 Beautiful teachings of Jesus and of course the miracles and of all of his teachings really over the last 2,000 years It's beautiful to consider practical application A lot of times when I'm talking to people they say, you know, really I just want to be happy I want to feel free. I want to feel joy. I want to feel love and And and it seems like Underneath all of that is I want to just really live a simple life Please God grant me a simple life And so we learn a lot from Jesus, you know, because I think there's a lot of us that have really said we want a simple life please show us the way to a simple life and Sometimes we have associated simplicity with simplicity and form But Jesus is really telling us that everything we perceive in the world Including our personality selves and everything and every one is just a projection It's a it's a perception that comes from our belief system and as long as we believe in the ego We believe in complexity The ego is a is a belief in separation from God So that's very complex belief and everything that springs from the ego is complex So if you talk to people they will say, oh, it's a very complex world This is a dog eat dog world. This is a world of Conflict and competition. They just say look around, you know, you see it everywhere in the world They say they say their mind feels conflicted at times and and Jesus is basically teaching us Only a single purpose only a constant purpose can endow events with Stable meaning in other words, you will not see a peaceful world. You will not experience peace of mind Until you come in contact with your intuition until you come in contact with The Holy Spirit until you come in contact with Jesus and the voice from Jesus then it's going to be Conflictual and no matter how you try to simplify your life with with minimizing things or trying to turn away from materialism or trying to turn away from Things and distractions of the world you have to start to realize that the distractions are coming from the mind They're coming from the subconscious mind You also have to realize that that you're not going to find simplicity in the form Even in terms of behavior, Jesus is teaching us that what you do comes from what you think and He says then it's with your thoughts alone that we must work in other words the level of mind the level of cognition and thinking is where the Correction is made and that correction is made by the Holy Spirit and There's a lot of spiritualities that kind of associate the mind with the ego But Jesus is saying well, you actually have a divine mind a mind that you share with Christ the one mind of Christ and you also that mind shares The mind of God of Christ is an idea in the mind of God Those are important kind of metaphysics because you start to realize that the mind Isn't really the problem. I know a lot of non-dual teachers like to associate the mind with the problem and the heart with the answer But but actually the mind and the heart are unified when the heart is single the mind is single And when you start to realize that the mind that believes in the ego is is where the problem is generated the belief in separation from God is The horrific belief. It's the belief that brings all destabilizing effects apparent effects it it also brings a sense of turmoil a sense of tyranny It's like a house divided a mind split is a mind that that believes in the ego But still has a remembrance of God in it the Holy Spirit And that's why we have to train our minds to listen to Jesus and to follow Jesus To be in our right mind to be sane, you know to be sane is no small thing piece of mind is no small thing piece of mind is is You might say it's the natural experience of listening to your inner voice to your higher power so today I Just was feeling to talk a little bit about simplicity and To answer the prayer Let the spirit come through and answer the prayer for a simple life So as usual, I will share some passages from Jesus and of course of miracles that I really help us zoom into simplicity and What I would say is a simple way of thinking is is to be right-minded to be thinking with the Holy Spirit It is to be thinking with God to try to think apart from the Holy Spirit Which is to try to think with the ego is to try to think against God Really, we have to start to realize that that consciousness is the domain of the ego and Jesus tells us that consciousness arose after the seeming fall from grace. So consciousness is is going to be The area the arena of mind that is receiving messages from above will say the Holy Spirit and below the ego and So we want to train our mind to just listen to one voice To only hear the Holy Spirit to only hear that Jesus's voice in our mind And then have a happy simple life happy simple joyful life. No small thing at all So I will share some passages here from Jesus to help us along the way to a simple life and then I Will have a song from Spava that will it's actually titled simple life It will be our our meditation our prayerful meditation at the end of this broadcast So I'll start off by sharing a little bit from chapter 2 This is This is paragraph 6 Jesus is saying it is possible to reach a state In which you bring your mind under my guidance without conscious effort But this implies a willingness that you have not developed as yet The Holy Spirit cannot ask more than you are willing to do The strength to do comes from your Undivided decision There is no strain in doing God's will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly to be overlooked. I will therefore repeat it urging you to listen Only your mind can produce fear It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wants Producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant This can be corrected only by accepting a unified goal So that's beautiful a unified goal That's that's our purpose Jesus if you took all the teachings of Jesus from 2000 years ago, and you boiled down the sermon on the mount To just two words it would be judge not and the way we judge not is we forgive we have to learn To forgive the world we have to learn to To be so centered in the the guidance and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit So led by Jesus that basically we overlook the error of Of the ego we're able to with the light of the Holy Spirit and the vision of Christ We're able to overlook the error or if you want to call it sin missing the mark If you want to call it Misperception we we come so lit up in the light of Christ that we basically See the light everywhere. We look in every direction And that's because the world is a projection of thoughts and when we Line up with the Holy Spirit's thought system, which is the thought system of forgiveness Then we are able to overlook mistakes. We don't even see the mistakes We just are the bright beaming light that Jesus demonstrated, you know, just shining sharing gentle Very accepting very loving You know He basically was basically saying, you know Someone smite you on one cheek turn the other cheek if somebody asked for your coat offer your cloak as well He was he was in the giving spirit of God gracious love Unending gracious love unconditional love. So that's where the simplicity is we have to to live like Jesus Okay, here's another Teaching from Jesus from chapter 4 and this is is paragraph 6 My trust in you is greater than yours in me at the moment But it will not always be that way Your mission is very simple You are asked to live so as to demonstrate that you are not an ego And I do not choose God's channels wrongly the holy ones shares my trust and Accepts my atonement decisions because my will is never out of the cord with his so he's talking about the holy one The Holy Spirit and Jesus share the same will so Jesus is saying my atonement decisions These my will is never out of the cord with his with the holy spirits with God's will Jesus is a was a it is the living demonstration of of God's will of perfect divine love I have said this before That I am in charge of the atonement. This is only because I completed my part in it as a man and now Complete it through others My chosen channels cannot fail Because I will lend them my strength as long as theirs is wanting I will go with you to the holy one and through my perception. He can bridge the little gap Your gratitude to your brother is the only gift I want So Jesus is really laying it out for us here that basically saying you know If you can just live to demonstrate that you're you're not an ego then you will be demonstrating that you are a child of God And and when you open up to what that really means I'm as God created me I am sustained by the love of God I am the light of the world you start to see it not you as a person but But but the spirit you the real you is the light of the world And it you demonstrated by your attitudes Are you friendly? Are you kind? Are you welcoming? Are you loving? Are you embracing? You know, these are attitudes that are Befitting of of a child of God And even in this world if if someone says are you like a teacher of God or like a miracle world worker or something Then you can you can just demonstrate it by your loving Carefree all-encompassing embracing attitude You have an attitude that basically accepts all things exactly as they are that's where your kindness comes from too because You start to live in such harmony with with God in such harmony with spirit and and divine will That everything you think and say and do teaches love You know your your principle your guiding Principle in life is teach only love for that is what you are or you could say that is what I am. I'm only love I remember the cartoon Popeye some of you remember Popeye Love to eat his spinach and he loved his muscles and he had a girlfriend olive oil But but I remember Popeye would say things like I am what I am and that's all that I am Well, actually that's Jesus coming through Popeye Just think of Jesus In your heart the Christ I am what I am and that's all that I am I can be nothing else. I was created by God and I cannot be anything else I cannot be an image. I cannot be a self concept that God did not create I cannot be all the roles that that were made For this identity on earth. I can't be any of them because I am as God created me. I am spirit Before Abraham was I am Jesus said in the bible and he was just pointing us back to that pristine Innocent self that God created that's we call the present moment the I amness The gateway to eternity Okay, and what else do we have to hear from Jesus about simplicity? Well, I think probably in all my years of working with the Course 30 some years I think this passage Probably is it sums it up better than anything else I remember the first time I read this passage My heart chords were going so strong And I was like in the hush of heaven. I just was like, oh my god This is this is everything and and I could hear Jesus inside saying yeah pay attention Pay attention to this because in this it is the answer to everything. It's what you've been praying for This is from workbook lesson 189 in paragraph seven 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 is shamed Hold on to nothing Do not bring with you one thought the past is 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 And now we'll listen to the song from spava To meditation to send us off for the day. This is a song from spava called a simple life That's my prayer today. That's my prayer for you that you dance through this day like Fred Astaire and ginger rogers, you know from the old days you just dance through the day in a simple way Live your simple life Live each moment given from from the holy spirit Come and bring your mind's attention to the holy present and And cast aside thoughts of the past and the future Be carefree live simple today I join you in that Okay, thank you everyone. Thanks for joining in God bless you