Inner Authority vs Outer Authority
"It's the body. It's the body. This is the magic. And the moment you can surrender to your body making decisions [inner authority], is the moment that your mind has a chance.
It has a chance to break out of the control. It's not about changing your mind, it's about standing back from it.
It's like me now, listening to myself - because I don't ever know what I'm going to say - listening to myself talking to you.
There's part of me that's just watching this movie. And there's a mechanism that's talking, but I'm not involved in the talking.
The witness that is my mind is not involved in this talking, I don't even know why I'm talking. I mean, I could make it up, 'I have a class I've gotta teach'.
I'm just watching, and in the watching you take everything in.
This is what mind is.
We have this beauty in us, our minds can be of great value to the other.
It's boring to live in a world where other people don't have true outer authority, because you never get to hear anybody say anything that's interesting.
It's so rare.
This is the beauty of outer authority, that you can communicate with somebody and they have something to say and it's not a cliché, it's not some shop-warmed philosophical spiritual piece of bullsh*t.
It's personal and unique, and in that sense it has its own correctness.
It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, good or bad, true or not; it is one's unique expression.
And this is what mind is for, it isn't for running our lives."