A Fireside Chat With Lester Levenson - Part 2 (Your Infinite Nature) (Edited)

The following recordings were made by Lester Levenson in 1974. And the Original title of the tape was "Attachment and Aversion".

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Re-titled as: 

Waking Up to Your Infinite Nature: Lester Levenson on Truth and Oneness

 

☞  The Single Goal of Life — Constant HAPPINESS with no sorrow

This subject is sometimes called truth, religion, or psychology. As I see it, these are all the same subject. I should say the same subject, but the approach to it is from different angles, and therefore it gets different names. But it is the thing that every one of us is looking for, either consciously or unconsciously. It's the actual goal in life for everyone, for every being.

And so few of us in the world today are in this right direction. Everyone is looking for happiness, but they're looking for it in the wrong places. They look for happiness where it isn't, and therefore we have this unnecessary and unusual condition today—where we have almost everything we want in a material sense, and yet we have less happiness now than we had 30 years ago, when we didn't have the things that we have today.

My object is to try to give to you what I have seen, to point out to you the direction which, if you will take it, you will find this happiness. The best way for me to get this across to you is to have you ask questions. In the process of your asking questions, I try to point out the way, or the direction, in which you should look for you to find the answer.

 

☞  The Do-It-Yourself Path

As I know it, this is a strictly do-it-yourself thing. I point out the way; you get the answer. Unfortunately, it cannot be taught as an intellectual subject as we learn things in school. If it could, everyone could be given this wonderful state of constant happiness with no sorrow just by being spoken to. 

So the method comes out to be one of evolvement where it evolves from within outward. The place where we find this happiness is within our very own self. So most of my answers, if not all, try to get you to go within to look there for the answers.

 

 

☞  Responsibility and Creation

We should take full responsibility for whatever happens to us because we are the cause for everything that happens to us in life. Everything that happens is initiated in a thought prior to the incident. But because we have put in a thing called 'time,' we forget that sometime, and sometimes long before the thing happened, we had that thought. Someone comes along with a thought of theirs, and when the two thoughts complement each other, two people meet.

But again, we have to go within to discover that our thinking determines everything that happens to us. That thinking is conscious and unconscious also, and it's the unconscious thinking that is the habitual way in which we do things. And that's why it appears as though we are victims, when all the time we are not—we are caused.

Mind is only creative. Mind creates the things that we hold in mind. The quickness of the thing materializing depends upon the conviction as to whether you will or not get it. The conviction is also a thought.

If my thought is "I will get this instantly" and there is no doubt whatsoever, whatever you had in mind would appear instantly. But that takes an absolute conviction with no doubt whatsoever. Now, if you can't get the absolute conviction, the thing to do is to hold in mind that which you want, then let it go with the feeling it is already accomplished. Because the attitude it is already accomplished is an acceptance of the fact that it is.

Now, the biggest mistake of all that is made by people who are consciously trying to create things is expecting it in the future. We must expect what we want now. We have to take the attitude that it's here right now and then dismiss it.

Because when we put things in the future mentally, it's always kept in the future. So to create something, to demonstrate, we should always demonstrate in the present. Anything you want, you must accept that it is already yours, otherwise it's just ahead of you all the time.

 

☞  Overcoming Unconscious Obstacles

Now, the things that prevent us from getting the things that we want are the unconscious thoughts to the contrary. Concepts we have had since childhood: I can't do it, I can't have it, it couldn't happen to me, you must work hard to get things. Of course, everyone must work for a living, and therefore everyone does.

So, the biggest obstacle is the accumulation of subconscious or unconscious thoughts to the contrary—that we can't have it, we can't get it. So if you consciously start demonstrating, if you succeed once, you become more convinced that you can. If you succeed twice, conviction gets stronger and stronger until someday you have the absolute conviction. Then you have to watch your thoughts—whatever you think will come to you right away. That can be a problem too.

 

☞ A Personal Demonstration

Let me tell you one that's hard to believe. When I started proving this law, it worked in small ways. One day I said, "My gosh, it's working. All I need to do is to dare to think big!" And so I said, "What's the biggest thing I can think of? A Cadillac car, special built body." I had a picture of it, I was driving it already, and I let go of it.

