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There are three stages in one’s spiritual development,” said the Master. “The carnal, the spiritual and the divine.” “What is the carnal stage?” asked the eager disciples. “That’s the stage when trees are seen as trees and mountains as mountains.” “And the spiritual?” “That’s when one looks…

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    Angry Preaching Boy from Alabama - Oprah (Listen to 2:40)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 3:17


    God, as a concept, can appear to hate you as long as you project the hatred you have, perhaps routinely yet momentarily felt and observed from the very men who seem to appear to be like the God none is able to conceive of. Conceptions are deceptions. Just as saying the word ‘water’ is a horrible attempt to explain the experience of actually being wet. Even if I could freeze an ocean wave, my bringing it to you in a box and placing it on a table would not be anything like surfing in the ocean or even floundering around in a baby pool. Man, this is off the hinges! SEE here: https://youtu.be/kttVCbTrDLw

    Institutionalizing Guilt Disorganizes Truth -Alan Watts

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 13:36


    The Bible is blasphemous whenever it is used as caselaw and even the Word of God — which is a flat rejection of the Holy Spirit. Can’t jam Infinite Love inside any book. Not until 1850 did Protestants in Alabama suddenly demand this book be deemed inerrant. An inerrant book written by men? Even Jesús scolds in John 5:39-44 literalism and people who parochially refuse relationship with Him over “constantly having your heads in the Bible but refusing to SEE Me in front of you....” Look at what such narrowness of thinking has done (not because people always believe or love God who they CAN in a less literal sense SEE but won’t SEE) but solely because of individual cowardly narcissism just to be sure they “don’t burn in hell.” This isn’t love but terrorism. Think about it — you place a gun to the head of the preciously and infinitely loved little heads of children and tell them they better hate “certain people OR groups” and beat their children because that’s the only language they understand, and they’ll hardly become human beings capable of charity beginning at home or beginning within themselves. Rather, this same aberrant fear will actually create all manner of evil, self-preservation, self-absorbing megalomania and other highly ephemeral avarice and perversion. Christianity as the “religion” doesn’t espouse a love for and from God for ALL people — rather as merely another exclusive “religion” It unwittingly promotes living a life of fearing hell and hating this God and this threatening tyrannical caricature the church fabricated for dualistic confusion and socioeconomic control. Having said that, debating hate and love and especially the existence of God as a word and trying to force ideas on anyone will cause pushback. Until and, not if but when, a person is able to SEE and RECOGNIZE the divine in ALL PEOPLE— especially those they have been trained to hate not based on reality and truth and grace and truth — but with the very peculiarly arcane approach of actually EXCLUDING first and INCLUDING a very few individuals if anyone (which is ultimately self-banishment) as one’s life goes onto and INTO eternity. Life is living us. Things are improving. America’s history of preferring word-worship and highly superficial and spoon fed programming has created an unstable passively-aggressive kind of undulating conformity that has been largely without any lovingly lasting transformative experiencing as human beings. Forced love is at best, highly unconditional hatred. This has been proffered as stemming from the noun and conceptualized word — God, but any conceptual and airily abstract notion of God as anyone or even anything akin to an infinitely loving agent is all showroom but no storeroom. Just smoke and mirrors and a cheapened part of speech and an unbelievably unworkable textual rule book. A theologically lifeless topic and object of pseudo-scholastic discussion and debate, but sorrowfully little else. It might be becoming increasingly obvious to humanity that humanity is from love and infinite love has all the timelessness in and out of this world to restore to Her original state of sanity. Original sin, logically, demands that the originating Source of sin starts and stops this seemingly endless “missing of the point” not by creating the 16th century atonement conditions for His/Her creation to yet again fail to meet, but by This Creator having ALREADY removed the human convention (illusion) of finitely loving conditions that infinite Love would never impose on His/Her very own divine inventions. (There was nothing to remove but the damnable idea of sin and the blame gaming). What was the problem with Jerome’s Bible? It was heavily influenced by Latin hell-inventing theologians like Tertullian and Augustine. Many of the words used in the Vulgate, such as eternal, redemption, justification, sanctification, sacrament, perdition, punish, torment, damnation, etc., were coined by Tertullian and his contemporaries and came to be associated with concepts foreign to the original Greek. The Latin Church’s emphasis on fear-based dualism was reserved for three great Carthaginians, Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine, so to influence the Latin Church it deflected and declined into a system of dogmatic hierarchy and spiritual despotism. But Tertullian was the individual who set this current in