So then, let me connect this with the problem of birth and death, which puzzles people enormously,
 of course. Because in order to understand what the self is, you have to remember that
 it doesn't need to remember anything, just like you don't need to know how you work your
 thyroid gland. So then, when you die, you're not going to have to put up with everlasting
 non-existence, because that's not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they
 die, they're going to be locked up in a dark room forever, and sort of undergo that. But
 one of the most interesting things in the world--this is a yoga, this is a way of realization--try
 and imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that.
 Children think about it. It's one of the great wonders of life. What will it be like to go
 to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen
 to you. You will find out, among other things, that it'll pose the next question to you,
 what was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.
 You see, you can't have an experience of nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum. So after you're dead,
 the only thing that can happen is the same experience, or the same sort of experience,
 as when you were born. In other words, we all know very well that after people die,
 other people are born. And they're all you. Only you can only experience it one at a time.
 Everybody is I. You all know you are you. And wheresoever beings exist throughout all
 galaxies, it doesn't make any difference. You are all of them. And when they come into
 being, that's you coming into being. You know that very well. Only you don't have to remember
 the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland,
 or whatever else it is in your organism. You don't have to know how to shine the sun. You
 just do it. Like you breathe. Isn't it? Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically
 complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education in how
 to do it? You never learned, but you're this miracle? Well, the point is that from a strictly
 physical scientific standpoint, this organism is a continuous energy with everything else
 that's going on. And if I am my foot, I am the sun. Only we've got this little partial
 view, we've got the idea that no, I'm just something in this body. The ego. That's a
 joke. The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. It's like a radar
 on a ship. The radar on a ship is a troubleshooter. Is there anything in the way? And conscious
 attention is a designed function of the brain to scan the environment, like a radar does.
 And note for any trouble-making changes. But if you identify yourself with your troubleshooter,
 then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety. And the moment
 we cease to identify with the ego, and become aware that we are the whole organism, you
 realize as a first thing how harmonious it all is. Because your organism is a miracle
 of harmony. All this thing functioning together. Even those corpuscles and creatures that are
 fighting each other in the bloodstream and eating each other up. If they weren't doing
 that you wouldn't be healthy. So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at a
 higher level. And you begin to realize that and you begin to be aware too that the discords
 of your life and the discords of people's life, which are a fight at one level, at a
 higher level of the universe, are healthy and harmonious. And you suddenly realize that
 everything that you are and do is at that level as magnificent and as free of any blemish
 as the patterns in waves. The markings in marble. The way a cat moves. And that this
 world is really okay. And can't be anything else because otherwise it couldn't exist.
 But the reality underneath physical existence, or which really is physical existence, because
 in my philosophy there's no difference between the physical and the spiritual. These are
 absolutely out-of-date categories. It's all process. It isn't stuff on the one hand and
 form on the other. It's just, it is pattern. Life is pattern. It is a dance of energy.
 So I will never invoke spooky knowledge. That is to say that I've had a private revelation
 or that I have sensory vibrations going on a plane which you don't have. Everything is
 standing right out in the open. It's just a question of how you look at it. So you do
 discover when you realize this, the most extraordinary thing to me that I never cease to be flabbergasted
 at whenever it happens to me.
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