When we have guidelines like no people-pleasing, no private thoughts,
Christian was reminding me today that one time I said if you could
totally get into practicing those two guidelines you wouldn't even need the Course; if you could
fully practice no people-pleasing and no private thoughts
the unconscious mind would be up and out faster than you could even imagine. And yet people-pleasing is
kind of now become a cliche that even when you show up for mind training and
you need a lot of mind training, a whole lot of mind training and
there are those there that are there to join with you and offer projects and instructions just
designed to do that mind training, that people
will be like:
Well I don't want to people-please Carry or I don't want to people-please David and the messengers and everything and that's a common ego defense
against the very mind training that is needed.
When the mind is deceived and the mind's asleep it is more than addicted to people-pleasing; it is a way of life
for the deceived mind. In fact the ego made up the whole cosmos
it literally "peopled the world",
Jesus uses that phrase,
you peopled the world, meaning the ego peopled the world .God didn't create the people,
"God is no respecter of persons" the Bible says. God is pure Spirit, God doesn't even know about this world.
God has nothing to do with the people,
personalities,
persona, mask, God is not a creator of masks.
In God all things are known, everything is revealed openly, there's no secrets, there's no hiding, there's no masks, there's no persons, there's no
personalities. This world is completely
unlike the Kingdom of Heaven.
There's nothing a part of this world that has anything to do with the Kingdom of Heaven, nothing.
Even the unified field that the quantum physicists talk about where it's all connected and all energy, the happy dream, the forgiving world...
Jesus tells us that too is an illusion.
That's still part of the veil.
It has nothing to do with God at all. God has nothing to do with any of it.
So "be passers-by", as it says in the gospel of Thomas, means
Yeah, we have to forgive and release everything about this world to know God. "God knows not form",
the Course teaches, so if you're gonna know God and God knows not form put those together,
you need revelation
to know God.
Now, what you're describing is that's the uneasiness the sense of conflict there
because
when you are put in a what is called a leadership position, that's just a temporary symbol that the Holy Spirit will use
to speak through and to lead through and guide through, only that you can
let the spirit do it through you and the ego is always a little frightened of that, because it's being undone through
that process.
Even the" I need do nothing section" of the Course
you know, he says just have complete loyalty and do this just one thing for me and say and mean "I need do
nothing" as a form of allegiance.
That's so deep, it's like "what?!" people look at that and go "what's he talking about I need do nothing"
But the whole course is about doing lessons and it can't...what's he talking about?
He even says "from this place of stillness you'll be
led on many busy doings", so he's showing you that there's gonna be lots of
being done through before
you have this experience that I need to do nothing, I
don't have any shoulds or ought to's or have to's left.
So
you're just giving way to a process of like cleansing your mind, washing your mind of being used by the Holy Spirit
and
in
the state of of
unified awareness
there's no sense of doing, or
even being done through at that point. That all vanishes there's no sense that..
doing has no meaning in the unified field
nothing's done in the unified field, it's just pure
unified awareness and energy. And that's what you're being lifted up and taken to.
And these are just mechanisms , you know, where
like.., we have a lot of people who come here and
they really get it that the first step is trust and follow
and
even though they may have ego resistance to trust and follow, there's something in their mind that knows wow this is the first
step in my escape from hell,
my perception of the world. And then as they get into trust and follow trust and follow there comes a certain point
where the Spirit will say very
good you're doing really well with that one. Now we're gonna kick it up a notch
Now, see if you can lead
and follow.
Because if you identify
personally with the leader role and you think you yourself were leading, oh it's going to be a rough,
a rough ride. But if you're being
led, if you're leading through listening
you, know like it says in the Course, the messenger is just the one who who delivers the message,
but the messages are for the messenger. You know he's giving beautiful metaphors in the Course, it really is all for your mind.
It's not really teacher student, leader follower, it's just all
mechanisms. But let's say you come in and you go trust follow trust follow just follow
then you reach a certain point and then you're given another instruction now
follow lead follow lead follow lead follow lead.
Ultimately the only way you will find peace and either of those is
to let go of
control
of
thinking that you are
voluntarily in charge of the following or the leading because it's only the ego, the personality self that believes that it's
somehow in charge of something. And then, at some point, you start to realize what Jesus says : "Miracles are
involuntary". Oh my gosh!
Involuntary! Oh my gosh! That is going to open up the gateway to peace of mind,
because that sense of control,
you know
"Miracles, he says, " should not be under conscious control." You know, there is one
Jesus says"I'm in the charge of the plan of the atonement, I
Inspire miracles I can do them through you", but he doesn't ever say
that you personally are in charge of miracles so that you can even direct and choose where they should be bestowed.
That was one of my biggest lessons: When I started to get into all the miracles I started to think
my mother really needs a miracle and oh
man
was I in for a
difficult time with that one!
In fact I even went to her and would just be sharing the ideas and she said at one point:
"You need to find other people to share these ideas with."
And Jesus said: "Did you hear that? That was me
speaking through mom."
That was exactly it; I had to open up my parameters and let
Jesus, the Holy Spirit tell me where to bestow the miracles.
That was another step in "I will step back and let him lead the way" that was just another step in humble
following of
letting go of thinking that I knew anything about who needed what.
Miracles are in-
voluntary and should not be under conscious control. You see, that's going to take a lot of mind training
To experience that state of mind. And when people are coming in from a state of deception
and they, say things like well I don't want to people please Carry
well
the whole point of coming here is because they're just draped in people pleasing
as if they could tell when they're doing it and when they're not doing it it's such a
deep thing that they're people-pleasing almost all the time and I don't hesitate to say that.
It's so deeply ingrained.
They've believed in this mask and they're so shaky about this mask that they really think it's important to be liked
and to be liked by other people and know the right people and all those things that Jesus talks about in less than 50:
"I am sustained by the love of God" - being liked knowing the right people. That
he doesn't call it people-pleasing but the sleeping mind is draped in that. It's just a
way of life for that and it doesn't even suspect
that it's absolute craziness and nonsense. It actually thinks that it's it's doing real
helpful things when it's just people pleasing,
people pleasing and people pleasing and more people pleasing and it needs to be
gently shaken out, usually through contrast experiences.
So this "I know mind" that it's just, so locked into people-pleasing with everything and everyone needs to have a few little
little few little charges and jolts, to start to realize how
pervasive is the problem. So
that's why I started out last night and said that when I had a group of students back in the in the early
1990s ,we would just come together and i would just say: " Does anybody think they know something?" And we would go immediately into
the "I know mind" and
and start to let the Spirit softly show us that we didn't. We didn't know
anything.