If we desire something, it is an admission of lack. When we realize the Infinite Being that we are, we feel that everything is ours. When this realization is obtained, the thought of something brings it to us.

Health and Supply, How to Get it.

It is the same principle that heals a sick body or a sick pocketbook.

Sickness and poverty are both lack. And lack is the acceptance of concepts that are limited.

The concept of lack is only in your consciousness. One must let go of it and in its place have concepts of abundance, affluence and well being.

When one learns, by actually experiencing it, that mind is only creative, one then holds in mind only the things one wants and never takes thought for the things one does not want.

Our concepts are the sum total of our thinking, and most of them are now subconscious. We must, with effort, hold the right concepts until they become more powerful than the subconscious wrong concepts. Then they become the habit, and take the place of the wrong concepts. When the subconscious mind is so conditioned, life becomes beautiful and happy.

People's behavior today is about 90% determined by their subconscious thinking.  They are acting automatically and are determined by their past, and now subconscious ideas and concepts. That is why they find it so difficult to make correct thinking effective. It is necessary to persevere with correct thinking until it becomes the habit by overriding the subconscious habit.

It is possible to eliminate years of accumulated wrong thinking in one single thought if that one thought be powerful enough, that is, effected with tremendous will.

Our supply and health are determined by our consciousness of supply and health.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now,  will bring it quickly. See it in its "isness."

Never think of things coming in the future, as the mind will keep it in the future.  See it, feel it, taste it, possess it as yours now. Do not see it in its "will-be-ness."

Picture things in the fullness of detail.

Think of what you want, never the money to obtain it. Conditioning it with money is putting a limitation in the way.

Work in secrecy. Telling someone what you want weakens the drive. After obtaining it, you may tell.

A full conviction that we have everything we need, will do just that.

If we desire something, it is an admission of lack. When we realize the Infinite Being that we are, we feel that everything is ours. When this realization is obtained, the thought of something brings it to us.

Have peace in the world.

You need not enter a monastery---the world today is your monastery and the struggles of daily life are monastic discipline; it is not what you do, but how you do it; not sitting in a hermitage that really matters, but sitting in the deep center of your own being. The wise man or woman can make the worldly life itself their hermitage, and worldly activities their means of liberation...
They can have their peace and have their world too just by spiritualizing their life in the world.

Don't seek the truth.

In Zen they say, "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean? Let go of identification with your mind. Who you are beyond the mind then emerges by itself. 

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

"A man who _is_ good does not go around _contriving_ to do

good. His own goodness does good, wherever he goes, though

few realize it. Being one with goodness, he has no separate

self-image of being a good man who can help the bad to be

good. He leaves such imaginary and ego-centered goodness

to the self-deceived. The bad man _thinks about_ goodness

with personal gain in mind, while the truly good man

impersonally _expresses_ goodness. Because a rose is

a rose, it never needs to think of itself as one."

                  Esoteric Mind Power, p. 42

Limitations are mentations.

Everything of life was open to me---the total understanding of it. It is simply that we are infinite beings, over which we have superimposed concepts of limitation. And we are smarting under these limitations that we accept for ourselves as though they are real, because they are opposed to our basic nature of total freedom. However, they are just mentations, mental concepts. 

Do you Doubt?

Our minds, however, are riddled and confused with doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than desire and attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely "sophisticated" and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego's desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge...


Our contemporary education, then, indoctrinates us in the glorification of doubt, and has created in fact what could almost be called a religion or theology of doubt, in which to be seen to be intelligent we have to to be seen to doubt everything, to always point to what's wrong and rarely ask what's right or good, cynically to denigrate all inhererited spiritual ideals and philosophies, or anything that is done in simple good will or with an innocent heart...


Instead of doubting them (mystical teachings),  why don't we doubt ourselves: our ignorance, our assumption that we understand everything already, our grasping and evasion, our passion for so-called explanations of reality...?


This kind of noble doubt spurs us onward, inspires us, tests us, makes us more and more authentic, empowers us, and draws us more and more within the exalting energy field of Truth...


