See the joke part 2

In case you didn't have it strong enough. You increase it's intensity until you're in a terrific amount of conflict, struggle, and resistance. We say when we make anything important I am anxious. And if you make it important to achieve your ideal what state are you in sir? (anxiety). And anxiety is conflict, struggle, resistance. And then are you a 'good' person or in all probability are you a bit vicious? Tell me about it sir, huh? (You get vicious. )You scream at the kids and scream at the old man, you're vicious then.
(That's right.) You gritch about the neighbors up and down the street and the way they carry on, the way the husband behaves, the way the boss behaves, the way the money is, and the whole country has gone to pot. (that's not vicious that's righteous indignation -laughs) It gives you ulcers, yes I know.
 Anything that brings about violence between human beings is vicious. And as long as I have an ideal, will I be vicious? And the more ideals I pile up on top of ideals, inventions of man, what more,
will I be more and more vicious until I start world wars, is that right? Aren't all wars started over ideals sir? Aren't all conflicts started between you and another person over an ideal? (yes)
Do you see the joke in it?
Deliberately we do something to put ourselves into terrific agonizing misery and never allow the higher mind to develop and express within us, is that right? But do you see that. Do you see the joke in carrying an ideal around.

See the joke

The fact is that still the higher the ideal you set up for somebody to live to the bigger the threat they've got, is that right sir? Because there's more threats to the ideal, more things that might bug him.
Now, what's wrong with experiencing being conscious of this world? Now I have found one interesting phenomena. A person with peace of mind is non vicious, you know, what you would call criminal. That's being vicious. I have found people with peace of mind peaceful to live with. I have found people in conflict, struggle and resistance, now matter how good they're trying to be, to be quite vicious. Have you possibly seen that in your line of work sir? (yes.Hmm? yes) So now are we interested in being good or being conscious? If you are conscious you obviously are  not in conflict, struggle, or resistance. You have peace of mind, hmm? You see being good or being kind and considerate is a by product of being conscious not a destination. It's a by product of peace of mind. We have peace of mind when we see the truth. Now it is peculiar that seeing the truth is being able to see a certain joke.  To see the truth is to see the joke.
When we see the fallacy or the joke in setting ideals, we have seen the truth, because then we ceased to be in a state of conflict, struggle, and resistance. We have seen the joke of the ideal. Now somebody's always layin' one on us, you know, you know what that means don't you? somebody laid one on you,they tie you up. So we get an ideal and we start livin' with it and we don't realize that that is the source of all our difficulty. Now the first ideal that we set up is this first little decision that the whole purpose of living is to be non disturbed by gaining pleasure and escaping pain on all levels. Then other people come along and accentuate that. 
(to be continued)

What is and what ought to be / agape

    So here is this stairway to the skies, that everybody is tryin' to get and it's struggle,conflict, and resistance. Now that's all because we made it important to have things like they ought to be and here is the only problem that any of us run in to. Now we get all kinds of emotions when we have these, those equal anger, guilt, fear, insecurity, now those all come along when we are trying to do the impossible. You can call all of them frustration if you want to, anxiety, whatever pretty word you like. Whenever you are trying to do the impossible, say just a simple thing like stand up and sit down at the same time, huh?You can't do that, is that right?You can't do it.  You can't deal with what is and you can't change it into a fantasy without being frustrated, and being in some sort of state of unpleasant emotion that a human being wasn't designed to have, anger guilt fear,insecurity,frustrations,anxiety and so forth you simply can't have. Now anything that's real I can do anything I want to with it. To some degree I can change it. I can paint the house green, I can tear down a wall, I can put in  a wall, I can tear the whole thing down or whatever, but I'm still dealing with what is but I can't deal with what ought to be and what should be. This is where we all start, I know what ought to be, I know what should be, I know what needs to be straightened up, and that of course is an illusion of the first water because we don't know what ought to be. We don't when it should rain, when it couldn't rain, whether it blows a storm or it shouldn't blow a storm, whether somebody should come along and say certain things to me, or whether certain events should happen in my existence, we don't know that. We don't know that other ought to do anything different than what they're doin'. Basically everybody is doing what they feel is right, proper, and justifiable with what light they have, and that's all we can deal with. Now we don't have to be in a state of conflict, struggle, and resistance at all times. The fact that most people are doesn't prove that it's necessary. It only says that without sufficient light this is what people are all doing. Now, uh, how many of you have really been reminded very many times in your life that you don't know what ought to be? Very few is that right?We never thought of it. We just knew we did, so we never questioned it, that I didn't know what ought to be, is that right.It took a while to get to that point didn't it?You started out in life like all the rest of us. You believed it with all your might that you knew what ought to be and consequently you had a lot of conflict with various and sundry things, and when you don't know what ought to be then you can deal with what is in one way or another or you can ignore it. It'll go away in a few minutes anyway. It only comes to pass anyway.

What and the how /meditation

Life so loves you that it will do anything you so want to do. It'll take care of the how, you take care of deciding what it is, okay? If you want to build a house why it knows how to build a house. If you want to get up and walk across the floor it picks the body up and walks across the floor. You don't know how to walk across the floor do you? You do it everyday, but you don't know, if I was to say,"well, let's stand up right now'  Would you know the first muscles you would tighten up? Just the first ones not the whole sequence, would you know the first ones huh? You wouldn't know. Okay. All you had to do is decide  I'm gonna stand up and a whole multitude of things went up and mechanically engineering impossible you're standing up, because really of all the weegles(?) in it you shouldn't be able to stand up. So our job is to figure out the what and this X, Life, Spirit within takes care of the how. But it refuses to turn the tables and because you wouldn't know how to do anything so it would be useless to tell it, but  mankind is very busy trying to turn the world upside down, it says 'oh lord you tell us what to do and I'll do it' and you haven't the foggiest idea how to stand up, you don't know how to swallow,  you don't even know how to breathe, you certainly don't know how to take a turkey sandwich and turn it in to flesh and blood, but that happens everyday, right? So I will tell you my definition of meditation if you like okay?
Meditation is lookin' at a given situation clearly concisely without emotion, just lookin' at it from all sides, clearly, until you understand it, which might take longer than we generally think it would. You know we all think we understand a thing just like that you know, which we don't. But if we looked at it quietly and carefully we would much more know what to do. And if we ever did come up clearly with the what, X, Spirit, God, whichever word you choose to use Life will take care of the how very quickly.
So I'm very much in favor of meditation if we are meditating on a given subject or thought.