# Day 9 Viral Wisdom 4 18 2020 **Creator:** Dr. Shefali **Platform:** youtube **Duration:** 38m **Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM ## Summary The speaker discusses the transformative experience of being "stripped" during challenging times, emphasizing the discomfort and vulnerability that comes with facing one's true self without the usual distractions and masks. This period of introspection is seen as an opportunity for personal growth and the birth of a new consciousness, urging individuals to let go of old identities and embrace authenticity. - The current global situation forces individuals to confront their true selves, stripped of distractions and societal masks. - This discomfort can lead to profound personal growth and the opportunity to redefine one’s identity. - Many people have relied on external validation and distractions, which are now stripped away, revealing deeper truths about themselves. - The speaker encourages embracing vulnerability and using this time to reflect on what truly matters in life. - The process of being stripped is likened to a spiritual pregnancy, where individuals can cultivate a new consciousness. - The importance of living in the present moment is highlighted, as the future is uncertain and planning can be an illusion. - The speaker advocates for shedding excess and material attachments to discover a more authentic self. - Ultimately, this period of introspection can lead to a healthier, more self-aware version of oneself, contributing to a collective shift in consciousness. ## Transcript [[0:00]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=0s) hello hi Facebook it's my day nine of my viral wisdom chorus I'm so excited to be talking to Instagram here and Facebook here so drop in a line tell me where you are saying hi from icy South Africa and Denmark and so many more people from around the world so I decided to teach this course because I teach many courses and right now all my [[0:31]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=31s) courses are half-off if you wish to avail of the discount you can use a 50% off coupon but the reason I decided to do this course for free on Facebook and Instagram is because many people don't have the opportunity especially today in today's world to spend extra money so I just thought it would be a great moment in time to offer some teachings for free because I know people are wanting and searching and maybe some of my words [[1:03]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=63s) will allow people to realign and to recenter we're all looking for some reinker enduring these moments of time so maybe my words will help you so I'm so happy you're here joining me from all over the world Canada and Saratoga in New York I'll in hi Deepa from India Cindy from Boston so let's dive into today's teaching so today's teaching is all about being stripped you know in essence we have all been stripped and [[1:35]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=95s) being stripped is a very uncomfortable position being robbed being stripped of our normalcy of our routine of our organization of our order is a terribly uncomfortable position isn't it and it's causing a lot of inner perturbation it's causing a lot of inner exposure and vulnerability we are feeling naked we are feeling strict and we're forced to [[2:07]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=127s) look at our raw selves without the man in a very acute palpable way and this stripping brings with it an acute exposure to all aspects of our lives and that's why it's so painful without the mask we get to see who we are now you're with your partners 24/7 he can your husband can't even go to his mother's [[2:39]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=159s) house he's there all the time now your wife is there all the time without her hair color and without her makeup all the time and there's no break from her your with your children all the time and now you are being called to be a parent 24/7 and this is exhausting right everyone is crumbling you were so reliant on your distractions on your night outs on your restaurants on going to this one's house and that one's house [[3:10]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=190s) but now you're in your own house so to speak now you're in your own body so to speak confronting your own co-creation of your life until now and now you are under a raw microscope of your life in a petri dish you're seeing your entire life in a petri dish without any filter no filter right there's no filter all the women have the greatest showing and you know no one's wearing a bra no [[3:41]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=221s) everyone's in that sweat pants because we have been stripped of our normal armor right all the armor that we covered ourselves with and look so fancy to the world with gone gone gone and now you're forced to sit at home and look at your co-creation this far look at your partner as who they really are look at your children for who which is they really are and most powerfully to look [[4:12]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=252s) at yourself who you really are we have been stripped some of us have been stripped of our loved ones some of have been stripped of our paychecks some of us have been stripped of our jobs of our identities as career people we've been stripped and it is so uncomfortable to be stripped but while we are being stripped and getting to our naked core let me also remind you that the earth is being stripped of the virus of humans [[4:41]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=281s) and that is not such a bad thing because we have marauded the earth we have pillaged it we have abducted it of its right to roam free because we have wanted to be dominant we have chosen to execute our power over the earth in such an unmitigated unchecked unbridled fashion and now we have been stripped of that power but the earth has been stripped of the virus of humans and for that there is some solace yes [[5:10]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=310s) now there's other solace too but you have to go looking for it because it's not easy to find the solace in being stripped who wants to be naked in the world who wants to be exposed we've worked so hard to put on the mask and now we're stripped of it right within the four walls of our home with our children of our own co-creation with our partnerships our marriages and now there is no filter so we are stripped of our [[5:39]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=339s) filter but this is what I want to teach you perhaps today if you will allow me to with humility teach you that we as a humanity have forgotten who it is we truly are in fact very few of us truly lived authentic we lived according to what Mommy wanted of us what daddy wanted us of us what culture thought it wanted of us and what we thought it needed from us most of us have been living masked masked in falsity masked [[6:10]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=370s) in inauthenticity you know painting our face with all the makeup and thinking we're going to work and thinking with our briefcase and our suit and our tuxedos and our important business meetings in Tokyo and Mozambique and Turks and Caicos right I wonder how many of those were business meanings but we thought we were also fancy jet-setting around the world and so important and so busy and we could hide we hid we hid we hid in our [[6:43]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=403s) busyness in are doing in our in our title and our labels and we thought we were that and now to be rudely stripped of that is a shock now women have a slight advantage and maybe that's why women aren't dying as fast as as the men and I'll tell you the advantage that women have women have been stripped especially mothers off their mask when they had children and of course they put the mask back on really fast they went [[7:11]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=431s) straight back to the gym straight back to their jobs and got a tall order back the boobs were up the tummy was tucked and they just acted like they did not get stripped but when a woman becomes a mother a woman is stripped because she's stripped off her autonomy her one body now has to house two or three if she's having twins and the woman is like what the hell we were with who's taking over my body [[7:35]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=455s) who is abducting my body and women know who are mothers that they are stripped of who they were before and yes fathers get stripped too but not internally not biologically we women have tasted what it means to be stripped yes we put the mask back on really fast but for a brief moment every mother out there knows how she was stripped of her body she was stripped of her of her Donna me now this baby inside causing her hormones to go [[8:04]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=484s) crazy and then when the baby comes out she's supposed to breastfeed a woman knows her body wasn't hers at least in the early years of her child's life and of course she quickly covered it up and put the band-aids and and and pretended like she owned her own body but that's why I called motherhood more than fatherhood a profound portal into the vast truth of who you are because for a brief moment we mothers are stripped of [[8:33]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=513s) our identity we don't know who we are we want we aren't who we are before the baby but now the babies in us so when yet the mother and it's that time when the baby is in the body when the mother's one one body becomes too but the baby hasn't come out yet so she's so in the tunnel at that point the mother has the to be mother has a vast opportunity to go deep into a spiritual [[9:01]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=541s) place of understanding who she is without her mask we are now in that place we are all pregnant with pause we're all pregnant with the new tomorrow that hasn't yet been birthed we are in the birth canal pre birth canal it's in the body it's it's swelling and we feel like we're going to burst with anticipation but the baby is not being born because we think the baby to be born is the cure of the virus but that's [[9:34]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=574s) not the real baby to be born the real baby to be born is the birth of a new consciousness of a new humanity and it's not to be done on a global level it's to be done on the level of you and I micro very small so the reason why people don't typically change one of their justifications is what is one person's change going to do look at the world it's so disastrous you think me putting [[9:59]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=599s) off my lights off is going to make a difference you think me not eating meat is going to make a difference so you're right it's not going to make a huge difference but it is going to make a difference and exponential difference causes a tipping effect but it starts from the micro it starts from you and me when one consciousness changes then the next consciousness and I always say one is a million so now I want to offer you [[10:24]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=624s) an opportunity to truly understand how you can change your consciousness so that what can be birthed from your pregnant pause from your pregnant belly even the men because it's a spiritual pregnancy we're spiritually waiting for the new tomorrow we're emotionally in a holding pattern waiting so men are pregnant too waiting for the new birth and I want to offer you how you can purchase in your new birth because what is going [[10:57]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=657s) to be birthed is you in the new consciousness and in order for you to be in a new consciousness you need to first let go the old consciousness right you can't come into the new holding on to the old and this is why no one truly ever changes because they want to go into the new paradigm completely the same you know