the most ancient spiritual teaching on
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earth. And it's the most modern scientific discovery at the same time. But let's go back. If you look at the
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dharmapara, we see what you think you become. If you look at the hermetic
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texts, the all is mind. In the Hindu vanta, we see maya, the world you
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perceive is shaped by the mind's illusions. And then back to the upan
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shads again, the universe arises from consciousness. That's pretty
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straightforward. And even looking back at Plato, he says reality is the moving
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image of eternity. And the translation for that would be the mind shapes what
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you perceive. If you look at quantum physics, observation changes the
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behavior of matter, physical particles. So I think the meaning here is consciousness is not inside the
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universe. The universe is inside consciousness. Every single culture was screaming this
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exact same thing. Your mind is not reacting to life. It's constructing the
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version of life that you're experiencing. Your fears, your beliefs, your identity, your memories, your
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stories, all those patterns you have in your life. We think that they're interpretations. What they are is
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filters that reshape reality before reality reaches you. This is why two
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people can live through the exact same moment and experience two completely different things. This is why suffering
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usually comes from inside and not outside. This is why so many ancient
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texts focus way more on inner world than outer world. And this is probably also
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why every spiritual path teaches stillness and silence and presence and
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meditation and surrender. And I think this is because the moment that we stop
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letting fear hijack the projector, we start seeing reality pretty clearly for the first time. If your mind shapes
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reality, then every limitation you hold is one that you unconsciously built. And
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every breakthrough that you're chasing is just one little thought pattern away. Truths one, two, and three combine into
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a single explosive idea. If you're not separate, if fear isn't real, if your
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mind is essentially shaping everything, then the only thing standing between you and freedom is the part of you that
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believes otherwise. And this brings us to the most dangerous truth of all. The
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enemy is not the world. The enemy is the ego.
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So if those first three truths show you what you are, the fourth truth shows you
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what's been blocking you from the beginning. So the ego is the only real enemy here. It's the only enemy that
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you're going to face. No demons, no bad luck, no other people, not the world.
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Every ancient text, every mystic, all these enlightened teachers, they all gave us the exact same warning. The
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thing that we call us, the thing that you call you is the thing that's hurting
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you. If we look in the Bavad Gita, we see the self must conquer the lower self. If we read Plato, he says, all
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sins come from excess self-love. If you read the words of Jesus, unless a man
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dies to himself, he cannot live. In the words of the Buddha, suffering begins
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with attachment to the self. In the da deqing we see he who defines himself
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can't know who he truly is. Different continents, different countries, same
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diagnosis. The ego is not your personality or your identity. It's not your sense of eye. Let me give you a
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definition of ego that's going to change your life if you adopt it. The ego is the story that you built to survive your
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fears. It's a mask. It's a guard rail. It's a little protective suit that we
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stitch together from trauma and insecurity and expectations and and some conditioning and that suit becomes our
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prison. But the ego desires one big thing, separation. It needs to feel
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separate to exist. Separate from other people, separate from the big universe, separate from the divine, separate from
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truth. The ego has to be able to compare. It feeds on better than, worse
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than, smarter than, more deserving than, more important than. So basically the ego needs three things. It needs
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hierarchy, conflict, and recognition. So it needs to win, to be right, to be special, to get defended by you. This is
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why it never shuts the f up. The ego is the voice that says they're judging you.
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You're not enough. You're falling behind. What if you lose everything? Or what if they don't like you? You need to
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prove yourself. You need more. You need control. But here's the ancient secret almost nobody realizes. The ego's entire
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existence is based on fear. And fear is already not real. This means that your
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ego is a hallucination. It's a survival instinct that doesn't understand who you
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actually are. You're the ocean. The ego is a ripple that thinks it's the entire Pacific Ocean. You are the divine. The
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ego is a child pretending to be the king. This is why every ancient tradition told you to let it go. Not
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because they wanted you to be moral or have some enlightenment and go out and buy linen pants and wooden bead
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necklaces and like that. They didn't want obedience or anything or even purity. It's because you can't
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experience truth while you're holding on to something that isn't true. You can't be infinite while you're clinging on to
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a story that makes you small. You can't feel oneness while you're protecting a
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self that doesn't exist. You can't wake up while you're defending the dream. And
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once you drop the ego, even if it's for a little second, you'll feel something terrifying and beautiful. You never
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needed it. You were always complete. The armor was the wound. Ancient teachings
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weren't obsessed with humility. They were obsessed with liberation. And once the ego falls apart, the final truth
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appears immediately. And this is the final truth that ties the entire universe together. This is truth number
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five. Everything is connected. This one shows up everywhere from
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ancient temples to modern physics laboratories. Everything's connected.
