Opening Check In and Personal Updates

Adam Wes: Namaste, everybody. Well, where is everybody today? This will be a small group. Let us see, who are we missing? I just texted a couple of people. How are you, Harrison?

Harrison M: Sorry, I just cannot turn my mic—oh, there you go. I am well, thank you. Yes, a few things are happening. I am busy with various projects, and I have just gone full-time in my studio, which is pretty exciting. I am moving to Amsterdam in 14 weeks, so I am preparing for my first solo show. I am just super grateful. Busy, but I know I can do it. And yes, meditation has been an invaluable tool to help me stay focused. It has been, again, an invaluable tool in terms of being able to manage lots of tasks. I feel as though the compound interest of meditating when you do not need it helps you so much when things become heavy. It is an interesting thing. I talk to a lot of people about it. I am classic now—when I meet people, not in a forceful way, but I let them know. They say, "Oh, you seem different," or, "Why are you so happy all the time?" People literally ask me that all the time, and it is quite funny. I try to communicate in the simplest way possible, and I will just say, "Well, meditation has changed my life." I just say something really direct and clear, and they respond, "What do you mean?" I tell them, "Oh, well, I do it every day," and so on. It is fascinating. It is great, but it is very apparent that I do—my brother was very interested, and I split a Transcendental Meditation course with him because it was quite expensive, so he is now going down that route, which is exciting. But yes, it is definitely getting people—very classic, as I am sure everyone here would understand. People meditate when they are stressed, because they are stressed, and then they do it, and then they are not stressed a few days later, and then they just stop doing it. So it is breaking that. It is breaking that pattern, I think, which is ultimately why your course is so good, because you need a commitment longer than just a few days. People have good intentions, but they never stick to it, that is the one line. Yes.

Adam Wes: And you know, meditation is more than just the sitting part. What we do between meditations informs our meditation. So really, when you become more advanced, or when you enter a certain path—I would say this path especially—the reason why I talk about all these different things and give the sermon each week is because that is a part of meditation.

Harrison M: Dude.

Adam Wes: If you do not live with humility, you are not really a meditator, right? You may sit down and meditate, but it is humility that carries the meditation. And there are so many things. If you do not live with love, if you do not live with mindfulness, if you do not do all the various things that happen between meditations— So when we meditate, we become devoted to something that is more than just that duration of meditation that we do consistently. And when we sit down and meditate, we build our energy, we raise our power in such a way that throughout the rest of the day, we can do those things that are not only reinforcing of meditation, but are also an expression of meditation. So… Yes.

Harrison M: It is interesting you say that, because I almost feel—ultimately, I know when someone asks me that question, I cannot really answer it in that moment. You are exactly right. I practice a lot—obviously, we only know each other to some degree, but outside of just the meditation, I am very— Extremely focused on symbolism, extremely focused on affirmations, extremely focused on repeating things and keywords. My world—I think I am a little bit unusual in that respect.

Adam Wes: You are very unusual.

Harrison M: I saw that about you the very first moment you texted me.

Adam Wes: It is different, and it is great. It was great. By the way, I am not saying that you do not do those things, I am saying that you do.

Harrison M: No, but that is—I guess, and I know that you are not saying that. I am more saying that it is hard to—when someone says, "What are you doing to be more happy?" Sometimes I do say reading, right away. I say, "Read things." At least have positive reinforcements bouncing around your head. Everything you consume shapes your reality, and if you have positive, uplifting things in your mind—not just positive or nice things, but constructive things that bring you closer to your core of who you are and who you want to be. I think that is extremely important. So, it is an amalgamation of many things, as you have said. It is not just the one thing; it is a lifestyle choice. And I do believe, though, it is interesting—I hope that even just recommending meditation allows people, even if they cannot, in one interaction, say, "Yes, meditation is really good." It is just a chance for you to sit down and stop. And sit with yourself. I think a lot of it as well is that it can bring up uncomfortable things if you are not working through those things, and you get forced to look—I am very focused on looking at the fear, because I believe that fear, obviously, is of the mind. But it is incredible when people actually look at their fear directly. It is a very classic thing, but it often disappears, especially if you write it down on a piece of paper or something.

