1 00:00:06,550 --> 00:00:08,570 [music] 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:18,800 When I die in the name of rest. Going to 3 00:00:15,065 --> 00:00:21,520 [music] go to the place that's the best. 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:26,160 Going to lay me down [music] to die. 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:29,679 Going up to the spirit in the sky. 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,240 Going up to the spirit in the sky. 7 00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:33,440 That's where I'm [music and singing] 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:36,559 going to go when I die. 9 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,320 When I die and lay to rest, I'm going to 10 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:40,610 go to the place that's [singing] the 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,840 best 12 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:44,480 [music] 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,320 since I was like 10. 14 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:50,640 I've been obsessed with ancient [music] 15 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:52,719 texts. And I do mean obsess. I read them 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,360 and [music] still read them like people 17 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:57,760 read data reports. I compare all the 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:00,315 versions and the translations, line by 19 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,315 line comparisons, [music] 20 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:06,720 and something has always bothered me. 21 00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:08,799 I've been digging through ancient texts 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,799 since I was little. [music] And not like 23 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:14,560 a handful, not like 10 or 20, I'm 24 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:17,280 talking over 190 sacred writings from 25 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,560 every corner of human civilization. 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:24,240 Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,960 Islamic, Tauist, Gnostic, Egyptian, 28 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Mayan, Hermetic, Confucian, Sumerian, 29 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:31,600 indigenous. These are texts written 30 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,920 thousands of miles apart, thousands of 31 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,079 years apart with no way to influence 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,000 each other. And yet somewhere between 33 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:40,560 the lines, they're all whispering the 34 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,799 exact same message. And it's not 35 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,920 similar. It's not a kind of like 36 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:49,040 message. It's the exact same five truths 37 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,200 over [music] and over. So, this video 38 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:54,399 isn't body language and persuasion, and 39 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:56,240 it's definitely not about religion in 40 00:01:54,399 --> 00:01:57,920 any way. So, if your level of certainty 41 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,360 about the world is super high, this 42 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,759 might itch a little, and you know that 43 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,759 certainty in human behavior shows up 44 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:06,399 when something needs to be protected. 45 00:02:03,759 --> 00:02:09,200 So, you do not have to agree with any of 46 00:02:06,399 --> 00:02:12,200 this to get something powerful from it. 47 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,200 All right? 48 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:18,080 There's something worth considering 49 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:21,200 regardless of [music] your faith or your 50 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:25,200 background. First, if God or ultimate 51 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:28,720 truth [music] is real, then it or he or 52 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:30,560 she existed way before any book, any 53 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,760 language, or one [music] single 54 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:36,319 tradition ever appeared, which means 55 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:39,280 that truth wouldn't belong to just one 56 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:41,680 place or one people. Second, [music] 57 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:44,959 when civilizations that are separated by 58 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,599 oceans and centuries 59 00:02:44,959 --> 00:02:48,480 describe [music] 60 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:51,120 the same insights about reality and 61 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,959 human nature and meaning, 62 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,720 it suggests 63 00:02:52,959 --> 00:02:57,120 they were observing something [music] 64 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,840 universal rather than inventing 65 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,480 something locally. 66 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:05,760 And just like gravity existed before we 67 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:09,200 ever had a name for it, and mathematics 68 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:11,280 works the same everywhere on Earth, 69 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,239 truth, and I [music] mean truth with a 70 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:17,760 capital T, doesn't change based on 71 00:03:14,239 --> 00:03:20,159 culture or belief. It just [music] gets 72 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:23,599 described through different and very 73 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:25,760 flawed human lenses. This is why the 74 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:28,879 deepest [music] spiritual experiences 75 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:30,560 sound so unbelievably similar across 76 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:32,480 traditions. And I think it's why 77 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,400 history's greatest teachers [music] 78 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,200 didn't try to fracture humanity, but 79 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,680 they tried to wake it up to something it 80 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,080 already carried inside of it across 81 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,440 every culture, every timeline, every 82 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:48,799 belief system humans have ever built. 83 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:51,872 When I first saw the pattern forming, it 84 00:03:48,799 --> 00:03:53,120 didn't feel like research in any way. 85 00:03:51,872 --> 00:03:55,280 >> [music] 86 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,000 >> It felt like finding a message that 87 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:01,840 humanity buried [music] like fragments 88 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,239 of a treasure map that we as a species 89 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,879 were unconsciously developing for some 90 00:04:04,239 --> 00:04:09,040 future generation to find. And I think 91 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:12,879 there are a few things that nobody wants 92 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:16,000 to be said out loud. First, if truth is 93 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:18,880 real, if it's fundamental, it should 94 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,880 show up everywhere [music] in every era, 95 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,680 every tribe, every myth, every 96 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,759 scripture. And I think that it actually 97 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:29,280 does. 98 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:31,600 But somehow, I think we miss something. 99 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:33,440 We get lost in the arguments about who's 100 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,759 right. We get lost in [music] the 101 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,378 differences, the translations, the 102 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:40,240 rituals, the politics, and the fear. We 103 00:04:38,378 --> 00:04:42,960 [music] started defending our favorite 104 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,919 book instead of noticing what all the 105 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,080 books were trying to say. If you can 106 00:04:45,919 --> 00:04:50,560 imagine dozens of civilizations who 107 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,720 never met, they never traded language. 108 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:56,080 They never shared a single word with 109 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:58,639 each other all describing the same 110 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:01,280 fundamental truths of reality. What 111 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:03,280 would that mean? What would that force 112 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:06,000 us to consider? [music] 113 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:08,800 Because if that's true, then the 114 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,039 greatest spiritual secret on Earth was 115 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,240 never hidden at all. It was just 116 00:05:11,039 --> 00:05:17,280 scattered like a puzzle all across our 117 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:20,080 species story. And if all of those 118 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:23,199 pieces could come together, we might see 119 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,880 something pretty astonishing. 