earlier um I think you were yesterday talking about these orange glasses and how we you know
we're all wearing a different lens and so the world appears to us or reality appears to us
based on that lens and sometimes I wonder especially like in in light of
this afternoon's conversations about the state of the world is you know are we all wearing
kind of glasses that are tinted with climate change because reality is that same unmoving
loving awareness or what you know we I mean the word there are no words for it because
there's no word that you can put to it that does it justice but that one reality that is
a movement and a rest is that movement appearing to us because we're all kind of wearing a similar
tinted lens that we're perceiving it yes do you see what I mean all human Minds um
are configured in the same way they're always we're all wearing the same orange glasses and
then over the orange glasses we have individual filters but the basic filter of each of our minds
is the the orange tinted glasses is um thinking and perceiving
and therefore all human Minds experience reality in time and space sure and then on top of that
we then interpret what we see but but those are those are more relative conditionings
sure it almost sounds like to me and that's why I want to clarify this almost like there's like a a
mass hypnosis or like you know that hologram example that you used to use once in a while
like it's almost like we're all seeing that same hologram because we're wearing you know we've got
um conditioning in time and space because our minds are all configured in the form of
thinking and perceiving sure so are the events that we're experiencing as a Consciousness or
a mass of humanity also then uh you know function of the fact that we're conditioned or programmed
a certain way and therefore if enough of us woke up to our true nature you you still look at the
world through orange tinted glasses you still think and perceive you you're the only way you
can pursue the Buddha Jesus Christ Ramana Maharshi they the the only way they could perceive a world
was through seeing hearing touching tasting and smelling their minds were configured in
exactly the same way as our minds okay so that didn't recognizing their true nature
didn't change their faculties of sense perception sure so therefore the reality showed up the same
way but they just had a deeper understanding of what was going on what the change is that
the the appearance of the world
loses its veiling power okay so here's my question Andrew but for most people sorry let me just
clarify that for most people the appearance of the world ten thousand things veils the
one reality that seems as a result to lie behind it for when we recognize that the shared nature
of our being that ten thousand things they remain they still appear as ten thousand things but they
cease to Veil or conceal their reality they shine with their reality I I know that as their reality
I agree but imagine if so let's put it this if there were eight billion
Rupert's on the planet just as an example right or eight billion Buddhas would there
the fact that they don't that reality is no longer veiled and that they know the true
nature not only of themselves but of all of the one you know the not two would that mean that
the appearance of those ten thousand things might change no the appearance doesn't change
at all it's interpretation it's not um in in Sanskrit in in traditional Vedantic terminology
it's not Maya that changes it's not Maya that goes it's ignorance that goes Maya the world
Remains the Same so climate change would still be climate change but can you see what I mean
no I'm just talking about the fundamental appearance of things there would be changes
within the world for instance um cruelty unkindness Injustice
um conflict these would be almost impossible right and then would be if if Society contained
if Society were made up of people who share the understanding that we have here
why why simply because we everyone would feel that they share their being with the apparent other
so there'll be no no impulse to harm them in any way or to cross suffering to a person or an animal
so therefore the greatest service we can render humanity is realizing our true nature and living
from that like the Maharishi said or our first sacred duty is to realize our true
nature absolutely and then our second sacred duty is to express the implications of that
recognition to the best of our ability in all aspects of our life thank you