for instance we've been seeking for happiness in objects or situations or relationships all
our life and at some point it dawns on us that happiness just is not revealed it's not a it's
not experienced as a result of acquiring any kind of an object we at some stage we see that clearly
that what we have longed for so deeply all our lives is not going to be delivered by an object
but the love that we have longed for all our lives is not going to be delivered by a relationship
the piece we have longed for is not going to be delivered via situation at some stage but we see
this very clearly and as a result of this seeing our investment in objects and relationships and
situations diminishes decreases that that's not the same as saying that we cease relating with
objects people not at all we continue to have all kinds of relationships to be involved more
or less actively in the world or all these things continue but we no longer invest our happiness
our sense of love and peace in them and that's a a radical change in other words we no longer
give our hearts and our minds to we no longer place them in an object now we don't replace the
conventional objects with a more subtle object called awareness because actually it's we just
no longer invest them in any kind of an object we don't find a new direction for them but with
it but we could we could say we give our hearts and our minds towards this to this reality two
presents with slightly objectifying presents by saying some but but but that's okay in the context
of the conversation yes we we give our hearts and our minds to to what we truly value the most
in our lives and and everything else falls away we don't need to get rid of it we don't need to
discipline it the way we don't need it just falls away we no longer invested in it it just it just
becomes redundant we don't have to go to war with any of these old appearances when when they appear
we're just not invested in them anymore and sooner or later they begin to showing up less and less
then they just leave us in the peace of our true nature less and less objects or situations are
able to seemingly take us away by the way we could say that there is just more and more abidance
unshakeable abidance an equally what seems to come with that as it were the third stage you were
talking about whereby those apparent objects are instead of being as it were the means to losing
yourself become the means towards the memories of yourself as it were or declarations of yourself
yes yes what what was once seen as a potential distraction an object towards which we give
our unloved and our attention which seemed to take us away from ourselves now every object or
situation before it tells us anything about an apparent object or world or situation it first
tells us about the light of awareness with which it is known so everything all seeming
things first announce the presence of awareness before they tell us anything about a relative
object and everything can be seen in that way our experience doesn't insist that we consider all
of this separate distant outside it's neutral it can be seen either way we are the ones that give
value and meaning to our experience this room does not tell us that it is a room this room
is not saying that it is an object the world has never stood up and said I'm an object a tree has
never said I am a tree a car has never said I am a car I'm an object I made out to something
dead or inert I'm distant or separate from you the world never says these things objects never
say these things there's only one thing that says these things thought what does thought
about being the chair absolutely nothing so yes we can we are free to see our experience how we
like either to confirm that experience consists of a series of objects or to see that our experience
shines with the light of awareness with which it is known and ultimately out of which it is
made both possibilities are equally available in every and to all beings literally every
moment every moment to literally all beings the world imposes nothing on us absolutely
nothing the spirit of not imposing on your time okay let's have lunch time but before