Now, when the Self of us presents Itself to us, it is a tremendous experience! It is a very difficult one to contain. We feel as though we are going to burst because we recognize our omnipotence, omni-science, and omnipresence! But just seeing it once does not establish us in that state. However, once we experience it, we will never let go until we reestablish it. We will continue to try, and we should continue to try, to get back into that state. The next time, it will last a bit longer, the third time, still longer, until finally we are in it twenty-four hours a day.
When we attain this top state, we are not zombies, but we are all-knowing and everywhere present.
Everything falls perfectly into line. We move in the world just like anyone else moves, but the
difference is that we see the world entirely different from the way everyone else sees it. We watch our body moving through life like an automation. We let it go its way. And since we are not really that body, nothing that happens to that body can effect us. Even if it were crushed, it would not mean much to us because we fully know that we are not that body. We know our eternal Beingness and we remain That!
So, one who has attained the top state is difficult to distinguish from anyone else. He or she will go through the same motions of life and whatever they were doing before, they might continue to do. But their outlook on life is entirely different. They are completely egoless with no concern for their own bodies.They areinterested in othersand notin themselves— they areinterested in allhumanity.
Whatever they do has absolutely no ego motivation. Their body will continue to live its normal span and usually goes out, in the eyes of the unknowing, the same way most bodies go out, via so-called death and coffin. But the one who was originally connected with that body never sees any of this death. They see this entire world and body as an illusion that was created mentally just as we create scenes, cities and worlds in our night dreams. When we awaken, we realize there never was such a
thing. And in the same way, when we awaken from this waking state, we see that the whole thing was a dream and never really was. That the only thing that ever was, was my Being, the absolute Reality, being all beingness, infinite, all perfect, all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent.
So, to reiterate, the main two points that I want to bring out are that the very highest method is the quest,“Whatam I?”Asweposethisquestion in quietness,when otherthoughtscomein,ask.“To whom arethesethoughts?”Theansweris“To me.”“Well,whatam I?”and we’rerightback on the track again — untilwegetthetotalanswer.Thesecond pointisto bethewitness,notthedoer.I believe that sums up what I have been trying to get across up until now. And questions on this?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: To not be the doer, do you plan? Do you do everything normally?
Lester:No,therightway isnotto plan.Letithappen.Letgo and you’llbeguided intuitively. everything is in absolute harmony every moment. There you never think, and at every moment you know from within justtherightthing to do.You’reguided intuitively each and every momentand everything falls perfectly into line.
Now,ifyou’renotthere,ofcourseyou haveto think;you haveto plan.
Q:Well,in practicethen,in thebeginning,it’sprobably acombination ofthetwo wherethingsgo very easily,and then there’sahump in which you haveto plan.
Lester: Definitely yes! In the top state, you do by knowing; you just know from moment to moment.Onefeels“Iknow it!”That’sjusttheway itfeelsand there’sno thinking to it— only “I know it!”
Q: I know from my own experience, I slip back and lay out a plan, but sometimes that plan comes very easily and quickly to me and sometimes I have to struggle like the devil to work it out, step by step,and Idon’tknow what’sgoing to happen.Othertimes,Ijustlay outaplan and Iknow what’s going to happen and I have no difficulty with it.
Lester:Theword “know”asyou useit,isthekey.You know how thatword feelswhen you say,“I know it!”There’sno doubt,notoneiotaofdoubtthere.And ithappens.That’sthekey.That’sthe realm of knowingness. Make that all the time. Keep working for it until it comes and stays. The quickness with which we attain this is determined by the intensity of the desire for it. The more we desirethistop state,thesooneritcomes.Everyonemakesiteventually.I’m convinced thatthe majority of people on Earth today will probably take millions of years to make it. But any one of us who is consciously seeking the way out can do it this lifetime.
This so-called grace of God is always there. All those who have made the top grade before us are radiating the consciousness of perfection to us. We have tremendous grace being actually pushed our way allthetime.However,they haveno rightto imposethemselvesand don’t.Wehaveto open ourselves to it in order to receive it.
We need this grace. Because of the state of affairs today, man is relatively low. We are very
strongly convinced thatwearealimited body and by long habitwearetrying to hold onto it.So it’s not easy to let go of this body, and because of that, we need the grace of the Great Ones who in our eyeshavepassed on,butin theireyes,they’restillhere.When werecognizethatthey arestillhere,we can see them and talk to them the way we talk to each other. If we accept them partially, we can talk to them in a dream or a vision. The way we meet with them is determined by our acceptance of them. If any one of us believed that he could go down to a restaurant and have a snack with Jesus, the way you believeyou could do itwith me— ifyou had thatmuch acceptance— then you would do it.
