The thing we fear is the image making ability of the mind.
Being asleep or awake depends on being responsible or not responsible for the images in the mind.
Living human life without Love is to be existing without meaning.
Not the man who has much, but the man who is much, is the fully developed truly human man.
Your inner state is like a tin can kids kick down the street. The greatest power you can exercise is to take charge of your own inner state.
You have the choice to determine any inner feeling you want. You are not hung up when you know you have a choice are you?
Ideals- Are ideals, real or imaginary?
What is I?
Identification, what is identification? Why do we identify?
Important- what is important? What is it that is necessary for a person to do or to be to have peace of mind and happiness?
Time, can you do anything yesterday or tomorrow?
Once a decision is made with feeling it is the rule of attitude, action until unmade.
Blaming- an attempt to escape responsibility of self.
Opposites, hot, cold, old, young, at which degree does something become hot? what determines that degree of opposites?
Awareness, are you aware of what is? do you see things as they are? or as they appear to be on the basis of preconceived opinions based on misconceptions?
Desire- what desires? does I desire? What is it I desire? why do I desire? Does it seem necessary to “I”to have what it desires? What if I get what it desires, or doesn’t get what it desires, is there a feeling of emergency?
Will- does a person feel different about the effort expended when he says ‘I have to do this’ or when he says ‘I am getting to do this’ What is letting him do whatever it is that he is getting to do. Who am I? Where am I?
I am a privileged invited guest at the party (life) held on the estate (world) of the host (God or X) the host gives me interesting things to do provides for each day, food, clothing, shelter, and transportation how can I have any problems? The only time a thing is a problem is when I make it important. This is not a premise. It is a perception. There are two types of guests at the party. Those who are sure there are many things that important. These guests make up civilization. Then there are those who make things interesting, these guests make up culture. Civilization is the barbarian invited to the party. He must believe in society, and in the way that it is told for him to believe. It is interesting to watch him, make everything important religion, politics, and all things of the civilized world.
Creative action, and accumulation of energy.
Anxiety, a dissipation of energy.
Thinking-essentially painting yourself a picture until you believe it.
The world is populated by infants in grown bodies with some technical education. There are very few adults who are free of belief.
Where is home? where the host suggests that you be at the time.
Is it ever wise for the guest to leave the party ( life) ? if he’s so wishes. All he needs to do is join the man-made world.
What is meant by universal law? When awareness replaces thinking, what happens to the intellect? Universal law is balance. It is impossible to break universal law. (balance). When awareness, replaces thinking, the intellect is expanded and can be referred to as wisdom, intelligence.
There are three unanswerable questions. Did I do the right thing when I? Am I doing the right thing by? And will I do the right thing if I? When an unanswerable question is put into the mind with great intensity frustration develops. The brain cannot answer questions that are not recorded within itself.
What are some common unanswerable questions? Why did this happen to me? What if? why —-?(concerning persons)
What are we like without conditioning? Sometimes people can turn off conditioning temporarily. It might be interesting to see what we are like without our illusions.
Why don’t you find out what you might be like?
Give up the value on all your possessions, your ideas, your beliefs, and your education, and you might see what you are.
Authority- one person who tells another what to think and believe.
Note: I can’t always find dates on the tapes I have.
Hope you enjoy these ideas-
(In regards to what being thankful feels like) :
I feel real light and nice inside and glow a little bit and the eyes sparkle a little bit when I’m thankful.
(Baptism: washed from one’s addiction to the Not-I’s. To disidentify and take charge of the self)
(Inner considering self centeredness of how what you’re doing affects me- infant-) everyone else has to grow up so I won’t have to be bothered with it.
(External considering- you don’t have to grow up for me to be okay. You’re not obligated to make me feel good.)
Everyone influences those about self and thus one lives in that which one radiates. No one has total control of their circumstances, however, anyone can and does have a decided influence over their circumstances.
For instance, have a serene interested inner feeling, and see that everyone you are in contact with is doing what that person perceives to be the right, proper or justifiable thing to do at that moment, and you will then be radiating peace and wisdom. This influences the current circumstances toward peace and love. It matters not whether you are alone, with children, with family, with business people or in traffic — you will see the results of your radiation, your influence.
Now, experiment with radiating this influence. Be very uptight because it is very important that you be non-disturbed; see others as knowing how important you are, but that they are inconsiderate of you. See that they know what is right, but they are going on and doing wrong anyway. Now stop and notice how what you are radiating is influencing your environment and circumstances.
If one cares to repeat these experiments a few times, one can be extremely aware that the teaching statement “You live in what you radiate” is a very profound and useful statement of fact.
Remember, each of us is radiating, our inner feeling, our mood, and how we choose to see persons, things, and happenings all the time, and that what we radiate influences the environment, our associates, strangers, even plants in ‘my’ sphere of existence.
