A Prayer To Reveal A World Without Fear GF Live 9-20-25

I have several short stories to tell you,

And I'm going to start with one you're familiar with before I ask Kate to bring up the talk title and the key lesson.

You've all,

I assume,

Heard that story,

And I have to run through it briefly,

About this wise man who knew that some of the other wise men,

So to speak,

Weren't so wise after all,

And to prove it,

He took them on a small boat across the ocean to a place where,

Blindfolded,

He asked them to identify what it was that they were experiencing with their hands,

And so,

Without knowing it,

He paraded an elephant out.

One of the wise men grabbed its tail.

He thought it was a broom.

Another grabbed its leg.

He thought it was a large stump.

Another got hold of its trunk,

Thought it was a hose.

The story goes on,

And in the end,

They removed the blindfolds,

And lo and behold,

They see that each of them was only seeing one part of the whole,

And that when they could see the whole,

Then the parts made sense,

Because until they saw the whole,

They were arguing.

No,

It was a stump.

No,

It was a broom.

No,

It was a hose,

But upon seeing that all of these individual elements belonged to a greater creature,

They were able to reach a consensus by which they understood they had been blind without knowing they were blinded by their own conditioning,

What they thought they were looking at.

This is what we're going to look at together today.

So let's bring up the talk title,

Kate,

Please,

And then we'll get into the first key lesson.

The talk title is A Simple Four-Word Prayer to Reveal a World Without Struggle or Fear.

A Simple Four-Word Prayer to Reveal a World Without Struggle or Fear,

And for those of you who think,

Well,

I don't,

I'm not interested in prayer,

You may not know it,

But every time something happens that you don't want,

And your mind turns to what you hope will rescue you from what you think has ruined your moment,

That that mind is engaged in looking for a solution,

A way to reconcile what is coming and caused all this pain,

And our mind,

God help us,

And we don't know it,

It's always praying.

It always has its attention on something that it believes as either the source of a pain or the promised freedom from it.

So we're going to look at this idea of a prayer as a way to connect to something,

Only in this instance,

Something greater than our images and ideas about what we need to be safe and free and stop struggling the way we do,

And to enter into a world that's already within us that we're not aware of.

We have to understand why it is that we're not aware of that,

Which causes us to ask for the first key lesson.

Read along with me,

Everybody.

When we know that we can't put out a fire by feeding it more wood,

Then why don't we see the futility of trying to calm a mind inflamed by its own thinking by adding more thoughts to it?

Just pause for a moment.

We know we can't put out a fire by putting more wood on it.

That's ludicrous,

Antithetical.

Then why don't we see the futility of trying to calm a mind that's inflamed by its own thinking by adding more thoughts to it?

Christ himself said,

"'What man taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?

"'All of these things take no thought for tomorrow,

"'for sufficient unto the day is the evil of itself.

'" All of these ideas are intimately connected to a certain kind of blindness that we as human beings have that we're blind to.

What could be worse than being blind to something and believing that you can see the thing that you can't see?

And we believe,

Each of us,

To whatever extent it's true,

That we see the whole story in any given moment.

I see what you have said.

I understand why you shouldn't have said it and how to fix you or to get away from you.

I see the whole story.

I see what's wrong with the world.

I know the whole story,

And if only the story was the one that I liked,

Then everything would be copacetic.

And so it goes on and on and on,

Each of us believing that we see all at once the whole story,

When in truth,

All we see is what is convenient to the answer we need to get rid of whatever the ache is inside of ourselves,

So that that solution,

Which always proves itself to be incomplete,

Is the proof that we see the situation incompletely.

When you see the moment in its entirety,

You have the entire understanding of what's required to complete that moment.

Let me go on with a story now to exemplify what I'm talking about.

Two friends,

One of them gets a job at the same office,

And his buddy says,

Hey,

Bill says,

I'll pick you up tomorrow,

Stan.

Stan says,

Great.

I didn't want to take the bus.

Bill pulls up,

Stan gets in the car,

They're on the way to work,

And they get to the light where everybody,

Bill and Stan both know you're supposed to make a right turn.

Stan turns the car right,

Car doesn't go right,

It goes left,

Almost gets in an accident.

Bill says,

What the heck is that?

I'm having a little problem with the steering wheel,

I guess.

Well,

You need to get that fixed.

That was dangerous.

It happens twice more.

