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So if it was a consequence of a more organic discovery, then great, but as I try to top down, push it on, which is what I've been doing and suffering from it, I can...

There isn't a single human being in society, not even the high-minded spiritualist who does not believe in anything but prescriptions.

Every human being is taught prescriptions.

In fact, if you tell someone there is no how, they don't say anything because they don't know where to begin.

After stumbling upon truth, there's some old remnants, lingering old structures, and they impact my ability to give myself permission that it's okay to waste time.

But there's an oscillation between, let's say, being okay in that point in time, and then kind of going back to the conventional you

There's something that you can do to correct that.

So are you saying that after realizing truth, the oscillation is natural?

As 1 realizes truth, he realizes the truth is always in the direction that is away from what to do or how to do it.

So in regards to that, is there a point where that will stop?

In the sense that you've completely optimised

Well the very fact that you're trying to optimise or actualise is in itself a chase.

You need to really, not that you should, but if you are seeking truth, you need to really abandon all of the intellectual jargon and conditioning that you have picked up from all the books that you have read?

Previously on things that I've worked on, I found that this sort of how other people think about status of different achievements was very far off.

And I think in fact, looking back at it, I should be grateful because it convinced me that, you know, what other people are able to perceive is immaterial.

And so now there's a thing that, an object that I wish to build.

And within the, initially I thought this is a thing that could be very useful in the world, it could be this great achievement, blah, blah, blah.

But there is a possibility where the object could exist but be entirely useless.

And it made me think of a thing that you said about art and an art piece that it's sort of it doesn't matter if anyone buys it, it's for the thing to exist.

And I realized, you know, even if it's irrelevant, I still want to build it.

And it's almost as if I don't care whether it becomes some massive thing in the world or if it's just a thing that exists.

And with a single object, that is a thing that is finite.

And there's just that end to it, and it's that.

And I'm thinking that anything that's a company, even if it's some great thing, it's like you said of work, only a single person does any work.

It's what other people think that it's this great thing.

And it's also a thing that then is unending, this idea of an industry.

Well, an industry, it's not a well-defined thing.

So is it correct that something that is unending, built with an institution of people, that that sort of thing is not truth?

And how that vision lives in the individual himself, that is the truth, and the expression of that vision.

The people who work there and what the company looks like to other people, and what its stature is, and how much money it makes, that is a truth.

It doesn't mean that it's wrong or right, but the truth lies in the devotion to the creation, not in the perception or the content or the infrastructure of how it turns out.

If that devotion becomes to the point where it's thought of as something that continues with this idea of it needs to grow without bound.

Does that then just become a chase of pleasure of some sort?

I think the more fundamental chase of pleasure is that you shouldn't be chasing pleasure.

You're trying to live up to the ideal of what is sincere and what is not and that becomes a chase in itself.

1 of the things I've been able to notice is that certain thoughts and certain voices in my head have been able to treat as imposters.

I used to struggle with overeating, but now whenever those cravings or those thoughts to overeat or to pick certain foods come, I instantly sort of recognize them as the gate and without condemnation, I'm able to sort of ignore them, just recognizing them as they don't serve me.

And I've been able to do that with certain other thoughts as well when I have an urge to scroll through social media, recognizing it as just sort of meaningless.

But then there are other thoughts that I haven't been able to successfully distance myself from, such as self-doubt.

My question is that I have a GMAT exam coming up, and I've quote unquote worked very hard for it, but I still feel some amount of anxiety perhaps because I've attached too much importance to the results of the exam because it will determine which college, which graduate program that I get into.

So I was wondering if you could tell me what the truth of this situation is.

Well, the truth of the situation is that you've bought into the idea of graduate programs having any meaning whatsoever.

And that graduate programs are leading someone to success.

Can you work on getting more proximal to truth and reality or is that sort of a mystery on its own?

But it is somebody money and on the outside might view it as work.

But if, if individual themselves use it as well I must do this and I must do that I must do this, then it won't happen.

If it's not even an if, I believe that the title of the room is true, that work is a myth.

It's something that I've pondered a lot, but what do we do about money?

I'm not telling you that you shouldn't work, although you should work.

