Day 27 Viral Wisdom 5 6 2020

0:04 hi everyone it's dr shafali how are you hello check in tell me how you are where you're signing in from i'm here for another day of my viral wisdom and i think i got everything worked out today yesterday i was having technical issues but so it is hi guys i'm so happy to see you all let me know how you're doing let me know

0:35 where you're signing in from and we will soon touch upon a little bit of wisdom so you know whenever people come to me in my practice one of the most challenging things for people is to let go of who it is they used to be the hardest thing for us to do is to let that go because

1:07 what replaces that is something that is so treacherous something that is so scary for us do you know what that is that is living in the i don't know we have been so primed by culture to know to force ourselves to tame the wild to create an artificial mechanized reality

1:37 that gives us a false comfort that we know that the most terrorizing thing for us is to not know animals which we are we didn't come from animals people we are animals animals of the non-human variety who live out there in the wild they don't rely on machines they don't rely on calendars they don't

2:09 rely on schedules and organization somehow they have a radar that is deeply in communion with nature with the cycles of life and death with an intuitive understanding of hierarchy in the natural world alpha beta theta omega and they somehow understand tribalism and communalism and who is their species and who isn't they understand all of

2:39 this and they live according to this intuitive connection with nature without machines without artificiality it appears that they just live in the unknown in the constant present moment this is what we marvel about non-human animals that they can just be in the moment the only humans that we marvel that about are infants and young children

3:12 interesting isn't it that young children and infants know how to live like who we truly are animals and people get offended when we refer to them as animals i don't know why because we humans seem to think we are above animal we are the greatest animal and there could be nothing further than the truth that we are not the greatest animal at all all we are is perhaps

3:42 a bit a little bit more dominant and a little bit more creative but our creativity hasn't done us much good it actually takes us further and further and further away from our intuitive capacities our dominance has created a violence in us that allows us to rise to the top of the food chain unnaturally and then we dominate other species and then we think we're the greatest thing on earth so going back to our inability to live in the i don't know

4:13 it is dismal it is an um cut off part of ourselves something that we had when we were pre homo sapien but we have lost touch of with the industrial revolution preceded by the agricultural revolution we have been continually moving away from our authentic natures into a mechanized artificial robotic and now virtual reality

4:46 and the more we move away in the name of progress we are actually de-progressing in the name of evolution we are devolving because we are moving away from our primal capacity to live interconnected and in the unknown the greatest fear we have is to fully occupy the i don't know or in other words the unknown or in other words the x factor of life that i always talk about but to put it very simply i don't know

5:18 is seen as stupidity i don't know is seen as ignorance i don't know is never seen as wisdom yet the greatest wisdom teachers will tell you that their greatest wisdom comes when they can say with unabashed courage i don't know and it is then that the wisdom teacher says that they know the most it is when they say i know i don't know it is a sign of spiritual maturity to be able to say i don't know yet in the western mechanized

5:50 progress driven world of which we're seeing a dismal ravaged by-product of our existence our healthcare system is shattered our trust in our government is absolutely unprecedentedly not there non-existent our division our separation at least here in the united united states of america we see this we see that we cannot even come together we cannot even commune around the greater good of those who are poor and

6:21 needy or uh those who have been under slavery or oppression we can't and this is not dog on uh you know no no uh damnation of america it's just an honest critique of what it is so the more we go away from this industrial agricultural revolution and move into this mechanization the more we pretend to ourselves that we are greater than all living beings and therefore we have control over the future and we have control over

6:52 our life yet this one sneaky virus has shown us how little control we have over our lives actually non-existent so now our greatest terror which every spiritual teacher understands well is up bubbled up to the surface our greatest terror which is holy i really don't know and i didn't know but i thought i knew but now i realize i don't know but our attachment to what we thought we were which was we thought we were

7:22 creatures that knew now that attachment is really like a love affair we're like no i can't let go of that person that person thought she knew this one is realizing doesn't know diddly squat and this i don't know which is so revolted and repulsed in this mechanized world of the western civilization that we are seen as being out of control being ignorant being lesser than when we don't know yet the wisdom teacher will say ah now

7:55 you're touching nirvana now you're touching enlightenment now you're realizing how little ego you can have in this world and the ego was just your illusion of giving you power and control but you have none now the wisdom teacher is happy that the student has understood that it is nothing empty without that ego and that is-ness of emptiness of nothingness of i don't know-ness is the jewel

8:26 of spiritual awakeness of enlightenment of awareness you are now at the zenith not at the trough you are at the crest of your spiritual term of your pivotal epiphanic waking up this is it but the western world is revolted by it is repulsed by it because i don't know is seen as something to diminish yourself with not something to exalt yourself with and this is why the western world of mechanization and

8:58 progress and artificiality and moving away from our authentic natures is actually a demise of the human spirit it's actually taking us down to the gutter which is why our world looks the way it does why does it because we have so over indulged our mechanized progressive artificial cells and so minimized our authentic selves and our communion with our inner being we're so focused on the exterior and so

