I think today, I would like to say this. As you see the
world, so are you. Now I'm taking
off on "as a man believeth in his heart so is he." Which is correct.
But I say this is a much more advanced way of looking at it:
As you see the world, so are you.
Now everyday when we get up and open up our eyes and we
start looking at the world, we meet people. And as we see those people, so are
we. It is impossible to see a fault in anyone else that we don't have in
ourselves. If the fault is not is us, it is impossible to see it out there in
anyone else.
It's almost the same as, in order to understand Greek, you
must know Greek.
Anything we understand out there, we know within. So every
time we see something out there that we don't like, a person who is doing something
that we don't like, and it bothers us, it is only because that very same thing
is in us.
Now this is a powerful method of growth because most of us
unfortunately see things that are wrong in this world. When Masters look at the
world they see nothing but perfection.
We should try to get the same viewpoint.
If we will hold on to just this one thing there will be a
tremendous growth: Every time you see something wrong in someone, look for it
in yourself. And when you see it, let go of it. Keep letting go. And every time
you let go of it, you're letting go of a bit of ego.
So in everyday life, as we meet people,
situations, everytime we see something we don't like, we should turn within.
See it within our selves, let go of it.
Now this will not clear us in one day or one week, because
there's an awful lot to be cleared.
We have developed from many lifetimes, ego attachments and desires. And they don’t go in one or two days...
So, daily, right through the entire day, if we would just
look at the world, and realize that we are seeing it through our own eyes,
through our own consciousness, through our own understanding, that what we see
out there is nothing but ourselves, this can effect a rapid positive growth
that will show results immediately.
The first week you'll feel better. And as you keep doing this you'll get lighter and
lighter and lighter. Happiness will get more and more and more. Sorrow will get
less and less and less.
But the main warning I give you is, don't expect it
overnight. And if the ego appears to loom up larger its only because you're
facing it, whereas before you were looking away from it.
How do you do it? Well you see someone out there who is
trying to be the life of the party, the number one, and you don’t like it (I'm
taking a very obvious thing). If we don't like the other one thing trying to be
number one, its only because we want to be the number one.
All right, so what do we do? You have to go within and look
for it, and stay within until you see it. If you will go within, release, quiet
your mind, the answer will always come. You will see, "Why yes, I too want
to be the number one, and I was resentful because the other one was trying to
be the number one." And then,
when you see that you want to be the number one, say to yourself, "This I
must let go of," with the wish to let go. And just by the wish to let go,
you are letting go of a bit of ego.
There are no better lessons than those we get from our
family. You'll find family the best means of growing. And the main reason for
that is that we choose our parents. And we choose parents who have similar
characteristics to our own. And so, there is always a too and fro between
parents and child because of this. Parents are telling the children what to do,
and the children are fighting right back, up and back, up and back, all the
time.
Most of the time, the parent and child are together, it's a
constant to and fro on the thing we're talking about. Because we have it in
ourselves, we see it in our parent or we see it in our child. And they see it
in us. This causes quite a lot of friction…
Another way of saying it is, there's nothing out there but
our consciousness. Whatever we see wrong out there, the mote is in our eye.
And if you'll accept this, you can use it, to un-do your
ego. There's nothing our there but
our consciousness. If you ever
want to know what your consciousness is, just take a check on what is around
you and what you see, and what you go through every day in life. That's your
consciousness.