Well, in about two weeks, an acquaintance came to me. He said, "Oh that's right, I just bought you the most beautiful Cadillac, special built body. A friend of mine bought it, my friend doesn't want it, and I got it for only $4,000." He said, "Thanks, you owe me $50." He said "$4,000?" I looked at him. He said, "Don't worry about the money, I'll pay for it."

Honest, that was a conscious thought. I was proving the operation of the law. I said, "Gee, I can have a Cadillac." Just by thinking Cadillac. I pictured the Cadillac, I saw it, I was sitting in it. I could feel the pulse rate in the car when I was driving it. It was mine, and I let go of it as already accomplished. I was in that car, I was one with it. The feeling of 'already accomplished' is a big part of doing it. Does it help to identify yourself with that which you want!

Now, anyone can do this if he or she will, but it takes a thought uncluttered with other thoughts. Or to express it another way, it takes the conviction. If you're absolutely convinced, that'll do it. That's conviction.

You don't have to know metaphysics. You don't have to be good. You just have to have a conviction, that'll bring it about. Because the mind is an instrument of creation only.

By trying it first in small ways. It's not too hard to dare to demonstrate a very small thing. When that works, that gives you more confidence in it. Try it a second time, a third time, and it builds up. Eliminate the concept of limitation and you're back to your natural, unlimited state.

☞ You Are Already That

Someday you'll laugh at all these efforts you're going through now because that which you're going to find out you are in the future, you are right now, and always have been. You may be kicking up a big fuss trying to become that which you are.

Where can you see something that isn't in your mind? Can you? Everything you see, where do you see it? Look, everything that you perceive, where do you perceive it? What happens to this world when you tuck your mind away to sleep at night? What happens to this world? You put your mind to sleep, there's no more world. The morning you awaken, the mind comes out and there's a whole world.

You are a being with no limitations, identifying wrongly as being a limited being. But since you're unlimited, and that's an infinity, that's a perfection that never changes—you are that infinite perfect being, here and now. What changes is your letting go of concepts to the contrary. Like the unlimited being that we are, we are here and now. The object is to get to see it.

 

☞ Quieting the Mind to See Infinity

 

The way you can see it is by quieting the mind because just behind the mind is that infinity. By turning the mind inward, you quiet the mind. You let go of all the external distractions. The more you quiet the mind, the more you'll see this infinity that you are. The more you see the infinity that you are, the more you'll shed the limitations. The more you do away with the limitations, the more you'll see the infinite being you are. And you keep doing this until there's no more limitation left. But the method is—go within, turn your mind back upon the mind.

It seems that way otherwise because you're looking at it through ego eyes. But the more you see this infinite being that you are, the more humble you'll become. It's only the ego that's arrogant and proud, thinks it is, that's it. The higher an individual goes, the more humble he becomes. Someday you'll see that the word 'I' is used by apparently many people, later on turns out to be the exact same 'I'. This is seeing the truth, the reality behind the apparency.

☞ The Reality of Oneness

The world is an apparency right now; it's not real. When you see the reality, you'll see a singular ONENESS throughout everything. Which people call God, truth, self—it has several names. But that's the thing we have to strive for: to see this singular ONENESS everywhere. And it's changeless, it's perfect, it's infinite, and it's you. Is the way it turns out when you see it.

The false concept of being a limited being disappears, but the I, when you say I, never disappears. That's eternal. When you say "I am Harry, the body," that'll disappear, and you'll see that I am the infinite I am.

You don't give up anything, you don't lose, you just gain more and more and you expand into the infinity. You see, the mind cannot comprehend the ultimate because the mind is an instrument that's limited. Stop thinking and you'll see and be. It's infinity. This is the real way of doing it. Every thought is a thing of limitation.

 

☞ Waking Up from the Dream

Someday you'll see that thought is matter. It's very subtle; it's the subtlest of all matter. It's the matter that determines other matter. So what matters is to get rid of the thinking, and then you'll see. You see, as you let go of thoughts, the sentiment of being is there all the time. The thoughts are covering it over. So as you let go of thoughts, you're letting go of the cover that covers over this infinite being.

But when you have a thought, like in the demonstration, you have the thought and the demonstrating is not in the infinity—that's in the dream.

