SUB IDEAS FROM OR BASED ON THE 7 BASIC DECISIONS
1. People know what's right and go on doing wrong anyway.
2. To love another is to obligate that person, expressed in marriages or other interpersonal relationships. "I love you therefore you are obligated to me and must do as I want you to do, or I will be hurt and it will be all your fault so there".
3. Selfish is a bad word, something we can not admit to being, but when we look at self we might see everything we do think and want is motivated on selfish.
4. One is integrated when all disintegration is stopped, not when one lives by any given code, ideal, or set rules or believes any dogmas.
5. What am I, Where am I, What is to my advantage to be doing?????
What are rights and what are privileges?
Only when there is understanding of the totality of the mind, the unconscious as well as the conscious, is there a possibility of the minds regeneration.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
The Falacy
That total gratification of the senses equals contentment both physical and psychological.
All gratification is partial. Physical gratification can be 90 to 98% but is very temporary. Psychological gratification is 0 to 10% and they are not even temporary.
To see that satisfaction refers to a state of the senses-physical and psychological - and that contentment refers to a state of being.
This is the way it is and I am thankful that it is this way. I am contented to be dissatisfied.
I am enthusiastic to experiment in various ways to get partial and temporary gratification. Some experiments I will flush, some I will use again and some I will modify.
The great fallacy is that:
I must be totally satisfied to be contented.
All gratification is partial. Physical gratification can be 90 to 98% but is very temporary. Psychological gratification is 0 to 10% and they are not even temporary.
To see that satisfaction refers to a state of the senses-physical and psychological - and that contentment refers to a state of being.
This is the way it is and I am thankful that it is this way. I am contented to be dissatisfied.
I am enthusiastic to experiment in various ways to get partial and temporary gratification. Some experiments I will flush, some I will use again and some I will modify.
The great fallacy is that:
I must be totally satisfied to be contented.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Putting forth
Putting forth is basically receiving what intelligence suggests. We have the mistaken idea that putting forth is doing something. First of all we should come to understand that we can not do anything. Putting forth is then that capacity to willingly receive the inner suggestion, or putting forth one's being to receive. How much can I give--or how much do I put forth?
I give not, nor do I receive; I rather put forth. Thus I am neither doer nor getter.
When I am in complete agreement with myself I put forth. When I am in agreement I am in total freedom.There is no getting, no doing, only putting forth.
Christ put forth. He was in agreement with X.
I have no work to do, nor do I have any task to perform. I only have putting forth. The conditioned mind is the active mind. The active mind is constantly trying to do, to get, to be, to manage. Such a mind is not capable of putting forth, nor agreeing with the inner suggestion.
The point is how much do I put forth?
The agreement with X is the total putting forth. Coming to such an agreement requires an empty mind. Listening is another word for agreeing. We should come to understand what it is we come to be in agreement with.
When we listen, X tells us what it wants. Putting forth then requires two functions, or rather two conditions by man. Putting forth is listening, plus following, thus the completion of putting forth.
The servant puts forth. The state of integration is that state wherein there is only putting forth. A good question to ask ourselves is am I putting forth or am I getting? There are moments of integration, and moments of disintegration. The disintegrating moments are those when we are trying to get.
The slave is doing what he is told to do. The servant serves. The slave can become the servant only through seeing his servitude. Seeing servitude is brought about when conscious choices are made.
I give not, nor do I receive; I rather put forth. Thus I am neither doer nor getter.
When I am in complete agreement with myself I put forth. When I am in agreement I am in total freedom.There is no getting, no doing, only putting forth.
Christ put forth. He was in agreement with X.
I have no work to do, nor do I have any task to perform. I only have putting forth. The conditioned mind is the active mind. The active mind is constantly trying to do, to get, to be, to manage. Such a mind is not capable of putting forth, nor agreeing with the inner suggestion.
The point is how much do I put forth?
The agreement with X is the total putting forth. Coming to such an agreement requires an empty mind. Listening is another word for agreeing. We should come to understand what it is we come to be in agreement with.
