 Hi everyone. Hello, hello. Welcome once again. I'm Peter. I'm going to be your host for this all day movie workshop. And here in Mexico, we thought we could possibly have a hurricane coming, but now it seems to have disappeared for now. And if it does come back, we'll have the monastery as a backup. So no matter what, we'll have our all day movie workshop. Today, I'll just let you know how we're going to flow. So we're going to start with David and the movie. Afterwards, we'll have a 10 minute break in our breakout rooms, where we can share whatever came up for us during the movie. And then we'll have a longer 45 minute break, followed by our closing session, where we can have more of a one on one experience. So with that, I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to another Saturday movie gathering. We have a really good one. It seems like we always get blessed with these amazing movies. Absolutely amazing. And this one, of course, came through the prayers of you praying and submitting the themes that you would like to have addressed and to come into a living experience of the theme in your heart, which is the joy of living, of the joy of having the spirit come through you and feeling so connected and so content and so relaxed and so joyful. That's it. That's why we come together, just for that and nothing more. So it's beautiful and it's very, very simple. So the poll that you gave, the combined poll of English, Spanish, and our tribe contributors now, we have a triple stream coming into the combined poll and giving us what it is that we really want to focus on for this week. So in the combined poll coming in, number one, was living spontaneously and without a future. Just think how joyful that is, living spontaneously and without a future. We're talking Akuna Matata. No cares, no worries for the rest of your life. Akuna Matata. I mean really, really in that state of mind where you have such trust that you can really embrace the present moment. Now with the Disney Lion King, Akuna Matata, they ate bugs and we don't necessarily advocate that you have to take a diet of bugs to go for Akuna Matata, but we are saying that the present moment offers you everything that you could ever want or ever need. It's all right here right now. So that's our first theme, living spontaneously and without a future. That had 83 votes. That's by far the top theme. So we had to come up with really a movie that shows and demonstrates living spontaneously and without a future. Then second was releasing the need for validation or approval. Again, how freeing, if you didn't have that voice in your mind wondering what other people will think, will they approve? Will they like me? Will I still be loved and accepted if I do what I feel called to do? It's releasing, people pleasing basically is releasing the need for validation and or approval. And that really is releasing the self concept of the past because it's only the past that has taught us we have to earn respect. We have to earn the love. We have to earn the honesty. We don't have to earn anything. Christ is a gift from God and everything was given in our creation. So we don't have to earn it or somehow develop it. It's a given, but we do have to accept it. We have to accept it. We have to accept ourselves as God created us. That's the key point. The third one is undoing the doer by being done through. So this is a conflict for many that are on the spiritual journey. They feel like they transfer this obsession with doing, this obsession with being productive, this obsession with earning their way and proving their worth and demonstrating that they are enough. It's an obsession, but the ego invented the body, which is the doer, and then as soon as you believe that you are the body, it obsessively hammers the mind with guilt. Have I done enough? Did I do what I should have done? Was my behavior appropriate or not? Was I a good enough doer as a father, as a mother, as a citizen, as a daughter or a son? Was I a good enough doer? And this theme is saying undoing the doer by being done through, letting the spirit come through so graciously, so effortlessly, so simply that you become identified with the purpose of forgiveness with the spirit. And this third theme reminds me of a quote from Jesus in A Course in Miracles where he says, it cannot be difficult to do the task that Christ appointed for you for it is he who does it. In other words, Christ upon invitation will do all things through you. And even Jesus said, you know, greater things than I will you do, meaning the Holy Spirit's going to light up your mind and the things that I seem to do 2,000 years ago are going to be just a wisp of a memory as you experience being done through by spirit. And you experience more of what we'll call an involuntary life. My life is not my own like Saint Francis' Prayer, Lord make me an instrument and then you just take your hands off the wheel. You just enjoy what comes from being surrendered over to the spirit. Do it through me, speak through me, love through me, laugh through me, smile through me, hug through me. Let you be the one that inspires the use of this puppet, which we call the body. In the Bible it was said it is not I that live but Christ that lives in me, meaning if I'm under Christ control, then my worries are over. If I'm under egoic control, if I think I personally have to run the show or figure things out or be the one that does the things required for salvation, you'll feel pressure, stress, expectations, you'll feel heavy. But if you are not the one in terms of the person who's responsible for saving the world, thank good it's a presence of love that's in your heart that's going to save the world, not you as a person. You don't have to worry, you're off the hook. It's not like you're being