Session 8: Having It All ( 4th July 1966 )
The path
we're on is from here on until we meet the goal [ — Ultimate Freedom], that's
the first point I'd like to make. We're
on this path until we are infinite!
Second, we can do this this lifetime!
Now, generally it takes many,
many, many, lifetimes for the great, great, majority of people to make it. However, we
can do it this time for two reasons.
First, we are an unusual group. Second, we have the right direction to make
it this lifetime. So that if we ever come back in the future is by choice, it's not by
necessity. Usually, those of us who
want to help others to that point will come back just to help others. But that's a matter of individual
choice.
For What we do, the main
thing is to achieve that [ultimate] state.
Now, becoming master over life is really a basic and necessary step,
through which we learn that we are not we are not the victims in life but we
are the masters. After we master the
ways and means of making our environment the way we want it, then we look
beyond. No matter how happy we make our life,
if it's involved in livingness itself, it will never satisfy us. Because our real state is that of being infinite, and being happy in life and living has limitations.
Are there any questions on
that? I've sort of brought us up to
date. Now I'll go into what I think
should be our direction in the future. We have to
become more Universal. We should let go
of our own livingness to the point where we can live outwardly more for others. If we are universal beings, we must be
universal beings. [For we must come to have the
‘attitude’ that if we are universal beings, we must ‘behave’ like universal
beings.]
Every
human being is “as me”. That’s is the way we should feel, “You are Me” – is the attitude we
should have toward all people.
Now, I use
the word “attitude”. We can't help the world by giving them things, there's just too much
needed. But we can give them that which
is much more than things. We can
begin giving them the knowledge that we are getting. And our attitude should be one of wanting to
help everyone who wants help. And never
helping those who don't want it, that's imposing upon them.
We should
try to help just for those who cross our path.
We don't have to extend ourselves
into directions. Because people will
just fall into our lives. They'll ask us
questions. And, as we give them the
answers, we find that certain people will feel that you are giving them the
right answers, that you are helping them, and they'll ask more. And,
it's really an obligation to answer questions of people who come to you
sincerely seeking the right direction.
As we begin
to live outward and think less of our little-self [which is ego], and more of
the other one, we are helping no one but ourselves. The
world sees it differently, they would probably interpret it as we helping the
other one. But there's no other one
to help but ourselves. And, actually, we
get the greatest benefit, by helping others we help ourselves towards reaching our
goal. And we'll never make it unless we have this feeling of
compassion of Oneness with everyone, with a wish that they too know what we
know.
So to repeat, we have gotten to the point where where we
have learned how to control life and make it happier. Now we
should try to make it happier for others — who want it. This
does not mean stopping our own growth; that we never stop. We keep working for our own further growth,
but at the same time we help others.
We should feel that we would like to give away everything
we have. This is
the way you feel, from here on, you will just want to give away everything, you
have to control yourself.
The point I try to make was that the world is in such a state
of HAVINGNESS. They think all they need is things. And, if we try to provide that, we are
not helping them, we are confirming that things are what they need. It’s NOT THING, IT’S UNDERSTANDING! Because you are living in the world of
separation, there are you and people, and deal.
When you begin to live for others, that [separation] begins to diminish.
Every living soul wants peace. They're all seeking of happiness. Therefore,
if you would expect it, they would come to you.
Well, it's only understood when you Love.
Compassion is ‘understanding what the other one is going
through.’ Compassion is ‘understanding
what the other one is experiencing.’
But the emotional part sort of comes
automatically if you live to see the other one happy.
Practicing that way of life would bring tremendous
amounts of happiness.
The basic point I tried to
get across was what to do now – that life has become happier, and the next step is to live
more outwardly if you can, live for
others, live more for others. This is
another way of saying, “See God in everyone.”
See them as perfect, then you
help them move. Feel that everyone is
you, because there is only you, there is only God. And God is that which “I Am.”
The basic absolute truth is – there is nothing but an
absolute-perfect-Oneness, that is I.
Someday, you reach a point where you just think and
things happen. Someday, you go beyond
that you just know the perfection.