When we listen, X tells us what it wants. Putting forth then requires two functions, or rather two conditions by man. Putting forth is listening, plus following, thus the completion of putting forth.
The servant puts forth. The state of integration is that state wherein there is only putting forth. A good question to ask ourselves is am I putting forth or am I getting? There are moments of integration, and moments of disintegration. The disintegrating moments are those when we are trying to get.
The slave is doing what he is told to do. The servant serves. The slave can become the servant only through seeing his servitude. Seeing servitude is brought about when conscious choices are made.
Friday, September 13, 2019
From notes
(continues)
There can be no opposites, there is only power which is neither good nor bad, male or female but totally neutral.
I blame "my" feelings (as outside entities) for how I behave. Feelings are my daydreams. I can only "feel" when I am asleep. In an awake state, I have sensations but not feelings, not emotions. I must create feelings and emotions by passing sensations through the screen of conditioning, through the "transformer," - the 1st. decision which distorts the sensations.
I, the intelligence, am the power. Feelings are the hangovers of infancy, santa claus, hob-goblins, etc. The only way I can be aware of "my" beliefs (my feelings) are to see them act in relationship to the moment of experiencing.
I am the only one who has power in in relationship to "I". I am the problem, I can be the joy. However, I am the power, I do create the "feeling", I make the stress. When I deny this, or refuse to look at it, I am playing (unconsciously) the role of the sleeping dying being.
As long as I believe that "my" feelings occur through you, from you or because of you, I can see no necessity to stay awake.
There can be no opposites, there is only power which is neither good nor bad, male or female but totally neutral.
I blame "my" feelings (as outside entities) for how I behave. Feelings are my daydreams. I can only "feel" when I am asleep. In an awake state, I have sensations but not feelings, not emotions. I must create feelings and emotions by passing sensations through the screen of conditioning, through the "transformer," - the 1st. decision which distorts the sensations.
I, the intelligence, am the power. Feelings are the hangovers of infancy, santa claus, hob-goblins, etc. The only way I can be aware of "my" beliefs (my feelings) are to see them act in relationship to the moment of experiencing.
I am the only one who has power in in relationship to "I". I am the problem, I can be the joy. However, I am the power, I do create the "feeling", I make the stress. When I deny this, or refuse to look at it, I am playing (unconsciously) the role of the sleeping dying being.
As long as I believe that "my" feelings occur through you, from you or because of you, I can see no necessity to stay awake.
From Notes
SEE THE NECESSITY OF STAYING AWAKE!
Danger does not come from the outside but from within. I AM THE DANGER. "My" basic misconception is the idea that "all my difficulties arise from without, outside of me". Something else or someone else is to blame. I am awake to others in an attempt to gain what they gain and to escape what they escape (or don't gain or don't escape) so I won't feel inferior, but "I" am asleep to "I" and the behavior that "I" indulge in. Outside psychological danger is only a daydream I have made up, a serial movie that I create.
No matter how I tag it, I still refuse to be responsible because I do not study and understand "I". I still am protecting the beliefs that I have accepted and am accepting. Because I refuse to be responsible, I still believe that others can "make me mad", that others can "worry me", that others are the "problems" that an anthropomorphic image is in charge and will take care of me, that I am a good kid and everyone else is pure trouble. Fine- as a sleeping conditioned machine, I am all that. As a living being, I can behave (act, play a role) as if I am limited and tied to all these misconceptions, but I can see that only unconscious machines can operate and destroy themselves in this fashion. As a living being, I can be responsible to see these beliefs, to see that I am in charge, to take the responsibility and to be responsible. I am doing it all, only I can do it all. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE POWER TO DO THE THINGS THAT I BLAME OUTSIDE FACTORS FOR. Those elements have no power. I try to force power onto them in my sleeping state.
I see that I AM the power, therefore no outside persons can have any influence on me, nor can they be 'good' or 'bad'.