called as a personal savior, but you do have a part to play and that part is your special function and that will be given to you moment by moment. It's just again, living spontaneously in the moment without a future. Then forgiveness is the key to happiness and we're not talking about necessarily forgiving a person, we're talking about being able to just see the false is false. In this movie today, our main character, he comes out of India and he comes out of the, we'll say the Hindu tradition and his holy scripture was not the Bible. It wasn't a course in miracles. It was the Bhagavad Gita and the ancient Vedic teachings from India. What's so great about the ancient Vedic teachings they're non-dual. Anytime you get your non-dual teachings, I don't care if it comes through in China, in India, or through a modern day scripture like A Course in Miracles, which is extremely non-dual, that is coming and bringing your mind into the focus and alignment with God is one. With reality is one. Spirit is singular. The soul is singular. Everything that comes back to oneness, pure divine love and oneness is non-duality. As they say, neti neti in the east, not this, not that. And non-duality is basically is teaching us that that reality is not two, reality is one. Even though our five senses show us a multiplicity and a dualistic world of up and down and hot and cold and fast and slow and male and female and masculine and feminine, everything we perceive through the five senses is dualistic until we forgive. And that's why forgiveness is the key to happiness. There is a way of looking on this world where the body's eyes continue to report differences, but the healed mind has put them all into one category. They are not real. Oh, that's non-dual. There's your non-dual happiness. And then the ego says, oh, yeah, you're not going to survive if you go in that direction. Oh, you'll do more than survive. You'll be in the sweet grace of my, my sweet Lord. Hallelujah. You're going to enjoy some Beatles music. We're going to go with George again. George seems to be breaking into all of our movies. George, George, I feel you with us now. Every time we have a celebration movie, George is there, George Harrison. And what a heart. One of these days I'm going to show, I'm going to have to do it over two Saturdays though, because I've got a documentary on George Harrison called Living in a Material World. No, it's not the Madonna song, Material Girl. They know it's George Harrison living in a material world, but it's so big. I think it's three hours and 47 minutes. So I have to show it on two Saturdays. We have to do a double header, a double version first and second, but George is coming in again today. George always comes shining in to bring the love, to bring the happiness, to bring the truth. And last one is trusting in mighty companions. Many of us have believed that, that the journey to God is a lonely journey all by myself. Don't want to be, yet we do want to be all by ourselves. We want to be with our, our divine self and not a lonely body wandering in time and space, lost in space. We want to know the truth. We want to know the joy. We want to know the happiness of our eternal moment that goes on forever and ever and ever. So trusting in mighty companions means just having the willingness to be done through and to let the spirit direct our relationships. We're going to see the main character is a Swami who's going to come from India to the United States up to the New England area. He's going to come to New York City like Paramahansa Yogananda did. Paramahansa Yogananda one day woke up and he had this, this strong feeling inside that his guru was telling him he needed to go west and he needed to go to America. It's the same with our, our Swami today. He's going to wake up but unlike Paramahansa who was, who was still a fairly much of a young man, our gentleman today, he's going to, he's going to wake up and he's 70 years old, 70 years old and he's going to hear that he's to come to New York City from Calcutta and he doesn't have any money. That makes for a very fun ride. You're 70 years old, you don't have any money and you're told to go across the oceans from Calcutta to New York City. That is how the spirit really opens your heart wide when you are taken way beyond your expectation, beyond your imagination, beyond what you would consider the safe probabilities of how your life could go. Whoa, that is on another level and in one sense this is going to show us, the Swami will show us that age is not an excuse. If, if this man can follow the spirit at 70 years old and is penniless, then we, none of us have an excuse. We are, we have absolutely no excuse. If he can, if he can give his self over to the Lord, which for him is in his context growing up in, in great traditions of India, this is Lord Krishna and Jesus and Lord Krishna are, they're really good friends because they're one. I've had people, I started putting some, some George Harrison things and posting a few things over the years, the music, my sweet Lord and, and all about peace and everything like this. And then somebody made a comment on one of my YouTube's David, the Beatles had a different Lord than Lord Jesus. And I was like, Oh my God, here we go again. Who is Lord? Well, we actually know that the Lord is one. In case we're concerned, if it's the right Lord, there's only one Lord and the Lord is the Lord of life. And there are many pathways to God and Christianity is one of them. And there are many, many others. And yet God is one. So the many paths disappear in the experience of the one. The one has always been the one. The one is not many. The one is one. Guess who invented multiplicity? Guess who invented diversity? Guess who invented duality? It's called ego. Edging God out. It's called