You see we have senses out here. We hear, we smell, we taste, we touch. I cannot determine that entirely, can I?
Because then I would have to control everybody in the world and nature and I'd have to take over and I don't have time to be bothered with all that. It doesn't matter to me what I sense. Does it to you?
You got a sensing organism here and it's nice to sense there - yeah and so on down the line. So I cannot choose everything I sense. I will hear sounds that I have no control of - I can't help when a siren runs up and down the street or not. I can't help whether somebody blows a whistle or somebody plays the piano real loud or whatever, okay? But I am in charge of my inner feeling; and that's the one thing I experience. The other I just sense anyway. I sense people using four letter words okay?
Audience : If they're people close to you, though, and you know that there's a certain violent mood that's created by that, how can you be so detached?
I can, I don't know about anybody else. I don't see any reason to give anything or any person or a not I or a circumstance charge of my inner feeling. I think that's the one thing I'm responsible for and I determined a long time ago that I was going to feel serene or delightful or thankful or something inside. I manage to carry it around part of the day, and I've been taking charge of that.
Now I can't lay that on you and say well you did something wrong and my inner feeling went to hell.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Goal seeking vs. purpose pt.12
Purpose is to be peaceful, but you're still doing things. You don't just sit there and rot off. You're peaceably doing things without any "what's gonna happen tomorrow". You see, we always want to know the future and also to be safe in it.
People are constantly concerned over the future. They want to know if it can be predicted. Well, if the future is predictable, it's nothing because it's already on a puppet string. So it's already for ordained,
but we're afraid to be, we always want to become. That's the first little decision that says "I got to get back to that non disturbed state, where I was just floating in mamas womb"
Now if I want to be peaceful, I would quit setting that condition. Now conditioning is not a permanent state. It is a very temporary state except that we reset it everyday. So maybe we could spend a few extra days seeing and dropping the goals, and experiment with Being and seeing how it would work with having a purpose to be peaceful.
(End)
People are constantly concerned over the future. They want to know if it can be predicted. Well, if the future is predictable, it's nothing because it's already on a puppet string. So it's already for ordained,
but we're afraid to be, we always want to become. That's the first little decision that says "I got to get back to that non disturbed state, where I was just floating in mamas womb"
Now if I want to be peaceful, I would quit setting that condition. Now conditioning is not a permanent state. It is a very temporary state except that we reset it everyday. So maybe we could spend a few extra days seeing and dropping the goals, and experiment with Being and seeing how it would work with having a purpose to be peaceful.
(End)
Goal seeking vs. purpose pt. 11
Now, when you get the degree, the next you got to get a practice established - so you set the goal of "I"ll sure be happy when I get a practice established." Then "I'll be happy when I get my office opened". Then, "I'll be happy when I get the bills paid off for school and the office and such"
(it takes a lot of time)
It's still chasin' the endless quest of goals. You never quite catch up with them. Now if you're purely interested in something, you don't care if you get a degree or not. So when you're enjoying this moment, I think you'd know a lot more that would be of use to you than you would if you just had to get that degree. We are so conditioned that the minute we enroll in school or even when we begin trying to get a school to go to, we're thinking, "I'll be happy when I can get a degree" Perhaps it's, "I'll be happy when I can get rid of that wife that's helping me get through" Have you ever heard of the PhT? It's the most common degree in the United States - the PhT put husband through. We want to be safe, so we think we have to have goals. So we even have a goal to have goals.
(We wouldn't be productive, would we?)
Oh, we got the ideal in there. I've heard lots of people say if you don't have goals you'll never get anywhere.
So we have never seen the fallacy - the joke of having all these goals. If we see the joke, then it doesn't keep talkin' back at us.
(intellectually?)
I'm talkin' about physical - doing. You know I kind of believe in those physical things. So we just said,'doing'. You see we always try to do it just in the mind without a body doing anything. You see we never use a purpose. We think when we get the goal, we can just drift.
(how do you pay your bills when you're drifting?)
You see your assuming that if you drop the goal you're drifting, but, you see, you've never looked at purpose.
to be cont'd
(it takes a lot of time)
It's still chasin' the endless quest of goals. You never quite catch up with them. Now if you're purely interested in something, you don't care if you get a degree or not. So when you're enjoying this moment, I think you'd know a lot more that would be of use to you than you would if you just had to get that degree. We are so conditioned that the minute we enroll in school or even when we begin trying to get a school to go to, we're thinking, "I'll be happy when I can get a degree" Perhaps it's, "I'll be happy when I can get rid of that wife that's helping me get through" Have you ever heard of the PhT? It's the most common degree in the United States - the PhT put husband through. We want to be safe, so we think we have to have goals. So we even have a goal to have goals.
