 Yeah, I do remember the idea that we learn best through attraction and Not through avoidance. So really the key idea is when you Discover joy and you extend joy then it will be very attractive You will literally attract witnesses to that joy and it just grows Exponentially and I think you're getting a glimpse of that from your time here at the monastery. There's there's an underlying joy It's like more. It's like a volcano of joy. You can see it even in the first day of this Festival I was telling Lisa yeah people even we have to the all the great songs and the artists were on last night And then they just put the music on well at 10 30 and then there was dancing on the stage and Dancing dancing dancing. It's like it just it's just a bursting joy It's just it's a volcano of joy and it just keeps drawing forth witnesses and that's how it works It's all through attraction. A lot of you know, I like to watch movies and 1929 Jimmy Stewart Lionel Barrymore, you can't take it with you. It blew my hair off the knock my socks off And what the movie is all about is about happiness and joy Lionel Barrymore plays grandpa and he's got this house and Everybody is intuitively following their joy in grandpa's house. In fact, that's the only rule The only guideline in grandpa's house is that everybody follows their joy, so One is trying to type a screenplay out one's a dancer one's a xylophone player one's a guy who likes to invent fireworks and In the basement and there's always these big explosions going off because this guy's in the basement attending fireworks Everybody is happy and Why are they so happy is like it's grandpa's house and you know what grandpa is happy this guy Lionel Barrymore in This movie you can't take it with you. He's playing he's like our Holy Spirit character and He's so loving that ultimately even when The forces of the world of supply and demand of trying to Jimmy Stewart's father is a businessman Kind of a Wall Street kind of tycoon trying to take over by property. He bought everybody's house in the whole area to make a giant Factory or a giant business except grandpa grandpa wouldn't sell no matter what the price was Grandpa wasn't selling his house because he had everything. It was you can't try to bribe the contentment You can't bribe happiness Happiness laughs at bribes Because bribes have no meaning to happiness and grandpa is content. So so in the end even when the neighbors get fearful even when Jimmy Stewart gets fearful his fiancee gets fearful in the end the final scene of the movie is Lionel Barrymore grandpa Sits down and plays the harmonica with the character that's tried its best to Play the ego, you know to play the forces of the ego and they finally sit down in the end and Everything is healed all wounds are healed all grievances are healed as they all sit down and they all they're dancing The final scene of the movie before it fades away is this giant dancing where everybody is dancing and these two guys Are playing the harmonica. It's a great great symbol of The power of love of the power of joy the power of that happiness and harmony There is no force in the universe in the cosmos in all the galaxies That can that can limit love that can limit that happiness There is nothing that can take your fun away if you are determined to have fun There is nothing that can take your fun away You have the power to laugh at everything and That's how the world will end the world will end in laughter when you when your laughter grows so strong inside of you That there's no force that can come against your laughter. Then then you've reached the state of heaven It's an invulnerable state. It's a state of joy. It's a state of happiness There's nothing that can come against it what I also liked about you can't take it with you this 1929 movie Is it really wasn't spiritual? In a conscious way or or religious at all. There was one reference And it kind of reminded me of me in my life because I go around like the Pied Piper Going yeah, yeah, yeah, come on join me join me join me And I do have quite a few people that do that come and join in but grandpa goes to this Business and there's one guy that he's he's very unhappy at this job that he's got and Basically grandpa comes right up to him and just cuts to the chase He said why are you here and then he gets right into where is you what's your fun? Where is your fun and making little creatures little rabbits and little? Furry creatures mechanical creatures is where the fun is he brings it out and as soon as he shows these little fun creatures at work Everybody at work gathers around him and and all they all get into the joy immediately Grandpa just shows up to ask one question. Why are you here? Where is your joy and as soon as the guy responds then everything in his whole life? Turns around the only thing grandpa mentioned is to be like the lilies of the field That's that's a slight reference to Jesus's teaching in the gospels You know look at the lilies of the field They neither spin or toil you know and look how they're clothed the greater than Solomon That's the slightest little reference, but as he's leaving and his boss is screaming at him Don't come back if you leave here you never come back to work You are fired you know you are out of here if you leave he leaves He says I'm a lily and he goes and he squeezes in the the elevator with grandpa just to get out of there in time And get in there with grandpa and he goes to live with grandpa and and that's how he makes his break That's what true spiritual communities about it's not a substitute dependency It's not like you're trying to leave the city to come out to the desert It's not like you're trying to leave a worldly life of complexity to come out to a life here If you're not having fun out here, the ego complexity will show up out here You know it'll it'll show up everywhere Because the mind is so powerful it projects the world and if you believe in complexity You will find witnesses of complexity wherever you seem to go You just like sticky paper. They you know, it's just gonna hang with you. I want to be happy and joyful. Ah Still complex complex complex But if you get into this simplistic vibe of trust Where you see that okay? I may meet a lot of people I may seem to travel to places and this and this but if I stay in the joy of my heart Then I'm going to want to just keep giving and extending This joy and I'm not going to have expectations That the world do something for me. I Always say this line if you want something from the world The