What else are you gonna do when you're 60?
by yourself in your isolated hedonism?
And what sort of sex object are you gonna
be then for your hedonistic promiscuity?
That's no plan.
If you're still an adolescent at 40...
you're a creep.
You're the sort of person that
you don't even want to be around.
You don't want to be
the oldest person at the frat party.
That is not pretty.
There's something rotten about that
and I mean in that contemptible sense,
it's something that's overstated its welcome, man
And, you know, people are willing to forgive your
immaturity when you're 22 or 23 or 28 maybe, or even 30.
But man, if you're still playing that game when
you're 40, you are not a happy person and you
are going to be motivated to go out there and
make everyone miserable
and so grow the hell up.
Responsibility.
That's what gives life meaning.
It's like lift a load,
then you can tolerate yourself, right?
Because look at you, you're useless
Easily hurt.
Easily killed.
Why should you have any self-respect?
Pick something up and carry it.
Make it heavy enough so that you can think,
yeah, well, useless as I am.
At least I could move that from there to there.
And they think, well, I won't carry any load.
It's like, okay, fine.
But then you're like the sled dog
that doesn't have a sled to pull.
You're just gonna,
you're gonna tear pieces out of your own legs
because you're bored.
People are pack animals.
They need to pull against a weight.
In Switzerland, there are some mountains
that can be climbed by you and me,
it takes a day to get to the top,
and then you camp up there, and you come down the next day.
about halfway up the mountain
is what they all the halfway house.
Halfway house, halfway up the mountain.
So a group of people starts off with a guide in the morning,
and about noon, you're kind of tired.
You've been walking now for four or five hours,
and here comes, you're coming up on the halfway house,
and it is just a wonderful sight.
Because as soon as you enter the halfway house,
you can smell the food,
and they're getting ready for a good lunch,
and you're sitting down,
there's a fire in the fireplace,
and there's nice soft chairs,
you can just rest your body and refresh your body.
And so the people go into the halfway house,
they eat and laugh and enjoy,
and just really, really just kind of take in
that wonderful, refreshing atmosphere.
About an hour and a 1/2 after being in the halfway house,
the guide gets up and says,
"well, gang, it's time to put on your gear.
"We've got a hike, we've got get on up to the top."
This is a fact.
About half the people decide not to go on up to the top.
They're sitting around the table,
and they just say, "you know what, go on up.
"You're going to be coming by here tomorrow.
"You're going to be having lunch here again tomorrow.
"We're just going to hang here."
And so the people that want to get to the top,
they put their stuff on, and they kind of leave,
and the rest of the people stay behind,
they eat a little bit more food,
get around the piano, sing some songs,
get around the fireplace, enjoy the fire,
warm themselves by the fire.
Play games all afternoon, kind of enjoy themselves.
But about 4:30, quarter to five in the afternoon,
without anybody saying a word,
the people who stayed in the halfway house,
they slowly go over to where the window is,
the big window,
and they start looking outside,
and they start looking up at the top of that mountain.
And as they look at the top of that mountain,
they see their friends.
Their friends are now getting their tents out,
and they're getting ready to prepare for the night,
and it becomes very quiet.
Very somber.
Because everybody in the halfway house realizes
the mistake they've made.
They've sold their mission for a little bit
of comfort for a few hours.
Next morning, down come their friends.
And by noon, they come into the halfway house.
And when they come in, they are laughing,
they're high-fiving,
they're talking about what they've seen,
where they've been, experiences,
the fact that it was almost impossible to get up there.
In fact, they had to help each other get up there.
And how they joined teams and held hands,
and they're just telling all of these stories,
and talk about the pictures they've taken,
and how they got their group picture
up there with the flag at the top.
And the people who remained behind,
they don't say much.
They just eat their lunch,
and then follow the rest of them down
to the bottom of the hill
where their friends are waiting for them.
Those who paid the price and went to the top,
who understood now is the time to reach the mission,
they hug and tell stories and celebrate.
And the others, they just kind of slip off
and get in their car and go home.
Because they realize they're never going
to be what they wanted to be.
They're never going to see what they wanted to see.
They're never going to do what they wanted to do.
Because they failed to realize,
when they were at the halfway house,
now's the time to rest and then go on.
