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What Are You Sweeping Under the Carpet? Talk + Meditation

by Tony Samara

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How to detach from the ego & it's attachment to limited situations by cultivating the freedom of being alive & celebrating being in the field of consciousness. Tony Samara, world-renowned spiritual teacher & author of 16 books, has been sharing deep spiritual work & energy transmission for the evolution of consciousness for over 25 years. Combining meditation, detoxing the body, a plant-based diet & a simple lifestyle, he is best known for how his work touches more deeply than words.

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You you you Hello,

I hope you can hear me we continue and hopefully you have the strength and the courage and the feeling of Greatness within you to continue working with the energy transmission sometimes of course this work if you wish to choose a label this work is Difficult or it seems to be difficult if you come from a human perspective of how one looks at the world and the realities of how a human being is here in this world sometimes things are extremely difficult and of course then the strength and the energy that is required for for the work meaning for the coming back home to the inner space of transformation is not so very easy and And when things are not very easy then it seems like all those things that are not very easy like to come all at once into the same moment and There is a sense of being overwhelmed so the energy transmission the movement back to the infinite space that is within oneself is disturbed or Changed a little bit as one gets distracted from within oneself to all these manifestations of difficulties that seem to overwhelm the mind or feelings or even in the physical Mundane world seem to pop up out of nowhere Here and there and everywhere there seems to be one thing after another Inside of the mind there seems to be one thought after another Within the feelings there seems to be one feeling after another and how can you really get time to be still?

And come back to that point of centeredness within where that stillness can allow you to be present to the Love of that moment when all else speaks a different language when all else speaks from that space which is Not so very easy At least that's the term that one gets when in that space.

It's not very easy and Being in such a situation Of course I understand and I am not saying as some people understood yesterday and that the human predicament of Being here in this world where one Manifests one's thoughts within the dualistic system of thinking and feelings within the black and white of what is happening that such activity is a negative or As some people reminded me the word stupid which I used I merely am pointing out the limitation of the ego The ego being the space that of course puts all that together And the reason why you see things as difficult simply because of course things are not flowing according to the needs and desires that Portray your solution to these difficulties and these situations that arise from within the difficulties So within those difficulties of course the mind Immediately goes into a structure of dualism meaning that it begins to compare What is good and what is not so good and of course if it doesn't fit into your belief system Or it doesn't fit into the structure of how you've been socialized The idea of good Doesn't fit into that structure then immediately you think we feel or you believe that things aren't so good They're bad and bad creates a sense of being overwhelmed That is the limitation that I spoke of yesterday that idea the egos idea the egos Thinking and belief systems Where which get projected into this dimension of reality that we call experience judging a situation Whether it be true or not judging a situation and then pulling You down to that level of consciousness and of course when your consciousness moves to that space of comparison or of judgment then the ego is referenced or connected to or Living out of the space of ego and so when consciousness Moves to that space of limitation the ego then consciousness cannot Comprehend that which is beyond that space the egoic space which is limited to a perspective or to a space of belief or to a space of feeling or a space of thinking to go beyond that is very difficult if consciousness has Rather than transcended to a point of freedom moved down to the space of limitation Now I'm just looking at this in a very objective manner.

It is not that I'm judging the situation I'm just presenting it as it is so that When doing the inner work when doing the spiritual practice one can be aware of the situation for me awareness allows for a comprehension of what is going on so that one can be free of the structure that is allowing that situation to carry on as it has for a moment for a year for a few years for lifetimes with awareness When we understand that we are not enslaved by our karmic belief systems or our social belief systems or the structures that we Feel limit our perspective when we understand with awareness That we are free that that is merely from an objective perspective merely the human condition and that Doing the spiritual work you understand that that human condition is a limited perspective of being human And that is of course logical.

You know you cannot see more than what you see so one has to place the feeling the mind and the references that one focuses on to a higher dimension than that of the ego to a dimension that may not seem very real in that mundane moment where Limitation is creating the framework by which you look into a situation But with awareness you are aware that that is merely a framework and with awareness you're aware that that Awareness allows you to transcend rather than move your consciousness down to the perspective of limitation where Consciousness is fed by the victim role or the poor me role or its overwhelming role or the mind is Too complex role or whatever belief systems that create the karmic forces that then manifest themselves as experiences manifest themselves as Situations that we have to deal with do we need to deal with those situations in freedom in the space of love Do we need to deal with those things that create a limitation on that perspective of love of course not When you are celebrating You're celebrating when your inner Space of awareness is celebrating the infinite space of love Then that is all there is there is an expansion towards that which goes beyond the mundane and an experience Which allows you to transcend to that which is unknown within yourself?