120 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:27,440 But before we talk about the message 121 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,800 they left us, you have to understand why 122 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,520 these truths [music] 123 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,440 were actually hidden in the first place. 124 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:36,240 And they were hidden. This isn't 125 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:38,240 debated. I promise it's not conspiracy 126 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,199 and churches and governments that did 127 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,960 it. It's way older than that. Before we 128 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:45,120 go any further, you need to understand 129 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,600 something that almost everybody gets 130 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,039 wrong about all these ancient texts, cuz 131 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,120 I know there's a lot of videos out there 132 00:05:49,039 --> 00:05:53,840 that talk about them. These ancient 133 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,320 texts were not trying to be mysterious. 134 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:58,800 They weren't trying to be poetic. They 135 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,199 weren't trying to confuse anybody. They 136 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,800 were trying to describe the utterly 137 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:05,440 indescribable [music] 138 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,000 by using a human brain and human 139 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:10,400 language that was never [music] designed 140 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,560 to grasp any of this at all. That is 141 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,560 truly the core problem. Language. 142 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:22,240 So language, [music] 143 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:24,720 any language is a cage. It's a net with 144 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,919 holes that are [music] way too wide to 145 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,479 catch something that's truly infinite. 146 00:06:27,919 --> 00:06:34,314 And the people who wrote these texts, 147 00:06:30,479 --> 00:06:37,120 they knew that. That's why lau opens the 148 00:06:34,314 --> 00:06:39,840 [music] tao deqing with the most 149 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:42,829 brutally honest sentence in the ancient 150 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:45,120 texts altogether. The dao that could 151 00:06:42,829 --> 00:06:46,639 [music] be spoken is not the eternal 152 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,800 dao. 153 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:51,039 The meaning is the moment that you try 154 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,440 to explain ultimate truth, you've 155 00:06:51,039 --> 00:06:56,000 already distorted it and filtered it and 156 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,160 tried to contain it. Jesus understood 157 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,479 this too. He literally tells the 158 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,560 disciples that he speaks in parables 159 00:07:00,479 --> 00:07:05,360 because most [music] people aren't ready 160 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,120 to comprehend the truth directly. They 161 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,000 didn't have language for quantum [music] 162 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:12,319 physics and non-duality or consciousness 163 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,400 models like we do today, which is still 164 00:07:12,319 --> 00:07:18,400 an infantile language. They had to 165 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:20,820 compress the infinite into words. So, 166 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:23,599 every ancient culture hit the exact 167 00:07:20,820 --> 00:07:27,680 [music] same wall. How do you describe 168 00:07:23,599 --> 00:07:30,000 an experience bigger than thought itself 169 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:35,230 with a language that's built out of 170 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:37,360 thought? How do you describe God? Unity, 171 00:07:35,230 --> 00:07:40,560 [music] infinity, consciousness with a 172 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:43,120 vocabulary built for farms [music] and 173 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,919 weather and trading spices and chickens 174 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,240 with each other. How do you tell people 175 00:07:45,919 --> 00:07:50,639 the universe is one [music] 176 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,919 before they even understand atoms or 177 00:07:50,639 --> 00:07:57,919 galaxies or even their own mind? 178 00:07:53,919 --> 00:08:00,400 The answer is you can't. So they did the 179 00:07:57,919 --> 00:08:02,879 only thing that they could. They spoke 180 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:06,720 in metaphors and symbols [music] and 181 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:10,000 myths and stories, poetry and parables 182 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:13,520 and riddles. And sometimes it was just 183 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,639 silence. And they didn't do this to hide 184 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:19,280 the truth. The truth was just too large 185 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:21,919 to fit through the doorway of our 186 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:24,319 primitive little language. If you can 187 00:08:21,919 --> 00:08:26,400 imagine standing in front of a sunrise 188 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:29,360 so [music] massive and overwhelming that 189 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:32,215 words feel absolutely stupid to describe 190 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,320 it. Now imagine trying to explain 191 00:08:32,215 --> 00:08:37,760 [music] that sunrise to somebody who's 192 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:41,680 never seen light before. This is why 193 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:44,720 ancient texts seem contradictory. The 194 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:46,959 problem wasn't the message. It was the 195 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,440 translation. Different cultures, [music] 196 00:08:46,959 --> 00:08:51,600 different metaphors, different symbols. 197 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,839 It was the same truth filtered through 198 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,880 different and extremely human 199 00:08:53,839 --> 00:08:59,839 limitations. And when you finally zoom 200 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,640 out far enough, the differences 201 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:04,480 disappear. The metaphors line up, the 202 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:07,360 symbols overlap, and in my [music] 203 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,279 estimation, the contradictions dissolve. 204 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:12,880 You start to see that these were 205 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:15,040 fragments of maps. And once I noticed 206 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,080 that, something [music] insane happened. 207 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,480 The patterns in these texts started 208 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:23,200 connecting like constellations across 209 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,920 all these continents, across millennia, 210 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,800 across belief systems that supposedly 211 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,511 are against each other. They weren't 212 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,040 opposing each other at all. They were 213 00:09:30,511 --> 00:09:33,519 [music] 214 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,751 completing each other. And that's when 215 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:36,399 these five truths revealed themselves. 