The choice of what one radiates is a great spiritual gift that few of us realize they have why neglect so great a gift?
Logo=meaning
Meaning of Life=Awareness
Awareness implies understanding
Understanding implies Agape (love)
Living human life without love is to be existing without meaning.
Love is not to be equated with pity, sentimentality, desire to possess, the feeling that arises on being rejected, or the feeling that arises on realizing that something or someone cannot be possessed.
Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed truly human man.
The thing we fear is the image making ability of the mind.
Being asleep or awake, depends on being responsible or not responsible for the images in the mind.
As long as I have any conditioning, any meditation, that really is meditation will be concerned with the conditioning.
(Phenomena)
Once the individual has come to the end of disintegration, the mediation is for wisdom to use the glory of spirit.
(Inaudible) So with all of this, would you change anything in the world? Or would you merely see it for what it is, it gives each of us a chance to wake up. Once we wake up, we quit reacting to it, we respond Respond to it, somebody comes up and calls you a dirty blankety blank so and so, huh? Do you have to defend yourself? Or is it he’s a degree man and I say yep, I’ve been at it for years. I’ve prided myself on being the highest grade so and so around. And about that time, they’ve crawled out of the room, very violently. But, do you have to go ahead and defend yourself and see that you are respected and treated appropriately at all times Bill? Nothing to bother about if comes up and says ‘ you’re a thief’ you say you’ve done quite well at it, your thinking of starting a theieving school, so you can teach others, you know? (Laughs) nobody will argue with you then, they drop you right there (laughs he says something about troubled waters) what do you have to all the contentions and struggles we have is to defend ourselves, defend our idea about ourselves, and our dignity whatever that may mean, huh? Can’t you just respond when somebody says you’re blah blah blah blah blah? You say yeah (inaudible) frequently, I’m called the devil, and I say yes, it’s been very profitable, i’ve enjoyed it immensely. And look at all the fun I have with it. So when we do these, what do you have to defend yourself with? Huh? You have nothing to defend nothing to prove about yourself, what happens. Do you have anything that has to be changed, altered or corrected? Or can you just respond where you are?
Now, If we should begin to perceive this whole world, which all that thing is, is a condensation of everyday world. So if we see all of this going on, we recognize that there is an intelligence somewhere that organizes society. A group of people, that is a great initiation. And if you can see that one day, you would not want to change one thing. And if we don’t want to change anything, what state is your mind in?
Bill? (Peaceful) and as long as you see all these social evils, that’s got to be corrected like (inaudible) it’s concentrated there, you’re in a big crowd. And you gonna correct all those social evils out there, what are you got to do? You gotta change lots of things what state are you in, sir? You’re judging and you’re shocked, and you’re in a state of anger, and guilt and fear, and insecurity, and you’re agitated, and you’re concerned, right? Have you ever tried to change some great social problem? You know stop wars, and poverty, end all prejudice, all these things have you ever tried to do that? (Audience says something like save progress and gets laughs) to a small degree, and while you were doing it, you were very carried away, is that right? But if you could see it, that is the only opportunity we have for really recognizing truth, knowing what’s going on? And if you stop that we all remain little blobs of infants with barely grown bodies. No possible chance to ever get out of it. Without having this great third degree of initiation going on everywhere. And if you look down and you see something and it’s all so important, somebody’s hurt, somebody’s uncomfortable it’s the initiation going on. Third degree. And if you understand it and see it, what do you do, Gary? You do just like the guy sitting there looking through the one-way glass, listening to all this commotion going on, and now you’re laughing up a storm, right? Because it’s clowns, huh? The only thing is they don’t have on clown suits. But it is really is a clown performance there. And when we see all these, we begin to see that I don’t want to change anything, because I couldn’t improve on it. They wouldn’t have all these games going on, with all the commotion, we’d have to invent some more. And they’d probably be just as noisy as these are, huh? So whatever we invent, it seems that life uses that as One thing of getting us into contention, you have an opportunity to wake up, huh? We have seen The thing out here and I don’t want to change anything. I’m free to respond to whatever comes along. But I wouldn’t want to change the fact that there’s a little thieving going on tonight, because those theivings you know, there’s a thieving going on in that room. And there’s also a bunch of other things that goes on in there. So why is there just thriving. Now wouldn’t we worry about the fraud because there’s a guy in there trying to sell somebody something, that doesn’t look like you ought to be using that particular place to sell it, of course according to whether that we’re going to judge it according to our old method of this is pleasurable, this is attention and approval, and everybody’s behaving as they ought to be you know. So when we can change our perception, when we see, that all of this is a very great plan, that is designed, that is absolutely intelligent behavior for all the people. You know, half the people making all the commotion in all the world are members of the degree team. They are unconscious of it, but they have been cast in that role. Now most of us are degree members to somebody else, and they are to us, you know, uh, The people that most tear me up, they’re the degree team.
