Goals And Winning
Beingness and freedom
The number one program on a chart is separateness. The very first program we put in is wanting to be separate from the One, from the Oneness. The Oneness is our beingness. It’s omnipresent. Right now your beingness is everywhere present. We start cutting ourselves off from it by saying “I’m going to be separate from it,” and we put a circle around ourselves to encase our beingness into a thing called mind-body.
Our beingness sets up a mind which imagines it’s a body. So everything you do - and we’ll keep on doing until you reach freedom - is to undo that feeling of separateness. On the chain of separateness comes mind, body, and everything to do with the body: other bodies, mama, papa, children, husband, wife. It gets more and more involved as you move out on the top state of Oneness, of beingness.
But this beingness that you are is always there. There’s nothing more intimate than this infinite beingness that you are. When you say “I,” that’s it. When you add on to it, that isn’t it. That’s what you need to let go of. You just say “I” - “I, I, I”. From here on, you’ll be there. But the moment you add something on to it - “I am this body” or “I am this mind” - right, “I am that” - that’s not it. You’re separating. You’re imagining in your mind more than the Oneness.
And the more you imagine, the further away you are from that top state of just being. Because you’re being part of your being. The mind, your being the husband, your being the wife, your being the child, your being the friend, and your being the body - you’re being involved in everything to survive, keep that body surviving.
But there’s one thing you can’t let go of: that’s the word “being.” That’s the part of you that has no limitation. That’s the part of you that you’re looking for in every last act you do. You’re unhappy because you’re not just being. Unhappiness - it’s just moving away from beingness.
So the more you try to be a body, the greater your unhappiness. There is no misery in life when we let go of identifying with the body and just identify with our beingness - are you？ Sure you are! That’s it. Period. Nothing else. That’s it. You see the KISS theory - it’s so simple.
How do you get rid of all the obstacles? AGFLAP - that’s all it is. These programs put into the banks of the mind keep operating until we release them. You get these programs out of the mind, the mind goes quiet, and your beingness is so loud you cannot help but be self-obvious - to see to yourself as to what you are.
(5:04) Truth, reality, is that which never changes. And there’s only one thing that never changes: the reality, the truth, our beingness. So we started from our beingness. We created a mind. The mind reflects all the parts. The mind creates all matter. And when you get involved in matter, everything matters, and you just get played by a bunch of nonsense.
So we need to start going back up the chart, ridding ourselves of all these unconscious, deep programs - AGFLAP and so forth - back at the point that I started with when I first spoke to you. Identify where you are, where you’re going, what it is that needs to be done to get there.
Does an infinite being have to work for a living? Do the free ones have jobs? Let go of the importance of work. Of course, you’ve got to do that which you have to do - otherwise your program says “I will die.” You need this carcass to play the game until you get back up to the top.
Keep releasing and take responsibility
The only purpose for being in this world is to discover our freedom. The only purpose to come here is to get rid of all the limitations. And where are the limitations? In the mind: “I’m afraid,” “I can’t,” “I’m guilty,” “I don’t deserve it,” “I’m angry,” “I’m in apathy” - yada yada yada. The whole purpose of being here is to rid ourselves of all these limitations that are deeply programmed and are the accumulation of many, many millions of years, millions of lifetimes.
And yet, when you release at the bottom line, you can go free in a matter of months. Getting it constant gets you there. A momentum like you’re into now - you’re able to release. As you release, you get high. From the high place, you can reach down deep and pull up the fear of dying. When you’re free of that fear of dying, look - it’s much stronger: agony, the feeling of separation. But because you’ve released so much, when you’ve let go of the fear of dying, you can handle it. And you throw out the feeling of separation, and you’re there - with a capital “T”.
Now, you must take responsibility to rid yourself of that which you have accumulated over the millions of years. If you don’t take responsibility, you have programs in your subconscious, and you’re saying “I’ve got no responsibility. I have nothing to do with it,” so it remains.
It’s so important for you to take responsibility. And when something bad happens, say “Gee, look what I did. I caused this mess up.” It takes an ability to do that. But if you’ll take credit for the things you create that you don’t like, it keeps you in the driver’s seat. It keeps you in control. And as we know, control is not a bad word - not a bad thing. The want of it is.
