there's no individual agent inside the body orchestrating the activities of
that particular body and mind I mean just ask yourself now for instance how many activities
chemical reactions are going on in the body right now I don't know it's a bit thousands
and I think billions it's probably closer and then I'd own a little bit let lit let's say
those like that's a zero let's say yeah that's a lots and lots of zeroes yeah now even from a
conventional point of view how many of those do you have control over only none okay you'd
say none most people would say my thoughts and my movements I mean most people tell you know
what one or two and what kind of control is that to be able to control one or two things out of
billions I mean controlling yeah okay it's even from a conventional point of view the
idea of there being a controlling entity inside the body or the mind is absurd and contemporary
biology and science and physics and then it's not recognizing this I mean just take our thoughts
obviously what everybody wants more than anything else is to be happy and what prevents us from
being happy is the thought that says I don't like what's going on yeah so obviously the first thing
we would do if we can could control our thoughts would be to choose for our thoughts to be totally
okay with what's going on you know my wife's just gone off with a neighbour response that's fine
with me if we can control our thoughts shouldn't we be able to have that thought and wouldn't that
be the thought that you chose because then it would be fine there is no problem can we do that
we can't I mean that should just that should be enough to persuade anybody everybody that
they don't control their thoughts so thence any suggestion how when are to live one's life and
when we tend to make plans I think I'm gonna get on the plane and tomorrow who knows you just live
whatever God places in your lap yeah it's just what you get your if if the thoughts um you know
that the feeling of hunger just appears you don't create it then next thing after the feeling of
hunger appears the sensation of hunger rather that the thought appears okay let's let's call a friend
and go out to dinner at a local restaurant or the thought appears let's see what I've got in the
fridge you can't do anything about it one of those two thoughts or in some other thought is going to
appear whichever thought that appears your body is going to go either to the local restaurant or
to the fridge or whatever, so just eat everything that you need will be provided but if the thought
is wound of apparents destructiveness like oh there's a bottle of whiskey I think I'll have that
okay if that thought appears to you you're going to find yourself going to the bottle of whiskey
and drinking too much of it you think I don't like whiskey but like wine so the fact that you don't
like whiskey is just part of the conditioning of your body which you have absolutely no control
over I mean you might have been given a body the light whiskey did you choose not to like whiskey
and to like wine no no not at all just just the way you found yourself so then if somebody has
behaviour whether it's antisocial behaviour or or even criminal behaviour or addictive behaviour
that's just what's happening or yes there there's no there's no entity that is responsible for that
behaviour is is a is a response that has been conditioned that the thoughts and feelings that
lead to that behaviour are just a result of that person's conditioning class genetics plus another
whatever it is that conditions any single action but there's no individual responsible so then
there's no responsibility there's no personal responsibility and strangely understanding this
doesn't make us behave in irresponsible ways it's when we believe there is personal responsibility
that we find ourselves behaving in irresponsible ways when we feel I am a separate person it is
that feeling that gives rise to irresponsible behaviour let's take an extreme what what
enabled Hitler to behave like he did what was the founding thought behind his behaviour his ego he's
believed in a deep sense of being a sane right of being a separate self without that feeling it
would have been impossible for him to think feel act and relate like he did so it's the it's the
apparent presence of the separate self that makes us behave in irresponsible ways when that sense of
separation goes we don't find ourselves going around trashing people and behaving in unkind
ugly response four ways none our behaviour is in a line with the totality and serves the totality