216 00:09:35,751 --> 00:09:39,120 [music] 217 00:09:36,399 --> 00:09:41,200 So here's where we go next. If every 218 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:44,399 civilization on Earth discovered the 219 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:46,480 same truths, if humans who never met 220 00:09:44,399 --> 00:09:48,080 somehow described the exact same 221 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,640 reality, 222 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:54,160 the question becomes, 223 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:56,560 what exactly did they all see? 224 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,440 Here's what they all agreed on. This is 225 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:02,800 the first truth, the one the ancient 226 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:05,440 world tried their absolute hardest to 227 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,120 communicate to us. And it's also the one 228 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,920 that we've [music] gone the farthest 229 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:13,360 away from. You are not separate. You 230 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:15,839 never were and you never could be. 231 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,399 Every single ancient civilization on 232 00:10:15,839 --> 00:10:21,120 earth figured this out. In the 233 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:24,959 upanishads in [music] from India, they 234 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:26,399 had a saying called tatwam usi. I think 235 00:10:24,959 --> 00:10:29,839 that's how you pronounce it. But it 236 00:10:26,399 --> 00:10:33,279 basically means you are that not 237 00:10:29,839 --> 00:10:34,959 connected to it, not loved by it. You 238 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:38,560 are the divine wearing this [music] 239 00:10:34,959 --> 00:10:40,640 human costume. Jesus even said this. He 240 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:43,279 said the entire kingdom of God [music] 241 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:48,480 is within you. Not in a building or book 242 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:50,320 in you. In the ancient Sufi texts 243 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,399 they said you are not a drop in the 244 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,760 ocean. You are the entire ocean in a 245 00:10:52,399 --> 00:10:57,680 drop. If you look at hermetic texts all 246 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,320 is one. 247 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:04,959 If you look at Daoism, everything is the 248 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:07,040 Dao expressing itself in 10,000 forms. 249 00:11:04,959 --> 00:11:09,680 If you look at the ancient Mayan text 250 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,920 which is called the Popal VU, you see 251 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:14,640 heart of sky, heart of earth. This is 252 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,880 the universe as a single living being. 253 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,200 Even looking at Buddhism, there is no 254 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,440 separate self. If you look inside the 255 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,839 Cabala, which is one of my favorite 256 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:27,600 quotes, they say, "Creation is one 257 00:11:23,839 --> 00:11:30,079 emanation divided only in appearance." 258 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,687 And if you look into quantum physics, 259 00:11:30,079 --> 00:11:32,320 what are we starting to discover? 260 00:11:31,687 --> 00:11:35,279 [music] 261 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,959 Everything is one field fragmented by 262 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:39,600 perception. Different cultures, 263 00:11:36,959 --> 00:11:41,600 different metaphors, same exact truth. 264 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,760 There is no you versus the world. There 265 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,760 is only this one universe like 266 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:48,480 experiencing itself from your point of 267 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:51,440 view. Separation is what they're trying 268 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:54,320 to show us is a hallucination. Being 269 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:57,519 divided is a glitch in humanity and 270 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,959 isolation [music] is not really real. 271 00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:00,959 This is the kind of the metaphor they're 272 00:11:58,959 --> 00:12:04,240 trying to get us to understand. When a 273 00:12:00,959 --> 00:12:06,160 wave rises up out of the ocean, it looks 274 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,880 separate. It has its own little shape. 275 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:11,360 It has its own motion, its own lifespan, 276 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:14,240 but the wave is not actually a thing. 277 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:16,800 It's the ocean just for a few seconds, 278 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,120 expressing itself in a temporary form. 279 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,160 When you were born, that was the ocean 280 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:24,880 rising. When you die, the wave goes back 281 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,708 into itself. You never stopped being the 282 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:29,920 ocean. You just forgot for a minute. 283 00:12:26,708 --> 00:12:33,839 [music] And when every ancient texts 284 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:36,959 says things like one spirit, one God and 285 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:39,360 father of all, as above, so below, you 286 00:12:36,959 --> 00:12:41,760 are that. The kingdom is within. All is 287 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,200 mind. Everything is the Dao. They're all 288 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,680 trying to point [music] at the same 289 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:48,320 thing. You are the universe aware of 290 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:50,639 itself. You are the divine looking out 291 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:53,519 through human eyes temporarily. You are 292 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:55,760 not the world. The world is in you. And 293 00:12:53,519 --> 00:12:58,240 here's the super raw part that they 294 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:00,800 didn't say outright. Every mystic hinted 295 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,120 at this. If you aren't separate, then 296 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,680 your entire life, your [music] entire 297 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,360 identity, your whole entire world view 298 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,880 might just be built on a 299 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,720 misunderstanding. And that 300 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:13,120 misunderstanding is what makes most of 301 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,120 us suffer. Because the moment that 302 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,920 you've believed that you're separate, 303 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,160 you start fearing loss and death and 304 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,720 rejection and scarcity. And we start 305 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,800 chasing significance and validation and 306 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:28,000 control. [music] We start defending our 307 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:30,560 little ego like it's sacred. But the 308 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,560 moment that we remember what we actually 309 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:35,040 are, [music] the fear goes away. 310 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:38,480 Conflict all dissolves. Loneliness goes 311 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:41,040 away. [music] Death changes meaning 312 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:43,760 entirely. And life becomes something 313 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:46,959 that we can finally understand. A single 314 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,440 field of consciousness somehow playing 315 00:13:46,959 --> 00:13:53,120 out as billions [music] of expressions 316 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:55,600 trying to remember itself. This is why 317 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,680 truth number one sits at the foundation 318 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,519 of everything else. Because if we are 319 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:01,519 not separate from each other and if 320 00:13:59,519 --> 00:14:04,480 you're not separate from the universe, 321 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:08,240 then what comes next is the operating 322 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:10,480 system of reality. Number two, fear is 323 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,480 an illusion and love [music] is the 324 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:15,040 truth. So if the first truth is that 325 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,279 you're not separate, the second truth is 326 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,120 the one that keeps shaping your entire 327 00:14:17,279 --> 00:14:22,639 life without you realizing it. [music] 328 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:24,560 Fear is the greatest lie ever told. Love 329 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:25,920 is the only thing that's real. Every 330 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,519 ancient text, [music] 331 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,839 it doesn't matter the culture, it 332 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:32,160 doesn't matter what language, repeats 333 00:14:29,839 --> 00:14:34,079 the [music] same idea so many times it's 334 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,480 almost suspicious. 335 00:14:34,079 --> 00:14:40,959 The most repeated phrase [music] in the 336 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:43,040 entire Bible is fear not or do not be 337 00:14:40,959 --> 00:14:45,839 afraid. A quote from Jesus says, 338 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:48,959 "Perfect love casts out [music] fear." 339 00:14:45,839 --> 00:14:51,760 We hear the Buddha say, "Hatred does not 340 00:14:48,959 --> 00:14:53,839 cease by hatred. By love alone is hatred 341 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:57,519 healed." [music] In the Bhagavad Gita we 342 00:14:53,839 --> 00:14:59,360 read the path of devotion, love leads to 343 00:14:57,519 --> 00:15:02,000 liberation. The path [music] of 344 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:05,920 ignorance, fear leads to suffering. The 345 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:08,240 Daqing we see courage comes from love, 346 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,920 paralysis [music] comes from fear. In 347 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,880 the Dharmapata 348 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:16,399 we read the mind is everything. [music] 349 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:18,880 Meaning that fear starts in the mind and 350 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:21,120 not the world itself. 