Many people call this a manual for achieving
a way of life that literally guarantees integrity joy peace and balance
in our life. Wayne Dyer explains the principle
"change your thoughts change your life" to us. Did you heard about this concept? Did
you ever use it? Tell me in the comments below. When we
change our thoughts our feelings will also change.
And our feelings are the language that we use to communicate with God
or the Universe, or whatever you call it. If we learn how to die
while we are alive, if we learn how to leave everything behind,
if we learn how to give up the control of everything, our thoughts will change,
our feelings will change, and our life will change. So let's go.
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Enjoy? What I'm asking you to do and what Lao Tzu seemed to be saying was
"Learn to die while you're alive". Because you will ultimately return all
of us have a return trip a round-trip ticket
when we came in didn't we but if you could learn to die while you're alive
and there's a great story i i have to tell you this so i want to read this
story to you it's a way to look at this idea of dying
while you're alive it's it goes like this to die while we
are alive gives us the only opportunity we'll we
will ever have to get outside of this package that
houses us temporarily there's an ancient parable
that repeated generation after generation by the spiritual masters of
india which illustrates this point listen to
this wonderful story a traveler from india went to africa to
acquire some local products and animals and while in the jungle he saw thousands
of beautiful multi-colored talking parrots he decided
to capture a talking parrot and take it back as his pet at home he
kept his parrot in a cage and he fed him and he
gave him wonderful seeds and honey and played music for his pet
and generally he treated him very well when it was time for the man to return
to africa two years later he asked his parrot if there was any
message that he could deliver to the parrot's friends who were back in the
jungle well the parrot told his master to say
that he was very happy in his cage and that he was enjoying
each day and to convey his love well when the traveler arrived back in
africa he delivered the message to the parrots
back in the jungle just as he finished his story a parrot
with tears welling up in his eyes fell over dead
the man was alarmed and he decided that the parrot must have been very close to
the parrot in the cage and that this was probably the reason
for the sadness and for his demise when the traveler returned to india he
told his pet what had happened as he finished his story the pet
parrot's eyes welled up with tears and he kneeled over
dead in his cage the man was astounded but he figured
that his pet died from the despair of hearing of the death of his close
friend back in the jungle the traitor opened up the cage and
tossed the dead bird outside onto the trash heap
immediately the pet parrot flew up to a branch on the tree outside the
trader said to him so you're not dead after all why did you
do that you tricked me and the parrot responded because that
bird back in africa sent me a very important
message what was the message the traitor wanted
to know he told me that if you want to escape
from your cage you must die while you're alive
we must indeed die while we are alive in order to be able to look back at our
waking consciousness and see ourselves trapped in our cage which in our case is
our body and then we will see how unnecessary it
is to remain caged not a great story i love
that story yeah you can applaud
what i encourage you to do is to create for yourself
a sacred space and in this sacred space i would like you to place
everything that has energy value to you photographs
i have this photograph that i looked at every day for one year and began to talk
to after a while
it's a little weird but you begin to get this idea
and those of you who wonder why i am wearing no shoes i'd like you to know
that where i live you never walk into a
sacred space with your shoes on it would be
considered dishonorable to do so and to me this stage this setting
this beautiful place and this beautiful symbol
is a sacred sacred space i live without shoes
i heard it said once that if you wear shoes everywhere you go
the whole earth will feel like leather and it's nice to feel what the earth
feels like and to feel that naturalness so in that
sacred space you will feel the energy of the
photographs of the of any mementos that you have of pictures
of your children of drawings of statues of anything at all that you can think of
i have a beautiful sacred space and it calls me
and as it calls me when i go into that place that is so
profoundly sacred to me the most beautiful things begin to happen for me
particularly in the middle of the night when no one else is up
and i feel closest to god and i feel closest to
this beautiful old man who sent so many important messages to me through
his dow to chain and in my meditations to help me to
create this program change your thoughts change your life
living the wisdom of the dao what i would like to do now is to look
at the some of the key thoughts that i would
like you to think about and consider changing as you
as you become a person who becomes more god realized that is someone who has
died but stayed alive and returned and went
back on that return trip the first of these thoughts to change is
