The following recordings were made by Lester Levenson in 1974. And the Original title of the tape was Looking for Happiness.
Transcending the Bliss Sheath: A Critical Warning
There are seven sheaths, or rather five sheaths that they talk about in the Eastern teachings. The physical body sheaths—five sheaths that cover our infinite being.
There's the physical sheath, there's the prana (energy) sheath, there's the mental (emotional) sheath, there's the discriminative aspect of mind (wisdom) sheath, and the last sheath is called the bliss sheath.
Now, in all my years, I've seen everyone fail to get through the bliss sheath. It's called the Ananda sheath.
They get to a place where life is nice and easy. Their relationships with their friends become nice, their businesses are all good, and then they say and they feel, "Well, I'm going to really keep it going this way."
And you can't. When you try to keep your joy coming from the world, you're going to reach a point where you feel as though the whole sky and world is falling on you.
There was a whole group in California that some of you know who reached this bliss state where everything was roses and honey, everything was going beautifully. And I warned them, "Move above this now!" and they wouldn't.
They tried to keep it coming, and the vast majority of them went through terrible catastrophes since. There is no such thing as an all-good world. If it's world, it cannot be good.
We have to transcend this world. And I'm giving you a warning now: when you get into this Ananda sheath, this bliss sheath where everything falls into line so beautifully for you in the world, do not stop there. Just go the next step beyond it, and then you're free.
And all your joy is only in your being. Your joy is not coming from the world anymore. The world is no more a beautiful, heavenly, harmonious place for you. You are the joy. You are the happiness. You're not taking it from the world anymore. You've got to break through that bliss sheath to the point where all your happiness is only you being you.
Now, if you don't break through that, you get trapped back into the world like everyone has so far in my experience.
Had any one of dozens and dozens and dozens of these people just taken one step more, they would have been free forever. Then it doesn't matter what you do in the world. You can do anything. You can be a king or you can be a beggar, and it's all the same to you. Because your joy is only you being you. Because your beingness is infinite. Your beingness is the ultimate. Your beingness is what you and everyone else is seeking—the ultimate state where you are, only pure beingness. It's the I of you. I AMness.
So, again, I warn you, be careful. When you hit that bliss state where the world is so beautiful and everything is nice, do not stop. One step beyond it. Get free of that. And then do anything you want in the world after that, and you'll never be bound again. Okay?
The Two-Part Course: Free Yourself, Then Free Others
All right, let's get to the course. This course is basically designed in two directions:
1.To free you far more appreciably than you have gotten freedom so far.
2.To show you how you can specifically, and in a detailed way, help others go free.
First, to free you. Second, to help you to free others, working directly with them.
Now,
By helping others go free, you'll discover that you are freeing you, far more so than you're helping them go free.
So there's two aspects to this course. First, it's designed to help you go free, and if you will get with it, you could go totally free. Second, it's designed to help you help others.
The Simplest Path: Dropping Tendencies (Vasanas)
The reason behind that is simply this: The only thing standing between you and your infinity is your mind. The only thing between you and your being totally unlimited is your mind.
You have been operating this mind for billions of years—millions of years in the physical and billions of years before the physical state, before that. This is one reason why you find it so difficult, dropping it. But to tell you to dis-identify with the mind is to tell you something you're not doing, and you think you cannot do.
So the masters come out: "All right, drop your tendencies."
The tendencies are another way of dropping your mind. A tendency is a predisposition; it's a feeling. It's a feeling that has been built up from the beginning of time up until now.
So that every tendency you have started billions of years ago, and all your thoughts have culminated into your present feelings, tendencies. So that if you drop a tendency now, you're dropping an accumulation of thought that is billions of years old, Earth time.
You see, the effectiveness of dropping a tendency is the culmination of thinking on a particular thing that's been going on since the beginning of time for you.
If you drop a tendency totally, you drop billions of years of accumulated thought that went in to make up that tendency. That's the effectiveness of dropping tendencies.
If you want to go free this lifetime, that's the lowest level approach required to go free this lifetime. If you work on incidents, on thoughts, you've got billions of years of past history to undo. It'll take you billions of years to undo it. Every other therapy in the world is working on thoughts, incidents, etc. And that's why they're not getting very far. I know of no attempt to approach it from dropping the tendencies.
And I think the reason why they don't is they just don't understand it: "Mind is so complicated, nobody understands it." I say, "Mind is so simple, there's nothing to understand about it."
What Is Mind? The Tool for Liberation
What is mind? It's the sum total of all your thoughts. Is that complicated? It's the sum total of all your thoughts.
There's a conscious part—the part of your thoughts that you look at is called the conscious mind. The thoughts you don't look at are called the unconscious mind. All these different kinds of minds you read about are fictions. Somatic mind, what are all those minds? Reactive mind, analytical mind…
Now there are two aspects to mind:
1.The sensing-recording aspect.
2.The discriminative aspect (the higher aspect).
So if you want to break it down, you can break it down into two parts: sensing-recording, and the discriminative aspect. And this is what makes man able to go free: the discriminative aspect of mind.
