forget about the world, forget about others, forget about your body

1. It wants to become successful; it wants to become famous; it wants to be the savior of mankind. It is the personal "I" that wants to be all these things.
    
2. You may learn about the astral planes, the causal planes, reincarnation. You may learn about how to become positive in your life, how to attract the right mate, how to attract money, health, and all kinds of stuff. How to channel, how to do this, and it's very exciting to the ego.
    
3. The secret is not to change your thoughts, but to get rid of your thoughts completely. We're not trying to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts, for our positive thoughts lead to negative thoughts and our negative thoughts lead to positive thoughts. That's duality. We're trying to transcend the whole ball of wax, to go beyond, and that's what happens when you live spontaneously. It happens by itself.
    
4. The only way you can help this world, is by awakening, by becoming self-realized. How do you help this world by becoming self-realized? When you become self-realized, you are no longer a body. You are all-pervading consciousness, the absolute reality. You are boundless space. You become the trees, the mountains, the rivers, the animals, the insects, the birds. You have become everything. You are the Self, the imperishable immutable Self.
    
5. Whenever you have some experience, go beyond the experience, because there has to be somebody to have the experience. Just like the eyes see when it's light, and the eye is still there when it's dark, so the I is present when you sleep, the I is present when you dream, the I is present when you are awake. Find out who the I is. Dive deep within. Work on yourself. Just like the article we read before, forget about the world, forget about others, forget about your body, and inquire of the self. Find out who the self is. Who are you? Are there two I's or one I?
    
6. When you get on the path correctly, after awhile it becomes effortless. In the beginning there seems to be a little effort you have to take, because you're breaking away from your old patterns, and as you continue it becomes effortless, easier and easier. It becomes a pleasure. It becomes a joy and you're always doing it effortlessly, so the effort is only the beginning stages. It's not really effort, but when you break into a new habit, the old wants to still stay there and take over.
    
7. As long as you believe you a human, a personal I, then there us a personal God. This is where prayer comes in. You can pray to that God and you will be helped. Your personal god will take care of you if you surrender and submit. When you submit, you are giving up your ego. You are saying, "I am nothing and you are everything." This will help you. One day you will awaken to the fact that the God you have been praying to is none other than yourself.
    
8. Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.