 Hi everyone. Welcome to Old Day Movie Workshop. It's so beautiful to have you all with us. I'm Peter for those joining you. And yeah, we've got a wonderful movie workshop ahead of us. And I think it's with a movie I haven't seen before, so looking forward to this one. So I can just let you know how the day will go. We're going to start with David and the movie commentary. And then afterwards, there's going to be a 10 minute break where you can submit any questions or prayers that you have. And then we have the closing session with David where he can respond to any of your questions and prayers. So I'm going to pass it straight over to David now. Hi everyone. Welcome. Glad to have you with me. Here we are as we're counting down our movie workshops for going down deeper and deeper and deeper into the merge into the living experience. So some of you have heard along on your spiritual path, you know that there's, there's a difference between talking to talk and walking the walk. And the difference is just between concepts and an actual direct experience that you feel vast and happy and connected. You feel home in your heart. You feel that you're nowhere and everywhere. You're just undefinable, unlimited, invulnerable, just absolutely joyful beyond anything you can speak. And that's the living experience that all spiritual traditions point to. It's like the Zen master pointing to the moon, pointing to the light of the moon and not getting caught up in the posture of the Zen master or the finger of the Zen master, not getting caught up into particulars. You know, when you work with even a pathway like a course of miracles, you have to ultimately see that all the characters throughout history, including the characters that seem to bring us a course of miracles, including the historical Jesus, including the historical saints and mystics and avatars that all the forms are really not it. And it's just one glorious, glorious experience that transcends the words, that transcends the forms, that transcends everything of time and space. And it's just great to have the metaphysics of Jesus reassuring us that God knows not form, you know, that you can lose the world from all you thought it was because it's not there. It's not where you thought it was. It's just this tiny little gap, a little speck in the mind in this mind of light. There's a tiny little dot and it's already been erased by the Holy Spirit. It's already been digitally removed. The spot is gone. So it's a time of great rejoicing. It's a time of great happiness. And today, we are going to take a deep dive into that. Sometimes I did read a very famous historian, Christian historian one time who said, in the end all Christians become mystics. And he was just kind of laying it out, laying the metaphor that until you come into a direct experience of the Christ, then all the theologies and all the beliefs about who did what and who was with who and who said what and all who changed which document and which documents were burned. Who really cares about history, really, you know, and they say, Well, there's spiritual traditions. No, there aren't. The spirit is in the moment. This moment. There aren't really spiritual traditions. We don't have to be honoring the form anymore. We just need to realize that the present moment offers everything that we want. And the images of time and space offer nothing really that we want. And when you start to really give yourself over to that in a real deep way, you find you are deliriously happy. Deliriously happy. You are happy with no reason, no reason, no reason in the world for happiness, just an internal experience. So today, you know, we're going to really look into the depth of it. And the more you go into the depth of it, the more you realize that that every time you you offer an answer to a brother or sister, you're just speaking what you most want to hear. I remember it was only maybe two or three weeks ago. A friend of mine, some of you know Angie also goes by Jesus, but Angie wrote to me and she said, We're struggling with the idea of having a baby. You know, should we should we have a baby? And I just prayed and and what came to me was I wrote back to her as I said, I'm hearing the word syniac. A syniac is is one who wanders for God, who, who is so devoted to the presence of God that that gives up tosses away all possessions, all attachments. And the syniacies in India are very famous because they're, they're just wanderers for God. They, they basically are in a state of prayer and meditation and in a perpetual state of prayer and meditation. Where will you go? The syniac says, I don't know. What will you do? The syniac says, I have no clue. What is your destination? God, you know, yet syniac is a beautiful symbol of kind of an ending term for, I guess some people call them renunciates or whatever, but it's not so much about the renunciation of anything as it is the embrace of what's real and true. When you embrace the truth in your mind, then you absolutely lose all interest in everything else. And that's just the way it goes. It's just, it's, it's a matter of fact where you, you know, it's, it's not really a struggle. Unless you value what is valueless, if you do attempt to value what is valueless, then there's a struggle. But if you really just accept the divinity within us, then there is no struggle. You know, everything just is a flow. And in the movie today, the main character is a Rinpoche who, who is going to take us on a journey to show us that the whole point is to be in complete awareness, to be fully aware, and to not be aware of anything in particular, but just to be pure awareness. And that's a beautiful Eastern term. It's a yogi term. It's a, it's a Buddhist term. It's used, you know, worldwide, but, but to be just pure awareness without having an object of awareness. And the freedom that is, is that state of mind is so beautiful because, because it doesn't attempt to reconcile the objects and images and attachments of the ego with the truth. The truth and error don't really have a meaning point. Why? Because truth is true and only the truth is true. There's nothing but the truth. So any attempt to say, well, that's true, but no, the but cancels out the truth in awareness. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I agree sentimentally. I agree. And no, there's no and there's no ifs, ands or buts that come with truth. Truth is a state of mind that Jesus says cannot be described or explained, but only experienced. So once you kind of feel like, okay, I'm ready to go from talking the talk now to walking the walk. That's just saying, I'm ready to go from the bantering of the concepts and words into the actual experience. I'm actually asking for in my heart an experience, a direct experience. And there's nothing more important than that because this course Jesus says in the course it's not a this course is not a play of ideas. He's actually just pointing beyond the words to the experience, which is what all the great masters and all the great traditions do. They simply are pointers to an experience that transcends the world. And the whole point is to go into that direct experience and realize that there is nothing else. There's not truth and something. It's just the light is the light. So today's movie will be a backdrop for going into our themes. And the combined results of the English and Spanish polls came up with this. Coming in number one is allowing myself to rest and be passersby. Some of you are familiar with Gospel of Thomas where that very short teaching comes through Jesus and the Gospel of Thomas be passersby. And Jesus does mention this also in workbook less than 128 in the course of miracles. You know, the only purpose that this world could hold for you is that you pass it by. He slipped it in again in his course in miracles. The passersby be passersby. He's teaching us that you really have no sacrifice in passing by this world. When you allow your mind to look upon the world without judgment, when you allow your mind to just observe the world with nothing else, no other motives. Then you realize what it's all about. It's like saying, what's it all about God? And then there's just a stillness that is the actual answer. It's not a word. It's just a state of stillness. Coming in number two is trusting in divine providence. A lot of people like to talk about, you know, having their needs met. But as long as you talk about having needs met either physically or psychologically, it just shows that there's just a belief in needs. And actually this beautiful pure awareness is such a transcendent state that basically it transcends the needs. It transcends the belief in needs. So you might say that when you're perceiving human needs, that's just part of the darkened glass of perceiving through the ego. The ego is the belief in lack. So to believe in the ego is to perceive a world of needs. And then you have such strange ideas like supply and demand. You have strange ideas like reciprocity. I'll do this for you if you do this for me. Commerce, unknown in heaven, but in this world it's a world of commerce. It's a world of gain and loss because it's a world of duality. It's a world of opposites. It's a world of past and future. And it's a world where there's things like achievements in form. They're highly valued, but once you start to go into this state of pure awareness, you start to realize there are no achievements in form. There was a little skit that I watched years ago and the main character goes through this big transformation. And then finally, as the character goes through this huge transformation, this Holy Spirit character comes and stands beside him. And basically the main character says to the Holy Spirit, Not a damn thing in this world ever meant anything. And the Holy Spirit just nods and goes, that's right. It's surreal. It's absolutely surreal when you really give your mind over to it. That nothing I see means anything. That's the number one from the Course in Miracles. That nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists. How glorious. So you might say that what Jesus is saying is just allow your mind the permission to rest. And all of those fearful consequences you were worried about, If you really start to rest and you go deep, deep, deep into the rest, deep into the stillness, You can't help but laugh at everything. You don't have to wait for stand-up comedians to give you a joke. The deeper you go, you go, oh my God, what a joke. And then you just laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. And that's how the world ends. The world ends in laughter. It's beautiful that you can give yourself over to that. The third theme was love and do what you will. Isn't that lovely? Love and do what you will. It takes the pressure off the doing. Should I do it? Should I not do it? Do I have to do it? No. No. Love, love, love. The whole experience is one of love and it's not one of doing. Because love is not a body and love doesn't do or not do. That's the conundrum of believing in duality. Should I do it? Should I not do it? And Jesus is more just saying, what do you value? Do you value peace? Do you value tranquility? Do you value joy? Do you value happiness? But Jesus, what should I do? Do you value peace? It comes back. You're not answering the specific. Do you value inner peace? You see how Jesus is so pointed with the question, do you value inner peace? Because what is truly valuable is easy and what has no value whatsoever is difficult. And the human condition is just attempting to put the mind in the direction of the impossible. It's like trying to use your head to beat your way through a concrete wall. It's ridiculous. But you have to really come honest with this value thing. I remember, I think I was named after David in the Bible. And my grandmother, Lillian, used to always by heart recite to me the entire 23rd Psalm of David. So I heard it hundreds of times from her. But now Lillian is like, our use for words is almost over. Thank God. And she's like, just remember the first line. You don't have to remember the rest. I told you that hundreds of times, but just remember the first line. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Oh, there it is. I shall not want. That's it. That's all you need to remember from the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. If God is with me, why would I want anything? If God is my creator, why would I want anything? It's got to be a trick, this idea of wanting. But Jesus is all, He's good with it. He's like, okay, I'm fine with fakes. I know you believe in this world, but I'm fine with fakes. So actually, I just ask you, let's just take that wanting and why not take that wanting? If you're going to insist on wanting, wanting, wanting all the time, wanting, wanting, wanting, wanting. Why not just want to see the power of your mind? Why not look, honestly, at the power of wanting? Because the only way this world gets set into motion is we have to believe that we want it. It wouldn't even seem to be here unless there was some wanting of it. So what Jesus is saying is, why not recognize the power of your wanting, which is really saying the power of your mind? So you can go back into the power of the mind, and you can go back to that 23rd Psalm, and you can go way back in your mind, you can go right to God. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. You created me to be, not to want. You created me to be as you created me to be the Christ, not to want anything of this world. So now we're getting down into the direct experience because this direct experience is love and do what you will. In other words, the doing part is out of your hands. You don't even have to figure that out. But the joining with the Holy Spirit is truly the choice. The next one, a prayer to know my true worth, value from within. So really, everything comes down to a question of worthiness, because if I'm as God created me, I must be worthy. But if I deny myself as God created me, then that sets up a conundrum of trying to find worth in a worthless land. It's like going on a journey in time and space to find worth is not, you know, you're in for some reincarnation. If you go down there, there's going to be a lot of whoops, and another whoops, and another whoops. And then you just keep whoopsing until you finally go. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. End of story. And the last one is finding true purpose in all that I'm being called into. So the one question you can always ask very safely is what is it for? Anything you're pondering, you know, you can say what is it for? And eventually the what is it for question, you know, it also ends in a direct experience because you cease to question anymore. You find your purpose, you find your calling, and then that's all she wrote for the ego. Game over. So in this movie today, the movie is titled Wondering, but not lost. It's from 2021. It's a documentary. And it basically is a documentary of Minyar Rinpoche, and Minyar is is a is a Yogi. He's a Yogi master. And at the beginning of the movie, you know, he's he's he's traveled the world. He's given talks and lectures. He's led meditation. He's he's he's had students. He's he's had a monastery of students. And in the world, he is a very respected Rinpoche. And and basically, he's going to go on what in Australia, they call Walkabout, like the Aborigines, he's just going on Walkabout. He's going to sneak out of his own monastery, un unrecognized. And he's just going out to go on Walkabout, for he doesn't even know how long. And I really enjoy this documentary because it reminds me of my Walkabout days, although I did. I think I did more drive about. And then he does quite a few things. He uses rickshaws. I can't say I have used rickshaws, but he uses trains, buses, he walks, he puts on this nice jogging shoes. Patty, he's got nice, good jogging shoes, too. You know, he's he's not an aesthetic like St. Francis trying to walk barefoot around India. He's got some good athletic shoes there. Nice color, too. Bright pink. And the beautiful thing is he's he grows up from from a child being raised in the deep traditions of of India. And of the yogis and the yogi masters. So even at six years old, you know, his mother's reading him stories of the the yogi masters. The one they're going to mention in here is the he said is Tibet's most famous yogi poet Jetson, Milarepa, who lived from 1052 AD to 1135 AD. You got to love it. A yogi named Jetson. Don't you like the name of that Jetson? It feels like he's ready to take off with jetpacks and just go flying around India through the sky. And apparently this yogi. Yeah, just like people know Rumi and in the different traditions and the different poets. This was a very famous poet and yogi. And so he grows up hearing the parables of Milarepa Jetson Milarepa. And and then as he goes grows older, he goes into being the Rinpoche. And he's kind of got more like Siddhartha kind of lived in a palace. He's he's living a pretty much a life of being identified as a reincarnated master. So in his tradition, he's very revered and loved from a child on up as he goes into the tradition. His all his father is also a yogi master. And so he comes from a tradition where he's steeped in that. And he grows up with a great love of the the mystics of the wandering Sannyasis who go traveling about and who are famous for just taking off without notice to go live in the woods or the mountains. Most people in the world, they don't really ever consider that option. You know, it's like, imagine you're 12 years old, you know, I'm taking off your parents. Like, what do you mean? Where are you going? I'm going to go live in the woods. I'm going to see that big mountain over there. It's like, yipes, a mother's nightmare. But actually, there's a deep tradition behind this. And this is going to transcend the duality, transcend the belief in duality, transcend the belief in opposites, transcend the belief in family, the belief in hierarchies, the