Michael Singer Podcast: The Commitment to Stay Conscious

- either it's attracting you or repulsing you or you ignore it

- 3rd option = it doent affect your inner state, it's neutral (desks, chairs) -
- the rain will come when it comes, the wind will blow, person will say what it
says... if it doesnt affect you,
you're in a balanced state
- both are disturbances: either i need to push it further away or i need to get
it, and cling to it
- how can you work on yourself, you're busy working on your problems and solutions
- but only on working on myself i can resolve this apparent problems
- you can not solve problems by working on the things outside - but it takes
evolved being to recgnize that
- work on yourself so that all things in life have this peacefulness an neutrality
- it's all life, and they come and they go
- people normally feel that life is passing them by, and by living this way you
will feel depth that people rarely feel
- jogis: all of life is beautiful, all of life is fulfilling, and if it isn't that
bcs of some problem inside of you
- there's nothing wrong with life (neither right)
- it's more important to know what's pulling oyu out of that med state tahn
pranajamas that brings you into
- if you're nerous around people - thats wonderful taht i'm nervous, you have to
watch that
- core of our path: losing our center and coming back to it, it's very siritaula
thing
- i care more obout reming in center than what peole wil think of me / money /
someone will like me
- how in the world can anything botheryou
- nothing is worth losing your center
- you can not change the world nor you have the right
- can you stay conciouns in te face of fear if the cirm cause fear / desire /
- meeting your parents practice: breathe and center yourself before going into the
room
- notice yourself sitting and how long it takes for things to be said to you and
you not saing things back
- you ll notice in yourself ins, fears , resentment that you never knew you had ,
dep stuff that these people
are stimulating in you and you cant handle it, that s why you cant handle those
people
- and now meeting you parents, experience is spiritual experience
- you use it to liberate you or you suffer