ego, death wish ego. Multiplicity and diversity and duality are not coming from the love of eternal life, the heavens. The Lord is one. I just, when I saw that quote or that little post that somebody made a comment saying the Beatles were not following the same Lord, I just was like, Oh my God, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. What's the problem with one Lord? Why is everybody getting all hung up about different Lords? So I actually, I did the same thing the Beatles did at some point. The Beatles decided to go to India and they went to Rishikesh, this little tiny little village up there kind of north, north of Delhi, northeast of Delhi. And the Beatles went to Rishikesh and they met with a guru and I went to Rishikesh. I actually got to, yeah, I got to meet with some gurus. There was a woman who just came to where I was staying and she took my hand and she led me into an ashram in India. And I got to meet the gurus and I got to go down by the Ganges River and be with all the parties and celebrations and bright colors and chanting was fun. It's fun. Let's not be too stuffy with our course in miracles. Let's realize that we're all the same one. We're all the same one. It's a big celebration. And I had a wonderful time. I actually gave us very small satsang. I gave a satsang and I wasn't very well known in Rishikesh. So two people came to my satsang and a monkey and the monkey sitting in the window. And the monkey stayed there and listened to me the whole time. I probably talked for two or two and a half hours. That monkey was going nowhere. He was very attentive to the love I was extending. But we have to remember we're all the same one. That's the teachings of a course in miracles. That's the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita. That's the teaching of the ancient Vedas. We are the same one. We are the same self. We've always been. We're not buying this trick of differences anymore. We are the same, not separate. We are the same, not divided. Sameness is real. Differences are insane. When you heal, when you forgive, you realize that differences do not matter and they were never real. Not even for an instant are differences real. And that's where the happiness comes in. So are our swamis coming across from Calcutta? He's going to come to New York City. He has to be there and face winter time. He's never seen snow before. He doesn't have any money. He's come all the way on a cargo ship across from India. He has no money and he has to face snow and they would say a big snow, a bad winter in New York City. And he's just trusting in divine providence. He's following the present moment. He's following his inspiration. He's following what he was meant to do for the Lord of Life. He is a follower of the Lord of Life and he is a devoted follower of the Lord of Life. He has much to teach us all about devotion. He is devoted. He doesn't waste time. That's what I know about. I really like about this movie is he just doesn't waste time. He's so in the moment and he's so fully in the moment that he's so fully in the service of the one that it never really occurs to him to struggle about what should I do because he is done through. What is so good about that is because he's happy. He is really happy and happiness is the best teacher. If you're going to learn from a teacher, learn from happiness. Don't settle for less than happiness. Why would you want to learn from something other than happiness? And I'm talking happiness based on a present moment contentness. I'm not talking happiness based on outcomes in this world. That won't ever work. This is just from a very simple, pure, inner happiness that is radiated out. The other thing is he doesn't seem to have a dichotomy between work and leisure. Some people say this guy seems like he's working all the time. I think he's always in leisure. He's smiling so much that I think he's just tapped into the present moment leisure of being carried by the spirit. He's carried. He's not got to care or worry. If you ask him, he'd say, oh, well, yeah, I've gone through some struggles in my life. The other thing I like about this Swami is his conditioning. I'm always talking about how we have to undo ego conditioning. We have to undo all this programming, ego programming. The course is saying this course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love. For that is far beyond what could be taught. It aims at removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. And that's, I would just say, that's unwinding from all this past conditioning. Well, let's take a look at our Swami. Back in 1920, we'll see a photo of our Swami with nice big black mustache in 1920. Handsome young man back in 1920. And as we hear him talk, we're going to hear him talk about his father. And what he has to say about his father is his father did not want him to use his life making money. What? What? His father did not want him to use his life making money. Well, there's a different direction than most of us faced with our programming. Imagine having a father whose one wish for you is to live your life devoted to God. That's it. What about expectations about education? What about career? What about making money? No, no, no. Nada, nada, nada. Well, well, now we start to see how he can travel to New York City without a penny at 70 years old. Because you roll the clock back, and you say, what kind of upbringing did he had? He had a father who did not want his son devoted to making money. He wanted the son devoted to God. And wow, he got one. The other thing is that you can relate to him in the sense that as he goes through his life, he does get married and he does have a child. So this guy is you can relate to him. He is a father like that, which maybe we'll say he's got a real good booster start with