Pain is a good thing physically because that is your
preservation self preservation mechanism
But suffering is something that you do in your mind
So pain that happens in your body
You take it in your mind and multiply it a thousand times or a million times depending on how capable you are
or how stupid you are and
Suffer it a million times over
right now
Most human beings are like this what happened ten years ago. They can still suffer
What may happen day after tomorrow they already suffer?
They are not suffering life they think they are suffering life.
So for me a human being being impactful means
How conscious have you become this is very important because if you're in compulsive cycles
then your energy gets wasted in so many things if you absorb people
So literally 50% of life is gone daily basis just for basic maintenance of this life
50% of the time is gone and maintenance
Remaining 50% what they have
If you look at every single move that they may make with their body their thought process their emotions
You will see a whole lot of it is happening in compulsive cycles
Your experience is entirely determined by you
This is what the word karma means. Unfortunately. It's become something else here
karma means action
that means
When we say your life is your karma. We are saying your life is entirely your making 100%
What happens in the world? There are many many forces involved what happens within me. It's 100 percent me
100 percent, isn't it? Yes if you don't take charge of this
Then you're an accidental life when you're an accidental life anxiety is very natural
Naturalistic.suppose you are driving
accidentally
That is you don't know what's happening and you simply somehow going anxiety is natural or no? Yes
Any accidental moment creates anxiety?
So this is why consciousness means this that you have taken charge of the instruments of life
Which on most fundamental level is our physiological and psychological space you have taken charge of this?
Now your health your happiness your joy your ecstasy your misery. Everything is in your hands
you Exercise them as you want
The most important thing is to work upon yourself.
What does it mean by saying working upon yourself physically?
Just set up small goals for yourself for the next few weeks.
Suppose you're 18, for the last 30 years,
when the first time when you became 18,
if you did bend down, how far would you go?
At that time, maybe it went all the way to the floor.
Today, maybe it's like this.
Just see if you can go six inches more.
When you were 18 years of age, how quickly you went up a staircase.
Today, how you're plodding up up the staircase.
See if you can improve it by 10, 20 percent.
20% improvement in the next two weeks.
Just check your picture when you are 18 or below,
how you would stand, how straight you were.
And now, if you become like this, straighten yourself up a little bit!
Look further back, what kind of smile you had when you were 6, 8, 10 years of age.
See if you can get 50% of that back on your face all the time.
Not by simply grinning a plastic smile, but bring that magic back into you.
If you cannot do anything fantastic, at least you must be a pleasant piece of life on this planet.
This is something that you owe to yourself and to everybody who lives around you.
This you must do, so set up your own kind of goals and see.
It's not difficult, I'm telling you. Just needs little attention.
Right now, people think they're carrying the world on their head. No, no.
Just in case you are in Sirashasan right now
and you take a picture and turn it around,
it looks like you're carrying the planet on your head, but that's not the truth.
Whether you are on your feet or on your head,
planet is carrying you, and it's spinning by itself.
Day and night is happening by itself.
Seasons are changing by itself.
Sun comes and goes by itself.
Really there's nothing to do!
These few weeks are for time for you to realize,
everything that is significant in the universe is happening by itself.
It's for you to sit here and enjoy the bounty of life. Just make use of this.
Do not act like you are running the whole planet,
or you're running the whole universe for that matter.
You are not! It is happening by itself.
You are a tiny little creature who is here for a little bit of time.
Don't make so much fuss about it.
To handle a few years of life, do not make such a big fuss.
These few weeks you must come out as a more pleasant and wonderful human being.
This is the greatest thing you can do to yourself -
- if you sit here, this person is a pleasant experience for you.
If you are a pleasant experience for yourself,
everybody else will also experience this person as a pleasant experience.
What great things you will do or not do,
that is subject to various realities.
Nobody can fix it hundred percent.
You must understand, our actions are largely determined by the times in which we exist.
Suppose you were here five thousand years ago.
Five thousand years ago, if you were here
and this - the virus came to you.
You didn't have to do any social distancing because anyway there was nobody around you.
Even if you wanted to infect, you couldn't find a person.
So you need to understand what we are doing,
our actions, and what we do and do not do,
is the times in which we exist.