LEARN ENGLISH Jim Carrey Life doesnt happen to you it happens for you with BIG subtitles
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Thank You Bevin thank you all
Jai Gurudev
I brought one of my paintings to show
you today I hope you guys are gonna be
able to see it okay
it’s not one of my bigger pieces so you
might want to move down front get a good
look at it
faculty parents friends dignified guests
graduating class of 2014
and all the dead baseball players coming
out of the corn to be with us today
after the harbor’s there’s no place for
them to hide fields are empty
there’s no cover there I’m here to plant
a seed today a seed that will inspire
you to move forward in life with
enthusiastic hearts and a clear sense of
wholeness the question is will that seed
have a chance to take root or will I be
sued by Monsanto and forced to use their
seed
which may not be totally Ayurvedic
excuse me if I seem a little bit
low-energy tonight today whatever this
is I slept with my head to the north
last night oh man oh man you know how
that is right kids
yeah woke up right in the middle of
Pitta couldn’t get back to sleep till
bottle rolled around
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but I didn’t freak out you know I used
that time to eat a large meal connect
with someone special on tinder because
life doesn’t happen to you
it happens for you how do I know this I
don’t but I’m making sound and that’s
the important thing that’s what I’m here
to do
sometimes I think that’s the only thing
that’s important really you know it’s
just letting each other know we’re here
reminding each other that we’re part of
a larger self I used to think Jim Carrey
is all that I was just a flickering
light a dancing shadow
the great nothing masquerading is
something you can name seeking shelter
in caves and foxholes dug out hastily an
archer searching for his target in the
mirror wounded only by my own arrows
begging to be enslaved pleading for my
chains blinded by longing and tripping
over paradise
man
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you didn’t think it could be serious did
you I don’t think you understand who
you’re dealing with
I have no limits
I cannot be contained because I’m the
container
you can’t contain the container man you
can’t contain the container I used to
believe that who I was ended at the edge
of my skin that I had been given this
little vehicle called a body from which
to experience creation and though I
couldn’t have asked for a sporty or
model it was after all a loner and would
have to be returned then I learned that
everything outside the vehicle was part
of me too and now I Drive a convertible
top down win to my hair
whoo I am elated and truly truly truly
excited to be present and fully
connected to you at this important
moment in your journey I hope you’re
ready to open the roof and take it all
in okay four more years then they’re
obviously not ready it’s needs more
cutting now I want to thank the trustees
the administrators the faculty of M um
for creating an institution worthy of
maharishi’s ideals of education a place
that teaches knowledge and experience
the knowledge and experience necessary
to be productive in life as well as
enabling the students through
Transcendental Meditation and ancient
Vedic knowledge to slack off twice a day
for an hour to half
don’t think you’re fooling me but I
guess it has some benefits it does allow
you to separate who you truly are and
what’s real from the stories that run
through your head you have given them
that them the ability to walk behind the
minds elaborate set decoration and to
see that there’s a huge difference
between a dog that is going to eat you
in your mind and an actual dog that is
going to eat you
that may sound like no big deal but many
never learn that distinction and they
spend a great deal of their lives living
in fight-or-flight response I’d like to
acknowledge all of you wonderful parents
way to go you’ve done for your tireless
dedication your love your support most
of all for the attention that you paid
to your children I have a saying beware
the unloved because they will eventually
hurt themselves or me when I look at
this group here you know I feel really
safe I do I’m just gonna say it my room
is not locked my room is not locked no
doubt some of you will turn out to be
crooks but white-collar stuff you know
Wall Street that type of thing you know
crimes committed by people with
self-esteem
stuff parents can still be proud of in a
weird wet into the graduating class of
2017
- three you didn’t let me finish
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congratulations yes give yourself a
round of applause please
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you are the vanguard of knowledge and
consciousness a new wave in a vast ocean
of possibilities on the other side of
that door there’s a world starving for
new ideas new leadership I’ve been out
there for 30 years she’s a wildcat
she’ll rub up against your leg and purr
