It'll do what you push the buttons on. You push one and it says eject and the little thing pops out don't it, Isn't that intelligent? you push another and it says record and it will record. You push another and it says play and it does that,isn't that wonderful? marvelous, hmm? really intelligent.
I read a story not long ago near that over in the east countries a number of years ago when Great Britain was putting out their Empire that they invited the little local kings to come over to see their wonders. So they invite them over and they showed them these big guns and they'd shoot them off and they'd hit the target and they'd say "Look at that!!Look at that!!it hit that target, right on there!" and showed them these tanks that could crawl up and down these ravines and not turn over, and they'd say 'Look at those things go! you can't stop 'em!!they just climb up and down, up and down' So this particular little ol' king thought that's a pretty nice deal and he stayed around 2 or 3 days and he went home. So a few days and he sat over and invite to invite all the governors and everything of the British people over to his little kingdom. They come over and he had a big dinner set for them and one of the servants came and whispered in his ear (inaudible) he said ''look at that, I don't understand it, he can speak!" they all looked at him like he was kind of nuts you know. So in the next morning he took them out and he showed them his horses in the big barn. And one of the horses was standing there nibbling some oats you know and he said, " look at that he can really eat!! he can eat oats!!" and you know,what's wrong with this nut. So he goes out and there's a horse an exercise boy is trotting around and he said, " look at that, he's moving around, he can pick his feet up! he can really move!isn't that wonderful wonderful wonderful!" well they decide they better leave this guys completely off his bean you know so they decide to leave and when they're all getting ready to go he said, " I want to tell you something. You invited me over to your place, and you showed me all your marvelous guns and your tanks and everything," and he said, " I invited you over and showed you my things, and all of my things, my horses my servants the people around, they do what their naturally made to do. The man talks and I understood him. That's natural. And the horse eats oats can that's natural and the horse can walk and that's natural. But what I learned from you people is to get excited about it! You made a gun explode above his head and and hit the mark and you get excited about it. So this brain does what it's supposed to do and this one does what it's supposed to do, the only thing we've learned is to get excited about it, you know,you have a sensation, that's what it's supposed to do. Because the nature of the body is to sense but we get all excited about it you know, we haven't learned to just thank it you know. But now they thought he was kind of nuts when he got all excited about horses and people doing what they were supposed to do, but when the guns and tanks were doing what they were supposed to do, that was something to get excited about huh?. So we get excited about all these little natural phenomena.
Now these are the 2 minds, the vegetative mind that keeps us merely surviving, eating, eliminating, digesting, perspiring, shivering when we get cold getting ducky bumps to conserve heat. It does a good job of keeping the internal temperature set, the internal climate going. Now that's fine, it's nothing to get excited about is it?Hmm? it's just the natural part. The other one as long as we interpret everything as threat it does the appropriate thing, fight or run. What else does it do? And it even picks up mechanically the most appropriate ways of doing it -whether if they're smaller get mad, if there bigger run. You know, simple. Then if you don't know which way to go you try 'em both at the same time that's when you get what's called frustration, you don't whether to fight 'em or run from 'em, it's still the same difference.
There is another brain which we have never used. We've never turned it on yet.Very few people have even remotely kicked in the gear box or pushed the button to it. It's the greatest invention that's ever been mentioned been made to date, and it is called a Cerebrum. And it hooks up on here and covers all this other brain up it's got gobs of stuff in it. It is the seat of higher mind. Now 1 or 2 people as we talked last evening have interpreted distance as a challenge instead of a threat, so instead of going into a tizzy, they invented something, it came out of here.It knows all these things, once it is given a challenge, it is the source of revelation to us as to how to handle situations of challenge. But threats it don't bother with because that's already taken care of by the machine down here, it's in here and it's got it's own way to handle it. So as long as have been through living and interpret sensations as threats. Now we interpret painful ones or illegal, or else it will go away, I can't keep it. We live by mechanically interpreting everything as a threat. We are carrying around the greatest gift of all time inside the scull bone, totally unused, never turn on the button on whatsoever. But it's there, and will develop, and ever increasing development while we have peace of mind. Now in order to have peace of mind, we have to see what am I? I'm the interpreter. We could say I am the soul. I don't have a soul, I am soul. Or, I am spirit with a little 's' I am interpreter. And when I do what I can do, there is no struggle, no conflict, no resistance.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Couple of quotes/exercises
You think you are thinking a thought but the thought is thinking you
Don't make anything important and keep your mood up
Think act feel. Think about how you'd like to feel and act that way for 20 minutes even if you don't feel that way. After that you will feel the way you want. Check it out.