Animals have only the sensing-recording aspect of mind. Animals cannot go free until they become man. All spirit returns to spirit. All spirit returns totally to pure spirit. Animals come through what we're going through before they get totally free. But they have just the sensing-recording aspect of mind.
And we have, in addition to it, the discriminative aspect, which says, "We're men and they're animals. They're cats and dogs. We're intelligent humans."
A cat doesn't know it's a cat. A dog doesn't know it's a dog. But you know you're man. That's your discriminating ability—which allows you to discriminate between the right direction and the wrong direction. Animals would go on forever as they are, if they were to remain as they are, without the discriminating aspect of: Which direction will really get me free, and which direction will send me in the opposite way?
But because of our discriminative aspect of mind, we can choose the way to total freedom, like we in this group are doing.
So, mind is simply the sum total of all thoughts. And there's two aspects: the discriminative and the sensing-recording.
If there's anything about truth, it's the fact that it is simple. If it's given to you as a mysticism, and the cult is something you can't understand, reject it. Truth is simple.
But the world is so spun in the wrong direction right now; they can't see their nose right in front of them. They cannot see the simplicity of what you're being given now. You're being given a way of going free this lifetime, through dropping tendencies.
You Are Already Infinite: Just Drop What You're Not
Now, because this is the way put out by Masters, you'll never hear it anywhere else: Drop your vasanas, drop your tendencies.
You've never heard it anywhere in the world, have you? Anybody study psychology, or metaphysics, or any field—you've never heard this put out: Drop your tendencies. And yet, that's what this whole thing is centering around.
So, I believe for the first time, you're being given something that has a very powerful impact, that is so tremendous, that it can free you, and help you to help others go free this lifetime. In one year, or in one month, or in one day, if you understand it, and use it.
Because you're infinite right now, acting like you're acting—almost on the opposite end of being infinite. And yet, you can drop that whole thing right now by identifying with what you really are. Which is simply dropping what you're not.
Now, you're being infinite; you can't do anything about that. You've got no choice on that. You are infinite right now. And when I look at you, I always see that infinity.
And you're always saying to me, "I, the infinite being, am extremely limited." And I say, "No, look…" And you say, "Yes, but I, the infinite being, have this problem." This goes on and on and on. Because you don't take one moment out to see this infinite being that you are. And yet, some of you do. And you feel so high and so good when you see it.
But then you fall right back into the tendency, the habit. Another word for tendency is habit. You fall right into the habit of saying, "No, I'm subject to this excrement-producing beautiful mechanism that throws garbage out of every single pore of it. And through other extremities, phlegm, feces, urine."
And there's nothing more disgusting to us than the insides of a human being. And we're glorifying this piece of crap. Someday you're going to see that the least of you is this piece of junk.
But you could see it right now if you would just look at what you are. And at that moment, dis-identify with the body. Or see that the body is just a creation of your mind. And that's where the body lies: in your mind. Get behind your mind and you'll see your infinity.
But you're so plagued with these tendencies it's almost like you're trying to look at the air from the bottom of the ocean. You've got that whole ocean between you of tendencies.
However, any time you choose you can drop the whole thing. But most of you just don't believe you can. Believing that you cannot makes it cannot. You've got to let go of "I can't." Because if you think you can't, you're making it that way.
The Power Behind This Teaching
Now because this is coming out at this high level of dropping tendencies, there's a power behind this course. Which is the power of the high beings who want you to do just this. And you'll feel it if you just open yourself to it. Get with this course. Do the things that Bridie's putting out for you to do each lesson [Note: this is known as Sedona Method as of today.] And all the masters are behind it. Because it's being put out at a masterly level.
Instead of getting into these groups which are primarily sex things—counter groups, all these things. They're primarily sex. Which keeps you body-bound.
You're getting a course that is in a direction that the masters would give it to you at. And therefore they're supporting you. You don't have to believe me. Check it out.
Let the power come through on this course and you'll see yourself moving freer and freer in very big giant steps. I think Neal can back me up on this.
I guess I'm not telling any secrets and Kathy wouldn't mind. She made tremendous strides in the course. Tremendous. Strides that take the average person in this world millions of years to do. She did in that course. And every one of the girls gained tremendously from it. But I do believe Kathy took more than anyone else. Took more, that's all.
Open yourself to it. The masters are there. The power is there. Go with it. It's a do-it-yourself thing.
See, no one can free you but you. No one has bound you up so tightly but you yourself. So you're the only one who can do it. You must do it. So if you get with it, you got the possibility of going free right on this course.
And if you don't go free, you got the map, the formula, the way to go free so that when you're finished with it, you continue right on until you are free.
I'm supporting this course with all the power that I have. And while I was doing that, I saw that I was not alone. I saw the masters right behind me pushing me. Until the time I said, "Don't you people feel the power in this room?" I had to say it because if I didn't talk about it, I would have lost consciousness. It was so powerful, the power coming through, that I spoke about it only to keep me here.
And I believe every one of them—I don't remember, did they all say they felt it? I know some of them mentioned it. Now that power is there for you fellows. That's the power from the masters.
Making a big push to free you because you're taking it at a level that they would give it at—a level in which you can go free shortly, very quickly.
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