yeah it's very similar to what Jesus
said of my kingdom is not of this world
I'm calling you out of the world the
world is his false perception it's a set
of constructs that were made up to take
the place of truth and so as you start
to go deeper to the kingdom of heaven is
within oftentimes people will say you
know like look what the old kind of
Buddhist saying you know before
enlightenment
you know chop wood carry water after
enlightenment chop wood carry water when
you get into metaphysics you start to
realize that what you do comes from what
you think and that when you start to
really empty your mind of concepts then
the mind is like naturally drawn into
this sense of stillness and
progressively the Holy Spirit has to
work with exchanging self concepts so
that the mind gradually loosens from
that identification with that false
self-concept so for most people most
people are given a pretty slowly
evolving curriculum because it would
induce panic I mean occasionally you had
someone like Eckhart Tolle that's
peasant has this such a blazing
experience on a park bench or at some
point that it's almost like it's like
there's such a massive transformation
that that it's very very rapid and it
seems to have just be consistent you
know it
seems to just stay but for most the mind
is highly invested in the ego and it's
gonna involve what seems to be a lot of
steps
so we could say situations like jobs
occupations families and so forth about
the times they've even been talk called
by some teachers some people say you
know you have relationship classrooms
and career classrooms and on and on and
on line the mind is the classroom there
are no classrooms in this world that
metaphor really is is actually quite a
poor metaphor when you go much deeper
into the mind because the mind and
everything is active shared in the
quantum physics movies and these last
movies everything that's going on is
going on in mind and even the idea that
there is a physical world that has an
existence in and of itself is just
another concept and it's when the
question is asked you know can you be
can you be in the world but not of it
you really have to go into what that
means because that's another phrase that
gets used a lot
and in a kind of a justifying way you
know well I'm in the world and I'm out
of it
but when you go much deeper into
mysticism and you go much deeper into
the mind you start to realize that that
the things and the constructs and the
concepts that seem to have meaning
before start just to fall away like just
like shelves or like layers of skin that
no longer have the purpose
wow you're going through the mind
training they seem to be very meaningful
and the Holy Spirit uses them and
they're there's a lot of reciprocity
that's involved in those there's still
ideas of exchange
that are part of those symbols there are
even spiritual communities that will you
know try to I set it up almost like in a
business model where they have they've
got a business going on or businesses
going on and income streams coming in to
support that and they they're subject to
the same economic conditions the
fluctuations in the stock market and so
on and so forth and true mysticism you
know just goes so much inward beyond all
of that that that basically you're being
taken into the state of mind where
you're just like watching the world and
there's not as any kind of sense of
personal involvement in the world so as
long as the minds invested in the
persona and the concept of the persona
it's very meaningful
during this slowly evolving curriculum
that the Spirit will use lots of
different backdrops for the mind
training and then actually they get
there comes a point where it's like a
real sense of just letting it behind
like it's like the concepts no longer
serve those teachers mystics like ramana
maharshi you know he had his experiences
when he was in his late teens and then
just basically left his his mother his
father his brother and went down to this
mountain Arunachala and spent most of
his life just in this state of silence
this deep silence and then it became so
deep that people came from all over the
world just to come and sit in his
presence there was such a strong feeling
of that piece it wasn't wasn't the body
of Ramana but people came is to be
around a presence it was like emanating
and radiating there so when Jesus has
lessons in the workbook like the world I
see holds nothing that I want which is
less than 128 he actually means that I
remember when I first was reading that
lesson I I got to the sentence where he
says Oh
they value that this world has that when
he starts off the sentence like that I'm
like is that you pass it by into that
thing you know and no longer look for
hope you know where there is none you
know it's hmm
some of you have heard of the Gospels of
Thomas and it's come through in
different translations to read
there were mortal reality by Gary
Bernard and he talks quite a lot about
you know
purse' talks about the Gospels of Thomas
and and I remember going through the
Gospels of Thomas and I one of them was
so short I thought wow this is it this
is not even a sentence it's just two
words
it was B passersby
Hutton one of DT passersby
I mean just the very words passes by you
know it's like to be able to watch the
world without having any investment in
it and when you start to look at the
constructs of the world it doesn't
matter whether you would seem to be a
doctor a nurse a construction worker a
lawyer a high school teacher and all the
different occupations a CEO you know you
could go on you can see that all of
these professions and all of these
occupations have a lot of intertwined
concepts that are part of them and that
there is a state which literally
transcends these concepts in which
everything still seems to be taken care
of you know nothing is is
challenged or nothing is out of place
but the mind is freed from identifying
with those concepts there are no how
comes that matter anymore like to a CEO
supply and demand or profit would still
have an importance anybody who who was a
professional anything trying to earn
money for something else you know that
very core of that exchange in that
reciprocity which seems so very natural
in this world is actually extremely
unnatural there's nothing nothing like
it in the kingdom of heaven there's no
exchange going on you know exchange this
exchange money for goods and services or
trading bartering all the things that
seem to be so common so it's really a
path of emptying the mind and that's why
the trust that we've talked about is so
important because you're having to trust
in a guidance that's leaving you and
taking you deeper into the stillness and
this guidance is taking you away from
that all those other mechanisms even the
mechanism to survive that it seems like
the ego would say well there's some good
mechanisms in to that survival built-in
to the survival mechanism and and really
there aren't there really aren't and
it's not kind of pie in the sky thinking
it's like when you go through the
miracles and through the my training you
know it's like it just seems so natural
the the news paint of mind to not have
cares and worries to not be concerned
about making something or or achieving
something or accumulating something
we're building something you know
all those things just just kind of ease
up ease up and I think again it can can
seem radical I guess to in the way of
the thinking of the ego it could see
much a pretty radical path except that
when you're in it and when you're going
through the experience everything seems
so easy it's almost like how can I ever
have been so afraid of this it's just so
simple and easy and yet from the ego
perspective it's it's heavily guarded
against you know you guys gonna find
something wrong with it like it's gonna
try to poke a hole in in it find some
folks they like it's it can't be true to
the ego it's like yeah in order for that
to be true you'd have to invert its
whole thought system completely for that
experience to be true and that's really
exactly what happens when you start to
follow this experience the entire
thought system the ego is completely you
know inverted and that it starts to be
funny it's almost you look at it and you
start to laugh at it like you know how
could I have ever seriously entertained
those ideas and when you start to laugh
a lot then that's that's good news
that's the good news of the kingdom