SESSION 13 - WHAT AM I? .......... 36 - By Lester Levenson
セッション13 - 私はどういう人ですか。..........36 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 13
WHAT AM I?
I thought that a summary of what we have been through,
where we are going, and what there is at the end might
be a good idea for the last talk of this series.
The way I like to look at our direction is that the ultimate
goal of every being is total and complete happiness with
no taint of sorrow whatsoever. We are all striving for this
in our every act, but somehow missing the goal. The
reason why we miss our goal, our target, is simply that
we do not have a clear vision of the target and we
therefore are aiming blindly. So long as we remain
blinded we can never attain that goal of perfect
happiness.
Someone comes along and says, “Attention! You have
spent many lifetimes looking in the wrong direction! Stop
looking without and look ye within! Only there will ye find
that which ye have spent lifetime after lifetime seeking!”
And then you meet someone like Lester: who tells you,
“Seek ye your very own Self. Therein lies your complete
happiness. Stop looking for happiness in people and
things. Here you merely eliminate the pain of the desire
for something, and the relief you get you call pleasure.
And .the pleasure is short-lived because the desire is
not eliminated and is still there, and therefore the pain of
it continues to gnaw at you. “
Now the starting point is you. You must take the way
toward discovering you, and only you can do it. Accept
nothing unless you can prove it yourself. Prove it and it
is yours. Prove it and then you can use it.
The uniqueness of this science, and it is a science,
someday you'll see it is the science of all sciences, is
that this is a subjective science. We have to seek it
within; we can't put it out on a table in front of us and
examine it. We can only examine it within our own mind,
or better, within our own being. Also, the intellect does
not avail it to us. The intellect can get us in the right
direction to find it. The right direction is turning within,
stilling the mind and experiencing this truth, this
knowledge. And only by experience can we get to know
it.
Methods are many, but the very highest is the method
that everyone uses in the final end, and that method is
finding the answer to “What am I?” This quest should be
kept up all the time, not only in meditation, but during the
day. While we're working, no matter what we're doing, in
the back of our mind we can always keep that question
posed: “What am I?” until the answer makes itself
obvious to us.
Now, any answer the mind can give us must necessarily
not be it because the mind is an instrument of limitation.
All thoughts are qualified; all thoughts are limited. So
any answer the mind gives cannot be right. The way the
answer comes is simply by our getting out of the way the
blindness that we have imposed upon ourselves by
assuming thoughts that we are a thinking mind body.
When the thoughts are quiet, the limitless Being is
obvious. It's Self-effulgent; it’s there all the time; it’s just
covered over by thought concepts, every one of which is
limited.
So, the way is to pose the question “What am I?” and
quietly await the answer. Other thoughts will come in,
and the biggest difficulty is quieting these thoughts.
When other thoughts come in, if we pose the question,
“To whom are these thoughts?” the answer naturally is,
“To me.” Then, “What am I?” puts us right back on the
track again. That way we can continuously keep our
attention on “What am I?”
In addition to posing this question until we get the answer, it is good practice in our daily life to be not the
doer, be not the agent. Just be the witness! Acquire the
“It is not I but the Father who worketh through me”
attitude (which several in this group already have). This
is the main conduct of life that we should strive for. The
more we become the witness in life, the more we
become non-attached to the body, the more we are our
real Self.
So, there are two things I'm suggesting, one is the quest
“What am I?” and the second is, in life itself, be not the
doer; be the witness. Let things happen; allow life to be.
That's the way we are in the top state, and the best
behavior in life is that which is characteristic of the top
state.
There are many other things which I'm sure you are
aware of: humbleness, goodness, kindness, honesty,
etc. All these things help, but the greatest aid is to be
not the doer 1 but be the witness.
Now, when the Self of us presents Itself to us, it's a
tremendous experience! It's a very difficult one to
contain. We feel as though we're going to burst,
because we recognize our omnipotence, omniscience,
and omnipresence! But just seeing it once doesn't
establish us in that state. However, once experiencing it,
you'll never let go until you reestablish it. You'll continue
to try, and you should continue to try, to get back into
that state. The next time, it'll last a bit longer, the third
time, still longer, until finally we are in it twenty-four
hours a day.
When we attain this top state, we are not zombies, but
we are all-knowing and everywhere present. Everything
falls perfectly into line. We move in the world just like
anyone else moves, but the difference is that we see the
world entirely different from the way everyone else sees
it. We see our body and every other body equally as our
Self. Likewise, every animal and every thing as our Self.
