(do I understand you right Bob, when you say that they're many misconceptions,but if we really work on these three,we pretty well covered..)
Covered the misconceptions,yes--all the others,some synonyms or another statement of these. That is the best I could come up with after observing and gathering out some 300 or so of them on paper. I think I could reduce them all of those to these three fundamentals
That I'm not a victim
That what anybody, including self, is doing ever has done or ever will do--at the moment of doing was felt to be right, or proper, or justifiable with what light they had.
That I have no 'rights' which I unconsciously want to stick up for. I have only privileges which I would like to enhance and get more. Further the only thing that can't be taken away is Truth which in fact is 'what is' at this moment
Monday, November 8, 2010
prayer
Holy Spirit
Giving life to all life
root of all creatures
moving all things
healing our wounds
wiping out our mistakes
you are our true life
luminous, wonderful
awakening the heart
from its ancient sleep
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Good morning raising
I can turn my attention outwardly. When we turn our attention outwardly, we can begin to put forth a bit of effort to make all those other people out there feel a wee bit better. If everbody in this room is feeling real good, it's pretty nice, is that right? I'd have a hard time saying 'aaahhh' if everybody in here is feeling good, because a good mood is highly contagious, just like feeling grumpy is.
Now if you are in a room full of' grumpy' people, you'll find that it's a little difficult to raise the mood level, but at that moment I can decide that I have the conscious ability to raise the mood--none of the rest of the people are being conscious if they're going to keep their mood down.
So consciously I can raise the mood for the whole room. But even unconsciously -if you begin to raise the mood, a whole room full can raise those other few people. So if the world is not like you want it today; and I do read lots of things that I think most people have decided the world is going to Hades in a hand, thereby picturing an illusion that they are worse off.
So let's raise the mood to see how far I can reach out. Now I know a few people. You know a few people. Everybody else knows a few people, and if every one of us was in the mood raising business today, and that's a pretty good business to be in, I wonder how far out it go and what effect it would have? It doesn't sound like much; but if were just raising the mood a notch of everybody you came in contact with today, enough of it is going to run over, then they, possibly, will raise the mood a little bit of the next person they meet. Can you see that it wouldn't take too long for it to cover the whole world? Where does it start, with two or three people raising the mood?
Now you can do it whether you're running a business, or whether you work for someone else or even if you're staying home by yourself. Wherever you are, it's nicer if the mood is up, even if your home by yourself, have you ever tried that? It's an interesting experiment of value.
If you're driving in your car on the street, isn't it nicer to have your mood up? than it is wondering where that 'plough jockey' came from. That guy must have got his license in a crap game, blap blap blap. What are they all doing out here on the road. Don't they know it is my road, and here they are on it? You know, you can scream and holler all you want to, but you can sit there and have a good time watching everybody make things important. That is kind of interesting and you can think of it as entertainment. They all have clown suits on.
I have found that the favorite indoor sports of people is to make about everything important, no matter what it is.
Now I think it's a great big lot of fun to sit around and watch people make things important. A man called me from LA the other day and said,"I finally caught on to something, and I'm saving a lot of money.' "I used to go to the movies all the time to see a show." "Now I just go to stop on any corner, and there's a far better one going on, much better show going on with no admission fee."
So I don't know if that's good for the movie industry, but it was good for him. So here he was just having a ball because you can sit anywhere, and if you do look at a movie, you see what makes it a story is that practically all the people in it are making every insignificant thing important, and they have one person called the 'hero' or 'heroine' comes along and kind of sees through the whole show and gets it around to not making it important. Just more and more people make more and more and more things important, and it is funny! That alone can get your mood up if you are objective about it.
Now if you are in a room full of' grumpy' people, you'll find that it's a little difficult to raise the mood level, but at that moment I can decide that I have the conscious ability to raise the mood--none of the rest of the people are being conscious if they're going to keep their mood down.
So consciously I can raise the mood for the whole room. But even unconsciously -if you begin to raise the mood, a whole room full can raise those other few people. So if the world is not like you want it today; and I do read lots of things that I think most people have decided the world is going to Hades in a hand, thereby picturing an illusion that they are worse off.
So let's raise the mood to see how far I can reach out. Now I know a few people. You know a few people. Everybody else knows a few people, and if every one of us was in the mood raising business today, and that's a pretty good business to be in, I wonder how far out it go and what effect it would have? It doesn't sound like much; but if were just raising the mood a notch of everybody you came in contact with today, enough of it is going to run over, then they, possibly, will raise the mood a little bit of the next person they meet. Can you see that it wouldn't take too long for it to cover the whole world? Where does it start, with two or three people raising the mood?
Now you can do it whether you're running a business, or whether you work for someone else or even if you're staying home by yourself. Wherever you are, it's nicer if the mood is up, even if your home by yourself, have you ever tried that? It's an interesting experiment of value.
If you're driving in your car on the street, isn't it nicer to have your mood up? than it is wondering where that 'plough jockey' came from. That guy must have got his license in a crap game, blap blap blap. What are they all doing out here on the road. Don't they know it is my road, and here they are on it? You know, you can scream and holler all you want to, but you can sit there and have a good time watching everybody make things important. That is kind of interesting and you can think of it as entertainment. They all have clown suits on.