351 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:24,000 In ancient Sufi wisdom, we [music] 352 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:27,120 specifically see from Roomie, "Your job 353 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,360 is not to seek for love, but to find and 354 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,600 remove the barriers you built against 355 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:33,680 it." How beautiful is that? All these 356 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,600 civilizations that never spoke a single 357 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:38,639 word to each other somehow arrived at 358 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,900 the same conclusion about reality. Fear 359 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:44,320 is an illusion that keeps us asleep. 360 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:48,560 [music] And love is the frequency or the 361 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:52,160 thing that wakes us up. Fear shrinks 362 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:55,000 self and love expands the self. Fear 363 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,680 breeds ego and love dissolves it. 364 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,839 [music] Fear isolates you and love 365 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,240 reminds you who the hell you actually 366 00:15:59,839 --> 00:16:04,171 are. Fear makes you chase approval, 367 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,759 validation, and money and control. 368 00:16:04,171 --> 00:16:09,360 [music] It makes us compare oursel to 369 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:12,959 everybody else. Fear makes us live like 370 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,959 something is missing. Love in the 371 00:16:12,959 --> 00:16:16,880 ancient sense isn't romantic. [music] 372 00:16:14,959 --> 00:16:19,440 What they mean is oneness. It's 373 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,201 alignment. It's essentially the 374 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,279 recognition that we're made of the same 375 00:16:21,201 --> 00:16:24,720 [music] stuff, the same light or the 376 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:27,040 same source, whatever you want to call 377 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:29,839 it. That's why fear feels bad because 378 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:31,759 it's biologically incompatible with what 379 00:16:29,839 --> 00:16:34,399 you actually are. Every mistake you've 380 00:16:31,759 --> 00:16:36,480 ever made, every relationship that blew 381 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:38,160 up, every regret you [music] carry, 382 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,720 every time you sabotage your own 383 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,800 potential, it's all fear. 384 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:45,436 Every spiritual leader across time was 385 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:48,480 basically saying you're suffering 386 00:16:45,436 --> 00:16:51,040 [music] because you're believing a lie. 387 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,519 The moment that you drop fear, you don't 388 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,261 just all of a sudden find love. You're 389 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:57,600 not finding love. You're returning 390 00:16:55,261 --> 00:16:59,759 [music] to it. It's your default state. 391 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,880 That's why we're born with it. Is the 392 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:05,120 only real thing underneath all the noise 393 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,640 is just that. But all the [music] 394 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:09,679 ancients didn't stop there. They all 395 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:11,760 said the same thing next. something that 396 00:17:09,679 --> 00:17:14,880 modern science is finally catching up 397 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:17,520 to. [music] And if love is real and fear 398 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,760 is an illusion, then who's creating the 399 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:22,640 illusion? Your mind. Which leads us to 400 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:25,199 truth number three. Your mind is not a 401 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:27,039 camera. It is a projector. So your brain 402 00:17:25,199 --> 00:17:28,960 doesn't record reality. It generates 403 00:17:27,039 --> 00:17:31,440 reality. I'm talking about the most 404 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,760 ancient spiritual teaching on [music] 405 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,919 earth. And it's the most modern 406 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,280 scientific discovery at the same time. 407 00:17:35,919 --> 00:17:39,802 But let's go back. If you look at the 408 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:42,480 dharmapara, we see what you think 409 00:17:39,802 --> 00:17:45,600 [music] you become. If you look at the 410 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:49,600 hermetic texts, the all is mind. In the 411 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:52,240 Hindu vanta, we see maya, the world you 412 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:54,080 perceive is shaped by the mind's 413 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,280 illusions. [music] And then back to the 414 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:59,452 upan shads again, the universe arises 415 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,880 from consciousness. That's pretty 416 00:17:59,452 --> 00:18:04,160 [music] straightforward. And even 417 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:07,039 looking back at Plato, he says reality 418 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,520 is the moving image of eternity. And the 419 00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:11,919 translation for that would be the mind 420 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:15,760 shapes what you perceive. If you look at 421 00:18:11,919 --> 00:18:17,840 quantum physics, observation changes the 422 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,520 behavior of matter, physical [music] 423 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,559 particles. So I think the meaning here 424 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:25,039 is consciousness is not inside the 425 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:26,640 universe. The universe [music] is inside 426 00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:28,320 consciousness. 427 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:31,039 Every single culture was [music] 428 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,919 screaming this exact same thing. Your 429 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:34,799 mind is not reacting to life. It's 430 00:18:33,919 --> 00:18:36,480 constructing [music] 431 00:18:34,799 --> 00:18:38,480 the version of life that you're 432 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,320 experiencing. Your fears, your beliefs, 433 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,640 your identity, your memories, your 434 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,919 stories, all those patterns you have in 435 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,840 your life. We think that they're 436 00:18:43,919 --> 00:18:48,080 interpretations. What they are is 437 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:51,280 filters [music] that reshape reality 438 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,200 before reality reaches you. This is why 439 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:55,520 two people can live through the exact 440 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:58,240 same moment and [music] experience two 441 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,440 completely different things. This is why 442 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:04,240 suffering usually comes from inside and 443 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:07,679 not [music] outside. This is why so many 444 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:10,400 ancient texts focus way more on inner 445 00:19:07,679 --> 00:19:13,200 world than outer world. And this is 446 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:15,840 probably also why every spiritual path 447 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,160 teaches [music] stillness and silence 448 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,720 and presence and meditation and 449 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:23,200 surrender. And I think this is because 450 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,520 the moment that we stop letting fear 451 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,919 hijack the projector, we start seeing 452 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:31,360 reality pretty clearly for the first 453 00:19:27,919 --> 00:19:33,760 time. If your mind shapes reality, then 454 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:35,600 every limitation you hold is one that 455 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:38,080 you unconsciously built. And every 456 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,640 breakthrough that you're chasing is just 457 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:43,600 one little thought pattern away. Truths 458 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:46,000 one, two, and three combine into a 459 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:48,559 single explosive idea. If you're not 460 