These thoughts do not mean anything.
(calming music quietly plays throughout)
Today, we begin a practice of meditation.
The workbook lessons are guiding us,
helping us train our minds to meditate.
And the first three lessons,
which are: Nothing I see means anything,
I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me,
I do not understand anything I see,
These first three lessons
are the very beginning
of letting go of all meaning of what is perceived.
All meaning of the linear perceived world of time and space.
It's like the first three lessons are opening the lid of a can,
and then as we peel that lid off,
we are told,
these thoughts do not mean anything.
So today's lesson is the first lesson from Jesus
that is addressing thoughts.
The first three lessons addressed perception.
And now lesson number four
addresses directly,
the thoughts that crossed the mind
of a sleeping mind.
And, Initially he says, this
lesson will be different in the sense that it's not beginning with the idea for the day.
It's just beginning with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind.
Just noting them.
Whereas our first three lessons were
looking around.
Letting our eyes rest on anything that they seem to light on,
and using that as a way of seeing,
that they,
images, they just don't have meaning.
And that everything that seems to be a meaning has been assigned by the mind.
The mind that is asleep and dreaming has assigned
every single image. Every single sight.
Every single sound.
Every single smell.
Every single touch.
Every single taste.
The sleeping mind has assigned that meaning.
And now the focus shifts to thoughts.
Because thoughts... seem to be very intimate.
When you attempt to share your thoughts... by using words...
there's a feeling of sharing something that seems to be very very intimate.
More intimate than the images themselves.
Thoughts arising in consciousness...
seem to be possessed by the mind that is asleep.
And as we begin to see the meaninglessness
of the thoughts that
We think we think
The thoughts that are crossing through
our consciousness through our awareness and
We begin just begin to see the connection between
These thoughts that we think we think and the world of time and space that we think we see
We are taking our first steps
Toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful
Because these thoughts
That are just crossing awareness
Seemingly all day long
Minute after minute hour after hour day after day these thoughts
And the world of images that
Seems to be there
Her actually connected they are actually the same
And these thoughts are not real thoughts
These thoughts don't have any meaning because they
Were invented
They're fiction
They're fantasy
They aren't created by God
They don't come from our source
Our real thoughts
are
Our underneath them are buried underneath them
These glorious glorious thoughts that we think
with our Creator these thoughts of pure pure love
Are her real thoughts
And so today's lesson is the first
The first attempt here in the workbook where Jesus is joining with us and saying I
Want to convince you I want to convince your sleeping mind that the thoughts that you think you think
all through today
are not
Really, what you think?
Because they're not real because they don't have any meaning
Children who were asleep play with false concepts of the Self
False thoughts, false images.
And it's no wonder that Christ is beckoning to us
Calling to us
Through every upset through every
Perception of pain or fear guilt shame doubt
The Christ is calling to us saying this need not be
Lay aside these toys of unreal thoughts and come within.
Come within to find meaning come within to find purpose.
Come within to find your True Identity as the Living Christ
Not a man, not a woman.
Not a human being.
Not a character with a role to play.
These thoughts do not mean anything
And as we look around
In our mind we see that
There seems to be only one station playing initially and that's the past/future channel.
If our thoughts were her radio station that was broadcasting...
It could call the radio station past/future.
That's the broadcast going on every second every minute every hour every day.
Every week every month every year every decade every century
And these thoughts do not mean anything.
Some of you are
Familiar with
Zen Buddhism
Form is empty. Empty is form.
And why is form empty accept?
These thoughts of form. These thoughts of past.
These thoughts of future,
do not mean anything.
Now we can relax as we give our mind over to this
beautiful thought for the day
these thoughts do not mean anything and
We can trust that we are being gently worked with
That the realization
This lesson points to is absolutely profound
And yet nothing is taken away
It's just a call
To realize to recognize what has no meaning
And the ego may
tempt the mind during the day to
put some meaning back
On the thoughts
As if there's a reason for these thoughts as if there's a value for these thoughts
As if some of these thoughts can help you protect you
As if these thoughts that cross the mind all day this fleeting thoughts
as if these thoughts can be you
Which is the farthest thing from the truth
The very very farthest thing from the truth.
So we now make the attempt to stop and watch
And sink
Within
Toward be still and know that I am God
Toward the truth of our being
Away from the temporary the ephemeral thus leading
And inward toward
Certainty
Practice
With focus on this idea for today
These thoughts do not mean anything