00:03:06.750 –> 00:03:13.850 So the thing is to learn to access the collective wisdom.
00:03:14.750 –> 00:03:16.021 High art!
00:03:17.379 –> 00:03:18.821 A high art.
00:03:19.700 –> 00:03:22.000 Which is our wisdom.
00:03:22.171 –> 00:03:23.443 It’s not mine.
00:03:24.243 –> 00:03:34.286 People who are able to access that common wisdom, they seem to other people charismatic.
00:04:17.564 –> 00:04:25.000 But that’s a nice way to start today by coming to recognize the potential in each of us.
00:04:25.464 –> 00:04:28.114 The viewers as well as ourselves individually.
00:04:28.721 –> 00:04:33.200 The potential to tap into that wisdom as you call it.
00:04:34.186 –> 00:04:42.514 This is one side. The other side is when you tap into that collective source, you are more yourself.
00:04:43.193 –> 00:04:45.382 But everybody has that potential.
00:04:45.382 –> 00:04:56.971 And anyone who has had a deeper experience of the sense of who they are, they immediately realize that we’re all the same.
00:04:58.407 –> 00:05:03.521 That means there’s nobody better. There’s nobody …
00:05:04.636 –> 00:05:11.679 So that illusion of separateness, of … That illusion evaporates.
00:05:11.886 –> 00:05:14.000 It evaporates.
00:05:15.693 –> 00:05:16.921 Finish!
00:06:25.821 –> 00:06:32.807 This morning when I sort of mentally … and also was doing my self-treat … and prepared myself for our conversation,
00:06:33.000 –> 00:06:40.964 a Swiss Jesuit priest, Pater Brantschen, came to my mind.
00:06:41.050 –> 00:06:47.729 He is a person who has been significant in my life, even though I’ve never met him personally,
00:06:47.729 –> 00:06:56.414 but … I would come to Switzerland and drive through the Alps, switch on the radio pondering some important philosophical or spiritual question.
00:06:56.736 –> 00:07:00.679 I would switch on the radio and there he was, giving me the answer.
00:07:01.514 –> 00:07:07.314 Or I went to my mother’s house one evening, and he was in a TV show. It was very funny actually,
00:07:07.643 –> 00:07:16.157 because the topic of that discussion, very serious, there were neurologists there and all kinds of serious academics.
00:07:16.714 –> 00:07:21.000 The question was, ‚Is there a life after death?‘
00:07:22.129 –> 00:07:28.000 There were also one or two people there who had near-death experiences, and they shared their experiences.
00:07:28.357 –> 00:07:32.000 And this guy was sitting next to the moderator, this priest.
00:07:32.000 –> 00:07:40.493 He’s also – and that’s maybe why I thought today of him, because he has lived in Japan for a long time –
00:07:40.493 –> 00:07:45.000 he’s a Zen master and the Jesuit priest.
00:07:45.200 –> 00:07:52.421 And actually he has a meditation centre , where he was the founder of a meditation centre here in Switzerland, a very important one.
00:07:54.450 –> 00:08:01.443 In this TV show, he hardly said anything and I suspect the moderator felt a little guilty,
00:08:01.443 –> 00:08:05.901 So, right at the end he turned to him and basically asked him,
00:08:05.901 –> 00:08:14.314 ‚Look, you’re Christian and they have the concept of hell. Would you like to say anything?‘
00:08:14.557 –> 00:08:20.229 And this guy sat there for the longest time thinking, like you sometimes.
00:08:20.693 –> 00:08:26.043 Just taking your time to let people suffer in their own juices.
00:08:26.186 –> 00:08:28.471 (whispering:) Let them ferment.
00:08:29.386 –> 00:08:34.843 On TV that was quite something. And then he sort of looked into the camera and said,
00:08:35.000 –> 00:08:39.900 ‚I don’t know whether there is a hell, but one thing I’m sure of:
00:08:40.579 –> 00:08:42.436 There’s nobody in it.‘
00:08:45.164 –> 00:08:49.000 He said – and this is why I’m mentioning him –
00:08:49.329 –> 00:09:01.126 he said that … in one of the talks he was casual and he said, ‚If you slap a Caucasian, a European in the face,
00:09:01.526 –> 00:09:10.868 his tears will be salty. That’s true also if in Africa you slap an African, or if you slap a Japanese in Japan.
00:09:11.282 –> 00:09:15.073 And if you cut them, the blood will be red.‘
00:09:16.667 –> 00:09:23.103 When you just spoke about the illusion of separateness and that in the essence,
00:09:23.743 –> 00:09:33.827 we are more united than maybe sometimes in daily life our surfaces lead us to believe, that reminded me of Pater Brantschen.
00:09:34.000 –> 00:09:42.085 And to me that is always an inspiration when I talk about cultural differences, which of course exist
00:09:42.525 –> 00:09:51.102 – and of course you’re a different personality to me – but if we’re going a little bit deeper
00:09:51.102 –> 00:10:01.693 and allow the possibility that separation is pretty much an illusion, we quickly come to that state which Pater Brantschen was describing.
00:10:02.280 –> 00:10:04.153 Everybody’s the same.
00:10:14.000 –> 00:10:24.327 Beautiful, really beautiful, so simple, and yet so difficult to implement in your daily life.
00:10:24.960 –> 00:10:36.407 Because we are driven by desire, we are driven by our dreams, by our lust for power, for domination, for all that. It’s incredible.
00:10:36.407 –> 00:10:37.840 And our insecurities.
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