...What she had realized, she told me, was that the more knowledge you have, the more doubts it gives rise to, and the subtler the excuses for doubting whenever the truth begins to touch you deeply...


...What we need to learn is how to slowly change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions...


...Don't be in too much a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems; as the masters say, "Make haste slowly."

Contemplate on these things...

As we contemplate what we've heard, it gradually begins to permeate or mind-stream and saturate our inner experience of our lives.

It never really existed.

"Alas, poor man! If only he had known that in reality, neither me, nor the needle, nor the "ouch" ever existed."

Operation of Ego

So long as we haven't unmasked the ego, it continues to hoodwink us, like a sleazy politician endlessly parading bogus promises, or a lawyer constantly inventing ingenious lies and defenses, or a talk show host going on and on talking, keeping up a stream of suave and empty convincing chatter, which actually says nothing at all. 


Lifetimes of ignorance have brought us to identifying the whole of our being with ego. Its greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own.  This is a savage irony, considering that ego is so convincing, and we have been its dupe for so long, that the thought that we might ever become egoless terrifies us.  To be egoless, ego whispers to us, is to lose all the rich romance of being human, to be reduced to a colorless robot or a brain dead vegetable.


Ego plays brilliantly on our fundamental fear of losing control, and of the unknown. We might say to ourselves: "I should really let go of ego, I'm in such pain; but if I do, what's going to happen to me?"


Ego will chime in, sweetly: "I know I'm sometimes a nuisance, and believe me, I quite understand if you want me to leave. But is that really what you want? Think: If I go, what's going to happen to you? Who will look after you? Who will protect and care for you like I've done all these years?" 


And even if we were to see through ego's lies, we are just too scared to abandon it; for without any true knowledge of the nature of our mind, or our true identity, we simply have no other alternative. Again and again we cave in to its demands with the same sad self hatred as the alcoholic feels reaching for the drink that he knows is destroying him, or the drug addict groping for the drug that she knows after a brief high will only leave her flat and desperate.

Now is the time.

With most of us, however, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch onto happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions, we go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now, at this very moment. How we live now can cost us our entire future. 


"This is the unescapable message of the natural bardo of this life. As Padmasambhava says: Now when the bardo of this life is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time. Enter undistracted, the path of listening and hearing, reflection and contemplation, and meditation, making perceptions and mind the path, and realize the "three kayas" of enlightened mind. Now that I have once attained a human body, there is no time on the path for the mind to wander."


Notes: Bardo is a Tibetan word that simply means a "transition" or a gap between the contemplation of of one situation and the onset of another.  Bar means in between and do means suspended or thrown.

The "Three Kayas" are the three aspects of the true nature of mind described in Chapter 4: its empty essence, radiant nature,  and all pervasive energy.

...as we go farther along the spiritual path, we learn how to work directly with our fixed impressions.
All of our old concepts of the world or matter or even of ourselves are purified and dissolved, and an entirely new, what you could call "heavenly" field of vision and perception opens up.  As Blake says, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, Everything would appear...as it is, Infinite."

"Q: What can help us transform our minds?

A: Do you think that habitual thoughts will tolerate your attempt

to replace them with higher thoughts? Not at all. They will fight

and scream and deceive in every possible way to continue to enslave

you. But let this insight into their hostile nature help you conquer

them. Insight is strength."

                     Treasury of Positive Answers, # 660

"You better write this one down: your mind was not created to

get excited. Your mind was not created to be an acrobat, tum-

bling and falling all over the stage of your mind. The right

intention is something else. See if this has an appeal for you.

Instead of an excited, wasteful, shoddy mind, your mind can

operate very pleasantly and with a slowness and a silence

that has power."

                     from a talk given 7/31/1988

       Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 22, talk 531

Everything that we see around us is seen as it is because we have been repeatedly solidifying our experience of inner and outer reality in the same way, lifetime after lifetime, and that has led us to the mistaken assumption that what we see is objectively real.

