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When I die in the name of rest. Going to

[music] go to the place that's the best.

Going to lay me down [music] to die.

Going up to the spirit in the sky.

Going up to the spirit in the sky.

That's where I'm [music and singing]

going to go when I die.

When I die and lay to rest, I'm going to

go to the place that's [singing] the

best

[music]

since I was like 10.

I've been obsessed with ancient [music]

texts. And I do mean obsess. I read them

and [music] still read them like people

read data reports. I compare all the

versions and the translations, line by

line comparisons, [music]

and something has always bothered me.

I've been digging through ancient texts

since I was little. [music] And not like

a handful, not like 10 or 20, I'm

talking over 190 sacred writings from

every corner of human civilization.

Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish,

Islamic, Tauist, Gnostic, Egyptian,

Mayan, Hermetic, Confucian, Sumerian,

indigenous. These are texts written

thousands of miles apart, thousands of

years apart with no way to influence

each other. And yet somewhere between

the lines, they're all whispering the

exact same message. And it's not

similar. It's not a kind of like

message. It's the exact same five truths

over [music] and over. So, this video

isn't body language and persuasion, and

it's definitely not about religion in

any way. So, if your level of certainty

about the world is super high, this

might itch a little, and you know that

certainty in human behavior shows up

when something needs to be protected.

So, you do not have to agree with any of

this to get something powerful from it.

All right?

There's something worth considering

regardless of [music] your faith or your

background. First, if God or ultimate

truth [music] is real, then it or he or

she existed way before any book, any

language, or one [music] single

tradition ever appeared, which means

that truth wouldn't belong to just one

place or one people. Second, [music]

when civilizations that are separated by

oceans and centuries

describe [music]

the same insights about reality and

human nature and meaning,

it suggests

they were observing something [music]

universal rather than inventing

something locally.

And just like gravity existed before we

ever had a name for it, and mathematics

works the same everywhere on Earth,

truth, and I [music] mean truth with a

capital T, doesn't change based on

culture or belief. It just [music] gets

described through different and very

flawed human lenses. This is why the

deepest [music] spiritual experiences

sound so unbelievably similar across

traditions. And I think it's why

history's greatest teachers [music]

didn't try to fracture humanity, but

they tried to wake it up to something it

already carried inside of it across

every culture, every timeline, every

belief system humans have ever built.

When I first saw the pattern forming, it

didn't feel like research in any way.

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>> It felt like finding a message that

humanity buried [music] like fragments

of a treasure map that we as a species

were unconsciously developing for some

future generation to find. And I think

there are a few things that nobody wants

to be said out loud. First, if truth is

real, if it's fundamental, it should

show up everywhere [music] in every era,

every tribe, every myth, every

scripture. And I think that it actually

does.

But somehow, I think we miss something.

We get lost in the arguments about who's

right. We get lost in [music] the

differences, the translations, the

rituals, the politics, and the fear. We

[music] started defending our favorite

book instead of noticing what all the

books were trying to say. If you can

imagine dozens of civilizations who

never met, they never traded language.

They never shared a single word with

each other all describing the same

fundamental truths of reality. What

would that mean? What would that force

us to consider? [music]

Because if that's true, then the

greatest spiritual secret on Earth was

never hidden at all. It was just

scattered like a puzzle all across our

species story. And if all of those

pieces could come together, we might see

something pretty astonishing.

But before we talk about the message

they left us, you have to understand why

these truths [music]

were actually hidden in the first place.

And they were hidden. This isn't

debated. I promise it's not conspiracy

and churches and governments that did

it. It's way older than that. Before we

go any further, you need to understand

something that almost everybody gets

wrong about all these ancient texts, cuz

I know there's a lot of videos out there

that talk about them. These ancient

texts were not trying to be mysterious.

They weren't trying to be poetic. They

weren't trying to confuse anybody. They

were trying to describe the utterly

indescribable [music]

by using a human brain and human

language that was never [music] designed

to grasp any of this at all. That is

truly the core problem. Language.

