don’t give up on the person you’re becoming…(this one hits deep)

the universe doesn't look in terms of good and bad right wrong success failure it looks in terms of cause and effect every cause creates an effect and every effect has a cause and if you participate in the cause you participate in the effect and i don't say we'll participate in it you participate in it they happen together your experience of the effect may take some time it may take a few days it may take a month it may happen immediately what is it that you should value and people say well being happy they don't even mean that by the way if you decompose what people mean when they say they want to be happy what it turns out they actually mean is they don't want to be miserable they're way more concerned with avoiding suffering than they are with pursuing you know enthusiastic positive emotion so even the statement i want to be happy is actually not an accurate reflection of what it is that you want what happens with human beings is every thought has a frequency every thought produces a chemical so if you keep obsessing about your lack your lack of finances your lack of time your lack of energy but you're taking thought it's producing a frequency and that frequency in the form of chemistry is storing that thought emotionally right in your second center you feel guilty you feel unhappy the moment you feel unhappy then you generate more thoughts equal to that feeling which makes more chemicals and you keep taking energy from the brain and storing it in the body if you react to people in your life and you feel anger frustration whether whatever it is from this field this electromagnetic field you're tapping that resource and you're making chemistry out of it in the field shrinks so now by doing that and living in survival the body no longer is a magnet every ideal is a judge and that makes perfect sense because an ideal is something to which you aspire and the gap between you and that idea if it's your idea is felt as judgment and so that's one of the reasons people are very afraid to have an ideal that's why i wrote do not hide things in the fog it's like well you should lay out an ideal you should pursue an ideal why wouldn't you well when you make your ideal explicit it turns into your judge well then you can listen to that judge and and move forward and transform [Music] discipline with desire is easy discipline isn't that hard if you have real desire i mean if you want something bad enough the discipline's not too difficult i think discipline without desire is very difficult do what is meaningful not what is expedient because meaning is an instinct meaning is the instinct that guides you in life across the totality of life right what's expedient that's what you might want to do right now in an impulsive sense right because you're driven forward by oh anger or anxiety or frustration or disappointment or despair some sort of one-eyed motivational monster that's got you in its grip that really isn't considering everything at once and the instinct for meaning seems to be a consequence of the integration of all of those underlying motivations and emotions with social being and then the manifestation of something like the proper pathway forward and so you need that because you need to know how to move forward in life because you need to move forward in life you need to act in life every day i want to train myself to be prepared for a war whatever that war is whether that's externally internal the discipline of doing something painful every day i think is one of the most important disciplines that any human being can have whatever that pain looks like for you i believe we must lean into pain every day otherwise pain pain is going to lead into us but if we're leaning into it first when when stuff happens it's like yeah i got this because i do this every day i'm not saying we should be at pain 80 of our day but maybe an hour 30 minutes you should do something that makes you want to stop or make someone relax because then when stuff really happens you'll be relaxed all i can get certain about is putting my next step forward and i think it's kind of like when you're walking you've become so comfortable walking you don't even realize but actually all you're doing is putting your next step right you can't think about what's gonna happen in a hundred steps time because you haven't walked over the ground though you don't know how the ground is gonna change so for me the mindset is how do i just place this next step not perfectly but how do i place this next step with my best intention process and habits possible and what does that require that requires me to be connected internally to my internal guide and what does that require it requires me to find that stillness in space so i can actually listen there's the insistence upon action as of primary import we're not fundamentally creatures who passively perceive the objective world that's not the goal of our perceptual systems it's not the goal of our memory the reason that you have memories isn't to remember the past the reason you have memories is so that if something bad happened to you in the past you can figure out what it was that was bad and you could figure out why it happened and then you can not do it again in the future right it's very practical and it's the same on the positive end of the spectrum if good things happen to you in the past then conceivably duplicating whatever you did to get those good things to happen could have them happen again in the future so it's it's practical memory and it's it's oriented towards action and it's oriented towards like the quality of your life [Music] i think the parameter the principle the the value the ethic that actually helps us continue with perseverance and patience is hope hope is that one element that can keep us going the worst thing to happen in life is to lose hope and be hopeless so if you're sitting there waiting for our turn to come hope against hope one day i will also have my time and my place when how we do not know because these are factors that are completely beyond our control [Music] so [Music] [Applause] you