Pain, grief, loss and ceaseless frustration of every kind are there for a real and dramatic purpose; to wake us up, to enable and almost force us to break out of the cycle of samsara and so release our imprisoned splendor.

We wonder. "How will I be when I die?"  The answer to that is, whatever state of mind we are in now; whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we'll be like at the moment of death if we do not change. That is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mind stream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

The ordinary habitual mind  with its projections is extremely powerful.  It keeps returning and takes hold of us easily when we are inattentive or distracted.

You see, the ego is a stubborn conviction that the little me knows. When you get that out of the way, then help comes in.

Could you imagine the ocean to be infinity? Well, we, the ocean of beingness, imagine little tiny circles around parts of us that we call drops; and this drop says, "I am separate from that drop and separate from all the other drops." It's an imagined circle around part of the ocean calling itself a drop.

The Self of us never moves, but all the pictures on the screen do.

As long as your part of,  you're apart from the one.

When the ego is small, the God part gets bigger.

See no evil, hear no evil, think no evil, and there will be no evil for you.


Any time one is thinking in misery, one is moving downward and in the wrong direction. Likewise, when one is thinking in joy, one is happy and is moving upward and in the right direction. When the movement upward is greater than the movement downward, the resultant progress is upward.


Don't probe darkness to understand light.


Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.


Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy.


Don't dwell on misery to understand happiness. 

Welcome the feelings

In the spiritual community that G.I. Gurdjieff led in France, an old man lived there who was the personification of difficulty---irritable, messy, fighting with everyone, and unwilling to clean up and help at all. No one got along with him. Finally after many frustrating months of trying to stay with the group, the old man left for Paris. Gurdjieff followed him and tried to convince him to return, but it had been too hard, and the man said no. At last Gurdjieff offered the man a very big monthly stipend if he returned. How could he refuse? When he returned everyone was aghast, and on hearing that he was being paid ( while they were being charged a lot to be there ) the community was up in arms. Gurdjieff called them together and after hearing their complaints laughed and explained: "This man is like yeast for bread." He said, "Without him here you would never really learn about anger, irritability, patience, and compassion. That is why you pay me and why I hire him.

Don't try to understand. Enough if you do not misunderstand. Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Just cease imagining

Get rid of wrong ideas, that is all. 

Collecting right ideas also will take you nowhere. 

Just cease imagining.

How can I become universal?

But you are universal. You need not and you cannot become what you are already.  Only cease imagining yourself to be the particular. What comes and goes has no being. It owes its very appearance to reality. You know that there is a world, but does the world know you? All knowledge flows from you, as all being and all joy. Realize that you are the eternal source and accept all as your own. Such acceptance is true love.

Who am I without all these experiences?

Unravel Being from the tangle of experiences.

"I Am" is ever afresh. You do not need to remember in order to be. As a matter of fact,  before you can experience anything, there must be a sense of being. At present your being is mixed up with experiencing. All you need to do is unravel being from the tangle of experiences. Once you have known pure being, without being this or that, you will discern it among experiences and you will no longer be misled by names and forms.

How does personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentarily without past and future and your personality dissolves.

Meditate on these things.

Demonstration

Whether you are aware of it or not everyone is creating matter all the time. Whether one wants to be a demonstrator or not he is. It is impossible to not be a creator all the time. Everyone is creating everyday. We're not aware of it because we just don't look at it. Every thought, every single thought materializes in the physical world. It's impossible to have a thought that will not materialize, except that we reverse it. We say the opposite right after we have a thought with equal strength we just neutralize it. But any thought not reversed or neutralized will materialize in the future if not immediately. So this thing of demonstration that we're all trying so hard to do, we're doing all the time, unaware of the fact that we're doing it. All we need to do is to consciously direct it, and that we call demonstration. Everything that every one has in life is a demonstration. It couldn't come into your experience had you not had a thought of it at some time prior. 

"Don't be a 'Why'r."

"Distress indicates a lack of mental clearness, and since

clearness is possible, distress is unnecessary."