(music playing) Guide the prayers of my heart (song ends)
David: Yeah, prayer. Prayer is a very interesting topic, because
you might say a synonym, or a word that means the same thing as prayer, is desire.
So, whenever
you have a desire for anything, that is the prayer of your heart.
And, what we're really trying to do, and this is more in line with where Armelle was taking you and talking, is that,
if you think of like the core of your heart as like the desire or like the altar, like temples have altars,
whether it's Jewish or Christian or Buddhist or whatever,
that ultimately what you want to do, is you want to clean the altar.
We want to clear the altar of every desire for idols, and then
leave the altar empty because that's kind of a way of saying, just You God.
Nothing else, but You. You know, kind of like in the Bible, you know it's
like, "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart soul might."
and, "Hold no graven images before God," and it's in all different traditions and spiritualities about really having
peace or love and God at the core, and then letting go of everything else.
Now, when the mind falls asleep and believes in the ego, it can't help but pray for idols, because coming to Earth
means that that there's a desire in the mind for idols.
Nobody comes here with no desires,
they wouldn't come here, there's no need to leave nirvana or leave heaven if you just are one
and you know who you are, but the mind falling asleep and dreaming of a world of separation.
So, you're gonna have, there's gonna be desires there, there's going to be
prayers, and you might think of the return back to that pristine state is kind of like a ladder of prayer. And
so, the most important thing about prayer is, is
don't try to skip over any steps.
So, if you heard you're whole and complete and perfect you have no needs,
all you have to do is accept your completion, your perfection and your mind goes,
I don't get it.
That's because there are steps that you will go through to get it you know to experience it and
the most important thing is, is
looking at, at
really the purpose or the motivation.
It's,
God knows the prayer of the heart before a word is spoken.
And
while the ego is still in the unconscious mind, you cannot help but pray for
things for specifics, for people, you know it's quite common, you know
pray for my mother, I pray for my mother's
physical and psychological health, or I pray that I have a safe trip
on my travels here, or so on and so forth.
But you do notice, as you go higher up the ladder, that whenever you're praying for specifics,
you're still praying for the past to be repeated in some way that you think is good or better.And,
and,
the prayer is still getting lifted up
towards that, you know let me accept myself as God created me, as pure love. That's that's the highest prayer is
let me know myself as I truly am as You created me.
There can be no higher prayer than that, but it will just be a very much like our one-on-one the other day, said, oh
you'll just be taken and carried and carried and your prayers will go higher and higher
and higher and higher, because that's the natural movement of all those prayers to go up there.
And then we we could say that the final prayer is more just again a prayer of acceptance, let me accept
myself exactly as I am, exactly as You created me, but you can't skip over all
the others, you know, it would it just short circuits the whole thing you know.
You know, to just say the words
without having it be truly where your heart's desire is, you know is kind of just trying to leapfrog, and
so you have to you know be practical.
You're a natural prayer, so let's keep
up, up the ladder you go.
I'll see you there.
And I'm with you every step of the way as well, too.