Attack is Impossible
A state of stillness is a state of
complete detachment and a state of
deep contentment. This deep, deep
contentment that I know many
saints and sages, Adyashanti more recently have talked about contentment
as synonymous with enlightenment. There's just
a deep contentment and stillness that everything is just perfect
as is; nothing needs to change
nothing needs to improve. We
have lived with a mindset
that is drawing us to be active
and take active stances for and against
things in the world and then
we start to go deeper into mysticism and deeper into
non duality and really deeper into that
that quote from the Course
Seek not to change the world. Seek rather to change your mind about the world,
and pour our mind energy into just that
into just paying close attention to our thoughts
initially as we
allow this flip from upside down thinking to right side up thinking
and then the only reason we need
it takes effort for mind training is because of the belief
in upside down thinking. If you had no belief in it,
there would be no effort required and not even
be vigilant for God and His Kingdom
not even that but actually that is an
aspect of the mind training is to be vigilant for God in this Kingdom
and be vigilant for right-mindedness,
seeing that there's no other cause but mind, there is no other cause but mind
If you wanted a positive interpretation of the bird,
each peck you could reinterpret as "no other cause but mind"
[peck on window], "no other cause but mind" no no no no no no
it's the positive interpretation: every peck
is an opportunity for a miracle
and your mind gives it
the interpretation. It's the Holy Spirit in there
trying to get the attention of the mind and say it's important
really no no no no no you know it's
it's the Spirit coming in very very strong
and saying this is important I'm not going to stop
reminding you until you
you get it and then I it'll just be stillness and you'll be like
yeah yeah
Ahh okay
Ah ha yes yes yes
yes you know that's that's the flipping of it, so
Jesus tells us that even when we experience fear
that underneath the fear is just this
very strong call into Love. Fear
is properly interpreted as a call for Love. That's how the Holy Spirit
sees fear, as a call for Love and
and that's a turn that our mind must make
to heal, because has long
as we still search, like
we take those thoughts and we turn around and we look at them
and you know like, "Well it was a really lovely day
until this one showed up and
and it can be tempting to ruminate
on an attack thought but
there is a beautiful teaching in the Workbook of the Course
where Jesus talks about the point
where you'll be willing to let the attack thought go, he actually describes it
and he describes it as that point where you see
that there is no difference
between attacking and being attacked
you see cause the ego doesn't let you
know that it's just about releasing the attack thought; it's always projected out
onto the screen
as the victimizer or victim and
in the case of the recent shootings of the children and the
the 20-year-old who first shot his mother in bed and he goes and shoots the children and
the principal and the teachers and then
and then himself.
It starts to be a little ambiguous because
the ego is right away looking: Who is the victim here? Who is
the victimizer? And it's a little ambiguous there
you know, usually if there's a there's a
villain like a Saddam Hussein or an
Osama bin Laden, there is a target it can just go "oh"
that terrorizing villain.
But when it's ambiguous there's all these emotions, grief and
anger and all kinds of things and without a clear target
it's a little more difficult, but the ego always has
taught us, the sleeping mind, that there's a difference between
attacking and being attacked. That's how we have these concepts called victim and
victimizer.
And I just also saw "Les Miserables"
you know, the movie, we went to see it and Frances
"whaa" she started bawling the last five minutes
it was so mystical, she's like, if that movie had gone on any longer I would
have cried
For ever and ever. I would have just cried and cried and cried
unlimited water, liquid to come out of the eyes
because it was about healing unworthiness
and going past shame and past
guilt and past doubt all those things and really
getting to the point of healing and release,and it was very mystical at
the end. It
was spectacular. But that movie was really a good one too at
at really taking a close look at the whole thing a victim and victimizer and
really
you know like starting to see that it's just not so
it's just a trick to think that there are actually victims and actually victimizers
when underneath those artificial
projected constructs is an attack thought.
The very belief that attack is even possible
lies underneath the projection of a victim and a victimizer
You couldn't even have a victim and a victimizer without the belief in attack
so for me all that enlightenment's about, all that healing's about, all the
self-realization is about
is a convincing job from the Holy Spirit to
the mind that attack
is absolutely impossible.
And if attack is not possible, then guilt
is not possible. If attack is not possible then sickness is not possible.