It is actually not that scary. So yes, anyway, I could talk forever. I have a lot to say, but I do not want to take up everyone's time. I have been enjoying this immensely.

Adam Wes: Wonderful, and thank you for what you shared. Did you practice meditating on the chakras this week?

Harrison M: I did, actually. A few interesting things happened. I do almost my own exploration, in the sense of intuition, based on everything we have learned. For the first time, I love acknowledging when I do things for the first time. I think, oh, I have never done that before—wow, and now I have, and you build on that.

I had an intuition at certain moments, even in the spaces between my daily activities and while I was driving. Sometimes, I would place my finger over my third eye and feel the energy there as I drove. When I am repeating a mantra or focusing on something specific, those intuitive feelings often arise. Then I put my hand on my heart center. Meditating on my heart center is something I do regularly—it may seem a little quirky, but it has become a habit for me, something I do every single day. At this point, it is almost automatic.

It was interesting when we practiced the meditation with the heartstrings, pulling on those. I often place my fingers at my heart center, and when I want to express gratitude, I pull from the center and extend it outward into the world. I do this while walking around or whenever I have a thought and want to appreciate something—I simply pull from my chest and offer it to the world.

Sometimes, after finishing a meditation or at other times, I extend my hand outward, or I begin at my chest, as if presenting my heart to the world. Then I also bring it back, accepting the universe back into my heart, repeating this as many times as feels right.

Adam Wes: That is a chakra exercise.

Harrison M: Yes, but I have not looked that up. It just felt right to me, and I simply…

Adam Wes: Just keep doing that. It is important to be intuitive, because then it is genuine. Otherwise, you are just mimicking a pattern you have seen, which may not be authentic. That is very central to the practice as well. Thank you, Harrison.

Wonderful.

Alright, hi Praveen. Hi, Mom.

Hi, everybody.

We will see.

Shum…

Gratitude and Thankfulness as Spiritual Practice

Tonight's talk is a very special one.

I was hoping there would be more people here for it, but I am going to do it anyway. Perhaps we will repeat it.

The topic, the sermon for tonight, is gratitude and thankfulness.

It is interesting—Harrison has already mentioned gratitude several times.

Gratitude and thankfulness are two distinct things, but they are related. Let us think of gratitude as the center, and thankfulness as an extension.

To be grateful is to be in a state of non-resistance. It is also to be in a state of expansiveness and heart.

When we are grateful for something, we are in communion with it. We count our blessings. We come to know our blessings by embodying them.

We become aware of something that we can cherish in the moment. So it brings us into the present, and it brings us into a deeply spiritual state.

Ultimately, we feel gratitude for existence itself—for the substratum of all temporal transformations. That eternal aspect, which is the backdrop of all change, time, and space, becomes a foundation from which we can draw gratitude and experience fullness and happiness.

Gratitude is a choice and a practice. You build momentum in gratitude.

It is good to sit down and intentionally practice gratitude. One thing that I do, and many people notice because I do it quite openly in public, is that I am constantly feeling grateful.

When I do this, I am expanding and looking at the moment, saying, yes, thank you. When you say yes, you expand. When you say no, you contract. The heart field will expand—your heart chakra will expand—when you say yes. When you resist, it is an energetic retraction.

Gratitude is a way for us to expand and encompass more as a heart, as our heart energy field, and also to become aware of and live with our blessings.

One can have a great deal of blessings in their life and be largely unaware of them. They may not acknowledge them, or feel them, or be inwardly touched by their blessings.

So in the practice of gratitude, we focus on the blessing. Now, how do you do this? Because it is a subtle, energetic, and even occult practice.

I am grateful for something, or someone, or some condition. Gratitude can be for the foundation of existence, but it can also be for a particular circumstance. Generally, most people think of it as being grateful for a condition, and I think that is valuable.

Find the things that you can be grateful for now.

And... the wonderful... I will return in a moment to how the energetic practice of gratitude works.

A key principle in gratitude is learning to go beyond entitlement. Entitlement blocks our ability to be grateful and thankful.

When you feel that the very perception of color is a miracle—simply being alive and able to see color—that is dimensionality. It is an encounter with the foundation of the true self, the nothingness, the eternal aspect. It is a miracle.