So Stan says,

I'm gonna get it fixed.

Bill says,

Don't pick me up until you do.

Two days later,

Stan says,

I got it fixed.

Bill says,

Great,

Come get me.

Stan comes up and picks up Bill.

There they are on their way to work.

Stan makes a left turn,

Tries to make a left turn,

Car goes straight,

Almost hits a truck in front of them.

Bill jumps out of the car and says,

I thought you said you got this fixed.

And Stan says,

I did.

Bill says,

I don't understand.

Stan says,

Look.

And he shows them,

I got a new steering wheel.

And Bill,

Can't believe it,

Are you nuts?

Your problem isn't the steering wheel,

The problem is the whole steering mechanism.

Why would you get just a steering wheel?

Stan says,

Well,

As far as I could tell,

That was all that was wrong with the car.

What's the parallel here?

The parallel is that when we crash into each other,

Into life,

We're always sure in that moment that there's something,

One little thing that we didn't understand or that someone else shouldn't have done.

And that if we had better control over that moment,

We would not crash anymore.

And our solution is to do what?

Excuse me.

To then act on the one part that our mind sees as being responsible for whatever has happened that's wrong.

I mean,

Look,

Silly story,

But you can see Stan was blind to the whole problem,

Wasn't he?

He thought it was his steering wheel.

Because all he could see was the one part that his mind,

A,

Pointed to quickly and that he was prepared to deal with.

Because for one thing,

All the other expenses would be too much for him,

But a steering wheel he could pull off.

So he buys the steering wheel because he always wanted one like that,

But it fixed nothing.

We buy into a solution our mind tells us about why we're suffering in a given moment and believe that whatever it is our mind is holding onto and gravitating to in that moment is the same as fixing the entire system that doesn't see the truth of the moment and keeps running into the shock that proves it doesn't know what it's looking at,

Let alone what to do about it.

Can you see this with me?

Can you see this is how we fix problems?

I think you're the problem.

And then I fix you,

Or I get rid of you,

Or I move someplace else.

I find another person just like you.

Why?

Because the problem wasn't you.

The problem was a relationship that this nature is in 24-7 with life where it's always running into something that it says shouldn't be the way it is and then tries to get a new steering wheel.

How do we handle these kinds of problems?

We just try to tweak the person or the event and essentially never really examine the underlying structure that is the source of the real suffering.

This is something we don't really understand because our mind always partials out,

Parts out individual solutions based on what the mind sees as the whole story.

The mind sees my insecurity as being an effect of my insolvency,

Of being poor,

Of not having as much as my friends.

And when my mind sorts out the problem by seeing that,

It says,

Here's the solution.

Get another job,

Make more money,

Or spend more money that you have so you look like you fit in.

So the solution doesn't change the system that's producing the suffering.

If anything,

The solution in part exaggerates the pain and causes more suffering.

We don't see the whole situation in part because we've been conditioned to look away from it and to identify with temporary solutions that are at hand but that don't hand us any freedom at all.

And the real problem,

Before I get into it with some simple stories to exemplify it,

Is that we live from a level of consciousness that doesn't know it is set against itself.

It can't see that it is set against itself.

And until we can begin to see that it is set against itself,

We will never see the truth of that and we will continue to participate in trying to change one part of a relationship instead of understanding the nature of the relationship that divides life up into this part and my part,

Your part and their part.

Let me show you what I'm talking about.

First,

As I've alluded,

We see life in parts.

We see life in parts.

We don't know how else yet to see life other than in parts,

Whereas a rule,

Some part of life seems to be set against the part of life that we're for.

You do this,

That's how I see your part in my pain.

I don't understand that I can't have pain with your part unless I'm selecting and identifying a part that says you shouldn't be the way you are.

So one fragment of a moment is treated as the whole of the problem.

One fragment of a moment is treated as the whole of the problem,

Just like Stan thought the steering wheel was the source of his problem.

Try to follow this with me.

What does it mean?

We see life in parts.

I look out the window and I see a storm coming.

Now the minute that my mind looks out the window and sees a storm is coming,

You and I both know what happens.

There is some kind of reaction.

I see something in the distance.

My mind says,

Uh-oh,

Storm's coming,

And then does what?

Then that machinery that has decided that storms should not be coming because it wants calm then sets itself against the part,

Now this is the interesting thing,

That it gave all of its attention to.

Try and see this with me.

Here's one fragment of a moment.