living in the same house with the same money with the same clothes with the same respect that they [[11:23]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=683s) get from the outer world they want everything to stay the same but they want to change it doesn't work like this in order to transform you have to change all the form so right now because we are in a forced pregnancy in a forced holding pattern in a first induced labor so to speak in an induced rock bottom where we are being stripped if we allow [[11:53]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=713s) the stripping process to truly be what it needs to be then we will let go the old and begin the new so what are we being stripped of what do we need to let go off we're on a basic material level we're being made to be let go off all ideas around order all ideas and predictions around being organized around planning for the future we're being told don't do that that is an illusion and if you do it do it knowing [[12:25]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=745s) you are participating in the slight degree of madness do it plan for the future but please through this experience know that you are forever never guaranteed a future remember that you're being stripped now of your delusion that you knew the future that you could have order and planning in your life so you used to tell your children I'm preparing you for the future I'm doing this for tomorrow I'm saving for tomorrow there is no tomorrow so if you want to do it do it knowing [[12:55]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=775s) that you're doing it for an illusion and what that does so once you strip away that idea what gets if this idea that I need to live in the present moment how the f am i living right now you see before this pandemic we lived under the cloud and illusion that we could plan for the future the danger of that way of thinking is that it allowed you to not be in the present [[13:26]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=806s) moment you don't realize how it was stopping you from being in the present moment but now it's being stripped away so we are mourning it but I'm asking you instead of mourning it understand what is trying to be birth what is trying to be birth is the new consciousness which should have been an old consciousness in new consciousness that oh now I understand I can't really really plan and all my fixation and obsession around the future was so threadbare was so [[13:58]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=838s) fragile I was so silly now I realize I have to develop a new set of skills because that is clearly an illusion so what gets birth is the profound awareness that if my present moment is not powerful it's not resonant with Who I am is not empowered is not free then my life is wasted this is the profound message that gets given to us in this pregnant pause waiting to be birth when [[14:30]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=870s) the old is stripped so when we strip away from this delusion that all our planning meant something that we could have a future that we thought we had a future through the planning once you strip that now you give it an opportunity to birth birth this new consciousness that your present moment needs to be lived in a new way and most of us have not been living in the present moment in any way I forget a new [[14:56]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=896s) way we've not been present we've been waiting to get rich to get thin for the career raised for the job raised for the salary raise children to go to college for the children to get married for if then then then we've been waiting for them and let this moment in time let this this conception and this pregnancy and the labor be for the labor of consciousness [[15:27]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=927s) of you understanding that the main reason that this is happening is for you to look at your present and change it according to your authentic self now stop waiting there is no future so that's one thing we've been stripped off and there's an opportunity it's still in the belly it's still not birth for you to begin to birth a new consciousness think about it and let it go you're being stripped of it you could be [[15:58]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=958s) obstinate Humanity is very stubborn and humanity could go no the minute I come out I'm going back to normal go ahead your choice but you've been offered an opportunity for a spiritual Jew then the next thing that has been stripped is all your identification with all things of waste and excess so shoes clothes makeup jewelry cosmetics and [[16:30]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=990s) cosmetics makeup yeah but all the cosmetology the padding the the cars the where I live how I live who I know you are now because you are at home not wearing your clothes not wearing issues not wearing your cosmetics not even meeting the people you know you are being stripped of that enmeshment to that you're being offered an opportunity to discover who you are without that and most of us are going holy I don't [[17:02]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1022s) know whether I like myself I need my friends I need to wear my makeup and you're looking at your hair you I think oh god this is how my hair really get the snow old I really am oh my goodness and your partners are looking at you but you're looking at your partners you're looking at your partner and going I didn't know you're an alcoholic and he's like he or she is like yeah because before I used to drink not under your [[17:26]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1046s) scrutiny all the time or you're like I didn't know you had rage issues the other day my my somebody called me up my one of my friends and she's like oh my god what's happening to my partner and I said this is happening for you to never forget that your partner has rage issues maybe it was all hidden before because you only saw them for an hour a