I sit down and see purple flowers, and I become aware of the frequency of purple. I feel grateful for the fact that I am experiencing purple, embodying purple.

Gratitude is something we can practice—not every moment, but consistently throughout the day. As much as possible, focus on, "Wow, look at the sun. Wow, look at that cloud. Wow." I feel happy. Wow.

I love my family, and they are healthy. I have these wonderful students, and I get to teach meditation. Often, we can look back and remember a time in our lives when we did not have that, when we longed for it.

The problem is, we become so accustomed to our blessings that we begin to take them for granted. When you take things for granted, it reflects a lack of energetic vitality. It is a kind of laziness.

You may think, "I already have that, so I can put it aside and focus on the next thing I want to achieve." But the practice of being in communion with our blessings requires a vitality of mind—a vitality that grows and stays with you. It is not exhausting; it is revitalizing, because you are constantly feeling the blessing that you achieved or gained at some point.

And it is important to also simply be without entitlement, right? So, I feel grateful for something, but I want to feel free of that thing—without cultivating attachment either. Practicing gratitude in this way is quite sophisticated.

I am grateful for this new job, but I am also detached. Then you are able to flow continuously into new states of gratitude. You may lose the job—okay, now I am grateful that I do not have a job. I have time and space for something new, and I am grateful for that moment. Then I get a new job, and I am grateful for that job as well. This is about being in a state of flow.

Life is a challenge, because we come into this world, we are born into these bodies, and we receive all these blessings. But unless we move through them without becoming attached to the transformations, we end up causing pain for ourselves. This is a core teaching in Buddhism: attachment causes suffering.

So, gratitude practiced in a particular way allows us to be with our blessings without attachment. You can see there is an optimal state—this is that optimal state. It is a beautiful thing. Imagine being in touch with all the beautiful things in your life. How happy would you be? And at the same time, you are not fearful of losing them.

This is an optimal state, right? I am not saying this is easy, and I am not saying I do this perfectly. Because to do this perfectly is to enter a state of enlightenment.

How can you revel in form, but be completely free of it? This is subtle yoga, esoteric yoga—this is bhakti.

Bhakti has some key principles that are very evident in its practice. Gratitude is at the center of bhakti. A bhakti practitioner feels gratitude consistently. There is a great deal of momentum around gratitude. I should not say constantly, but there is a momentum that sustains a high level of energy around gratitude.

So, blessing after blessing, gratefulness, tears, thankfulness—constantly, right? This is an excellent practice. I know my mother has seen me do this for many years. She has asked, "Why are you so grateful for the suitcases coming by on the conveyor belt?" Well, because this moment of the trip, where I am about to pick up the suitcase, is special. There is a sentimentality to it. It is very sweet.

Gratitude has a kind of romance, sentimentality, and sweetness to it. You can embrace that. When you do, it brings a joy and happiness within you that might otherwise remain dormant.

A lot of people live lives where they feel empty and are missing many things. They focus on what they want but do not have, and they feel a sense of insufficiency and emptiness. But if you turn it around and ask, "What am I grateful for?" and you get in the habit of counting your blessings...

And gratitude—let us return to that deeper, almost occult practice—is more than just thinking about something. No, you need to feel it in your heart. Really come to know and be present with the blessing.

If you do it right, it may bring tears to your eyes. If you do it right, your heart chakra will activate and become charged. If you do it right, your neighbors may ask why your eyes twinkle.

And why your light is so bright—because you are generating, fundamentally, a state of blissfulness, a state of non-resistance.

When you sit down to meditate, meditate on gratitude. That does not mean you are thinking; it means you are merged into the moment. You feel abundant. You cannot think of all the things, right? Thinking is a very linear, fragmented approach to knowledge. You can feel the reverberation of a grateful aspect—something you are grateful for, an aspect of your life for which you are grateful—in your field, without thinking about it.

This is where it becomes more of an occult practice. You want your field to reverberate with all the things that bless you, because then they can all occur at once. They can happen while you are eating—you are simply filled with love.

