To be happy with yourself and show yourself to the world --- as
master -- is to glide through the place
and the space in which you are now encountering obstacles, like furniture in a
dark room that you bump into. Every
blow makes you howl with pain. Your shins are bruised. These ‘rocks’ in your
sea make you feel beset, mistreated, put upon, angry, wounded and enraged. What
are those treacherous rocks you bump into? Your needs and your desires. Unmet,
obviously.
To create a clear path in front of you, and float like a MASTER,
learn to be still and undo the ‘unmetness’ of what you can control. You can’t
control others’ treatment of you, but you can control the things you need and
want. SOME of your needs and wants are real and can be won.
Separate your dumb needs from the real ones. Needs are often
something you really don’t need. My friends tell me they need a roof over their
head. I beg to differ. They need a pressed suit. Not really, I say. Not if
you’re going to get your knickers in a twist because you can’t have that
pressed suit. Then you don’t need one. It gets in the way.
Desires are something you really want, wish for. I don’t consider
them as treacherous as needs. Their most useful feature is that when you pursue
their attainment, there’s a certain ecstasy in doing that creative work.
And while you wander around in the last few days of this state of
frustrated need and desire, it helps to say to yourself, ‘I am loving,
blessing, grateful, joyful, accepting. This is my state of surrender; it’s the
state of vulnerability, the state of me being whole, the state of being
complete, the state of being absolutely one with the universe. And that’s
called spiritual enlightenment and that’s what I’m all about. I’m not about my
needs and desires which Life isn’t meeting right now.”
See, if you live the ordinary lifestyle and you just have the
ordinary babble of your mind controlling you and the ordinary babble of the
world mind coming into you, and that’s your dialogue, conversation and it’s
usually mind-numbingly angry. Every second you’re shooting sparks. What a waste
of energy! Add to that the television viewing,
running around, driving around, the movies you go to and the friends that
you have, then the spark shooting, tell me, what time or energy do you have for
higher consciousness?
There is a blissful, tripping higher state you could be in which is
like the penthouse, your top floor. You live in the basement now, but you could
go up the stairway into the supra conscious, creative realm, out of the realm
of gossip, out of the realm of needs, anger, blahblah yammer, --out of the
realm of fear that you won’t get your wishlist. There’s a top floor in the
realm of love, joy, creativity and experiencing yourself as a creator and a
co-creator with God.
That’s the real purpose and the real game that’s here. Now, to see
yourself completely and hold yourself up to this light, one that shines on you
so brightly that you see what you must discard which doesn’t work and shows you
the luminescence of that stuff you do
which really works so you can do more of it….. that is the job that you’re up
to now. That’s where you’re going to grow and glow.
There’s nothing you need do or nothing you need know, nothing you
need say or think about...rather, the choice is to be open and accepting and
listening and conscious and aware and letting things in and being in the mode
of being a real student of the joyful things of life, the higher things, the
knowledge, wisdom and creativity skills that will bring you these things every
moment, every now.
In case you have fears, something’s bothering you, you’re afraid of
something, you don’t like it, you’re uncomfortable, you’re worrying, what you
do with that is stop and choose to be loving and happy and open and receptive,
to think about exactly what you want to create and how you want it to be. You
stay with that vision, that feeling and that thought and all those worries,
fears and thoughts go on the back burner just like a radio playing elevator muzak
in the background and you don’t let it distract you. You don’t like a lot of
that stuff on the back of the stove but you don’t let it interfere with your
joy and what you’re doing.
Freedom is wonderful, but what’s even more wonderful than freedom
is discipline. The kind of freedom that you get from discipline enables you to
be self-powered, self-esteemed, self-motivated and satisfied with your own
abilities to create a life that will make you healthy, wealthy, happy and wise.
What’s happening with you in the past has been that you only had
half of the equation. You have to know that eliminating is important,
eliminating blah blah desire based yammer, the jealousy and covetousness it
rides in on and the anger it produces. CUT. WHACK. OUT!
There is no real freedom without discipline, and there is no real
discipline unless it creates freedom so it’s not the kind of discipline where
you put someone in a prison and you say you can’t do anything except follow my
rules, eat, go to bed and get up when I say so. The other part of discipline is
yes, you eat and go to bed and you don’t do this and so forth, and within those
ground rules, there’s an amazing amount of freedom to be, the freedom to
create, to study, to learn, to play, to have relationships, to be intelligent,
the freedom to receive and give love, all those freedoms arise out of the
ground rules we adhere to because the ground rules’ only purpose is to make a
human being fulfilled or the opposite, fill-fueled. Filled up to the fullest
you can be, with education, knowledge, attention, awareness, sensitivity,
compassion, understanding and wisdom.
Maybe the problem that you have is that half the equation is being
lived, the freedom part but the freedom without sensitivity, humility,
awareness...will get you in accidents, people dislike you, there won’t be a
harmonious life, everything will be out of balance, balance occurs in the
relationship and interactions that you have with other human beings in terms of
your goals, visions and the results you produce in life. The key for doing this
and teaching others is being an example. The key for understanding and learning
it yourself is to practice it and then be able—as you live in relationship with
your friends or family---to exemplify the very goals and characteristics, high
thoughts of being a real disciplined, free, happy, satisfied human being. The
only way you can do that and have it rub off on anybody else is to show up that
way, yourself. Be able to see yourself and get others to see that you see them.