So language, [music]

any language is a cage. It's a net with

holes that are [music] way too wide to

catch something that's truly infinite.

And the people who wrote these texts,

they knew that. That's why lau opens the

[music] tao deqing with the most

brutally honest sentence in the ancient

texts altogether. The dao that could

[music] be spoken is not the eternal

dao.

The meaning is the moment that you try

to explain ultimate truth, you've

already distorted it and filtered it and

tried to contain it. Jesus understood

this too. He literally tells the

disciples that he speaks in parables

because most [music] people aren't ready

to comprehend the truth directly. They

didn't have language for quantum [music]

physics and non-duality or consciousness

models like we do today, which is still

an infantile language. They had to

compress the infinite into words. So,

every ancient culture hit the exact

[music] same wall. How do you describe

an experience bigger than thought itself

with a language that's built out of

thought? How do you describe God? Unity,

[music] infinity, consciousness with a

vocabulary built for farms [music] and

weather and trading spices and chickens

with each other. How do you tell people

the universe is one [music]

before they even understand atoms or

galaxies or even their own mind?

The answer is you can't. So they did the

only thing that they could. They spoke

in metaphors and symbols [music] and

myths and stories, poetry and parables

and riddles. And sometimes it was just

silence. And they didn't do this to hide

the truth. The truth was just too large

to fit through the doorway of our

primitive little language. If you can

imagine standing in front of a sunrise

so [music] massive and overwhelming that

words feel absolutely stupid to describe

it. Now imagine trying to explain

[music] that sunrise to somebody who's

never seen light before. This is why

ancient texts seem contradictory. The

problem wasn't the message. It was the

translation. Different cultures, [music]

different metaphors, different symbols.

It was the same truth filtered through

different and extremely human

limitations. And when you finally zoom

out far enough, the differences

disappear. The metaphors line up, the

symbols overlap, and in my [music]

estimation, the contradictions dissolve.

You start to see that these were

fragments of maps. And once I noticed

that, something [music] insane happened.

The patterns in these texts started

connecting like constellations across

all these continents, across millennia,

across belief systems that supposedly

are against each other. They weren't

opposing each other at all. They were

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completing each other. And that's when

these five truths revealed themselves.

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So here's where we go next. If every

civilization on Earth discovered the

same truths, if humans who never met

somehow described the exact same

reality,

the question becomes,

what exactly did they all see?

Here's what they all agreed on. This is

the first truth, the one the ancient

world tried their absolute hardest to

communicate to us. And it's also the one

that we've [music] gone the farthest

away from. You are not separate. You

never were and you never could be.

Every single ancient civilization on

earth figured this out. In the

upanishads in [music] from India, they

had a saying called tatwam usi. I think

that's how you pronounce it. But it

basically means you are that not

connected to it, not loved by it. You

are the divine wearing this [music]

human costume. Jesus even said this. He

said the entire kingdom of God [music]

is within you. Not in a building or book

in you. In the ancient Sufi texts

they said you are not a drop in the

ocean. You are the entire ocean in a

drop. If you look at hermetic texts all

is one.

If you look at Daoism, everything is the

Dao expressing itself in 10,000 forms.

If you look at the ancient Mayan text

which is called the Popal VU, you see

heart of sky, heart of earth. This is

the universe as a single living being.

Even looking at Buddhism, there is no

separate self. If you look inside the

Cabala, which is one of my favorite

quotes, they say, "Creation is one

emanation divided only in appearance."

And if you look into quantum physics,

what are we starting to discover?

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Everything is one field fragmented by

perception. Different cultures,

different metaphors, same exact truth.

There is no you versus the world. There

is only this one universe like

experiencing itself from your point of

view. Separation is what they're trying

to show us is a hallucination. Being

divided is a glitch in humanity and

isolation [music] is not really real.

This is the kind of the metaphor they're

trying to get us to understand. When a

wave rises up out of the ocean, it looks

separate. It has its own little shape.

It has its own motion, its own lifespan,

but the wave is not actually a thing.

