The Can of Worms
From the Gold Coast Talk July 1993
The self is a great can of worms. It has never solved anything in anybody’s life and never will. And yet it is the human race’s expectation that if I go into my self, I’ll be able to work it out. Rubbish! The self has deluded the whole human race since Boadicea or Julius Caesar. There is nothing to go into my self about. It all stinks. It is all problem, all trouble, all self-indulgence.
Nobody’s honest, so everybody needs therapy! You only need therapy because you think you need it. You do not need therapy. All you need to do is to be honest. You need to be responsible for yourself. That’s all. Then you don’t need any teacher. You listen to the Master, but he’s only a reflection: he points the way, that’s all. This is not a therapy.
You’ve got to stay out of your self.
- ‘But I’m so unhappy. I’ve got such a loneliness in me, such a fear in me.’
Yes, that’s the can of worms.
Now, why don’t you just feel the can of worms in your stomach – and cop it as it is? Feel the pain. Feel the ‘terrible one’ trying to thrust you into doing things you don’t want to do.
Feel it down there. It’s a psychic possession, down there in your guts. It’s a deep, dark psychic place in another world, the world of self inside the body. Don’t go in there!
You don’t need to go in there, if you’re honest. But if you want something, it will drag you in. You’ll solve nothing. It will drag you in. And drag you down.
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