There is No Separation.

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:11]I think I need some water.

[00:00:14]So, tell me about the tigers on your shirt.

[00:00:17]>> [laughter] >> I thought they were lions. I was hoping they were lions.

[00:00:26]>> [laughter] >> Oh.

[00:00:29]Actually, I never even noticed that they were tigers. And I saw a beautiful t-shirt and then I decided to buy it. [laughter] You didn't notice the tigers?

[00:00:41]I didn't notice.

[00:00:43]Huh.

[00:00:47]>> [snorts] >> But here, to me, they look like eagles.

[00:00:52]Two eagles.

[00:00:54]No way.

[00:00:55]>> [laughter] >> Hey, stand up. Let's see.

[00:01:02]All right.

[00:01:06]Those are totally tigers.

[00:01:08]They've got teeth.

[00:01:11]Yeah.

[00:01:12]>> [laughter] >> Oh, wow.

[00:01:15]You got to look in the mirror.

[00:01:17]>> [snorts] >> Yeah. [laughter] I will I will have to look.

[00:01:21]I have to look.

[00:01:27]Where are tigers? Are they just in India or do you have tigers in Africa?

[00:01:35]And most of the tigers, they are found in India.

[00:01:41]Yeah.

[00:01:41]But we do have some I don't know. I'm not sure if they are in central parts of Africa, but usually you do get leopards there.

[00:01:55]Leopards. And and uh cheetah. Cheetah. Yeah, and cheetah.

[00:02:04]Cheetahs are absolutely incredible.

[00:02:06]They just run so fast. That's amazing.

[00:02:10]They are fast.

[00:02:11]>> [laughter] >> Like in the blink of an eye.

[00:02:15]Yeah.

[00:02:19]>> [snorts] >> You won't even take a step when you try to run before the first step.

[00:02:26]>> [laughter] >> Do they eat people? They don't eat people, do they?

[00:02:32]They attack people?

[00:02:35]They do, especially if they are with their young ones.

[00:02:40]I'm sorry, there's a siren outside.

[00:02:42]Sorry.

[00:02:46]Especially if they're what?

[00:02:49]They are with their young ones. All right.

[00:02:52]Yeah.

[00:02:53]They do attack people then, but if they are there they actually they just become curious.

[00:02:59]Yeah.

[00:03:02]>> [clears throat] >> I've seen bobcats out here in the southeast or southwest um in the desert. I have or but they're small compared to um those animals, those cats.

[00:03:20]We never get lions except at the zoo.

[00:03:23]>> [laughter] >> Zoo lions.

[00:03:27]Nothing more depressing than a lion at the zoo.

[00:03:30]>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Yeah, they're not the same as the one you find in the wildlife. Right.

[00:03:50]Actually, I take it back. There's a tiger preserve out here, not too far from here.

[00:03:55]Where they have uh they've got um It's all rescued, like, you know, rescued from weird rich people and stuff.

[00:04:03]>> [laughter] >> They'll rescue tigers and lions and stuff. So, I've seen them in there and that's that's really cool.

[00:04:09]Where they have they give them plenty of land and you know, people have to see them from a little farther away. Um >> [snorts] >> and it's not a zoo-like atmosphere.

[00:04:29]Amazing.

[00:04:55]Fearful symmetry. There's a uh there's a line in a Blake poem about tigers.

[00:05:02]It says, "Where do you get your fearful symmetry?"

[00:05:10]It's supposed to be about "Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

[00:05:28]>> [laughter] [clears throat] >> I think that's a metaphor for the world.

[00:05:39]I'll put it in the chat then.

[00:05:45]Oh.

[00:06:01]>> Yeah, the the world The world is okay.

[00:06:15]Cuz the world as it is even when it seems to be um good or bad it is seen as just an appearance.

[00:06:34]It is seen as just a wholeness appearing as what seems to be the world.

[00:06:44]There is no actual world.

[00:06:54]Somehow when there's this there's still that sense of separation.

[00:07:03]It may seem as if there are families, there are brothers and sisters there are animals, there's a wildlife trees, sky, the wind.

[00:07:18]But it is already that which can't be seen.

[00:07:26]It it is already that which is whole and complete also appearing as that.

[00:07:34]And when the the apparent separate self seems to collapse it is always seen that um there is no uh uh uh uh uh members.

[00:07:47]There are no brothers and sisters. There is no wildlife. There is no other creatures.

[00:07:52]There is no wind. There's everything is just this.

[00:07:58]So, somehow that's that's um that story loses its value in a way in a sense that it is seen that what what's what's what seems to be your mother or what seems to be your dad or what seems to be your son is actually just this.

[00:08:23]It is it is the manifestation of that which is already whole and complete.

[00:08:32]Manifesting is what appears to be your son, your daughter, you, others, animals, trees.

[00:08:50]So, that sense of separation it's it's it's actually creates that experience that they are two they are different things.

[00:09:02]There is that thing over there. There is that thing over there which has a different name from that thing.

[00:09:10]But when that sense of being separate or the sense of separation seems to dissipates, it may be seen that uh they are not different things.