You're in a supermarket.

You walk by,

True story,

You walk by the fruit and vegetable department and you see that organic peaches have gone to $4.

49 a pound.

And you go,

Oh my God,

Who can afford this?

Now,

You see the peach,

You see the price,

But what you don't see is that the reaction to the price of the peach is predicated on something inside of you that is identified with wanting a peach,

Believing it must have a peach,

And now instead of the peach,

It's in pain because it says the whole of this moment is now determined by this reaction between the observed and the observer.

Literally,

The atmosphere inside of the supermarket becomes negative to me because all I can see is something I don't wanna look at.

Are you able to follow me with this?

I'm looking at something I don't want to look at.

Yes or no?

Now,

I think that what I'm looking at is,

In fact,

The whole of that moment because the whole of my identity is derived from my reaction to it.

I think that what I'm looking at is the whole of all possible,

I'm in a supermarket,

For God's sake.

There's 100,

000 different items including other peaches and fruits and vegetables,

Perhaps less expensive,

But all I see is the peach and all I see is the peach because I came to the market for the peach and now all my pain exists because of what?

Because of the price of a peach or because out of all the possibilities in the market in that moment,

All my mind sees is the peach,

The price,

And the pain connected to the experience I have of hating everyone who keeps raising prices.

I see nothing else and I may walk through that whole market going over in my mind what's wrong with the world and how it got like this and then dig up every possible solution to my suffering,

Change political parties,

Join this group,

Fix that group,

Become a farmer myself.

It makes no difference.

The point here is that when we unconsciously identify which we do with a moment that our mind itself has picked and then resist that moment,

Our mind out of all possibilities selected,

I am not experiencing what my mind has selected.

I'm experiencing the nature that selected it out of everything and then doesn't want it and that's the makeup of my day.

We identify with this reacting me and once that reaction starts and the resistance takes place everything kind of shrinks into a tiny bubble and there I am looking at the one thing my mind selected to produce the whole of my experience in that moment and perhaps subsequently because you can do this with people,

Can't you?

You walk over and that person has an expression on their face and that expression,

Man,

It'll set you off.

Yesterday on the freeway,

Some fruitcake driving at least 95 miles an hour,

Weaving through traffic and almost caused an accident.

You know what happens when that happens.

Where does my attention go?

It goes instantaneously onto this idiot and then the instantaneous attention on the idiot validates and proves that I have the right to be angry and want to punish that person when my mind out of all the things,

Yes,

I had to protect myself but he's gone,

That's over but it's not gone and over for me.

No,

It's gonna go on for 10 minutes while I talk about what's wrong with people and how the world's gone to hell in a handbasket.

See it with me.

We never notice anything in any given moment by and large other than what we don't want in it.

See it,

You wake up in the morning,

The whole world has been reborn and continues to be reborn but I don't see or participate in this broad,

Beautiful revelation of creation renewing itself including me overnight.

I wake up and my mind falls on one thing.

What I have to do today,

Oh God,

Not that.

Out of everything.

So it takes one part that it selects and that as it selects it,

A regret.

I'm sitting having my coffee and my mind brings up a regret out of everything my mind could be dealing with including gratitude for having a cup of coffee,

My mind brings up the past and when it brings up the past,

What happens?

It's looking at a part,

It pulled out of the whole of the possibilities and it has selected that part so that it could resist the part it selected,

Experience that resistance and then feel as if it knows the whole of everything that's wrong with life including others and ourselves in it.

I'm going to great lengths to try to help you see this.

Can you see it with me?

How in the name of God do we not see that inevitably there's something wrong with someone or something in our life and then it's always there even though it may be a hundred different things all at once,

But always there.

One day you will be so tired,

God willing,

Of sitting inside this vehicle,

This vessel and instead of struggling with flesh and blood like St.

Paul said,

Trying to fix yourself or others,

To realize the whole system is broken because it belongs to powers and principalities,

To a divided nature,

A broken government inwardly that must have an enemy to know what it's for or must be for something so it knows what to do with what it encounters and sets itself against it.

Until we understand the whole of this,

We're lost.

There's not a chance because we'll be forever being divided up into what I see that I don't want,

Why I don't want it,

The experience of not wanting it and then the plan that's going to produce the peace that I imagine was taken by that thing.

Do you see it with me?

How are we going to get past this?

Two stories.

Get my clock and make sure I don't run out of time.