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Everything is one system. Everything influences everything. That's how everything it gets. In the hermetic
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texts, we see this principle of as above, so below. In the Cabala, we see
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all creation emerges from a single tree of life. In quantum physics, no particle
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is truly separate. Every particle has some entanglement. In Daoism, we see the
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this idea of opposites are not enemies. They're complimentary forces of the same
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source. In the Mayan popo vu, this is where we see the universe is one living
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organism. In Buddhism, we have the concept of what's called interbeing. Nothing exists independently. And in
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Sufi mysticism, the soul is a thread in the same cosmic fabric. Even if you look
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at the Egyptian pyramid texts, we see the soul returns to the stars from which
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it came. In ancient Native American wisdom, uh they have a phrase that's I
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think pronounced makuya o yasin, which is we are all relatives. Essentially
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saying with all beings I am related.
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Nothing stands alone. So every action ripples, every emotion radiates, every intention vibrates through the whole.
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You are not some separate node in the universe. You're a neuron in a cosmic
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brain firing inside of infinity.
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And your life is not happening to you. Your life is happening with you, through you, and as you. And suddenly all five
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truths click together like a lock snapping open. You're not separate. Fear is an illusion. Your mind shapes
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reality. Ego is the enemy. Everything is connected. So if all that's true, then you aren't a human trying to become
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spiritual. You are the universe temporarily being human. You're already spiritual. So everything you've ever
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been scared of, everything you've obsessed over, everything you've doubted in your life, everything that you've ever questioned before comes down to
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remembering what you were before the world told you who to be. And that's what the ancients were trying to wake us
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up to. So if the ancients all knew this, if the
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truths were sitting in the open for thousands of years, how the hell did we lose it? How did humanity go from cosmic
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awareness to this psychological dumpster fire that we're living in today? It
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wasn't a conspiracy. Personally, I think it was something a lot simpler. It's much darker and it's a lot more human.
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We just forgot who the hell we were. We got hypnotized by who we thought we
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needed to be. So the moment that humans started building civilizations, we
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needed to gather a bunch of resources. We need to protect our borders. We need to survive these crazy harsh winters.
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Fear became a tool. And then after tens of thousands of years, fear became a
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habit. And then fear became a culture. And everything that fear touches, obviously it corrupts. That's why every
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single ancient text, even the Bible, they warn us about the same exact traps
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of greed and ego and power and materialism and comparison, desire,
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control, and attachment. They weren't trying to teach us to be moral. This had nothing to do with being a moral person.
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They were describing psychological malware in Dao DeQing. When wealth and
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honors lead to arrogance, it brings evil. If you read the Quran, you're
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going to see, "Do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption." In the
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Bible, it says, "Do not store up treasures on earth." You read the Buddha
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and it says, "Cleing is the root of suffering." Every tradition saw this
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coming. The moment humans forgot who they were, they'd try to fill this emptiness with every single thing they
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can except the truth. And that's exactly what we did as a
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people. We built entire civilizations on top of a lie that we're separate. These
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giant economies on top of the lie that we're all lacking. And we all built identities on the lie that we're not
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enough. The ego that starts off as a small little tribal safety mechanism
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became this global operating system. We started comparing and competing and
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hoarding and fearing and posturing, consuming, scrolling, performing. We
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turned life into a weird little scoreboard. And we made success a really, really good-looking costume. And
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we traded all of our meaning for dopamine. We replaced being still and
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mindful. Maybe just let's call it boredom. We replaced boredom and silence with lots and lots of noise and
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distractions. But I think the biggest one of all is we stopped asking who am I? And we started asking who do they
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think I am? We traded a lot of truth for distraction. And the worst part is the
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distractions got really really effing good. Scary, sexy, addictively good.
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So, we engineered apps that hijack our nervous system. We have news cycles that feed off of our cortisol and our stress.
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We have algorithms now that weaponize our attention. We have cultures that are built on outrage and tribal division. If
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you live in America, you're in the middle of it. And we didn't just forget all these ancient truths. We built a
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world designed to choke the life out of them. And if you look around, you can
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see the symptoms everywhere. Anxiety is normal. Depression is common. Addiction is
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everywhere. Loneliness is an epidemic we're in the middle of. Attention spans are collapsing. People don't even know
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how to be bored. Replaced wisdom with content, contemplation with distraction. We became the most technologically
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advanced species in history and simultaneously the most spiritually disconnected.
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Again, it's not cuz this truth just disappeared somehow. It's because the noise got louder than the signal. The
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ancient warning was not a metaphor. It was a prophecy. The prophecy is if you
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forget yourself, you will forget everything that matters.