You view the title of the room as something that's trying to be impressed upon people, as a concept for them to believe.

The very fact that you ask the question, what about money?

Means that what you are asking is, fine, I will buy into the fact that work is a myth.

And the problem, the fundamental problem is you have viewed this idea, or this thing as a concept that you should follow.

I've been running up against this, kind of analogous thing when you talk about prescriptions.

And for me it feels a lot like, it's like you're born and people start putting jackets on you.

And throughout my whole life, it's like you just keep putting on more and more jackets.

You don't even know you're wearing any of the jackets, but it's just like they pile on and then 1 day you realize you're wearing 1 and you're like, well, this is insane.

And so it's like, I keep taking these jackets off 1 by 1 by 1 by 1 by 1.

And then it's like, I, I, that feels like I'm getting somewhere.

And then when I interface with the world or with people, it's like they're trying to shove the jacket back on.

And I guess if I had a question, it's sometimes it's like I'm looking at a tabletop and I see a mouse run across it, and the mouse is sitting in the middle of the table.

And I look at the mouse, and then I look at the person next to me and I say, Do you see the mouse there?

And so it's like, I guess in the analogy, it's like, I keep taking these jackets off and I keep seeing the mouse.

But when I'm trying to get reality reflected back at me by interfacing with other people.

It's like, for lack of a better, like, I just can't, I can't communicate.

It's like, I know what I'm seeing, I know what I think.

But it's like when you find somebody else that you think will understand the thing that is you're trying to communicate, they just can't comprehend it.

And it's not a lack of like, effective communication.

It's, it's just like, I can't find anybody to interface with.

The more genuine and the more true one's desires, longings, or insights, the less people they will find.

And the person who is seeking truth will never have a companion.

They will never have someone they can talk to.

This is 1 of the hallmarks of an individual who seeks truth, and it is also 1 of the central reasons why no human being seeks it.

To ask a question which says, I have 2 choices, Which road should I take?

I have 2 options, I have 2 things that I'm thinking about.

It must be understood that there are no correct answers.

In order for guidance to be given in this particular domain.

Sincerity is not a must, but if it is not present, There is no point in speaking.

General questions about how do you calm the mind?

Anything that is prescriptive is not sincere.

I've heard you say on a couple of occasions that repeated exposure to the truth is what's necessary in order to rewire the brain.

And I've experienced that to some level through your work.

I've invested in some of your direct truth podcasts, and they've been really helpful in getting a better understanding.

My question is for myself, your work is the only place or source for me to expose myself to the truth.

What I wanted to know was where do you go to expose yourself to the truth?

Do you visit your own work that you've done in the past to expose yourself?

Or is there something else that you're immersed in, in order to expose yourself to that truth on a regular basis

My exposure comes from the dedication and devotion To the truth and because of that dedication and devotion There seems to be a place that I'm that has no name From where it comes and that source that well whatever it may be and from wherever it arises, that is what I consult.

Is devotion, dedication, desire with a capital D, sincerity, is it a choice?

People who are, a person who is dedicated to something, it doesn't come through a choice.

It usually is something that is visceral.

And most of the things that are truly otherworldly in this lifetime for any human being are generally not the things which they choose, but which choose them.

A human being is always chosen when it comes to things of purity and devotion and genuineness, sincerity, all of these things.

You know, words are dangerous because each comes with their own definition as to what is a fact and for what is an opinion and what is a belief and what is truth.

Generally those who look for facts are looking in the material world, they're looking in the phenomenal world, in science and literature and research and those kind of things.

The person who is looking for the truth is not beholden to science.

He is not beholden to laboratories and research and things that the limited things that a human being fabricates, even in limited means through which they discover things in the world.

So the truth is much more fundamental and far-reaching than something that is simply a fact.

Can guidance be distinguished from advice?

So what I have seen is that it's absolutely true that whenever I was sincere guidance did come to me but sometimes I ignored it because of you know my general sort of suspicion against advice and prescriptions so I was trying to understand is there a way where like I can be better

I don't think that I don't think that you ignored it because it was a prescription I think generally when someone tends to ignore advice it's to be honest advice should be ignored because it is always prescriptive And the person seeking it is looking for prescriptions, and the person who is giving it is giving prescriptions.