day so you got upset once a month but [[17:49]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1069s) that once a month would have lingered for 50 years now you're getting it in concentration and you're being asked to change now so as we're being stripped away from all that we thought was so important to us oh my god we still put our makeup all the women in the cars or fancy cars going you know showing off their cars now we're not doing any of that so we are being asked so that's been stripped away so what is in the [[18:15]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1095s) belly waiting to be burned in new consciousness what is that new consciousness from this stripping away the new consciousness is wow I was really dependent on before I was really really dependent on my shoes and my clothes and I don't know who I am without it I don't even feel worthy I certainly don't feel beautiful I don't feel sexual I don't feel worthy I don't have coping skills I'm a rageaholic alcoholic food a holic you know Netflix a holic and I'm seeing now [[18:45]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1125s) I'm replacing those addictions with new addictions so the consciousness that gets an opportunity to be birth if you so choose is to now detach from excess and go down Whittle down to your best self find out how much do you really need to live to eat to sleep to be beautiful to to feel comfortable and if you're seeing yourself in absolutely dysfunctional [[19:15]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1155s) coping patterns as many people are many people are falling apart then with great compassion go oh my goodness I do not want what will be birth to be dysfunctional I do not want what would be birth to be an unhealthy new self do you want an unhealthy baby no you take care of yourself this is your chance to now birth a healthy new you but in order to do that you have to see the unhealthy parts you have to see now and you're [[19:47]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1187s) given an opportunity to see who you truly are how much you really eat how much you really drink how much you really need your friends how much you really need company how much you need entertainment because sitting with yourself is so intolerable and unbearable so now as you're being made to sit with yourself you're being asked to grow up because a true grown-up it true adult which you will really find is [[20:18]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1218s) one who is self-governing self autonomous self sovereign doesn't mean disconnected doesn't mean not compassionate but is fully empowered within the self without the makeup without the shoes without the clothes without the friends without the social circle without the show-off persona the veneer of the ego so as your veneer of the ego gets stripped it is scary and uncomfortable because you're asking [[20:48]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1248s) yourself naked eye to naked image in the mirror Who am I and you've been given an opportunity to birth in the tomorrow which isn't guaranteed therefore it's in the now you'll be asked to birth in the now for the future a new you that would claim and declare complete autonomy declare your independence from all things wasteful all things excess go to your [[21:19]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1279s) closet and I know you won't go to your closet and see what represents this new birthing and if there are objects things scarves shoes necklaces cosmetics that do not reflect the this new consciousness then give it away shed it release it we are now in a new time we are being asked for a new self to emerge but if you don't use this opportunity of the stripping - then discover the new you would have lost a [[21:51]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1311s) new opportunity a new moment in time a vast and powerful portal for a new you to emerge you know I t's my clients to blame the pandemic you know just blame the pandemic I'm leaving my job I'm leaving my marriage I'm leaving my house I'm leaving my city I'm leaving blame the pandemic so to speak what I mean by that is use this time where the mask has been stripped away where for the first time in our lives through this [[22:22]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1342s) great grand pause pause you know like the game you know Simon Says I mean they go pause you know statue freeze whatever game you played as a kid which asked you to pause this is that time do you know it will never come in your life like this again it will never unless you go intentionally for a 25 or 30 day meditation retreat you will never again pause you will never pass so this forced [[22:57]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1377s) labor this false pregnancy where you are being asked to burn something what that will be is now up to you but we are all pregnant in the pause we are all pregnant waiting for and the labor pains are already being felt because we are detox where we're being asked to be in labor and detox right so the pangs and the pains and the contractions and the withdrawals are tremendous but there's no pain no gain right no prize without [[23:30]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1410s) the price I say I say pain is the greatest portal I say all this time all this stuff all the time that it's almost cliched to my own mouth but it is so apropos to this moment in time never again will you be in an involuntary shut down now turn it to voluntary stop complaining stop resisting I know it hurts it sucks it's sad it's tragic it's scary it's everything pain is supposed to be but because we will never [[24:03]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1443s) voluntarily do this to ourselves let us use this involuntary moment and ask what is the jewel what is the jewel here for me what do I need to learn here what was missing in my life how was I living as a remnant a shard a version of my true self but not my true self and use this great big pregnant pause to go inward you are