(We wouldn't be productive, would we?)
Oh, we got the ideal in there. I've heard lots of people say if you don't have goals you'll never get anywhere.
So we have never seen the fallacy - the joke of having all these goals. If we see the joke, then it doesn't keep talkin' back at us.
(intellectually?)
I'm talkin' about physical - doing. You know I kind of believe in those physical things. So we just said,'doing'. You see we always try to do it just in the mind without a body doing anything. You see we never use a purpose. We think when we get the goal, we can just drift.
(how do you pay your bills when you're drifting?)
You see your assuming that if you drop the goal you're drifting, but, you see, you've never looked at purpose.
to be cont'd
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Goal seeking vs. purpose pt. 10
So we start setting up a goal the day we were born and became a goal seeking, goal directed animal, and the goal does do the directing - not intelligence. We can cease any moment we please, any moment. You don't have to learn anything, you can cease this moment chasing the goal of being safe, non-disturbed or all the other many ways that you would care to express. At that moment you are at peace within yourself. Your peaceful with the environment, other people, and you're peaceful within.
That help?
It doesn't take a lot of intelligence. It doesn't take a lot of books or learning. But immediately we can have peace of mind, joy in living and expressing at this moment - instantly. It's quite a little thing when see the joke - the tremendous joke we have played upon ourselves when we set goals. And we have allowed other people to play this joke upon us because the only chance the other guy has to play one on us is when we think we're not gonna be safe. So then, I listen to his formula. And he's always got one for me from his conditioning which only complicates the conditioning in me. Now the only way this formula can be suggested to me is if I'm wanting to be safe or non disturbed, and I think maybe he's got a formula. So then, I buy it. Now I might blame you later, but I don't need to blame you Because I was the one seeking non disturbance.
So the minute I want to be safe, sound, and secure, I set up a goal for the future - I have then given anybody who wants it, charge of my inner state, is that right? They'll tell you, you have to do this, and you have to do that, and you have to do the other and then you'll be safe - but it will be much much later. So we can pursue that one as long as we want to, or we can wake up and drop it.
(What about someone in college and they want to be a doctor or a lawyer?)
He's also setting goals to have ulcers and belly aches and all the other stuff that goes with it. What is the purpose of going to school. Is it to get a degree, or to learn at the moment - to learn what's taught today. You know you can be there and just enjoy the instruction at the moment. So finally they'll give you a degree to get you out of there.
You don't have to have a goal. But we are firmly convinced that we have to have a goal. You don't just study to get the joy out of knowing all the things you might become acquainted with - you're going to get a degree, aren't you?
to be cont'd
That help?
It doesn't take a lot of intelligence. It doesn't take a lot of books or learning. But immediately we can have peace of mind, joy in living and expressing at this moment - instantly. It's quite a little thing when see the joke - the tremendous joke we have played upon ourselves when we set goals. And we have allowed other people to play this joke upon us because the only chance the other guy has to play one on us is when we think we're not gonna be safe. So then, I listen to his formula. And he's always got one for me from his conditioning which only complicates the conditioning in me. Now the only way this formula can be suggested to me is if I'm wanting to be safe or non disturbed, and I think maybe he's got a formula. So then, I buy it. Now I might blame you later, but I don't need to blame you Because I was the one seeking non disturbance.
So the minute I want to be safe, sound, and secure, I set up a goal for the future - I have then given anybody who wants it, charge of my inner state, is that right? They'll tell you, you have to do this, and you have to do that, and you have to do the other and then you'll be safe - but it will be much much later. So we can pursue that one as long as we want to, or we can wake up and drop it.
(What about someone in college and they want to be a doctor or a lawyer?)
He's also setting goals to have ulcers and belly aches and all the other stuff that goes with it. What is the purpose of going to school. Is it to get a degree, or to learn at the moment - to learn what's taught today. You know you can be there and just enjoy the instruction at the moment. So finally they'll give you a degree to get you out of there.
You don't have to have a goal. But we are firmly convinced that we have to have a goal. You don't just study to get the joy out of knowing all the things you might become acquainted with - you're going to get a degree, aren't you?
to be cont'd
Friday, September 11, 2015
Goal vs. Purpose pt.9
So when we can take one small look and see, "What we are doing?" Not what we should do or what we ought to do, but what am I doing now. I'm making goals. I'm setting up ideals and I'm chasing them, and thereby I'm completely miserable. And when I see that I'm chasing these self-projected ideals or goals, and I see the joke in that, I can lay it down this very moment.