belief in reciprocity, the belief in commerce, the belief in everything that we perceive in this world. Jesus is saying, you know, what keeps your mind in chains but your beliefs and what will set your mind free except by exposing and releasing those beliefs. It's really pretty simple. You just have to stop believing in linear time which requires a lot of trust to be unwound from those false beliefs. So basically, Minier is going to, in this documentary, he's going to leave his monastery and he's going doing it with a purpose to face whatever remains in his mind, to face whatever emotions come up. That's a purpose for travel. That's a purpose for the sannyasi. He's going to face whatever thoughts arise. Whatever impulses arise. Wow, when you really look at that, it's such a beautiful high calling. You know, I could just imagine myself as like little David sitting there at the at the breakfast table having my Cheerios and having having a yogi master say, OK, little David, you're going to have to face all your impulses, thoughts, emotions, beliefs. You're going to have to learn how to truly meditate. You're going to have to learn how to truly pray. And really that's telling it straight. This stuff about education and fulfilling roles of society and fulfilling family roles and fulfilling roles of this world is basically a distraction from the truth of knowing who you really are. And so it's good to get it straight. And we're getting, we like Jesus to tell it to us straight in the course. And we also like examples of those who basically started questioning their beliefs. Even Gandhi, yeah, Micah and Amanda were just watching the Gandhi movie the other day. And then you see someone who is well educated. He was educated as a lawyer, you know, in England, but who actually decided at some point that wasn't the purpose of his life to be a lawyer. That he went on a quest for truth and he started to question everything. He started to question violence. Isn't that beautiful that that a mind questions violence? Instead of accepting it is true. Instead of just accepting that attack and violence are just the way things are, he started to question that. And then when he stood up for nonviolence, the rest of the world said, crazy. There's a crazy, another crazy little Indian man. That's what the world says, oh my God, another crazy little Indian man. And yet that was a beacon of truth coming through, you know, he was just such a shining light of defenselessness. And he knew, you know, I read his autobiography. So, you know, he even knew where his issues were. He was asked one time by a reporter, they said, Mr. Gandhi, are you a saint? Are you a politician trying to become a saint or a saint trying to become a politician? And he said, I'm a politician trying to become a saint. He knew he lived in India where the great deep teachers were for centuries and centuries and centuries. So when they started to say, you know, you seem to be all trying to get the British out of India. He's like, yeah, I know that's too bad. I'm a politician trying to become a saint. He knew he had to drop down, down, down, down into the mind much deeper beyond the political. There's no political solution in this world. It's a perceptual problem. And he knew that he needed to go much, much deeper in order to find that truth. So he wasn't, as he got later in his life, you know, he really, he ceased being a politician. He might have been one of the world's most famous non-political politicians, but he didn't want that title for himself. And the people knew it too. That's why they called him Mahatma, great soul, Mahatma. Let's all take that word in, Mahatma. You can feel the power, Mahatma. So in this movie, we're going to see Minyer Rinpoche. He's going to go on a voyage and he's going to kind of be very transparent for us. Why is this important? It's because as we're waking up, we need transparent examples. We need to see people who have just asked the deeper questions and then opened up to an experience. We need role models, you know. We've had enough role models being actors, actresses, sports figures, military leaders, you know, whatever, you know, enough. We really, that is not what we need. We need actually some good examples of those who are walking the talk and he's a good one for that. And I think back, this is just bringing up so much joy for me because as I watch this movie, this documentary with me, it's bringing up all these wonderful warm feelings of my Sinyasi days, of traveling about. The thing with Minyer is he's already a famous well-known yogi. So he is kind of, to the world, kind of known and he has to kind of go incognito and try to stay without being recognized in order to fulfill his Sinyasi experiment, you could call it. And for me, when I went, nobody knew who I was and I loved that. I went into everybody's house, oh come on, have dinner with us and oh, stay, we've got an extra spare bedroom over here and this and this. And I enjoyed being completely unknown and I was not under the radar, I was not on the radar at all. I was just a bundle of joy expressing itself and having a lot of fun going around to many different places, many, many different places just in joy. And the beauty of it is that you really do free your mind from the belief that you have to accomplish something in the world. You free your mind completely from looking to achievements. You free your mind from having a reputation. You love having a zero reputation. And you can only imagine Jesus going off to pray on the mountain when he was like a teenager in his 20s because nobody knows Jesus of Nazareth. Maybe Mary and Joseph and brothers and sisters, oh yeah, he's a little wacky with his son. He's not all there, but he's pretty happy, but nobody knows him and then soon as he goes on his public ministries, Jesus of Nazareth. Then there's an image there, there's a big image, you know, Jesus, Jesus. And the Romans don't know what to think of him and the Sadducees don't like him and the Pharisees really