motion. This, then, is the man in the hollow of whose hands lay the clay which was to be molded into concrete Latin dogma. This is the man in whose hands reclined the fate of the word eternal. Augustine, who later outdid Tertullian and his doctrines, maintained that the whole human race was “one damned batch and mass of perdition” (conspersis damnata, massa perditionis), out of which a few are elected to salvation, while all the remainder are lost for ever. He beheld evil as a force integral in a universe apart from God, while Origen believed that all is out from God, even evil, which God must undo and banish. As the centuries went by, the Bible was translated and retranslated into Latin (mainly from Greek), and more than twelve centuries later translated into English (from Greek and Hebrew) with the advent of the original King James in the 1600s. It’s not hard to see how morphing Church beliefs and language changes influenced each Bible version that came along. When King James gave the translators instructions for working on his King James Authorized Version in 1604 (a seven-year project), he intended to make sure that the new version would “conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy.” Since then, it has undergone over 400 more years of translator interventions and theological interpretations. When you think of how many people, opinions, doctrines, misunderstandings, language barriers, as well as political and theological agendas may have worked into the mix in 2,000 years, it’s hard to believe (and shouldn’t be believed) that the Bible has maintained inerrancy or complete adhesion to the original intent. Sin wasn’t humanity’s idea nor God’s allowance for the concept of sin that the church created to control and confuse. The thermodynamic energy that animates your being that IS within you (known as the Holy Spirit) has been flatly rejected and opportunely so by the church. Why? As long as you perceive yourself and, therefore others, with a rather worthless and intrinsically defective sense of identity, the simplicity of this infinitely knowable inner wholeness will by default seem confusingly complicated. Now, these heady abstract antagonists understood perfectly clear how to train word-worshipping Westerners towards dualistically divisional and extreme mental programming. And, because they did, they took advantage of the majority’s illiteracy and fearful dependency and thus, described both God and sin with their conceptualized explanations that were neither creatively freeing nor remotely explicable to the culture at that time. But, in spite of the current day literacy of Western society, both the Catholic and the Protestant career clergymen remain, for the same ephemerally selfish and passionless reasons, determined to take advantage of rigidly fearful and fervently religious people by portraying the church as an externally greater authority than the Spirit of Truth within ALL humanity. Moreover, as long as these church leaders can continue to hoodwink Western society into believing that they must pay the churches’s amateurishly ignorant “professionals” to explain God’s nature to them, oratory rhetoric will continue to hypnotize humanity as objects, discouraging humanity’s grasping their true and original identity as sons and daughters of Infinite Love’s Creator. And, while this can (for a limited time) continue to hinder individual’s knowledge of their inner authority and true identity via unconditionally loving experience, it will never detain this infinite LOVE’s Author and Creator as some diabolically separated Being who has been intentionally portrayed as an unapproachable cosmic tyrant as purposefully maligned as read inside the bindings of the Bible. You didn’t need anyone to explain unconditional love to you UNTIL religionists diabolically developed their own self-seeking conditions of dogmatic beliefs whereby they almost got away of what has gone on till only very recently. This being the early churches’s theologians and socioeconomic religious politicians desire to institutionalize guilt as its ephemeral goal so as to possess all of the gold. Put another way, the Golden Rule as the early church translated it swiftly became an aberrant abomination of Jesus’s extremely simple and easily applicable definition of this Golden Rule. Rather than, “Do unto others as you would want done unto you,” the church’s pyramid scheme was based on, “He who has the most gold, rules.” When Jesus said, “You cannot serve mammon and God both,” a simpler translation is, “You can experience Infinite Love within you and as you but never by studying this experience as merely a lofty concept inside of a book.” Jesus made this perfectly clear in John 5:39-40. No one believes truth, they recognize and know truth again as they knew truth before they became the physical manifestations of Infinite love. Soul. That’s even in the Bible- Psalms 139. God, as a concept, can appear to hate you as long as you project the hatred you have ONLY momentarily felt and observed from the very men who pretend or seem to appear to be like the God none is able to conceive of. Conceptions are deceptions. Just as saying the word water is a horrible attempt to explain the experience of actually being wet. Even if I could freeze an ocean wave, my bringing it to you in a box and placing it on a table would not be anything like surfing. As long as we believe in a word we will never begin approaching Her realty. God does not love you, love is what you are. Love is being Herself. You are BEING and to miss this is to talk about infinite life but never be about infinite life.

