'The Practice' - The Skill of Public Speaking and Teaching

From experience.

The more I practice, the better I get.

Lack of practice means the ability is lost.

Not completely. I now know I have the capability to do it well. Confidence means a lot.

But renewed practice is needed to bring it back to the place where the people believe I'm a natural.

Public speaking will get better and easier. And I'll be treated with greater respect the better I hone my skill, publicly.

But it has no power to influence anyone or change their minds any more than if I were mute and had never practiced. I cannot change someone's mind no matter how brilliant my idea and public speaking skill. I can only change my own mind if I so choose.

All a brilliant public speaker can do is teach me the language I need to avoid my own personal transformation. The doctrines which make me feel better about my self induced suffering. Help me to blame others for my own complicity. All they can do is to help me 'escape'.

That is all.

It's identical with prayer - for all that's worth, and meditation. Practice. All it can do is remind me I am complicit or help me escape from that knowing. It cannot change my mind. Nor anyone who's listening to my brilliant speaking.

I cannot perfect it. I can never 'arrive'. I can never see or go deeper with anything any more than anyone else.

If I say say I've followed the white rabbit or taken the red pill I've merely moved up a level in the game of illusory thought without being aware of it. Which gives me a more intense cosy resting place. A more certain escape.

An escape from the never ending 'practice'. By escaping I believe I've bought a psychic rental stream in perpetuity - I believe I've capitalised an unearned knowledge and bought it wholesale and have moved onto a higher plane forever.

The Practice, is never ending. I cannot get closer to heaven. It is not a place I can get to. I will not sit next to God by teaching people about how to save the world with my eloquectly and finely honed speaking.

But I must keep practicing.

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