It's another one of the hallucinations that the Holy Spirit is a voice.
Well, a voice, as long as you seem to need one,
But, if you're It, what do you need a voice for?
If you're pure beingness you don't even need a voice.
So you see how it's all just metaphors and constructs,
that gently guide the mind to a place where you can let it go.
And, of course, in the happy dream, words are but symbols of symbols.
I love it.
People always talk about different semantics,
and "No no no, it's this and this." -- Who cares?
Who cares about the words...
We have so much love and joy to share.
People could say, "Well, I believe God lives in a pink pyramid... And, you know, he has antennas"
And I'd say, "Aw come here, that's beautiful!"
Or, "I do not believe in God. There is no God. There is no God, there is no deity."
"Aw ya, ya come on, come here"
You start to see that belief is the realm of the ego. It's the domain of the ego.
Why would you argue about beliefs when the whole domain is beliefs and it's all ego?
But the Holy Spirit sees it from that perspective, so then it's fun.
The words don't mean anything, at all.
"I believe if you stand on your head for 10 minutes you can achieve enlightenment"
"Aw... come on here"
Or the commercial ones
"If you come and do my seminar for one week for $10,000, I will guarantee you enlightenment."
"Awww, that's good come on. Come here." No, it doesn't matter."
It doesn't matter.
I taught a class in psychology one time and I did this paper at the end,
I told students to put out all your beliefs,
and just share all your insights and experiences of life,
and they poured out everything.
One of them said "I really resonate with Satanism,"
and so they wrote the paper on Satanism and everything,
and there's some cool things in there!
He said "I think we should take responsibilities for our feelings" in this Satanism paper.
Oh right on.
You can find it everywhere.
So they want to call it Satanism- Okay! It's just a word.
It's just words!
Don't let the words get in the way, no matter what they are.
So this is the final characteristic of a teacher of God--
Open-mindedness.
Why do you think it's number 10?
It's so spectacular, because it's so open that it doesn't see an opposite.
There's nothing someone could say to you where you have to contest them,
"Well no, what I believe... " You don't have to ... Why get into that stuff?
You know, have fun at Temple Square.
It's interesting to me, with all this world traveling,
that I would have a monastery here in Utah.
Such devotion. That's one thing we've noticed--
A lot of the Mormon people that we met, they're very devotional, devoted.
A lot of them that we've met, that have come out here to the edge over the years,
You know they used to make the jokes about the recovering Catholics,
They were kind of like recovering Mormons. They adore Jesus,
And they have a great devotion to Jesus. And they have very devoted lives.
Then they come out here they go, Ahhh, this is a Jesus I can really get to know now.
We say yeah. So it's kind of interesting,
With all that devotion and everything that the Mormons seem to go through,
All the seeming movements from east to west,
Persecutions and things being said and done against them.
They kind of have, you know, it's just-- Jesus's at the core of it.
And we could say at the core of the symbol of Jesus is the Christ which is who we are and who everyone is.
You know call it Buddha. Call it Christ. Call it Atman. Call it capital Self. Call it One.
Call it whatever you want. Who cares. Who cares about the words. I don't care.
I have fun with everybody.
We were in that little country store with Charlotte,
I said, "I'm a monk." - "What's a monk?"
-- "It's just someone who's devoted to God." -- "We should all be that."
You see how the exchanges go?
It's a recognition. And who cares what words get used really?