Russell Brand - The only thing that matters to any of us is Love

I think that one's reality is the result of

your intention and your attention.

It's through spiritual practice that I've recognized that

my own impermanence, my own irrelevance,

the fact that I'm just a person shuffling through life.

I ain't really no different now from when I was a little kid.

And all I want really is not to have feelings in my stomach

that people are being treated badly.

I don't want the feeling that people are being exploited

People need to live spiritual lives. All of us.

I'm a person and it's good to have access to the infinite consciousness

that is available to all people, but through the five senses

is delineating, keeping us trapped in a material plane.

We think reality is what we can apportion through

the limited instruments of the senses, but reality is,

of course, far beyond that.

Spiritual data, we don't have the correct instruments to receive it,

and we live primarily in the realm of the senses.

Anything, that we describe through science, we're describing

through the prism of the five limited senses.

Our eyes can only see between infrared light

and ultraviolet light, there's light bouncing around everywhere.

Our ears can only hear a tiny decibel range,

can't hear the noise of a dog whistle, can't hear any high-pitched frequency sounds.

Isn't it likely than that there are other vibrations,

frequencies, energies, consciousness, moving through the universe?

consciousness is an amorphous and expanding entity.

I think that we allow our consciousness to be prohibited by our senses,

prescribed by our senses, living in the realm of these

five apertures into our reality, but reality is limitless.

Space is infinite, time eternal.

For Yoga, one can only temporarily break

the bonds that chain us to the mundane;

the mondiale; that which is or the earth.

and we can temporarily at least receive a taste of the infinite.

Now don't get to cosmic about it,

but we are just this sort of temporary blob of atoms,

endowed with consciousness, for the merest moment, in infinite space...

Meditation and Yoga, these are fundamental parts of my life.

I think it's difficult these days with religion getting

such a rough ride: the Pope resigning, bloody terrorism and nonsense.

It's difficult to find access to spirituality,

but we are by our nature, spiritual people.

If we don't have access to spirituality we suffer as individuals and the society suffers.

- We need to recognize at some point within ourselves, there's a....

there's an infinite capacity for connection for all things...

- Well I love the fact that you've described it that

you have a daily access to unseen realms of power.

- Daily access to unseen realms of power. Not just me, everyone has the access...

For me, what I've discovered is that transcendental meditation

is useful to me not because of a unique set of circumstances.

Not because of my formally secret brilliance. No. But because I am a human being.

And it's applicable to all human beings.

And what's really good about that, is literally everyone in this room is one.

Well I say is that we're basically alright human beings.

Whenever there's a disaster or an accident,

peoples impulse is to help one another.

So I'm thinking, anyone that galvanizes people

brings people together and points us to

the better aspects of our nature and help us

to overcome our basic things like fear and desire

I think these people are worthy heroes

rather than the heroes that nominated today

heroes that are low vibration frequencies

that make us concentrate on daft stuff

They want you to be talking about Justin Bieber

They want you to be talking about Twerking

And they don't want you to be talking about freekin'

They want you to be talking about Twerking

They wanna get you to shut your #**#en mouth

and watch these $#|+en #**#en morons

and I know, because I've been part of this charade

but you know, I'm awake now!

- Open it up
- Go beyond the superficial

That's the problem of current affairs

You forget about what's important

You allow the agenda to be decided by superficial information

What am I saying, what am I talking about

don't think about what I'm wearing

these things are a redundancy and superficial

And I don't think that we should be continuing

to propagate the idea that famous people

are magical and special cuz it makes people

feel that their lives ain't no good

And I don't think that we should be living

in that kind of fearful paradigm

I'm like a vegetarian, I believe we're all equal

I ain't got a right to kill

say a fly comes into my house

I tolerate that little @$$hole

(laughter)

cuz I feel it's just a fly,

it's just on its journey here through life

Then I'm meditating or praying

I say the infinite creative force

that brings in to being... all phenomenon

and guides all life, I say can you move through me?

I mean, things that actually work

you sort of treat them, you sort of shirk them off

As if like, ... you owe them mony

And O I've got to avoid... Yoga and meditation

They've been portrait quite brilliantly

by the mainstream as sort of somehow

Luxury... but they're ain't luxury

or artificial or superficial.

It's absolutely integral, It's absolutely

the most authentic thing, more real than any of us

If they feel happy, they're happy

they don't need it

If there's not a problem

there's not a problem

But I think if people have some sort of

Yearning or a dissatisfaction or some

itchy irritability then..

it might be because they're not looking in

the right direction for a solution

and that they should look within and that

within them there is a limitless

infinite capacity for blissful connection

to live things

You cannot define yourself in refference to

other external coordinates, you must define

yourself internally with your relationship

with a higher entity

think of yourself as a manifestation of

some higher thing, some higher frequency

this is the visible realization and you know that

because you can't see atoms, can you?