It's the ocean just for a few seconds,

expressing itself in a temporary form.

When you were born, that was the ocean

rising. When you die, the wave goes back

into itself. You never stopped being the

ocean. You just forgot for a minute.

[music] And when every ancient texts

says things like one spirit, one God and

father of all, as above, so below, you

are that. The kingdom is within. All is

mind. Everything is the Dao. They're all

trying to point [music] at the same

thing. You are the universe aware of

itself. You are the divine looking out

through human eyes temporarily. You are

not the world. The world is in you. And

here's the super raw part that they

didn't say outright. Every mystic hinted

at this. If you aren't separate, then

your entire life, your [music] entire

identity, your whole entire world view

might just be built on a

misunderstanding. And that

misunderstanding is what makes most of

us suffer. Because the moment that

you've believed that you're separate,

you start fearing loss and death and

rejection and scarcity. And we start

chasing significance and validation and

control. [music] We start defending our

little ego like it's sacred. But the

moment that we remember what we actually

are, [music] the fear goes away.

Conflict all dissolves. Loneliness goes

away. [music] Death changes meaning

entirely. And life becomes something

that we can finally understand. A single

field of consciousness somehow playing

out as billions [music] of expressions

trying to remember itself. This is why

truth number one sits at the foundation

of everything else. Because if we are

not separate from each other and if

you're not separate from the universe,

then what comes next is the operating

system of reality. Number two, fear is

an illusion and love [music] is the

truth. So if the first truth is that

you're not separate, the second truth is

the one that keeps shaping your entire

life without you realizing it. [music]

Fear is the greatest lie ever told. Love

is the only thing that's real. Every

ancient text, [music]

it doesn't matter the culture, it

doesn't matter what language, repeats

the [music] same idea so many times it's

almost suspicious.

The most repeated phrase [music] in the

entire Bible is fear not or do not be

afraid. A quote from Jesus says,

"Perfect love casts out [music] fear."

We hear the Buddha say, "Hatred does not

cease by hatred. By love alone is hatred

healed." [music] In the Bhagavad Gita we

read the path of devotion, love leads to

liberation. The path [music] of

ignorance, fear leads to suffering. The

Daqing we see courage comes from love,

paralysis [music] comes from fear. In

the Dharmapata

we read the mind is everything. [music]

Meaning that fear starts in the mind and

not the world itself.

In ancient Sufi wisdom, we [music]

specifically see from Roomie, "Your job

is not to seek for love, but to find and

remove the barriers you built against

it." How beautiful is that? All these

civilizations that never spoke a single

word to each other somehow arrived at

the same conclusion about reality. Fear

is an illusion that keeps us asleep.

[music] And love is the frequency or the

thing that wakes us up. Fear shrinks

self and love expands the self. Fear

breeds ego and love dissolves it.

[music] Fear isolates you and love

reminds you who the hell you actually

are. Fear makes you chase approval,

validation, and money and control.

[music] It makes us compare oursel to

everybody else. Fear makes us live like

something is missing. Love in the

ancient sense isn't romantic. [music]

What they mean is oneness. It's

alignment. It's essentially the

recognition that we're made of the same

[music] stuff, the same light or the

same source, whatever you want to call

it. That's why fear feels bad because

it's biologically incompatible with what

you actually are. Every mistake you've

ever made, every relationship that blew

up, every regret you [music] carry,

every time you sabotage your own

potential, it's all fear.

Every spiritual leader across time was

basically saying you're suffering

[music] because you're believing a lie.

The moment that you drop fear, you don't

just all of a sudden find love. You're

not finding love. You're returning

[music] to it. It's your default state.

That's why we're born with it. Is the

only real thing underneath all the noise

is just that. But all the [music]

ancients didn't stop there. They all

said the same thing next. something that

modern science is finally catching up

to. [music] And if love is real and fear

is an illusion, then who's creating the

illusion? Your mind. Which leads us to

truth number three. Your mind is not a

camera. It is a projector. So your brain

doesn't record reality. It generates

reality. I'm talking about the most

ancient spiritual teaching on [music]

earth. And it's the most modern

scientific discovery at the same time.

