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So you can't say religious you've had any beginning. You haven't got any beginning, you can't have any end. As patterns break down, patterns, shapes and forms can appear again. And the essence of self has never been touched or contaminated in any way, shape or form. So when that little child forms in the womb, it's not saying, well I've got to grow a few things today, maybe a few arteries, some cells in the liver. It's just happening quite naturally and effortlessly. And even when it's born, it comes out of the womb. Does it say, well now I'm here, now I'm born, I've got to take my first breath?
Or does it make me know what to do? And does it have to learn to fasten onto the nipple? Or does it make me know what to do? Does it have a total dysfunction living it? And it's gone on doing it. It's a little child, a little boy or girl, they do it. We use them to adult, we do it at old age. It's continually, this body is continually changing shape and form. And my goal is other manifestations, it's all changing. It's all constantly changing. And it doesn't, none of it, the appearance, fits the definition of reality. The definition of reality is that which never changes.
And what is it that's never changed? Isn't that basic space like awareness, the essence of self? Is the space happening centre? Can you find a point? In choices as I said it, does it have any succumbance? Can you say space begins or ends anywhere? Does it start or finish? So that basic space like awareness has never had anything in it. Never had anything. The little child has got no idea he's separate. So it's all based on the sense of separation, the belief we've taken on, over and on in life. The little child's got no idea he's separate. It's the first 18 months or two years.
Have a look and see. He hasn't learnt anything. He's got no words for it. He's got no labels at that stage. He's just seeing everything as it is. It's something in his way. He doesn't like something in that way. Push it away or whatever. Laugh and cry and carry on. But he's not attributing to a me, an entity. That's just happening naturally. Not until about two, two and a half years of age that the capacity of a reasoning develops in the little child. And that's part of the character of this human, so-called human pattern. It's manifest, human manifester. That's the capacity of reason. Other animals, insects or birds, birds have different capacities.
Some of them not to the extent we have, but some other than we have. An eagle can see a lot better than we can ever see. A leopard grows fur in its spots and all this. A natural camouflage we don't have. So each particular species has its own. Each species has their own capacities. We have the capacity of reason. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a wonderful, useful capacity. Except because it's a vibration like everything else, when it goes back, you know, at the other end of the scale, it becomes self-destructive. Because it tells us we're separate. It tells us we're not good enough. It tells us we're absolutely resentful or angry or all these things.
And we believe we have these things because we don't question it. So the little child listens to his parents constantly. He's got no idea of separation. He starts to learn words about two, two and a half. He'll keep telling your little Johnny and your little boy you're a lovely movie, you're not so good, you're bad, you're no good. All these sorts of concepts come upon him. And he learns words like I or me from his parents. Starts to speak. And what's the opposite of I or me? The total mind thought vibrates in the opposite. What's the opposite of I? The opposite of I or me.
Isn't it not alright or not me? Now for the first time when he's looking out there, before he's seen everything as it is, he's got no idea he's separate from it. Just seeing it as it is and it's not a problem. Now he's reasoning that's not alright or that's not me. And when that reasoning comes about, without questioning it, he believes that there is a me there. Me. This little Johnny. This is me. This is I. This is him. This is me. And the opposite of my, I or me is not alright or not me. So way before he's seeing everything as just what it is, that means it's alright or not a problem.
Now he's seeing things out there that he's reasoning that's not me. That's not I. And what happens with that? Soon as that comes about, with that comes the sense of separation. If he's seeing something now or it's just as it was, now he believes he's separate from it. And with that sense of separation comes insecurity and vulnerability. From that time on, that's when the search actually starts. From that time on, the belief in separation and insecurity has started. And those belief that was in the proper media says not that.