senses vs understanding (part two)

Another thing that says the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a pearl of great price (like unto)-in other words there's a story told about a pearl of great price. A merchant sold all that he had (all that he put value on) in order that he could buy the pearl of great price that he had found somewhere around.
 So what have we put value on? all the senses being gratified at all times, and not only do they want to be gratified, we want to be assured that they will be gratified tomorrow, and the next day and forever. And then we want it not only assured, we want to be guaranteed that that will be-and that all the senses are never going to disturb us and that they're always going to be more than gratified, and ever expanding amount. We don't have to walk on soil or carpet- it has to be gold.
So always the senses have to have more gratification. The pearl of great price is likened unto what man can conceive as the greatest value. When his senses say what is the greatest value, he runs into riches, and he begins to imagine the thing. But if he finds that within himself there is an awareness and a comprehension of this,he/you could dispose of his/your present set of values on having your senses always satisfied. Dr. Lynn says that he's finally learned to eat for nutrition rather than to tickle his senses all the time.

It also says that the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a buried treasure-and it is buried and it is a treasure when we begin to use we don't have to have anybody tell/us you. When you begin to use it you'll know it's a treasure. When you don't use it, you can only experiment and see if you can dig it out. It is within the man behind the clutter and the dirt and the filth of the sensory mind. And all you got to do is scrape off a little of the mud and there's the beautiful chest of gold- It's the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
But don't try that one literally-I've tried that one and it didn't work. It is a buried treasure within man. It is his "soul" if you please. So go to find the use of it and not neglect it and get only living out here in the outer senses.
It is also like a lump of leaven. That a woman buried in three measures of meals-put a small lump of leaven in there until pretty soon the whole three meals was leaven. When you start out with it, it's a little bitty lump, like a point of awareness beginning to see relationships of what's going on - beginning to see it fits this and that and that all this stuff out here that we have made so important is only symbols and there's no reason to be concerned with it except that it gives us something to relate to like the cocoon stage of the butterfly.
So when this begins to be used it leavens the whole three measures including the sensory portion of it. It goes through the whole thing, but you start with it and it goes through the whole three measures or the complete being of the man-the aspects of all of his mind- he cleans it all up.
(how do I do that?)
Look at the picture of man. We've used it quite a long time. But if you put the lump of leaven in there, it brings it all into one after a while. It begins to be used as an understanding rather than the senses and it unifies or integrates or makes one of all the fragmented portions of the mind-also the number 3 is used for individual completeness- so something is complete if it is three.
(would you go over that number three?)
The number three is used quite frequently as a saying all of something in a symbolic language. I do not know why they use three, but it's the same idea of a triangle -that three is the only geometric figure that you can make an enclosure.
Now you probably read this as a mustard seed,but somebody kind of crossed up there-doesn't make any difference what it was except that it said the smallest of all seeds that can be put in the ground grows into a great tree that the birds can nest in the branches and the cows can sleep was in the shade and so forth. The word I got was it was a fig seed. I never saw a mustard plant that a cow could sleep under. I've seen many plants they could eat. A seed grows into something very large-again we start with a tiny point of awareness and not using it for sensory purposes, but to understand-to see relationships,and to comprehend what's going on from a psychological basis rather than to be concerned with whether it's going to make me comfortable or uncomfortable and this extends very quickly into a very large tree-but it has started as soon as you put it in the soil, is that right? And the soil is a little soil of comprehension. So when we put it there and begin to use it, it will begin to grow.

senses vs understanding (part one)