(from school talk#53)
(certainly living in a state of grace is very different from living in a state of stress)
You'd better believe it.
(would you comment on this alternative to stress--that is, living in a state of grace)
Well, I'm talking about making ourselves very available to grace. Grace is not making things important.
Grace is being in charge of my own inner state of being and being in charge of my responses to circumstance. Now it is grace that we even heard these teaching ideas.
Don't make anything important and keep your mood up
Think act feel. Think about how you'd like to feel and act that way for 20 minutes even if you don't feel that way. After that you will feel the way you want. Check it out.
(from school talk#53)
(certainly living in a state of grace is very different from living in a state of stress)
You'd better believe it.
(would you comment on this alternative to stress--that is, living in a state of grace)
Well, I'm talking about making ourselves very available to grace. Grace is not making things important.
Grace is being in charge of my own inner state of being and being in charge of my responses to circumstance. Now it is grace that we even heard these teaching ideas.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
The three brains
We said today we would talk about peace of mind. In order to talk about peace of mind,we possibly would find what minds do. Now we say that all the things that we do in studying esoteric studies, or studies of a spiritual nature, or knowing ourselves, is to allow development of a higher type of mind than is commonly evident to the world. Now the average mind is a stimuli response mechanism. You go a long as you say somethin' nice to it it purrs, and if you say something un nice to it and it blows up and I find some word will set you off, so I could use that word in your presence and it's like you had buttons on you and you can go along and push 'em. Now that obviously is not a very extensive type of mind. We can almost manufacture those in the factories and call them computers. Sometimes you don't even have to get that complicated it's just adding machines. But there is evidence in the world of a higher mind. To let this higher mind develop is somewhat to our interest. Now it does not have to be developed, it will grow just like the human body grows if it has the proper climate for it.We read that there was many years ago that there were people in China who felt that it was the appropriate thing to do for ladies to have very tiny feet. So when they were tiny babies or very little girls they bound their feet with heavy bandages and in fact put them in casts. So that the feet wouldn't grow. Now nature bumped against this and made all kinds of distorted bones, but the little feet still remained little, they were cripples. So there was gradually as more understanding came along this fad went out they began to unbind their feet and their feet grew naturally. So it takes no effort for inner development or higher mind to take place except remove the obstruction to it. Now the obstruction to this development is conflict. Another way of saying it is resistance. Another way of saying it is would be struggle. Now as long as there is not peace of mind this inner development cannot take place. If there is peace of mind for 10 minutes, there is 10 minutes of inner development of higher mind taking place. If you don't have peace of mind for 7 weeks, you still have 10 minutes worth to start with and you do 3 minutes that time well then you have 13 minutes worth total inner development. So the more time there is peace of mind the more adequate there is the growth or development of this higher type of mind. Now let's see what obstructs or prevents peace of mind in as much as it's the climate in which this inner development takes place.
