 So once again, I don't think this is something that's standard that to hold up again as an ideal. I'm saying, oh gosh, I still feel, you know, but it's like, I think once again it's kind of like, he's telling us just like he told the apostles, when I'm gone, there's going to be some trials and tribulations and I tell you this to help prepare you for it, you know, that I think he's just kind of giving us like the far ends of the road map, so to speak. This is how it's going to be. So don't be shocked if you have moments in your bliss and in your deep pairs of meditation when you don't feel ill or well or pain or pleasure, you know, when you lose all sense of feeling in the body. Because he's told us a number of places that the body doesn't really feel. The mind just tells the body what to feel. When the body gives up its judgments of the world and gives up its categories and its ordering of thoughts, then it no longer, you know, attempts to tell the body to feel pain or pleasure. Because those both reinforce the body as being real. It's no response at all is in the mind to what the body does. It's usefulness remains and nothing more. So it's used just as solely as a communication device to bring the kingdom of heaven to the minds that know it not and it doesn't feel anything. It's kind of a little snapshot of what the advanced teacher of God experiences. Perhaps you do not realize that this removes the limits you had placed upon the body by the purposes you gave to it. So all the limits you had placed upon the body, in other words, it's got to be fed regularly, washed regularly, closed, housed, you know, all the things that all the rules that you think you got to do to keep the body healthy can be removed, those limits can be removed as you remove the purposes you gave to it. So in other words, that's why it's so important for us to be clear on the Holy Spirit's purpose versus all of the ego purposes. Because as long as I'm holding on to ego purposes, then the limits still seem to be held in place by the mind. As these are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve all truly useful purposes. The body's health is fully guaranteed because it is not limited by time, by weather, or fatigue, by food and drink, or any laws you made it serve before. You need do nothing now to make it well, or sickness has become impossible. So it's still at the metaphor level of talking about the body's health, but in the end, you know, it's just kind of saying, you need to take thought for nothing. You need to neither be careful nor careless. You need to really cast your cares upon him, for he cares for you. Yet. Here we go. Yet. This is what we can always get to. This protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment, or make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced yourself and made a bodily identity which will attack the body where the mind is sick. One of the clearest statements there are for why we have to be so vigilant with our mind watching. So those are just the causes of sickness. Yes. He's defining them specifically. That's why it's also, when we get into these subtleties about attack thoughts too, is there are seemingly recognizable overt attack thoughts like thoughts of anger and condemnation toward your brother, but also thoughts of desiring your brother in a bodily sense or attack thoughts. Those compliments we talked about like, oh, I just think you have the best, your body's in such good shape and you always have such a good weight or whatever. All those kind of things that focus attention on the body are attack thoughts. They aren't compliments. They're actually attack thoughts because they're focusing on it. The content below them is that you're a body and I'm a body. And I think it's great that your body has this advantage or you keep it in such good condition or whatever. Or even the brain. You can do the same with the brain about learning, you know, oh gosh, you're such a learned person. I envy you. All those subtle things that in the world's eyes are nice compliments are attack thoughts when they draw attention away from the spirit and focus on a small bodily identity. The second one, yield to judgment. I found that people will say things like, oh, you did a real good job, Dorothy. And I'll kind of say, well, I had lots of help. Thank you, you know. And it's odd because lots of times they don't hear that, but I accept that they don't have to. I hear it. I think that's good too because that gives a focus. Instead of getting just away from the compliments is to always put it back to the Father. Or I had lots of help or thank you, Father. I mean, as long as we in our mind keep turning it back to all my gratefulness and all gratefulness that anyone can direct even towards me needs to be directed back to the Father or to the Holy Spirit because that's where the gratefulness truly has a basis. Not for anything that this body has done or said, but just the gratefulness that I am has got created me, kind of a thing. And I like that because it gives it a positive focus instead of thinking about negating the compliments. It really just puts it where it belongs. I think this almost brings us back to full circle on our topic of listening too because when you look at those three conditions that he's laying out of this preserved by careful watching, you'd have to have something to rely on or to truly listen to to go along even. I mean, if you let go of attack thoughts, if you don't, if you attempt to not judge in any way, not to judge what I should do, what I should say, how I should go about solving this problem and that problem. And the last one really is where the trust comes in too that you were talking about Beverly, about making plans against uncertainties to come. It's just like a total giving over to the listening without any care or concern for anything because as soon as the thought comes in, I must do this or else. Whenever it's based on fear of consequences, I mean that's what most activity through the ego's lens, all activity through the ego's lens is based on is it's a fear of consequences. Yes, I'll do this and this and this and this because I know the ego thinks that if I don't do this and this and this, it's going to be trouble. That's where the coercion comes in, right? Feeling that there are consequences to not doing. In the end, I feel that whole section of I need do nothing is the key or the shortcut. In the end, once the mind starts to welcome that light and starts to see that listening is really all that it's about, then I need do nothing becomes the shortcut or the most plain and obvious passage in the whole book because then you don't have to, you can let go of even thinking about the body about what I should do, what I shouldn't do. It's just the mind then is willing and open to just sink into that stillness and accept the atonement, accept the fact of what's there. There's no more restlessness about, oh I have to tie up these loose ends before I can be still and meditate because as long as the mind thinks it has loose ends to tie up, there's still a bodily identity. What loose ends in this projected world could there be to tie up? In the end, that's why I feel this is more in line with the mystical path of just going within. That's been the traditional mystic path, it's just to turn within through meditation. And this is just a course in helping set the mind in that direction that once it can see the value of that, that there's nothing of value, nothing that glimmers anymore in the world to hold it back then that's the obvious thing to do is to just go within. It's no longer wasting time, it's no longer unproductive, you know. It really is what I live for at that point. And that point is now, I mean can you feel that? I mean as we go into this, I mean that's what always we should just arrive at this calm, restful place of clarity right now. It's not about, well I got another piece of the puzzle and tomorrow I'll solve this. But it's like just, there's such a contentedness and that's it. Do you feel, you've come to a calm contentedness about the whole idea of that you started off with talking about the feeling guilty about symptoms and all that other stuff? Does it seem very different now that we've gone into this? It seems different. I don't know if I can say it seems very different. I feel like there's room for greater clarity still. So if you take that thought, I feel like there's room for greater clarity. Is there anything you can get in touch with? What's that thought? I think there's probably a lot of linearity in there for me. I notice I have a disbelief that I can be that clear once and for all and that's it. You feel like you've got lots of evidence as a witness in the past against that possibility? Is that what you mean by linearity? Well I guess what I mean by that linearity is that I don't believe that I can have all the clarity I need right now and remain in that state of clarity. So it's projecting it into the future somewhere instead of maybe the past as you would describe it. Yeah, it's like I couldn't possibly be there yet. Or I couldn't possibly understand all there is to know about this. And not in a continuing kind of way. Maybe like it would seem like it, you know, for like right this instant. It's sure to be gone in a half hour. That's it, yeah. It's actually that same thing I voiced when we, you know, when I came to a real clear point when we were having a discussion about relationship and I said, you know, I don't want to lose this. I don't want to forget this. It's that same theme of not trusting that the clarity is going to be enduring.