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Now we have to realize that we aren't going to go from being identified
as a person in a body,
into pure Spirit,
without a transition phase;
it would be too frightening if
you know, like in those magic shows where they
they pull the table cloth
under, and you've seen those times where they pull the tablecloth out
and all the china
and the silverware and everything just goes flying everywhere
just shattering and flying.
We are not being asked to go from body identification
and person identification into pure Spirit.
This body
is part of a self-concept I'm going to call 'the doer.'
And you and I know what that doer is about,
because there is a lot of hard work that the doer goes through
to improve the self-concept;
it doesn't really get us anywhere, it's kinda like
spinning your wheels in the mud, you know,
you've got the odometer going up to 70 mph and you're not moving
because the wheels are spinning in the mud.
Jesus is over in the corner again just
tapping with his hands, you know just like this,
"Okay that's fine, you know."
"No problem, we can deal with this."
"Got a mud-spinner here, that's okay,
we can deal with it."
"It's fine, it's fake, but
you don't know that yet, so we'll work with it."
What happens is,
the only way you go from doer,
to being,
to pure Beingness,
is to be done through.
Doer,
done through,
Beingness.
So, when I gave everything over to the Holy Spirit
when I was in my 20's,
it was just saying, "Take me to the Beingness,
use me."
I was ready to have a still mind.
Has anybody in here tried to meditate?
You know,
does the monkey mind surrender at the first one minute of meditation?
No.
In other words, I went off
I left ten years of University and went off
to a hermitage in the woods of Kentucky,
I took my Course book down,
I was going to meditate
as many hours a day I could and everything,
and I got down there to the woods,
and the ego's like, "Hahaha.
You're pathetic, I've had you
in my grips for a millennium."
"I've had you in prison for a millennium,
and you think you're just going to come down here
and meditate me away? HAH!"
It was a James Brown, 'HAH'
[David and audience erupt in laughter]
And so,
I tried, and the ego just laughed, it snickered
you know you think, so I said I'm gonna
live simply like Henry David Thoreau,
and I'm just gonna make
bread, and I'm just gonna eat
bread and drink water.
And the ego's like,
"Ah come on, you're just going to starve me out now?
You're gonna try and get me with asceticism?"
it was just snickering and laughing
and eventually, you know, if I had just stayed there in the woods
just tried to sit there and meditate,
I don't know where I would be now,
probably looking like Buddha
with the long hair and the long fingernails or whatever.
But basically the Holy Spirit, Jesus, said, "Listen,
I'm going to have to use you,
because you are so identified with that body, and that person of David."
"I'm going to have to use you, I'm going to have to do through you."
"I'm going to have to perform miracles through you."
"I'm going to have to speak through you, and laugh through you,
and hug through you,
and shine through you,
and it's going to take as long as it takes, but this is the way
you're going to come to the stillness."
You're not,
it's time consuming and tedious
for you just to sit there in this little travel trailer in the woods of Kentucky,
and you know this is not the fast route, this is not going to save time;
it'll get you there some life time,
but if you are really wanting to get back to Heaven as quickly as possible,
you're going to have to be done through.
You're gonna have to be willing to be done through.
No small task, because I was voted most quiet
in my senior class,
and they told me don't go talk about God or politics, in public,
and now, I do
(I threw in a few things about politics, but just how to undo it)
but ah, but I talk a lot about God,
and I've been done through
for so many years, so to speak,
metaphorically, that
that that is where the stillness has come in.
And that is just what Frances has has been talking about, that she
she didn't leave behind her
her country, her family, her
husband, business, and all of these things just for the sake of it,
like she gets brownie points for how many things she can drop;
it was more
to really be used in purpose,
that just helped free her up for her purpose and mission,
and then the stillness comes naturally,
when we're aligning with God, and letting God
do it through us.
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