until you pick her up and start petting
her and then out of nowhere she’ll slap
you in the face it can be rough out
there but that’s okay because there’s
soft-serve ice cream with sprinkles I
guess that’s what I’m really trying to
say here today sometimes it’s okay to
eat your feelings now fear is going to
be a player in your life but you get to
decide how much you can spend your whole
life imagining ghosts worrying about the
pathway to the future but all there will
ever be is what’s happening here in the
decisions we make in this moment which
are based in either love or fear so many
of us choose our path out of fear
disguised as practicality what we really
want seems impossibly out of reach and
ridiculous to expect so we never dare to
ask the universe for it I’m saying I’m
the proof that you can ask the universe
for it
and if it doesn’t happen for you right
away it’s only because the universe is
so busy fulfilling my order
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party-size my father could have been a
great comedian but he didn’t believe
that that was possible for him and so he
made a conservative choice instead he
got a safe job as an accountant and when
I was 12 years old he was let go from
that safe job and our family had to do
whatever we could to survive I learned
many great lessons from my father not
the least of which was that you can fail
at what you don’t want so you might as
well take a chance on doing what you
love
it’s not the only thing he taught me
though you know I watched the effect of
my father’s love and humor and how it
altered the world around me and I
thought that’s something to do that’s
something worth my time it wasn’t long
before I started acting up you know
people would come over to the house and
they’d be greeted by a seven-year-old
throwing himself down a large flight of
stairs they would say what happened and
I would say I don’t know let’s check the
replay I’d go back to the top of the
stairs and come back down in slow motion
it was a very strange household my
father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham
I was the whole pig and he treated my
talent as if it was his second chance
when I was about 28 after a decade as a
professional comedian I realized one
night in LA that the purpose of my life
had always been to free people from
concern just like my dad
and when I realized this I dubbed my new
devotion the Church of freedom from
concern the Church of FFC
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and I dedicated myself to that ministry
what’s yours
how will you serve the world what do
they need that your talent can provide
that’s all you have to figure out as
someone who’s done what you’re about to
go and do I can tell you from experience
the effect you have on others is the
most valuable currency there is
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because everything you gain in life will
rot and fall apart and all that would be
left of you is what was in your heart am
i choosing to free people am i choosing
to free people from concern got me to
the top of a mountain look where I am
look what I get to do everywhere I go
look this I’m gonna get emotional
because when I tap into this it really
is extraordinary to me I did something
that made people present their best
selves to me wherever I go
[Music]
I am at the top of the mountain and I
was and I the only the only one I hadn’t
freed was myself and that’s when my
search for identity deepened I wondered
who I’d be without my fame who would I
be if I said things that people didn’t
want to hear or if I defied their
expectations of me what if I showed up
to the party without my Mardi Gras bat
mask and refused to flash my breasts for
a handful of beans I’ll give you a
moment to wipe that image out of your
mind but you guys are so ahead of the
game you will already know who you are
and that piece that piece that we’re
after lies somewhere beyond personality
beyond the perception of others beyond
invention and disguise even beyond
effort itself you can join the game
fight the wars play with form all you
want but to find real peace you have to
let the armor go your need for
acceptance can make you invisible in
this world don’t let anything stand in
the way of the light that shines through
this form risk being seen in all of your
glory
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it’s not big enough this painting is big
for a reason it’s called high visibility
it’s about picking up the light and
daring to be seen here’s the tricky part
everyone is attracted to the light the
party hosts up at the top who thinks
unconsciousness is bliss and is always
offering to drink from the bottles that
empty you misery below her despises the
light can’t stand when you’re doing well
wishes you nothing but the worst the
queen of diamonds under him needs a king
to build her house of cards and the
hollow one down bottom there will cling
to your leg and say please don’t leave
me behind
for I have abandoned myself even those