(10:20) When we’re free, we’re in total control of the universe by mere effortless thought. When you’re free, your mind is quiet - there are no thoughts there. So any thought you put in the mind is so concentrated it happens like that. Your mind is plagued with probably tens of thousands of thoughts right now, all tied in to the AGFLAP. So when your mind goes quiet, it’s concentrated, and in the mere thought, it happens immediately. It’s such an effortless thought.
And “effortless” is a good word to judge yourself by, check yourself by. To the degree you have no effort in life - to that degree you are free. You don’t realize how ridiculous you look, scratching for a living. It’s such a… well, I won’t say. But you must get to the top. You must get to the place where you master the world. Because if you’re not winning, if you’re not a winner, you have anti-programs: “I can’t be a winner.”
You must become a winner. You must achieve your goals so that you can bring up the anti-winning, the anti-goals, and rid yourself of them. The aversions to the world are stronger and far more subtle than the attachments. So when you go to be a winner, when you go for goals, up come your aversions, and you need to become a winner just to get the garbage up and out.
Your aversions are stronger and more subtle than your attachments. Your attachments are obvious: “I want this and I want that and I want money and I want beauty” - those are obvious. But the fact - the things you don’t want - you don’t look at, and that develops resistance, suppression, and resistance.
Goals
So goals are very important on your way to becoming a winner. Take the brother of someone - Miss Aronin? These… to run your goal charts. Am I in as good a position as you used to be when you’re running them? What you’re doing is you write up on releasing the blocks to being a winner.
You’ve got to be a total winner in life. They can have it happen if I remember right. You wrote a goal for an important client, part, Broadway show - correct me if I’m wrong - and I saw you, a terrific part, really fighting your way through. What was the name of it? “Knockout”? And you were knockout at it.
I think during that time, did you write a goal to get an important part in a Hollywood movie? Didn’t you get a part in “Cruising”? And during that time, then, did you write another goal - six figures - to make six figures? And you got it. And then your goal is to buy everything I want: sports car, home. And after that, after that, then… and you got it. Then what happened?
“I didn’t need any goal charts. I got a cigar in my mouth. I’m a big shot.” I’m not picking on you - that was the time when you could have really made a big forward spurt. And I invited… I wanted to join us. You didn’t want to. You were above the Sedona graduates at that time. Remember? It was pride.
But the important thing: you stopped making goals. When I stopped, that’s all - you stopped. You take the six steps - there’s no stopping in the six steps. He said to me, “Oh, Lester, I got it. I’m just releasing constantly,” and you, as Lydia’s could be… remember, you were into step six. Nothing could knock you down. You just kept moving up. I just stayed right there.
You would have been totally free in a month or so after you spoke to me that time. But you stopped. You wanted things of the world. At that moment, you forgot it was your inner happiness that was so great, not the things of the world. Because when you got the Broadway show, that wasn’t good enough. You got the movie - that wasn’t good enough. You got the six figures - that wasn’t good enough.
Hell, it’s all right. Keep on winning, but get to the place where you can think and have things happen. Try to transcend having to work for a living. That’s for slaves - that’s not for free people.
I’m sure most of you have created things by the mere thought of them. Now, if you can do it for one thing, do it for everything that comes in the “yes, but…” And that “yes, but” is remaining ego-programs. So use your goal charts. Get rid of the ego-programs and move into the state of just being your beingness.
You move around - you might have a silly smile on your face, but you can learn how to wipe that off. You won’t disappear. The only thing that changes is “I am…” - that body is a creation of my mind. The mind is something I set up. I am whole, complete, eternal in my beingness. And the body becomes of little importance once you recognize you’ve created it mentally and that you have used it to help sink yourself down into limitations of the body.
I guess what I’m saying is: don’t get frightened about going free. All your programs will put in as “pro-survival” - every bit of them is anti-survival. Be that to that mind of yours: every bit of every program which was put in as “pro-survival” is anti-survival. This ought to help you let go of the fear “I will die if I go free.”
