The Real YOU When youre ready to wake up, youre going to wake up, and if youre not ready youre going to stay pretending that youre just a poor little me. And since youre all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume youre all in the process of waking up. Or else youre teasing yourselves with some kind of flirtation with waking up which youre not serious about. But I assume that maybe you are not serious, but sincere -- that you are ready to wake up. So then, when youre in the way of waking up, and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing a the place you call here and now. You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe. So then, when you die, youre not going to have to put up with everlasting non-existance, because thats not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they die, theyre going to be locked up in a dark room forever, and sort of undergo that. But one of the interesting things in the world is--this is a yoga, this is a realization--try and imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that. Children think about it. Its one of the great wonders of life. What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out, among other things, it will pose the next question to you. What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you cant have an experience of nothing; nature abhors a vacuum. So after youre dead, the only thing that can happen is the same experience, or the same sort of experience as when you were born. In other words, we all know very well that after other people die, other people are born. And theyre all you, only you can only experience it one at a time. Everybody is I, you all know youre you, and wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesnt make any difference. You are all of them. And when they come into being, thats you coming into being. You know that very well, only you dont have to remember the past in the same way you dont have to think about how you work your thyroid gland, or whatever else it is in your organism. You dont have to know how to shine the sun. You just do it, like you breath. Doesnt it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that youre doing all this and you never had any education in how to do it? Never learned, but youre this miracle? Alan Watts
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 01:01:46 +0000
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