All of us think that the life we have now is normal, and that is just the way it is, and we just have to make the best of it and just get as many materialistic things as we can and have as much fun as we can until we die. This is a deep form of ignorance. Life now is not the way it should be. This is not the way life should be. It is possible to have life without suffering, but unfortunately, we have never experienced that, so we lack knowledge of it. Through this training, you can experience that which does not suffer, and that knowledge teaches you more than any book, more than any school, more than any religion can ever teach you.

You acquire that knowledge through meditation. To experience that part of you that does not suffer, you have to abandon the suffering parts. For us, this is only possible through meditation.

That part of us that does not suffer is the Being, the Innermost. Everyone has this within. It is what we call Self, Atma. In Kabbalah, it is called Chesed or Gedulah. In Buddhism, it is called the Buddha, the “awakened.”

When you have the perception, knowledge, experience of that which does not suffer, then you can understand how to truly be free from suffering.

What I am explaining to you is not something that will happen in the future. It is not something you can buy or wait for. It is not something that you should be sitting there thinking, “Please God give me that experience, where can I find it?” Then you think, “Maybe I should go to India, or Mexico, or Egypt, maybe I can find it there.” Or we want to go to different temples or religions. Let me be clear: it is not in any other place. It is not in the future or the past. It is here and now, inside of you.

You can experience that which does not suffer, here and now, if you merely open your perception to see things as they truly are. God is not anywhere else. God is right here, right now. You simply do not have the eyes to see or the ears to hear, because you are asleep. Awaken, right now, and keep awakening, and you will see.