September 2015

DISSOLUTION OF TIME
     The invented personality, the artificial self, must have a future to survive. Since the artificial self lives in thought, in ordinary thinking, that is, time itself, it must always revolve around past and future. If you begin to rob the artificial self of time experiences, it will scream its objections but in spite of all its objections, it must fade away. As it begins to fade away you begin to see yourself, not think yourself, but begin to know yourself as a different kind of entity than you knew before. Because when you cease to recreate your invented personality thru thinking, as you cease to recreate it, it begins to dissolve. The dissolution of time and the dissolution of the invented personality are the same thing.
     So gradually, more and more and more, you — your real nature — begins to rest in the here and now no matter what you are doing, whether you’re sweeping the floor or conducting business or driving your car or whatever. You begin to get a sensing that there really is nothing but right now and that is because that is where you are. But for a long time the pull, the tug of time-thoughts, will try to pull you away from here and now — the timeless state — and will succeed, won’t it? You’ve had this experience where maybe you understand that this is all that counts. There is no past to feel ashamed of, there’s no future to go to, and there is nothing at all that time-thought can create. This sensing becomes stronger and stronger as all the pieces are put together.

IT’S TIME TO GROW UP
     Q: If I really try to drop something, it seems to attack five times harder. Why?
     A: I will cover that with the prison breakout story: The guards in the prison don’t keep a close eye on a prisoner who’s out in the courtyard there doing pushups. But when that prisoner gets up and starts running towards the wall, the guard pays attention. He gets his rifle out, doesn’t he?
     When you determine you are going to escape, you will hear all kind of gunfire from up in the tower there. That is, you’ll begin to hear objections and screams from your jailers — from the old nature that just loves to keep you a prisoner. And this is very interesting to observe. You should know then and be encouraged by the fact that the harder you make an attempt to escape the more they’re going to scream. Therefore, the more screams you hear, the more you should be encouraged by the fact that you are doing the right thing. Another way to put that is when you begin to see how insane you really are, and I mean actually insane — I’m not using a figure of speech when I say insane; it’s just that the insane asylum is in here and it’s covered over with smiles and successes. The more you hear the screams inside of you and recognize them as insanity, that is the beginning awareness of the fact that you were in an insane asylum, or a prison. And it means you are doing the right thing.
     And when you hear a guard go rattle, rattle, on his machine gun, don’t stop! Just keep running faster towards the wall. Throw the rope up. Keep going. There is nothing that can stop you from going on if you just go on. The reason you stop is because you’re afraid of what is going to happen to you. “He’s going to shoot me.” The bullets can’t penetrate you. The machine gun of the guards has blanks in it.
     Do you understand the spiritual parallel? Go! Why do you stop for anything? You don’t have to stop! The reason you stop is because you want mamma, you want papa. You want your little cuddly bear. Little children, grow up. Little children, put down the teddy bear and run towards the wall. Don’t let anyone or anything stop you. Listen! Don’t let your own sinful past stop you. It will try. How many of you have done horrible things in the past? Everyone, right? Don’t let them stop you; they are a fake, they’re a bluff, they’re a phantom. GO! GO!