It's like taking an ice pick and jabbing yourself with it every few minutes, and say I've got the awfullest pain here. So we literally have an pick pokin' ourselves every few moments driving to us towards the goal, huh?
(Yep, onward and upward)
Onward and upward - ever forward to the goal - miserable and more miserable every day.
So whenever we take a long solid look at "What am I doing?" I'm making me a goal and I'm chasing it all over the place. And when I've made the goal, I have put on all those illusionary have-to's. And then I'm so exhausted, I'm tired, and then I can't generate to do any of these things "I have to" the body rebels, X won't generate energy for "have-to's". It says, "You don't have to". So then you go on will power and determination from the sub-conscious mind ever pressing forward to the prize.
(for your prize?)
for a very excellent prize, the greatest land subdivision possible that there is. They built them and call them cemeteries. And that's the prize you get for pursuing a goal - one of those neat little condominiums-you know--where they stack them up. Or you can get you a whole little piece of real estate all for your very own - 4 foot wide and 7 feet long - it's your own private lot. You've purchased your property -- and then your family has to pay more to keep them from digging it up so there's more room to get more subdivision plots.
But why bother with it. What's the goal - what's the goal you're headed for?
(The only goal I have is to be non-disturbed. I don't need anything else).
Well you're not disturbed unless you disturb yourself, dear one. The best way in the world is to set you a little goal to be non-disturbed because you got to be on guard unless someone's gonna bug you.
(Well what goal do you need?)
I don't know as you need any goal.
(You don't? That's the only goal I ever have)
I don't think you even need that one. It doesn't matter what the goal is, it's basically to be non-disturbed, and of course we set 101 subdivisions in addition to that one.
To be cont'd
It's like taking an ice pick and jabbing yourself with it every few minutes, and say I've got the awfullest pain here. So we literally have an pick pokin' ourselves every few moments driving to us towards the goal, huh?
(Yep, onward and upward)
Onward and upward - ever forward to the goal - miserable and more miserable every day.
So whenever we take a long solid look at "What am I doing?" I'm making me a goal and I'm chasing it all over the place. And when I've made the goal, I have put on all those illusionary have-to's. And then I'm so exhausted, I'm tired, and then I can't generate to do any of these things "I have to" the body rebels, X won't generate energy for "have-to's". It says, "You don't have to". So then you go on will power and determination from the sub-conscious mind ever pressing forward to the prize.
(for your prize?)
for a very excellent prize, the greatest land subdivision possible that there is. They built them and call them cemeteries. And that's the prize you get for pursuing a goal - one of those neat little condominiums-you know--where they stack them up. Or you can get you a whole little piece of real estate all for your very own - 4 foot wide and 7 feet long - it's your own private lot. You've purchased your property -- and then your family has to pay more to keep them from digging it up so there's more room to get more subdivision plots.
But why bother with it. What's the goal - what's the goal you're headed for?
(The only goal I have is to be non-disturbed. I don't need anything else).
Well you're not disturbed unless you disturb yourself, dear one. The best way in the world is to set you a little goal to be non-disturbed because you got to be on guard unless someone's gonna bug you.
(Well what goal do you need?)
I don't know as you need any goal.
(You don't? That's the only goal I ever have)
I don't think you even need that one. It doesn't matter what the goal is, it's basically to be non-disturbed, and of course we set 101 subdivisions in addition to that one.
To be cont'd
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Goal vs. Purpose pt.8
The whole thing is you can constantly struggle to get this. You know if you're going to buy a house, you worry about getting financing for it,; and as soon as you get it, you worry about how you're going to pay for it. You want to buy a car, you wonder if you can get the credit to get the car, and when you get the car, then you begin to worry about how you're going to pay it paid off.
And as soon as the kids are born, the first thing you say is, "I'll sure be happy when I get them all through college". I've heard that from you, dear one. Does it get the kids through college any better with you being miserable? No. It even adds a few doctor bills with your worry and stress.
Somebody is ill and they say, "As soon as I get well, I'll sure be happy". You get 'em well and you hear, "I hope it never comes back".
So the disintegrating factor is the struggle toward an illusion of the ideal or goal.
Now is there any goal you can conceive of necessary? Did you start to drive your car away from here this afternoon and have the goal to get it home? - to dangerous to be on the road. But if you have the purpose of driving in your little spot on the highway, everything will work fine, won't it? You drive in your little box of space. There's a lane over here, and a lane over there, and there's a little space in front of you that you're responsible for every moment, right now. And you have the purpose of not bumping anything in the little slot you got there.
(That's a goal).
No, it's not a goal, it's that you have as your purpose not to be bumping right now, not to do it later, but now. Now is the present. A goal is then.
