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.
