 Now, it's one thing to be identified with behaviors and say, well, yeah, I'm a morning person, or I'm a night person, or I need eight hours of sleep, or I like peaches and bananas, or I like meat, or I don't like meat, or I do this, or I have these bad habits, but I have these good habits. It's one thing to be identified with behaviors, but underneath that, the mind is more than identified with the synone character, with the persona that it thinks is real. It's identified with the thoughts that are underneath all of this. That stream of thoughts, when you meditate, and the mind starts to drift off into the future, or lamenting, regretting something from the past, wishing something could have been different. That whole stream of thought is totally imaginary. It's totally unreal, and yet they seem to be real thoughts. It seems to be like there's really one that's thinking those thoughts, but that's not the case either. Much, much deeper is the stillness of the real identity that literally is beyond these thoughts completely. And one time I had a student years ago, and she was like, wow, I'm really identified with these behaviors, but you're telling me, David, that I am not the thinker of these thoughts? Thank God. If I'm not the thinker of these thoughts, hmm, maybe I can't be innocent. Maybe it's true. Maybe if I just start to see it that way, and really pull back and see in my mind that I'm not even the thinker of those thoughts, that movie really shows it. I mean, he was attracted to the whole construct. At first, he dismissed it. He said, that will work. But then after he got the package from Hank Alino, he so much wanted to save that movie and save his reputation and save his job, his career, everything that he started to use, a vector, a fake set of thoughts, a fake identity and so forth, and it just got out of control. But what if it was never real from the beginning? What if none of it was? So that's what self-inquiry is about. It's going back deep enough into your mind. Isn't that a long way down the track? Isn't that just metaphysics? Because really, our experiences that were here, if I let Melphie operate on me, I would actually prefer at that point in time that she thinks about what she's doing. And if I go out in traffic and I would actually like the people that are around me, appear to be around me, to obey by the traffic laws, because that's really quite practical. Nothing matters, which I understand as a concept, but I haven't got that experience. Then we don't really have to do anything. We can just do everything we can and do exactly as we want with you and understand where that will bring us. It will relatively quicker, bring Melphie to prison and if I don't obey by the traffic laws, I will probably end up there some stage two. So that's quite impactful. It seems, first it seems that way, but then I would always be just an observer of words, like isn't that just metaphysics? Meta is beyond and physics is the laws of physics. It's beyond the laws of physics, not so much beyond the laws of quantum physics we're finding out now, because when you go deeper into physics, you actually come to the same point that it's all connected. But what we have to do is we have to turn it around and say, well, I've been doing all this stuff that I thought I had to do, I should do, I ought to do. It's practical. And we have a definition of practical of like the Spike Lee movie, do the right thing. We're trying to do the right thing. Everyone's trying to do the right thing. Never quite getting back to the point though, which really isn't, the answer isn't I can do anything I want because none of it matters. The reason that's not the answer is because it still holds the assumption of the doer. In other words, I can do anything I want because none of it matters. Well, as Ramana might say, who is the I? Who's the I that can do anything that it wants because it doesn't matter? That's not even it either. And in fact, most people can tell that if you walked to somebody on the street and they didn't know anything about metaphysics and they didn't know anything about theology or whatever, and you just walked up to them and you had a microphone and you said, you know what? You can really do anything you damn well please and it won't matter because none of this is real. They would say, hmm, something's fishy about what you just said. Something's off. I could do anything I want and it won't matter because what's fishy is there's still a doer in there who can do anything he damn well pleases or she damn well pleases and in the end that's the problem. It's this linear construct in which there seems to be a doer and it doesn't matter whether the doer doesn't do anything or the doer does something or whatever as long as there is a doer, there is an object. And that object, you could even call that object a subject. You could say that the persona, like the Simone, is like the subject and the world is the object. But there's still that split that's still there and that doesn't resolve it. So what do you do practically? Well, if you start to just question the whole construct which movie like this will definitely point to the possibility then that is, we could say that's the unraveling when you start to get closer and closer to the point that you start to see that there can't be, there is no doer, there is no individuality, there is no person that came out in the movie, kept trying to slip it out, you know, tell you the truth, she doesn't really exist. Simone is not a real person. He finally comes out and says it, you know, it's like everybody's waiting for the time when he's going to deliver it. You know, she's not a real person. But at that point, he's trying to tell that to his ex-wife and she's like, oh Victor, you know, like of course actors, you know, of course she's just playing a part. But he's like saying, no, no, you don't understand. She's really, really, really not real. And at that point, there's no comprehension of that. So in the end, there's no one we have to convince, you know, except allowing our own mind to be convinced of the truth by the Holy Spirit. We don't have to, you know, he was saying, I tried to convince the whole world that you were real, but it was really that I was trying to convince myself that I exist. That's what this world's about. It's trying to convince yourself that you have an individual, unique, separate existence. It's a big trick. We can even say it's kind of an elaborate trick because it involves so much like a gigantic cosmic trick of trying to convince myself that I exist as a separate, unique individual entity. And the only thing I can say is I can tell you right now it won't work. That's the only good news in this whole thing is that absolutely the attempt will not succeed. So if that's the case, if you even take my word on that or my take that on faith basis, then by joining with this truth that I'm sharing or this essence, you could just start to see, hmm, we're fine with faith, just don't lie about it. Like, I'm not going to make the world wrong, then I'm not going to make any of the images wrong. You know, then you can be gentle with the whole world. You can look on the world through, we'll say, loving eyes because you don't have to fix it or change it. It's beyond being fixed. It's literally beyond being fixed. And there's a joy that comes with that, you know. You mean I'm really off the hook? Really, really off the hook? And it's true, we are, the mind is off the hook.