Release Your Problems

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As readers will know, I often insert paragraphs from Lester Levenson’s collected talks to groups in NY in the 1960s. Under the collective title of ‘The Way To Complete Freedom – Sessions With a Master On Personal Transformation’, this 266 page book is like a bible to those seeking to understand what this life is really all about and the ways and means of rising above what has become known as ‘the human condition’.

It covers such ideas as The Basic Goal and Ways to Attainment, Happiness, Love, Ego, Mastering Mind and Matter, to Realization By Dropping the Unconscious and Why Not Go All the Way?

The more I read it, the more the knowledge is internalized, the more it becomes a part of me.

Here’s an excerpt from the first chapter “The Basic Goal’:

“Let’s now take a look at this so-called apparency, the world. The world is only an illusion that we created mentally. It is not external but in reality within us, within our mind.  Some day you’ll discover that you created this entire universe that you see.
The method of creating is by first creating what we call our mind. We create our mind which is nothing but a composite of all our thoughts, conscious and sub-conscious, and the thoughts create the material world.

Every little thing that happens to each and every one of us is created in our thinking. We mentally set up a thing called time which makes it even more difficult to see things, because we think now, and things happen years later.

But the only creator that is, is the mind – your mind. Is God a creator? Yes, because you are. Thou are that! You set up a mind and through the mind create. It is necessary and good to discover that everything happening is caused by our thinking. Everything that happens to us is created in our thought. It’s a stepping stone to realizing and recognizing that we are the creators.
First you discover that you created your trouble, then you discover that you can create anything you desire. After you discover that there’s nothing you cannot create, you’re still unhappy.  The reason is that you have separated yourself from the infinity. Only on recognizing your infinity are you perfectly satisfied.”

So what Lester is telling us is that we are cause of all our problems. Not consciously of course, but because of our lack of conscious awareness, we operate on ‘automatic’.  I.e. our ego is operated by the subconscious programs built in by reason of inherited patterns, upbringing and experiences (nature, nurture and more). But as he continually reminds us, we are infinite beings acting as though we are not. We think and act as though we are each individual and separate from the whole. The ego strongly re-inforces this concept since it depends for its life on having us think this way. Eckart Tolle expounds this idea in a simple, elegant way in his books.

So what to do about all this?
It seemed to our regular group, which has been meeting each month since 1997, that the thing to do was to prove to ourselves as much of these ideas as we could. If we are indeed creators, then let’s be positive creators and take control, instead of being at the mercy of  ‘cruel circumstance’.

In future posts, I’ll report to you on various experiences and results which have come about from working with ideas and techniques.

Please leave your comments and any questions you may have below this post. We appreciate your interest.

When releasing becomes constant all the time, even though we are outwardly active, we go through life and work automatically, all the time remaining in our real Self.

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The mature seeker of the Self starts with: ‘The reality is that I was never bound; I was always free and perfect’, and takes off from there.

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Just look at what you are rather than what you are not. When you when you discover what you are, you simultaneously discover what you are not and drop it.

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Say: “I am not this body; I am not this mind”, and stay with it.
Seeing that you’re not the ego, you’re letting go of big chunks of ego.
The determination to release determines how much you wipe out the ego.

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Constancy of releasing is the degree of quieting the mind.
The longer you can release, the more ego goes.
Once you reach peace, then find out what you are.

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Release until it becomes a constant, i.e. until it continues in the back of the mind regardless of what you are doing.

Releasing is just getting quiet, getting quiet and just being. It’s awfully nice to just be and be and be. It’s a tremendous experience. It’s a wonderful feeling of just being. However, don’t stop there. Keep dropping ego until there is no more.

You’ll reach a point  where you’ll like releasing better than anything else, because you’ll reach a point where you’re being very much you’re real Self.  That is the greatest of all joy, which you formerly thought was external in the world, in your wife, in your children. You’ll see your wife and your children as nothing more than your very own Self; you’ll see that. And the joy will be direct and constant all the time.

The answer won’t come from reasoning. It will come from releasing. Some day, some time, it will come. It will just present itself to you, so simple, and you’ll just say “Oh!”.

Releasing has to get to the point where it is the most important thing. Make releasing constant.

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. Spiritual knowledge does not come down to a lower level. We have to raise ourselves up to it. We raise ourselves in releasing. Releasing should be used to get higher understanding by raising ourselves up to where higher understanding is.

Releasing is wonderful. Things happen with releasing that never could happen without it.

You can make the mind quiet by the desire to discover what you are. When the interest in knowing what you are becomes stronger than the interest in this world and body, then you discover You. Desire, intense desire for it, is the key.

It is now some 20 odd years since Lester Levenson, considered by his close contacts as a genuine ‘American Spiritual Master’, passed away peacefully in Sedona, Arizona. Many of the ideas he discovered by virtue of his significant experiences are finding new champions throughout the US and Europe.

Although not directly connected, the philosophies of Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now and A New Earth) are, not surprisingly, attracting the attention and scrutiny of a section of the western world public. It hasn’t Read the rest of this entry »