Now, first off how much of the time do you really feel you have peace of mind. Hmm? What percentage of the time do you think it is really peaceful and there is no conflict,no struggle, no resistance, there is quiet peaceful mind. How much time do you think, Ruby? (inaudible) well then your working to just to be sure getting it, I know. Be sure your getting it right and you don't miss a thing (laughs)cause you gotta be be busy getting your notes and everything down so you wouldn't miss so your still a little anxious is that right?Just a little anxious even when your here. So most of us have never allowed about one minute of inner development of higher mind. Now every mind or every situation has an organ. We have not seen a function in the human being that doesn't have an organ. It might be interesting if we take a few minutes to observe the organs of the various ways we operate so that we'd know about them, only vaguely and please that the names these brains that the mind operates through is unimportant. We can make 'em 1,2,and 3 just as easy but I will use a name on 'em but please it's totally irrelevant, just use 1,2, and 3. The first mind that is necessary is the mind that keeps the body operating it gets along quite automatic. An earthworm has about the same kind of brain for that as you and I do. It eats,digests,eliminates, and responds to painful stimuli that might be dangerous to it. It crawls towards pleasant things that aids it's survival. That brain is called the Medula amylgdala. It looks about like that. It's in the very center of the brain, down in the head and it is the upper extension of the spinal cord. Now it's really a vegetable now a tree probably has almost the same kind of brain in it, or at least it does the (cut out) now obviously trees can be alive and dead and they respond to stimuli you cut on the side of it, it heals, it blows and springs back, you cut off an arm it will heal over sometimes it will even grow one in place of it you know? So there is a mind in everything that fits this
like the medula amygdalaHmm? In other words it's a way of saying, of running. And it's an ideal one is it not sir? As long as I say, you told me to do it and I did it, I'm running, it's all yours man I left it. So this is the 2 mechanical approaches we have to threats, fight or run. We have it in the picture of man as the basic decisions of A and the basic decisions of B. This one is to run (B) and we get scared and use it, and we fight and we get mad and we use it, you see you are always angry when you're complaining, sticking up for your rights or blaming and your kind of scared when you're cow towing to please people, put on a show that you're different, or quote your authorities to get out of it is that right? So that's the fighting or the running and these are mechanical. There is absolutely no consciousness involved in this it's just as mechanical as pushing buttons on a machine.
(to be continued)
Now, first off how much of the time do you really feel you have peace of mind. Hmm? What percentage of the time do you think it is really peaceful and there is no conflict,no struggle, no resistance, there is quiet peaceful mind. How much time do you think, Ruby? (inaudible) well then your working to just to be sure getting it, I know. Be sure your getting it right and you don't miss a thing (laughs)cause you gotta be be busy getting your notes and everything down so you wouldn't miss so your still a little anxious is that right?Just a little anxious even when your here. So most of us have never allowed about one minute of inner development of higher mind. Now every mind or every situation has an organ. We have not seen a function in the human being that doesn't have an organ. It might be interesting if we take a few minutes to observe the organs of the various ways we operate so that we'd know about them, only vaguely and please that the names these brains that the mind operates through is unimportant. We can make 'em 1,2,and 3 just as easy but I will use a name on 'em but please it's totally irrelevant, just use 1,2, and 3. The first mind that is necessary is the mind that keeps the body operating it gets along quite automatic. An earthworm has about the same kind of brain for that as you and I do. It eats,digests,eliminates, and responds to painful stimuli that might be dangerous to it. It crawls towards pleasant things that aids it's survival. That brain is called the Medula amylgdala. It looks about like that. It's in the very center of the brain, down in the head and it is the upper extension of the spinal cord. Now it's really a vegetable now a tree probably has almost the same kind of brain in it, or at least it does the (cut out) now obviously trees can be alive and dead and they respond to stimuli you cut on the side of it, it heals, it blows and springs back, you cut off an arm it will heal over sometimes it will even grow one in place of it you know? So there is a mind in everything that fits this
like the medula amygdalaHmm? In other words it's a way of saying, of running. And it's an ideal one is it not sir? As long as I say, you told me to do it and I did it, I'm running, it's all yours man I left it. So this is the 2 mechanical approaches we have to threats, fight or run. We have it in the picture of man as the basic decisions of A and the basic decisions of B. This one is to run (B) and we get scared and use it, and we fight and we get mad and we use it, you see you are always angry when you're complaining, sticking up for your rights or blaming and your kind of scared when you're cow towing to please people, put on a show that you're different, or quote your authorities to get out of it is that right? So that's the fighting or the running and these are mechanical. There is absolutely no consciousness involved in this it's just as mechanical as pushing buttons on a machine.
