When You Get Your Dream House Or Car, What Happens Then?

I want to talk about a spiritual concept that took me years to understand and you know I live in hope of you know the the being that I am coming through me enough to be able to put things so simply and clearly that others can get this a lot faster than I did because I think if I understood this earlier it would have been easier for me so it's this you know in the East the sages say that we are divine beings in human form and our true nature is bliss and joy and happiness but you know and the fact of it is in our ordinary day we might not feel this at all we might just be feeling stuck in the our imprinting like the patterns that we grew up with that we're operating in our family you know all the deficits that happen when we don't feel completely loved and you know in the East they'd say their patterns coming from other lives as well so maybe we're walking around in this material and we're not feeling the bliss or joy at all but maybe we're thinking hmm I'd like a house if I had a house I'd be really happy and maybe a mansion and then I'd be happy or if I was rich or if I had a really elegant car or a really powerful motorcycle then I'd be happy or if I had nice clothes so you know maybe we get this house you know maybe win a lottery or we buy it or we left it and we might be just ecstatic for weeks and then it just becomes a new normal all of these things that I mentioned if we get them they just become the new normal the motorcycle new clothes whatever it just becomes us no longer so attractive or glamorous and our minds get restless again well this isn't it I thought this house would make me happy but this isn't it hmm maybe a trip to I don't know Antarctica the North Pole whatever and we might do that too and then the same thing happens the reason it happens is because our true nature is this joy so no thing outside ourselves will ever bring it to us permanently you know there may be a honeymoon period after we get some desire that's met but then the old restlessness returns so you know the Eastern sages say so you know have this awareness you know be wise so when you want something be wise and know that it's really not gonna solve this inner difficulty it's not gonna bring permanent happiness and then maybe you seek inner fulfillment maybe you just give up on reaching outside so much and you just go directly to the heart of the the problem which is you know your own self the heart of the problem is where your fears and your ego stops you from feeling your true nature mm-hmm and then you start with turning inside listening to this still small voice really wanting your true nature and you know if you're sincere over time your ego will get smaller and you'll start to feel first you'll start to feel flashes of this happiness bliss inside and then it will go again and you go what happened to it where is it but you keep going on the journey you know doing your practices doing everything you can to steer towards the Creator and embodying the Creator within you and gradually these peaceful lit periods get bigger and bigger and bigger until finally you know someone who really is a seer they they really cross over they cross their ego dies entirely and they become self realized and then they just live in bliss now any of us can actually do this it's the Eastern East have the traditions and in some ways it makes it easier for them but the Westerners you know Westerners have a tremendous capacity to go after what they want so if a person really wants this in the West they can learn how to turn inside and merge with your true nature yeah and you know thousands of people around the world are doing this and you know it just can be done and even if you don't make it right through to self-realization imagine having longer and longer peaceful periods and being more and more non attached to material things and not feeling like that you're nobody if you don't have a million dollars in the bank because you really know you're a divine being so you walk around with an incredible amount of dignity and peace within and you make your presence makes this world brighter yeah okay just keep going bless your heart