In relationship to your children, you want to be able to get them to see that
you see them and that will enable them to see that you see them and they will
be able to see themselves the way you see them. When they can see themselves
the way you see them and when they know that you see them, they will know what
you see.
In that seeing, they can achieve that high level, that high
thought...that “oh, my mother sees me being an egomaniac and being out there,
trying to impress others and always screaming and yelling and getting the
attention and have the freedoms and carte blanche that adults have.
When you’re a 2-year old...you can only have that freedom when you
live with the ground rules that 2-year olds have to live with. It’s the same
thing for us at thirty. Only now we have creativity, education, understanding
and the ability to mold ourselves.
You have to be a really practicing, creative student. That’s why
it’s called a disciple. A disciple is a student who’s disciplined enough to
listen to the guru. If you make it up and you don’t listen to what others are
saying and make up your own idea and thought about it, you’re always going to
be in trouble. You’re doing something you think is OK but you made it up. You
didn’t hear what was being said.
To hear what was said, is you have to not say, think or do anything
except listen until you hear it enough times. Like learning a scale in music.
You can’t hear it one time and say I can play that. You have to hear and
practice that scale 1000 times before you can play it and know it like the
person who taught it to you. He had to do it 1000 times before he knew it.
There’s no way to make it up. You have to be the quiet, listening student all
the time. Ground rules are important but what’s more important is that you
become a disciple. YOU CREATE IT ALL with any decision you make, but make THAT one, and you create the best
path possible.
The easiest thing in the world is to be a reactionary and get hurt,
upset and lash out when you see people doing unkind things, when something’s
going wrong out there. It’s easy to say that’s fucked up. I want it out of my
life. 99% of the time it has to do with your closest people. In that personal
contact, there’s always conflict, two ideas, two feelings and then there’s an
argument which leads to stress then people want out because what they really
want is happiness, the true state of your soul. The only way to have happiness
is to have your soul feel wonderful and your soul truly is wonderful, a happy
human being, in a body, having a wonderful experience of traveling through the
material realm and creating these things. What we do is get into our ego and
desires and when we don’t have what we want, we react negatively. That’s the
time to react positively...when you lose something, when you don’t have any
money, when your desires aren’t satisfied. That’s when you must act positively,
give more, be happier, healthier, work harder, get on the program and say
‘things are not good, I am going to change them.’ That’s what courageous people
do. That’s what successful people do, high people, loving people, saintly
people, Godly people do in the face of adversity.
The examples we have of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna or any
great being---they were always loving, no matter what happened, when things
were bad. They were loving, giving, serving helping, healing, blessing,
patient. So when you scream ‘I’m not going to put up with this anymore, I can’t
stand this life, I’m unhappy, this is miserable, I’m not going to live like
this, what am I doing in this relationship? Why am I broke, why don’t I have a
successful career” ..that is blocking you from being relaxed. Say to yourself,
“whatever is happening, I’m going to be loving, happy, good, serve others, help
everybody, work hard, practice, go out there and get the job done.’ That’s the
way to talk. Not this other way, not this other negative thing, ‘I’m not going
to put up with this.’ Put up with what? You’re putting up with yourself. You
created it all. You’re responsible for whatever is in your life. So you can get
to be happy, wealthy and wise if you will just realize that you are the creator
of it all. There’s nothing else out there. You created all of this.
The job you have is to be absolutely certain to not give up on the
beautiful path of joy, peace and happiness. Whatever creates peace do that.
Act that way. Act on that. Create that. Whatever does it to create peace do it.
You will have all the happiness you could ever imagine. And whatever doesn’t
create peace, recognize it and stop doing that. When you get angry, as soon as
you get disturbed, when you tear things apart, as soon as you become violent in
any way inside yourself, notice that there’s no peace. Our only goal as souls,
as Gods walking the universe, is to create peace and not the negative. That’s
why we have the negative, so we don’t create that, so we can get that contrast
with the positive. We have the negative to see that we can’t go there. We have
hell to see that we can’t go there. We only have violence and hate to see that
we can’t be hateful, or be violent. We have to be happy, nurturing, giving and
go to heaven. In heaven, there’s no hell. You only have heaven and hell as
opposite polarities as contrasts to see that you choose one and you eliminate
the other. Your true state was power, peace, God, energy, creativity. You’re
the creator. If you are, why would you create hell when you can create heaven?
Why create negativity when you can be positive, why would you create dumb when
you can be smart? Why would you create being poor and living in a basket when
you could be rich? Why would you create animosity and negative vibrations with
any other human being when you could create positive vibrations and beautiful
things with another human being? And then you say ‘it’s impossible, I can’t,
this doesn’t work with this other person. I tried.’ That’s a lie, more creating
of hell when you talk that way. Everything comes from your thought and your
ideas and your word is law in the universe and your actions create your
results. Remember that and you will be fine. No more bumping into obstacles.
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