We don't really have control over the world.
That's the big trick.
You know, we think we have to control children.
We have to control people.
Managers in companies
believe that they have to control the people below them.
Governments, kings, queens,
believe they have to control their subjects.
Parents believe they have to control their children.
Managers have to control their workers.
Generals, captains, in military,
have to control those that are underneath them,
otherwise people would say it's not going to work,
it's going to all go chaotic if there's not control.
But God didn't even create control.
God didn't create all these bodies.
God didn't create control.
It's a mesmerism.
It's a tangled web that the ego has made up
to keep the mind guilty,
to keep the mind from awakening
and knowing its true guiltless, innocent reality.
The whole cosmos was set up
with a false sense of control.
And how glorious it is to start to realize,
as Jesus says, in the Rules for Decision section,
he says, "You have no control over the world you made."
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah. I have no control over the world I made.
If you get into any effective
spiritual awakening, mindset, or movement,
like the Twelve Steps program with Alcoholics Anonymous;
the beginning steps of the twelve steps is to start to realize
we were powerless over our lives.
We were powerless over the alcohol.
We have to start, to begin to first say,
that you're powerless before you can accept the Higher Power
that will unwind you from the craziness.
The addiction really wasn't the drugs,
or it wasn't the alcohol.
It was the stinkin thinkin.
It was the thoughts of the ego.
It was the thoughts and the beliefs of the ego
that was the addiction.
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount,
"Judge not lest ye be judged."
The judgment was the addiction.
And whenever we got caught up into judging,
which our mind wasn't even created to do,
we weren't created to be a judge.
Judgment involves duality and multiplicity.
Oneness isn't a judge of anything.
Love doesn't judge. Love simply is.
Byron Katie: "Love what is."
Love has no judgments,
but the judgment was the addiction,
and then once we accepted that,
once we bought the bait
of thinking we had to be a good judge,
then we are off into a world of illusions.
And then we seem to have all these,
even physical addictions.
The ego will project it out.
You're addicted to cocaine,
you're addicted to eating,
you're addicted to breathing.
Most people don't even talk about those.
So you'll have, Breathing Anonymous.
(audience laughs) We're all BO--
BA! (David and audience continue laughing)
We'll call it BO, Breathing Obsession.
"What's your problem?"
"I'm obsessed with breathing."
It just goes on and on and on. (crowd laughing)
That's our BO.
Not body odor,
it's breathing obsession.
That's when you start to get to the thing,
no, it's the thoughts underneath,
that's part of a body identification,
that's denying my spiritual reality.
That's how it works.
You could take anything, you can start to see,
this is where the disorder comes in.
And so, what is the answer?
The answer comes down to guidance.
If the Holy Spirit is in our mind,
and the Holy Spirit says,
"Yeah, I can use whatever the ego made.
Ego made judgment?
I'll use it.
I'll guide you."
"I'll guide you out of the maze of complexity.
I'll guide you out of the maze of distortions,
I'll guide you one step at a time."
One seeming decision at a time.
Like that prayer Cindy was talking about,
"I am here only to be truly helpful."
All you're doing with that prayer is saying,
Here I am Lord. I am at your service.
Will you start to experience joy and happiness
if you follow that prayer?
Of course.
You can't help but experience joy and happiness,
because that prayer isn't focusing on what you made,
or how complicated or how tangled
your earthly life seems to be.
The prayer is focused on the escape from that craziness,
the escape from that distortion.
And there's joy in the escape,
even just in opening yourself towards the direction of the escape.