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,880 separate, if fear isn't real, if your 461 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:53,360 mind is essentially shaping everything, 462 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,760 then the only thing standing between you 463 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:58,640 and freedom is the part [music] of you 464 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:01,283 that believes otherwise. And this brings 465 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:04,240 us to the most dangerous truth of all. 466 00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:07,520 [music] The enemy is not the world. The 467 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:10,960 enemy is the ego. 468 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:13,360 So if those first three truths show you 469 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,360 what you are, the fourth truth [music] 470 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:17,760 shows you what's been blocking you from 471 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,679 the beginning. So the ego is the only 472 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,679 real enemy here. It's the only enemy 473 00:20:19,679 --> 00:20:24,640 that you're going to face. No demons, no 474 00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:28,159 bad luck, no other people, not the 475 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:30,400 world. Every ancient text, every mystic, 476 00:20:28,159 --> 00:20:32,799 all these enlightened teachers, they all 477 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,039 gave us the exact same warning. The 478 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:37,919 thing that we call us, the thing that 479 00:20:35,039 --> 00:20:40,320 you call you is the thing that's hurting 480 00:20:37,919 --> 00:20:42,720 you. If we look in the Bavad Gita, we 481 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:45,679 see the self must conquer the lower 482 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:49,280 self. If we read Plato, he says, [music] 483 00:20:45,679 --> 00:20:51,919 all sins come from excess self-love. If 484 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:55,520 you read the words of Jesus, unless a 485 00:20:51,919 --> 00:20:57,919 man dies to himself, he cannot live. In 486 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:01,280 the words of the Buddha, suffering 487 00:20:57,919 --> 00:21:05,280 begins with attachment to the self. In 488 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:08,720 the da deqing we see he who defines 489 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:10,000 himself can't know who he truly is. 490 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,280 Different continents, different 491 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,440 countries, same diagnosis. The ego is 492 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,600 not your personality or your identity. 493 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,520 It's not your sense of eye. Let me give 494 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,679 you a definition of ego that's going to 495 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:24,960 change your life if you adopt it. The 496 00:21:21,679 --> 00:21:27,840 ego is the story that you built to 497 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,080 survive your fears. It's a mask. It's a 498 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:33,120 guard rail. It's a little protective 499 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:35,679 suit that we stitch together from trauma 500 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:38,240 and insecurity and expectations and and 501 00:21:35,679 --> 00:21:40,960 some conditioning and that suit becomes 502 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:44,000 our prison. But the ego desires one big 503 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:46,000 thing, separation. It needs to feel 504 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,600 separate [music] to exist. Separate from 505 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,520 other people, separate from the big 506 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,159 universe, separate from the divine, 507 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:55,039 separate from truth. The ego has to be 508 00:21:52,159 --> 00:21:57,520 able to compare. It feeds on better 509 00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:59,679 than, worse than, smarter than, more 510 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,159 deserving than, more important than. So 511 00:21:59,679 --> 00:22:04,400 basically the ego needs three things. It 512 00:22:02,159 --> 00:22:06,720 needs hierarchy, conflict, and 513 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,120 recognition. So it needs to win, to be 514 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,679 right, to be special, to get defended by 515 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:13,760 you. This is why it never shuts the f 516 00:22:11,679 --> 00:22:15,840 up. The ego is the voice that says 517 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,000 they're judging you. You're not enough. 518 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,600 You're falling behind. What if you lose 519 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,600 everything? Or what if they don't like 520 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,000 you? You need to prove yourself. You 521 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,240 need more. You need control. But here's 522 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,679 the ancient secret almost nobody 523 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:32,640 realizes. The ego's entire existence is 524 00:22:29,679 --> 00:22:35,200 based on fear. And fear is already not 525 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:37,760 real. This means that your ego is a 526 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,679 hallucination. It's a survival instinct 527 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,080 that doesn't understand who you actually 528 00:22:39,679 --> 00:22:44,240 are. You're the ocean. The ego is a 529 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,640 ripple that thinks it's the entire 530 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,799 Pacific Ocean. You are the divine. The 531 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,640 ego is a child pretending [music] to be 532 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:52,480 the king. This is why every ancient 533 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,080 tradition told you to let it go. Not 534 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,240 because they wanted you to be moral or 535 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:58,480 have some enlightenment and go out and 536 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,159 buy linen pants and [music] wooden bead 537 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,159 necklaces and like that. They 538 00:23:00,159 --> 00:23:04,240 didn't want obedience or anything or 539 00:23:02,159 --> 00:23:06,400 even purity. It's because you can't 540 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,159 experience truth while you're holding on 541 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,159 to something that isn't true. [music] 542 00:23:08,159 --> 00:23:12,400 You can't be infinite while you're 543 00:23:10,159 --> 00:23:15,039 clinging on to a story that makes you 544 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,960 small. You can't feel oneness while 545 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:19,760 you're protecting a self that doesn't 546 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:22,080 exist. You can't wake up while you're 547 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,159 defending the dream. And once you drop 548 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,240 the ego, even if it's for a little 549 00:23:24,159 --> 00:23:27,840 second, you'll feel something terrifying 550 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,640 and [music] beautiful. You never needed 551 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,679 it. You were always complete. The armor 552 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:35,919 was the wound. Ancient teachings weren't 553 00:23:33,679 --> 00:23:38,320 obsessed with humility. They were 554 00:23:35,919 --> 00:23:41,600 obsessed with liberation. And once the 555 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:44,080 ego falls apart, the final truth appears 556 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,400 immediately. And this is the final truth 557 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:50,240 that ties the entire universe together. 558 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,919 This is truth number five. Everything is 559 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,760 connected. 560 00:23:51,919 --> 00:23:56,320 This one shows up everywhere from 561 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,520 ancient temples to modern physics 562 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,360 laboratories. [music] 563 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,000 Everything's connected. Everything is 564 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:04,000 one system. Everything influences 565 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,720 everything. That's how everything it 566 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,760 gets. In the hermetic texts, we see this 567 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:13,360 principle of as above, so below. In the 568 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:15,760 Cabala, we see all creation emerges from 569 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:18,880 a single tree of life. In quantum 570 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,200 physics, no particle is truly separate. 571 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:24,159 Every particle has some entanglement. In 572 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,320 Daoism, we see the this idea of 573 00:24:24,159 --> 00:24:29,360 opposites are not enemies. They're 574 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,679 complimentary forces of the same source. 