being stripped for a beautiful [[24:37]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1477s) purpose when we become parents we are stripped for a beautiful purpose but most of us miss the purpose because of insomnia fatigue and tried to get our bodies back we miss it well here we are again in the nine months hopefully it will be nine months in a nine-month pause so to speak the conception of a new you has been planted in your womb the womb of your consciousness the womb of humanity's consciousness now the [[25:09]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1509s) question is what will be birth will what will be birth a similar rendition of the old putrid perverted egoic and holistic greedy materialistic capitalistic self or will what will be birthed something entirely like we've never seen before just like our children when their birth we've never seen them before we think we want them to be a version of us our ego [[25:42]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1542s) the same rendition a mini-me which she looked like me on my partner oh my goodness hopefully neither and then when the child comes out and the child is this completely new person you're like I don't know who this person is but there lies the beauty and the spiritual revolution afforded I their intern there but do you know what we do you know what we do the child is nothing like us child is completely pure new clear clean you know what we do [[26:11]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1571s) we're like no no no no this is too uncomfortable so let us make you exactly like me so we do that we just go back and make them exactly like our grandfather like our ancestors and we call it tradition it's not tradition it's fear of the new tradition has been blasphemous into something holy you know tradition should not be sanctified I know you won't like what I'm saying and there's a reason I say this though listen to me the reason why [[26:43]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1603s) tradition has been blasted into sanctification because it's been sold as this amazing thing in some ways it is slightly amazing but in many ways it is it you know why because it is a blind and automatic default immediate robotic projection of the past on to the future and we do this with our children all the time the child is new and we go no let [[27:14]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1634s) me give you my ideas let me make you like me I like baseball you like baseball I like violin you like Milan I like spicy food you like spicy food and then when the kid protests and says no I am a new beautiful being can you please see me and be astonished at my vast new potential you're like no you're not a vast new being you are one more in the line of lineage of [[27:46]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1666s) descendants of great tradition and pomp and circumstance and you have to follow the tradition you see so we put onto this new beam and we stamp out its unique existence so in the same way now we are about to birth a new consciousness but because we are so scared and because we are clingers of so-called tradition so-called past so-called routine we're robotic with was scared of the new that we are [[28:16]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1696s) literally waiting for the new birth to be the old and what I want to offer you is that the old is old for a reason the past is the past for a reason it's not here what is here now is a new awareness if you allow yourself to have to sink into the new awareness and the new awareness is all that was not the true me it wasn't and I'm now been asked to [[28:48]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1728s) go inside on a rehab on a meditation retreat to ask Who am I without and this mass stripping the suspension of the oh the suspension of routine and tradition the suspension of all past patterns of all the lives on grades so just because I said grades let me just divert and I will come back most people here in the u.s. at least have been complaining that [[29:19]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1759s) the education system has literally not skipped a beat and teachers have been complaining because teachers are parents too so teachers have been complaining that they are teaching students non-stop students are complaining that they have not missed a beat to even adjust to this new trauma to this new traumatic moment in time for them and parents are traumatized because they have to be dual roles of teacher and parent and forget [[29:50]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1790s) other roles so everyone is tethered to this idea of grades that our children will skip miss something what the education system is missing is that the true learning now needs to be adapted to the true situation and to force all learning in the old way just because is just in the name of tradition and it is just an indication of attachment and an inability to let go and I hope that the [[30:24]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1824s) education system we halls itself now and the college system recalls itself but more importantly that you and I understand that that focus that obsessions especially here in the West on where you go to school is really one that we need to re-examine is really one we need we need to be contemplate because every kid cannot be fit into the same mold and we can see that now so our lives on grades on things on possessions on relationships with that [[31:00]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1860s) sorry and pausing taking a pause taking a pause returning so so with this pause that we just took is a new beginning so I'm going to ask you what has been stripped from your life can you allow for it to be released can you allow for [[31:31]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1891s) a new birthing of you can you allow for this rehab for this detox for this withdrawal to take place to uncover a new you can you allow the birthing of a new consciousness to take