    Hell is Unworkable. Schizophrenic Religion ensues! - Richard Rohr (Infinite Conclusion????)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2018 3:39


    Infinite love being infinite love is eternally free to free humanity from its embarrassingly absurd illusion of having ever been capable of excluding a single life (soul) with the billions of humanity’s finite conclusions. The lesser of two evils merely affords humanity the choice to choose evil — as if there has ever been or there currently are arbitrary degrees of evil coterminously existent with infinite levels of love.

    Hell is Unworkable. Schizophrenic Religion ensues! - Richard Rohr

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2018 9:14


    Who are you? Who is the one who can die and live to speak about it? Who died and is now living within you? There could be absolutely no fear whatsoever of death if there wasn’t already within you that willingness to feel the fear even a second longer. And what possible good could fear have? Well, none that you have intellectually thought to see. You don’t see with thinking, you see with spontaneous clarity of perception — unless you’ve undergone cultural, societal, and religious programming. For you don’t think and then see. You simply see and awareness makes it so. Thinking makes everything merely conceptual. As a child you also did see but without what your mind terms thinking. You were then fully conscious. There were no airy abstractions, labels, theories or words to obstruct that one immortal sense that your reasoning relinquished and yet will recognize upon being like a child. What is the obstruction? You will know and when you do you will be willing. Surround yourself with no conclusions. God refuses to be known by the intellect but is even now known by the heart.

    Aloneness and Going thru With it - Adyashanti

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2018 13:55


    Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone. What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see. And what prevents you from seeing? Your concepts, your categories, your prejudices and projections, your needs and attachments, the labels you have drawn from your conditioning and from your past experiences. Seeing is the most arduous thing a human being can undertake. For it calls for a disciplined, alert mind, whereas most people would much rather lapse into mental laziness than take the trouble to see each person and thing anew in present moment freshness. To drop your conditioning in order to see is arduous enough. But seeing calls for something more painful still. The dropping of the control that society exercises over you; a control whose tentacles have penetrated to the very roots of your being, so that to drop it is to tear yourself apart. If you wish to understand this, think of a little child that is given a taste for drugs. As the drug penetrates the body of the child, it becomes addicted and its whole being cries out for the drug. To be without the drug is so unbearable a torment that it seems preferable to die. Now this is exactly what society did to you when you were a child. You were not allowed to enjoy the solid, nutritious food of life: work and play and the company of people and the pleasures of the senses and the mind. You were given a taste for the drug called Approval, Appreciation, Attention, the drug called Success, Prestige, Power. Having got a taste for these things, you became addicted and began to dread their loss. You felt terror at the prospect of failure, of mistakes, of the criticism of others. So you became cravenly dependent on people and lost your freedom.