But let's go back. If you look at the

dharmapara, we see what you think

[music] you become. If you look at the

hermetic texts, the all is mind. In the

Hindu vanta, we see maya, the world you

perceive is shaped by the mind's

illusions. [music] And then back to the

upan shads again, the universe arises

from consciousness. That's pretty

[music] straightforward. And even

looking back at Plato, he says reality

is the moving image of eternity. And the

translation for that would be the mind

shapes what you perceive. If you look at

quantum physics, observation changes the

behavior of matter, physical [music]

particles. So I think the meaning here

is consciousness is not inside the

universe. The universe [music] is inside

consciousness.

Every single culture was [music]

screaming this exact same thing. Your

mind is not reacting to life. It's

constructing [music]

the version of life that you're

experiencing. Your fears, your beliefs,

your identity, your memories, your

stories, all those patterns you have in

your life. We think that they're

interpretations. What they are is

filters [music] that reshape reality

before reality reaches you. This is why

two people can live through the exact

same moment and [music] experience two

completely different things. This is why

suffering usually comes from inside and

not [music] outside. This is why so many

ancient texts focus way more on inner

world than outer world. And this is

probably also why every spiritual path

teaches [music] stillness and silence

and presence and meditation and

surrender. And I think this is because

the moment that we stop letting fear

hijack the projector, we start seeing

reality pretty clearly for the first

time. If your mind shapes reality, then

every limitation you hold is one that

you unconsciously built. And every

breakthrough that you're chasing is just

one little thought pattern away. Truths

one, two, and three combine into a

single explosive idea. If you're not

separate, if fear isn't real, if your

mind is essentially shaping everything,

then the only thing standing between you

and freedom is the part [music] of you

that believes otherwise. And this brings

us to the most dangerous truth of all.

[music] The enemy is not the world. The

enemy is the ego.

So if those first three truths show you

what you are, the fourth truth [music]

shows you what's been blocking you from

the beginning. So the ego is the only

real enemy here. It's the only enemy

that you're going to face. No demons, no

bad luck, no other people, not the

world. Every ancient text, every mystic,

all these enlightened teachers, they all

gave us the exact same warning. The

thing that we call us, the thing that

you call you is the thing that's hurting

you. If we look in the Bavad Gita, we

see the self must conquer the lower

self. If we read Plato, he says, [music]

all sins come from excess self-love. If

you read the words of Jesus, unless a

man dies to himself, he cannot live. In

the words of the Buddha, suffering

begins with attachment to the self. In

the da deqing we see he who defines

himself can't know who he truly is.

Different continents, different

countries, same diagnosis. The ego is

not your personality or your identity.

It's not your sense of eye. Let me give

you a definition of ego that's going to

change your life if you adopt it. The

ego is the story that you built to

survive your fears. It's a mask. It's a

guard rail. It's a little protective

suit that we stitch together from trauma

and insecurity and expectations and and

some conditioning and that suit becomes

our prison. But the ego desires one big

thing, separation. It needs to feel

separate [music] to exist. Separate from

other people, separate from the big

universe, separate from the divine,

separate from truth. The ego has to be

able to compare. It feeds on better

than, worse than, smarter than, more

deserving than, more important than. So

basically the ego needs three things. It

needs hierarchy, conflict, and

recognition. So it needs to win, to be

right, to be special, to get defended by

you. This is why it never shuts the f

up. The ego is the voice that says

they're judging you. You're not enough.