So Generally it's ignored because of ego.

And just as it conveniently turns out, advice should be ignored.

Because it is always menial and it is never the truth.

And unless something is the truth, it can only lead to more problems.

When you are given answers, the answers only lead to more questions.

And human beings spend their entire lives chasing, and they never truly find the thing and that applies to every single human being and that isn't because they lack the potential to do so but it is because they believe in answers they believe in rights and wrongs They believe that this is the correct way and that is the incorrect way.

Therefore, they seek mentors and read books and listen to.

Spiritual people and listen and follow the path of self-help and self-development, and it's all.

Gupta was curious if there's any place for compassion at all or does someone have to walk their own journey completely by themselves?

So the only reason that you know the word compassion is because you came into the society and that word was given to you.

And it was given to you as a way of something good.

And what society does is it tells you that okay these are the good things and these are the bad things.

So look for those things and avoid the other things.

When the trouble with society, and this is what human beings don't understand, is that society tries to tell you to chase things that generally come naturally.

And all these things that human beings chase, they aren't real things.

The reason it doesn't exist is because the human being chases it.

The human being puts it on the wall and says, this is a good thing to chase.

And then they turn it into a judgment and say, well, I have not been that.

And all of a sudden they look at their life and they see, when they examine the clock and they examine the calendar and they notice that 75 years have gone by and they're still chasing the words.

A person who chases compassion will never be compassionate enough.

A person who chases love and goodness will never be loving or good enough.

Whenever a human being lives and worships at the altar of words and concepts they are signing a contract for failure

no does effective not that it's good or bad but does effective guidance require a master outside of prescriptions?

Not like hammering a nail, but does artistic, like is there any such thing?

Well, it would benefit you more to not dress up the question into a summary and ask the raw thing that you want to ask.

Does effective guidance have to come from a master?

so, So there's a reason that you're asking that question.

I guess it comes from you in this moment and having, not that, you know, but having, being able to talk to you and stuff.

It feels Like you have guidance for me, even from asking the question about this, like you're the master in this situation.

I think the masterfulness really lies in the nature and the quality and the depth of the sincerity.

And all that is unfortunately available in society, in the world, in any corner of the world, and in any domain, is prescriptions.

And in fact, so much so that to suggest anything other than that would be ludicrous.

Because it's kind of like going to the ocean and denying water.

That is all that people have been subject to, and that is all that human beings know.

Therefore, guidance cannot come from the world.

Precisely because it is all founded upon something that is not real.

And if something is real, if something is not real, then anything that arises from that foundation is sheathed in unreality.

Would my questions be more sincere if I was more sincere if that makes sense I know it's a weird question but does the sincere person have better questions like more to the point ones like once that

sincerity tends to mature over time the more that 1 is exposed systematically to truth.

If the person has the DNA for the truth, to seek the truth, and the more they expose themselves to the truth, The nature of their questions begin to change because the orientation of their interiority begins to change and cosmetics and it tends to move more towards the fundamental nature of things.

I feel a gravitational pull to play societal games.

I feel like I can see a lot of falsehood, but it feels like I have to partake on some level to just get by living in a city.

There's no requirement to leave society and to move into a cave.

1 certainly may if they wish, but there's no requirement to do so.

So the sincerity does not live in society.

The sincerity lives within a particular human being.

Therefore, living in a society does not preclude 1 from seeking the truth.

In fact, living in a society so easily reveals the falsehoods that in some ways it makes it easier to see truth.

So long as 1 understands through some degree of rigorous understanding and some degree of exposure to truth on a systematic and continual basis, that all that he sees in the outside world is false.

And that is not an easy thing to see, because it is natural for the human being to believe that yes while I see this is false and that is false how can everything be false that just cannot be and that 1 thought that 1 belief as logical as it may sound keeps the human being on the hook forever.

I understand, maybe at an intellectual level, I'm

You know, if, if X person says, well, I did it, and it worked for me, and I transformed, so be it.

But you can ask that question all you want.

