Empty yourself of yourself

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We need to empty ourselves of ourselves. Empty yourself of yourself. Empty the ugliness, empty the personal opinions, empty your political views, empty your uh beliefs, whatever they are, and then remain empty and open. And truth will fill you in. Reality will fill you back up. If again, if you like the word God, God will fill you up. It's really true. And you can call that um mystical or whatever you want to call it, however, you the mind would like to dismiss it. That's all fine. One day I'll tell you you you won't dismiss it because this is in experience, this is shown in experience. This is not a mental thing, this is not a mind thing. Empty yourself of yourself. Realize how every single thing that you call your personality, or that other people call their personality, is entirely irrelevant to you. This is a fact, no? I mean, if the one if the mind is so strong inside of you still that it needs to be satisfied, less satisfied with reason and with logic. Every single political special uh opinion of other people is so irrelevant to you. It could not be less interesting. Uh, what their favorite ice cream flavor is, so irrelevant to you. What they think they are doing in the world and how they're changing the world in their particular special way, so irrelevant to you. And it's the same with you and other people. All your personal opinions, all your entire personality is so irrelevant to the rest of the world. And I'm not saying judge yourself, measure yourself by what is relevant to the rest of the world, but it is also irrelevant to you. This is what I'm trying to tell you. The true self is not your personality. You are not your personality, you are not your identities, you are not your favorite ice cream flavor. You are not your favorite season. You are not the musicians that you like most, the five most musicians, because you listened to them when you were a teenager or whatever. This is all personal stuff. This is all the so-called self, not the true self, the self. And it's so irrelevant to others, and it's so irrelevant to you yourself as well. And you are so constricted by these things. Everything that is that makes you an individual in this sense is so constricting. Because every time fact tells you that your political opinion might not be so right, you feel attacked. Every time one of your four best friends uh makes another friend or they're about to move to another city for their work, you feel like you are changing. Something is happening to you. Because the definitions, the opinions of yourself, the so-called list of who you are, that's changing. And so you feel uneasy. Something's going on. Everything's changed. I can't be a piece right now. This needs to be settled first. And so this is what it means to empty yourself of yourself. This is what it means to me. If you empty yourself of all your opinions, of all your little beliefs, of all your personality traits, so-called, you will become a universal human being. You will become a citizen of the world. You will become relevant to everyone, and the world will become relevant to you. Right now, we're so constricted. I I am a person who lives in this city, I am so-and-so nationality, I am, I have this background, my race is this, my culture is this. It is all so constricting and so arbitrary and so artificial. But if you empty yourself of yourself, which you can do at eight or eighty-eight and beyond, then you will instantly and even retroactively looking back at your entire life, you will become universal. And nothing will faze you, and nothing will change you. You will become changeless, you will become immortal, actually, because you will stop being a human and you will become humanity. And even humanity is just one of the many species of this world, and this world is just one of the many worlds in this galaxy, and this galaxy is just one of the many galaxies in the universe, and so you are really connected to everything through everything. But if you say, I'm a 20-year-old, 28-year-old Italian so-and-so, and uh I study this and I will become this, and I look down on these people, I look up to these people, etc., etc., then you make yourself a long list of who you think you are, that list will constrict you till the rest of your life. As long as you keep it up. But we can let it go at any moment, and this is what we're actually doing here. This is the this is the reason and the end of everything that we do here, and so let us empty ourselves of ourselves, that which we call ourselves. Of course, the true self you cannot empty, but the true self we are not seeing right now. So we need to empty ourselves of that which we are currently calling the self, and become empty, become formless, become no one, if that's how you want to look at it. But by becoming no one, you become everyone. But the ego wants to be special, the ego doesn't want to be everyone, the ego wants to be one special thing, separate, different, for good or for worse. I just want to be different. Even if it's uh by way of trauma that I can say I'm so different than anyone else, I've experienced things you wouldn't even believe. And I'm so traumatized and I will forever be scarred, and that's how I'm different from other people, that's good for the ego. However, it can get importance and specialty and different differentiation and separation, it will take it. And we will forever be special, but we'll also forever be burdened and miserable, really.