You're falling behind. What if you lose

everything? Or what if they don't like

you? You need to prove yourself. You

need more. You need control. But here's

the ancient secret almost nobody

realizes. The ego's entire existence is

based on fear. And fear is already not

real. This means that your ego is a

hallucination. It's a survival instinct

that doesn't understand who you actually

are. You're the ocean. The ego is a

ripple that thinks it's the entire

Pacific Ocean. You are the divine. The

ego is a child pretending [music] to be

the king. This is why every ancient

tradition told you to let it go. Not

because they wanted you to be moral or

have some enlightenment and go out and

buy linen pants and [music] wooden bead

necklaces and like that. They

didn't want obedience or anything or

even purity. It's because you can't

experience truth while you're holding on

to something that isn't true. [music]

You can't be infinite while you're

clinging on to a story that makes you

small. You can't feel oneness while

you're protecting a self that doesn't

exist. You can't wake up while you're

defending the dream. And once you drop

the ego, even if it's for a little

second, you'll feel something terrifying

and [music] beautiful. You never needed

it. You were always complete. The armor

was the wound. Ancient teachings weren't

obsessed with humility. They were

obsessed with liberation. And once the

ego falls apart, the final truth appears

immediately. And this is the final truth

that ties the entire universe together.

This is truth number five. Everything is

connected.

This one shows up everywhere from

ancient temples to modern physics

laboratories. [music]

Everything's connected. Everything is

one system. Everything influences

everything. That's how everything it

gets. In the hermetic texts, we see this

principle of as above, so below. In the

Cabala, we see all creation emerges from

a single tree of life. In quantum

physics, no particle is truly separate.

Every particle has some entanglement. In

Daoism, we see the this idea of

opposites are not enemies. They're

complimentary forces of the same source.

In the Mayan popo vu, this is where we

see the universe is one living organism.

In Buddhism, we have the concept of

what's called interbeing. Nothing exists

independently. And in Sufi mysticism,

the soul is a thread in the same cosmic

fabric. Even if you look at the Egyptian

pyramid texts, we see the soul [music]

returns to the stars from which it came.

In ancient Native American wisdom, uh

they have a phrase that's I think

pronounced makuya o yasin, which is we

are all relatives. Essentially saying

with all beings I am related.

Nothing stands alone. So every action

ripples, every emotion radiates, every

intention vibrates through the whole.

You are not some separate node in the

universe. You're a neuron in a cosmic

brain [music]

firing inside of infinity.

And your [music] life is not happening

to you. Your life is happening with you,

through you, and as you. And suddenly

all five truths click together like a

lock snapping open. You're not separate.

Fear is an illusion. Your mind shapes

reality. Ego is the enemy. Everything is

connected. So if all that's true, then

you aren't [music] a human trying to

become spiritual. You are the universe

temporarily being human. You're already

spiritual. [music] So everything you've

ever been scared of, everything you've

obsessed over, everything you've doubted

in your life, everything that you've

ever questioned before comes down to

remembering what you were before the

world told you who to be. [music] And

that's what the ancients were trying to

wake us up to.

So if the ancients all knew this, if the

truths were sitting in the open for

thousands of years, how the hell did we

lose it? How did humanity go from cosmic

awareness to this psychological dumpster

fire that we're living in today? It

wasn't a conspiracy. Personally, I think

it was something a lot simpler. It's

much darker and it's a lot more human.

We just forgot who the hell we were. We

got hypnotized by who we thought we

needed [music] to be. So the moment that

humans started building civilizations,

we needed to gather a bunch of

resources. We need to protect our

borders. We need to survive these

[music] crazy harsh winters. Fear became

a tool. And then after tens of thousands

of years, fear became a habit. And then

fear became a culture. [music] And

everything that fear touches, obviously

it corrupts. That's why every single

ancient text, even the Bible, they warn

us about the same exact traps of greed

and ego and power and materialism and

comparison, desire, [music]

control, and attachment. They weren't

trying to teach us to be moral. This had

nothing to do with being a moral person.

They were describing [music]

psychological malware in Dao DeQing.

When wealth and honors lead to

arrogance, it brings evil. If you read

the Quran, you're going to see, "Do not

commit abuse on the earth, spreading

corruption." In the Bible, it says, "Do

[music] not store up treasures on

earth." You read the Buddha and it says,

"Cleing is the root of [music]

suffering." Every tradition saw this

coming. The moment humans forgot who

they were, they'd try to fill this

emptiness with every single thing they

can except the truth.