Now, some of us know that if He were suddenly to appear in a physical body in the room, it would betoo much formostofusto acceptand thereforeHedoesn’t.Buttheway Hecomesto usis
determined by our acceptance of Him. He gave signs to some here and some did not recognize that He did. However, most of us did!
Lester: You have to be accepting of Jesus as being alive, just as much as we are, and capable of meeting with you,theway wemeetwith you — then itcan happen.You haveto beopen to it.The help is always being sent to you.
Q: Are there words to say, thoughts to carry?
Lester:Yes.ButIcan’tgivethem to you;that’sup to you.See,Igiveyou thegeneralprinciple— acceptanceofHim,theway Heis.Don’texpectHim to benotChristly becauseHewon’tbethat. However, He can appear as a very humble human being in form. Being omnipresent, at any moment, He can appear to anyone and speak with him.
Q:Lester,HewillbeasChrist,Hewon’tbein disguise,willHe? Thebeggaratthedoor? Lester: No. The only disguise is the one we put on Him. He would never disguise Himself. He wantsto berecognized asChrist.That’snotHisname.Theman Jesushad theChristConsciousness. And wehaveto acceptHim and Hisconsciousnesswhich isextremehumility,simplicity — no
Hollywood glamour.
Q: Would you define humility?
Lester: Yes. The greatest humility is through surrender. It is surrender of the ego, the ego being a sense of separate individuality. Not I but thou; not I, but the Father who worketh through me.
Everything Ido isGod’swork,Iam notthedoer.
Q: If you surrender yourself as an individual, how about the other person? I think we mentioned before that we recognize the other person as ourselves and we treat them as though we are the same.
Who is this other person?
Lester: From where you stand now, the other person should not concern you. The only thing that should concern us is what we do. For me, it matters not what your attitude is toward me. You could hatemewith every cellin yourbody.Butit’sofextremeimportancewhatmy attitudeistoward you.
Whileyou’rehating me,Ishould loveyou fully and completely.Then you’llunderstand theanswerto yourquestion and you willseeonly theOne.When you separateand then ask what’sup herein the One,itjustdoesn’tfit.
When we love, and only love, we are using the most formidable power in the Universe. No one and
no thing can harm us.Wecan nevereverbehurtorunhappy — itwewould only justlovewithoutany hate.You can neverbehurtwhen you lovein thesensethattheloveisfull,complete– divinelove. It’sjustlovewith no,notonebit,ofhatein it.Itrequiresturning theothercheek,loving yourenemy – that’sthekind ofloveittakes
Q: Love is understanding?
Lester:When you lovefully,you understand theotheronefully.Loveisunderstanding.It’s identifying with theotherone,being theotherone.Coming down astep,it’swanting theotheroneto have what the other one wants, loving the other one, the way the other one is.
Q: Then who is our enemy?
Lester:In reality,wehaveonly oneenemy and that’sourself.No onecan do anything to us;no onecan do anything forus.Someday you’llseethis— thatwein ourconsciousnessdetermine everything that happens to us.
Q: Then it is our idea of ourselves which is incorrect?
Lester: Right. And that could be made better!
Q: When you say understanding, do you mean understanding in a logical sense, or do you mean acceptanceofthem withoutquestioning thereason why they’redoing things,good orbad;justacce p-tance of whatever they are in entirety?
Lester:It’sacceptancein entirety.Buttherealunderstanding requiresknowledgeofwhatthe Universe and the World are. When we see someone doing wrong, we have to know that this is a god-being,misguided.He’slooking forGod in thewrong place.Am Imaking sense? That’sthe
understanding.
Q: Which in his mind would be happiness, right?
Lester:Yes.He’slooking forhappinesstheway heseesit.Even aHitler,in hismind,isdoing right,and thereforeshould notbehated,butshould beloved —wanting him to bewhatHisrealbasic natureis.Now thisdoesn’tmean approving ofhisprogram — itdoesn’t.Butwhetherweapproveor not of his program, loving and hating are two different things. So we love everyone, see them as misguided beings,forgivethem forthey do notknow.They’relikechildren — misguided.Attain the highest state of loving everyone equally as Christ did!
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“Be c ome e v e r y t hi ng i ns t e ad of not hi ng. Be c ome e v e r y t hi ng and y ou ne e d not hi ng.
Desire is lack and the consciousness of separation. The feeling of lack is the source of al l t r oubl e . ”
Lester Levenson
Session 14
THE KEY TO CONSTANT HAPPINESS