Seeing everything as “I,” gives us that singular Oneness
throughout the universe which is called God, or the Self.
We watch our body moving through life like an
automaton. We let it go its way. And since we are not
really that body, nothing that happens to that body can
effect us. Even if it were crushed, it wouldn't mean much
to us because we fully know that we are not that body.
We know our eternal Beingness and we remain That!
So ,one who has attained the top state is difficult to
distinguish from anyone else. He III go through the same
motions of life and whatever he was doing before, he
might continue to do. But his outlook on life is entirely
different. He is completely egoless; he has no concern
for his own body. He is interested in others and not in
himself, he is interested in all humanity. Whatever he
does has absolutely no ego motivation. His body will
continue to live its normal span and usually goes out, in
the eyes of the unknowing, the same way most bodies
go out, via so-called death and coffin. But the one who
was originally connected with that body never sees any
of this death. He sees this entire world and body as an
illusion that was created mentally just as we create
scenes, cities and worlds in our night dreams. When we
awaken, we realize there never was such a thing. And in
the same way, when we a waken from this waking state,
we see that the whole thing was a dream and never
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really was. That the only thing that ever was, was my
Being, the absolute Reality, being all beingness, infinite,
all perfect, all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent.
So, to reiterate, the main two points that I wanted to
bring out today were that firstly, the very highest method
is the quest “What am I?” As we pose this question in
quietness, when other thoughts come in, ask” To whom
are these thoughts?” The answer is “To me.” “Well, what
am I?” and we're right back on the track again, until we
get the total answer. And, secondly, the way in life is to
be the witness., to be not the doer. I believe that sums
up what I've been trying to get across up until now. Any
questions on this?
Q: To not be the doer, don't you plan? Don't you do
everything normally?
Lester: No, the right way is not to plan. Let it happen.
Let go and you'll be guided intuitively. Instead of
planning with thought, you'll do the exactly right thing,
perfectly at the right moment, from moment to moment.
Q: There is a situation where someone might take a
position of that kind when he hasn't really felt it; for
example, he will say, “I'll just stay in bed until I'm
moved.” Meantime his rent isn't paid.
Lester: So, he'll have to move! If we assume that we
are there and are not, we are soon awakened to the fact
that we are not there, see. Bob, I'm talking from a higher
level now, the perfect state, where everything is in
absolute harmony every moment. There you never think,
and at every moment you know from within just the right
thing to do. You're guided intuitively each and every
moment and everything falls perfectly into line. Now, if
you're not there, of course you have to think; you have
to plan.
Q: Well, in practice then, in the beginning, it's probably a
combination of the two where things go very easily, and
then there's a hump in which you have to plan.
Lester: Definitely yes! In the top state you do by knowing; you just know from moment to moment. One feels “I
know it!” That's just the way it feels and there's no
thinking to it, only “I know it!”
Q: I know from my own experience, I slip back and lay
out a plan, but sometimes that plan comes very easily
and quickly to me and sometimes I have to struggle like
the devil to work it out, step by step and I don't know
what's going to happen. Other times I just layout a plan
and I know what's going to happen and I have no
difficulty with it.
Lester: The word “know” as you use it is the key. You
know how that word feels when you say “I know it!”
There's no doubt, not one iota of doubt there. And it
happens. That's the key. That's the realm of
knowingness. Make that all the time. Keep working for it
until it comes and stays. The quickness with which we
attain this is determined by the intensity of the desire for
it. The more we desire this top state the sooner it
comes. Everyone makes it eventually. I'm convinced the
majority of people on earth today will probably take
millions of years. But anyone of us who is consciously
seeking the way out can do it this lifetime.
The so-called grace of God is always there also. All
those who have made the top grade before us are
radiating the consciousness of perfection to us. We have
tremendous grace being actually pushed our way all the
time. However, they have no right to impose themselves
and don't. We have to open ourselves to it in order to
receive it.
We need this grace. Because of the state of affairs today, man is relatively low. We are very strongly
convinced that we are a limited body and by long habit
we are trying to hold onto it. So it's not easy to let go of
this body, and because of that we need the grace of the
Great Ones who in our eyes have passed on, but in their
eyes, they're still here. When we recognize that they are
still here, we can see them and talk to them the way we
talk to each other. If we accept them partially, we can
talk to them in a dream or a vision. The way we meet
with them is determined by our acceptance of them. If
anyone of us believed that he could go down to a
restaurant and have a snack with Jesus, the way you
believe you could do it with me, - if you had that much
acceptance then you could do it..