And it's just going to get you to intellectualness.

And so I think that's what human beings have to understand.

They don't have to force the understanding upon themselves, because that doesn't work.

But through some form or fashion, in some way, at some time in their life, The realization has to dawn that all these things, and even what you're saying now, you got from a book, all these things that, who am I, and spirituality and self-help, and they seem to be sacred cows but they're complete falsehoods.

The content itself may not be false But it is it being presented as a methodology is completely false.

You know, 1 could say, get into the present.

So to actually say that is, it is simply an unserious person who would say that.

And so you have to understand that people just like to talk, do this and do that and things that sound nice.

But no one's ever no 1 ever realized, like generally genuinely achieves, or has a complete realization of the very things that they high-mindedly speak about in these spiritual books.

It just sounds nice and it's flowery and you can put it on Instagram and you can put it on the board and on bumper stickers.

But you can ask these things to the cows come home and at the end of the day, 1 must examine the evidence for themselves.

Despite the fact that the 4 Noble Truths have been on the shelves for thousands of years?

And human beings are continually moving towards them as if they do, and every single 1 of them fails.

So, if I can ask another question just real quick.

That in itself, like, understanding that in itself, that it's such a subtle prescription that I'm doing, that my sincerity is basically not authentic.

I mean, it isn't that subtle to do a spiritual prescription.

Spend, say I'm gonna do this for 6 months or a week or 1 day.

Is 1 of the truths that we are fundamentally always alone, you know, we suffer alone.

But At the same, I know, but at the same time, I'm comfortable right now at my spot.

That's the reason I don't have financial freedom.

But at the same time, like there's nothing, you really can't do nothing about it.

But at the same time, I really want it, but I don't know.

But I want to get understanding of a certain type of questions.

Well, generally people, when they want, they, and they don't find themselves pursuing it, it's because that would be nice to have, and the desire is not visceral.

It is impossible to answer that question because the vessel that you ask to put water in has holes in it.

Therefore you don't have a clear understanding of what freedom is.

Therefore, the language with which I answer the question, though it may be English...

sincerely seek guidance without masking a desire for an actual ask for prescription?

Well, I think it's, I think it's important to understand, and it would be perhaps some degree of relief to understand for some, that there should not be any shame in the fact that all that 1 has in their arsenal is to ask for prescriptions.

When that is the only thing that you have ever heard of, and that is the only thing that you've ever been taught, and that is the only language that you've ever been exposed to in your entire life, which is basically everybody, then what else can you possibly ask for other than a prescription?

I have clients who I've been working with for years and years, and even they have to stop themselves.

Not that they should stop themselves, but they stop themselves because they have recognized after years the futility, despite them having masked in their asking.

They have asked questions without using the word how to, so that it wouldn't come across as a prescription, even though it was exactly looking for a prescription.

So everyone will do it because that is all they know.

And so long as 1 understands that, then they can move away from any type of hesitancy they have towards it, and not ask it, but to recognize that that's why they are where they are is because of the conditioning of society.

And having recognized that, this gives them a new beginning to begin to understand the futility of prescriptions and not turn no prescriptions into some rule to follow, but to genuinely look behind it to see why that is the case, as opposed to just making that some ideal to live up to.

Through various circumstances, I've seen through to an emptiness of pursuit.

But I don't have a deep enough understanding and it feels like a holding pattern or it's not exactly the right word.

I don't see places where I can find an understanding because the language that I would use for this place isn't, doesn't seem familiar.

And it doesn't seem like there are people in my sphere in any case who, yeah, I don't even mean individuals in my personal life.

I don't know the vocabulary to move through this place.

I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself well.

If you're looking for understanding, it would perhaps benefit you to read through all of my work and podcasts and books and whatever you can find.

All of the things that I write are from a place of understanding and non-prescribing and they aren't good and they aren't healthy and it isn't proper and no you shouldn't do it.

If you feel compelled to you may, but they're prescription free and therefore the the well from which they arise tend to lead the human being back to themselves, back to their true nature.

So that exposure, perhaps, I'm not saying that it will, it may perhaps be a benefit to you if, if understanding is what you truly seek.

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