December 2019

HOW LIFE WORKS
     Stress and strain in life are the result of trying to make the unworkable work. If you are not comfortable with yourself, if you are uncomfortable in society, if you are just plain old uncomfortable living with yourself, you can be quite sure that somewhere you’re trying to make something work that can’t work, which, of course, is the story of the whole world. Everyone has his own pet philosophy, or scientific or unscientific system, in which each individual thinks that it will work for him and he hopes it will work for others so that he’ll get added gold and glory.
     You can start tonight to understand that all stress, all strain, all discomfort inside of you, which you do have, is a result of you trying to force something to happen that can never happen. And one of these peculiar things that human beings try to do in order to find happiness, in order to find contentment, which they really don’t want in the first place — by the way they prefer strife. One thing that human beings try to do, which is impossible, is to try and be happy without understanding themselves, without knowing how their minds work, without understanding their relationships with others, even their relationships with nature or with mechanical things.
     People have an almost complete total lack of understanding of how life works, both their own and consequently, that of other people. This means exactly what you and I see in the world today — people hurting each other, people not knowing how to behave, people not knowing how to behave toward themselves or anyone else.

LIVE FREELY IN ANOTHER WORLD
     You can find another, inner world and live freely there. It is mapped out. It is possible for you to know what the journey looks like. Here are four steps, which are a complete summary:
     First stage: Men and women whose whole lives are dominated by “I know.”
     Second stage: When the individual says, “I doubt that I know.”
     Third stage: When he says, “I don’t know what it is all about.”
     Fourth stage: There is ‘knowing’. Being saved, being rescued is 100% impersonal.
     No person, name, can know. Vanity can’t know. The old knower has to be out of the way. When you have vanished, spiritual knowing is there. The ending of all ‘I’ thoughts and feelings produces Heaven. You can’t possess Truth. The absence of you is what makes Truth appear.
     Where a person has been battered around and made so many mistakes, there is something ready to happen. Where truth is beginning to crack the kernel of ego, beginning to break down the hardened ego shell, instead of letting go, you will go into intense ego-suffering, unlike anything you’ve ever known before. You are becoming conscious of what is there.
     You have wasted your agony just like you threw away your money, time, and let people drain you. From now on, you’re going to have to use pain. You’re going to have to know it is there. You are the only pain you’ve ever experienced.