 Hi everyone. Welcome. I was gonna say happy September, but let's just leave it at happy eternity Yeah joining you From the present moment in the present moment from the live Christ live mystical Christ Christ is our identity Christ is a The state of mind that is perfect peace perfect joy perfect happiness perfect love and We're learning from Jesus how to look at the world in a beautiful way In fact Jesus say selfless that right-minded seeing seeing sees the world perfectly. So basically If you want to see Perfection you have to be in the present moment because that's the only state that's the only Point that you can perceive Perfection point of perfection will call it in this moment Right here right now. We could say everything is perfect everything Always has been perfect. Everything always will be perfect in this moment is Our divine innocence You know when we look at the world and we look at Persons places things, you know the Bible said God was no respecter of persons. Well, let's just bring it back to this idea that Kind of like Miguel Ruiz wrote Miguel Ruiz wrote the four agreements and really all you need is the one of the four agreements this is don't take anything personally because the personal perspective is is a Nile of reality that that truth is vast truth is Expansive truth is all-inclusive We can say the same the truth is love and truth is love is God is Christ It's very vast It's very expansive and you you lose it in awareness not in reality But you lose awareness of it when you try to perceive the world through the egoic lens of linear time So let's take for example the body Jesus tells us in his course of miracles at no single instant does the body exist at all It's all is remembered or anticipated meaning That you have to be perceiving with the ego to give meaning to the body Past meaning future meaning past regrets past grievances future worries future concerns. Yeah That's not the joy of now the joy of now is As Jesus has been telling us the kingdom of heaven is in hand. It's it's in this moment and We can start to realize there's a lot of ideas. It's been coming to us in a lot of different ways all Just nudging us. It's always just tapping on our hearts. They do you realize this yet? You can realize this right now. You don't have to wait for this realization You don't have to wait for the recognition of freedom of true freedom we're free as God created us for not free as an ego so to believe in the ego and to believe in linear time is going to be the block the cover the denial of this moment and This moment really is our closest approximation of eternity if you stay in this moment You really can feel happy. You can really feel the happiness and the joy and the peace Because as I've said many times there are no problems in this moment Problems even problems are remembered or Anticipated you see the time element that's involved in problems remember that John Lennon song watching the wheels Where he says I tell them there's no problems Solutions and basically that's again Pointing us to the present moment in the present moment There are no problems in the present moment. There are no conflicts in the present moment. There are no challenges There are no difficulties That we can say all issues problems difficulties challenges are always Projections of the belief in linear time. They're all based on the past and the future What if you had No past what if you had no future? What if that was the actuality of it? What was that that's the total reality of Everything then you could be gleeful in this moment You don't have to look to the future. You don't have to look to the past You really don't need to look to the form to be Informed of your identity your reality the Holy Spirit will inform the mind of its Reality as God created it, but you don't need the form to tell you That you're as God created you that's a recognition That's a recognition that the truth is within the kingdom of heaven is within You know Even in the matrix, you know when neo funny gets to the Oracle, you know when She tells him, you know, you're you're still searching for something. She doesn't know what but but if you don't get it now You don't get it because there's only now But that's that's it. So when we look at terms of form Let's let's start to take the teachings of a course of miracles and and of Jesus and make them very simple In the Bible Jesus said judge not he wasn't talking about don't be a judgmental person. He wasn't even saying Try not to judge he was saying judge not he was really teaching us because judgment is not a creation of God all judgment is ego and the only judgment that has any Value or any salvation is Is the miraculous? Judgment of the atonement or the correction in the mind. It just sees the false is false. It just sees everything and Everything form as equally false That's what it means by there's no order of difficulty in miracles. That's what it means by there's no hierarchy of illusions You can't have a hierarchy of nothing What does the hierarchy of nothing mean? You can't have more important nothing and less important nothing You can't have more sacred nothing and less sacred nothing, you know, it's it's just saying that value meaning love Happiness is is a state of mind And it's a state of mind that that is capable through Right-minded perception of seeing only perfection. What does that even mean? How how can you perceive? Perfection well, you know if heaven is reality we could say that's beyond perception, but how can you perceive the world? Perfectly with the Holy Spirit Not the Holy Spirit there's no chance of Perceiving the world perfectly because you're just perceiving linear time and the forms seem to shift and change and The problem is wanting things to be different than they are The serenity prayer in the 12 step tradition, you know is beautiful too because you basically want to know you know what what is The most helpful thing is what what you can change and what you cannot change What you can't change is your mind. You can come back to the present moment That's that's the