9:28 minimize the interior that the truth of our existence which is that we cannot control anything except who we are in the present moment that is completely uh a truth that is neglected and yet other illusions that you are in control you can know your future you can dominate you can succeed you can compete you can win that has been touted that has been exalted and it's all reversed

10:00 and now the virus is showing us okay which way do you want to go because now you're seeing you don't know and instead of being afraid of i don't know you realize ah every time i say to myself i don't know i am in truth i'm finally speaking truth so now in the virus i know all of you are saying a million times a day i don't know but that i don't know brings chaos within you it brings anxiety within you

10:29 it makes you feel lesser than i'm here to tell you each time you say i don't know you go ah finally i have wisdom finally i'm out of my ego out of my delusion thinking i know finally i'm touching what the sages have touched finally i'm on my knees humble realizing really i never knew and i don't know and this is wealth it isn't a stripping away it isn't a robbery it's the truth animals non-human animals live in the i

11:00 don't know they live moment by moment by moment by moment but we because of our creative imagination we think we know we think we can be psychic and produce the future sure some people have deep intuition some people have some clairvoyant abilities but for the main i know i don't know tomorrow i know for sure i don't know if it's going to rain today i can intuit but i'm not that developed so i'm just going to be humble

11:25 i don't know but i understand when i say i don't know i'm not in delusion anymore i'm finally honest transparent raw finally i am in truth the child and the animal the non-human animal they live in the i don't know space and they are the most pure most beautiful creatures why because they are not under the delusion of control possession prediction dominance they're just here moment by moment why are dogs so

11:56 unbelievably amazing because every moment they're here and they're here and they're here they're not looking for happiness they're not looking for sadness they're just present present present they don't have some image of themselves that they need to you know bolster they're not going out there to compete with other dogs they just are now of course they have some some territorialism i'm not going to take that away but not to the degree we humans have territorialism and look at little children sure they

12:25 have tantrums sure they are rage but for the most part they are true teachers of living in the i don't know in the i don't know they don't have an illusion of wanting to know we adults westernized mechanized adults have this delusion of wanting to know wisdom knows you can't know so now you have a choice the next time you say i don't know don't feel lesser than don't feel idiotic don't feel chaotic don't feel anxious it's the truth you're

12:56 finally speaking the truth i don't know and see the power of i don't know not the lesser than-ness of i don't know see the beauty of either i don't know you see the progressive westernized industrialized agriculturalized world has told us no you have to know right so it's created alarm clocks and calculators and automaton like things and robots and machines and cars and so much mechanization that we've lost touch with reality we're not living in

13:27 reality this is not reality this is some insane existence of of you know wearing fancy shoes and thinking that that's amazing that that makes us amazing people the number of cars in our garage and how pretty we look to whom right and how many husbands we have or don't have how many children we have and don't have some ridiculous thing that makes us feel oh now i'm in control i know what i'm doing on saturday i know what i'm doing

13:54 on sunday i know what i'm doing next summer and then you know and for christmas we're going to go to hawaii and then you know two years from now we're going to go on a safari to africa and oh you've never been to africa or maybe you should come with us when you're going again wait when the other one will ask when are you going again oh you know let me see in 2023 in summer we booked a safari

14:16 oh my goodness what insanity who lives like this which non-human animal plans animal plans three years in advance no they're not that stupid they're not ignorant we we we think we're so amazing we get to plan now this virus is showing us who's really ignorant them or us all our plans gone i love it 2020 canceled summer canceled i was going to be in serbia this weekend oh fancy she finally going to talk in

14:48 serbia i had my outfit picked out yeah so fancy had to cancel everything but i love it because it's woken me up to make me realize what on earth was i thinking now it's one thing to plan plan away but don't be attached to it as you plan no it can go but that part we don't do because we're too deluded we're like no i planned and that's why when you go on a vacation and something goes wrong

15:14 like if the flight gets cancelled or dare there be some weather and your whole trip got messed up or something happened malfunction this or that or you should see the indignation of the passengers do you see because they are like we deserve this vacation we are entitled to this vacation how dare you mess up my plans and we scream and we curse and we rage but the wise traveler knows when they booked the ticket and when they packed their suitcase that

15:45 this is a crap shoot it can go left really soon it could go south really fast things could turn around like this but no the other passengers were like no we've planned everything we have an itinerary on the 21st we do this and then we see the coliseum and then we go and we see the leaning tower of this and then we do that and we have pizza at the famous restaurant here oh my goodness this is called being a

16:11 tourist not a traveler a traveler knows it's all a crapshoot and it's all a journey and it's all an experience because it's all i don't know i don't know i don't know and we can fake knowing it but really we don't know anything but look at our life our whole life you know our parents give us this checklist you know they tell us what to do we read it okay we go to primary school then we