Let's take a breath.

I've set the stage.

How do I not see that all my mind sees is what it is seized by?

How do I not see that my own mind gravitates to what seizes it and once it is seized by what it attends to,

Then fights with the very thing that it selected out of all possibilities?

How do we not see it?

So here's a father.

They've just moved to a new city.

The boy's new in school.

We'll make him 12,

13 years old.

And he comes home and the dad can see he's the kid's a wreck.

What's going on?

Then his kid kind of mumbles something about what happened.

He said the stupidest thing.

Everybody laughed at him and he ran out and then he was embarrassed and so he ran home.

Dad says,

You don't understand something I want you to see with me.

He says,

What?

He says,

Come on,

We're going to the movies.

Kid's confused.

Movies?

I thought I'd be punished.

No,

The dad knows something.

Your father,

Your interior father,

The divine,

Knows something you don't know about you and keeps trying to show it to you.

That's what all of these stories are about.

Every parable is about a revelation that we are required to have,

But we can't even imagine that we need that revelation until we start running into all of these things that repeat and repeat and repeat and show us that we don't see the truth that our mind tells us we do.

They go to this movie.

Boy's been wanting to see this film.

They go and they sit down,

They get their popcorn and stuff.

The movie starts and oh,

I don't know,

15 minutes in,

The father taps his son on the shoulders.

He says,

Come with me.

What do you,

Come with me?

What,

What,

What?

Said,

You don't want to get up,

Do you?

No,

I want you to get up.

I have something more important for you to learn and you will,

If not immediately,

Be grateful for the rest of your life that I helped you to see what you don't see yet.

Boy gets up dutifully,

Not happy,

And the father takes the son down the aisle in the dark and says to his son,

You can see the screen with all the action,

Right?

The movement,

The color,

The sound.

Of course I can,

As he was looking at it.

The father says,

What can't you see right now?

What do you mean,

What can't I see?

The father says,

Look closely.

Can you see that that screen is enclosed?

There's drapes on the side and on the side of the drapes,

There's a building so that what you're looking at is taking place in a situation in a room much larger than simply the action,

Color,

And sound on that screen.

There's something bigger than what's going on on that screen,

But when you're watching the movie,

Son,

You tell me,

Do you see anything other than what's on the screen?

And for the sake of the story,

We'll say,

No,

I don't.

The father says,

Well,

How is that possible?

I just showed you.

Right while you're completely identified with what's going on,

All this other business is here,

But you don't see it,

Why not?

The son has to say,

Because all I can see is what I want to see for the experience it's giving me.

The father says,

That's exactly right.

When we are,

You and I,

Caught up in a moment and our mind has selected that thing from the past or that person that isn't the way they're supposed to be or the part of us that something in us is judging as being weak or mistaken.

In that moment,

We are literally transported into a kind of a theater of the mind where all this mind sees is the one thing it needs to see so that it can project the judgment of itself and figure out what to do with that one thing that it says is the source of its disturbance so that that mind literally doesn't see the whole of anything,

What it sees is out of a kind of keyhole,

Everything that it needs in order to feel as if it is real,

Strong,

And knows what to do to escape the situation it's in.

We forget in a moment of life when we're looking out at the world or at a supermarket or someone standing next to us that there is more to that moment than just what we are looking at because we are looking at essentially our reaction to what the mind has selected.

We're not even really looking at that person,

That place,

Or that problem.

We are looking more or less at the experience being derived by our reaction to what our mind selected.

And we can see,

Just as the boy was able to see,

Those things haven't vanished,

I just don't see them in that moment.

And that's the truth of us.

We just don't see in that moment that everything that's taking place,

This experience,

Is surrounded by,

Framed by something greater than the individual nature of that experience.

And that experience is painful,

By the way,

By and large.

But we don't even know it's painful by and large because we're so identified with the immediate reaction and resistance that now our mind is looking at another screen that has the solution it says we need to escape what the mind has selected unattended.

Am I going too fast?

I don't wanna go too fast.

I want some of this to sink in so that you can begin to see with me what's going on in every moment when you're sitting by yourself and you don't know what you're looking at a mental movie.

Out of all the movies your mind can run,

Why does it run that movie?

And why does it rerun that scene from that movie?

And that relationship in that scene that as it's relived causes all of this resistance to come up.