simplest it gets What you can't change is the world Because the world is just a projection of images and this is the whole Beautiful realization of just let it be let all things be Exactly as they are Let all things be Viewed from the present moment is really what that means That all things be exactly as they are Or as the Beatles Said the bicarbonne song when he got and he was dreaming And dreaming about his mother. He took down the lyrics for let it be Let it be let it be Let it be. Hey, let it be Speaking words of wisdom Let it be So let it be Is is starting to realize this is the the actual experiential meaning Of even the words in the introduction of a course of miracles Where jesus says this course could be summarized in the following Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists Herein lies the peace of god What does he mean nothing real can be threatened spirit Cannot be threatened Spirit is God is Truth is love is it cannot be threatened because it is all that there is That is reality He says nothing real can be threatened. He's saying reality, you know cannot be threatened Nothing can threaten spirit Spirit has no fear in it Spirit is never threatened by anything spirits not threatened by concepts of loss or abuse or neglect or rejection Spirit knows none of those things are real And nothing real can be threatened and then nothing unreal exists Basically We're told in the beyond idol section of of course the miracles that god knows not form God is the creator of reality, which meaning God is spirit god creates in spirit And everything that we perceive In time and space was it was a projection. It's just an attempt to say something should be different Basically, this whole world could be summarized in the belief that if something were different in form, I would be happy And the realization is That you can choose to be happy because happiness is a natural state of mind It's not something that's foreign at all Spirit is not foreign spirit is a reality reality is now and everything else is Imagination You can give the ego belief and you can believe in a past and a future, but it's just the imagination It's just fantasy Doesn't have anything to do with reality So this world is backwards and upside down and And when you start to just relax And really feel the presence of god in the present moment Then you can Let all things be Exactly as they are As jesus teaches us in the workbook Today, I will judge nothing that occurs This is not telling us to stop judging is just telling us that that there is no judgment in the present moment be fully present And see that all things are working together for good and there are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment All things work together for good for those who love the lord. That's from the bible We can say that that The internal is everlasting And time and space are temporary So what jesus is saying is don't try to judge the temporary Because the temporary the linear timeline of the cosmos was made to try to trick you Into thinking that there was something other than god What god creates is eternal And when you start to really open up to the eternal You can start to say and mean i am not a body i am free i am still as god created me So basically There is nothing to get hung about like the beetles said in the strawberry fields forever A song there is nothing to get hung about There there is nothing to take personally As i've said many times you've never done anything wrong, but you've also never done anything right Because in the present moment you are not a doer You are not the body You have never been the body you never will be the body And that is what spiritual awakening is It just looks upon the world And sees the world As it is false A timeline that god did not create has to be false And therefore you don't have to try to believe that you need to find perfection in the form The form is availed all over the face of christ to keep you from knowing who you are And so when you look for perfection in form That generates a concept called The doer first you have to have a desire in your heart for something more than god More than love more than oneness and then that wish to have something more than everything That's a good way to put it the wish for more than everything results in A misperception of reality Results in a mistaken identity that never was true never will be true So you don't have to build a better image just like you don't have to build a better self concept There is no better And there is no worse In the present moment think about that better and worse are dualistic concepts male and female are dualistic concepts past and future are dualistic concepts masculine feminine are dualistic concepts Beginning and ending no not in the present moment there are no beginnings and there are no endings It's just coming to really see the power of now Thank you Eckert for writing a book with that title the power of now now is the only Touchstone of reality And in the now you can feel that the release the joy the happiness because there's no striving in the present moment There is no efforting in the present moment In the end what we're asked to do is to accept the holy spirit's purpose which is the present moment And to release all attempts to think or believe that there could be another purpose That's what jesus meant by the kingdom of heaven is at hand the hand is very close Yes, the present moment is very close the present moment is closer than the breath The blink of the eye it's it's closer than the twinkling of an eye. It's it's actually before time was I like that feeling before abraham, I Before abraham was I am it's basically the the teaching Before the past could come to interrupt the awareness of eternity I am I am remains forever I am is eternal life Yeah, I am is the transcendence of of the beliefs and sickness and death because it's the transcendence of the beliefs in linear time if You still believe that it's going to take time to do something Then jesus talks about that in his section Called the immediacy of salvation, you