Sometimes if you really want to look at at
an idea like sickness and how Jesus deals with it, he's like,
almost like talking to a preschooler, kindergarten. "Come, come closer here
Okay I'm gonna give you a little bit of divine
logic, and if you just follow my divine
logic you'll be very happy to very peaceful
I'll sit down, here we go: I am NOT a body
and my mind can not attack
so I cannot be sick."
That's his spoonful of sugar and there's no medicine involved in it
doesn't make the medicine go down because you don't need the medicine to go
down
You don't need it, if you start to realize I am NOT a body and my mind
cannot attack
so I cannot be sick. Now that, he is giving a divine formula
the show that you must be whole and healed and
and invulnerable and powerful if you can follow the divine logic,
and first he's asking you to see that your identity is not a body
and then he's throwing into the mix very important one in the middle
and my mind cannot attack
and he's just giving you the two premises that if you can accept them
both
them you cannot be sick. Isn't that nice
because if you cannot be sick then that must mean you're invulnerable
Oh that's empowering to be invulnerable
that's good, teach me how to get to the third one with the first two
but that's a formula right there in the Course in Miracles, I'm not a body and
my mind cannot attack, so
I cannot be sick. The thing is
the ego made up all of time and space
to make you keep believing
that you have attacked God you have attacked
God in mind; you've ripped your mind away from your Creator
and you pulled your mind away from its source
somehow, as if that could happen
and that you actually are guilty
up sinning and attacking and separating from God
so that's why the middle one is so important
and my mind cannot attack because everyone who seems to come to this world
believes that their mind has attacked God.
Everyone who seems to come here. The definition of believing you're in this
world
is believing that you've attacked God. That's what the separation from God is
all about. That's what the fall from grace
is all about, believing that you've attacked God.
And then the body part is just a substitute
identity that's offered on top of that
So that you will never go back and question that you actually attacked God.
The ego never wants you to go deep enough inside
to question the original Sin.
What if the original sin wasn't true. Oh the ego says let's not even go there
You've got a body to deal with now
you've got survival issues, you've got all kinds of attractions, repulsions
and your on shaky ground
with this body but don't ever go back and question the belief that you could
attack God.
and that's why that is a central idea in healing.
And my mind cannot attack. If you look at the world and all the seeming forms of
attack
and I mean this cosmos is full of them
it doesn't matter whether you're looking at the
atomic level or with nuclear fission
or you're looking at the level of
molecules or form. Or maybe you liked watching, when you're growing up,
Marlin Perkins and you know every week you looked forward to
Wild Kingdom. Which animals are gonna get ripped to shreds
with the soft voice narrating behind as
some animal tears up another animal. And your eyes are glued as you was for
an hour at flesh getting torn by flesh
and your watch one little fleshy thing and
this cute little furry thing and you ooo
it's like Disney you're all and then
chomp. It's chomped up in the end
That's what's described as the natural order
Attack! Kill or be killed!
That's the natural order and then you can go on you can watch
You can watch ER or
the emergence room where where there's bodies constantly coming and going in there and
attack and defense. Or you can watch your soap operas
or even watch the Super Bowl so you can see a bunch of grown man put helmets
on and
smack each other, trying to knock the hell out of each other for three hours
but the thing is this it, this world over tacking defense is a projection of the
ego
and its a myriad of seeming attacks and
defenses that are going on so often so frequently
that they've become just accepted it as just the natural way things are
and no one goes underneath them to question
the actual thought of attack you know that
that you could actually attack, that attack
is is meaningful. Jesus says
that no one who made this world ever stopped to pause
and look at the insanity of what they were doing.
T hey just built layer upon layer upon layer upon layer upon layer until
they got so caught up into the layering, like the movie Inception some of you
have seen.
Dream upon dream upon dream upon dream and there's so many layers of dreaming
that
before long you forget that you're dreaming
and you take the dreaming to be an actual
occurrence. It's a dream no longer
and that's the whole cobweb of the ego, that's what it's doing. The whole thing
is designed
so that you will not question the idea of attack
You will not say, hey, where did this come from in the first place?
The ego doesn't want you ever to answer that question
or to even raise it to doubt.
Just accept it as true and then sickness and a whole host of other illusions just
enter in the gateway through that one
illusion, that we could call the linchpin
and if you can get down there and you can pull that lynchpin
then the whole projected world illusions just unravels
before your eyes. So, that's exciting
It's really exciting to start to say "I think I'm gonna go for the
lynchpin."