Which is unknown to your mind which is unknown to your feelings?

The known the limitations of Ego become just perspectives that you objectively look at without judgment without falling into the perspective of Ego you look at and by looking There is no connection to that situation because you see it for what it is Rather than invest your consciousness into that perspective and as you see it for what it is You begin to see that there are many other perspective you begin to see the bigger picture the bigger picture is when consciousness As the alchemists have said in the past as the mystical traditions have spoken of is transcendence The movement up to a higher dimension that we call In the human language the infinite the divine the higher self whatever name you give to an aspect that is beyond the known is Fine because it helps you to sort of understand that there is some Aspect that is beyond the known that you're beginning to know,

But it is unknown it is invisible to the senses and hence the ego will constantly struggle with such a thing because it needs to control and Understand and know the situation so that it can deal with the situation But you are not needing to deal with the situation Limitations do not need to be dealt with They merely need to be seen with a sense of awareness that gives us the freedom to choose from that higher perspective which Allows us a detachment from the situation whereby we don't feel a victim to the situation whereby we don't feel so Connected to the situation that we are unable to move beyond that perspective For me there are many ways of doing this There is psychology which takes forever And but it is interesting and it has many truths there is Living life and just hoping that things will change Which of course you know doesn't work because otherwise you wouldn't be you wouldn't be here listening to the satsang Understand that you know it's like playing Russian roulette the mind in its limited perspective Probably won't find a way out unless it is already predestined to do that There is just giving up and feeling depressed about life and saying okay I'm a victim and my situation is difficult so is everyone else's But forget that because your situation is really difficult so of course yourself is focused on yourself and feel sorry and Just try whatever in life so that there is some joy and perspective To what is going on which never happens of course as you know?

We can not push our deeper feelings and our deeper sense of living in this world Under some carpet because the carpet doesn't exist it's an illusion So just pretends to be there for a little while and then you realize it's still there What can one do?

This is the inner work It is not about Me objectively throwing to you a situation that looks impossible and Difficult to deal with I'm just saying this so that you don't delude yourself as so many do in the new age world of today in the spiritual religious supermarket of today whereby Things are simplified to a perspective that is so mundane that in itself it takes you nowhere And in itself is actually in my opinion sometimes worse than just playing Russian roulette and hoping that things will change without doing anything What can you do that is?

Done with awareness.

What can you do that is done with a sense of consciousness?

Whereby consciousness can free you because for me consciousness is the evolution of human humanity of your human aspect And consciousness is the path that allows you That perspective of freedom now how to bring consciousness into our world into our minds into our feelings into this experience of life not happiness not joy because as soon as you You or your ego begins to create an idea that you want this then you already think what?

Is known about happiness and you?

Perceive that the search for happiness is limited to that perspective And so you get lost in that perspective because of course never fulfills When you are hungry,

And you eat you are happy for a little while But if happiness isn't about your hunger,

Then you'll be hungry all the time So what allows consciousness to be nurtured in a way that?

Speaks To a deeper perspective than just the mundane perspectives of Feeling joy and happiness in a temporary situation what speaks from a more permanent perspective Perspective that is the unknown if you knew it you wouldn't be listening to what I'm saying now You would be busy celebrating the freedom of being alive of course You understand this?

It's not a difficult.

It's not a bad thing or a negative thing to listen to the flow of of Vibration that allows for the vibration to be a celebration But are you listening?

Are you listening to consciousness or are you listening to that perspective that seeks?

Self-fulfillment that is born out of the self and the self of course is born out of the ego that is what creates our selfish desires and needs Do we find consciousness in those?

