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There are so many stages on one spiritual growth.

They're all honorable, but there are higher and higher stages.

It's very good even if you're not there to know about them, so that as you get there

you recognize them and you can, they're like signposts along the way.

The first stage is a person is completely lost.

What does that mean?

It means they are so fixated on staring at their ego

that they think that's who they are.

When they use the word I, they're talking about that, the mental construct of thought

patterns that are made up of the past experience you've had that you held on to.

Good experiences, bad experiences didn't make it through you.

You cloned to them. We talk about it all the time. If it's a bad experience, it doesn't feel good, you push it away. It's staying in there. Anything you ever push away, ever, any of the tiniest thing that you push away, that the experience can't make it through you, is still in there. Until you let it go, it stays in there. Your will keeps being asserted. that tries to come back up until you let it go it stays in there your will

keeps being asserted it tries to come back up you push it back down something

remind you of it you push it back down you don't want to deal with it and then

the other thing is this you really like something a real lot it's rare in your life

but if you do you want it to happen again you don't want to let it go you don't

want to push it away you know it to stay in your conscious mind so that you can keep feeling how good it felt. The other, you don't want it to stay in your conscious mind because you don't want to feel how bad it felt. So this thing about liking and disliking, pleasurable and unpleasurable and so on, these are the things you keep trapped in your mind. You don't keep them trapped outside world. The things aren't happening anymore. You may want it to happen, may want it not to happen, but it's not happening. Events happen and they move on. The atoms are doing something else in the next moment. But you didn't let it move on inside your head. And so you kept this thought

pattern. It's just a thought pattern. Ego is just a thought pattern. It's not who you are. It's a thought

pattern that defines you as a self-concept. It makes up who you are based on the experience that

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