Guided meditations are all designed for the same thing, to dis-identify from those thoughts.
And we've talked before, if you think you're identified with behaviors and images.
An even more of a close identification is with the thoughts you think.
If you are thinking judgmental thoughts, and you identify yourself as the thinker of those
thoughts, how could you not feel guilty?
If the thoughts are guilt, and you identify yourself with the thinker of those thoughts,
then of course you would feel guilty.
Of course it couldn't really be who you really are.
Because God didn't create guilt, God didn't create a stream of guilty thoughts and say,
"Ah this is my beloved stream of guilt thoughts in whom I'm well pleased."
That just doesn't work that way.
That's not the teaching.
This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
The Christ.
God is pleased with the Christ.
The Christ is pure Love, pure Innocence, not a stream of guilt thoughts.
So this is why the most important thing you will ever seem to do in this so called lifetime
is mind watching, and mind training.
And if you think about all the things you put your energy into...Or even if you look
back into your so called dream life and the past and you think, "Wow what did I value
here, what did I put my investment in, what was I pouring my energy into, you can see
it was into a bunch of things, it was pursuing a bunch of pipe dreams, it was holding onto
these kind of concepts and pursuing the concepts believing that if I just reach such
and such then I'll be fulfilled.
You know, Jesus says in the Course, "The one thing you must learn about these ego goals
that the ego has given you, is that when you have achieved them, they have not satisfied
you."
Think of all the goals we've set.
We actually have been told that goal-setting is good, right?
What are you if you don't have any goals?
A lazy, no good, rotten bum is what you are if you don't have any goals.
And now we're working with the Course and what is it asking us to do?
Give up all of the goals!
Because when you start to live as if you're giving up all your worldly goals and your
one goal becomes present peace, that's your one goal.
It takes a while to practice that because we're always associating goals with the future
right?
But now we've got to learn how to have present peace, it's a different kind of goal.
That's why it seems to be a little difficult for us, when we're trying to attain this goal,
we're just not used to present peace as a goal.
It's like a strange, weird, awkward goal.
You can see the ego going like, "Oh c'mon, what a waste, what a total waste.
You could do something really productive, and present peace??"
And you see that's what you have to face.
And as long as you have that doubt thought like, "Yeah right, what a goal".
Then guess what the world is going to act out for you?
It could be your parents, it could be your neighbors, it could be your spouse, "What?!
What's your goal?
Your goal is present peace?!"
Anyone can act it out because it's just that your thoughts are projecting the world that
you perceive, and if you have doubt thoughts about present peace, guess where they're going
to show up?
Everywhere.
Everywhere you look, everywhere in the world.