Desires and needs I'm not negating them as Important of course when you're hungry you eat when you're tired you sleep When you're happy you sing when you're unhappy you cry That's just the human perspective,

But beyond that Consciousness is much more Consciousness is much more than what you know of course it is You know that deep inside of you hence That deep inner calling to find the sense of oneness that is inbuilt into our genetic makeup into our whole structure to come back to the beloved is not a mythical or fantasy and that Mythical aspect of our mind or a fantasy that we want to live out for some it is if it's immature and based on unawareness of course if Your belief system is that you know by Looking up at the clouds you will see the heavens and You don't have to do anything else then look up,

Then you'll be looking up forever you'll get a pain in the neck and you will feel sorry for yourself because your neck aches and You feel despondent by the fact that looking up there somewhere outside of yourself You've seen nothing but clouds Well some people imagine the clouds to be more than what they are they see faces in the clouds And they see things in the clouds,

And then you know there is that temporary fulfillment just like eating food You know I can sweep my sense of search into a simplistic format of Seeing something that isn't really there You cannot see the unknown you cannot understand the unknown you cannot touch the unknown with that perspective Consciousness means you drop that perspective through being objective that is what meditation is about Being objective you look at things as they are not in the way which your ego wants them to be Or in the way that you're putting yourself into some Role and that role then desires you or needs you to be seeing things in that perspective You need to see them from an objective perspective Even scientists are not objective because they are lost in their subjective perspective of life So how can you be objective?

That is the big question how to be objective how to be free of the ego that is the work For me the first step Is to come home to the beloved To come home to the understanding that the beloved the space that is unknown within you as truth as Reality is as real and as important as that perspective that your ego compulses you to live out of That space that the ego compulses you to live out of Makes you live out of that space where you don't even identify That which is going on because you are already there in the perspective of the ego the beloved I just give a name to something that is unknown the beloved simply because it makes sense the movement of the vibration Vibration that is beyond what you know is like the beloved it keeps calling you back home to yourself It keeps saying to your mind saying to your feelings to your Emotions I'm here.

I Am here present in this moment Consciousness is coming back to this moment beyond being attached to the past Beyond being attached to the future to this moment here here You can live The life of freedom not over there Not in the clouds not in the promises of religious doctrines or spiritual New Ageism But here in this moment What are you searching for when you come here to this moment?

There is nothing to search for because in this moment there is no linear perspective to what you need to go towards You are here in this moment you discover the color of love in everything because in this moment Consciousness can do nothing but expand into the infinity of this moment It cannot be contracted to a limited perspective.

This moment is the expansion of vibration By aligning yourself with that expansion By aligning your mind your feelings your emotions The expansion becomes a reference of objective perspective Because you begin to see the bigger picture Saint Kabir writes this in the wonderful sutra from the book Songs of Kabir And he writes it in this way He is the ultimate rest unbounded He has spread his form of love throughout all the world from the ray which is truth Streams of new forms are perpetually springing and he pervades those forms Your truth is not something That you can understand through your pain or through your suffering or through your karma The truth is constantly moving into that infinite space and is unbounded by anything but itself It moves from the ultimate towards the ultimate and in that space There is love throughout every experience everything is perfect All forms are manifested out of the formless All aspects of experience come from the unknown When you come back home to the center of this moment the unknown moment We don't know this moment because we're so busy in the next The unknown moment speaks a language that is inherent within us A language that we understand And so the unknown becomes known simply because our consciousness moves towards infinite The infinite,

The ultimate,

The supreme And hence why I remind everyone that karma yoga The yoga whereby we let go of the limits and the limitations that we so very often find ourselves Attached to karma yoga is so very important Selfless service is so very important Going beyond our perspective of self is coming back home to that ultimate space Where everything is perfect When we let go of the selfish needs and desires that are connected to our karma When we let go of those forces that hold us back in the ego perspective We come home back to the beloved And there in that moment,

In this moment,

In the moment there is a celebration And that celebration is joy and happiness May today in your karma yoga,

In your spiritual practice,

In your work May you remember to be selfless and give from that space of love Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

Meet your Teacher

Tony SamaraLisbon, Portugal

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Recent Reviews

Aga

May 7, 2017

Very insightful. We already are free, we just need to wake up from the illusion that we are not. You have the freedom to take a deep breath at this very moment, you are free to live

Maria

May 6, 2017

A great description of the complexity and the simplicity

Yogabruises

May 6, 2017

Lovely! Need to listen to this once a week!🙏💕💕💕

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