(to be continued)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Acting and feeling
The whole thing you are interested in is your inner feeling or your attitude, okay? Now you can have any kind of attitude you want. Now it seems that most people want a woe be gone pitiful sad attitude and so forth because that attitude has prevented them from being responsible most of their lives. And I think one of the things people dread most is being responsible for their inner states for themselves. In other words, if you would treat me nice enough and spend enough time pampering me I would feel very happy you know, but sometimes maybe you have other things to do and can't do that so then I better take charge of it or otherwise I'm gonna be sittin' around down in the dumps, is that right? So the attitude that one has determines much of your outer state. Now if you're getting an attitude that it's hopeless and worthless and it's all bad and I have nothing but trouble and every thing's gone wrong for me and every one's picking on me and all this kind of stuff then obviously nothings gonna happen to you except more of the same. Because you draw to you according to what your inner attitude is. Now we talk about takin' charge of your attitude right? Now one of the ways you can control your inner attitude is by the way that you're acting.
If you act like you're a very happy and delighted lady then your attitude will go with the way you are acting. But if you sit around and,' well oh, terrible and say nobody loves me, my business is going to pot and uh the economy is going to pieces and what if Reagan gets elected and what if we don't, well then we might get Carter, and oh God' Every thing's going to hell with it's back broke, okay? Then your attitude is one of depression, self pity, hopelessness and etc. Then I'll guarantee you that all the things that will have materialized around you will match that attitude. So the attitude is probably the most valuable thing we have. You can call it your inner feeling or your attitude. I prefer inner feeling or inner state of being. Now if you're very enthusiastic, all kinds of nice things comes your way. You can go out to do business and everybody wants to buy from you, you don't have to sell very hard. Maybe enthusiasm is the selling key huh? If your enthusiastic everyone wants to buy. Or you can say 'Well (sigh) the economy is pretty bad and I don't know what'-well I better wait before I buy, about right? I mustn't spend any money. So the attitude or our inner feeling, call it what you like is the most valuable thing you have. It can be under control 100%, but in case you don't choose to take control it's bounced about by circumstances that may be around you. Some other nice lovely person comes around and treats you nice you feel pretty good.And they walk out of the way and some other company comes along grumpin' and you're down with them so then nobodies in charge, it's just happen stance of which wind that blows. Somebody said your attitude could be very like a chip on the ocean it's tossed to and fro with every wind that blows, or you can take charge of it and have what ever inner state you choose to have. I prefer to have one of delight, joy, confidence, and etc. and you can certainly have it. Now the fact that I say you can have it don't do a thing unless you act upon it. But you can by the way you act produce an attitude or inner feeling almost immediately. Now people call up and they're acting on the other end of the phone sobbing and crying, pathetic voices, and I say knock that crap off! I don't listen to it, let me hear you, I don't want to listen to all this jazz, then they'll start laughin' and talkin' pretty good and in a few minutes I'll say how you feeling? and they'll say 'oh we're feelin' a lot better'. But as long as one just persists in having these sad depths of every things gone wrong I'm sorry for poor little me and etc then of course that's the way they're going to feel, and if you look about you can tell just about how everybody's feeling. All you go to do is look,see how they're sitting, how they're holding their facial structures, how the body is set and so forth and you can tell almost exactly how their inner state is. Some of them is kind of glum, some of them is like Steiner very serious, some of them are having a pretty good time, some of them is very worried, and some of them are very depleted and tired, it's just to much trouble to get up and give a gentle little smile or something and you know and certainly to act confident would be beyond their ability at the moment. So if you want to look around you can tell every body's inner state right now. It doesn't take any effort hardly at all to figure that out very quickly.
