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Welcome back spiritual dope we are working on are you ready to succeed written by Mr. Rao? And we are on chapter four, you can't kill it and it won't shut up. And we're on part two of how many I don't know, it's just God, we'll have to, we'll have to play by ear. We just finished up with by golly,

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I'll stop that mental

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chatter. And now we're going to get over to an incredibly fertile plot of land. So the deal is, look, mental chatter is not the the overall enemy. It only seems to be the enemy, because you just let it run amok. I'll give you my, my chickens, for example, right? Like, if we don't clean up bathroom makes a big old mess, right? If you don't, if you don't know that they're running around, it'll make a big ol mess like our kids, right? If we, if we leave him alone for too long in any one area, with all the things, they'll make a big mess, because you haven't been paying attention. I know mine, mine, don't do that. And you haven't been aware of it. So the idea is, though, now now you are aware of it. All right, now you're aware that, you know, you're you've got this mental chatter going on. And it's been going on all this time. Sreekumar says, hey, look, imagine this is a plot of land with plenty of fertile ground. And if you've ever, if you've ever just kind of cleared off a spot in your yard or anywhere, and then you walk away from it for a while, you know, with your intention was, Hey, I'm gonna, you know, do this garden. I mean, I don't know how many of you guys tried to do a garden over, you know, 2020 COVID. But what happens is, if you don't pay attention to it, you're gonna get all kinds of overgrowth, and there's no way that you're going to be able to see, you know, the bare ground that you left behind is going to be so much overgrowth, it's like, wow, I'm not even gonna bother, screw it. Like, I'll get to this next year. I know, that was me and my, my garden this year. So but imagine now what what happens if you leave this incredibly fertile plot of land alone for years, and years, you'll have a forest job a big old mess. So your mind is pretty much the same thing. Right? Your mind will grow and nurture no matter what you kind of, you know, let in there or on there, it can not be prevented. There won't be it's impossible, right? Something's going to grow there. It absolutely will produce. And here's the good news. The good news is you may influence the garden, right, it's going to take, it's going to take some weeding, it's going to take some rowing. And eventually, if you've ever had a Successful Garden, you'll know that you'll have so much leftover and you'll have an abundance, you'll have so much leftover, that you'll be sharing it with others. The I remember a garden that I had a few years ago, and a fig tree and all this stuff I had so much I didn't know what to do with it, though I couldn't even with the tiniest garden, I had so much I didn't I had to give stuff away. Right? This is this is like your mind when you nurture these, these awesome thoughts when you begin to nurture? How you cultivate the mind, right? I mean, it's literally cultivation of the mind. So the deal is, you've been away from your mind, you've been away from tending to your mind for four years, right? You've been you've not been tending to the idea of your mental chatter you just been like that? Well, that's just how it goes. And it rolls out this way, right? Because who has taught you previous to now that you just you write it out, there's just your thoughts, your thinking your thoughts, and there's one thing you can do about them, they come they go and you know, you talk yourself like shit that'll happen. But deal is of course we know this now. That's not that's not necessarily true. So when you show up to your garden, and it's a fucking mess, don't be surprised, right? The real thing you want to do is be grateful that there are some useful plants right thoughts and ideas anything good at all in there. And then literally set about to tending to that shit, you got to imagine that imagine the the people that came to the United States of America, and they had to they had to cultivate the land right in order to grow they had to clear down fields and forests and they had to create fields and they had to do that do a lot of that they'll do a lot of work. That's your mind right? You know just pretend like you're no secrets for Columbus when there's somebody Christopher Columbus man, but the deal is imagine years some years some adventure, right? And you get stranded at some Island and right now you're you come into a place that you're very familiar with your mind, you know, the things that are in there and and now you know Now you know that you can create within your mind, right? So we've got this, we've got this idea of your mental chatter. Now you've got the idea of, you know, awareness, right. And he's got a great line. And it's the weeds in your mind will wither