    Authentic Transformation - Richard Rohr

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2018 5:50


    Think of the sad history of your efforts at self-improvement, that either ended in disaster or succeeded only at the cost of struggle and pain. Now suppose you desisted from all efforts to change yourself, and from all self-dissatisfaction, would you then be doomed to go to sleep having passively accepted everything in you and around you? There is another way besides laborious self-pushing on the one hand and stagnant acceptance on the other. It is the way of self-understanding. This is far from easy because to understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else. You will see this if you compare the attitude of a scientist who studies the habits of ants without the slightest desire to change them with the attitude of a dog trainer who studies the habits of a dog with a view to making it learn something. If what you attempt is not to change yourself but to observe yourself, to study every one of your reactions to people and things, without judgement or condemnation or desire to reform yourself, your observation will be non-selective, comprehensive, never fixed in rigid conclusions, always open and fresh from moment to moment. Then you will notice a marvellous thing happening within you: you will be flooded with the light of awareness, you will become transparent and transformed. Will change occur then? Oh, yes. In you and in your surroundings. But it will not be brought about by your cunning, restless ego that is forever competing, comparing, coercing, sermonizing, manipulating in its intolerance and its ambitions, thereby creating tension and conflict and resistance between you and Nature and exhausting, self-defeating process like driving with your brakes on.

    Springtime Forever (Getting the Drug Out) -Anthony de Mello

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2018 41:28


    When an archer is shooting for fun
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
 Or sees two targets –
He is out of his mind. His skill has not changed,
But the prize divides him.
He cares
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting –
And the need to win
Drains him of power. I feel good because the world is right. Wrong. The world is right because I feel good. What? I am here to be love not to become lovable. The truth makes one free and then hated by everyone who cannot accept this one’s breaking away from this need to be needed, this craving to be craved, this seeking of approval that cannot find peace. An infant is lovable until it cries too much. How does an infant cry too much? It cries and laughs because it is what it is. Only when brainwashed adults tell the baby and child that because they don’t like the feelings within themselves (but they’re so unaware they cannot see this), that the baby or child is responsible for the adults negative emotions. It’s like going to the doctor, explaining your emotional problems and then the doctor writing a prescription for the next door neighbor. The same rain that produces weeds in thickets produces roses in the garden. A rose remains a rose regardless of being called something else by using another name. Don’t mistake LOVED for condition. Nor NEEDED for addiction. Nor BLESSED for a historical one time miracle. The rain that disturbs a picnic doesn’t disturb a picnic but only my programming that the picnic should have been without rain. Do you see this? Whether you can or cannot, there’s nothing to SCREAM at.

    Tao - In Everyday Language and Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2018 43:25


    Keep it simple. Who's this guy know as yourself who's doing the understanding? You say you understand who Jesus the Christ is but you don't know Christ isn't Jesus's last name? Peter found out when Jesus asked, "Who do you say that I Am?" Peter's answer didn't arise within him from asking Pastors or studying scriptures. Because Peter knew Jesus's love towards him wasn't contingent upon Peter's past denials (x 2) while warming his hands by the fire, Peter didn't fear mercy nor a comforting fire. Wasn't about guilty pleas and incidentals. Jesus saw that coming. Imagine that. Can I make superstition less religiously embraceable? And can I make the supernatural more normal? "Born again" isn't nearly as much an emotional Jesus experience with arms failing and wheelchairs rolling and people pew hopping as we think. And if honest, it's embarrassing. Unlearn like children did by having yet learned that more is ludicrous by become like children. Jesus said something like this. Why? Unlearn the very religious dogmas that Jesus crucified and thus, Jesus now the Christ needs no middle management to distort. Holy Spirit. Not freaky stuff. Intuitive is more like this gift that even pre-baptism people had. Understand who you are. Guilty tripping aside, go silent, not introverted. Drop useless thoughts as you observe them. Weed the religious weeds. Now truth outside the Bible is able and willing to be the freedom that makes you free.

