Transcript
A (0:03)
That sense of purpose you have. The most popular question that young people ask me is about passion and purpose. They've been indoctrinated by society to think that they have this one purpose. And their big issue is they can't seem to find it. So like an Easter egg, they're going in hunt of what's my purpose? How do I know once I've reached my purpose? The people that are working now in jobs listening to this on their way on the tube to work, what is this subject of purpose and passion? What do I commit my life to? How do we go about answering that?
B (0:34)
See, if you get absolutely committed to your purpose, you will be called a fanatic. If you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that, you will be called a terrorist. So there is no purpose to life if you are not a vested interest. And you can be not a vested interest only when you're joyful by your own nature that how you are is determined by you. So this is the fundamental you have to set that your experience of life is determined by you. When I say experience of life, people are always thinking experiences happen because of external stimuli. No, if you dream of a tiger, you can experience fear, isn't it? You can, you can dream of somebody beautiful and experience love, yes or no. So I'm saying all experiences caused from within you. Human experience happens from within you, never from outside of you. There may be a stimuli. Now this stimuli means just like this, you know, you're too young to know these things. There used to be waxhole cores in this country. They always used to bucket in a slope like this. Because morning you need two people to push that car in the morning. In 50s and 60s, I'm saying later on they had crank start. You need one person to do that, otherwise you can't get your car started. Today all cars are self start. I'm asking you your peace, your joy, your love, your blissfulness, would you want to keep it on self start or push start?
A (2:19)
Self start, I wouldn't want it to rely on.
B (2:21)
This is the question you're asking repeatedly. You want push start, don't be on push start. Inner experiences are always on self start. Outside world will never happen. Hundred percent our way, little bit your way, little bit my way, little bit somebody else's way. And that's how it should be. Because if everything happened your way, where the hell do I go? It doesn't happen your way or my way. It's fine. It is only fine if you are joyful by your own nature. But if your Happiness depends on what happens on the outside. Then you being happy is a remote possibility.
A (3:00)
I want to be happy on my own nature. I hear what you've said. However, I'm gonna walk out of this room and I don't know, something's gonna annoy me, maybe my words are even wrong. But then I'll immediately snap back into the sort of unconscious, I don't know, dismay or despair. How does one go about like the first step in becoming happy by our own nature.