Yeah, we, it's great in the morning
we were, we were looking at the whole idea of,
of compassion, of caring and,
and it really relates to me that responsibility,
the deeper you go you start to realize that you really
cannot be responsible for any person or any body
or any thing or any circumstance of this world.
But you can be a hundred percent responsible for
the way that you look on the world.
That you are completely responsible for
your perception of the world,
and absolutely have no responsibility
in terms of specifics and form.
But that's a lot of mind training to reach that state.
And that's what you are going through,
what you are talking about, is that daily,
the mind wants to flip back to
"I'm responsible for, whatever,
for my child, for my parents. You know,
in some way, I'm responsible for mother nature.
I'm responsible for my body, for the health of my body."
No, you are not responsible for the health of your body.
Health is inner peace and the body is just a reflector or
a mirror of your state of mind.
And you are responsible for your consciousness.
You are responsible for that state of mind.
You are not responsible for, for the projection.
The projection, you know uh, the body will always
follow along, the body never leads.
The body never causes anything.
The world never causes anything.
This is like, you might say, a life time of lessons
all packed into one clear super punch,
that knocks the ego out.
Because it's very subtle to believe that
you are responsible for the things of time.
Even behavior, it can seem like you are responsible
for your behavior. You know, you, you have to be,
they say, a responsible adult.
Or they tell children, "Be a responsible child."
And they talking more the behavioral level.
But what you do comes from what you think.
And you may try to quit smoking or to lose weight
or to tone your muscles.
You may try to make a healthy body.
You may put a lot of time and money and effort,
and try to improve or maintain the body.
I will tell you straight it's the thinking
is where you have the choice.
You know, all the actions and all the behaviors that are
part of the human condition are all part of a
prearranged script and destiny.
Why can psychics sometime read the future?
Because they are not reading the future.
They are reading the past.
They're off in the Akashic records uh,
getting uh, permission to look at different aspects
of a long script of the past that's all predetermined.
And when you put all of this energy into trying to
make a better world, make a better body, be more
responsible for your body, on and on and on and on.
It's misdirected energy.
When did anyone here ever try to change your thinking?
If you try to change your behavior that could be
one whale of a battle, like quitting smoking,
getting off drugs, getting off addictions.
That's one whale of a battle.
And a lot of us know that from, we've gone through that.
But that doesn't even compare
to changing your thinking,
from egoic thinking to alignment with Spirit.
All that battle over letting go of that specific addiction
has just been a lead-in to go for the, the big letting go,
which is letting go of judgment,
that Spirit didn't create judgment.
And as long as we are judging,
we're still, we still have the stinkin' thinkin'.
We still have or still messed up in mind.
And the world is just gonna be a projection of
symptoms that are reflecting a messed-up mind.
So if you really wanna go for joy, love, happiness
that just is there in a natural flow,
and there's nothing blocking it
and there's nothing in the way.
You don't have a problem. You can't find a problem.
You've lost all your problems forever.
Well, that sounds pretty good.
And you have to
come back to change your mind about your mind.
It has to come back to consciousness.
If you, if you try to change at the behavioral level,
it's really, I can tell you, it's really no change at all.
Even if it seems significant, and it can, at times
it does seem very significant.
If you smoke for 40 years and you quit smoking,
that can seem like a significant change of behavior.
But the thinking that produced that fear and
that uneasiness and that anxiety, that craving
that was underneath for the nicotine
or the smoking whatever,
that's not gone until you have a shift of consciousness.
And when you have a shift in consciousness,
you will never be concerned about
behaviors and the body ever again.
Your body becomes, in a state of whole consciousness,
the body is a wholly neutral thing.
It's just as neutral as, like I've said, a pencil.
You know, it's like, how is your pencil today?
Still a pencil.
How does it look? Who's asking?
You know, I mean, who cares? Really.
But, but when we project all this health,
projecting health and sickness onto the body
then it's a big distraction.
A lot of time and energy and effort,
you know, put to the body.
And it doesn't get you anywhere spiritually
unless you have a change of consciousness.
There is this guy couple thousand years ago
that was talking about forgiveness.
Uh, Jesus.
And forgiveness is the key to happiness;
forgiveness is the how.
And it's just one word.
You could probably come up with a lot of other words.
We could call it healing or whatever.
But, but the thing about it is,
is this forgiveness takes an actual emptying of
your mind. You know, before Jesus was Buddha,
and Buddha was right about this,
he was about emptying his mind of attachments,
'cause he found that attachments were
the cause of suffering. And he was talking about
attachments in consciousness;
he wasn't talking about, he wasn't saying,
"I got a, a bulimia addiction going here." Or, you know,
I got, I'm addicted to this drug or this food or
this and this. He was talking about consciousness.