(more to come)
Danger does not come from the outside but from within. I AM THE DANGER. "My" basic misconception is the idea that "all my difficulties arise from without, outside of me". Something else or someone else is to blame. I am awake to others in an attempt to gain what they gain and to escape what they escape (or don't gain or don't escape) so I won't feel inferior, but "I" am asleep to "I" and the behavior that "I" indulge in. Outside psychological danger is only a daydream I have made up, a serial movie that I create.
No matter how I tag it, I still refuse to be responsible because I do not study and understand "I". I still am protecting the beliefs that I have accepted and am accepting. Because I refuse to be responsible, I still believe that others can "make me mad", that others can "worry me", that others are the "problems" that an anthropomorphic image is in charge and will take care of me, that I am a good kid and everyone else is pure trouble. Fine- as a sleeping conditioned machine, I am all that. As a living being, I can behave (act, play a role) as if I am limited and tied to all these misconceptions, but I can see that only unconscious machines can operate and destroy themselves in this fashion. As a living being, I can be responsible to see these beliefs, to see that I am in charge, to take the responsibility and to be responsible. I am doing it all, only I can do it all. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE POWER TO DO THE THINGS THAT I BLAME OUTSIDE FACTORS FOR. Those elements have no power. I try to force power onto them in my sleeping state.
I see that I AM the power, therefore no outside persons can have any influence on me, nor can they be 'good' or 'bad'.
(more to come)
Sunday, September 1, 2019
From talk
Agape is a realization. That the person was doing only what he or she felt was right, proper, or justifiable at the time.
It's a recognition.
It's a pure intellectual seeing.
That you cannot do something that you feel to be wrong improper, or totally unjustifiable.
It's a recognition.
It's a pure intellectual seeing.
That you cannot do something that you feel to be wrong improper, or totally unjustifiable.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Teaching ideas, reel to cassette tapes
289. If we are asleep we see things as a threat. If we are conscious we see things as a challenge and watch X operate on it, which is every second of our existence.
292. When we have a quiet mind, we have inner development that grows naturally. A peaceful mind doesn't want to change anything.
299. Conflict: the difference between what is and the ideal of what I think ought to be.
Tape 4
When we do what is to our advantage instead of what we should we release a tremendous amount of energy. There is no conflict.
292. When we have a quiet mind, we have inner development that grows naturally. A peaceful mind doesn't want to change anything.
299. Conflict: the difference between what is and the ideal of what I think ought to be.
Tape 4
When we do what is to our advantage instead of what we should we release a tremendous amount of energy. There is no conflict.
From Albuquerque '90
The biggest misconception I have is that I'm a victim. Not just playin it but I really am a VICTIM.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
From talk(s)
Life is what is and it's a mystery beyond all comprehension. You can be aware that you are life from there on you have no problems only challenges.
Audience: When I am a joyous being, and over here they are not a joyous being (Dr. Bob: uh huh that's right the woods is full of them) How do you not let them affect you?
Dr. Bob: Well that's whether you want to be a victim or not. Are you a victim of everybody around you? Or are you going on and being pleasant regardless of the other folks. They don't know what they're doing, they're not trying to pull you down. It's mechanical, they've been at it for years and don't know it. I don't see any use of lettin' them get me down, do you? I'm the one it hurts when I get down not them, they're already hurtin'
Audience: I used to say I got my bubble burst.
Dr. Bob: Well that's cause you were a victim. Now let's don't play the victim role, keep our bubbles up & bright, and don't give them to anybody else! In other words, I'm not gonna turn my inner state of being, which is the most valuable thing I have, I'm not gonna turn it over to some jerk, that's down in the dumpies. That's his business. Huh? You got that. I'm not gonna turn it over to to someone goin' 'suh suh suh suh suh suh....' I'm not going to do that, 'cause I'm the one who gets to feeling' miserable, and he's already miserable, so I'm not hating him, not doing anything for him, or her, so let's don't play the victim role, okay? You didn't get your bubble burst, you poked it yourself. Okay?