world will seem to want something from you That's when you you have People that come that are trying to repossess something that are trying to get something from you market something to you sell something to you That's one thing I like living out here in the among the rocks They don't have anything to sell They never are like soliciting, you know, you never have a rock come to your door and Like one of those telemarketer calls the rocks do not make telemarketing calls Hello Hi there you've you've been selected to receive this one-time special offer for 1995 There's never been a rock that offered me a 1995 deal They just don't they don't call They're peaceful Does that look like contentment? You know, there are changes if you were here and you did time-lapse photography maybe every Year or so you might see something fall, but I haven't seen anything really fall It's just there's just contentment And and that's what you want if you don't want anything from the world the world won't want anything from you I have people that write to me and invite me to come places, but it's their invitations. They're not demands They're not saying, you know, you come to this city or else will put a horse head in your bed or something You know will make you a deal you can't refuse their invitations, but invitations I find are fun because what can you do with an invitation? You can accept it or Let it go But you but you can do you can still follow your joy and your fun. You don't have to There's no there's no sense of demand. There's no sense of obligation I don't feel any sense of duty when people write me email questions and I've answered thousands and thousands of email questions I can honestly tell you that I have never Once answered an email question out of obligation or duty Absolutely not if I want to go have a fudge sickle Instead, I'm gonna go have a fudge sickle or a popsicle. I am not answering that email. Oh, I'm dying I'm on my deathbed. Please help me. I'm ready to commit suicide. Nope. I read popsicles coming in right now No people thoughts That suicide request will have to wait until until what until I have the spirits Inspires me to write or say something, but you see how that's there's not obligation and duty If you're in the joy, you can go and fully have that you can lick that red popsicle Every little tongue Stroke you're gonna enjoy that thing and that's more important than wars and suicide and diseases and everything in that moment If that's your guidance and enjoy that popsicle think of grandpa and it's a wonderful life His joy is happiness. He wasn't living for the future. He wasn't living for an outcome He wasn't living to try to he wasn't trying to fix the world He was just encouraging everybody to get into their inspiration. And that's the kind of life You want actually you would rather be an inspirer than a consumer then a Contributor to the gross national product of what of a country that doesn't even exist, you know, this is a construct Krishna Murdy talked about this nationalism. These are all just constructs. Oh I'm a citizen of this country or that country, you know, I mean when I first went to Argentina I remember I was I was down there and I think some event happened in the world I think the United States started bombing Baghdad or whatever and they had effigies These effigies of George Bush burning in the streets. This is in the middle of my I'm doing like a 14-day tour down through Buenos Aires and different cities down there one day You can walk in the streets the next day. They're jam-packed with protests with burning effigies of Bush and I remember I told this story parable many times, but I remember going to the group The course of miracles group before this they were asking me about sickness death relationships Discernment and everything as soon as the bombs drop on Baghdad and the protests fill the streets then the very first question is What is your view of your president? What kind of question is that? What is the view of your president? Really? I mean seriously What what kind of question is that? So they had to translate the question to me in this from Spanish to English and I'm listening and I'm like So that's the question. What is the view of your president? I said I have no president. That was my answer I was very short and to the point I have no president So they had to translate it back to the Spanish the woman's like shaking her head and she's like saying Don't you understand the question? So that's the next one comes. This is the first question of the gathering and I said my answer is no I Don't I don't understand it. I said let's let's be honest. We're all children of God. We're all were created in love We really Have always been this love and we we really aren't these concepts of human beings and having presidents and having countries The idea of spirit having a country The best thing about the Olympics is all that I love the parades and the pageantry and everybody marching together and all the Flags and that's the whole thing. I mean on the opening ceremony. That's that's my miracle experience I just like to see all the people and all the colors and all the different things I enjoy the pageantry because it's a celebration of our oneness and everything But when the competition begins like what does that have to do with anything really? competing you know to be the what the best Athlete the best the best body at doing this thing or that thing You know, I'm definitely got no people thoughts when it comes to the Olympics I'm just enjoying all the the fireworks and the happiness and everything, but once the games begin the games have ended for me I'm not interested in who wins and who loses. Those are just constructs again There's nothing Loving about competition because it's all based on duality. You got to have two to have competition One this doesn't compete with itself Or sometimes athletes will say I'm not competing against anybody else. I'm competing to get the best performance for myself I'm competing against myself. That's just as crazy as competing against other people competing against yourself What kind of self is that that competes, you know, it's not a very loving idea So when you get into that you start to see the world and very with very different eyes and you just lose interest in The things that seem to once seem important, but then after a while, they're just not fun I'm saying not fun at all and when when things are not fun. What do you do? You drop them? And it's very simple. It's a very simple approach to happiness