    Alan Watts - You Must Go it Alone

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2018 59:05


    I’ll never see her again. Untrue. But she’s dead now! Were you dead before you were born? No. I just hadn’t been born yet. Does a baby see love or experience love or both? Both, if the baby isn’t born blind. What about all of the babies who are born blind? Well, it’s not these baby’s fault they can’t see the people who love them? And neither are these baby’s at fault because they cannot hate the people we see as a statically and historically sort of noun. We can fanaticize for good or for ill about images only looked at but not seen through. We don’t love memories of images. We love the real-time experiences of the unseen soul who emanated then and emanates now unconditional acceptance. The person mirrored this acceptance once because we were open to acceptance. Picture frames promote illusions. In the nature of objects we often speak of such buildings, homes, cars and fences as being things that will be ‘here’ long after we’re dead and gone. But it’s a peculiar realization once see a that no human being was ever or is ever a time piece subject to rusting and eventual ruin. That’s the business of chronological time and chronological time is a pattern and thus, capable of observational inventiveness. Chronological time pieces value little everything that they supposedly are able to measure. Especially people. A person who mirrors even once his or her peace within real-time back to you (and there is no other sort of time) can’t lose what you are and you can’t lose who they are. Peace is a universal truth. All experience it in real-time and reality isn’t historically hemmed in or logically challenged. Whoever lives in real-time knows nothing of unreal time and the only “time” that is unreal is time perceived as sheerly nostalgia. But there’s a more absurd illusion that isn’t fit to be termed time by any stretch of consciousness. This is the nonexistent future. And, if honest, many of us would admit we perceive God as object of superstition, a part of speech. Not part of nature much less a real-time verb. What else is being itself but real-time. Often we must get rid of God as we cannot even ascribe meaning to God (but some say they understand God as a noun and they are generally atheists, theologians, unconverted parochial priests, pastors or corpses. As Saint Anomie or the Cross stated, “God refuses to be known by the mind. A heart bent towards heaven has a mind that’s not its own. It offers permanence by the heart’s humility for soul union. This is not too much to ask. Not to ask of such is timidity regardless of what reasons the intellect’s final defence is for testing spirits. Take the exam. You will not fail.”

    Society is Comical and Waking up - Allan Watts

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2018 33:48


    Our life is a dream. We are asleep. But once in awhile we wake up enough to know we are dreaming. We wake up to the “I” in which the dream is occurring. The ‘I’ isn’t your selfie. It is your true self but in which this “body-mind” as a process is a selfie. It cannot be frozen as we imagine perhaps God as a noun. At which point God becomes so familiarly a sheer topic of discussion (especially within religious inner circles), this airy abstraction we call God is only a part of our overly wordy speech. And, of course, whenever anyone prematurely concludes (through societally acceptable religious programming) God to another heady topic among other topics associated with scholastic study, this person’s chief reason for seeking God has been reduced to “the study of the nature of God and religious belief.” God is not only a noun but static sort of archeological coursework whose existence serves as an academic elective towards a person’s completing their academic outcomes. Because we have been told that God is changeless within the bible, we never consider the enormous frustrations we have about ourselves in constantly defending our resistance for change or else we hate ourselves for being incapable or too slow an object that we want to change. And there are large numbers of references especially within the Old Testament that associate the Rock with God. Such as, “God is my rock and salvation.” This is very insidious and we rarely recognize how we associate a benign word like rock with what, perhaps deep down, we cannot make any lovably relational sense with as connected God as a changeless tyrant. Please stop and put space around what how you’ve learned to associate one word with another. If, in fact but from fear, many of us look at God as a changeless rock in outer space as well as an indifferent observer or even a hostile judge, what will we most readily attempt to do, rather than be? We will desire to come to conditional conclusions about God that will not change as long as we don’t change and comply behaviorally. Now, we have created ourselves into no less an unlovable object as we have parochially concluded God to be as the rock theologians feel safe with as long as they can detain Him inside a manual. This is unworkable and equally as absurd. How often have you said or heard said, “God never went anywhere and He never changed. You did.” And, if honest, we feel tremendous guilt and shame because we moved away from God and because we changed moods or behaviors. But isn’t this what Jesus asked us to do? To repent? Not behavior, but our minds but not as a conclusion about the noun God and the noun Jesus as bound inside a Bible. Jesus made this very clear. The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. -Jesus Do NOT get hung up on quotes. I purposefully avoided using quotes on what Jesus says above and now. If it is true, it is true. Doesn’t matter who said it and when it was said. You can discern it as self-evident truth only in this now.