And, and so was Jesus.
So, so what you start to do is, it does fit in
to Suzan's story about trust,
in the sense that the only way you can forgive
is through trust.
And we're not talking about trusting in people,
trusting in the flesh, but intuitive trust.
The same kind of intuitive trust that takes you in,
as the concepts that you believe were valuable
in this world,
the concepts you believe you could possess
or control or manipulate.
When you're, when you're in love, of course,
there's no problem and you're, it's great, it's wonderful.
So it's, it's when that "out" experience comes up.
And the temptation when the "out" experience comes up
is to, is to look to something in the world
and say something's off, this is out of whack,
uh this, this relationship needs to change,
this, the weather needs to change or
something needs to change.
And so the simple definition I'm giving of the how
or forgiveness. I won't attempt to define truth of love.
But the simple definition of how is
when you're out of this flow,
you believe that something must change,
except your mind, to be happy.
And when you're in the flow,
you don't have that thought at all.
There's no thought of anything having to change.
It's just absolute total acceptance of everything
exactly as it is.
Only time the "out" comes in is when
you perceive something
that doesn't seem like is right.
It seems like, it's, it's out of sync or it's,
it's out of control or, it's other than, other than
the all, all that is.
And that's the, that's the problem.
So in one sense, we're trying to open our minds
to bring everything back in.
You could say back to the heart.
Everything back to the center or back to the mind,
whatever you wanna call it.
You have to bring it all in and see
that there is an experience
there's nothing outside of you,
that you are everything and everywhere
and always have been.
And only this trick of, of tininess is,
is what it feels like to be "out" at all.
Or responsibility, Kirsten brought up
the thing, responsibility.
How many times are you sailing along in the day,
just in the glory of the flow,
and then you just have a thought that you didn't do
something that you should have done or
that somebody didn't do something that
they should have done?
Create the should, should, should all over, that one.
Because, because that's that little blip
of something should be different.
[audience member speaks inaudibly]
Yeah, it's just a judgment
that something should be different.
And all we're talking about is, is coming to a pla—
place of complete acceptance,
absolute complete acceptance.
And also knowing that the Spirit in us is going to
take us step by step
into that place of complete acceptance.
We don't even have to figure out how that could happen.
We just have to be willing to follow that and be intuitive.
This idea about being responsible for other people.
If you look at, at a lot of the jobs in this world,
it's part of a system of, we'll call interdependence,
where there's a lot of reliance.
Just like if we look at nature and we look at the
the cycles of nature and,
and how the nature and the ecosystem,
everything, you know, all this stuff to be learned;
none of us were taught that that's a lie,
that that's a total lie.
None of us were taught that,
that these interdependencies
that are, that are part of family systems,
that are part of governments, that are part of churches;
none of us were taught that these interdependencies
are not true.
Because there's a lot of guilt
tied into these interdependencies.
And what I'm saying is the only way to transcend
these interdependencies is through
training your consciousness
of coming inside and seeing how powerful your mind is.
When your heart is open and everything is flowing,
there's no interdependencies.
You're in the flow of life.
You are in the flow of everything is perfectly
taken care of and always has been and always will be.
And doesn't that feel fun to know that it's, you know,
it's like being a free spirit, truly a free spirit?
Everything is taken care of.
So a lot of people have childhood memories of
when they were just playing on the beach or
playing in the sand, and they had a carefree life.
And then they think about how their life is as an adult
and they think, "Wow, it's so stressful."
I went through all those experiences,
and I kept questioning those beliefs and saying,
"Is this really what your will for me is?" You know,
this stressful, weighed-down, heavy way of being.
"Is this your will for me?"
And, and I kept getting "No, this is not my will for you.
I want you to be free. I want you to be worry-free.
I want you to be carefree.
I want you to live a life where
everything is perfectly taken care of without your effort."
There's no personal effort or personal will in
trying to maintain this vast state of mind.
So to me, we talk about miracles.
That's what the miracles are about.
The miracles convince you
that everything is taken care of.
If you are in your function,
and your function is to be happy
—make no mistake about that; God wants you happy.
If you are in your function,
why wouldn't it be that everything else is taken care of,
from that function, through that function.
We call it divine providence.
And I've been having fun for about twenty some years
with it, playing in it, basking in it.
You know, it's like you can dance in it, you can sing in it.
Your heart is gleeful and you just want to shine and
share that joy and that happiness.
And that's the how.