So, gratitude is—truly—an essential practice. It is one of my favorite things. It has helped me move through difficult times, to enter a state where, without gratitude, it is easy to fall into depression or anxiety—a lot of what people experience.

Gratitude is a remedy for these things. It is a powerful medicine for many of the challenges of the human condition and the human psyche.

And it is an energetic practice. Last week, when we worked with chakras, we felt the heart chakra. Practice gratitude and feel the heart chakra. Let gratitude have an actual energetic effect that is noticeable in your energy field. Your chakras should be brighter, more activated from gratitude.

Thankfulness is another aspect. I had considered not discussing these together, but I thought we should. Thankfulness is a beautiful way of being.

This is why I am addressing it, because I feel it really supports gratitude. What I mean is—think of everyone and everything. Thank you.

I am not worthy, and yet I receive. Thank you. Thank you for my car. It is very much like gratitude. I walk out to my car, and it is there. I have my own car. It works. I am grateful it is not in the shop today. I am grateful.

At the same time, I like to feel thankfulness for the car. I look at the car and say, thank you, car, for being here. I say thank you to the neighbor, I say thank you to the person who allowed me to drive in front of them.

Thankfulness is a very beautiful etiquette—a very spiritual form of etiquette that has an energetic effect as well.

So… Thank you, Harrison, for being on time today and being here. If I take you for granted, how does that feel to you? It does not feel like love. But if I feel the humility inside—thank you for being here, thank you for your practice, thank you for honoring these sessions.

Thank you, Praveen, for all that you do. If I really say it with sincerity—thanks, Praveen. You know? And look how that changes me, and how it changes you. People truly love to feel recognized and appreciated.

And what is more, it feels wonderful to recognize and appreciate others. When we have expectations of others, ignore them, or take them for granted, it hurts us inside.

So thankfulness is not only a beautiful etiquette, but it is also an energetic practice that touches the heart in a way similar to gratitude.

You can be thankful for your cup—thank you, cute cup. Thank you, computer. Thank you, candle. I say thank you to my plants, you know—thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a little different from gratitude, but it is similar. It opens up gratitude, yet there is a sort of interpersonal dynamic that occurs, even if it is with an object, or a cloud, or a sunbeam.

So… it is very bhakti. Bhakti is the yoga of love, the yoga of heart. You may have heard it described as the yoga of devotion, but essentially, energetically, it is an orientation where you prioritize love and heart.

And what is included in love and heart? Well, gratitude, thankfulness, honoring others. Someone said that to me earlier this week—he actually gave a talk at his church about honoring others. I thought, that is wonderful, and I felt so grateful that my neighbors are the kind of people who give talks at churches about honoring others. It seemed very synchronistic.

So, it would be wonderful to go and practice this during the week. One thing you can do is make a gratitude list. Sit down and say, I am going to be grateful—I am going to… You can do the same things every day: grateful for this, this, this, this, and this, or for this person, that person, or whoever comes to mind.

It can take five minutes, ten minutes, or fifteen—I do not know. More than fifteen might be quite a bit. But go through your gratitude list.

And practice gratitude informally as well. Go around, feel grateful for things throughout the day, and be thankful.

You can also sit down and perhaps take a moment beyond fifteen minutes to ask, what are all the things I am grateful for? Journal about it. Get in touch with this, and then meditate on gratitude. There is a feeling that comes with gratitude, an energetic state.

You can sit and bask in that state. You are just generating love and gratitude. And when you are done, it is easy to feel grateful. Sometimes we have a blockage to gratitude and thankfulness. There is something inside us that says, no, I am not going to be grateful. I am not going to be thankful to this person.

Perhaps I do not like them, or they bother me, or they are actually a big problem for me. But those are opportunities, too, right? Because we ultimately do not want to be in a state of rejecting gratitude and thankfulness. These are paid-in-full states for us. So we want to unravel the equation and discover the variables inside that are blocking us from truly embracing a state that is a blessing to our own lives and our own happiness.

And I am grateful for this woman right here, Colleen, my mom. Very, very grateful for her. Sometimes gratitude can be a little overwhelming. And, yes. So…

That is my sermon on gratitude. I was almost nervous to give this one, because it is so special to me. It is almost a little private, but we are building community here, and I would like to invite all of us together to build a collective momentum around gratitude and thankfulness.

