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Chapter 1: What is the secret for awakening according to Anthony de Mello?
The next few minutes could be the most important minutes in the lives of some of you. If you could grasp this, you've hit upon the secret for awakening.
You would be happy forever. You would never be unhappy again. Nothing but nothing would have the power to hurt you.
And I mean that. Nothing. It's like you take black paint and throw it up in the air. The air is uncontaminated. You don't colour the air black.
Chapter 2: How can happiness be our natural state?
And no matter what happens to you, you remain uncontaminated. You remain at peace.
Happiness is our natural state.
To acquire happiness, you don't have to do anything. There are human beings, and you know it, who have attained to this. That is what I call human.
That's what I call natural. Not what people are generally living Without this nonsense of being a puppet.
Jerked about this way and that.
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to be a puppet in life?
Having any event or any person tell you how to feel. And then you proceed to feel it. They call it being vulnerable.
I call it being a puppet. Want to be a puppet? We press a button and you're down.
If you do not identify with the label, first of all, most of your worries cease. What are you generally worried about? Ordinarily, you're worried about what's going to happen to your career. A businessman, small-time businessman, about 55 years old,
Chapter 4: Who determines what success really means?
He's sipping beer somewhere at a bar and he thinks, well, look at my classmates.
They really made it. They've made it. What do you mean they've made it? They got their names in the newspapers?
You call that made it? They got their names in the prison journal, which all the prisoners are reading. And he thinks they've made it.
Successful.
President of a corporation.
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Chapter 5: How does society influence our perception of success?
The other guy has become the Chief Justice. And somebody else has become this. And the other person has become that.
Monkeys. All of them. Who determines what it means to be a success? The main preoccupation of society is to keep society sick. And the sooner you realise that, the better.
Every one of them, most of them, they're moody, they're crazy. You became the president of the lunatic asylum and you're proud of it.
It means nothing. It really means nothing.
Being the president of a corporation has absolutely nothing to do with being awake.
Or being happy. Or being a success in life. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Having a lot of money has nothing to do with being a success in life. You're a success in life when you wake up. You don't give a damn what anybody thinks of you or what anybody says about you.
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Chapter 6: What is the relationship between happiness and societal labels?
You have no worry. You're happy. Now that's what I call being a success.
So this small-time businessman, poor guy, 55 years old, he's sipping beer somewhere at a bar. And he's thinking sadly that he isn't a success like his classmate. Nobody has ever told him that having a good job and being famous and having a great reputation has absolutely nothing to do with happiness or success.
Nothing. It's totally irrelevant.
And so he's worried about what his children will think of him. What will the neighbours think about him? What will his wife think? He should have become famous. That's what your society and your culture is drilling into your head, day and night.
People who made it. Made what? Made asses of themselves.
Because they drained all their energy into getting something that was worthless. And they're frightened.
And they're confused. And they're puppets like the rest.
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Chapter 7: Why is happiness uncaused and how can we experience it?
Look at them strutting across the stage. Look how upset they'd get if they had a stain on their shirt.
You call that a success?
Look how frightened they are at the prospect that they may not be re-elected. You call that a success?
So controlled. So manipulated. These are not happy people. These are miserable people. They don't enjoy life. They're constantly tense and anxious. You call that human? And do you know why that happened?
There's only one reason. They identified with some label. They identified the I with their money, with their job, with their profession. That was their error. You can be a plumber or a lawyer or a businessman or a priest. That does not affect essential I. It doesn't affect you. I change my profession tomorrow. That's like changing my clothes.
I is untouched. Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with that, because that will come and go. You know what happens when you really understand this?
No criticism can affect you.
No flattery or praise can affect you either.
When someone says, you're a great guy, what's he talking about? He's talking about me. He's not talking about I. I is neither great nor small. I is neither successful nor a failure. It is none of these labels. These things come and go. These things depend on the criteria that your society establishes. These things depend on your conditioning.
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Chapter 8: What illusions must we drop to attain true happiness?
Me is generally selfish, foolish, childish, and a great big arse. So when you say you're an arse, you're telling me something I've known for years. That guy there, the conditioned self,
What did you expect? I've known it for years. Why did you identify with him? That isn't I. That's me. Now, here are those important minutes I was telling you about.
You want to be happy uninterruptedly. Happiness is uncaused.
Try to understand that. Happiness, true happiness, is uncaused. You cannot make me happy. You are not my happiness. You say to the awakened person, why are you happy?
And the awakened person replies, why not?
Happiness is our natural state.
Happiness is the natural state of little children to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidities of our societies and our culture. To acquire happiness, you don't have to do anything because happiness cannot be acquired.
Does anybody know why? Because you have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it?
Because you've got to drop something.
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