Now, some of us know that He came into this room. He
gave a sign proportionate to our degree of acceptance.
If He were suddenly to appear in a physical body in the
room, it would be too much for most of us to accept and
therefore He doesn't. But the way He comes to us is
determined by our acceptance of Him. He gave signs to
some here and some did not recognize that He did.
However, most of us did!
The point I'm trying to make now is that we should open
ourselves to the help of the great masters. Jesus and
the Great Ones want each and everyone of us to know
our perfection. They can't force it upon us. But their
hand is always extended. It's good to keep this in mind.
Then we open ourselves more to the help.
Q: How do you request and receive this help?
Lester: You have to be accepting of Jesus as being
alive, just as much as we are, and capable of meeting
with you, the way we meet with you,-then it can happen.
You have to be open to it. The help is always being sent
to you.
Q: Are there words to say, thoughts to carry?
Lester: Yes. But I can't give them to you; that’s up to
you. See, I give you the general principle, acceptance of
Him, the way He is. Don't expect Him to be not Christly
because He won't be that. However, He can appear as a
very humble human being in form. Being omnipresent,
at any moment, He can appear to anyone and speak
with him.
Q: Lester:, He will be as Christ, He won't be in disguise,
will He? The beggar at the door?
Lester: No. The only disguise is the one we put on Him.
He would never disguise Himself. He wants to be recognized, as Christ. That's not His name. The man Jesus
had the Christ Consciousness. And we have to accept
Him and His consciousness which is extreme humility,
simplicity, no Hollywood glamour.
Q: Would you define humility?
Lester: Yes. The greatest humility is through surrender:
not I but thou; it is not I, but the Father who worketh
through me; everything I do is God's work, I am not the
doer. It is surrender of the ego, the ego being a sense of
separate individuality.
Q: If you surrender yourself as an individual, how about
the other person? I think we mentioned before that we
recognize the other person as ourselves and we treat
them as though we are the same. Who is this other
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person?
Lester: From where you stand now, the other person
should not concern you. The only thing that should
concern us is what we do. For me, it matters not what
your attitude is toward me. You could hate me with
every cell in your body. But it's of extreme importance
what my attitude is toward you. While you're hating me I
should love you fully and completely. Then you'll understand the answer to your question and you will see
only the One. When you separate and then ask what's
up here in the One, it just doesn't fit.
When we love, and only love, we are using the most
formidable power in the universe. No one and no thing
can harm us. We can never ever be hurt or unhappy if
we would only just love without any hate. You can never
be hurt when you love in the sense that the love is full,
complete, divine love. It's just love with no, not one bit
of, hate in it. It requires turning the other cheek, loving
your enemy, that's the kind of love it takes.
Q: Love is understanding?
Lester: When you love fully you understand the other
one fully. Love is understanding. It's identifying with the
other one, being the other one. Coming down a step, it's
wanting the other one to have what the other one wants,
loving the other one, the way the other one is.
Q: Then who is our enemy?
Lester: In reality we have only one enemy and that's
ourself. No one can do anything to us; no one can do
anything for us. Someday you'll see this, that we in our
consciousness determine everything that happens to us.
Q: Then it is our idea of ourselves which is incorrect?
Lester: Right. And that could be made better!
Q: When you say under standing, do you mean under
standing in a logical sense, or do you mean acceptance
of them without question of the reason why they're doing
things, good or bad; just acceptance of whatever they
are in an entirety.
Lester: It's acceptance in an entirety. But the real
understanding requires knowledge of what the universe
and the world are. When we see someone doing wrong,
we have to know that this is a god-being, misguided.
He's looking for God in the wrong place. Am I making
sense? That's the understanding.
Q: Which in his mind would be happiness, right?
Lester: Yes. He's looking for happiness the way he
sees it. Even a Hitler, in his mind, is doing right, and
therefore should not be hated, but should be loved, -
wanting him to be what his real basic nature is. Now this
doesn't mean approving of his program, it doesn't. But
whether we approve or not of his program, loving and
hating are two different things than not approving. of his
program. So we love everyone, see them as misguided
beings, forgive them for they know not what they do.
They're like children, misguided. Attain the highest state
of loving everyone equally as Christ did!
