 into There's a body I'm obviously a body or speaking through a body Things like male females body male or female You know on educational background social Status Language what language do I speak my multi-lingual bilingual? Just on and on and on and on these are stacks and stacks and stacks of meanings that The particular thought forms have been constructed in a in a specific way that makes This small self unique and different from every other to particular configuration that seems to Define myself as other than different things that were then the next cell And I mean there's where the conflict can arise if if if I perceive Myself as a part and different from yourself Then and and that myself is important Then in areas where our configurations and our constructs of the world and ourselves and reality are different from one another Then we have a difference of opinions Then We have set up a situation where there's a competition between us or Something to fight about or something to To prove or to win or to be right about and And that's that intention or that that sense of connectedness that sense of oneness has to go Immediately went once that is accepted. So from this point of view you can see how important it is to step back in the mind away from This constructs to let go of those of the constructs How how would peace be possible? If if everyone has a different construct of themselves a different concept and that these Concepts are not That the differences are accentuated that it's a sense of If I give in to what you want if I give in to the way you see it all the time then There won't be any of me left kind of you know The sense of compromise that enters into relationships, you know I'll give in this much you give in this much. We'll try to find a middle ground In a sense from the from the self-concept of the construct point of view It's a weakening of the self-concept of the construct because You know now something something has given up something's given up or something is eroded away And usually only given up Because it's perceived that what can be gained is greater than what is given up Yes And it's a perceptual sense too I mean in in one sense some could say a marriage or any kind of collaboration is it coming together in a pooling of material resources of skills of Objects so that you have more than you had before But we're back to that idea of thought-form associations that that all thought-form associations are projections and Literally the the mind is whole and complete In a state where it doesn't project in a state where it just thinks only the thoughts That God created it has no thoughts apart from God Which which is pure abstraction? There God is not associating thought-forms, so this really gets at at the core of of any perceived problem in the world if I'm trying to attain something or achieve something in the world if I That's where all my expectations would then arise from this this configuration this construct of thought-forms And to start to see the futility of that to start to see that all that All those associations are our attempt to maintain The subject object split that that I'm distinct and separate That everything is an attempt to do that then once that can be seen and grasped then then one would would start this identifying One self from those Those thought-forms constructions then one could could start to let go of those things without Feeling that all will be chaos if I let go of that because in fact all his peace when that Subject object split is let go of and that is the Before when I was saying that it just seems You know impossible To let go of all those thought-forms associations was also because I was thinking of it in terms of kind of all or nothing Like you know just a total a total wipeout And it's never gonna it's never going to come about in that way. It's always going to be What the mind can Let go of at any given time You know, it's like in a way. I don't have to to fear that I have to like In it in a moment Let go of every single association. I mean ultimately I guess I do but but my experience of it is that little by little I'm able to let go Well the fear arises just From the intimations that the intimation that in an instant it could be all that go up I mean there when When the mind becomes very attached to these thought-form associations to this person of it this important person that that it calls me then It does seem like this like leap into the void I mean Like what What will happen or who will I be you know if I'm not Who I think I am and and I'm not this person and I'm not in this world and so on so forth there's a fear that arises and In a sense that that the idea that well You know little by little I can do this piece by piece and and so forth a little bit of the idea you were getting at is a is a Projection to of the mind because of the fear so it's going to project this Shift of this change to time Is a gradual thing because that's gentler in my mind and an abrupt You know total sweep of things It's in a sense that it's a metaphor for the mind that I can that I can watch my feelings and I can can Gauge by my feelings when I start to be off-center or I start to feel uneasy or uncomfortable To start to use that as a point of a clue or to something to notice to bring it back to train my mind All the while there is some awareness in the mind that of course that It's an instant that that even the vague Awareness that it it is at all or nothing that it can be Let go in in any instant It's kind of like you can look at it from two perspectives that can be to a mind that could be a fearful thing or As the mind starts to really embrace that start to see that idea as A reality then it's welcomed with joy For one person it can be one mind can can think boy I'm glad I've got some time to work this thing out You know in a gradual way because it seems so enormous and I'm gonna have to just chip away But by that piece by piece From another perspective you could look at it From the from the idea of what would this What would this say about God or the Holy Spirit that? Salvation if salvation was given and the answer was given immediately to the problem of separation Then the answer is available immediately and God yes God isn't Giving this torture chamber of time That you know one has to go through to before you can finally accept that answer But the answer has been given The idea that it can be gradual again. It's just another construct of the mind. Yes Which involves time of course time involves intervals that that in reality don't exist and Was it a helpful construct of the mind? It's helpful depending on the use to which it's put I mean once again. We really have to get rid of that idea of purpose that If time is given over to the Holy Spirit's purpose It's helpful in that sense. It's not seen as a trap. It's not seen as something that has to be escaped from It's not seen as I got to count the hours and the minutes in the seconds It's not seen as go I can't wait to get this over with I want to just You know get out of time and escape from it. It's it's it's used Time has been given to God's teachers. It's in their hands. It can be used by their minds and in the sense You know you get into the idea of trying to save time or collapse time so in that sense it's it's given a Connotation of being helpful now Also, that brings it back to this we keep talking about this instance. How do you feel right now? I mean that in that sense time is helpful to keep focusing on how do I feel right now because That is the aspect of time that touches on eternity the present How it could be unhelpful or how it could be perceived as In a way that maintains the separation is the linear view of time where we get in past present and future seem to be continuous and In that sense the past and the future are given some sense of reality for instance like they really is a belief that they really do have an existence and And one always Can can find reason to feel guilty if one looks at one's past Something that that one is that one feels guilty about something that another person didn't do or didn't follow through on or so forth and One can always find something to worry about When the future is believed in whether it's um, you know You know how can I get another job or Will I find a relationship that can satisfy me or more satisfying than the one I'm in or? Will I find a career that will allow me to do what I really want to do It's always a matter of looking for something that will have things be different than they are. Yes And in a sense the future like the past and it's a defense against The holy instant the holy instant being that that all is perfect right now There's such a sense of rest There's such a sense of stillness in that idea contentment It's an idea that if it's grasped by the mind if it's if the mind focuses its attention on it That all the striving and the pursuing and so forth and the thought form associations we've been talking about are always past Thought form associations and they can be projected Into a future but in that sense the past and future are both part of those thought form associations you need Thought form associations you need to have a self-concept or a construct before the past and future Can have any meaning because they are literally one in the same so with the Undoing of the self-concept There's also the undoing of that whole linear time concept