16:36 go to middle school then we go to high school and then what do we do oh then we go then we have to look good for college so we do some volunteer work in some third world fifth world sixth world country i don't know what those numbers mean because apparently america is first world so then we go we do that okay we go do that then right after that we have to go get a job go get a job

16:54 and then right after that let me see what did mom and dad say oh time to get married time to get married never mind i'm a fool never mind i don't even know who i am but let's go marry another fool so the two fools get married with the fool of the priest or the whoever is presiding because he's the biggest fool because everyone is taking it so seriously solemnly join to death do you part and you're like okay so now that's done

17:19 till death apparently then oh have children but even biology says have children but we must suddenly become biological creatures now we're having children never mind we're children ourselves never mind we don't know how to control our own tempers never mind we never grew up never mind let's have some children children child number one child number two child number three and then that's really the end of our life because now the the whole cycle starts again because now we raise them

17:47 as we were raised that'll take another 20 years right so 20 years gone then then then the actually hits the fan because then when when you have an empty nest you're like now i don't know what to do with myself and even better yet i don't know who i am right so that is known as the emptiness syndrome we've given it a title because it's a big thing when you drop your last kid off at college it's a big cataclysmic traumatic

18:16 event why because till then it was all laid out and then it suddenly stops like the list the prescription stops then you're like what am i supposed to do then what is retirement and and how do i rewire myself in retirement but but but your parents are like by the time they get there they'll figure it out let's just give them the prescription list till 50. after 50 they have to figure it out and that's why

18:43 people have a midlife crisis why is it called a midlife crisis don't just blame your husband for buying the yellow lamborghini and shocking you and spending all your money in vegas though it's okay of course he's going to have a mid-life crisis the woman's midlife crisis is coming too because the prescription list ended and you're like huh nothing after that you didn't tell me what to do after 50. and you lied to me you told me i'd be

19:07 happy by 50. so after 50 i don't know what to do and i'm not yet happy i'm actually really in debt and miserable and quite fat now what so now we have a midlife crisis perfect the woman has emptiness syndrome the man has a midlife crisis spends some money there's other things and and shakes things up again again and a bit because he they weren't told what to do after that you can't blame them the mom didn't tell them what to do

19:34 after 50. anyway so to speak all to say that this delusion of following a controlled list is a human condition it is a human a man of the adaptation it is a human miseducation it is a human insanity because the truth is we should be living in reverse from the present moment aligned with what the present moment is authentic to each individual no checklist

20:05 no prescription yes you may think that's full chaos that's anarchy but it's not it's actually the only way to live it's the enlightened way to live in the i don't know and not seeing the i don't know as lack but seeing the i don't know as full because when you're fully in the i don't know then you check in then you check in then you align from within you don't just follow the robotic sheep ahead of you see when

20:34 you think you know it's only because somebody else has told you what to do so you just follow it you actually don't know anything but when you say i don't know now you go to discover now you go within now you go on a quest that's why it's so powerful to say i don't know because now you're sitting in that space in between what was and what will be and you're waiting to discover you're waiting you're alive you're

20:59 present you're attuned you're like i don't know what's gonna happen i don't know what's gonna happen i don't know now it's forced you to sit up right in the best movies are those where they're cliffhangers you're like i don't know i don't know and you're sitting in your seat waiting that's why roller coasters are the best way you don't know where the curve is going to be where the swoop is going to be they're the exciting exhilarating ride

21:22 so then why are we numbing ourselves with the delusion of control and until death do us part i mean that is just like what why are we doing this to ourselves why are we living in a mechanized robotic predictable way that's not how life should be lived should be lived life can only be lived in the i don't know and yeah i don't know and the i don't know but it's terrifying because that means we have to show up we have to show up we

21:47 have to show up we have to be present right we can't be lulled into the zombified uh automaton like existence of i know 23 i'll do this 25 i'll do that 28 i'll do that then my kids will come then and who wants to live like that but that's how we've been living we've been living robotic so the challenge is to turn this around and this virus is here to wake us up i mean the virus is not

22:14 doing anything the virus is just being the virus but you we can use it as an opportunity to learn a different kind of living an awakened state of living a new way of living where we shift the paradigm from our delusion of possession control domination separation to presence in the moment awareness interconnection humility gratitude

22:45 and an open-hearted curiosity and this is the only way to live in the here in the now there is no good there is no bad it just is there is no pursuit of happiness just the experience of presence right shifting everything we knew of its template no more consumerism stop grabbing things on the outside now we all go inward we spend money to go inward not outward we end the the deforestation of this

23:17 beautiful foliage and fauna and flora that we're killing every single day because we want to wear fancy clothes and and put dye in our hair because we want to look good so end of that and now to encompass and envelop and embrace a new way which is the most profound spiritual way of all which is i don't know and when you begin to say that with

23:48 power with courage with certainty with assurance i don't know and the other one challenges you and says what do you mean you don't know you smile and you go i don't know and it is the only way to be so thank you guys thank you for listening and i hope i see you later there is a group i meditate with you can join me there it's facebook.com forward slash groups forward slash get

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