December 2018

YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS
     You’re not conscious that you do not create thoughts. You are not the creator of your own thoughts.
     I thought I manufactured thoughts, that I was a self-dependent factory. I am being bombarded by thoughts from two places. I am not the inventor of the two competing, opposing thoughts.
     Thoughts come into my mind. I am a free-willed agent who can select the heavenly thoughts or the thoughts coming from down there. I can decide whether I want thoughts from down there or up there.
     “I am personally responsible for looking downward or upward for my supply of thoughts. I am responsible for my own grief, confusion. I cause my life to be what it is.”
     God wants you to throw away your whole life. You choose to be influenced by hypocrites, etc., who get their thoughts from down there. You can select from up there.
     Notice how you have a tendency to instantly strike back. Notice the consistency of the “someone-else method” by criticizing, condemning, hating. God commands that you study very closely and consciously your own thoughts. Truth, Reality, wants you to notice your own thoughts and realize that they are not your own thoughts!
     Say a million times a day, YOU ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS.
     They want you to think they are so they can continue to destroy you. They know how to trick you into believing that their evil is your evil.
     You want to believe it because it tells you who you are. It gives you a false feeling of being the center of everything you can see about you. An evil thought gives you a sense of self — of “I am me!”
     You think the bad thought, calling it a good thought because you want to be you. You’re not your thoughts. Give up thinking that what you think constitutes a center from which you can operate. It has hurt you long enough. Who did you blame for your sorrow, troubles, etc.?
     If you won’t blame others for your sorrow, you will see where it’s coming from and then that will consciously destroy it.
     Your belief in yourself is what is making you sick and miserable — and sick and worried. Sense you are not who you think you are.

ATTENTION IS THE CURE
     Story summary: A king ruled with compassion. One day he rode out on his horse and fell and the king got amnesia. The king became a wanderer because he was unable to remember and operate from his kingly nature. He did not realize what had happened to him. There was no order, just anarchy and chaos. He suffered from it. He forgot where he came from. He didn't realize there was another place to live.
     Above all, listen for the call from the castle, from the heavenly world, to come back home. Don’t fall into imaginary spirituality. Your requests are for deliverance from your pain. NO! Suffering goes away only when you request to see the actual cause of your suffering. Your wandering mind is the cause of your suffering.
     You will pray in a new way with earnestness. Request to see through the charlatan-self that deceives you into wanting to be saved.
     The king listened right in the middle of despair, suffering. He was able to distinguish a deceitful ask for help from a true one.
     You must see the insincerity of your prayer. God answers true prayers the moment they are asked. Attention is the cure for a wandering mind. You will see self-deception. Persistent attention means to ask yourself, “What am I thinking about right now?” Know what you’re thinking right now — wasteful wanderings. Pay attention to what is happening right now.
     Attention, attention, attention all the time. Catch yourself visiting your dark caves.
     Keep bringing yourself back home all day today.