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Is it a waste of life? We are asking each other this question. This way of living, with all the complications of that, always wanting more and more and more. And this is what we call living: try to meditate, and prepare for meditation, sitting in the right posture, breathing rightly, hoping to control your mind, your thoughts, playing with all that stuff. Right?
And our bodies are being misused as our brains. Have you watched your own bodies? That is, our bodies are an extraordinary instrument, most intricate, anatomically, how through long centuries of millennia upon millennia our bodies have been prepared through evolution. And it is the most astonishing machine. And how we neglect it. And each one of us knows this, and we neglect it, we disregard it, we never take proper exercise, yoga. Ah, I must be careful of that word. You can get hooked up, hooked to the word yoga, and all the practices involved in it, and spend days and years being concerned with that, hoping to achieve some kind of... But exercise is necessary for the body. The speaker does it every morning for an hour, yoga and other forms of exercise. And we are accustomed to one kind of food and we stick to that. You understand all this, I don't have to go into it.
So our body, really, if you have gone into it, is the most amazing instrument, like the brain. And through long usage it wears itself out. And the organism dies when we are ninety, fifty, through accident, through misuse, through old age. The body, the organism may last 100 or 110 years, but the organism comes to an end. That is what we call death. Then we ask ourselves: what is it that lives, if I die? Right? Aren't you all asking that question?
Q: Yes.
K: Marvellous. You are all asking that question: we know the body goes. And our life may have been wasted. Have you ever asked yourselves whether you are wasting your life? Please ask it now. And find out for yourself whether you are wasting it. Of course you have to earn a livelihood, have a vocation. That is granted. But otherwise are you wasting your life – spending energy on things that don't matter?
As we said the other day, our brains contain all memory. Our brain holds our consciousness. Our consciousness makes up the content of our consciousness, makes consciousness. That is, the content: which is our anxiety, our fears, our beliefs, our superstitions, our faith, our quarrels, jealousy, hate, fears, sorrow, and the search for truth. All that is part of our consciousness. Right? Clear?
Your consciousness is what you are. Your consciousness is not separate from you, you are consciousness: your feelings, your emotions, with your sentiments and so on. The whole of that consciousness is in turmoil, confusion, constantly changing, but it is limited. That consciousness is what you are. This is a fact, look at it. You don't have to accept what the speaker is saying.