The New Science of Practical Truth
A statement made to introduce and advertise his meetings and seminars in London in 1988.
I am here to teach you the new science of life on earth; to be your unshakeable, authentic self without interruption.
Until you regain this reality of being yourself, until you are immersed in it, you will fall back into the old present-science caper of abstracting yourself from the truth. You will confuse progress with truth. You will soar up mentally, notionally out of your body (away from the rich, fulfilling solidity of being what I am here-now) into an airy-fairy, unreal, problem-making-and-solving world of speculative thought about what you are going to do in the future, what you think you are doing now and what you believe you have done in the past.
You and your Einsteinian society have made you abstract – abstracted you from the vital reality of life. In the necessary activities you are practical … You drive your car practicably or you won’t have it for long. You put your shoes on practicably or you won’t walk far. You do your work practicably or you’ll be sacked. But when it comes to what is vital – vitally important things such as your love or sex life, relationships, death, God, discontent, delight, truth and being free – you are virtually impractical. You abstract yourself (another word for escape) from these vital matters, kidding yourself like the scientists that if you concentrate on the necessary ones, like paying the rent, feeding your children and contributing to progress, you are really living. But what about the inner pain – the doubt, the fear, the hardness, the loneliness, the ache for love? In abstracting yourself like this from here-now, you make a theory of yourself and so you spend your days like the theoretical scientist trying to prove yourself, or improve yourself (or society) - neither of which is necessary or real.
What is necessary is not vital. Old, dead, theorising science and scientists do not know this. Knowing the difference is your problem too isn’t it? Which is why you need to come to rediscover with the teacher of truth how to be yourself.
I will give you a practical grounding in truth: no abracadabra, no ‘trust me’, no 'I believe’, no promises – just the simple, precious, self-evident, down-to-earth truth. All unhappiness on earth is due to not being practical in fact and truth.
I will keep you earthed in the solid reality of yourself. Very seldom are you yourself. Not being yourself means losing touch with reality. Losing touch with reality naturally makes you emotional, self-doubting, insecure and feeling lonely, frustrated or loveless. Then you think that you can’t get back, that you have lost yourself – which is true.
The rarest knowledge on this planet is that the truth is practical. The teachers and teachings are not practical. And so practical truth, the living truth, is seldom realised. The living truth is simply you living it. You are the truth. There is none other. But you are not living it, not being yourself. You may be doing your best but now it’s not enough. If it were you, you would know the truth. You would know yourself and be complete every moment without wavering or collapsing emotionally or in worry under the pressures and circumstances of living. I will keep you true, true to life, true to yourself.
Come and find out precisely what this means and requires – so that you can go and live it in your daily life.
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