Hello my friends this is Deepak Chopra again and I'm continuing our conversation around the four paths to self-realization, the four

paths to the secrets of the self, the four paths to enlightenment, ultimate Self Awareness, whatever you want to call it.

So these four paths in order of sequential unfold involvement are being, feeling, thinking, speaking and doing.

Fundamental. Fundamental awareness starts at the level of being.

Being is already pure consciousness.

At the level of being before we interpret our experiences, our perceptions, which we call physical reality and our mental activity which we call imagination and feeling and desire and memory

before we modify our consciousness into any activity, we are at the level of pure being. So that would be

the first path to Enlightenment, just being, not feeling, not thinking, not

reflecting, not speaking, just being.

Right now is listening to me.

Turn your attention to that in you, which is listening. I'll give you a second to do that. So even as

you're listening to me, be aware of yourself listening. you're just being. You can even eliminate the listening,

the listening part of it if you want just be.

Just be yourself.

That's the highest intelligence.

The great Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti said that the highest intelligence is the ability

to observe yourself without judging yourself. This is what being means. It's also called

metacognition to observe yourself having a

perceptual experience in the present moment and be focused in that awareness.

Also to observe yourself making a choice.

I'll repeat that.

Observe yourself having a perceptual experience, anything, sound, color, taste, smell,

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