And when all of that resistance comes up,

Then the experience is not wanting what you're looking at when your own mind selected what you're looking at.

This is the solution to see with greater and greater clarity how all of this is unfolding and how all we want is a new steering wheel to steer ourselves clear of the stuff of some suffering this mind has created on its own for its own and that keeps us bound to.

Next story.

Here's a grateful king,

A wise knight has slain the dragon,

Banished it from the country.

And the king in his gratitude,

The divine,

Says to the king,

Says to the knight,

Come with me,

I wanna give you a gift beyond measure.

Sure.

So they start to climb this mountain in the kingdom.

And as they climb,

The king says,

I want you to know,

Good knight,

That you can have and will have everything that your eye falls on below you.

The knight is stunned and just like you and I might do,

He stops and he immediately identifies with,

Yes,

The magnitude of the gift,

But in the moment where it identifies with the one thing it sees and experiences,

It has forgotten something that the king wants the young knight to learn.

And the king says,

Young knight,

Why have you stopped?

When every step you take higher gives you a more inclusive view of the valley.

And the broader the view of the valley,

The more you are entitled to everything you see below you and beneath you.

So that the task for you to understand is that there's no end to this ascent,

Which means there's no end to what is being given to you once you understand how to include that reality to your life in that moment.

This is a story that I tell you is true.

Maybe it's not the best story,

But surely you have seen moments where before you were blind to something in yourself.

And then by grace,

You see something.

It's,

Oh my God,

Why would I sit here and suffer over something that hasn't happened or over something that happened a year ago or that may happen tomorrow?

Why would my mind wanna sit and look at that?

So the more it looks at what it doesn't want,

The more I experienced not wanting my life.

And the more I experienced not wanting my life,

The more I tried to figure out how to have a better life.

How to have a life I do want.

And now I'm identified with one little plan,

But a plan that can never produce the peace because the plan is the product of an unconscious nature trying to escape itself,

Which it can't do.

Why?

How do I not see that?

And I've been pointing it out all along.

All moments of revelation,

And revelations can be shocking or supernal.

All moments of revelation are in fact,

And do in fact point back to a single fact.

Don't miss this.

Every moment,

The shock,

Oh,

The revelation,

Ah,

All point back to a single fact that we've been pointing to.

Pointing to now,

Which is what?

The world that we see out there,

That position,

That place,

That time,

That person's face,

All that we see as being out there is inseparable from a mind that sees and experiences out there as being other than itself.

Now,

I know that that monstrous evil person that you're looking at and having that negative reaction to is not in quotes yourself,

But your resistance to whatever your mind has said is true about that person is to the experience of what your mind has said.

So that the hatred of that person that you feel,

If you feel that,

God help you,

That the hatred you feel is not because the person is hateful,

Though he may be,

But it's because that has awakened in you this nature that sets itself so firmly against,

Listen,

The very quality that it selected from its own conditioned past.

So in selecting its conditioned reaction,

Relives its own reaction and then blames the person for the pain.

This is why we have to see the whole operating system,

Not just that part or this part,

Not just you that I blame and not just me that I judge for being judgmental.

How do we see the whole of something,

The whole of the work on this planet,

All that Christ implored his disciples,

All that any true teacher ever said was,

Please,

You take thought,

You think that's going to change your tomorrow,

Thought is the source of the tomorrow you fear,

But you don't see it because thought grabs onto one thing,

Embraces or resists it,

The experience follows and round and round goes that nature reincarnating itself without end.

And if we want to know real rebirth,

If we want a real life that has to end,

We must lose that relationship with that life that reincarnates itself by first looking at the one thing that bothers it and then figuring out why it bothers it as part of its own past,

It already knows,

Haven't you seen that?

How is it that I immediately know what's wrong with you?

First,

You disturb me,

But I'm not quite clear why you've disturbed me,

But within a breath or two,

The whole backstory,

The whole reel,

The whole movie of everything you've ever said and done floods back into me.

And as it floods back into me,

I'm carried away with a reaction that's full of resistance to what it says is you,

When really it is an unconscious nature resisting the content of itself that it has chosen out of that moment so that it could experience the pain of itself and have someone to blame and on and on it goes.

How do we wake up?

That's what this talk is about.

As best I'm able to do it,

I want you to understand that in every given moment,

And please try to see this with me,

Every given moment of our life has three parts to it.

A trinity.

Creation itself is a trinity.