575 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:34,640 In the Mayan popo vu, this is where we 576 00:24:31,679 --> 00:24:36,799 see the universe is one living organism. 577 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:40,080 In Buddhism, we have the concept of 578 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:43,120 what's called interbeing. Nothing exists 579 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:46,559 independently. And in Sufi mysticism, 580 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:48,960 the soul is a thread in the same cosmic 581 00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:51,760 fabric. Even if you look at the Egyptian 582 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:54,640 pyramid texts, we see the soul [music] 583 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:57,440 returns to the stars from which it came. 584 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:59,520 In ancient Native American wisdom, uh 585 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,799 they have a phrase that's I think 586 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,279 pronounced makuya o yasin, which is we 587 00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:10,000 are all relatives. Essentially saying 588 00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:12,240 with all beings I am related. 589 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,640 Nothing stands alone. So every action 590 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,520 ripples, every emotion radiates, every 591 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,919 intention vibrates through the whole. 592 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,880 You are not some separate node in the 593 00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:23,840 universe. You're a neuron in a cosmic 594 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,120 brain [music] 595 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,120 firing inside of infinity. 596 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,159 And your [music] life is not happening 597 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,799 to you. Your life is happening with you, 598 00:25:32,159 --> 00:25:37,120 through you, and as you. And suddenly 599 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:39,919 all five truths click together like a 600 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:42,080 lock snapping open. You're not separate. 601 00:25:39,919 --> 00:25:44,320 Fear is an illusion. Your mind shapes 602 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,400 reality. Ego is the enemy. Everything is 603 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,640 connected. So if all that's true, then 604 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,640 you aren't [music] a human trying to 605 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:53,200 become spiritual. You are the universe 606 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,559 temporarily being human. You're already 607 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,159 spiritual. [music] So everything you've 608 00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:58,320 ever been scared of, everything you've 609 00:25:56,159 --> 00:25:59,679 obsessed over, everything you've doubted 610 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,640 in your life, everything that you've 611 00:25:59,679 --> 00:26:04,880 ever questioned before comes down to 612 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,279 remembering what you were before the 613 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,200 world told you who to be. [music] And 614 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:12,840 that's what the ancients were trying to 615 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,840 wake us up to. 616 00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:18,640 So if the ancients all knew this, if the 617 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:21,360 truths were sitting in the open for 618 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:24,159 thousands of years, how the hell did we 619 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:27,760 lose it? How did humanity go from cosmic 620 00:26:24,159 --> 00:26:29,919 awareness to this psychological dumpster 621 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,240 fire that we're living in today? It 622 00:26:29,919 --> 00:26:34,480 wasn't a conspiracy. Personally, I think 623 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,799 it was something a lot simpler. It's 624 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,760 much darker and it's a lot more human. 625 00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:42,080 We just forgot who the hell we were. We 626 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,480 got hypnotized by who we thought we 627 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,360 needed [music] to be. So the moment that 628 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,720 humans started building civilizations, 629 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,799 we needed to gather a bunch of 630 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,628 resources. We need to protect our 631 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:55,919 borders. We need to survive these 632 00:26:52,628 --> 00:26:59,279 [music] crazy harsh winters. Fear became 633 00:26:55,919 --> 00:27:01,600 a tool. And then after tens of thousands 634 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:03,760 of years, fear became a habit. And then 635 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,080 fear became a culture. [music] And 636 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,279 everything that fear touches, obviously 637 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:11,919 it corrupts. That's why every single 638 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:14,720 ancient text, even the Bible, they warn 639 00:27:11,919 --> 00:27:17,760 us about the same exact traps of greed 640 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,360 and ego and power and materialism and 641 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,279 comparison, desire, [music] 642 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:24,240 control, and attachment. They weren't 643 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:26,799 trying to teach us to be moral. This had 644 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,400 nothing to do with being a moral person. 645 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:32,080 They were describing [music] 646 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:34,880 psychological malware in Dao DeQing. 647 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:37,760 When wealth and honors lead to 648 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:40,559 arrogance, it brings evil. If you read 649 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,960 the Quran, you're going to see, "Do not 650 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:45,684 commit abuse on the earth, spreading 651 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:48,000 corruption." In the Bible, it says, "Do 652 00:27:45,684 --> 00:27:50,400 [music] not store up treasures on 653 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,320 earth." You read the Buddha and it says, 654 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,200 "Cleing is the root of [music] 655 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,520 suffering." Every tradition saw this 656 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,159 coming. The moment humans forgot who 657 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,720 they were, they'd try to fill this 658 00:28:00,159 --> 00:28:05,520 emptiness with every single thing they 659 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,840 can except the truth. 660 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,640 And that's exactly what we did as a 661 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:14,000 people. We built entire civilizations on 662 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:16,320 top of a lie that we're separate. These 663 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,480 giant economies on top of the lie that 664 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,080 we're all lacking. And we all built 665 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,279 identities on the lie that we're not 666 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:25,760 enough. The ego that starts off as a 667 00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:28,880 small little tribal safety mechanism 668 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:31,360 became this global operating system. We 669 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,919 started comparing and competing and 670 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:36,640 hoarding and fearing and posturing, 671 00:28:33,919 --> 00:28:38,480 consuming, scrolling, performing. We 672 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,120 turned [music] life into a weird little 673 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,324 scoreboard. And we made success a 674 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,360 really, really good-looking costume. 675 00:28:43,324 --> 00:28:47,909 [music] And we traded all of our meaning 676 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:50,640 for dopamine. We replaced being still 677 00:28:47,909 --> 00:28:52,799 [music] and mindful. Maybe just let's 678 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,114 call it boredom. We replaced boredom and 679 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:56,640 silence with lots and lots of noise and 680 00:28:55,114 --> 00:28:59,279 [music] distractions. But I think the 681 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,320 biggest one of all is we stopped asking 682 00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:06,000 who am I? And we started asking who do 683 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:08,240 they think I am? We traded a lot of 684 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,039 truth for distraction. And the worst 685 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:14,559 part is the distractions got really 686 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:16,720 really effing good. Scary, sexy, 687 00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:19,120 addictively good. 688 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,279 So, we engineered apps that hijack our 689 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,919 nervous system. We have news cycles that 690 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:25,840 feed off of our cortisol and our stress. 