April 2024

UNDERSTAND YOURSELF AND THE NEWS
     You are distressed by a happening only because you don’t understand it. If you had a clear mind and a clear spirit, it would comprehend the happening instantly, and there could be no distress at all. So, we have to look very closely to determine why hundreds of happenings have power to distress us.
     Listen well [to these lessons] and then you will understand the entire world news that bombards you on radio and TV, and in print. You can understand everything in the news. You can transform your inner nature so marvelously that it is an actual fact that when you turn the news on at five o’clock and it goes on for an hour, you will have your own private running commentary on every event. Now would you agree that you’ve got a lot of work to do to reach that state where you understand everything you see, and you’re not distressed by anything?
     It’s a horror story, a con game to make you think that those events are important. They are not important. They are meaningless. What is important is you. And if you let yourself be fooled any longer, you’re going to delay your discovery of the importance of your personal life.
     I’ll give you a test. How much time during an average day like today do you spend in trying to understand yourself, or why you reacted to that contact with that man? This is a test. Grade yourself. How much effort and energy did you put in the last twenty-four hours in seeing and hearing, and then wanting to know why everything seems to have power to hurt, because it does? Answer that honestly.
     What a terrible world you say you live in! It is a terrible world. You have no business translating the news into personal worry because that’s exactly what it’s intended to do. And you fall for it.
     How much time did you spend in trying to understand the single most important thing in your life, which is your life itself? Or did you fall for the social treachery of being concerned as to what is going to happen to you if that nation declared war against another nation?
     I’ll give you a fresh start. You have no business ever allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by what passes into your eyes and into your ears. Now, toss all that into the trash because I’m going to tell you something. You really honestly, truly were meant to enter this world to finally win.
     So, when you hear the news from anyone, whether the TV or the neighbor, you will not fall for it. Not once during that sixty minutes news show did you know that you existed as a human being. Right? Nod your head. No, you didn’t know. And even when the news was over, you remained with it.
     As it occurs to you that you don’t need the evil news of life, your understanding will grow stronger. Then you will see and understand the evil of this whole world, and you don’t need it. The TV events aren’t happening anymore because you understand them. This mad world can go as crazy as it wants, and you’ll retain your sanity because you simply won’t be a part of it.

REALITY IS EVERYTHING
     To be right, just be real. Reality is everything. The problem is human beings don’t know what rightness is. If you knew it, you would live it. If you lived it, you wouldn’t have a single problem on earth.