There's nothing to think about,
everything is perfect. Therefore,
there's no thought required. Everyone makes, everyone does, but in terms
of time as we now know it, the great great majority will make it in over a
million years from now. And, we can
do it this lifetime, and we should!
We're all moving in that
direction, the very greatest of the sages are still here, some embody, some not
embody, leading us on, whether whether we're aware of it or not. And,
all we need to do is to open ourselves to their help. Which is the most powerful help there
is. And, we will get full realization this
lifetime.
I try to follow them, if you follow me you're following
them. I take
my guidance from them, through me to you.
So, we're all moving in that
direction. But this group is moving
much-much-much faster than the great majority of people are.
Imperturbability is an indication of how far we have
gotten. Can I be disturb?
Can I be annoyed? If I can, I
must eliminate that. We should get to the place where no one and no thing can annoy us. But effortlessness does show how far we have
gone on this path.
But, I think a better indicator is peace.
How peaceful am I?
The greater your peace, the
further you've gotten.
Your attitude should be the same toward good and bad. If it's good or if it's bad, where is it? It's in the world of limitation! We want to transcend limitation. The
good thing is the other side of the coin of a bad thing. It's all in this dream world. Loosely world of limitations — good and bad.
So, after we learn how
to make our life good, then we should look upon good and bad as the same thing
— just the other opposite side of the same coin. It's all part of the illusory world, but our attitude for
the world is expressed in the highest.
And when I said about the body, when I said about accepting
good and bad the same way. What is it
good for, what is it for this body?
Things that are good and bad are
for this body, aren't they? [That means
good and bad are merely the thoughts of the ego/mind concern about the body
only.] But, we are so
much more than this body! We are
immortal. We are perfect. So,
these things don't touch us.
Our attitude should be the same toward good and bad. Have a attitude of “It doesn't affect me. I am eternal.
I am immortal. Nothing can affect
me.” So, that attitude toward the flat tire should
be applied all the way up to the body.
We have been making life better. Now that we can do that, we shouldn't care
whether it's better or worse. Because we
are not it, we are not limited by it. Our attitude toward good and bad should be
the same, right? Do not
identify what's happening out there!
It's all in my own consciousness.
So, what's the difference whether
I think a good dream or a bad dream?
It’s all my consciousness.
It's necessary that you apply what you learned. You have to do it. I can't do it for you.
I'm just pointing out the way you should go. You have to go for it.
Therefore, I have to step
away, so that you can swim on your own.
I'm telling you how to swim in the right direction; you
have to do it. If I were to stay, you would develop a
dependency relationship. It would feel
good while I'm around. You would unconsciously attach that to me. You would not do on your own nearly as much
as when I leave you, and come back in and out.
I give you the theory; you get your lab course when I
leave in the world. I read you — the world bumps you,
every time it bumps you, it makes you think — you think in this direction. But what you read is also true, you do
need the assist, the confirmation, the re-establishing of the basic truths and
directions.
But you get that each time I come.
Someday, you'll be no need to listen to anyone.
Also, there's only a certain amount that we absorb at a
time or each time. Now the reasons that
time, that I don't give you the whole thing before I leave, many times, right? — the whole thing. But, it takes time to digest; it takes time
to work it out in practice. So I say
you're getting an excellent way of my coming and going. There's
no dependency relationship set up. And this
dependency relationship is a thing that happens when people are with a teacher
all the time. Which holds them back.
Now, what I'm saying might not be hundred percent so. If we
have it set up where we all live together at one point, actually all lived
together right in the same place. This
teaching could go on all the time.
You would get your practice working with each other, like you and Ken,
sometimes would. He would practice
letting go of those feelings about position until there was none. In other words, the world would be right with
you in your friends.
See, the way out of the world is through it. Isolation isn't good until you have completely renounced
the world, until you have gotten to the place where you see nothing in the
world that you want anymore. You know that your happiness does not lie in the world, then isolation
is alright. You have no more desires for
the world then you may isolate.
But until then growth is faster and better in the world. Should you isolate before we reach that point, you are
escaping. You're
running away from the world and that's very bad. But what surprised me some day to see it's all
living together in one place and this [queue?] going on all the time.
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