know be be not content with future happiness for it is not Your just reward For you have caused for freedom now. That's another beautiful section that is calling calling Beckoning yearning Asking the minds be present Be present know the vastness of this moment Don't try to cover it with time. Don't try to Deny it with time. Don't try to dilute it with time It's just So so so so so simple that it's been overlooked Of course the ego overlooks the present moment because the ego is the belief in separation from god It's also the belief in linear time But we're told by the master time and eternity cannot coexist Why why can't time and eternity coexist because One is eternal In real and the other one is finite. It's measurable. It's You can break it into pieces time That should be a Good clue that that it's not real If it can change It's not real Reality is changeless God is changeless love is changeless Eternal love has no start and no stop Yeah So as we really start to apply the teachings we we start to realize the simplicity of salvation is very simply Being fully present now And then you can start to apply that what i've been saying that there are no problems in the present moment You can start to feel a little Like hearted you can feel like there's no weight on your shoulders You can start to feel like Like you want you're flying You know you're soaring Your your state of mind is gleeful That's that's what happens Because because the belief in linear time is what death is Death of the body Is a projection of the ego to the world of form But if you look at the body for example and you go well it seemed to have a beginning and We call that birth or maybe if you want to go back in In before that into the woman's womb, you know, you could say during the period of Gestation where there's a starts off very tiny and then the embryo Grows after it's the egg has been fertilized. No, no That all is a story That's a story Okay, and so is aging the story so Birth is not a beginning and death is not an end because birth and death are projections of the belief in separation You can see clearly they're dualistic Heaven is eternal oneness. There's no birth and death in eternity Eternity means forever and ever and ever and ever You know, that's what is so transcendent about reality about truth Is it lasts forever? We may talk about it We may write love songs romantic love songs and I love you forever as long as the stars shine in the sky No, no, no, we don't need those time. I don't need burning gases in the sky To try to find the meaning of eternal love The the stars in the the sky the planets the the black holes the quasars the All the dimensions seemingly dimensions of time and space, you know It doesn't mean a thing nothing real can be threatened. Nothing Unreal exists so We're coming to what was spoken about in the bible in Corinthians, you know that the temporal Will pass away, but that which is eternal will last forever There it is right there. If you if you wonder where am I going to find? Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists You could find it there in Corinthians The temporal will pass away the eternal will last forever God is eternal Christ is eternal The mystical christ is the calling of the heart to remember the truth you know sometimes when people Define their personality as being christian or muslim or hindu or Jewish or any kind of theological Explanation or philosophical Explanation or I should say description Um, all linear descriptions of the personalities are false by definition because linear time is false by definition so It's very very very clear that that to accept all things exactly as they are just to let it be Let christ be christ And then in terms of the world start to see that the script is written And start to dive into workbook lesson 158 That that the script is written And and once you begin to start to see the script is written, why would you try to change something that's already written? Why would you try to change something that's already over and done? It'd be like going to a movie theater in the old days when they had the The reels you know in the film and the film would Would move on the reel and pass across the bright light and then the screen would be the projection But that film was recorded way before it was projected so It's a time issue if you're holding on to the thoughts and the beliefs of this film That's already over and done and you still believe you have things yet to accomplish You have things In a future that has not yet happened You believe that if you actually believe that then you are inviting stress who are inviting problems and issues because time itself Is the belief that there is no god? And time equates with pain and pleasure time equates with with misery and comfort time equates with with looking To the form to be informed of who you are Don't look to the temporal For the passing images of this world to tell you who you are Nobody can tell you who you are. You have to know it for yourself You have to discover it That sounds like that scene again with neo in the matrix with The oracle in the first matrix movie, you know, no one can tell you who you are You have to you have to discover it for yourself You have to know it for yourself and all that is again is just saying discover the present moment Discover the glee of the present moment discover that there is nothing else but the present moment if if you Believe there's a problem then you just have to let go of that belief But that belief is linear time and everything of linear time. So let's make no mistake There are no enlightened people because the body the personality the persona the mask is a construct It's part of the self concept of linear time and space It's just a little teeny spot called personality and it's It's part of this seeming broad projection, but It it's really not really a broad projection because it how can something that doesn't even exist be broad How come the cosmos really be broad? If god didn't create it you see So you don't ever have any big problems because even