Audience: When I am a joyous being, and over here they are not a joyous being (Dr. Bob: uh huh that's right the woods is full of them) How do you not let them affect you?
Dr. Bob: Well that's whether you want to be a victim or not. Are you a victim of everybody around you? Or are you going on and being pleasant regardless of the other folks. They don't know what they're doing, they're not trying to pull you down. It's mechanical, they've been at it for years and don't know it. I don't see any use of lettin' them get me down, do you? I'm the one it hurts when I get down not them, they're already hurtin'
Audience: I used to say I got my bubble burst.
Dr. Bob: Well that's cause you were a victim. Now let's don't play the victim role, keep our bubbles up & bright, and don't give them to anybody else! In other words, I'm not gonna turn my inner state of being, which is the most valuable thing I have, I'm not gonna turn it over to some jerk, that's down in the dumpies. That's his business. Huh? You got that. I'm not gonna turn it over to to someone goin' 'suh suh suh suh suh suh....' I'm not going to do that, 'cause I'm the one who gets to feeling' miserable, and he's already miserable, so I'm not hating him, not doing anything for him, or her, so let's don't play the victim role, okay? You didn't get your bubble burst, you poked it yourself. Okay?
Thursday, August 1, 2019
From Purpose talk,
I met a man the other day that said he had picked as his purpose to be a peacemaker no matter where he was, and he found the biggest activity was to make peace in his own head, which was probably a very worthwhile use of it; but he found there were other places he could be a peacemaker. He could put people at ease around him, so he was a peacemaker, and he found this to be a very delightful purpose. Now he can use this method, this frame of reference, this purpose, whether it's at work, whether he's playing, whether he's just at home with his family, or he's sitting on a commuter train, or whether he's driving on a highway, or whether he's only off by himself with all the noise going on in his head. He can still work at being a peacemaker, so his purpose is to be a peacemaker.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Costa mesa excerpt
And so what if there's anger up there, let it be (couldn't hear all of the sentence)
But if I am trying to be non disturbed, there's an awful lot of people trying to step on my toes, is that right? If I'm not trying to be non-disturbed, then I really have nothing to be ticked off about. Did you ever notice that? Try that one (couldn't hear) Try it a few days next week. You have absolutely nothing that you're trying to prevent from being annoying to you. Now who annoys you? I think before anyone can get to me, I have to give that person the authority to annoy me, and I don't see any reason to give another person or anybody else the authority to annoy me. Ok? Is that right? I don't give the authority to annoy me, so have fun try, it don't bother me, I could less.
Ok, any other questions, comments here? Yes Ma'm.
(can you tell me something about hypnosis or self hypnosis?)
Uh, it has no relation to what I'm talking about.
Most people have themselves hypnotized by all of authorities that they took everything an authority said is true, right? In other words, you have to make someone into an authority because we aren't unless we make them so. So you can give somebody the power to be an authority, then to that degree you're hypnotized by that person. We said long ago in our discussion, we don't believe anything, so I could check up and find out in the meantime, I could say well I don't know, I don't know. And you know, one great man told me onetime that usually the first and only statement of truth most people ever made is if they ever got around to saying I don't know. At least that's true. So to say I believe is only accepted because an authority said it. So you could say well I don't know, and if you're interested in that particular aspect of life the person's talking about, you could start running some experiments to find out how it works and you will know, is that right? Then you don't have to go into all that stuff.
But if I am trying to be non disturbed, there's an awful lot of people trying to step on my toes, is that right? If I'm not trying to be non-disturbed, then I really have nothing to be ticked off about. Did you ever notice that? Try that one (couldn't hear) Try it a few days next week. You have absolutely nothing that you're trying to prevent from being annoying to you. Now who annoys you? I think before anyone can get to me, I have to give that person the authority to annoy me, and I don't see any reason to give another person or anybody else the authority to annoy me. Ok? Is that right? I don't give the authority to annoy me, so have fun try, it don't bother me, I could less.