(audience participating in parenthesis)
We can see that the senses report something, but behind that something, there is a reality-a reality of a relationships of a spiritual nature.
So first off, we look around and we sense lovely bodies all over the place. So we say, that is the person. Are you that body?
(seemingly so)
Ok, then seemingly if we go down to the mortician's place this morning, he's probably got a few bodies around there. Is that the person, or does  most everybody agree that that is only a trace-they call it the remains of the person.
So would you say that you are an invisible being inhabiting that body?
(I would, yes)
So you are not the body, you are an invisible being that inhabits the body? Then Spirit is invisible. So you have never seen a person. You have only seen their house. And you attempt to communicate to the person inside the house. Now if I look at you and say I know you-I looked at you and saw this feature, or I don't like you because you remind me of someone who hurt me long ago and I never did like them,I've got you tagged,huh? Now I can't stand you anymore.
So we never stop to know the person. So we're going to talk about the invisible man. So everyone you see is invisible. We have houses (bodies) that we live in and those are visible and we can sense those. But the spirit within the body does much to that. So you're inside the house and this is the one we're going to talk about, not the sensory body. The invisible being in there can destroy that body awfully easy or it can generate it or it can renew it or it can tear it down. That invisible body in there is very very powerful if we but recognize it as a power.
(what do accept for my authority? Is there a way of finding my authority within myself? or what to believe?)
We hope you don't need an authority,but if you do, you will have to get it by experimentation sir,ok? And you cannot experiment with the sensory mind-you will have to experiment with the understanding mind. And with using the understanding mind, you can experiment with it, and I certainly would not want anyone to accept what Bob had to say about it. But possibly it would open the door to run an experiment. So we certainly do not consider ourselves an authority because if you have one authority then you have another one over here on the side anyway. So what difference does it make.  If you said "Well Bob said so and so". And then you went over and talked to Chuck and then you'd say"Well Chuck said so and so." So what are we going to do now? Now we have to go out and find somebody else with an opinion.
So then our reality would only consist of agreement on sensory words, and it would be entirely worthless. This is what most people have accepted as reality is "agreement". And somebody comes a long and disagrees, and you feel like you're falling through space, and you have nothing to hang upon. Agreement is a very poor thing to build one's house upon. The Christ said that was like unto a foolish man that built his house upon sand, and when the winds came, (somebody comes along with an opinion or disapproval or rejection) that's the wind-then the house tore down and great and mighty was the fall thereof.
Another man built his house upon rock and the winds came and rain fell and the house stood because it was built on a rock. A rock signifies truth or a fact, ok? Don't accept what I say, only as a possible experimentation.
(how can I distinguish when I'm experimenting with my sensory mind or my understanding mind?)
Is it a fair question for you, "What am I doing?"
So first off we're going to look at a few of the facts that have been mentioned about integration or the kingdom of heaven. We'll take a few statements we are quite familiar with.
One of those statements is the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now, obviously if something is at hand, it's not far away. The word hand refers to the anatomical little gizmo like this. And everything that is in reach of it in the sensory world would then conceive or have to be heaven-that that could include a person, a thing, or whatever it was in the physical world. So if we use it as a sensory situation, then everything we could touch would have to be heaven-right here at hand.
Then 'at hand' means it's available from a psychological standpoint-it is not something that you can't have-it's not available in the far off future-it's here and now. That's a start on it.
Then of course, we wanted to know where it was-and it's within you and me. Now if it's within you, it's not somewhere outside-then it must relate to the inner state of man.  Generally speaking, if you were hungry, you'd think the kingdom of heaven was in your tummy. It's been related in many places that it will make you comfortable-make you satisfied, be very pleasurable and all these good things.
Many people have made the stomach more or less the sign of the kingdom of heaven because they're very concerned with what goes in it and what doesn't go in it as though it was the very thing that got contaminated. So it's very easy to think that that's all that's within us because if you're going to put some little something in it-that's going to tear it all up. Oh that must be terrible.
So it's within you is your psychology, your inner makeup. We have it but we don't use it. We were talking in our first discussion that we use the sensory mind and we don't use the study of the mind that does the understanding of what the senses use. But it's at hand here right now. And you can beging to experiment with it-don't take my word for it and begin to see everything in the world as a symbol. And you can begin to get an understanding behind it. Then you begin to get a whole lot of doors opened up to you all of the sudden. And you have your own truth-you don't need mine-you don't need anybody else's-you can find it yourself. But you must open that door. It is at hand-right here-we just haven't used it. We've been using the sensory mind to approach everything with.
In answer to your question,do we need information information in running our business? Certainly but don't you also need, in that field, to use your understanding of relationships for more than just sensing. I could walk through your plant and sense every beautiful printing press you have in there. And I could walk over and sense all those piles of paper and inks. But you see the relationship and can turn out beautiful work. So in our everyday affairs, we're apt to use the psychological mind. But when we go to the spiritual affairs where it really matters, we desert it entirely and go back to the senses to take everything literal.
So use that same one that you see relationships in your business with just a little understanding-as a parable, you can see relationship that you put this and this together and stir it up right and throw it in an oven and after a while with a little heat it turns out to be something altogether different.

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Free to experience

Your purpose of living is living.Living includes experiencing freely everything that comes your way today. It includes deciding what you want to do. Take off and go do it. It may not work. Everything's an experiment.Have you run experiments that didn't work?What do you do with it? flush it. And if you got some that work you use them. Is that right? Now we have not thought of this as experimenting, but we've been experimenting with using infantile methods to try and live in a grown up world, is that right? Now you've had a long time to run the experiment, right? it hasn't ever worked yet, I guess it's time to flush it, okay? Just say I'm free to experience whatever may come along today, okay?

Truth

So, if you would like one aspect, one statement of Truth, is that 'x', spirit always does the appropriate thing for the information received from awareness. Now it doesn't matter whether  what you handed in was fact or not, it will do the appropriate thing for it. If you state your threatened when there isn't a threat in a mile, it will handle a threat very beautifully. If you give some other information, it will do that. If you were to pass the word to X that some object in my pocket was red hot, and you held it in your hand you'd find a blister would arise. You've probably experimented with that. And X always did the appropriate thing for the information the person handed in according to the suggestion, right?
When we interpret things, whatever way we interpret, so is it to you. As you see it in your being, so is it unto you. Now we ordinarily see all sorts of things as threats and so we are threatened, now this is truth. Another aspect of saying truth is that whenever I make anything important, I am anxious. Which is another way of saying the same thing because I make it important, therefore it's a threat and X interprets, and does the appropriate thing for the threat.

What am I doing?

You know you get to see what you're really doing it all for. Is that right? We're trying to gain pleasure and escape pain on all levels, and we call that love, we call that religion, we call it many things, but all it is is lust, for pleasure and escaping pain on all levels, psychologically and physically we want to gain attention and approval, and we want to gain physical pleasure and we want people to tell us how important we are and how we are not inferior any more is that right? So if I should truly see this is what I'm doing, and not try to tell myself some other motive, you're telling yourself the truth, and you quite lying to yourself. When you quit lying to yourself a transformation takes place. You don't have to do a thing in the world about it. A transformation takes place. When we can truly see that all our motive for all our studying,for our efforts, for what we would call worship, is to gain pleasure and escape pain. We're still trying to serve the senses, is that right? If we could just go ahead and look at it, you know there's nothing we can do about it, we might as well see it flat footed. And truthfully quit lying to oneself. But we tell all sorts of reasons.  I do it because of my duty to God, and I do it because I love God, and I do it because I admire truth, and I do it for all these fancy reasons. All we're doing is looking for to gain pleasure and escape pain on all levels. We can tell ourselves that's everything we're doing is that we'll find a Transformation takes place.