who are closest to you and most in love
with you the people you love most in the
world will find clarity confronting at
times this painting took me thousands of
hours to complete and when I was
finished thank you thousands of hours
yes I’ll never get him back
I’ll never get them back I was I worked
on this for so long I was weeks and
weeks like the madman alone on a
scaffolding and when I was finished one
of my friends said this would be a cool
black light painting so I started over
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welcome to Burning Man
some pretty crazy characters up there
but better up there than in here you
know painting is one of the ways thank
you
painting is one of the ways I free
myself from concern a way to stop the
world through total mental spiritual and
physical involvement but even with that
comes a feeling of divine
dissatisfaction because ultimately we’re
not the avatars we create we’re not the
pictures on the film stock we are the
light that shines through all else is
just smoke and mirrors distracting but
not truly compelling I’ve often said
that I wished people could realize all
their dreams and wealth and fame and so
that they could see that it’s not where
you’re going to find your sense of
completion like many of you I was
concerned about going out into the world
and doing something bigger than myself
until someone smarter than myself made
me realize that there is nothing bigger
than myself
my soul is not contained within the
limits of my body my body is contained
within the limitlessness of my soul one
unified field
one unified field of nothing dancing for
no particular reason except maybe to
comfort and entertain itself
as that shift happens in you you won’t
be feeling the world he’d be felt by it
you’ll be embraced by it now I’m always
at the beginning I have a reset button
and I ride that button constantly
once that button is functioning in your
life there’s no story that the mind
could create that will be as compelling
the imagination is always manufacturing
scenarios both good and bad and the ego
tries to keep you trapped in the
multiplex of the mind
our eyes are not viewers they are also
projectors that are running a second
story over the picture that we see in
front of us all the time
fear is writing that script and the
working title is I’ll never be enough
hey you gonna look at a person like me
and say how could we ever hope to reach
those kind of heights Jim how can we
make a painting that’s too big from our
home how do you fly so high without a
special breathing apparatus this is the
voice of the ego and if you listen to it
there will always be someone who’s doing
better than you no matter what you gain
ego will not let you rest
it will tell you that you cannot stop
until you’ve left an indelible mark on
the earth until you’ve achieved
immortality how tricky is this ego that
it would tempt us with the promise of
something we already possess
so I just want you to relax you know
that’s my job
relax and dream up a good life I had a
substitute teacher from Ireland in the
second grade that told my class during
morning prayer that when she wants
something anything at all she prays for
it and promises something in return and
she always gets what she wants I’m
sitting at the back of the classroom you
know thinking wow my family can’t afford
a bike you know so I went home and I
prayed for him and I promised I would
recite the rosary every night in
exchange broke it broke that promise but
two weeks later I got home from school
to find a brand-new Mustang bike with a
banana seat and Easy Rider handlebars
yeah
from fool to cool my family informed me
that I had won the bike in a raffle that
a friend of mine had entered my name in
without any of my knowledge whatsoever
so that type of thing has been happening
to me ever since as far as I can tell
it’s just about letting the universe
know what you want and working toward it
while letting go of how it comes to pass
your job is not to figure out how it’s
going to happen for you but to open the
door in your head and when the door
opens in real life just walk through it
and don’t worry if you miss your cue
because there’s always doors opening
they keep opening and when I say life
doesn’t happen to you it happens for you
I really don’t know if that’s true I’m
just making a conscious choice to
perceive challenges as something
beneficial so that I can deal with them
in the most productive way you’ll come
up with your own style that’s part of
the fun oh and why not take a chance on
faith as well
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take a chance on faith not religion but
faith not hope but faith I don’t believe
in hope
hope is the beggar hope walks through
the fire and faith leaps over it
you are ready and able to do beautiful
things in this world and after you walk
through those doors today you will only
ever have two choices love or fear
choose love and don’t ever let fear turn
you against your playful heart thank you
so much