    Master yields to Wood, not wood yielding to Master's Rigid

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2018 68:31


    For our view of life, it is great difference whether we see the world as a creation or a construction. It is not the idea of evolution that robs faith of its breath; but thinking the world is a divine construction site is what robs faith of its breath. Without the choice to say NO, every single YES is without love. Paul’s comments brought this back to mind AND beyond the mind to the heart of not merely the matter but of what matters most —certainly by my age and hopefully before. A process of eliminating what is reducible and even ridiculous without coming to finitely final yet eternally false conclusions. Much like the absurdity of saying Michael Jordan is the GOAT or greatest of all time. Such a conclusion about Michael Jordan or any other GOAT status necessarily leaves out all possibilities of another human being reaching an already parochial sort of static potentiality beyond MJ as a noun. Like freezing a wave and then trying to surf it. Ain’t gonna happen. We all know that we use the word “bird” to provide an approximate idea of the object we’re trying to convey to another. But has it ever occurred to you how the Western mind has fallen into idolatry where the word “God” is concerned? Don’t freak out but check for yourself here. Often we THINK that where God is concerned that the word “God” is the thing. Human beings and plants and trees aren’t the specific things but when we speak of God, than suddenly we know this word as a certain thing? Really? But we’re taught to do it. But this is what has happened or what many wanted to do with God and even the Holy Spirit by detaining Christ in a sort Jack in the Bible. Little wonder why 44,000 denominations or divisions inner circle only to crumble like the house of cards that are designed for collapse. Debating Jesus as a historical artifact is what we’re left with and among several Christian clubhouses, they get downright angry and vicious. How does one hate another who disagrees with his take on truth? How many truths are there? There is only truth. Hold on before you conclude. Read slowly again. There is only truth. If open to see this, you cannot be so fearful as to exclude from fear that is cast out. Now. Debating creates atheism. It does something more else. It makes “Christians” by label (and that’s all who label atheists as doomed are), move towards the atheistic label. Did you know the one truth (or temporal fact) that Christians by label have in common-certitude with Atheists by label? Both question ardently and even violently the same God that by dualistic extremes both do not believe in as a system. They’re dualistically concluding by disbelief by way of impossibly excluding the One and then the all from their finitely yet infinitely perceived final conclusions before the fat lady has had time to lose weight. The Christian by label who became a Christian by fear of a threatening God has been forced to perceive life and the Bible through a lens of misperception and capricious conclusions that this person never had the relational opportunity to fall effortlessly into freely. Even in the Bible we find Jesus as the Christ but if that’s all we find as presented to us a static noun because 19th century theological students and pastors in the southern United States decided must be termed “The word of God,” we better rethink any renewing of our minds that’s ever been allowed the freedom to occur. I can tell you beforehand, if you question conclusions that even Jesus stated are impossible to conclude, you’ll become disturbed and then you’ll experience the freedom outside of the Bible through The kingdom of God within you and the Holy Spirit will reveal the truth because there’s only truth that only relationship with an actively real Christ is wanting now to reveal to YOU. As one woman last week who’s a regular attendee of church and that’s wonderful said to me in conversation, “I keep telling our oldest son that he needs to read the Bible because that’s our rule book.” Oh my.

