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You say the thought I see can't see and the thought I hear can't hear. So the thought I can make a million dollars can't make you a million dollars. So a lot of people who perhaps would listen to you may well have invested a lot of time and effort, books, seminars and videos into the concept that there is somebody there, through their own efforts, can get that million dollars. What would you say to those people? Well have a look and see what is actually being said. The thought I see can't hear, the thought I hear can't hear, the thought I'm aware is not the awareness.
Or the thought I will make a million dollars. That's a good one. Or have a million dollars. There's no thinker there with any independent nature at all. You can think that. And people who say that too, well they'll immediately won't want to look at that because of the belief that they'll get a million dollars. Just the same as people who come here. They've been on the track for 10, 20 or 30 years or more. You tell them this and they've got such a vested interest in their meditation or practices, no that's rubbish. That couldn't be that simple. It couldn't be that easy. And they carry on with what they're doing.
And that's not their doing either. That's the way the function takes them. So the fellow who thinks he's going to get a million dollars out of thinking that way has a vested interest in that and might carry on thinking that way. Or try and do positive thinking. Until, if or when or maybe or it may not even, the pain will come up and get too much and point him to look at this stuff again probably. Or something will turn him around. If it will or if it won't. It doesn't matter either way whether it does or whether it doesn't. Whether they know it or not, everybody is that.
Well he may make millions of dollars. Yes. But it's going to be relevant. It might be the worst thing that ever happened to him. It could be, it is. It often is. It often is. So for the meditator, you would ask them to question who is actually doing the meditation? Yes. Who was the meditator and what did he meditate to go on? What's the meditator on? And that cancels each other out. There's no meditator, nothing to meditate on. And that leaves you right where you are, present and aware. With your eyes open. Yes. And that's where they use the term in a lot of it, in the ultimate teachings of Dhammachandra for instance I suppose, they say undistracted non-meditation.
Yes and the five senses are wide open at that point. So it's undistracted non-meditation, the very idea of meditating or trying to meditate will distract you from non-meditation. But no one to meditate, nothing to meditate on, you're constantly in meditation. But that's a very good point you make though Bob about people who sell success or want to market success will often attract successful people or people who want to be successful and when we look around the room we see a handful of people here because you're selling no thing or you're not selling anything. And of course to the mind it has very little attraction for most people.
People who write to me, they're mad at me, what the hell are they selling the books for? They're mad at a minion. They may want to share their insights. And they want another book. Yeah, yeah. If they've got the books so easily why don't they give the books away? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can make it just by their own. Yeah. Yeah, that's a very good point. There's a billion dollar industry and people telling other people how to make a lot of money when they're making a lot of money through telling other people how to make a lot of money. Their lot of money comes through the actual telling of the people how to make a lot of money, not through any other way.
And that's the way the function is going on isn't it? Yeah. It's called selling blue skies. Selling blue sky. Selling water by the river. The functioning, that functioning goes on everywhere. It goes on in the medical profession. It goes on, you know. Well, it goes on in the spiritual profession. In every, it's the nature of the faith. It's absolute, it's capitalism. Another ism. Everything is about the near future. Yes.