And someday you'll see that this waking state is just as real as the night dream state is. Like when you're in a dream at night. While you're in it, it's real. While you're dreaming, you're in trouble, you're suffering, or if it's a very pleasant dream, you're really enjoying it and it's real, right? It isn't until after you awaken that you say, "My gosh, it was a dream, it never was, right?" You'll do the exact same thing with this world when you wake up.

What we call a waking state is really a fast asleep state. When you wake up out of this thing, you say, "Oh my gosh, it never was, it was just a dream. I was always this infinite, unlimited being." But until you do it, don't buy it. But if you're interested in attaining it, it's something worthwhile striving for. Because, I'd say, if you accomplish it through the method, you gain an infinity.

You also gain a complete satisfaction of anything and everything which you will never have in the dream. Realizations of the satisfying of all desires, and no more are left. You attain the desirelessness state. But every pleasure you have is experiencing your real self a bit. The more the pleasure, the more you experience your real self. That's all that happiness is. And if you can get to see that your struggle with the world is at an end, then you go directly for your joy. You go right to where it is and you can maintain it all the time.

 

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A Fireside Chat With Lester Levenson - Part 1 (Edited Transription)

 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)

 Now, I believe it's the first time that anything like this has ever been tried, and what we're trying to do is give the highest teaching out at a level that's acceptable to people where they are today. 

 You've heard masters say, like Ramana Maharshi: "All you need to do is to drop your vasanas, drop your tendencies. That's all you need to do, and that's true, and you're free."

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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Self Development Idea (32): The Free State – Identify With Your Real Self – Your Beingness (1984) by Lester Levenson

Video Record in 1984,

You may find the video from YouTube with the same title: "The Free State" by Lester Levenson, the following is the transcripts.

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The Free State – Identify With Your Real Self – Your Beingness (1984)

In a way, I will help you to identify better with that which you really are, and with a lot of helpful hints on how to identify with the Real You – the you that never ever changes, the you that's whole, complete, perfect.  The You that you are trying to get to, in everything that you are doing.  The You that you are looking for where it isn’t – externally.

One reason why I say it is easy is because you're trying to find You.  How difficult is that?  Also you're every moment experiencing the Real You.  But every moment looking away from it. 

But, you can't help but experience the Real You – when you say “I”, that is – “I Am.”  It is the beingness that you are – that is you.

How many of you would expect to have this carcass a thousand years from now?  A hundred years from now, even fifty years from now?  May be there is one of you. (Laughter)  Marilyn will tell us all about it.

Student: I'll be your age.

Lester: You can stay eighteen all your life it you want to. (Laughter)

And, if you really love your body that much, you’ll do it.  To stay in 18 all your life, may be 16, I don't know…   

But, we should look toward the part that we really are, bring it out, identify with it, make it part of our conscious living.  I Am I.  Get the sense of only I, I, I, I, I Am, I Am that I Am.  

When I say, “Are you?”  You say “Yes.”  O.K, that is!  Just “be” that ONLY. 

And you are in the ultimate state that you're all the time striving for with misery.  Misery is moving away from that state.  The only happiness there is – is being in your beingness.  

What you've heard me say is just quieting the mind through satisfying the desire.  And when the mind is quiet, you just being.  And that's the happiness you feel, and that's the only happiness there is.

How many have discovered that yet?  That there is only one single happiness – That’s when you being in your beingness.  

O.K, that is a big assist, because it should alleviate, do away with all that effort looking for it out there in a million directions.  Now, that doesn’t stop you from doing what you are doing out there.  It doesn’t matter what you do – what matter is your attitude toward it, your understanding of it.   But it sure makes life much easier when you identify with your beingness!

Trying to get yourself placed on a scale of where you are.  It’s good to see yourself objectively, which you're probably discovering with the TV.  There's a double benefits you get from the skits.  

One is when you start, all your garbage, your emotion come up for releasing.  And then, when you watch it, it is entirely different, isn’t it, when you watch it?  Because the first part is very subjective, – “Is me with all my pet garbage!"

And, is not what it looks like objectively, we don’t see ourselves the way we really are.  So, when we come back and look at it, we want to hide most of it, don’t we?  “That’s not me, I didn’t do that...”  But, you see yourself objectively, it helps you move into the points of garbage that you are very much avoiding.