Ok, any other questions, comments here? Yes Ma'm.
(can you tell me something about hypnosis or self hypnosis?)
Uh, it has no relation to what I'm talking about.
Most people have themselves hypnotized by all of authorities that they took everything an authority said is true, right? In other words, you have to make someone into an authority because we aren't unless we make them so. So you can give somebody the power to be an authority, then to that degree you're hypnotized by that person. We said long ago in our discussion, we don't believe anything, so I could check up and find out in the meantime, I could say well I don't know, I don't know. And you know, one great man told me onetime that usually the first and only statement of truth most people ever made is if they ever got around to saying I don't know. At least that's true. So to say I believe is only accepted because an authority said it. So you could say well I don't know, and if you're interested in that particular aspect of life the person's talking about, you could start running some experiments to find out how it works and you will know, is that right? Then you don't have to go into all that stuff.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Blaming
If a person says, "He made me angry", "The clock awakened me", "The fire burned me", etc. would this be misconception, an attempt to escape responsibility for self by blame placing? Would this mean that before a person could enjoy a better life that everything else in the world would have to change? Is this a rather large order to be filled before a person could be happy and enjoy living?
Monday, February 18, 2019
Bits and pieces from school work
What one pursues, what one seeks, is a feeling of freedom. However nearly everyone pursues freedom wrongly. Each seeks to be free from something but real freedom is freedom to.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Bits and Pieces from School Work
Freedom and Responsibility: the two sides of the same idea that results in a driving force and inner peace at the same time.
Freedom to: Responsibility, able to respond by being free to choose what is worthwhile.
Free from: Trying to escape responsibility by struggle, resistance and conflict.
Virtue
If I must not do something because it is wrong -- and I don't do it because I think it is wrong -- I have no virtue.
When I know that I am free to, yet I realize it is not to my advantage, I have virtue.
Virtue is freedom.
Freedom to: Responsibility, able to respond by being free to choose what is worthwhile.
Free from: Trying to escape responsibility by struggle, resistance and conflict.
Virtue
If I must not do something because it is wrong -- and I don't do it because I think it is wrong -- I have no virtue.
When I know that I am free to, yet I realize it is not to my advantage, I have virtue.
Virtue is freedom.
Monday, January 28, 2019
From tape 9 Accounts receivable
"I" believe that "I" am victimized by you and others into being made to feel angry, guilty, fearful, insecure, envious, jealousy and etc. And "I" believe that it is all your fault that "I'm" in this miserable state. Now, how much would the person have to pay before "I" cancel the debt and say, "I feel wonderful, all is forgotten."
You see, we have the idea of "forgiving" and we use it quite freely. But if one will observe the self when a given incident is brought up, one will find that the self wants to kick and scream and make all kinds of turmoil because the account has not been cancelled. We use the word "forgiveness" and we say, "I forgive" but actually only X can cancel that. So I can observe the self, report it to X, and we can experience forgiveness.
But I don't believe a one of us can truly forgive.
You see, the nature of I is to report accurately as to "what is" to X. Not what it seems to be when seen through the ideal of the world, which is what makes the debt. When one reports that this was an illusion, that nobody really owes the self down there anything, then X forgives. And one may experience that forgiveness, that lightness, that entire new state of being. But one cannot forgive, one only can use the words.
You see, we have the idea of "forgiving" and we use it quite freely. But if one will observe the self when a given incident is brought up, one will find that the self wants to kick and scream and make all kinds of turmoil because the account has not been cancelled. We use the word "forgiveness" and we say, "I forgive" but actually only X can cancel that. So I can observe the self, report it to X, and we can experience forgiveness.
But I don't believe a one of us can truly forgive.
You see, the nature of I is to report accurately as to "what is" to X. Not what it seems to be when seen through the ideal of the world, which is what makes the debt. When one reports that this was an illusion, that nobody really owes the self down there anything, then X forgives. And one may experience that forgiveness, that lightness, that entire new state of being. But one cannot forgive, one only can use the words.
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