So you can remember one little word maybe, UP. If your chins up and the corners of your mouth are up, and your eyelids are up and your flashing a little bit, you ever notice peoples eyelids are all sad their eyelids hang you know, and you get everything up, you feel pretty good and when you get it all down you feel just like you're acting every things down. In fact people say I'm on a downer.
and then they spend years analyzing why this terrible stuff happened to you. So, it doesn't really matter why something happened to you, what's really worthwhile is gettin' out of it and getting to feel like you want to, isn't it?
If you act like you're a very happy and delighted lady then your attitude will go with the way you are acting. But if you sit around and,' well oh, terrible and say nobody loves me, my business is going to pot and uh the economy is going to pieces and what if Reagan gets elected and what if we don't, well then we might get Carter, and oh God' Every thing's going to hell with it's back broke, okay? Then your attitude is one of depression, self pity, hopelessness and etc. Then I'll guarantee you that all the things that will have materialized around you will match that attitude. So the attitude is probably the most valuable thing we have. You can call it your inner feeling or your attitude. I prefer inner feeling or inner state of being. Now if you're very enthusiastic, all kinds of nice things comes your way. You can go out to do business and everybody wants to buy from you, you don't have to sell very hard. Maybe enthusiasm is the selling key huh? If your enthusiastic everyone wants to buy. Or you can say 'Well (sigh) the economy is pretty bad and I don't know what'-well I better wait before I buy, about right? I mustn't spend any money. So the attitude or our inner feeling, call it what you like is the most valuable thing you have. It can be under control 100%, but in case you don't choose to take control it's bounced about by circumstances that may be around you. Some other nice lovely person comes around and treats you nice you feel pretty good.And they walk out of the way and some other company comes along grumpin' and you're down with them so then nobodies in charge, it's just happen stance of which wind that blows. Somebody said your attitude could be very like a chip on the ocean it's tossed to and fro with every wind that blows, or you can take charge of it and have what ever inner state you choose to have. I prefer to have one of delight, joy, confidence, and etc. and you can certainly have it. Now the fact that I say you can have it don't do a thing unless you act upon it. But you can by the way you act produce an attitude or inner feeling almost immediately. Now people call up and they're acting on the other end of the phone sobbing and crying, pathetic voices, and I say knock that crap off! I don't listen to it, let me hear you, I don't want to listen to all this jazz, then they'll start laughin' and talkin' pretty good and in a few minutes I'll say how you feeling? and they'll say 'oh we're feelin' a lot better'. But as long as one just persists in having these sad depths of every things gone wrong I'm sorry for poor little me and etc then of course that's the way they're going to feel, and if you look about you can tell just about how everybody's feeling. All you go to do is look,see how they're sitting, how they're holding their facial structures, how the body is set and so forth and you can tell almost exactly how their inner state is. Some of them is kind of glum, some of them is like Steiner very serious, some of them are having a pretty good time, some of them is very worried, and some of them are very depleted and tired, it's just to much trouble to get up and give a gentle little smile or something and you know and certainly to act confident would be beyond their ability at the moment. So if you want to look around you can tell every body's inner state right now. It doesn't take any effort hardly at all to figure that out very quickly.
So you can remember one little word maybe, UP. If your chins up and the corners of your mouth are up, and your eyelids are up and your flashing a little bit, you ever notice peoples eyelids are all sad their eyelids hang you know, and you get everything up, you feel pretty good and when you get it all down you feel just like you're acting every things down. In fact people say I'm on a downer.
and then they spend years analyzing why this terrible stuff happened to you. So, it doesn't really matter why something happened to you, what's really worthwhile is gettin' out of it and getting to feel like you want to, isn't it?
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