You’re free right now, but what’s stopping you is what I was talking about: fear of losing what you have now. You never lose - you never give up anything. As you get freer, you’ll take on more and more and more. Correction: you lose your miserable toys - the miseries. But when you go free, you’ll walk along in a body, you’ll eat, you’ll talk, and you don’t have to die. You can keep the body going indefinitely.
So let go of the fears: “If I go free, I will die.” I think this is probably the number one holdback for all of us: “I will die if I go free. These feelings are going to keep me surviving. They are my protection. I’ll get angry and I’ll swing at them, or I’ll get courageous and wipe them out.”
Look into your feelings. Examine them. Identify exactly what they are. They are “pro-survival,” but actually, in effect, anti-survival. We all have that feeling: “I will die if I go free.” All you die to is the miseries.
You take the great ones - did Buddha disappear when he got free? I think he went back to being a prince or a king, did he not? Did Jesus die? Yes, he used it to prove immortality - came back in three days. He’s still around, so is Buddha.
Yogananda was a free one. Look what he did: came over from India and set up a huge organization, ran it all by himself. And when he left in ‘52, I met his disciples - I think it was ‘54 - they were still totally bewildered, not knowing what to do, because Yogananda did everything in that organization. They were paralyzed for several years because he was doing everything. Now, he was a free one. Look what he did: had three gorgeous properties, set them up, tens of thousands of followers.
An interesting story on his body: I met his disciples - two different ones told me about it. He had sick feet he couldn’t stand on, and they hurt. And one day he had to give a talk at their headquarters out in the open - probably a thousand or a few thousand people there. They carried him into the car; he couldn’t walk. When he got there, the people were there, and when they got ready to carry him… imagine, “Oh, I’m not going in front of people.” He got out of the car on his own, and he walked up to the platform.
Mrinalini is the name of the sister who told me about it. She said she looked at him and she noticed his feet were not touching the ground because he heard… he levitated up to the platform. No one knew it except the disciples around him who had had to carry him into the car.
Now, I tell you that to not try to judge a free one by what he’s doing. You pick on… well, someone said, “I took some vitamins.” “I’m wonderful! What’s wrong with vitamins? I sleep, I eat.” So what? The question is: do I have to?
And the only reason why the great ones live like we do is because we can’t comprehend them if they don’t. They come down into our limitations so they can communicate with us. But like Yogananda, he had sick feet and he had to walk. He didn’t want to show it to the public, so he levitated.
But I think the real reason why most of the masters are quite sick at times… Vivekananda had a terrible body all his life, excruciating pains. They do it as a reminder to them that they are not that body, because they don’t suffer. The body, no matter how much it hurts - hell, they laugh: “Ha ha ha! The body’s hurting!” Doesn’t bother them. They don’t identify with it. They identify with their beingness.
Being this cannot hurt. You can do the same thing. But try to get rid of “I will die if I don’t… free.” That’s what Michael went through, right Michael? “You lose everything, everything’s gone.” It isn’t. When you’re free, by the mere thought you can have anything. Sometimes you could have a hundred bodies and talk to a hundred different people at the same time, because there are no limitations.
If you read “The Autobiography of a Yogi,” several other masters, after they died, came back. If this one was wondering, he spoke to four people at ten o’clock the next morning in a physical body at the same time. There are no limitations when we are free.
I’m trying to propagandize you into letting go of the fear of dying, of the fact that “if I go free, I’m finished.” It’s just the opposite. You got to watch that tricky mind of yours - it keeps you down in the dumps.
You shouldn’t have to work for a living. You’re an infinite being. There are other worlds where people never curse and never work for a living. Nature supplies an overabundance of everything by the mere thought of it. The fact, as I said last time: there’s nothing out there but the out-picturing of your mind. If you picture slavery, you’re a slave. If you picture freedom, everything comes to you without effort.
Stop wasting time on the body. It creates karma, and karma is an anchor. You can never rid yourself of karma because to every act there’s an opposite and equal act - that’s the first law in physics. But it applies to… what? As you’re trying to work out karma, you’re creating karma for the future. It’s impossible to work out karma.
What you can do is transcend. See what you are, and there is no karma. More specifically, karma is programs, and basic programs are feelings, and the most basic program is the feeling of separation.