So, when you identify as to where you are, and you see it objectively, you can say, “Oh boy!  I am on first step.”  Or, “I am on the tenth step, I got to move.”  So, identifying is part of seeing yourself objectively.

And there are three parts that you think you are:

You are your beingness, that is the real part of you.  Which sets up your mind and then develops all these Programs over the ages.  And the programs motivate the thinking.  And the Programs are your Feelings.  

I don’t know whether any part of the world that psychologist and psychiatrist today accept feelings as programs.  They're so blinded as to what they are.  I think they accept them as natural and right, just adjust them a little bit, so things get a little better. 

But, Feelings are simply Programs, subconscious, automated programs of how we react to the external world.  And, every one of them had been put in as a pro-survival program in order to keep the body surviving.   

How many of you have seen that – that all these feelings are survival program?  Well, that’s Great!  You get to see how silly it is, when you trying to survive a situation that you are eternal in.  And that is what you are doing. 

You've got no choice, you are eternal.  All these struggles trying to survive, but wherein is the error?  What do you trying to survive? – The carcass.  As I used to say, "If you are driving around in a car, it's your case."  It's got you closed in there.  So has this carcass [body].

So, in your beingness, you create your mind, and start programming everything, and you think you are the body, and you think the world is external to you – after you have created it. 

You Let Go, by remembering that you created the whole thing, and it's all created here in your mind.  Change your picture mentally and instantly change it out there – called the Miracle!  

I believe most of you have experience instantaneous changes out there.  How many have experience?  What am I talking for?  You know it. [Laughter]

But there's nothing out there, but just sum total thinkingness.  Most of which is subconscious, and therein lies the problem. 

Subconscious mean simply we do not want to look at it.  The mind is a tremendous mystery to the world because they don’t understand what it is.   They can't see the simplicity of it – it's the sum total of all your feelings and thoughts, that’s all.  How simple it is.  It's a collection of your feelings and thoughts.  And everything you experience is via the mind.  Go unconscious, the mind out the way, and there is no experiencing.

So, do your best to identify where you are at.  Most of the time, are you identifying with your body and the world?  The answer is yes.  I wouldn't let you answer that one. [Laughter]

But you can make it otherwise.  You continue in what you are doing, but shift your identity from being the body just to being.  Identify with the Beingness, and you just sit and watch the world goes by.  

You get into a state of witnessing, you don’t even feel yourself moving because you cannot – you are omnipresent.

When you identify with you Beingness, you discover that you are everywhere present in the entire universe.  

And should you choose, you can take a look-see anywhere in the universe without moving because you are there.  You don’t even have to do Astral Travel.  You are Omnipresent.  Astral Travel is in the Mind.  Astral Body and Mind are almost one and the same thing.

So, identify where you are at, make a decision to cut the journey short – GO FREE.  Why agony when you can be free?   So, the Real You is the Beingness.  The Ego-you is 2 and 3(refer to the diagram above), is in your Mind and your Body.

And your three states that you identify with are Beingness, Doingness, and Havingness.  And with this you can relate to the Chart of Emotion.  Apathy, Greed and Fear are down in Havingness Only.  

When you are down there, you think of your welfare, your wherewithal – depends on how much you can have, and you spend all your time trying to make and have.

You move up into Lust, Anger, Pride, and Courageousness.  You move into a Doingness.  Instead of thinking your welfare lies in Having, you feel that you got to be a Doer. 

Of course, that's an advance state.  Only 5 percent of us are Doers.  95 percent of us are wanting to Have.  When we are down so low that we are putting ourselves in the state of being a slave – we must have a job!  Someone must told us what to do, and give us the food that we eat, and the money to get our lodgings. 

The ONLY reason why people work in jobs is that we are having a slave consciousness, we are down in the Havingness.  Apathy, Greed and Fear that is where most people are riding them majority of the times.  

Move up into Courageousness, Pride, anger and Lust, then you got to be a Doer.  Which is a much freer state than being a slave.

And, when you get into the state of “I Can Do”, you've got enough wish and well to move to the top.  Because you discover when you're just quiet in the being that's the nicest thing there is, and with the Doingness energy, you'll work harder to drop the remaining limitations –  the AGFLAP, so that you can remain in just to Be all the Time. 