And you certainly can't see

the forces that hold atoms together

There, in the micro quantum world, Richard

lie the answers to everything

We can't understand it with our logical rational minds

but we feel it intuitively

Get yourself in alignment with that stuff

and you'll beam like the sun

The dead human ape has fulfilled its potential

The dead human ape has not evolved

for the last 10,000 years

These are the achievements of the dead human ape

Now we must transform, become enlightened

so we can access the next realm of consciousness

necessary for our evolution

so I think we elect to ignore the spiritual

our own causes of deficit

for ourselves and our culture and for our planet

I think that we're too easy to identify

ourselves as individuals, that idea is fortified daily

through, as we said before

the stimulation of primal desires

that which anchor us to the self

and we ignore that we're here for such a short while

that we're all basically the same as one another

we're all connected to each other

and we have a collective responsibility

God is not something that's about

thinking you're better than someone

or a reason to have a war with someone

it's what within us, beneath and beyond our

identity as human beings,

driven by fear and desire, defined by the realm of

the senses and the material self which is transitory

There is a divine self

that is connected to all living things

but it is a part of an infinite source of creativity

you could probably describe that using

quantum physics or science if you want

I choose to believe in god

because I think, what that is,

is the recognition that there is divine

beauty in all of us

and if we prioritize that over our own

selfish material needs,

then we will naturally create

a culture more in harmony with our planet

and we'll have a chance.

I think it's one of the great sadnesses of

our modern life because of our disfranchisement

and disillusionment with religion

that we don't have access to these ideas

And Yoga and meditation for me is a way

in the secular world of

accessing very very beautiful principles that'll

perhaps make us happier at a time

when people feel disillusioned with the economy,

concerned about the ecology,

worried with politicians,

don't trust what their being told on television,

you got to let go of temporary transient ideas

like individualism,

the nature of the monotheistic faiths,

these dead desert religions, is to encode us with

the idea that individualism is more important than paganism

Ideologies that integrally relate us to the earth

so that we know that we are integrally

indefatigably, related to our environment

and we live in the service of our environment

because self is a temporal illusion

The first element of truth is oneness

that this is a temporary illusion

that we temporarily occupy these flesh puppets

we believe so much in our identities

we believe in our individualism

and I talk cuz I'm very so egotistical man

look at my hair

look at these braclets

look at these ridiculous boots

I'm a person who believes in the nature of

of my own individualism and my own identity

but on a deeper level, I recognize that

all these things are transient

and what's more important and more defining

are the things that we all share

love, unity, togetherness

as long as we have a cultural narrative

that shoo these ideas that oppress these ideas

in favor of negative human traits,

greed, selfishness, lust

as long as these ideas are promoted

we will exist in opposition to one another

and we'll be exploitable by corporations

that prey upon these negative facets of humanity

the line between good and evil runs

not between cultures, religions or creeds

but from every human heart

so I'm recognizing myself with the capacity

for selfishness, for lustfullness

for egotism, and because

I recognize these qualities in myself

I will prefer a culture that didn't

celebrate, exacerbate, stimulate the most

negative aspect of our species

inculcate them, reward them financially,

till we get to a kind of a cultural hysteria

where we're destroying the planet

The reality is, there is one planet

there is a certain amount of people on the planet

there is a certain amount of resources on the planet

none of them things are gonna last for ever

so we need systems in place that acknowledge the reality

not systems that benefit elites

but systems that acknowledge the reality

people need to have access to the resources

you can't lie to people so that people in power

can continue to augment and grow

their own power and satisfaction

while normal people are exploited
(applause)

we need systems that get the resources to

the people while respecting the planet

any systems that are detrimental to the planet

are detrimental to the people

because it helps one or two budz

f**# it off, we're allowed to do that you know?

we are creatures of the planet

we are mammals, look at the faces of the people

that we've been asked to vote for as leaders

look at them, look at them,

feel it in your hearts,

that ain't who's meant tobe leading us

Happiness cannot forever be sustained

like some glistening borball

It's a transitory thing, like a butterfly

alighting on snow white's finger

in that bit of snow white

so.. like.. you know, I'm happy mostly

I'm happy mostly when I'm being nice

to other people, then I'm happy

you know, when they analyse the semantics

consistently through mythology and theology

of words like love, god

they find that the common theme, John,

is union, that we just want to be connected

to something higher

that can be another person

that could be god

that could be a relationship with nature

that could even be a relationship with West Ham United

I think the important thing is to have this

central tenant of your being,

love, compassion and tolerance

everyone knows that

you know, like the realization that this is

only a very temporary thing,

that the only thing that matters

to any of us is love

that everything underscoring everything is love

you know if it's a biological and anatomical

human condition, the idea of acquasition

and the survival of the species, then that

2% that distinguishes us from the great ape

somewhere within that is that divine spark

that philosophers have always espoused upon

and written about, that some were within

that is the truth that we're trying to head towards

what it felt to me was like, that this

illusion of my idea of myself like

I felt like, separateness evaporated

I felt this tremendous sense of oneness..

I find it, I'm quite an erratic thinker

quite an adrenalized person

and through meditation,

I felt this absolute beautiful serenity

and a selfless connection,

you know, my sort of tendencies towards selfishness

I felt kind of exposed,

as a superficial and pointless perspective to have

I felt a very relaxed sense of oneness

I felt love

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but basically carry on doing what your doing

being happy in your hearts