to change the idea that i can't trust in my own nature
two i trust in my own nature did it ever occur to you that you have a
nature that that nature is so profound and
is always calling you you know it no one else can know it no one else can impose
it on you no one else can tell you what it is that
you feel in here that you know is why you're here and what you're doing
here because no one else can explain that or explore that
with you you can't you can't share it everything in the universe has a nature
your dog has a nature a crocodile has a nature
a duck has a nature a crow has a nature everything has its nature everything has
a dharma including you but what we've learned and
we've grown up to believe is that i can't trust in that nature my
nature to trust in your nature to know that you came from a divine place of
well-being and to trust in it listen to this verse
38 of the dao a few lines the great master follows
his own nature and not the trappings of life
a truly good man is not aware of his goodness
and is therefore good think about yourself
the first the first moment of life the very first moment that spec when you
went from nowhere n-o-w-h-e-r-e
to now here n-o-w h-e-r-e from nowhere to now here
same thing just a little question of spacing just a little different spacing
all right so you went from nowhere now you're in
now here and where do you think you're going
nowhere right back to nowhere who out there watching who in this
audience isn't going back to nowhere that's where we're all headed back to
nowhere so in that split second then you lived inside your mother's womb
for nine months and in that nine month period of time
you trusted your nature you didn't have a sonogram and say my god i don't have a
nose this is very scary what if it doesn't
show up on time or you didn't do any of that you trusted
completely in your own nature right and so does
your mother's very little that you can do
because what you were to become everything that this physical body
needed was all handled in there and also beyond
what was needed for your physical world and what lao tzu called
the ten the world of the ten thousand things the ten
thousand things there's ten zillion things obviously in the physical world
but that's what he how he named it the world of the ten thousand things and
in that world of the ten thousand things everything returns back to its source
but while you're in that place and why wouldn't you believe even maybe for a
second that not only was my physiology all
handled for me but everything else that i needed if i
could just stop interfering with it and stop other people from doing it that
everything i needed and that's a big part of understanding
change your thoughts change your life it's a big part of that
you have a nature that is beautiful and kind believe in your nature
it comes from a divine place everything is okay
everything is fine did you ever think like this
you came from nowhere and you're going back at one point
so whatever you think you need to be or achieve
you actually don't right you will leave everything behind
so relax and enjoy life the idea that i have a nature that i can trust
not something that i have to be afraid of and i can stop letting other people
interfere with it as well so what happens we go through those nine
months totally uninterrupted we have no questions everything works
out and then what we say the very first thing we pop out
after nine months we'll take over from here that was good
work nice work god thank you very much and so
what we'll do is just sort of edge you out of here you know
so we edge god out we take on an ego e g o and we edge out and we say
we'll take over and we have an ego and this ego what this ego does
is it takes on a set of beliefs and these beliefs are
that i am what i have but i am what i do that i am what other people think of me
so we're raised to believe that the more stuff i accumulate the more
more things that i get this is who i am the more that people like me this is
what i'll get and on and on it goes i want to tell you
a story it's a story of one of my children her
name is tracy we lived in detroit when she was born
she came in as a little rebellious she came in in the middle of the detroit
riots when they said nobody is allowed to go
out anybody that goes out is going to be arrested
and she said this would be a good time for me to show up
which is exactly what she did
so when she showed up after about the second or third year
tracy went to preschool and she came home from preschool she was about three
and in that time she came home and she said uh
she handed me a paper and it had a gold star at the top of the paper
and i looked at it and i said and she said daddy daddy daddy
daddy i got a gold star i got a gold star i said
i'm not really interested in gold stars i said but uh
what did what what are you doing what is this what what she said well
we did something in school called adding and i got them all right and i know how
to i said adding i can't believe you're free you can't
learn to add when you're three and i went to this whole long thing about
adding and how terrific it was and she could say daddy the gold star
excuse me but i was the only one in the class i got a gold star i got them all
right i said uh you know tracy i said honey
that i said some people just need to have
gold stars and and teachers sort of like to give it out
