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you are somebody who practices of a

partner does that help you get closer to

the force is that where you get closer

to the force I practice the personal

meditation to see reality more clearly

to be able to see what is reality what

is really happening right here right now

I'm not doing this any kind of religious

exercise to get in touch with this force

or that force with this story or that

story it's really for me then the least

dogmatic thing I ever encountered in

life is the personal meditation it just

tells you just observe what is really

happening right now as it is without

trying to impose any story on it without

trying to change it in any way when I

remember the first time I went to a

course and the first instruction I got

from the teacher was observe your breath

not observe God not observe the soul

just observe your breath coming in and

out of your nostrils and just accept the

breath whatever it is if it's strong if

it's weak if it comes from this nostril

oh that not it doesn't matter just

observe the reality as it is and what

amazed me was that I couldn't do it for

more than ten seconds immediately the

mind ran away to some story some fantasy

some memory if I can't observe the

reality of my own breath for 10 seconds

how can I hope to observe the reality of

the global political system of the

global economic system that's exactly

the question so I try I try to do both

I've been practicing for 18 years now

and it's been very well I don't know

more than 10 seconds no more than 10

seconds a try sometimes I succeed I this

year I went to a 60 days course

I think CDs 60 days I didn't stay

focused for 60 days of course the mind

keeps running away but keep trying and I

don't think I could have written any of

my books without the help of of the

focus and the discipline the endure and

their clarity that this kind of

meditation gives so when you're deep in

meditation I'm dying to ask this

question and we have quite a lot of

people from Bollywood here today so

they've obviously seen some of these

films does everything start looking like

in algorithms and codes like in matrix

you have a pain in the stomach and your

knee hurts and then the mind runs away

to some memory and this is how you get

to know yourself I think I think many

people make a mistake about meditation

that they think meditation is a tool to

get all kinds of special experiences

like I go to an amusement park and this

is another kind of amusement park I'll

use meditation to have all kinds of

special experiences and actually I think

the most important benefit of meditation

is to get to know the most ordinary

daily natural patterns of your mind and

of your body to get to know your anger

your pain your joy your your boredom

because this is what you have to deal

with a lot in life if meditation is a

kind of vacation like for a couple of

days I have these spiritual experiences

but then for most of the year I still

have to deal with my anger and my

boredom it didn't really help me is this

the purpose of life is this the purpose

of life as you see it well I think that

the key to a good life is to be able to

observe reality as it is

- really under what what is the truth

about myself and about the world without

running away - all kinds of fantasies

and stories and fictions

and I think if you can observe to some

degree reality as it is you're not just

you won't just be a much better person

but you'll probably be a much more

peaceful and happy person because the

deep source of so much of our personal

and collective problems is in the

fantasies that we create and then we

mistake them from reality for reality

and then we try to impose them on

reality and we get extremely upset when

it doesn't work when reality doesn't

conform to our favorite fantasy but it's

also part of the paradox because what

you're saying is sit quietly in

meditation go in and then we have all

this technology constantly calling out

to us I mean everyone here I'm sure

would agree with me that if your phone

is away from you for five minutes you're

like where's my phone where's my phone

where's my phone you're checking your

phone exam it's also observed that when

what's happening to you when you are

away from your phone what's happening in

your body you will see that there are a

lot of unpleasant sensations in your

body at the time what's happening in

your mind

this is how you get to know yourself you

get to know yourself not by observing

some blissful metaphysical mystical

experience you get to know yourself by

observing what happens to me when when

the phone is away and once you witness

how much misery

I am inflicting on myself by my own

habits this can help you in changing

these harmful habits

so one of the things you've said before

is that suffering is a sign of

consciousness if something suffers then

it's real and it's conscious then is our

purpose to suffer happy

certainly not I'm not saying that we are

here to suffer we try to be we can

liberate ourselves from suffering what I

said in in some of what I wrote is that

the best test to know whether an entity

is real or whether it's a fiction

invented by politicians and then

religious leaders and so forth is to ask

can this entity suffer a nation for

example is just a human creation it's a

fictional story created by humans how do

you know just ask yourself can a nation

suffer if you lose a wall does the

nation suffer no the nation has no mind

no feelings no sensations soldiers who

die in war they suffer civilians who

lose their house although loved ones in

war they suffer animals can suffer but a

nation cannot suffer it's just a story

we created so this is the idea of the

test of suffering is a test to know

whether something is real or not

similarly I don't know if you have some

temple and somebody destroys the temple

the temple doesn't suffer only people

suffer the people who care about this

temple when they hear that it is

destroyed they have a very unpleasant

sensation in the body they have very

unpleasant emotions in the mind they

suffer but the temple it's just you know

stones and bricks and wood and so forth

but it represents a certain amount of

emotions now there in Israel

which is connected to everything we have

a temple here as well which is kind of

connected to everything so yeah but we

invest the tempo with importance we

suffer when the temple is destroyed we

rejoice when the temple is built it's

really about us not about the temple and

I would say also to people in Israel who

care very much about the temple but the

deep purpose of a place like a temple is

to bring peace and harmony to the world

to make people I go to a temple to

experience peace and harmony now if a

temple brings violence and disharmony to

the world it's a broken temple what do

you need it for thank you