And that's exactly what we did as a

people. We built entire civilizations on

top of a lie that we're separate. These

giant economies on top of the lie that

we're all lacking. And we all built

identities on the lie that we're not

enough. The ego that starts off as a

small little tribal safety mechanism

became this global operating system. We

started comparing and competing and

hoarding and fearing and posturing,

consuming, scrolling, performing. We

turned [music] life into a weird little

scoreboard. And we made success a

really, really good-looking costume.

[music] And we traded all of our meaning

for dopamine. We replaced being still

[music] and mindful. Maybe just let's

call it boredom. We replaced boredom and

silence with lots and lots of noise and

[music] distractions. But I think the

biggest one of all is we stopped asking

who am I? And we started asking who do

they think I am? We traded a lot of

truth for distraction. And the worst

part is the distractions got really

really effing good. Scary, sexy,

addictively good.

So, we engineered apps that hijack our

nervous system. We have news cycles that

feed off of our cortisol and our stress.

We have algorithms now that weaponize

our attention. We have cultures that are

built on outrage and tribal division. If

you live in America, you're in the

middle of it. And we didn't just forget

all these ancient truths. We built a

world designed to choke the life out of

them. And if you look around, you can

see the symptoms everywhere. Anxiety is

normal.

Depression is common. Addiction is

everywhere. Loneliness is an epidemic

we're in the middle of. Attention spans

are collapsing. People don't even know

how to be bored. Replaced wisdom with

content, contemplation with distraction.

We became the most technologically

advanced species in history and

simultaneously

the most spiritually disconnected.

Again, it's not cuz this truth just

disappeared somehow. It's because the

noise got louder than the signal.

[music] The ancient warning was not a

metaphor. It was a prophecy. The

prophecy is if you forget yourself, you

will forget everything that matters.

But there's another part the ancients

also agreed on. Once the

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>> illusion gets to the point where it gets

unbearable, once the noise gets super

overwhelming, once the ego starts to

look like a crazy Jenga tower, that's

when [music] people start to wake up.

And right now in this era, in this

generation, [music] we are seeing that

start to happen. The illusions are

cracking. The distractions aren't

working as well as they used to. My

friend Shawn Ryan did an entire series

about this called SCOP. People are

starving for something real and they

don't know why. And this brings us to

this final [music]

section. What did the ancients say about

this awakening? Is it really an

awakening? And what is it going to mean

for our life? So if forgetting makes us

suffer, then remembering is what sets us

free. And every ancient tradition,

everyone [music] with no exception, they

didn't just warn us about ego and fear

and illusion. It also left very detailed

instructions for what happens after the

collapse. They left us a road map for

waking up and the patterns are

unbelievably clear once you know what to

look for. And they don't give you a

bunch of rules and dogma and rituals,

just internal transformations. So, let

me show you exactly what they said.

Number one, waking up begins with truth.

In the Bible in John 8:32,

the truth will set you free. Not

obedience, not faith, truth. Truth about

yourself, about the mind, about fear and

ego. Truth is the solvent that dissolves

the illusion. In the Avestra, which is a

Zoroastrian uh text, we see the quote,

"Truth is the best good. It is the

[music] everlasting light." From the

Buddha, we see the quote, "There are

three things that cannot remain hidden.

The sun, the moon, and the truth." Every

awakening starts here. The moment we

stop running from reality and start

seeing it. This is why suffering is what

happens before awakening. Cuz pain

breaks the illusion that we all kind of

hide behind. So number two, waking up

requires presence. Every tradition says

awakening doesn't happen in the future.

Not someday. It doesn't happen when

you're healed and calm and ready. The

Buddha tells us don't dwell in the past.

Don't dream of the future. Concentrate

the mind on the present moment.

In the Daqing,

they say if you are depressed, you're

living in the past. If you're anxious,

you're living in the future. If you're

at peace, you're living [music] in the

present. And Jesus said this in the book

of Matthew 6:34.

Do not worry about tomorrow.