If I'm going to try not to have an accident for the next year, now I have a goal okay? And the justification is so that we can keep our insurance rates down. And, of course, you bump everything in site, and drive in a constant state of anxiety.
So we begin to see that we we are producing constantly all the conditioning we have. It is not built in, we set it up. But we have reenacted it everyday of our lives by continually being a goal seeking animal.
Now as soon as we see the joke in that and cease to be a goal seeking animal, we can be a living human being with a purpose - a purpose of whatever you want - but let's say being peaceful at this moment. That's not a goal for the next moment, just this moment. Now this moment I can do. But when I worry about how I am going to be peaceful this afternoon, or tonight, or tomorrow, now I've got a goal and and I have all sorts of have to's come up.
(to be cont'd)
And as soon as the kids are born, the first thing you say is, "I'll sure be happy when I get them all through college". I've heard that from you, dear one. Does it get the kids through college any better with you being miserable? No. It even adds a few doctor bills with your worry and stress.
Somebody is ill and they say, "As soon as I get well, I'll sure be happy". You get 'em well and you hear, "I hope it never comes back".
So the disintegrating factor is the struggle toward an illusion of the ideal or goal.
Now is there any goal you can conceive of necessary? Did you start to drive your car away from here this afternoon and have the goal to get it home? - to dangerous to be on the road. But if you have the purpose of driving in your little spot on the highway, everything will work fine, won't it? You drive in your little box of space. There's a lane over here, and a lane over there, and there's a little space in front of you that you're responsible for every moment, right now. And you have the purpose of not bumping anything in the little slot you got there.
(That's a goal).
No, it's not a goal, it's that you have as your purpose not to be bumping right now, not to do it later, but now. Now is the present. A goal is then.
If I'm going to try not to have an accident for the next year, now I have a goal okay? And the justification is so that we can keep our insurance rates down. And, of course, you bump everything in site, and drive in a constant state of anxiety.
So we begin to see that we we are producing constantly all the conditioning we have. It is not built in, we set it up. But we have reenacted it everyday of our lives by continually being a goal seeking animal.
Now as soon as we see the joke in that and cease to be a goal seeking animal, we can be a living human being with a purpose - a purpose of whatever you want - but let's say being peaceful at this moment. That's not a goal for the next moment, just this moment. Now this moment I can do. But when I worry about how I am going to be peaceful this afternoon, or tonight, or tomorrow, now I've got a goal and and I have all sorts of have to's come up.
(to be cont'd)
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Goal vs. Purpose pt.7
And then we have people make it a goal that they've got to have "something else" or "something new" because we've got to have all these "up to date" things in order to be happy, so we've got to buy a new car, new computer, whatever has been suggested.
I have a friend who says his credit is so bad that they'll hardly take his cash anymore.
So when you're not in debt, sometimes you can get very enthusiastically pursuing a way to get in debt, can't you? So when we get horribly in debt we're back to setting a goal to get out.
You've been working for months to get horribly in debt.
(Now I've got a plan of how to get out)
So you're still going. So do you see the tremendous joke we play on ourselves - we set up conditions - we mechanically react to "I'm not going to be peaceful with this or that".
One time I was in a Hotel in St. Louis at a big Holiday Inn, and the bill was getting pretty big. Now I did have just enough to pay for it. You know what? The Hotel burned down. Well the staff was standing outside and I said I wanted to check out. They said, "When did you come in?" I said, "Two weeks ago" They said, "Well, did you have one room?" I said, "Well that was so much a day" They said, "Did you have any bills?" I said, "Yeh, I signed the check" They said, "We'll send you a bill". And it's never come yet. So you see, there's all kinds of nice little things happen when you are peaceful.
To be continued..
I have a friend who says his credit is so bad that they'll hardly take his cash anymore.
So when you're not in debt, sometimes you can get very enthusiastically pursuing a way to get in debt, can't you? So when we get horribly in debt we're back to setting a goal to get out.
You've been working for months to get horribly in debt.
(Now I've got a plan of how to get out)
So you're still going. So do you see the tremendous joke we play on ourselves - we set up conditions - we mechanically react to "I'm not going to be peaceful with this or that".
One time I was in a Hotel in St. Louis at a big Holiday Inn, and the bill was getting pretty big. Now I did have just enough to pay for it. You know what? The Hotel burned down. Well the staff was standing outside and I said I wanted to check out. They said, "When did you come in?" I said, "Two weeks ago" They said, "Well, did you have one room?" I said, "Well that was so much a day" They said, "Did you have any bills?" I said, "Yeh, I signed the check" They said, "We'll send you a bill". And it's never come yet. So you see, there's all kinds of nice little things happen when you are peaceful.
To be continued..
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