***
This Session was recorded in Los Angeles, July 12,
1965
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セッション13 - 私はどういう人ですか。..........36 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 13
WHAT AM I?
I thought that a summary of what we have been through,
where we are going, and what there is at the end might
be a good idea for the last talk of this series.
The way I like to look at our direction is that the ultimate
goal of every being is total and complete happiness with
no taint of sorrow whatsoever. We are all striving for this
in our every act, but somehow missing the goal. The
reason why we miss our goal, our target, is simply that
we do not have a clear vision of the target and we
therefore are aiming blindly. So long as we remain
blinded we can never attain that goal of perfect
happiness.
Someone comes along and says, “Attention! You have
spent many lifetimes looking in the wrong direction! Stop
looking without and look ye within! Only there will ye find
that which ye have spent lifetime after lifetime seeking!”
And then you meet someone like Lester: who tells you,
“Seek ye your very own Self. Therein lies your complete
happiness. Stop looking for happiness in people and
things. Here you merely eliminate the pain of the desire
for something, and the relief you get you call pleasure.
And .the pleasure is short-lived because the desire is
not eliminated and is still there, and therefore the pain of
it continues to gnaw at you. “
Now the starting point is you. You must take the way
toward discovering you, and only you can do it. Accept
nothing unless you can prove it yourself. Prove it and it
is yours. Prove it and then you can use it.
The uniqueness of this science, and it is a science,
someday you'll see it is the science of all sciences, is
that this is a subjective science. We have to seek it
within; we can't put it out on a table in front of us and
examine it. We can only examine it within our own mind,
or better, within our own being. Also, the intellect does
not avail it to us. The intellect can get us in the right
direction to find it. The right direction is turning within,
stilling the mind and experiencing this truth, this
knowledge. And only by experience can we get to know
it.
Methods are many, but the very highest is the method
that everyone uses in the final end, and that method is
finding the answer to “What am I?” This quest should be
kept up all the time, not only in meditation, but during the
day. While we're working, no matter what we're doing, in
the back of our mind we can always keep that question
posed: “What am I?” until the answer makes itself
obvious to us.
Now, any answer the mind can give us must necessarily
not be it because the mind is an instrument of limitation.
All thoughts are qualified; all thoughts are limited. So
any answer the mind gives cannot be right. The way the
answer comes is simply by our getting out of the way the
blindness that we have imposed upon ourselves by
assuming thoughts that we are a thinking mind body.
When the thoughts are quiet, the limitless Being is
obvious. It's Self-effulgent; it’s there all the time; it’s just
covered over by thought concepts, every one of which is
limited.
So, the way is to pose the question “What am I?” and
quietly await the answer. Other thoughts will come in,
and the biggest difficulty is quieting these thoughts.
When other thoughts come in, if we pose the question,
“To whom are these thoughts?” the answer naturally is,
“To me.” Then, “What am I?” puts us right back on the
track again. That way we can continuously keep our
attention on “What am I?”
In addition to posing this question until we get the answer, it is good practice in our daily life to be not the
doer, be not the agent. Just be the witness! Acquire the
“It is not I but the Father who worketh through me”
attitude (which several in this group already have). This
is the main conduct of life that we should strive for. The
more we become the witness in life, the more we
become non-attached to the body, the more we are our
real Self.
So, there are two things I'm suggesting, one is the quest
“What am I?” and the second is, in life itself, be not the
doer; be the witness. Let things happen; allow life to be.
That's the way we are in the top state, and the best
behavior in life is that which is characteristic of the top
state.
There are many other things which I'm sure you are
aware of: humbleness, goodness, kindness, honesty,
etc. All these things help, but the greatest aid is to be
not the doer 1 but be the witness.
Now, when the Self of us presents Itself to us, it's a
tremendous experience! It's a very difficult one to
contain. We feel as though we're going to burst,
because we recognize our omnipotence, omniscience,
and omnipresence! But just seeing it once doesn't
establish us in that state. However, once experiencing it,
you'll never let go until you reestablish it. You'll continue
to try, and you should continue to try, to get back into
that state. The next time, it'll last a bit longer, the third
time, still longer, until finally we are in it twenty-four
hours a day.
When we attain this top state, we are not zombies, but
we are all-knowing and everywhere present. Everything
falls perfectly into line. We move in the world just like
anyone else moves, but the difference is that we see the
world entirely different from the way everyone else sees
it. We see our body and every other body equally as our
Self. Likewise, every animal and every thing as our Self.