    It's Now the Now to See for Yourself

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2018 53:04


    Fred Gywenne who played Herman Munster, had always told his daughter that life was like the snapping of our fingers. When saying goodbye to his daughter moments before he passed, he just said, “I’ll see ya (snapped his fingers) this soon.” Be honest. Most of the people you know in religious and non religious circles have witlessly concluded that it is hell all the way to heaven and it's heaven all the way to hell. "Those sinners enjoying now will go to hell while us miserable saintly bastards make believe we believe what only experience can make us see. But we'd rather be happy later and pay our insurance dues now (although I'm never now) than be happy now and also be much more convincing to those who I suppose we've been taught need at least one sincerely and believable happy face if ever imagine our belief system is real. But my belief system is the hell that I can do anything with or it can do anything with me. Maybe there's another way? Should I see? I've spent so much time in hell that I don't want to risk heaven by questioning beliefs that aren't mine anyway but were handed to me much more by man made doctrines than Christ and the God that no one, when I'm honest, can explain or experience or relate with as long as we think He or She is a noun." So, silence. And before the "little me" with all of its conclusions made in or around the time most of us are 19 or 20, starts figuring the right answer out, just stop. You see, there's JUST THIS. Just this moment. And only in this moment as seamlessly in cooperation with this moment (to say next moment would thrust all of our minds into nonexistent future) and as this moment is seamlessly cooperating with this moment will you hear and see what few have. It takes nothing to make me happy. It has only been the illusion that I need something that has ever made me sad. http://cac.org http://awaken2now.live Is it possible you can know for yourself? Not figure anything out. But know by not pretending to know. What matters most is waking up to what matters not in the least. How about practicing now instead of reciting creeds? Practicing here now in silence and solitude, allowing the sediments in the muddy water to settle to the bottom. Are you willing to take the phone off the hook and rest for a while cause you can afford to wake up and loose even a day or two.... 'cause when will you realize, Vienna waits for you. -Billy Joel

    Slow Down and Understand You're Observations

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 55:19


    Controlled? Sink or _____. Good or _____. White or ______. Float on your back, Hero. Good or neutral. Didn't anticipated that because it wasn't part of your programming. White or sick of two freaking options. Do you choose decisions or do you decide on a choice? If so AND either way, has it ever occurred to you that you don't have to decide on the lesser of two evils. Why? Because the lesser of two evils is the Third Eye that sees the truth by observing the stupidity of both. "Forgive them father for they know not what they are doing." Why? They do a pattern like a quilting convention but until they unlearn to BE, the doing is a frenetic existence and it is time to wake up, NOW. Repent means WAKE UP. Not guilt, but to awaken to see. See the patterns that you can drop once you SEE them in silence. Not all white people or all black people hate the God who’s been wrongly convicted of creating temporal sightless containers hated by two colors until the invisible content jailed by vengeance receives vision from Love within as given by She wrongly convicted, the God who condemns not Her Creation because the Third Eye perceives (both and) what non-conditional One within Three turns old souring patchy vessels newly filling flows rivers living timeless waters, Good ABBA’s Grace lends two lights up all Three universally held since timeless freedom falling upward a seed dies to life with life’s arising and becomes Lion and Lamb of Christ lay together with Jesus did men divisive find death nothing but empty meaningless chatter as laughing again Begin. If you can't understand it, you don't want to or are presently mentally lazy. It is worth the bit of effort as all seems hard before it is easy. The hardest thing to see is the junk inside of us that wants out. See it and it goes without a fight.

    Live Now, That's Reality - Anthony de Mello

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2018 9:29


    A NEW mind, a new installation of software. It’s not about hell as a geographical location but rather as hell as a state of consciousness. Hell in the head caused by becoming unaware of useless and repetitive thoughts which create mental suffering. Unaware of being unaware. Deer in the headlights. Stuck in its own way. Parochialism. One trick pony. Attachments to illusion. iE, “Once I go on vacation, I’ll be happy.” The as soon as syndrome. Change the seer, not the circumstances. The only way out is in. The traffic jam isn’t your problem. The sheer bliss of the present moment is the solution. Wondering why you must wait is your problem because you keep questioning what the joy of waiting produces. A jar of muddy water will clear up as the dirty debris naturally and effortlessly sinks to the bottom. Waiting for clarity is all that is needed. It’s not toilsome, difficult or disturbing. The clarity is worth the waiting as the waiting is how inner peace and joy results from understanding temporary mud in water is not the water. How to be is vastly more crucial than what to be. The being doesn’t diminish in value by being the being regardless of what it is doing. Get the being right and the doing takes care of itself.

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