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The impingement of experience is constantly frustrating one's sense of ecstasy. Noise, disturbances, idiotic people, just the pressure of ordinary events--all constantly cause us to react, to become more imbedded in this superficial consciousness, We feel we have no way out of it, you see, and having no way out of it, we try in some exaggerated fashion to get relief and to feel pleasure by exploiting our functions, But the only way we will ever be happy is by transcending the whole affair. In the midst of an idiotic world of idiotic people who are always tormenting one another, it is very difficult even to realize this insight or to hear anyone communicate another possibility. It is also very difficult to manage a way of life in which this capacity can be served, in which it is honored and nurtured.

....the voice of the Adept, you see, has been smothered, covered over by priests.

The world is a place of endless disturbances created by constantly disturbed people, The only way whereby to realize another order of existence is to come into contact with someone who has found the root of existence beyond disturbances, who has been able to break through the realm of superficial consciousness and experience, and who has a different relationship to all of that, who can speak from the point of view of another condition of existence, already having realized it. This is the function of the Spiritual Master, or the Adept - to call your attention to the things that are simply droning and impinging themselves on you, putting you to sleep in your superficial mind and. associations, and to begin to wake you up to your real responsibility, which is not to be asleep in the world, just moving with the flow of it, and suffering whatever destiny others want to create for you, but to get angry, to penetrate the stupidity of your existence, not to be some mild-mannered, son-of-a-bitch, but to start changing yourself, changing the world, and making new conditions. A new way of life begins with you yourself. The more of you there are, the more the world itself can change and stop being simply a place of disturbance where only obsessed and unenlightened people can life.

The dogma of the world is that only unenlightened people can exist. Everybody is suppose to be some dumb idiot who doesn't know what is happening, who is as simple as pie, and who just does whatever comes. The world is not made for enlightened people. It does not teach people to be en- lightened. It does not demand that they be enlightened. When was the last demand for enlightenment you heard? What have you heard on TV that is a demand for enlightenment? The world is not based on such a thing. The world has been taken over by the idiots, by unenlightened people, and the voice of the Adept, you see, has been smothered, covered over by priests.

Therefore, the Spiritual Master must come alive, and outside the realm even of religious cultism. That is why I have been born in the condition to which I have been born, with no associations whatsoever with traditional cultism, without any high-born associations of any kind, All associations in the world have become corrupt. The voice of the Spiritual Master, the Divine Teaching, has become corrupted even in the cults that are supposed to be the carriers of the tradition of enlightenment. Therefore, it is necessary to speak the Word of Truth from outside all high-born associations, all traditional associations, even all ordinary advantages in the world, because the world is universally corrupted. The world has universally abandoned the disposition of enlightenment. Therefore, those who have anything to do with that way of life at all tend to be more or less hidden. They carry on their pursuit in some hidden place or in some manner that is not obvious. Thus, the world does not benefit from it. The Spiritual Master is more or less a public person. He comes to teach the world in general. He comes to teach people openly in order to reverse the trend of the present destiny that has overwhelmed the world.

Today the world is overwhelmed by suppression, by frustration of ecstasy. It has therefore become devoted to all the things that human beings become devoted to when they are obsessed with the body-mind itself and feel they have no way to be happy except through the satisfaction of desires. They feel frustrated in their native yearning to transcend the body-mind. They see no way to do it. They simply feel frustrated and uptight. They simply feel they are suffering. And they feel that the only way to feel good is by exploiting the thing that they are suffering, the body-mind itself, to the point that it achieves a pitch of pleasure. There is no permanent realization of pleasure or ecstasy in Truth by such means, because ecstasy means to stand outside or to do all of those things, all they are doing is exploiting the body-mind. Perhaps they are a little transcend one's conditions whereas merely to satisfy oneself produces self-satisfaction, self-meditation, self-possession, not self-transcendence. So you must approach the spiritual way of life through this consideration, through this insight,

You must also understand, if you hear this argument, that there is no way whereby you may live in this ecstasy, or this enjoyment, if you do not literally enter into the Transcendental Consciousness. The process is literal, it is not simply a matter of nominally associating with me, or performing mechanical activities of the body-mind, however religious those activities may be interpreted to be. You must enter into a deeper consciouness, a consciousness that does not belong to the autonomic nervous system, the conventional nervous system of experience. You must enter into the core and the current of your own being and transcend the mechanics of the body-mind, or there is no relief, no ecstasy. Only those who realize this insight, the whole bodily, heart-felt intuition, can perform the practices of the Way in Truth.

The practices of the Way can be engaged by self-possessed people, without insight as merely mechanical affectations or manipulations of the superficial nervous system, the superficial body and mind. Thus, people can read a lot, and chant a lot, make holy gestures to one another a lot, and talk about the Teaching a lot. But even though they can more benign, a little more orderly then others who recklessly indulge themselves, but even so, they are not entering into a dimension of the Condition of the body-mind that is other than superficial. In other words, they are not becoming ecstatic through their mechanical repetition of religious activities. These activities are the necessary disciplines of the Way, but they must be expressions of transcendental insight, literal God-Communion, literal self-sacrifice, literal ecstasy. You must enter into a state of consciousness, that transcends the ordinary thinking and hallucinating and physical experiencing of waking life. You must be able to enjoy that state of consciousness quite naturally, randomly, at will, and more and more profoundly.