Now, that sense of beingness is not related to the world.  It's relates to how you look at the world.  You watch the world go by, you watch yourself, you watch your own body moving around like you now watch other bodies.  You see your body objective to you like you see other body objective to you.

So, do your best to move up to constantly identify with your Beingness.  Hold “I Am” or “I – I – I” Only.  I Am my beingness – I Am, I Am I Am-ness.  

And then when you get to be a Doer, then do your best to see that you're not the Doer, that all that are objective to you.  Take the attitude – “I Am not the Doer.”  

And what happens there is you let go the Ego-sense of doing and shift into allowing the higher power or whatever you call to do it.  In religion, they say “Let go, Let GOD.”   Can he do it?  Yeah, he can do everything.

When you let go of your Ego-sense, you automatically move into your beingness.  And that takes care of everything with no effort, your life become totally effortless. 

And start from Taking ALL Your Happiness FROM You.  Recognize that every joy you have is that nice quiet place of just being, where your desires are out of the way. Even though you're taking pleasure from the world, try to recognize that – that pleasure is being you – your mind is quiet. 

Now on the way, we should identify anyone as us, see everyone as you.  And that's what happen when you see that you are beingness, and that your beingness is all beingness, so it includes everyone.  So, you see other people as you. 

Then try to identify with everything out there, every atom as you, because it is your making.  And when you identify with it, you'll get to see that you created everything you're experiencing.  It is all in your mind – all your experiencing.  

It's all in your creative mechanism.  Mind is only creative.  It creates with thoughts that we hold in Mind. And, in the end, Knowing means Being.  You can get to know yourself as two things: I knowing myself, I Am myself.

So, the ultimate knowing drop away into being, all knowledge drop away into being.  

You let go of all the accumulation, that you spend lifetimes accumulating in the way of knowledge, because it's all lesser knowledge than omniscience.  It is all limited knowledge, limited by the mind.  

And, you let it go and you discover that you're omniscience, you are all-knowingness, after which you don’t have to work hard thinking.  There is no more thinking, you're knowing.  And in knowingness, there's no thinkingness.  So, see nothing out there but your sum-total thinkingness.

By the way, I think it'd be good if you'd write this down.  To be used in the future as a reminder, as a refresher.  Did everyone get the first chart?  Or is there anyone who did not get the first part?  Write it down, you can use this in the future.  This is stuff I believe you don't read in books, or do you read in books? 

Student:  No.  Not till this morning.

Lester: They'll give it to you in one sentence, but not broken down this way.  So it's good to have it where you can keep looking at it until you become it, for the capital 'I'.

This is Taking Responsibility for everything that happens to you – “What did I do to cause all these awful thing?”  

Develop that habit, and your initiating thoughts will start coming up, and you'll release them.  So that negative happenings out there will stop.  The less negative happenings, the more positive happenings, the quieter your life is, the easier it is to go on.

If you constantly being plagued by death facing you, it is difficult for you to release.  But, if your life is easy, you're in a better place to release.  You're not so fearful of your programs any more.  

You will able to allow up the bottom program of the fear of dying, the fear of living, and release it.  And when you continue this, see nothing out there but your sum-total thinkingness, then you discover there is, in actuality, nothing out there but my beingness. 

Which remind me of Vivekananda.  He said, “When you get to the end of the line, you discover that there was anything but I all alone.”  

I, my beingness, is the totality of all beingness, and that's the only real thing there is.  Your beingness never ever changes, your beingness is eternal. 

And, because it never changes, it's the only truth.  If something changes, there was not true the moment before.  For a thing to be true it has to remain as it is.  And the only thing that you will ever experience that does not change is your beingness, which you are right now, identify and move toward your beingness. 

And you reach a point where you begin to see no objectivity, nothing's apart from me.  There is nothing out there but the my sum-total thinkingness.  You are me.  Every atom in the universe is me.  This is what you will see, as you stay, as you identify with your beingness. 

Here we're just trying to scratch for a little piece of it, and the totality of it is ours – GOD creation.

So, we work and work, and release and release until there are no thoughts.  Now, every one of you experience moments when there are no thoughts, and it's a tremendous state.  

But as long as there's a piece of garbage left, it comes into play and pulls you from that nice quiet place.  And, some of us think it's the noise out there that's is real, not the beingness.  And we move away from it rather than try to stay in the state of beingness.