How beautiful would it be if there were a community of people who deeply practiced and understood these things? We would be so sweet together, and it would be powerful. So… thank you. I am grateful. Any questions? What about you, Mom?

Colleen: So, thank you for this sermon, and I am grateful to you for all these Tuesdays and wonderful times with the community. So I am hearing that thankfulness is sort of more immediate and kind of verbal. If somebody does something, your response immediately is, oh, thank you.

Adam Wes: A recognition, yes.

Colleen: Right, and then gratitude, the more deeper, emotional… Oh,

Adam Wes: Yes. I am making a semantic distinction here. You could use any words you like, but if you think about it, when you say thank you, you say it to somebody.

Colleen: I am so grateful. Right.

Adam Wes: Yes, they are different.

Colleen: Yes.

Adam Wes: Grateful, like, I feel all the blessings.

Colleen: Limitless.

Adam Wes: It is like, I think…

Colleen: Thank you so much for just doing that, yes, and so you made me see the difference.

Adam Wes: Yes.

Colleen: And every night before I go… as soon as I put my head on the pillow, I go through my gratitude list. Oh, wonderful! And I do not get through it, because usually by then I have fallen asleep.

Adam Wes: Oh, that is a beautiful way to fall asleep. Wonderful.

Colleen: Thank you, Adam. Thank you. Grateful to you. Grateful to you.

Adam Wes: I am so grateful that I have such a beautiful relationship with my mother that, for four years, she has been coming here and meditating with me on Tuesdays at six, basically.

Colleen: I am not doing my homework.

Adam Wes: Well… Remember, gratitude and entitlement or expectation—those are the blockages, right? So when we say, well, I wish I had this, I wish I had that… It is a very courageous thing to feel grateful for being alive. And everything else can be an extra.

Right? We would like to set the bar low, and then everything above becomes a blessing. I am grateful… and if you take… what was that?

Colleen: You are right.

Adam Wes: Yes, and if you take… if you go even below being alive, you are grateful for existence, for the part of ourselves that is eternal. You see, this really does connect with the non-dual philosophies of yoga.

Right? If I become content and grateful for the unchanging, non-dimensional point of existence, which is within all beings, then everything in life becomes a miracle and a blessing. And this is an aspiration, right? It takes courage to find that, but it is also an energetic transformation.

You can be so filled by the light of eternity that you just feel gratitude. It does not matter what is going on—you are so full with happiness. So light is essential to this, too. If you are so full with happiness…

You know, it is always interesting to me when we hear stories about people who have lost money in the stock market and then become so unhappy. Really, we should not be drawing our happiness from superficial things to such an extent—especially if our basic needs are met. That all ties into ego and expectation, and so on. So, yes, we want to…

But, you know, if it feels daunting to begin by saying, "I am grateful that I exist," you can simply start with more accessible things, such as, "I am grateful for all the real blessings in my life." You do not have to be so courageous as to take it to a level that confronts you in a place you may not be ready for.

But we should always move toward greater gratitude, because life is transient. We want to feel blessed—all the time—especially when we have so much to be happy about.

Colleen: Rat. Thank you.

Adam Wes: You are welcome, Mom. Thank you. Thanks for sharing.

Alright, Praveen, do you want to say anything before we start our gratitude meditation?

Praveen S: It is amazing.

Adam Wes: What was that?

Praveen S: It is just simply amazing. Thank you to you for this.

You know, Praveen, if only I could find a whole group of people who wanted to participate with such recognition, like you. You really add so much to these sessions, and we have so few people here today, but we are actually just getting started. I am literally

in a warm-up mode, building everything, and it all started this week. I am so excited to have you here helping to build this community, because within you, you have the wisdom of

valuing gratitude, valuing the things that I am sharing. I always love to find people who

value the spiritual path and spiritual wisdom. Then we can simply be in it together, and that is what I see in you, so thank you.

Yeah.

And of course, I am grateful for Colin, who you may not know is my father, my dad.

For being here, and… He is having a nice

time over there, I am sure. And he is always here, too.

Alright, everyone. So, today, let us meditate on gratitude.