If we read Plato, he [music] says, "Time

is the moving image of eternity. It's

just right now." Presence is not a

spiritual idea. You can get rid of the

whole concept of the word spiritual.

It's a doorway back into reality. The

ancients [music] were not saying be

mindful.

What they're telling us is stop living

in an illusion. Don't live in a fake

world. Number three, waking up [music]

requires compassion and service. And

every single ancient text links

awakening with compassion. [music]

And it's not compassion because you're a

morally good person. It's compassion

because you recognize the truth. Because

if I see you as myself, compassion isn't

morality. It's just me [music] taking

care of me. If you read the Quran, you

see the quote, "Give to the needy, the

orphan, the captive." In the Bible, it

says, "Love your neighbor as thyself, as

yourself."

In the intellects, Confucious uh 12:2

says, "A gentleman seeks virtue." And

Plato says, "Be kind for everyone you

meet is fighting a hard battle."

Compassion is something that we

recognize.

We don't learn it, we recognize it. So

once [music] you stop believing that

you're separate, love and compassion

becomes the only behavior that makes any

sense at all. It doesn't mean like I'm a

good moral person. It just means I'm

acting in something that makes perfect

sense. Step four, waking up requires

stillness and self-nowledge. This shows

up everywhere. In the Upanishads, we see

know thyself and you shall know the

universe.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not

worth [music] living. In the yoga

sutras, yoga is the stealing of the

mind. In the ancient Nagamadi text,

which is um in Gnostic Christianity,

it's a type of Christianity. Know

yourself and you will be free. And the

Buddha tells us in stillness, [music]

truth reveals itself. Awakening is not

adding new ideas. Never ever let

somebody sell you on this idea. [music]

It's not going out and buying beads and

adding new ideas. This is removing

noise. Awakening is about stripping

stuff away, removing illusions and

stories and ego and fear until what's

left is the thing that was always there.

It's you without distortion. And number

five, waking up transforms suffering

into wisdom. In the Bible, in Romans

5:3, suffering produces perseverance.

[music]

Perseverance, character, and character

hope. In Buddhism, we have the four

noble truths. Suffering is the path to

enlightenment. If you look in the

Bhagavad Gita, you'll see in compassion

I destroy the darkness of ignorance with

the lamp of knowledge. [music] In the

Egyptian pyramid texts, they say the

soul ascends through trials. The

ancients are not giving us some brochure

promising us a life with no suffering.

[music]

They're promising you a life where

suffering becomes a catalyst for

something. Which brings us to point

number six about awakening. Waking up is

just remembering what you are. When you

put all these pieces together, truth,

presence, compassion, stillness,

transformation, every ancient tradition

lands in the same place. Awakening

[music] is not becoming something new.

It's remembering something ancient,

something deeper [music] and original

that you've always been. If you look in

the Cabala, they say each soul is a

spark of [music] the infinite. On the

Emerald Tablet, it says all is one. In

the popo vu, humans are the divine

remembering itself. The final step of

awakening isn't learning a bunch of new

motivational It's recognition.

It's a flash of remembering, oh, I'm not

separate. I never was. I just forgot for

a minute. Awakening is not a a

destination that you get to. It is a

return home. And it will be shitty at

first. And if this didn't feel new to

you, it's because it wasn't. [music] You

are remembering. I think the real

unsettling part isn't how radical any of

this is. It's how obvious it feels once

we hear it. You were never missing

something. [music] You were taught to

forget. And awakening doesn't feel like

fireworks and stuff like that. It feels

like stress. Then it feels like relief.

It's like you're setting down a huge ass

backpack that you didn't realize you

were carrying cuz you've been holding it

your entire freaking life. The pressure

to become somebody, to prove something,

to defend yourself, all of that built on

this misunderstanding. The world does

not change when you wake up. Your

relationship to the world is what

changes. Fear loses its authority. Ego

loses its grip on you. The noise stops

convincing you that it matters. It's

just because you saw something clearly.

And the truth was never really hidden.

It was [music] just

waiting.

Love you. Take care.