And when you get there, you'll be intuitive only.  You'll operate in the world without thinking.  You be offensive to no one. You'll have answers for everyone. You can talk to people on their subject and help them.  

And as you're doing it, you're watching your body talking and answering their questions, and you're just listening to it just like they are.  Sometimes you say,  "Wow, that sounds Good!" [Laughter]

So, do not identify with your body and mind.  What is left?  Your Beingness, your Is-ness, your are-ness, your am-ness, your existent-ness.  That's the part you that is real, whole-complete-perfect-eternal.  

That's the part of it that you are struggling to get to in everything that you are doing.  You never rest until you get there!

Summed up: Have NO ATTACHMENTS AND NO AVERSIONS, AND YOU WILL HAVE EVERYTHING.  You have the ALL, the universe will be yours.  Why?  It's your universe.  You created it.  It was yours in the first place.

And this is a little bait.  Because you're wanting so many things.  I'm telling you, you can have a piece of real estate, you can have the whole world, you can have all the other worlds, you can have the omniverse if you're released.  Because it's your creation.  You could duplicate and make two of these, two moniverses. 

But of course, when you get there, why do you want to carry that load on your back?  You don't.  You let it be, you just remain identifying with your beingness, which is the greatest thing there is, barring not.

Let's see if there's more.  Here are words indicating the free state. The can help you in setting your goals.  

The word I like best is "Imperturbability"【如如不动】 – the place where nothing can ever disturb you again, and a place where no person can disturb you.   You just look at the other one and you allow the other one to be in what the other one wants, and it doesn't disturb you, one iota.  Even if they want to kill you, how can it disturb you?  You're eternal.

The greatest disturber of everything, the cause of all turbulence of the mind, perturbations, masturbations, everything, is desire.  It just spins us into this tremendous swirl of what we're into.  

Aim for "Desirelessness".  Aim to release all your desires.

For Effortlessness, do your best to move towards less and less effort.  Of course, you've got to move up, out of the Havingness state into the Doingness state, before you can make thing Effortless.  So, when you let go and identify with your beingness, thing becomes "Effortless".

And as, I guess, most of you have heard me say, “Every impossible, no matter how impossible, becomes immediately possible when we are completely released on it.  And you know you're completely released when you just don't give a hoot.”

Student: Lester, can you please repeat that, I want to write it down.

Lester: Every impossible, no matter how impossible, becomes immediately possible when we are completely released on it.  And you know you're completely released when you just don't give a hoot.  

The sense of Actionlessness of not being the Doer.  Work towards that, and towards Witnessing everything that's happening.  Sit back and be the witness of it.  And when you reach the top, all these things are in place.  That's the way you will be.

Those are the five words that I like best for the top state.  You might have some other words you could add to it.

And so to close, on a sense of humor which most of you have seen – Apathy, Grief, Fear, Lust, Anger, Pride, Courageousness, Acceptance, and Peace.  We Must Get Rid of the AGFLAP in order to CAP it.

And, looking from the Right to Left, CAP spells P-A-C, and this is the PAC-Man.  The C-A-P is the PAC-Man that gobbles up the AGFLAP.  But, you need to get up here to the CAP, in order to gobble up the AGFLAP completely. (You must get high to release.)  

It's from the high points, that you'll reach down into the suppressed ‘fear of dying’, allow it up, so that you can let it out [for releasing].

O.K.  That is the end of my talk for today.  

Be yourself, you've got no choice.  No matter how much you try otherwise, you'll always end up, eventually, just being yourself only.  

So, why Not Now?  Why Take Time?  

O.K.  Thank you.

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Note:

       The reason for having a transcript in black and white is explained by one of the Lester Levenson audio clip as follows:...

“Momentum is very important in getting realizations.  You stay with something, it becomes clearer and clearer as you stay with it.  But if it starts getting clear and you move off, when you come back on to it, it's more difficult to get into it again.

And so, I am anti-talks, tapes, because of that.  I can see it doing harm in that it doesn't let you stay with something, because the conversation goes on and on and you move off one thing onto another — to another without getting a realization of any one of them.  I believe you got much more good out of reading the book…” —  Lester Levenson. 

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