[00:09:23]Everything is just wholeness appearing as what as what seems to be different things.

[00:09:36]So, you actually see that's your your thoughts are your your vibrations your your dog your car is actually yourself.

[00:09:49]Yourself as everything, not yourself as a as a as a separate self.

[00:09:55]What gets us what gets in the way of seeing what we are?

[00:10:03]That's the mystery.

[00:10:07]How does the illusion arise and how does it How does it dissipate?

[00:10:17]It may dissipates it may seem to fade away in multiple ways.

[00:10:30]Sometimes when there's an accident they may seem to be the clear seeing just just this.

[00:10:40]Everything becomes quiet in a way.

[00:10:44]Sometimes when there's a uh when there's a deep meditation seems to happen.

[00:10:53]That can be seen as well.

[00:11:05]Or sometimes when the apparent separate self seems to be in trouble in a way.

[00:11:13]Seems as if you like that's one has reached a dead end or that's one is about to commit suicide, you know.

[00:11:22]Then they are they can be questions that that may seem to arise. Who am I? Why am I here?

[00:11:30]You know.

[00:11:31]I want to know the truth. Why am I here when that person is in the verge of committing suicide then some something may seem to open that they can be that openness that this can be seen that there's nothing here.

[00:11:52]There's no one even commit suicide.

[00:11:57]There's no one who's even thinking about that.

[00:12:00]Somehow that brings a relief to that apparent separate self.

[00:12:12]When it disappears and when it when it there's that openness and it's seen clearly that that one does not exist or I don't exist.

[00:12:24]Then all those desires to commit suicide they suddenly vanish just like that.

[00:12:39]Then somehow >> [clears throat] >> it may seem to rise again that one say oh now I got it. I know the truth.

[00:12:59]I've seen it.

[00:13:01]I know it.

[00:13:06]Yeah, it's it's it's it's part of the play.

[00:13:09]It's not that there's a real someone who can actually arise again who can die and rise again.

[00:13:16]It's just a play.

[00:13:20]It's just a play.

[00:13:34]>> So, this is a playground.

[00:13:38]Yeah, lots of stories that are going on.

[00:13:41]Imaginary stories.

[00:13:47]And something that seems to tap into different stories and follow stories.

[00:13:54]A story of yesterday, the story of today, the story of tomorrow.

[00:14:08]There's no real yesterday. There's no real today. There's no real tomorrow.

[00:14:15]All those are just imagined.

[00:14:20]All there is is this All there is is this just this simplicity of what is.

[00:14:36]And there's nothing behind this.

[00:14:43]There is no one behind this to know that there is just this.

[00:14:48]And there is no one here to know that.

[00:14:54]Somebody being here is just a story appearing in this.

[00:15:02]Or it's just a thought.

[00:15:04]It's just a thought.

[00:15:10]It's just a thought that says, "Oh, there is somebody here."

[00:15:15]Or I'm talking to Gussie.

[00:15:17]Or I'm talking to Charles.

[00:15:20]I'm listening. I'm sitting on the chair.

[00:15:23]That's just a thought.

[00:15:26]Then what is a thought?

[00:15:28]And thoughts be be held in view. Can thoughts be seen?

[00:15:31]It cannot be seen.

[00:15:33]It is just a an empty appearance in this.

[00:15:38]So there is nothing here. There's nothing going on.

[00:15:43]There's nothing happening, I can say.

[00:15:46]Unless the thought says something is happening.

[00:15:53]Now it's the afternoon. That's just a thought.

[00:15:56]>> [laughter] >> It's an empty appearance in this.

[00:16:07]It's not special.

[00:16:24]As they always say, stop thinking and just be.

[00:16:36]Compulsive thinking may seem to to make it seem as if there's a continuation happening.

[00:16:47]Oh, yesterday I went to buy a grocery.

[00:16:51]Today I'm going to go to that place.

[00:16:55]You know?

[00:16:56]It seems as if there's a continuation because of this uh compulsive thinking.

[00:17:11]When that compulsive thinking seems to or when that when there seems to be that space when that space seems to appear between the thoughts then it can always be seen that uh there's nothing going on.

[00:17:33]There's no rush. There's nothing to to be achieved. Yeah.

[00:17:38]There's nothing to find.

[00:17:40]And there's no one to find anything.

[00:17:42]There's just this ordinariness.

[00:17:47]And somehow everything seems to to be alive. Seems to be always new.

[00:17:57]Everything is always new.

[00:18:01]Except if you impose a story on it in it then it may seem as if oh, that's that fridge is an old fridge. I bought it last year.

[00:18:16]But everything is always new.

[00:18:19]Except when you bring in the story.

[00:18:24]You impose a story.

[00:18:30]The apparent world as it is is already okay.

[00:18:34]But when you you impose the story on this in this then it may seem as if oh, sometimes it's okay, sometimes not okay.

[00:18:55]The story of ministers, prime ministers parties the red party, the yellow party >> [laughter] >> This church or that church?

[00:19:18]You know