Framework to Live By
1. Understand the Nature of Memory
You are a product of memory - evolutionary, genetic, academic, family. Memory gives you identity but also creates boundaries. Recognize that memory is both possibility and prison.
2. Don't Identify With Your Actions
You are not your profession, your roles, or your possessions. These are activities you perform, not who you are. When you sleep, you are nothing. When you wake, remain that nothingness.
3. Turn Intelligence in Your Favor
Pain and suffering is caused 100% by you, not others. You've turned your intelligence against yourself. Others create situations; you create the suffering. Stop poking yourself internally.
4. Choose Blissfulness Consciously
Right now, it's your choice to be blissful or miserable. You can cook up depression about nothing, or you can cook up blissfulness. If you cook something, it should taste good.
5. Create Distance From Body-Mind
There must be distance between you and your body, between you and your mind. Your body and brain were created from inside - use that intelligence to transcend limitations.
6. Engage All Dimensions of Life
Don't drive life on one wheel (intellect only). Settle on all four wheels - body, mind, emotion, energy. This is why yoga includes karma, kriya, bhakti, and gnana.
7. Live Beyond Memory Boundaries
Liberation means scripting a life beyond the boundaries of your memory. This requires courage initially but becomes a fantastic space to be.
8. Act Now, Not "Next Life"
Don't wait for the deathbed to realize "I didn't even start." Wherever you are, whatever age you are - TODAY you must learn to handle your thought process.
Critical Points
Memory is all you have: Your relationships, family, wealth, education - everything that you value exists only in your memory right now.
Karma is residual memory: A whole lot of it is beyond conscious memory, but it controls you within boundaries you may not even recognize.
10 minutes of mental chaos makes you "crazy": You don't have to be out of control 24 hours. Just 10 minutes a day and people will say you're crazy.
Your liver works, your spleen works - only your brain doesn't work the way you want: Every organ functions properly except the mind, which needs conscious organization.
The body has memory and intelligence in every cell: If you think with your whole body, not just your head, a whole lot of things can be done without stress.
You come to a Guru to get a script beyond memory: Not for back pain or life advice, but to live beyond the boundaries of your accumulated data.
80% die in bewilderment, not pain or fear: At the last moment they realize - "I never started." This realization usually comes too late.
Realization means you didn't invent anything: It was always here. You were just too stupid to see it. Today you saw it.
There are no varieties of nothingness: When you step out of memory (somethingness), how many stages can there be in nothingness? This is liberation.
It's not about competence, it's about willingness: Becoming meditative or enlightened is not a question of how capable you are, but how willing you are.
Never before has life been this good: We have comforts and conveniences no generation ever had. Don't mess it up with issues in your head.
If there's no anchor, people find their own (destructive) ways: Without inner stability, people turn to alcohol, drugs, and other addictions. Inner well-being is urgent.