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There's a state that should not be difficult to live in, but it is.

I hope by the time we're done with the talk, we realize, no, it's not difficult. It's the only

reasonable thing to do. It's what living in the now. Be here about it. Be here now, living in the now,

all this stuff. Let's take a look at it. Things have happened in the past, but they're not happening now.

The only is happening now is what's happening now, but things happen in the past.

Psychology says that man, woman, is the sum of the learned experiences.

It's not true. You're the consciousness that's aware that your psyche, your mind,

your heart, your psychological patterns are the summary learned experiences. They can't be wrong

because you've not had any other experience. The only experiences you've had are the ones you've

had. It doesn't have to be a physical experience. You can be reading a book, can be a dream, it could be a movie. But you experienced it. Well, you don't know anything about that which you never experienced. Nothing. You know nothing. So if your psyche, your mind, your memory, your emotions, your way of being, is the sum of your learned experiences. That's what it is. I don't have to go into psychology.

It's so logical, it's ridiculous. If you met somebody yesterday, that's an experience. You now

are a knower of that person, at least to the extent that you met them. Okay? And so they left

an impression on you. That means if somebody said do you know george you say yes

instead of no yesterday he said no it's that simple is that real so it is a summary learned

experience because you had that experience it made an impression on you and you made it part of your

memory part of your being fair enough okay. Okay. Now somebody comes to you

the next day and tells you, you know, George? Oh my God, you've got to talk to some people what

he did to them. This is a terrible person. Now it's the same of those experiences. I'm asking,

when you see George again next time,

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