a father like that. He's not undoing the whole idea of what should I do for a living. It's not there. The seed was never planted. Whoa, that comes from a lot of Indian tradition, too. This is not so unusual to have a father like that. Second of all, he has a teacher. He has a guru and the guru is telling him about love. The guru is telling him about happiness. And in Indian culture, you have lineage. So the guru had a guru, had a guru, had a guru. His guru has a lineage of 5,000 years. Whoa, that is deep. His guru is teaching him based on a lineage. And it's just a concept of time. But I mean, that's a pretty strong symbol. It's been passed on from teacher to teacher and teacher for 5,000 years. And that's right. The Vedas go back a long, long way. This is a powerful, non-dual teaching. At Veda, Vedanta, not too. That's the teachings of the lineage that this guru comes from. Not too. Wow. A 5,000-year lineage of not too. And so let's take a look now at our young swami. He's got a guru who's got a 5,000-year lineage of not too, non-duality. And he is inspired by a father who says, you should not devote your life to making money. You should devote your life to God. Well, there you go. That's the roots of this smile. You're going to see a smile. That's what's underneath the smile. It's not necessarily education. It's not necessarily wealth. It's not necessarily a cushy, cushy life of convenience. There's a 5,000-year tradition of gurus and a father who said, don't use your life to make money. That's what's behind that smile. That smile is not there by accident. So we're gifted here is we're going to get to watch a movie about this guy and what happens when he lands in New York City without a penny. Whoa, teaching time. And I can give you one little clue is if you're going to teach, it's best to teach with something that's practical. I find that non-dual scriptures are extremely practical. I find that singing is extremely practical. I find that dancing is extremely practical. What happens when you put together a teaching demonstration that involves non-dual scriptures and singing and dancing? And then you throw in the Beatles and you throw in George Harrison on top of that. Oh my goodness. You've got a perfect storm ruined there. Non-dual scriptures, singing, dancing, and George Harrison recording a song that points to you. Whoa, watch how this is the spirit doing it all. The spirit is going to light the place up. What is he lighting up? I'm talking about Planet Earth. He's going to light up Planet Earth with a seven-year-old man who's penniless, who takes a cargo ship across the ocean to New York City. And he's not even received in New York City. There's nobody waiting for him. There's nobody waiting for him. He's going in blind, which is a good thing too because you don't need to know what your future would be because all we have is the present moment. And that's all he has. That's all he has is the present moment, even with the symbols of the 5,000-year teachings of non-duality and his guru. Still, you can't carry those in your pocket. Those are just things that are buried in your heart that are just a desire to serve the Lord. So in this case, it's going to be Lord Krishna. Now, when I was in Rishikesh, I like that I went around to the different places and I got to see all the statues and I like it. I like it because I finally got to meet the statue of Lord Krishna and it's not every day you get to meet a blue man. I mean, I like that. You're not going to find many blue saints. And that really, that was exciting. And I thought, well, but now even more than the blue Krishna, now you're going to get to see the smile of the face of someone who cares, of someone who who extends love to everyone around him, who brings a blessing wherever he goes, who has people that are excited to meet with him every day because they don't know what he's going to say or do. He's so in the present moment. That's exciting when you meet somebody and you don't know what they're going to do, but you know how they feel. You know the love that comes from them. You know the love that emanates from them. And that is what draws you. You're not being drawn to some kind of a program, future program. You're not being drawn to some future hope. You're being drawn to the present moment from the presence of the Lord. And it seems to be coming through this. Most people would say it elderly man, elderly man. So what a ride. What a ride we have today. What an exciting ride. We're going to let the Holy Spirit and Jesus show us the way through a parable that I'm so grateful it was recorded. I'm so grateful it was recorded. I feel like we're honored to be able to come across movies where we actually can see a living demonstration. And we love our movies. We love to have the Spirit show us through the commentary that we all are the same one. Metaphysically, but every once in a while we have a demonstration that comes along and we're just honored to be able to behold that demonstration because it's a witness to our own mind. It's a witness to our own heart. It's what we want in our heart of hearts. And when we see a demonstration of it, then we go, wow, yeah, that's it. That's it. That's it. In a world of distractions, in a world of fragments, in a world of multiple images, we need a witness of that simple, pure unity. We need a witness of that because it reminds us of our pure, simple unity. That's why we need it. We need it to be reminded. And that's the Holy Spirit coming through, in this case, a tradition of Swami from the East. So sit back, enjoy this beautiful witness, and I will pop in during the movie for different times to maybe join and point out a few things, bring in a few more ideas from the Holy Spirit and Jesus, but just really savor this. This is another one of the