Italie 2012-04_Découvrir une motivation complètement différente à être vous-même

this whole issue of motivation that I was just talking about which is I I just wanted to comment a little just speak a little bit more about that because this is something that most people don't ever think about we usually think about what we want and what we don't want and what we like and what we don't like but we very rarely do people question their their motives because we have you know we haven't been taught to question our motives you follow it's a completely different way to look at yourself or to look at other people but in this case we're looking it's a completely different way to look at yourself so so in it when you Embrace these Enlightenment uh perspectives your um uh the if you if you go deep enough you're going to discover a completely different motivation to be you because most for too many of us our motivations aren't that good right our motivations aren't that good they tend to be very small very narrow right very selfish very painful it's painfully selfish and narrow so a big a very big part of uh of this kind of Awakening is the transformation the ultimate transformation the eventual transformation of our of our motivations of what's motivating us and I I know that this is this is just a very new idea for people so have you ever questioned your motives not just in relationship to you know to small things which may you know may or may not be that important but have you ever questioned your fundamental mode you're deeper deeper motivations your deepest motives what is motivating you to be yourself what's made it what's motivating you to make the choices that you're making to do to do it you know to live the life you're living what do you do what are your deepest motives what are your deeper motives and what are your deepest motives because if your motives if your deepest motives uh become Express manifest expressions of um the kind of Freedom that comes from this this uh this rediscovery or this discovery of who you really are your motivation your your life begins to manifest and express very different motivations and if it's deep enough it'll be quite dramatic the shift is very dramatic it's unmistakable it's a very different way to think about yourself isn't it hello I want to make sure you're all not falling asleep on me do you understand what I'm saying this is a very different way to think about it's a very different way to think about you ourselves it's a very different way to think about yourself what's your what are your deepest motives what's motivating you rather than what you what you think you want or what you think you don't want or what you like or what you don't like it what your preferences are or what your fears are that's one way to think about yourself but there's a deeper issue there's a much deeper way to think about yourself has to do with what that what your what are your motives so because when you die that's what's going to be like you know it's going to if you someone looks at your whole life they're going to be able to you know it's a reasonably intelligent sensitive person thoughtful person will be able to tell what was motivating you so it's the the reason I'm just emphasizing because it's just a completely different way to think about what it means to be human usually because we're also self-centered we're so selfish and self-centered we think about what I want what I what what I want what I think is going to be good for me and that may or may not be it may it just it it is whatever it is but if you start thinking in a different way you know questioning your motivations uh considering the fact that maybe some motives aren't so nice or some or or so wholesome or maybe not even if you want to take it far enough maybe not even acceptable to you it's just a very different way to think about what it means to be human and uh one I would strongly encourage everybody to kind of explore because you know the thing is if you start looking at the nature of motivation your own motivations it'll blow your ego out of the water because if you look at the nature of your motives it usually has very little to do with what your ego's agenda is by the way in case that wasn't already totally obvious maybe it wasn't but that's why it's a very interesting way in this in this Enlightenment context to look at to look at your what's your own motives because yeah it also reveals the ego's motives so this kind of shift this shift of identity that we're that we've been exploring here for this is the beginning of the fourth day the shift of identity does will if it's deep enough it will affect what's Mo it will have a big influence on what's motivating you in in in the deepest in the deepest way in relationship to life itself and that's kind of what we're interested in is the shift of motivation