Discovering Peace Within

Beyond the five senses lies a reality of infinite bliss, pure consciousness, and deep peace. Learn how meditation and spiritual practice can quiet the mind and open you to the miraculous waiting inside us all.

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Greetings everybody.

So it’s another day, Saturday, and we’re going for a birthday party for me and my wife’s aunt soon.

And I just had a few free minutes, so I thought I’d give another quick talk.

It’s something I actually enjoy doing, sharing, and so I like to once in a while when I get a chance to. And thank you everybody out there who’s shown love and commented or some kind of feedback.

I don’t get as much as I used to before. I’m not sure why, but it’s fine. I’m not looking for any kind of result. And that’s a lesson for me in attachment.

If I ever am looking for anything specific in any kind of content I put out, that means I have some kind of attachment to it. And that’s a lesson for me spiritually.

So I wanted to talk a bit about spirituality and the reality beyond the senses and the mind, the five senses and the mind.

So how can we perceive this reality and understand more about it if we’re so engrossed in our external reality that we live day to day through our eyes and our other senses?

So mainly, they say about 90% of our reality is visual, our eyes. So we rely a lot on what we see to be the truth and the total scope of reality, which isn’t always the case.

Our eyes can trick us sometimes and make us think one thing is something when it’s not really. There’s a famous saying that goes, “All that glitters isn’t gold.”

So a lot of times we may see something that looks interesting or something we want to be part of, but it may have some negative effect afterwards, some result. Let’s say, like a diamond, for example. We see it looks good, we want to purchase it, but then we have some big credit card bill we have to pay afterwards. That’s just one example, right? Because it looked good. We saw it visually. It was something we wanted, but then there was some kind of price afterwards.

So we don’t want to always rely on our mind and our senses to be the entire truth to our reality.

And what the yogis and saints and mystics have been trying to teach is that there is another reality, but it’s beyond the senses and the mind entirely.

So how can we perceive it then? How can we tune into that if we relied so much on our senses and our intellect, intellect and our mind throughout our life, however old we might be?

Especially if we have a college degree or we went through university, it’s really hard for us to conceive of something that we can’t scientifically test through data, right?

But what we have to do is actually practice something in order to perceive it.

And just like anything in life, if we don’t dedicate any time or practice towards some goal, then we can never really see what the results are.

I made this saying a while back about how meditation and spirituality are like skateboarding, and somebody who tries to do a kickflip once and can’t do it, then says it’s impossible. So what it means is that you have to practice meditation for a long enough period of time to achieve a result and see that there’s something there.

Just like trying a kickflip on a skateboard, it’s pretty much impossible the first time you try it, and you might think that you could never do it because it’s not an easy trick in the beginning. But if you practice long enough, then eventually you see you can do it, and it can become natural.

That’s the same with meditation and achieving something that’s not the mind and the senses, the five senses, something that is beyond that.

So initially we’re going to have a resistance that there even is something there.

There are so many people out there with a strong scientific or Western mentality that are going to say there’s nothing there, it doesn’t exist, a strong atheist or whatever it might be. They’re just going to totally reject the idea that there is another reality hidden that is beyond our senses.

But if we take the time on any practice—I’m not saying my practice is the only practice. I’ve never said that my path I follow, Sat Mat, is the only way.

I’m saying any practice, if you practice it long enough, you should be able to perceive something that is beyond the mind and the senses, as long as it’s a legitimate practice, something that is good, and it’s not just some digital meditative device or something that’s not a real kind of wholesome meditation practice.

I’m talking about any kind of yoga or Buddhist mantra or something that is going to help you to find something beyond your senses and your mind.

So essentially what it needs to do is you need to close all your senses off—your eyes, maybe your sound—so everything, so that there’s no distraction. Because when there’s a distraction, it’s pulling your attention out, out from inside.

So you need to do whatever it takes, closing off all your senses so that your attention stays inside you, long enough that you can start to perceive something that is beyond all of it altogether. You understand?

And then the next thing you need to do is sit long enough that your mind becomes quiet.

So this is the stage where a lot of people give up, because in the beginning it takes a long time. The mind doesn’t want to be quiet.

You can sit there and sit there, and your mind is still jumping in and out of the world and worldly activities.

And then you get up and it’s been half an hour or an hour even, and you think you meditated an hour and then you’re done.

But if your mind is jumping in and out of the world while you’re sitting, you haven’t gained anything.

You may find some calmness and stillness in your mind. That’s good, yeah, it’s helpful, but you haven’t really reached that point I’m describing, which is beyond the senses and the mind entirely.

So this is the end goal of all different meditation practices and yoga and disciplines: to reach a state which is zero point, shunya, to the point where the mind sits long enough that it becomes quiet and you’re still there.

You’re still awake, you’re still present, you’re not sleeping, but your eyes are closed, your attention is inside, and you’re perceiving what comes after your mind becomes quiet.

And that is the stage where something very beautiful and miraculous can happen. And it is waiting for all of you out there who watch this video.

The wind just starts blowing in my window as I say that. See, these are the miracles that happen all the time.

If you realize that it’s all one divine timeline, everything is synchronized and happening in the right order it’s meant to.

You might not believe that. Maybe you think the reality is all chaotic. That’s okay.

But I believe that everything happens as it’s meant to happen along one divine timeline.

But that’s not the purpose of this talk.

The purpose is to try to teach you about something that is beyond the senses and the mind entirely, right?

So I want to give people the incentive to try this on their own, so that they can perceive something really beautiful and really wonderful waiting inside all of us.

Now, what Sat Mat does is it gives us the tools and the practice so that we can achieve that in an easier way.

With a connection to our guru and the right type of yoga practice through the sound, the inner sound and the inner light, we have the tools we need in the connection and the right kind of lifestyle that helps us make the most progress towards that goal the fastest.

So if that’s something you really want to achieve, you might want to look into Sat Mat, because other practices may reach the same goal, but they may be harder and may take a longer amount of time.

I haven’t tried that many others. This is just what I’ve read and learned, but you’re totally free to try any one you like.

I just want you to have that incentive to look into something that is beyond the senses and the mind entirely, and that is your true self.

That is pure consciousness. That is soul. That’s infinite bliss.

I can tell you myself, I’ve reached that state where I just feel so much love and positive energy and peace, deep, deep peace, that it just feels like a blanket of love wrapping around me late at night or really early in the morning meditating outside in the forest.

Those were the times I had the best results, or up on a mountainside.

I used to go in Victoria to Mount Tolmie, if you know that area at all, and I would drive up there and I would sit on the side of that mountain late, late at night by myself and meditate out there under the stars for a couple of hours at a time.

That was a really amazing experience.

So those kinds of places really help energize the whole meditative experience as well.

So being outside has an extra bonus to it because of the clean, fresh air, and you’re away from all the Wi-Fi signals and everything that’s going to make your experience less than what it could be.

So I always suggest trying to go outside if you can.

So thank you for watching this, and let me know your thoughts.

Namaste and much love.

I wish you all the best in your life, in your spiritual journey.

And anybody out there suffering, I’m sending more love to you, and I hope you find some peace on your path, whatever it might be.

Those of you who don’t care about anything I have to say, I still have love and sympathy for you as well.

I judge nobody and just hope for the best for everybody.

Namaste.