 What do you want freedom of the body or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have? That's an interesting one from Jesus So for me that these last 30 years have been really an investigation of show me freedom of the mind and Release me from my concepts of freedom of the body because those concepts we have we talk about people imprisonment at times or We feel like we're confined or in the body and and we have great Witnesses like Mandela and Gandhi who really went for freedom of the mind freedom that's in the core of our being and I think that's a very ambitious topic actually for us all this weekend You know we practice with everything that comes and that's the glory of it And it is quite a thorough practice to release all of our concepts of freedom that we've projected on to the body One of the sections in the course that helped me out was the hero of the dream Section where he contrast other sections the dreamer of the dream Basically saying that's where your freedom comes is when you see that you're the dreamer of the dream but the hero of the dream The serial adventures of the body He makes it sound so fun. You know, it was like that sounds like a soap opera something The serial adventures of the body is are the hero and there's such a focus On was it was it good? Did it hurt you? Did you did it help you? All the things around the environment all the things That that seemed to involve conditions of the body We have to realize that if we free our mind Then the body will be useful as long as it's needed and gently laid aside That sounds really appealing to me So, you know yoga Nanda's through our story of Parma Hunts I don't feel the Nanda that he was out there Believe in LA a museum had given a talk and then was having dinner with his disciples and Then said goodbye and then his body just remained in the state of non decay for weeks That's a pretty strong symbol of a highly highly trained mind And I see those as inspirations for us That we know that this is a course in my training We can take heart that we can give our life over to that mind training And when we're tempted to think that it's something external something in the world that's causing something of our body We can just see that that's just another victim thought is That something not our will something outside of us is doing something to us cause and effect relationship And the whole course is teaching us that that God is the cause Christ is the effect God is the creator the creation is Christ and that the whole world is the projection of this idea that cause and consequence cause and effect Are actually real in linear time all of our disciplines Everything we've ever learned since childhood and all the way up through universities based on what Jesus calls spurious cause effect relationships That there's causes in the world and there's effects and many of them regard the body You know don't stay out to the Sun too long or your radiation will give you cancer You see that the Sun is being blamed for the cancer When we know that it's just there's some tech thoughts eating away in there That we're not willing to forgive and that's a reflection of that So for me I enjoy quantum physics. I enjoy everything that I'm reading. I enjoy I mentioned last night in Boulder Abraham Maslow does anyone remember Abraham Maslow is hierarchy of needs? What was at the top? Self-actualization That's know-thyself. That's what the Greeks were telling us. That's what Jesus is telling us and yet What was one of the characteristics of self actualizing people that means and end were the same They were so in the moment So in the yoga so in the art so in the even athletes in the zone They were so in the moment that they were in the joy of that moment and they weren't thinking Where is this leading? Like the artist whose painting or will say being painted through not thinking When will I finish the painting? How much money will this bring? You know all those future consequences Abraham Maslow was right on it When he said that self actualizing people saw that there was no difference between means and end