once exposed to the light of awareness, and you know, plenty of people will tell you this one too, that, you know, darkness goes away, once you expose it to the light, right, it's super, super simple, same thing. And you will recognize as you begin now, with their, with your practice, the distracting and unsupportive thoughts are the things that are bringing you down and simply not serving you, you'll be able to, you'll be able to recognize those now. And, you know, simply recognizing that you're having those thoughts will tend to diminish them, right, it's kind of the idea of weeding them out. As built up, round up in your mind, if you will, or again, you know, think of it as like this kind of nocturnal plant that once exposed to the light just shrivels away, you don't really have to say or judge anything is something that I would say about this experience, once you just recognize it, you know, see the thought for what it is, it's a thought, it's no judgement to it just be like, Oh, it's not really helping me, ah, I'm gonna let that one go. Or, and literally the other concept of it is, it is a stream of consciousness. Let it go on down its merry way and it's bubbling fucking broke and just let it go. So we get to the witness, right, the best friend you will ever have. This is what will assist you with your awareness. And this is the idea of right of watching your thoughts dispassionately and again, he calls it says, this does have a name they call it the watcher. And when I say they, it is a universal concept. I know that this is prevalent inside of Hinduism, and in mindfulness and meditation. And you the watcher merely observes, right? It is dispassionate, there's, there's no judgment, again, no labels assigned, you just you look at these things as their thoughts or emotions. And I learned through about that myself and headspace, right thoughts or emotions, what is it, and you don't have to say that's a good one or a bad one, just which one is it and be dispassionate about it. Once you begin to leverage the watcher, you will begin to feel like you are on two tracks. There's the just kind of emotional piece where you are doing it, where you are the one doing the things, but then there's this uncanny ability to kind of watch yourself doing these things. And it's very interesting, right? It's very interesting. So initially, he says, Hey, initially, you you won't be able to hold the water for a few seconds, right? Because it's, it's basically like saying, the mind is like, ah, or we're like, shut the door, I'm in the bathroom, right, it's natural for the mind to resist the light be just kind of shoved away. And I think the other idea too, is like you're building a new muscle, you're building a new skill and it's not going to be until after repetition that you're going to be able to hold the watcher for longer periods of time. And I jotted down here too that the watcher can be seen and NLP exercises. Consider the idea of, you know, if you kind of close your eyes and you know, remove yourself one person back, take one step out of yourself. And then pretend like you're watching yourself, when you when you remove yourself and you see yourself as here I see myself is creating this podcast saying these things and I can see my face and emotions and feel them. But I'm one step removed. And then you can do it a second time. You can say here's the guy watching a guy who's doing something then you can do it a third time. Here's the guy watching a guy watching a guy watch a guy doing something and it's kind of once you get pulled away like that far back the emotion the passion and and these kind of attached emotionally the attachment to what is happening begins to diminish and I think that's very interesting how we're beginning to see the merger of of these kind of East meets West the psychology energy fields and thoughts and processes. What's even funnier is you know, here we are like NLP who does brand new, you know, thing Neuro Linguistic you know, practices and These are things that are, you know, 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of years old, that, you know, people are stumbling upon and feeling they're brand new whereas, and primarily because they're not familiar with Eastern philosophy or an Eastern way of thinking. They, they're like Eureka.

So, and if you if you've been following along through this book, and if you've been following along through some of these exercises, and you've sincerely begun to watch your own thoughts as passionately, chances are that you have begun to see your voice of judgment kind of diminish. And it's very interesting how you how quickly you can stop beating yourself up simply because you are you, you've got this, you know, you got this witness, you've brought somebody with you, you've got this observational ability that you didn't really have before be or realize that you had before because you've been so attached and invested in your thoughts. Because your thoughts, they're not man, you've gotten these thoughts from like the rest of the world. So they're your thoughts. And then they make you body and your life and you feel these things. And these are my feelings. Oh, makes me so mad. Like, if you take a step back, and you're like, well, that guy's just getting mad because he thinks it's these thoughts, those sayings and he's feeling this way. But as an observer, you know, you can kind of zoom out as it were, and you can see the the, the forest right, you know, people always like you can't see the forest because of the trees or whatever to close the tree. So it's the same thing. We zoom out and you get to see the whole scene. And you get to detach on the video, those emotions because, you know, they're no longer your emotions, you're watching somebody else's emotions. And it's very interesting anyways. So the the witness is the friend you ought to care for and nurture more than most. I think that's I think that's pretty interesting one, so I'll stop it on this one too. We fill out a little bit more to go through on chapter four.

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