the cosmos is not proud You can't say you have big problems if the cosmos isn't really big or small Let's just say it's been neutralized by the holy spirit and just seen as over and done gone The past is over it can touch me not And if you start to be concerned about the future then you know, you're just You still think what is past Could happen again in the future, but it's all gone. It's all over. It's all done Every seeming outcome Which outcome is the problem? You can't really come out of divine light. You can't come out of your mind. You're divine mind You can't really come into a projection That doesn't exist. How can you go into a projection? How can you be a body even for an instant? You can't Jesus has it no single instant that's the body exists at all. It's just it's it's a game Of of believing that there's something that needs to change For one to be happy nothing needs to change the script is written You can just view it and see it For what it is the past and over and done. Let's get down there to work with lesson number seven I see only the past And the reason why I see only the past is my mind is Preoccupied with past thoughts. Yeah, that's why and and all of those thoughts are time thoughts and Those thoughts don't mean anything whatsoever so You don't have to try to improve The personal relationships the interpersonal relationships because they're part of time You don't have to try to improve the environment because it's part of time And time doesn't exist. You don't have to try to To improve the world. You don't have to try try to improve the the conditions Sometimes I hear people go. I'm lonely. I want a relationship. Yeah You were never a loner and you'll never be in an interpersonal relationship because the present moment is all that there is If you feel like you are part of a group and now you're not part of a group you were never part of a group part of A community in form. Uh, we're not part of a community in form. That's like the old Uh thing throughout history of the individual versus society There is no individual and there is no society Because all of those are projections of the ego If you come back to the present moment, I mean really really really really live in the present moment then And there's just sleep joy happiness. There's nothing else There's nothing to Escape from in the present moment You just let all things be exactly as they are You know, that's the practice of the day. Let it be let it be That all things be exactly as they are Let the spirit be the spirit now That's a good thing because the spirit is the spirit So when you let the spirit be in the spirit, you don't try to tell the spirit it should be something else Let it be let spirit be And then in terms of the world Don't try to change What isn't real You can't heal what isn't real You you come back to the present moment in the big realization the simple happy gleeful realization is you can't Change the world That's why jesus is telling us seek not to change the world seek rather to change your mind about the world meaning Just accept your eternity And how do you do that accept accept the present moment? You accept the present moment exactly as it is exactly as it is And and the present moment never Changes it's the same moment. There's only one moment The belief that at the present can change is what time is about You know Because then you're taking a going away from the present moment and the vastness of the present moment you're going into the images The present moment is no image maker It's not an image maker It it doesn't Need images to be what it is spirit is spirit doesn't need images You know the bible said make no graven images before the lord that god the lord that god is here and now this isn't and you don't need graven images to dress the lord up or Change the lord Why not accept the lord? spirit Exactly as the lord is Christ is Now why not accept the christ as the christ now and let go of believing in anything else? So how practical is the present moment? Well, if you consider joy practical then Very practical if you consider happiness practical. Yes, peace. Yes Tranquility. Yes if those are what's practical then You're going to see that the present moment is very practical And in ego will raise some objections to this because he goes like oh, no, no, no, no let's get back to the basic laws of lack and sacrifice and And linear pursuits, you know All pursuits of everything in the world result only from the belief in lack It's like you look inside your heart and if you believe there's something lacking there you believe you're something other than spirit That's what the ego is. It's a belief in something other than god Other than spirit if you believe that you're lacking then you will look outside yourself You will look on the screen of images For something to get better something to improve Something to be new and improved But there's nothing new under the sun the bible teaches us There's nothing new under the sun I take that to be literally there's nothing new Other than the christ that you are and always have been that's where the newness is that's where the vitality is That's where the happiness is the joy the present moment so How practical is it to not pursue the ego belief and the and the things the projections of the ego Well, I have to say actually that's 100 percent practical If you follow your inspiration if you follow your joy right now And you stay with that joy don't bring in ideas from the past about whether it will help your survival because You're not a body And you're not a person And survival is is not of the spirit Beingness is of the spirit. That's like abraham mesle when he did his hierarchy Evolutions and he worked his way up on the pyramid to the top of the pyramid with self realization The top of the pyramid the point the apex of the whole pyramid it comes down to the present moment And the baseline of that pyramid was the belief in sacrifice lack needs You're lacking something you seem to Go on a journey to finally realize that you were the point of it all the christ self The higher self the the only self Since god created christ. It's the only self there is That that was the whole point of everything that was the point Of everything was to be present Was to to be who you are You know the world is searching For something and yet the point of everything is to be who you are Be who you have always been Be as god created you So in terms of practicality again, if you stay with inspiration How's that for a motivation if you're inspired That's the present moment And you can stay inspired by staying in that present moment The present moment is the moment of safety. It's the moment of true security. I mean if it's If it's I am as god created me that there's nothing more secure than that I think you know, you don't need money to be as god created you. You don't need anything The reason money just seems valuable to the egos because it's it's made up a bunch of false needs projected them to form into the body to the world But the belief in need has nothing to do with the kingdom of heaven As god created spirit, there is no need All these hierarchy of needs, which is what the human Is is meeting the hierarchy Of needs all of them are are unreal And as you accept the joy of the moment and you just stay in your heart you stay in the inspiration then everything Works out because it's already worked out. You you're watching a movie that's already over. You don't have to change the movie You don't have to replace a speck A molecule. There's not an electron out of place That's called divine order your everything is in divine order as you perceive it from the present moment So this is the good news of the present moment. This is the happiness of the present moment If you're aware that you're just watching a script We'll call it a script You know, it's really all simultaneous But if you're just aware that you're watching something that's already passed, why would you get upset? About something why would you would be like watching an old movie and and then just deciding to to judge it for some reason? You know, this is how the human condition is The human seems to watch a movie and then they say I like it or I didn't like it Who cares if it's unreal likeable unreal and unlikable Are the same The past and the future are the same The past doesn't generate the future Because the present is all that there is The present is showing you that there is nothing else but now That's that's the great gift You want a present give a present to yourself be present That's how to be that's how to be giving To be fully present is to be fully giving And and giving is natural god gives god gives everything God gives love god gives gives light god extends eternity. What a gift eternal love Eternal love is a gift and to accept that you will just have to Let go of the belief in everything else But I have to say there's no sacrifice in letting go of the false How could there be sacrifice in letting go of the false when The false is a projection of of the belief in sacrifice You know, this is the whole predicament of the human race is that God is eternal god creates an eternal love and then the mind that believes in linear time Is trying to go against god's will It's trying to deny god's eternal will for perfect happiness. That's what this world of linear time and space is It's the egos attempt to deny god's will for perfect love and perfect happiness perfect freedom perfect bliss The ego it was an attempt, but but the ego is not present What is present is is the christ the mystical christ We're going beyond the bodies Of the mystics and saints beyond the bodies of jesus jesus was was teaching was reflecting The iam presence, you know when he said before abraham was iam He wasn't talking about a man with a beard and Hair he was talking about the iam spirit the iam presence He was talking about god I don't care what you call it. Yahweh or God or Allah or whatever Word you want to put it on god is okay because because reality still is reality And the symbols are are just words that that can point to the reality When we fully give ourselves over To that love and to that light then the the use of words is Is over? Yeah, it's over So wow, I just picked up there's 108 reflections Joining me i'm just reflecting this glee and his happiness in this moment So that gives really deep meaning to stay present Don't look for anything informed to be different today Uh, if we want to use a course workbook lesson, let's just the recent lesson was today I will judge nothing that occurs What a fun adventure to stay present And judge nothing that occurs What a what a joyful gleeful adventure To let go of the belief in causation causes and effects in form What a mesmerism I'm very big already We call it what a mesmerism to believe in linear causes and effects Don't go searching For causes and form And don't go judging effects in forms You know don't say good right with something informed don't say Oh, that's better or don't say that's worse You don't have to pursue future goals and outcomes and you don't have to reject or put down anything of the past because everything of linear perception is the past And the past is just one thing. It's singular. It's just an error Why would you try to break apart and judge and analyze an error? Why not just overlook it? But what does that mean just be present right minded seeing can see only perfection stay with the Holy Spirit stay present stay singing your eternal song of gratitude to God Stay so your mind is just soaring and soaring and soaring In the light in the light Stay in the awareness that the light has come Stay in the awareness That I am the light of the world Stay in the awareness of I am the light of the world and there is nothing else Yeah, that will put a smile on your mind Have a smiling mind today A smiling mind is a divine mind that's aware of itself. That's what that's my definition of a smiling mind Okay, I'm just bursting in happiness and I'm glad that We can just be in that that joy in this moment I send you all my love. I send you all my heart and Wow Stay present All right