I have found that the favorite indoor sports of people is to make about everything important, no matter what it is.
Now I think it's a great big lot of fun to sit around and watch people make things important. A man called me from LA the other day and said,"I finally caught on to something, and I'm saving a lot of money.' "I used to go to the movies all the time to see a show." "Now I just go to stop on any corner, and there's a far better one going on, much better show going on with no admission fee."
So I don't know if that's good for the movie industry, but it was good for him. So here he was just having a ball because you can sit anywhere, and if you do look at a movie, you see what makes it a story is that practically all the people in it are making every insignificant thing important, and they have one person called the 'hero' or 'heroine' comes along and kind of sees through the whole show and gets it around to not making it important. Just more and more people make more and more and more things important, and it is funny! That alone can get your mood up if you are objective about it.
Rehabiting Tape 145
(Yesterday you talked about the phrase to rehabit. Could you talk about that)
Rehabit, so that's what we've been talking about. That we have a habit of looking at everything through a screen of 'what ought to be', 'what everything's needing'.
Now if your working with a person who is doing that, which happens to be 100 percent of the people, you put it in the terms that the person could understand. It's slow in degree and as simple a picture as you can get it down to until a person looks at things in a different way.
Nobody will change as long as they look at things the same way. So what your really working at is the person-not necessarily the technical frame of reference, but in their living frame of reference is for them to see differently. You don't do this in one fell swoop or one big blast, you do it by degrees according to the persons attention span and at best it's only about 30 minutes. And the person might see that they don't know what ought to be. They don't know what they need. Now all the old ideas are there and they are to be looked by degrees-slowly-and the better pictures and examples and for instances you can have, the better. And slowly the person develops a new frame of reference which means it's a new habit. Now to rehabilitate anyone means to go from the habits you did that was not satisfactory to the person and possibly everyone around them. So it's a new habit of looking at things.
Now if you have a habit of looking at yourself as a miserable bum, and the last few hours you've been looking at yourself as a pretty wonderful person, huh? Now that's rehabilitation, is it not. Pretty soon you won't have to think about having to do it, that's rehabiting. You're reminded quite frequently that you're about about to fall into the old one that you're a 'bum'. But you wake up and look at it in a different way, with a different set of words.
Now you can rehabit the way you see everybody else, ok? And the way you see housework, and the way you see teaching, and the way you see the students you work with. Every bit of it is rehabilitation. And all rehabilitation means that I see differently.
Now as long as I see the same old way, and seeing is not as accurate as people think. We see through the screens we have in front of us, quite often. So we think we're seeing it like it is, but there is many more ways to see it. Until a person has established another way of seeing, there is no rehabilitation, ok?
The man who commits a crime sees society as his enemy. He sees it as justified to take other people's property or injure their persons. As long as he sees them as a threat, it's pretty easy to justify it, isn't it?
Now if he should no longer see those people as a threat, or that people were a threat in general, he wouldn't see that crime is justifiable. So the only way he's going to be rehabilitated is if he sees differently. And the only way that's going to change is that they look at the fundamentals through which they look at things a little bit.
Rehabit, so that's what we've been talking about. That we have a habit of looking at everything through a screen of 'what ought to be', 'what everything's needing'.
Now if your working with a person who is doing that, which happens to be 100 percent of the people, you put it in the terms that the person could understand. It's slow in degree and as simple a picture as you can get it down to until a person looks at things in a different way.
Nobody will change as long as they look at things the same way. So what your really working at is the person-not necessarily the technical frame of reference, but in their living frame of reference is for them to see differently. You don't do this in one fell swoop or one big blast, you do it by degrees according to the persons attention span and at best it's only about 30 minutes. And the person might see that they don't know what ought to be. They don't know what they need. Now all the old ideas are there and they are to be looked by degrees-slowly-and the better pictures and examples and for instances you can have, the better. And slowly the person develops a new frame of reference which means it's a new habit. Now to rehabilitate anyone means to go from the habits you did that was not satisfactory to the person and possibly everyone around them. So it's a new habit of looking at things.
Now if you have a habit of looking at yourself as a miserable bum, and the last few hours you've been looking at yourself as a pretty wonderful person, huh? Now that's rehabilitation, is it not. Pretty soon you won't have to think about having to do it, that's rehabiting. You're reminded quite frequently that you're about about to fall into the old one that you're a 'bum'. But you wake up and look at it in a different way, with a different set of words.
Now you can rehabit the way you see everybody else, ok? And the way you see housework, and the way you see teaching, and the way you see the students you work with. Every bit of it is rehabilitation. And all rehabilitation means that I see differently.
Now as long as I see the same old way, and seeing is not as accurate as people think. We see through the screens we have in front of us, quite often. So we think we're seeing it like it is, but there is many more ways to see it. Until a person has established another way of seeing, there is no rehabilitation, ok?
The man who commits a crime sees society as his enemy. He sees it as justified to take other people's property or injure their persons. As long as he sees them as a threat, it's pretty easy to justify it, isn't it?
Now if he should no longer see those people as a threat, or that people were a threat in general, he wouldn't see that crime is justifiable. So the only way he's going to be rehabilitated is if he sees differently. And the only way that's going to change is that they look at the fundamentals through which they look at things a little bit.
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