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But there's another part the ancients also agreed on. Once the illusion gets to the point where it gets unbearable,
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once the noise gets super overwhelming, once the ego starts to look like a crazy
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Jenga tower, that's when people start to wake up. And right now in this era, in
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this generation, we are seeing that start to happen. The illusions are
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cracking. The distractions aren't working as well as they used to. My friend Shawn Ryan did an entire series
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about this called SCOP. People are starving for something real and they don't know why. And this brings us to
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this final section. What did the ancients say about this awakening? Is it
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really an awakening? And what is it going to mean for our life? So if forgetting makes us suffer, then
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remembering is what sets us free. And every ancient tradition, everyone with no exception, they didn't just warn us
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about ego and fear and illusion. It also left very detailed instructions for what
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happens after the collapse. They left us a road map for waking up and the
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patterns are unbelievably clear once you know what to look for. And they don't give you a bunch of rules and dogma and
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rituals, just internal transformations. So, let me show you exactly what they
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said. Number one, waking up begins with truth. In the Bible in John 8:32,
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the truth will set you free. Not obedience, not faith, truth. Truth about
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yourself, about the mind, about fear and ego. Truth is the solvent that dissolves
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the illusion. In the Avestra, which is a Zoroastrian uh text, we see the quote,
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"Truth is the best good. It is the everlasting light." From the Buddha, we
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see the quote, "There are three things that cannot remain hidden. The sun, the moon, and the truth." Every awakening
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starts here. The moment we stop running from reality and start seeing it. This is why suffering is what happens before
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awakening. Cuz pain breaks the illusion that we all kind of hide behind. So
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number two, waking up requires presence. Every tradition says awakening doesn't
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happen in the future. Not someday. It doesn't happen when you're healed and calm and ready. The Buddha tells us
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don't dwell in the past. Don't dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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In the Daqing, they say if you are depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious,
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you're living in the future. If you're at peace, you're living in the present. And Jesus said this in the book of
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Matthew 6:34. Do not worry about tomorrow.
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If we read Plato, he says, "Time is the moving image of eternity. It's just
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right now." Presence is not a spiritual idea. You can get rid of the whole concept of the word spiritual. It's a
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doorway back into reality. The ancients were not saying be mindful.
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What they're telling us is stop living in an illusion. Don't live in a fake world. Number three, waking up requires
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compassion and service. And every single ancient text links awakening with
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compassion. And it's not compassion because you're a morally good person. It's compassion because you recognize
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the truth. Because if I see you as myself, compassion isn't morality. It's just me taking care of me. If you read
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the Quran, you see the quote, "Give to the needy, the orphan, the captive." In
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the Bible, it says, "Love your neighbor as thyself, as yourself."
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In the intellects, Confucious uh 12:2 says, "A gentleman seeks virtue." And
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Plato says, "Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Compassion is something that we
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recognize. We don't learn it, we recognize it. So once you stop believing that you're
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separate, love and compassion becomes the only behavior that makes any sense at all. It doesn't mean like I'm a good
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moral person. It just means I'm acting in something that makes perfect sense. Step four, waking up requires stillness
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and self-nowledge. This shows up everywhere. In the Upanishads, we see know thyself and you shall know the
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universe. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. In the yoga sutras, yoga
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is the stealing of the mind. In the ancient Nagamadi text, which is um in
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Gnostic Christianity, it's a type of Christianity. Know yourself and you will be free. And the Buddha tells us in
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stillness, truth reveals itself. Awakening is not adding new ideas. Never
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ever let somebody sell you on this idea. It's not going out and buying beads and adding new ideas. This is removing
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noise. Awakening is about stripping stuff away, removing illusions and
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stories and ego and fear until what's left is the thing that was always there.
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It's you without distortion. And number five, waking up transforms suffering
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into wisdom. In the Bible, in Romans 5:3, suffering produces perseverance.
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Perseverance, character, and character hope. In Buddhism, we have the four noble truths. Suffering is the path to
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enlightenment. If you look in the Bhagavad Gita, you'll see in compassion
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I destroy the darkness of ignorance with the lamp of knowledge. In the Egyptian
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pyramid texts, they say the soul ascends through trials. The ancients are not
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giving us some brochure promising us a life with no suffering. They're promising you a life where suffering
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becomes a catalyst for something. Which brings us to point number six about awakening. Waking up is just remembering
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what you are. When you put all these pieces together, truth, presence, compassion, stillness, transformation,
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every ancient tradition lands in the same place. Awakening is not becoming
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something new. It's remembering something ancient, something deeper and original that you've always been. If you
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look in the Cabala, they say each soul is a spark of the infinite. On the Emerald Tablet, it says all is one. In
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the popo vu, humans are the divine remembering itself. The final step of
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awakening isn't learning a bunch of new motivational It's recognition.
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It's a flash of remembering, oh, I'm not separate. I never was. I just forgot for
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a minute. Awakening is not a a destination that you get to. It is a return home. And it will be shitty at
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first. And if this didn't feel new to you, it's because it wasn't. You are
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remembering. I think the real unsettling part isn't how radical any of this is. It's how obvious it feels once we hear
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it. You were never missing something. You were taught to forget. And awakening
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doesn't feel like fireworks and stuff like that. It feels like stress. Then it
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feels like relief. It's like you're setting down a huge ass backpack that you didn't realize you were carrying cuz
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you've been holding it your entire freaking life. The pressure to become somebody, to prove something, to defend
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yourself, all of that built on this misunderstanding. The world does not
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change when you wake up. Your relationship to the world is what changes. Fear loses its authority. Ego
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loses its grip on you. The noise stops convincing you that it matters. It's
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just because you saw something clearly. And the truth was never really hidden.
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It was just waiting. Love you. Take care.