We are going to exude gratitude.

Just try to find it. This is about self-mastery—how do we find it inside ourselves? Now, you can think of a few things, but ultimately, in meditation, we should not be thinking. So you move into a state where you just

are steeped in bliss.

Right, we just feel—ah—

I am just so grateful to be here, I am just so grateful to be meditating and sitting here; it is just so beautiful, right? That is what meditation should feel like. And then your mind just stops, because you can feel all your blessings are there. You do not have to think about them.

You are merged with them; you are them.

You see? This is where it becomes a bit of an occult practice that you can explore. How can I…

First, you focus on it—oh, I feel it—but then let it change you. That change is in the manifold of our topology, of our…

I am using math terms—of our energy field, right? Our whole field changes, and it is reverberating differently, and you are left wondering, why do I feel happy? Oh, yes!

My mom. Why do I feel happy? Oh, yes!

You know, the math that I am doing right now—you can feel the gratitude is there with you. It has a kind of karmic momentum.

Very much a karmic momentum.

Alright, let me pick a nice song for us.

Kira would have liked this talk, I think.

Alright, I have some good ideas here.

Alright.

Let us do a half-hour meditation. We are going to stop right on time today. We will have two minutes to share, okay?

So… Just a quick share when we stop. It is 6:43 right now.

So a good thing to do when you are feeling gratitude is…

Gratitude is spirit-connected to the heart center.

Getting to feel the heart.

It is a full moon tonight.

So be aware of its empowerment.

First full moon of March.

Buster.

Sources.

May actually be the first full moon.

Not sure if there are two this month.

Gratitude.

So much to be grateful for.

Reach out.

And touch the magic of the evening, or the morning.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Yo.

Gratitude.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): For this very moment, and all the blessings.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): You are black.

In our lives.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): It is making…

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Thought of the…

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): How am I going?

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): I am going to try.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): The times that I cry.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): No, you will.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Hold on me.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Love to take another…

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Such infamouses all along.

Audio shared by The Bhakti Math Guru (Adam): Sorry for all of the times that I ignored you.

So this will be our final song before we have some silence.

Namaste.

Meditation Reflections and Symbolic Experiences

How was your meditation, Mom?

Colleen: Really nice, thank you. Grateful, thankful.

Yeah. Some interesting things again. Different green color, and completely different green color than usual, and a lot of yellow that was in the beginning.

And then, an orange, some orange.

And then… later on, I saw my purple, pink, and red.

I also saw a woman walking behind a hedge.

And… there was a stadium, with everyone dressed in blue and red shirts.

Adam Wes: Wow.

Colleen: Wherever I go, but…

Adam Wes: Psychedelic visions. Very symbolic.

Colleen: It does not make sense to me, but anyway, that is what I wanted to tell you. That is all.

Adam Wes: Wonderful. Well, it is beautiful to see the light. In these meditations, it is essential that we experience light.

Light means we are having a mystical experience, and…

It is wonderful that you do that, so always focus into the light. That is an indicator of the depth of the meditation.

So, wonderful. Namaste, Mom.

And I want to say—

You can be grateful for the past as well. If you have a really beautiful experience from your childhood, you can feel gratitude for the way it leaves an impression on you now. Right? I am who I am now because of this wonderful thing from my childhood, and I can feel gratitude for the journey as well. That is still in the present moment.

Because it is remembered. What is remembered is stored in the brain cells, right? It is stored in the field, or whatever the mechanism of memory is physically. And energetically, it is stored in the now. There is only the now, but the now contains the residual of the past.

Right, so you can feel gratitude for—I'm thinking of some people from my childhood, and—

Another thing I wanted to share—yes, and another thing I wanted to share is you can also, and this is a very wise approach, be grateful for the things that you would not normally feel grateful for. Be grateful for them as challenges to grow.

Because sometimes the challenge helps us become more free. If someone does not like me—I could be ungrateful, or I could learn to find that part of myself that can shift and be grateful that they have shown me a way to become free of the attachment. Or free of whatever it is that makes me feel incomplete because of it.

So challenges can offer an opportunity, and you can feel gratitude for the challenge, and then rise to it. It changes the relationship with the challenge when we look at it that way.

