A Mind that is Safe From Error?

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

(Pasadena, California)-Yesterday we looks at the contents of our consciousness and what it means to understand change to this content. We went into it quite deeply. We all want to feel safe, it is a natural thing? Don’t you want to feel safe? A sense of comfort that nothing is going to happen to you out of the realm of your day to day activities that will harm or hurt you in any way? Physically we want to be safe we have a house, shelter, clothing and food; this is natural, healthy, sane and rational all of us not only for the affluent people.

There is a great deal of poverty in this world. This poverty, this lack of relationship to the whole of the world it is brought about by national, religious and economical divisions. It is no feeling of global relationship. Please listen to all of this, it is our life. And our outward problems will never be solved, never unless we have this global relationship. That’s why it is important to understand very carefully that our consciousness with all of it belief, dogma, judgments, loneliness, despair, anxieties, fear, hurts is common to all humankind.

This is to all humankind whether they live in Russia, China, England and America it doesn’t matter where they live this is a fact. Because this is common to all humankind you are humankind. You are not a separate individual, this is hard for you to swallow I know but it is a fact. As you suffer so does the man/woman in the Far East. He/she there is uncertain, confused, trotted downed just as you this is the problem of all human beings.

Now it is hard for us to see the facts because we are so conditioned to see our selves as individuals. See the actual fact that we are whole of humanity. There fore our actions then would be a global relationship in which nationalities, religious, economical divisions do not exist.

You see the writer thinks that we should consider this morning whether the human mind can be safe, safe from error. Human beings have sort security not only physical through family, group; nationality and so on but also try to be safe in ideas. Collective ideas, collective groups, having the same conclusion and beliefs, same frontiers, humankind has sort they’re safety in isolation. That is what each one of us is doing; we want to be safe in our selves, separate from the rest of humankind.

Did you know that safe means to have this feeling of wholeness? Having a sense of completeness and in that sense of completeness there is total safety and security, but one cannot have this extraordinary sense of completeness if there is any sense of inward psychological fragmentation. This statement from the writer maybe false so one must doubt, questions so that there is a finding out for one self. This could be his own peculiar invention or illusion.

Having heard this one must find out if it is possible or not possible to live a life, which is whole there fore safe? That means you who have listen to this statement and you have to apply your mind not agree or disagree. You have to question your life, existence and your whole activity. Find out for one self whether it is possible to be totally safe? You cannot possibly be safe in isolation, it doesn’t matter who is saying it and it is a law. So what has happened, if you can’t be safe in isolation, then why is the world divided up like this British, Russians, Hindus, Japanese, Americans and all of the rest of it. Don’t forget the religious fragments, there are 1000’s of different Christianity groups throughout the world.

So you have to ask your self-can one live in the modern world with this sense of being totally whole not fragmented? Specialization is one of the factors in respect to fragmentation. One has to have specialist doctors, carpenters, plumbers, postman and all the rest. But psychologically inwardly what is the need to being a specialist? You following all this? We are human beings inwardly psychologically, not specialist.

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The writer thinks that we should go into the question of suffering and the nature of pleasure. As we went into the other day the nature of fear and we went into it very deeply and widely. Are you interested in all of this? Whether it is possible for us human being who have lived on this earth for millenniums whether it is possible for us to “end” our sorrow. Please as we pointed out before we are not having a sermon or having a meeting to discuss and exchange or our opinions, this is a very serious question that the writer is pointing out. We should be serious enough to enquire into all of these things?

Now we are going to enquire first why have humankind pursued pleasure so lustrously? So what is pleasure and why is pleasure so important to us at any price? When you emphasize one thing as we have done with pleasure you deny the others we are merely pursuing pleasure in so many forms pleasure in attachment, becoming something, ownership, knowledge, having a piece of the earth, pleasure in sports, in sex, in the cinema, in religion, pleasure in that you have been able to achieve something like having a very good body, pleasure of drinking so many different forms of pleasure not only the sexual remembrances of yesterday and wanting it today.

The pleasure of seeking finding achieving and being somebody. So why have pleasure become so extraordinarily so important? What is pleasure? As we examined the nature of fear and we went into it with great detail. So we should also with regard to pleasure, what is pleasure? Please you answer the question not the writer! Is it a remembrance? Pleasure in prayer pleasure in worship I don’t know what you pray or worship too? But it is a pleasure. Is pleasure a remembrance of things pasted over or is it something in the future, thinking about something that might give you pleasure?

Furthermore is it the remembrance of something that gave you a delight yesterday? Does pleasure like fear exist now in the sense of having pleasure at the moment? Like a man/woman saying I am happy the moment he/she says that he is not, it is only the remembrance of being happy at one time or yesterday, that remembrance is the pleasure and the pursuit of pleasure in action, so is pleasure a matter of time, is pleasure an action of thought? Hope you are following all this.

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As fear we said yesterday and we have said this often before time and thought are the root of fear. Time and thought is the root of pleasure. We want to deny fear and pursue pleasure. They are two sides of the same coin; you cannot be free of fear if you do not understand the nature of pleasure. When we look at a mountain or a big sequoia tree it gives us a delight it is a marvelous thing to see the mountains and nature and the animals, wild, that are not kept in a zoo. It gives us an extraordinary sense of width and beauty. That gives us a remembrance and that remembrance insists and pursues the demanding of that same thing.

So thought and time are the factors of fear and pleasure. We are not denying, asserting or suppressing fear and pleasure, no sir, but to observe it and to see what is implied in it, to be totally acquainted with it. Then one can ask what is “LOVE”? These are very serious questions, they involve our daily life! Is “LOVE” pleasure?

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