The Science of man says you are fully capable of being responsible enough to evaluate what’s to your advantage; that you can transcend the usual reaction to threat and promise by responding instead. The definition of reaction is to unconsciously act on the stimulus of threat or promise. The definition of response is to consciously evaluate a stimulus as to its advantage.
Be always on the lookout for threats and promises. They are trying usurp your innate good sense.
You can have your inner state any way you want it, you can be fearful, resentful, or you can be a bundle of joy.
Anxiety makes stress on the body.
Your mood is your inner state of being. Keep your mood up. Your mood is about the nicest thing you can have if it feels wonderful, it’s the most lousy thing you can have if it feels terrible. You are your inner state of being.
Inner state of being: I can choose to determine it and that is truly freedom.
If I see you as a threat, then I feed pretty bad, if I see you as a friend, I feel pretty wonderful.
The world Carries grudges. We are taught this “accounts receivable”. We’re all carrying around a bunch of them. If there’s understanding, that everyone is doing what they feel is right, proper, or justifiable with what light they have-then you could be forgiving.
(Also mentioned in this talk was reverence for all life, living something = spirit) and that reverence means being thankful)
Agape is a realization. That the person was only doing what he or she felt was right, proper, or justified at the time of doing so.
It’s a recognition. It’s a pure intellectual seeing.
That you cannot do something that you feel to be wrong, improper, or unjustifiable.
Anytime there’s a false picture it’s vanity. If it’s just I’m here, there’s no vanity.
Well people are not going to be different, and I’m going to be fine without them being different. Let everybody be what they are.
Trying to stop something is a waste of time. Just go do the other.
Take an inventory of all the wonderful things today.
Make a purpose to have a wonderful inner state of being and keep it that way.
Don’t let anybody tear up your inner state.
Justifying is saying I’m helpless. Justifying is a way of lying.
Our nature is to be an attention payer.
I’m being disobedient to my nature when I’m asleep, not paying attention.
Now we’re going to look at it and the only way we can look at anything without getting involved some way or other is to neither condemn what we see or justify what we see, it simply is.
If it’s interesting you feel pretty good. Make it interesting, not important. Put all struggle aside.
The prevention of faith
Three totally unanswerable questions about the “right” thing.
1. Did I do the right thing when l ……? (Past)
2. Am l doing the right thing…..? ( present)
3. Will I be doing the right thing if I…? (Future)
The desire to know or to do the right thing results in confusion as to what the right thing is. In confusion there is the inability to make up one’s mind. The inability to make up one’s mind is the lack of faith. The elimination of the concept of doing the “right thing” results in the freedom to choose whether or not a given thing would be an interesting experiment. It releases the ability to make up the mind. The ability to make up one’s mind is FAITH, the greatest power known to the human race.
Our problem with the “right thing” is that we are seeking standards found in the man made world. We are trying to decide for ourselves what is “right” and “wrong”, which is a product of the three great professions.
The three great professions are in competition with each other in the man made world. They do not trust each other. However there are times when the two of them have joined, one attempting to use the other.
At one time force (political) and theology got together with Theology using force. This resulted in the inquisition and the Dark Ages. At the present time, Force and Science (as a branch of the healing arts) have joined together with Force using Science. The tendency is towards totalitarian regimes and war: horrifying war with the possibility of total annihilation of humanity.
When we don’t know
What we are
Where we are
What we are doing
We will create an image of ourself, of where we are and of what we are doing. This is a self image, then the real self dies and the false self image takes over. This is to be possessed by a home made demon. This is the problem (the self). This is resistance, conflict, struggle against what is, against what we are and against what we are doing.
Self imposed second force
What I believe about my limitations (not-I’s) such as I don’t have time, I don’t have money, I don’t have ability. Self imposed second force blame; it’s all in the psychological realm.
Contrived second force
This is applied by institutions which put all sorts of rules and obstacles in front of a person. Obstructions prevent you from being whole, rules to run your business that you do not need etc. All this is done unconsciously to confuse and agitate people. When people are confused they they separate from conscious awareness. People are then more easily controlled. There is no such idea as equality, management vs labor, male vs female, white vs black, age vs youth, wealth vs poverty. Man lives in a closed society, a contrived society to have a controlled society. This is done by suggestion to get people to feel that they need regulations. Then the rules come. This produces a constant state of emergency.
The greatest threat to consciousness is suggestibility. All difficulties come because we are highly suggestible, it we do not realize it. The weak spot in our structure is the suggestibility factor, but it can be our greatest strength when we are awake and aware.
Frustration—state of feeling that arises in a person when he or she has set a goal and is failing to reach it. This is true regardless of what the goal is or what is preventing the realization of the goal.
The part of us which is conditioned is conditioned to do easy things. We tend to become weak and live by the 4dbus, loosing the power to do.
Real doing is going against some strong impulse of so called nature (4dbus) The doing implies a degree of liberation from mechanical living, thinking, etc. The idea must be given force or be actualized in life for it to have any value. To act (inner) —-making up the mind to do some outer act by going in an opposite direction from the usual automatic routine.
If I think being free is to satisfy the egotistic impulses (4dbus) I have not accepted the responsibility to serve higher power—being consciously awake.
I am usually conditioned to drift passively to ease, to please, to be comfortable with a new set of ideas as justification to satisfy A and B.
Essence is born as potential in each. Personality (A and B) is acquired or learned, imitated, copied, ingrown, and with it there are habits and pleasures, etc. Consciously or unconsciously we must make effort to see and thus to overcome the inertia of the matter of A and B. When A or B dominates I disintegration takes place in the essence. I, or the essence, must be developed to dominate A and B. We must see the harmful effects A and B at work on our essence and work to ask ourselves the question “Do I see the what I am doing?”
Goal setting verses aim direction.
1. Is my happiness dependent on having, doing, being, or others doing, being, or having blank, blank, blank, whatever it may be.
2. Has this person agreed within not to be happy until the goal is realized?
3. Would you be anxious to reach the goal?
4. Is to be anxious to have feelings of frustration and emergency?
5. Does this frustration and emergency result in in bodily preparation to fight or run?
6. Does this produce internal conflict and stress?
7. Does it not appear that I have an unconscious motivation to be frustrated?
Escapes and substitutions. The following are automatic escapes from reality:
1. Drink
2. Sex.
3. Religion.
4. Pursuit of education.
5. Distraction, such as worry and anxiety.
6. Civic work, doing good, helping others.
7. Political ideologies, race and creed.
8. Health foods, all other causes.
Do I create something as an escape? Does this compound I’s problem as trying to escape the escape? Does this lead I into endless theories by those who profess to help with problems? Are these theories only more escapes? What is it that I want to escape?
A self originating being, a good guest, sees when to cooperate and when not to cooperate.
Your inner state of being is like a tin can kids can kick down the street. The greatest power you can exercise is to take charge of your own inner state.
Work and struggle produce a certain inner feeling.
You have a CHOICE to determine any INNER FEELING you want………you are not hung up when you have a choice are you?