Those are two things that came to me while we were meditating that I thought I should add. Praveen, would you like to share? And then we will stop in a minute or two.

Praveen S: I am entitled—I think we are good. Brilliant. You are talking money.

Adam Wes: I want to hear every word you are saying, but the connection is not so good.

Praveen S: No, I was saying, because they are brilliant. Trials, and it changed my perspective on how to go about thinking about play, truth, and excellent data. So you mentioned that it is not just shifting in the mind, but an energetic factor. Yes. And then it has to reverberate to your energy field, so—

I mean, amazing. I am also thinking about how to be thankful in moments of difficulty, or, you know, moments of challenges. And I think what you just said right now is helpful.

No, no. Yes.

Adam Wes: There is a principle in spirituality that when things do not go our way, it helps us to get deeper into ourselves. The acceptance of pain is actually the ending of the self. Right? The acceptance of—there is opportunity. There is opportunity to go deeper into spirit.

And as a recognition of that principle, you can start to use it and say, oh, okay, well, you know, my car is not working, or this happened, and okay, well, what does that mean? Now I can learn to feel less attached. I can be more free and stronger, right? And more blissful, unconditionally. Oh, okay, I get to practice unconditional blissfulness now.

Because when things are going well, you do not always get to practice those things, right? So you can trust the universe, or God, or whatever you want to call it, and say, this is what I am ready to face right now, and thank you for the journey. For this journey, and its unfolding, and I trust the intelligence behind this is beyond what I can comprehend personally, right? So…

What is beautiful about this is it changes the way you interact with challenges. Because you see, okay, I am going to use this to my advantage. And the wise man or woman uses everything to their advantage.

Right? So we have to say, how can—and it is wonderful that embedded in existence itself is the fact that we are fundamentally blissful. Freedom is bliss. Well, freedom is—I am nothing, I have nothing, I am only that part of myself that is beyond all change. Okay, I am bliss. Well, what a blessing, thank you, universe. Right? And because of that fundamental truth, we can use things to our advantage.

Now, that is not to say you should not advance your fortunes in the world, because it is harder to feel grateful if you love a clean house and your house is not clean. So clean your house, and you will feel more gratitude. So, it is a multi-dimensional approach. You do all of it. I want more gratitude in every way, right? So I am going to get the things that I actually want, and I am going to use the things that I do not want to get what I want.

And I am going to lower my bar to eternity, to go into the deep, unchanging gratitude that can hold steady throughout all transient existence, right? So, if we love heart and expansion and blissfulness, we will learn to use all of those things. So, make money. Build your—advance your fortunes, make beautiful relationships, clean your house, do all those things too, absolutely.

That is the wise thing to do. That is an act of love, right? We should all have more of what our soul wants in form and expression. We should also accept what our soul does not get in each moment, and use that, right?

Praveen S: Sure, I mean, you are suggesting we go deeper. I mean, difficulties allow us to go deeper into our scripts.

Adam Wes: Amazing. Wonderful. Well, thank you, thank you for understanding, and for being here, and worshiping gratitude with me. It is wonderful.

Let us worship gratitude, right? You know, gratitude—thank you. I am grateful for gratitude. Alright.

And, Harrison. Harrison Murdoch’s iPhone: Would you like to share? You already shared a bit earlier, but perhaps you would like to say something about the meditation briefly?

Closing Exchanges and Community Continuity

Harrison M: No, that is all right. I think I am... yes, that was what I needed, and it was lovely to hear from everyone. I believe I have said enough for today, so thank you, Adam. Thank you, everyone.

Adam Wes: Wait, did you enjoy the talk? Were you able to connect with it?

Harrison M: Yes, definitely. I resonated with it a lot, because I am already practicing all of those things.

Adam Wes: Nice. I sensed that. You were so centered in gratitude. So, let us bring in some words and share them together.

Let us build gratitude and momentum, both collectively and individually. Thank you, Mom. I am grateful for you. Thank you, Dad. I am grateful for you.

Goodbye, everyone. I will see you next week. Thank you so much.

Harrison M: Thank you.

Adam Wes: Namaste, happy full moon.

Goodbye.