Most of us don't know it because maybe we're too afraid to study other religions because of the brainwashing.

Virtually every religion,

Ancient religion,

Has a trinity in it.

And it,

Because it takes a trinity to create.

It takes something active.

It takes something passive.

It takes the will of the divine.

It takes what is passive,

The lamb,

And then out of that marriage,

Something must yield and something is born.

Something modifies that relationship,

Reconciles that relationship.

So for us,

We must understand the following.

In every given moment,

There is,

And we don't see this yet,

There's always you.

We literally live in this illusion that what we see and what our mind falls on outside of us is the reason why we feel the way we do.

So I look out and I see what I'm gonna call you.

I see my brother who's always this way.

I see in the news the part of it that always bothers me.

I look in the mirror and I see the feature of myself that's getting old.

I don't see my health.

I look in the refrigerator.

I don't see the grace that allows me to have more food than most of us will eat in a lifetime.

I see what's missing or I see what I want.

I see one thing.

I always see in quotes what we're going to call in this talk,

I always see the other.

I always see that which is not me,

You.

In that same moment though,

Although I don't see it because all I see is you,

There's me.

There's this reactive me.

And without this reaction to you,

Without this me that reacts to you,

There's no you or me.

See it with me.

Where is the moment that I don't want without what I don't want and the self that doesn't want it?

Where is the you that's a problem to me without the me that finds problems with you?

So that there's always you,

And this is by and large,

You have to see it.

Driving down the street,

Your mind,

If it's not looking around to find something that it wants to talk to itself about,

It's talking to itself about a thought that it had a moment before that it says is you,

That it says is the other,

Not me.

Imagine a mind bringing up a thought about the past and believing that the thought it brought out about the past is not itself.

Isn't that what it does?

Brings up what you said yesterday and then believes that what you said yesterday exists independently of the nature that has brought it up so that it can hate what that nature is thinking about.

One day you'll faint,

You'll see this,

You'll say,

I can't believe it.

I always see you,

Meaning what I don't want,

What I do want,

What's wrong,

How things have to be,

Why they're not how they should be.

I see the other,

I never see the seer of the other,

That which gives the other its quality and its character.

Because nothing that you see has quality or character without something inside of you that tells you that quality or character.

Say it again,

Nothing that this eye falls on has quality or character without the nature that has chosen that item and then imbued it,

Actualized it with whatever the condition,

Qualities and characteristics are that that has according to your past.

Can you see that?

That's very important.

Can you see that with me?

It's breathtaking.

Means I'm always experiencing myself and blaming you for the experience.

So there's you and there's me that seems to be separate,

But separated only by this resistance to the very thing that has been selected as you.

And then me and you,

And that's all we know,

Vacillate back and forth.

You,

Me that'll fix you,

You that's fixed,

Me that has to still fix you a little more,

You that I get fixed,

The me that thinks that's pretty good,

But we could do something else about some other you over there,

And it just goes on ad infinitum.

We don't realize that we are a trinity.

And in this instance,

To see the whole requires seeing you,

Seeing me,

And being aware of thee.

What is thee relative to you and me?

Thee is this intelligent light,

This living presence that is aware of this nature that creates you and me.

A nature that is aware of the whole of that machinery and the misery it creates undetected,

And that in understanding the whole of that machinery doesn't try to buy the steering wheel to get around or to or through a problem,

But understands the real mechanism is that we're identified with an unconscious nature that is a misery making machine that never sees itself as being such.

So this four word prayer that reveals a world without struggle or fear is simple,

But it mustn't be mindlessly repeated like people do mantrams.

The simple prayer is you,

Me,

And thee.

You,

Me,

And thee,

But to understand that you,

Me,

And thee means at once that the minute my mind falls on something,

You don't see it yet,

You will.

Why am I suddenly tense?

Why am I suddenly depressed or angry?

I'm telling you why.

Because you unaware of a mind that unattended falls on what it will to recreate the sense of self it does,

Your mind fell on something,

It selected something.

It took that facial expression,

It took that reaction from yesterday where you did or did this embarrassing thing,

And it takes that reaction,

You,

It makes a you out there and to have a you out there,

There's gotta be a me in here that doesn't want it reacting to it.

There is a part of us that can see this divided mind in its entirety.

The light dwells in the darkness,

The light dwells in this divided mind that cannot see what it does to itself.

And that light that can see what this divided mind does to itself immediately extricates us from the struggle of that divided mind.