691 00:29:23,919 --> 00:29:27,600 We have algorithms now that weaponize 692 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,399 our attention. We have cultures that are 693 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,159 built on outrage and tribal division. If 694 00:29:30,399 --> 00:29:34,799 you live in America, you're in the 695 00:29:32,159 --> 00:29:36,640 middle of it. And we didn't just forget 696 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:40,000 all these ancient truths. We built a 697 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,840 world designed to choke the life out of 698 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,039 them. And if you look around, you can 699 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,559 see the symptoms everywhere. Anxiety is 700 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:49,279 normal. 701 00:29:46,559 --> 00:29:51,600 Depression is common. Addiction is 702 00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:53,919 everywhere. Loneliness is an epidemic 703 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,399 we're in the middle of. Attention spans 704 00:29:53,919 --> 00:29:58,640 are collapsing. People don't even know 705 00:29:56,399 --> 00:30:01,360 how to be bored. Replaced wisdom with 706 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:03,679 content, contemplation with distraction. 707 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:06,000 We became the most technologically 708 00:30:03,679 --> 00:30:07,600 advanced species in history and 709 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 simultaneously 710 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,919 the most spiritually disconnected. 711 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,760 Again, it's not cuz this truth just 712 00:30:11,919 --> 00:30:15,680 disappeared somehow. It's because the 713 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:19,120 noise got louder than the signal. 714 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:21,679 [music] The ancient warning was not a 715 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:25,279 metaphor. It was a prophecy. The 716 00:30:21,679 --> 00:30:29,600 prophecy is if you forget yourself, you 717 00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:31,120 will forget everything that matters. 718 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,711 But there's another part the ancients 719 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,720 also agreed on. Once the 720 00:30:32,711 --> 00:30:35,679 >> [music] 721 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:38,720 >> illusion gets to the point where it gets 722 00:30:35,679 --> 00:30:41,760 unbearable, once the noise gets super 723 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:45,039 overwhelming, once the ego starts to 724 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:47,200 look like a crazy Jenga tower, that's 725 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:50,399 when [music] people start to wake up. 726 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,320 And right now in this era, in this 727 00:30:50,399 --> 00:30:55,200 generation, [music] we are seeing that 728 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,600 start to happen. The illusions are 729 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,600 cracking. The distractions aren't 730 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,760 working as well as they used to. My 731 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,919 friend Shawn Ryan did an entire series 732 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,080 about this called SCOP. People are 733 00:31:03,919 --> 00:31:08,320 starving for something real and they 734 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,360 don't know why. And this brings us to 735 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,159 this final [music] 736 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:14,159 section. What did the ancients say about 737 00:31:12,159 --> 00:31:15,520 this awakening? Is it really an 738 00:31:14,159 --> 00:31:18,000 awakening? And what is it going to mean 739 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,799 for our life? So if forgetting makes us 740 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,960 suffer, then remembering is what sets us 741 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:24,799 free. And every ancient tradition, 742 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,720 everyone [music] with no exception, they 743 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:29,679 didn't just warn us about ego and fear 744 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:32,000 and illusion. It also left very detailed 745 00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:34,720 instructions for what happens after the 746 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,000 collapse. They left us a road map for 747 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,000 waking up and the patterns are 748 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,760 unbelievably clear once you know what to 749 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,880 look for. And they don't give you a 750 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:47,120 bunch of rules and dogma and rituals, 751 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,600 just internal transformations. So, let 752 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:53,440 me show you exactly what they said. 753 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:56,559 Number one, waking up begins with truth. 754 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:59,120 In the Bible in John 8:32, 755 00:31:56,559 --> 00:32:03,519 the truth will set you free. Not 756 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:06,159 obedience, not faith, truth. Truth about 757 00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:10,399 yourself, about the mind, about fear and 758 00:32:06,159 --> 00:32:13,440 ego. Truth is the solvent that dissolves 759 00:32:10,399 --> 00:32:16,960 the illusion. In the Avestra, which is a 760 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,477 Zoroastrian uh text, we see the quote, 761 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,440 "Truth is the best good. It is the 762 00:32:19,477 --> 00:32:23,679 [music] everlasting light." From the 763 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,760 Buddha, we see the quote, "There are 764 00:32:23,679 --> 00:32:28,559 three things that cannot remain hidden. 765 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:30,640 The sun, the moon, and the truth." Every 766 00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:32,399 awakening starts here. The moment we 767 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:35,279 stop running from reality and start 768 00:32:32,399 --> 00:32:38,240 seeing it. This is why suffering is what 769 00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:41,120 happens before awakening. Cuz pain 770 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:44,320 breaks the illusion that we all kind of 771 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:48,000 hide behind. So number two, waking up 772 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:50,159 requires presence. Every tradition says 773 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,760 awakening doesn't happen in the future. 774 00:32:50,159 --> 00:32:54,720 Not someday. It doesn't happen when 775 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:57,279 you're healed and calm and ready. The 776 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,120 Buddha tells us don't dwell in the past. 777 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:02,080 Don't dream of the future. Concentrate 778 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:04,000 the mind on the present moment. 779 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:06,320 In the Daqing, 780 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,880 they say if you are depressed, you're 781 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,320 living in the past. If you're anxious, 782 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,760 you're living in the future. If you're 783 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,640 at peace, you're living [music] in the 784 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:17,360 present. And Jesus said this in the book 785 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:20,159 of Matthew 6:34. 786 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:22,559 Do not worry about tomorrow. 787 00:33:20,159 --> 00:33:25,760 If we read Plato, he [music] says, "Time 788 00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:28,159 is the moving image of eternity. It's 789 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:30,480 just right now." Presence is not a 790 00:33:28,159 --> 00:33:33,440 spiritual idea. You can get rid of the 791 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:36,559 whole concept of the word spiritual. 792 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:39,760 It's a doorway back into reality. The 793 00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:41,279 ancients [music] were not saying be 794 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,200 mindful. 