hate him and they're afraid of losing their power. And yet it's just a presence. It's a simple presence of all that there is, a simple presence of love, of joy, of friendliness. And so I find, I found it very natural to go through this in the early days of the parable of David. We'll say maybe in the late 20s and 30s, early 30s, it was so much fun seemingly traveling all over and just showing up and showing up and showing up. And then if they'd say, you know, what is your opinion of this teacher or that teacher, I'd say, I don't, who are they? I don't know. I don't know who I am. I don't know who they are, but I'm having fun just in the discovery. I'm having fun in the discovery, in this moment discovering who I am. I'm having so much fun with the discovery. And I think it's actually beautiful. Some of you have seen, I did a movie workshop one time on Mystic India. And I think the name was the name of the boy who, the child who while his family was sleeping, he walked out of his house. He just kind of looked at his parents and his siblings and his community. And he walked out of his house and walked out of his community and jumped in a river to leave no trace and to go on a journey of spiritual awakening. Wow, you've got to love that. And Nimkoff, he was on the road for more than four and a half years, or in my case, my first five years I was out. He was off for many, many years just merging with all that is. No reputation, no past, no future. Just a very delightful presence. That's what he represented. And I think you're going to feel the same sparkle with Minya Rinpoche. You're going to feel the playfulness, the lightness, the laughter, the spontaneity, the openness. That's really the gift. If you feel like your spiritual journey has up to this point been basically an intellectual approach, then this movie is just perfect because this movie is showing that there is no such thing as intellectual spirituality. It's just another ego concept. It's another self-concept that has nothing to do with the reality of God's love and truth. And then sometimes people will say, well, you know, the intellect, you know, it has some value. And I say the only value the intellect has is the Holy Spirit's use of it. And we can see from, of course, the miracles that Jesus used with Helen Shuckman, a highly developed intellect to point to something that was completely beyond the intellect entirely. And that's what he's calling us to. He's calling us to an actual direct experience that has nothing to do with intellectual concepts. The Buddha said, empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. Jesus Christ said, empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. Ramana Maharshi said, empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. So before we go into this movie, I thought I'd just ask Jesus to give us some words. You know, set us in the right direction. Set us on your holy path to know the divinity of what is real and true. And here are some words from Jesus to lead us into this glorious movie today. Also, I'm going to give a quote from the main character, Minier Rinpoche. He says, the entire path is a shift in perception. Sound familiar? That's from Minier. That's our main character today. The entire path is a shift in perception. Let us be still an instant. And forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of everyone be loosened from our minds and swept away. Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not? But you are free to learn of him and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you and you are born again to him without the past that sentenced him to die and you with him. Now is he free to live as you are free because an ancient learning passed away and left a place for truth to be reborn. Simply do this. Be still. And lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is. All concepts you have learned about the world, all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false or good or bad. Of every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold on to nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course and come with holy empty hands unto your God. Each thing you value here is but a chain that binds you to the world. And it will serve no other end but this. For everything must serve the purpose you have given it until you see a different purpose there. The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more the world you see holds nothing that you want. What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs and what can save the world except your Christ self. Yet his salvation easily achieved for anyone is free to change his mind and all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. You free the past from what you thought before you free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find. The present now remains the only time here in the present is the world set free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved the world with all your fears your doubts and miseries your pain and tears and all your sorrows press on it and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind. The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning and what you behold upon it are your wishes acted out so you can look on them and think them real. There is no world apart from what you wish and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly. Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. So let's really enjoy this movie. Let's enjoy this witness is saying set your mind free and be free open to pure awareness. Don't even think what you're aware of just open to pure awareness just being aware just being fully aware. Nothing else. All right enjoy the movie I will pop in from time to time and give a little fun commentary. But this guy is a happy guy and you can feel it you know is he's happy because he is detached from the world and and he's in love. In the broadest sense of that word. So enjoy enjoy the movie and I'll be popping in from time to time.