So we have to look at these three shapes and these three steps that are actually a living trinity.

What?

I catch the tension,

Can I see that the tension is because my mind has found something it doesn't want that it says is wrong?

And instead of being identified with the mind that says that's wrong,

Here's how it should be,

To see I can't have that experience of that tension without something in me having become tense and then blaming that tension on what it looks at.

So there's you in quotes,

The person,

The event,

The thing that seems other than me,

The thing threatening me,

That's you.

Then there's me,

This sense of myself having the experience of this reaction,

Judging,

Resisting,

Blaming.

You that I judge,

Me that finds a problem with you,

They are not separate,

You and me belong together in an unconscious mind that doesn't know it creates them and the only solution is the awareness of thee.

This always present unseen unity,

Call it God,

Christ,

This awareness that is capable by grace of showing us the whole of that moment.

And only then are we able to start realizing the task,

I'm tense,

I catch it,

Come to a stop.

Wow,

I can feel that again.

And then understand,

Why did my mind gravitate to this sense of inadequacy?

Why did my mind suddenly seize on what may have happened yesterday and then still mind,

We never questioned what our mind tells us is reality because it creates for us a movie predicated on what it has chosen.

And so we sit in this theater of this unconscious mind and let that whole movie reel by reel by reel bring us into what we call reality when it's not reality at all.

It's a piece of reality and the worst part of it,

I might add.

So I come to a stop and I realize,

You know what?

I'm looking at something,

I'm thinking about something and what I'm thinking about seems to be producing this experience but the truth is this reaction is validating what I'm looking at.

They're in cahoots and without that part of me reacting to what something in me has chosen to look at,

There's no problem.

There's just the machinery to see all of that and to sit in the light of that awareness is the beginning of bringing an end to that machinery.

Let me read to you the summary key lesson and special exercise.

I've run out of time.

This will be posted.

Strongly suggest you come back and review it.

When we learn to look at any given moment with threefold attention,

You,

Me,

Thee,

When we look at any given moment with threefold attention,

Present at once to what is seen,

To who is reacting and the higher awareness that holds both,

That moment ceases to be a battleground.

I'm at war with life because my experience tells me life has said let's fight.

Life never says let's fight.

Light always says let's bring light into this moment so that we can drop these stupid feudal struggles that are destroying ourselves and the world.

Continuing the prayer,

This simple four-word prayer,

You,

Me,

And thee is not a formula to avoid life.

It's a practice designed to awaken the whole of us to an indwelling light by which we see.

There's nothing outside of us or within us to be feared.

My God,

What if that's true?

How much time I spend in fear of what you might think of me because out of all the possibilities,

My mind has selected something you may say or did say and then as it identifies with that,

Fills itself with resistance and then blames you for the experience it's giving itself.

So you,

Me,

And thee is not a formula to avoid life or to control it.

It's a practice designed to awaken the whole of us so that we can see in that unity that no unity fears anything attacking it because everything is already a part of that divine union.

And the last part of this four-word prayer and this key lesson,

Use it,

Use that practice.

Practice it in real time.

Do it once and you'll see a miracle.

Let it show you that there is no struggle in revelation.

You want the greatest secret that was ever told,

That's it.

There is no struggle in revelation.

Revelation is always the intersection of celestial forces bringing about a new creation,

A new conception that is new,

Which means it has nothing to protect in its past and nothing to fear because it's going to be new again.

Let it show you there's no struggle in revelation,

Only the endless peace of what is holy,

Illuminating itself without end.

If any part of what I've said touches any part of you,

Just try one time,

Catch yourself suddenly feeling stressed,

Anxious.

Notice what your mind,

What is your mind looking at?

It's looking at the other.

It's looking at something outside of itself.

It's looking at the proverbial you.

Then just quietly notice,

Well,

What I'm looking at,

What I'm being given to think about has no reality unless something in me is dressing it,

Putting clothes on it,

Giving it life.

No thought has life without a nature that lends it some kind of conditioned experience.

Ah,

I get it.

And now by grace,

I see that this you that seems outside of me and the me that always sees it as such is actually an unconscious nature and that I don't have to take part in that unconscious relationship.

Instead,

I can bring the whole of that relationship into another order of light of life that brings an end to that suffering and replaces it with a new self and a new understanding that cannot be made fearful,

Worried,

Or anxious.