Seeing everything as “I,” gives us that singular Oneness
throughout the universe which is called God, or the Self.
We watch our body moving through life like an
automaton. We let it go its way. And since we are not
really that body, nothing that happens to that body can
effect us. Even if it were crushed, it wouldn't mean much
to us because we fully know that we are not that body.
We know our eternal Beingness and we remain That!
So ,one who has attained the top state is difficult to
distinguish from anyone else. He III go through the same
motions of life and whatever he was doing before, he
might continue to do. But his outlook on life is entirely
different. He is completely egoless; he has no concern
for his own body. He is interested in others and not in
himself, he is interested in all humanity. Whatever he
does has absolutely no ego motivation. His body will
continue to live its normal span and usually goes out, in
the eyes of the unknowing, the same way most bodies
go out, via so-called death and coffin. But the one who
was originally connected with that body never sees any
of this death. He sees this entire world and body as an
illusion that was created mentally just as we create
scenes, cities and worlds in our night dreams. When we
awaken, we realize there never was such a thing. And in
the same way, when we a waken from this waking state,
we see that the whole thing was a dream and never
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really was. That the only thing that ever was, was my
Being, the absolute Reality, being all beingness, infinite,
all perfect, all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent.
So, to reiterate, the main two points that I wanted to
bring out today were that firstly, the very highest method
is the quest “What am I?” As we pose this question in
quietness, when other thoughts come in, ask” To whom
are these thoughts?” The answer is “To me.” “Well, what
am I?” and we're right back on the track again, until we
get the total answer. And, secondly, the way in life is to
be the witness., to be not the doer. I believe that sums
up what I've been trying to get across up until now. Any
questions on this?
Q: To not be the doer, don't you plan? Don't you do
everything normally?
Lester: No, the right way is not to plan. Let it happen.
Let go and you'll be guided intuitively. Instead of
planning with thought, you'll do the exactly right thing,
perfectly at the right moment, from moment to moment.
Q: There is a situation where someone might take a
position of that kind when he hasn't really felt it; for
example, he will say, “I'll just stay in bed until I'm
moved.” Meantime his rent isn't paid.
Lester: So, he'll have to move! If we assume that we
are there and are not, we are soon awakened to the fact
that we are not there, see. Bob, I'm talking from a higher
level now, the perfect state, where everything is in
absolute harmony every moment. There you never think,
and at every moment you know from within just the right
thing to do. You're guided intuitively each and every
moment and everything falls perfectly into line. Now, if
you're not there, of course you have to think; you have
to plan.
Q: Well, in practice then, in the beginning, it's probably a
combination of the two where things go very easily, and
then there's a hump in which you have to plan.
Lester: Definitely yes! In the top state you do by knowing; you just know from moment to moment. One feels “I
know it!” That's just the way it feels and there's no
thinking to it, only “I know it!”
Q: I know from my own experience, I slip back and lay
out a plan, but sometimes that plan comes very easily
and quickly to me and sometimes I have to struggle like
the devil to work it out, step by step and I don't know
what's going to happen. Other times I just layout a plan
and I know what's going to happen and I have no
difficulty with it.
Lester: The word “know” as you use it is the key. You
know how that word feels when you say “I know it!”
There's no doubt, not one iota of doubt there. And it
happens. That's the key. That's the realm of
knowingness. Make that all the time. Keep working for it
until it comes and stays. The quickness with which we
attain this is determined by the intensity of the desire for
it. The more we desire this top state the sooner it
comes. Everyone makes it eventually. I'm convinced the
majority of people on earth today will probably take
millions of years. But anyone of us who is consciously
seeking the way out can do it this lifetime.
The so-called grace of God is always there also. All
those who have made the top grade before us are
radiating the consciousness of perfection to us. We have
tremendous grace being actually pushed our way all the
time. However, they have no right to impose themselves
and don't. We have to open ourselves to it in order to
receive it.
We need this grace. Because of the state of affairs today, man is relatively low. We are very strongly
convinced that we are a limited body and by long habit
we are trying to hold onto it. So it's not easy to let go of
this body, and because of that we need the grace of the
Great Ones who in our eyes have passed on, but in their
eyes, they're still here. When we recognize that they are
still here, we can see them and talk to them the way we
talk to each other. If we accept them partially, we can
talk to them in a dream or a vision. The way we meet
with them is determined by our acceptance of them. If
anyone of us believed that he could go down to a
restaurant and have a snack with Jesus, the way you
believe you could do it with me, - if you had that much
acceptance then you could do it..
