{"id":2419,"date":"2018-05-02T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:20:30","slug":"i-will-turn-the-lights-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/i-will-turn-the-lights-on\/","title":{"rendered":"I will turn the lights on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody wrote to me recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am trying to balance receiving guidance with the actual putting it into practice, and I admit that I sometimes fall into intellectual fascination for these discussions and I moreover need to put my ego aside and really listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can always escape from all complexity and from the ego by making yourself conscious, by leaving the lost-in-thoughts state.    It&#8217;s the simplest thing in the world.  It&#8217;s like turning the lights on.  Anything that happens when the lights are on, is beneficial.  You don&#8217;t have to care what is happening under the lights.  The fact that the lights are on is all that matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will turn the lights on<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turn them on and <em>keep<\/em> them on.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me, believe <a href=\"https:\/\/realization.org\/p\/annamalai-swami\/annamalai-swami.html\">Annamalai Swami<\/a>.  He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You stumble around in the darkness of your mind, not knowing that you have a torch in your hand. That light is the light of the Self. Switch it on and leave it on and you will never stumble again.  (From <a href=\"\/wordpress\/free-copy-of-annamalai-swami-final-talks\/\"><em>Annamalai Swami: Final Talks<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody wrote to me recently: I am trying to balance receiving guidance with the actual putting it into practice, and I admit that I sometimes fall into intellectual fascination for these discussions and I moreover need to put my ego aside and really listen. I replied: You can always escape from all complexity and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YVpx-D1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}