Across diverse ancient texts from various civilizations, a consistent set of fundamental truths about reality, human nature, and consciousness emerges, suggesting a universal wisdom that has been obscured by human limitations and societal conditioning.
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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
best [music]
[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. >> [music]
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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.
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
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.
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 [music]
[music]
completing each other. And that's when
these five truths revealed themselves. [music]
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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,
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? [music]
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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.
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.
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]
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
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.
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
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.
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."
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.
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.
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]
[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]
[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.
waiting.
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