Now, some of us know that He came into this room. He
gave a sign proportionate to our degree of acceptance.
If He were suddenly to appear in a physical body in the
room, it would be too much for most of us to accept and
therefore He doesn't. But the way He comes to us is
determined by our acceptance of Him. He gave signs to
some here and some did not recognize that He did.
However, most of us did!
The point I'm trying to make now is that we should open
ourselves to the help of the great masters. Jesus and
the Great Ones want each and everyone of us to know
our perfection. They can't force it upon us. But their
hand is always extended. It's good to keep this in mind.
Then we open ourselves more to the help.
Q: How do you request and receive this help?
Lester: You have to be accepting of Jesus as being
alive, just as much as we are, and capable of meeting
with you, the way we meet with you,-then it can happen.
You have to be open to it. The help is always being sent
to you.
Q: Are there words to say, thoughts to carry?
Lester: Yes. But I can't give them to you; that’s up to
you. See, I give you the general principle, acceptance of
Him, the way He is. Don't expect Him to be not Christly
because He won't be that. However, He can appear as a
very humble human being in form. Being omnipresent,
at any moment, He can appear to anyone and speak
with him.
Q: Lester:, He will be as Christ, He won't be in disguise,
will He? The beggar at the door?
Lester: No. The only disguise is the one we put on Him.
He would never disguise Himself. He wants to be recognized, as Christ. That's not His name. The man Jesus
had the Christ Consciousness. And we have to accept
Him and His consciousness which is extreme humility,
simplicity, no Hollywood glamour.
Q: Would you define humility?
Lester: Yes. The greatest humility is through surrender:
not I but thou; it is not I, but the Father who worketh
through me; everything I do is God's work, I am not the
doer. It is surrender of the ego, the ego being a sense of
separate individuality.
Q: If you surrender yourself as an individual, how about
the other person? I think we mentioned before that we
recognize the other person as ourselves and we treat
them as though we are the same. Who is this other
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person?
Lester: From where you stand now, the other person
should not concern you. The only thing that should
concern us is what we do. For me, it matters not what
your attitude is toward me. You could hate me with
every cell in your body. But it's of extreme importance
what my attitude is toward you. While you're hating me I
should love you fully and completely. Then you'll understand the answer to your question and you will see
only the One. When you separate and then ask what's
up here in the One, it just doesn't fit.
When we love, and only love, we are using the most
formidable power in the universe. No one and no thing
can harm us. We can never ever be hurt or unhappy if
we would only just love without any hate. You can never
be hurt when you love in the sense that the love is full,
complete, divine love. It's just love with no, not one bit
of, hate in it. It requires turning the other cheek, loving
your enemy, that's the kind of love it takes.
Q: Love is understanding?
Lester: When you love fully you understand the other
one fully. Love is understanding. It's identifying with the
other one, being the other one. Coming down a step, it's
wanting the other one to have what the other one wants,
loving the other one, the way the other one is.
Q: Then who is our enemy?
Lester: In reality we have only one enemy and that's
ourself. No one can do anything to us; no one can do
anything for us. Someday you'll see this, that we in our
consciousness determine everything that happens to us.
Q: Then it is our idea of ourselves which is incorrect?
Lester: Right. And that could be made better!
Q: When you say under standing, do you mean under
standing in a logical sense, or do you mean acceptance
of them without question of the reason why they're doing
things, good or bad; just acceptance of whatever they
are in an entirety.
Lester: It's acceptance in an entirety. But the real
understanding requires knowledge of what the universe
and the world are. When we see someone doing wrong,
we have to know that this is a god-being, misguided.
He's looking for God in the wrong place. Am I making
sense? That's the understanding.
Q: Which in his mind would be happiness, right?
Lester: Yes. He's looking for happiness the way he
sees it. Even a Hitler, in his mind, is doing right, and
therefore should not be hated, but should be loved, -
wanting him to be what his real basic nature is. Now this
doesn't mean approving of his program, it doesn't. But
whether we approve or not of his program, loving and
hating are two different things than not approving. of his
program. So we love everyone, see them as misguided
beings, forgive them for they know not what they do.
They're like children, misguided. Attain the highest state
of loving everyone equally as Christ did!
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This Session was recorded in Los Angeles, July 12,
1965
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