795 00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:45,679 What they're telling us is stop living 796 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:48,559 in an illusion. Don't live in a fake 797 00:33:45,679 --> 00:33:51,519 world. Number three, waking up [music] 798 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:53,840 requires compassion and service. And 799 00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:56,000 every single ancient text links 800 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,840 awakening with compassion. [music] 801 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,080 And it's not compassion because you're a 802 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,240 morally good person. It's compassion 803 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,799 because you recognize the truth. Because 804 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,640 if I see you as myself, compassion isn't 805 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:09,760 morality. It's just me [music] taking 806 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,000 care of me. If you read the Quran, you 807 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,240 see the quote, "Give to the needy, the 808 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,200 orphan, the captive." In the Bible, it 809 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:18,800 says, "Love your neighbor as thyself, as 810 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:22,079 yourself." 811 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,399 In the intellects, Confucious uh 12:2 812 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:26,480 says, "A gentleman seeks virtue." And 813 00:34:24,399 --> 00:34:28,320 Plato says, "Be kind for everyone you 814 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,000 meet is fighting a hard battle." 815 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,919 Compassion is something that we 816 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,320 recognize. 817 00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:36,399 We don't learn it, we recognize it. So 818 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:39,040 once [music] you stop believing that 819 00:34:36,399 --> 00:34:41,200 you're separate, love and compassion 820 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,359 becomes the only behavior that makes any 821 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,359 sense at all. It doesn't mean like I'm a 822 00:34:43,359 --> 00:34:46,960 good moral person. It just means I'm 823 00:34:45,359 --> 00:34:49,760 acting in something that makes perfect 824 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:52,399 sense. Step four, waking up requires 825 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,639 stillness and self-nowledge. This shows 826 00:34:52,399 --> 00:34:56,800 up everywhere. In the Upanishads, we see 827 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,560 know thyself and you shall know the 828 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,040 universe. 829 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,640 Socrates said the unexamined life is not 830 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,640 worth [music] living. In the yoga 831 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,920 sutras, yoga is the stealing of the 832 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:10,240 mind. In the ancient Nagamadi text, 833 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,480 which is um in Gnostic Christianity, 834 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:14,880 it's a type of Christianity. Know 835 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,560 yourself and you will be free. And the 836 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,880 Buddha tells us in stillness, [music] 837 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:22,160 truth reveals itself. Awakening is not 838 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:24,240 adding new ideas. Never ever let 839 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,160 somebody sell you on this idea. [music] 840 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,880 It's not going out and buying beads and 841 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:31,280 adding new ideas. This is removing 842 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,079 noise. Awakening is about stripping 843 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:37,200 stuff away, removing illusions and 844 00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:39,920 stories and ego and fear until what's 845 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,280 left is the thing that was always there. 846 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:46,560 It's you without distortion. And number 847 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:49,520 five, waking up transforms suffering 848 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:52,354 into wisdom. In the Bible, in Romans 849 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,280 5:3, suffering produces perseverance. 850 00:35:52,354 --> 00:35:55,440 [music] 851 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,359 Perseverance, character, and character 852 00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:00,560 hope. In Buddhism, we have the four 853 00:35:57,359 --> 00:36:02,400 noble truths. Suffering is the path to 854 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,760 enlightenment. If you look in the 855 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:09,119 Bhagavad Gita, you'll see in compassion 856 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,480 I destroy the darkness of ignorance with 857 00:36:09,119 --> 00:36:13,040 the lamp of knowledge. [music] In the 858 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:15,839 Egyptian pyramid texts, they say the 859 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:18,240 soul ascends through trials. The 860 00:36:15,839 --> 00:36:19,865 ancients are not giving us some brochure 861 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,640 promising us a life with no suffering. 862 00:36:19,865 --> 00:36:22,320 [music] 863 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,560 They're promising you a life where 864 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,160 suffering becomes a catalyst for 865 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,720 something. Which brings us to point 866 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,960 number six about awakening. Waking up is 867 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,880 just remembering what you are. When you 868 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,800 put all these pieces together, truth, 869 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,760 presence, compassion, stillness, 870 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:40,170 transformation, every ancient tradition 871 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:43,280 lands in the same place. Awakening 872 00:36:40,170 --> 00:36:45,280 [music] is not becoming something new. 873 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,960 It's remembering something ancient, 874 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,800 something deeper [music] and original 875 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,040 that you've always been. If you look in 876 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,800 the Cabala, they say each soul is a 877 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,520 spark of [music] the infinite. On the 878 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,079 Emerald Tablet, it says all is one. In 879 00:36:55,520 --> 00:37:00,640 the popo vu, humans are the divine 880 00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:02,560 remembering itself. The final step of 881 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,680 awakening isn't learning a bunch of new 882 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:08,800 motivational It's recognition. 883 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:11,359 It's a flash of remembering, oh, I'm not 884 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,440 separate. I never was. I just forgot for 885 00:37:11,359 --> 00:37:15,520 a minute. Awakening is not a a 886 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,839 destination that you get to. It is a 887 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:20,160 return home. And it will be shitty at 888 00:37:17,839 --> 00:37:22,800 first. And if this didn't feel new to 889 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,800 you, it's because it wasn't. [music] You 890 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,280 are remembering. I think the real 891 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:30,720 unsettling part isn't how radical any of 892 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:32,560 this is. It's how obvious it feels once 893 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:34,640 we hear it. You were never missing 894 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,839 something. [music] You were taught to 895 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:40,320 forget. And awakening doesn't feel like 896 00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:43,280 fireworks and stuff like that. It feels 897 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,119 like stress. Then it feels like relief. 898 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,720 It's like you're setting down a huge ass 899 00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:48,079 backpack that you didn't realize you 900 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:50,400 were carrying cuz you've been holding it 901 00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:52,640 your entire freaking life. The pressure 902 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:55,839 to become somebody, to prove something, 903 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:58,400 to defend yourself, all of that built on 904 00:37:55,839 --> 00:38:00,400 this misunderstanding. The world does 905 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,400 not change when you wake up. Your 906 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,960 relationship to the world is what 907 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:08,320 changes. Fear loses its authority. Ego 908 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:10,640 loses its grip on you. The noise stops 909 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:13,200 convincing you that it matters. It's 910 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:16,079 just because you saw something clearly. 911 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,400 And the truth was never really hidden. 912 00:38:16,079 --> 00:38:20,960 It was [music] just 913 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:25,160 waiting. 914 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:25,160 Love you. Take care.