place now in order for a new consciousness to take place your way of thinking has to change and you have to do some self growth and self work so meditate take courses about the inner self begin to understand who [[32:04]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1924s) you are not as an external being trading for external validation but an internal beam craving for internal connection and when we as a consciousness beginning with you and I individual micro when you and I begin to nurture and heal our inner selves this ripple effect will go on to our children to their children to their friends and this is how a new tomorrow will come from the earth from [[32:37]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1957s) the earth of our belly from our consciousness from our mind so we are the tillers of the new soil and this grand pause is asking us to pick the right seeds to plant the right seeds this time so that when we reimagine into the into the clearing until the opening after this tunnel after this birth canal we are not showing the right seeds so what will you let go of willingly what [[33:08]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=1988s) will you say I release with great surrender and grace what will you say you are happy to be stripped off from what are you happy I know for me I am so happy that I could learn to live without without excess without distractions without reliance on outer stimulation I am so relieved to see that about me but I don't want to forget this I don't want to go back into my new life and go back into that [[33:40]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2020s) craving wanting needing I want to remember so this is how a new consciousness gets birth when you go within yourself and you discover who you are without and who you are without is who you are within so I'm going to read from the daodejing it's a fascinating book that I use in my life to help me it's called the DAO de Jing and it's something I send out in my newsletter I'll send you the link if you need the [[34:11]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2051s) link somebody will post it here and it's just something to think about and offer you a different perspective on how you're handling this present moment so I'm going to read verse 8 verse 8 says it's beautiful so just listen it takes some time to close your eyes go inward and just listen the supreme good is like water the supreme good is like water which nourishes all things without [[34:42]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2082s) trying to it is content with the low places that most people disdain thus it is like the Dow the Dow is the way so the daodejing teaches us how to live life without a religion without a cult without a following simply to understand the nature of life so he the doll says the supreme good is like water so I always say out of all the elements the element of water is the most profound [[35:13]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2113s) because water flows without resistance and water always goes to the lowest point it doesn't get scared of the lowest point we humans get scared of the lowest point because we have somehow mistaken the highest point to be power the highest point to be power because of our ego our desire control and dominance to look better to be richer to have more we always want higher and more but that's not the nature of the most supreme good which is [[35:43]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2143s) water water always flows to the lower because water understands that there is great power in humility what that means is there's great power when you let go of your need for power the greatest power is when you've let go of your need for power when you've surrendered indwelling the DAO says indwelling meaning in living the dow says live close to the ground but that means don't be so higher don't think you in your penthouse with your fabulous views or [[36:16]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2176s) your skyscrapers it means anything it says live humble live close to the ground in thinking keep to the basics which means stay in the present moment don't try to get fancy degrees fancy grades now if you get it effortlessly no problem but don't crave it in conflict be fair and generous in governing don't try to control in work do what you enjoy in family life be present when you are content to simply be yourself when you [[36:47]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2207s) don't compare or compete you will gain the ultimate respect for yourself so similarly to what I was talking about when you allow yourself to be stripped of all your ego all your habits all your identities all your power all your control you actually learn to live in peace with who it is you truly are and who it is you truly are is just who you authentically are without the without the defense without the mask without any [[37:16]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2236s) facade so you are being stripped can you willingly allow yourself to be naked and not be afraid of what you see in the reflection because the more naked you are to your own eye meaning the more raw the more truthful the more honest you are you discover the ultimate power which is power over your own destiny power over your own mind power over your own inner space no one owns you anymore [[37:47]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2267s) this virus is showing us no one owns you anymore you claim yourself you and only you claim yourself by living in the present moment the only moment is here now how am i living right now how am i living right now this is the this is the burning question have I been living in lie or truth have I been living in power or enslavement have I been living in [[38:18]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug7uEidKGM&t=2298s) liberation or in attachment how have I been living ask the question while you are feeling the pangs of your labor don't let yourself be birth in exactly the same way I'll see you here tomorrow at this