and make make that the reason why you're doing something i said
and set you apart from everybody else i said but your dad doesn't really care
much about that and how you stack up with others and
they're going to be i'm more interested in what you're learning
and she said okay she was used to that she had a weird daddy and she knew that
so about another month or so she came home with a
with a paper that had looked like it had had a gold star on it but it obviously
been taken off her little thumb prints were all over but
there was a place that had been a gold star it was taken off and i said what's
this oh she said we're now doing subtraction and i said
subtraction that's amazing and i took over by her
dresser i said you know that money you've got in your piggy bank put it in
my pocket i said that's called subtraction isn't that
great she'd give me that money back we talked and talked about subtraction
finally i couldn't i couldn't take it anymore i
said honey what happened what was this what was
here at the paper and she said oh she said that she said the teacher gave
me one of those gold stars i said really i said well what happened
to it oh she said i took it off i said well what'd you do with it she
said i gave it back to her i said well what did you tell her she
said oh i told her to uh give it to someone who needs that sort
of thing true story
yeah and there she is she's standing right here she's going to be 40 this
year my daughter tracy
so what we have to do is learn how to take this ego of ours this part of us
that believes that who we are is what we have
and what we do and what other people think of us but remember
if you grow up believing that you are what you do then when you don't
you aren't and if you believe that you are what you have
when it's gone you aren't and if you believe that you are what other people
think of you your reputation which we raise
people to believe it's my i have to be concerned with what other people think
of me take this ego and retrain it and one of
the ways that you do to retrain it is first you take this
idea that the ego has of fear what are you afraid of anybody
out there what are you afraid of shift from fear
to curiosity become curious about what you're afraid of that's what lao tzu
taught me become curious about what you're afraid
of you're afraid of flying get curious about that get interested in
that you're you're afraid of snakes you're
afraid of disapproval you're afraid just shift from fear and say i'm gonna
become more curious about what i'm afraid of and then take
all of the things that you're attached to
like all of your photographs like all of your furniture like all of your
clothing like all of the stuff that you find so much attachment to and
start letting it go start letting it go you know the day that i turned that key
on uh may the 11th and 2006 i didn't even know where i was going i
just knew there was a shift taking place i felt freer than i'd ever felt i think
in my life in my mid 60s out there on a whole new
adventure and here we are talking about on
national television on pbs take that idea that you have to be
attached to things and know that you came in with nothing
with no thing and you're going to leave with nothing
with no thing and understand that your life is a
parenthesis in eternity live there without attachment and then
take your need to be in control of yourself of others
of the situation and shift from control to trust
begin to have a true lao tzu is profound about this in each one of the 81 verses
it comes up about 60 times as you look at letting go and letting
god allowing yourself to trust in your
nature allowing yourself to no longer believe
that everything has to be controlled by me
and that other people no longer have to be in control of me as well
begin to trust in just like you did for the first nine months
you trusted your nose showed up your height showed up your eyes showed
up whatever it all showed up it's all perfect it's all the
to why not wander through your life and have this wonderful peaceful knowing
that it's all fine and finally shift from
your sense of entitlement what nobody nobody can treat me that way i'm
entitled to have this well i paid for that i let go i mean
that in one year i let go of all of my entitlements i
have i don't feel i'm entitled to anything
i'm just here shift from entitlements to radical humility lao tzu
speaks about it so often stay humble stay low the greatest
leaders are the ones who do the least the ones
who stay back and and just model and allow and at the end
of the day in one of the verses of the tao it says
the people will say we did it ourselves we did it ourselves
in verse 49 of the doubter chain here's an exact quote the sage is kind
to the kind and kind to the unkind because the nature of his being
is kindness and also be wise and help all beings
impartially abandoning none what do you think about this change your
thoughts change your life concept is it familiar to you does it make sense
to you are you attached to things do you care
what others think about you do you feel you need to achieve
something what is this achievement that we are talking about
is it something objective or subjective don't you think there is something
greater bigger than us something that take care of your
breathing something that makes your heart beating
i'm very curious about your thoughts so leave them in the comments section
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