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“Stress Strategies”
May 18-08
Dr. Harry Morgan Moses
Please repeat after me I love what I am, I am God and all who I see
do I love for I am all that I see and I love what I am. You see I
did not come here today to give you steps A B and C in terms of how
to manage your stress because really if you want to know steps A B
and C on how to manage your stress we have a book mark and it is
called the new standard in new era and live by those principals you
will find that your stress gets banished. So we basically say you
know what you are is a spiritual being. So let me go back to the
thirteenth century of Meister Eckhart and one of my favorite quotes
from Meister Eckhart he says the soul has two faces one gauzes upon
the glory of God and the other directs the senses. And so if we
really fall into the nature of the I AM that I AM and if I really
recognize that what I am is a birth less death less immortal idea in
the mind of God and I am of course my than an idea because God is
more than an idea. But I am a living idea of God, a living
reflection of the reality of God born in the image and likeness of
that and when you go to recognize God and you start looking at where
your struggle comes from we find something very basic that all
struggle, all struggle only comes from one place, its comes from
your belief in your separation from God. That is where it is coming
from and so at the center of our being what we know is what I am is
of great benefit to the I AM. What I am in the beginning was brought
forth to be a great benefit to the I AM. We say now wait a minute
you mean I was brought forth to be of great benefit to myself, when
you say I am created to bring forth great benefit to the I AM does
that mean to myself? Yes it does but you see what concept of self?
The one that is causing you struggle and pain and stiffing because
that concept of yourself is the concept of yourself separate from
God. You self separate from the laws of creation, separate from
everything that is the true nature When you believe in your small
self your isolated self, when you believe in your waviness out of
conditioning we learn to believe in myself as a wave when I have
never been a wave I have always been the ocean and I am manifesting
as wave. But when I recognize that I’m manifesting as wave I want to
manifest as wave with my nature, with my whole nature with me. So
when I say I was born to be of great benefit to the I AM am I
talking about my limited personal self of course Of course you are
talking about your limited self would you like to benefit everybody
else on the planet except you? Would that make any sense to divine a
system that would benefit everybody else on the planet except you
no? You see when you come forth to bring your great benefit to the I
AM that I AM, when I come forth to bring great benefit it is for all
of the I AM and where do I begin. Because if my cup does not runneth
over, if my cup is full of my problems, my definitions of myself, my
fears my doubts, my worries then I have devoted, I have entered into
the smallness of myself and all suffering comes from your belief in
your separation from God. So when we begin to believe our own story,
my own stuff well you know if you only knew about my father who left
me, if you only knew about my mother who never supported me, if you
only knew what it was really like to be the third child. If you only
knew all of the details of my separation and my limitation and my
argument for my limitation and we will go to the great writer
Richard Bach who said very simply the statement of principal argue
for your limitations and they are yours. To the degree that we argue
for our small self we become that and we pull ourselves further and
further into suffering. On the other side is the reality that I am
born in the image and likeness of God that I am whole complete and
perfect that I am responsible for everything that is in my creation
and that I have the capacity to extend compassion to my self for all
of the false creations that may have come through me. That my friend
would be the karmic path yes? To the degree that you are suffering
you recognize what it is you brought with you because it is the
belief in your separation is the belief in your third child-ness,
whatever child you were. See I always knew because I grew up with
four brothers and I was always the four of us and every time I would
go to some social occasion and they would ask which one are you the
third one “oh the third one”. See I received from my beloved who
ever they were this idea of “oh the third child”. So you say you
don’t understand you see the problem is I am a third child and from
that belief in separation we carry on. My grand parents say my soul
has two faces one gauzes at the glory of God and is the gauzing at
the glory of god a good thing to do and do you notice that when your
gauzing at the glory of god your not stressed out. Do you every
notice when you shift even for a moment if you shift from your fear
your doubts your worries your not enough-ness and you shift just for
a moment to the hummingbird that’s there flying in front of you,
just for a moment to the waves crashing on the beach, shift just for
a moment to the beautiful sunshine in Southern California, shift
just for a moment to see that all of a sudden your stress goes. So
we say well if I then am in tune with my nature born in the image
and likeness of god whole, complete and perfect at one with all
things all the time if I live there then I’m gazing at the glory of
God but you say I can’t gaze at the glory of god all of the time
because you don’t understand I am a third child. Do you understand
when I say third child whatever your story is, whatever it is where
you hang up in your belief and I believe in the fullness and the
opulence and the glory of God all except for and according to where
you lock in that all except for the law of life responding perfectly
to you recreates you. Simply out of its love for you simply out of
its love for you and let me say this again the pain you are
suffering in your life is giving to you out of spirits love for you.
“What did he say”? Well thank you God quit loving me so much, no
wait what if God created you in the image and likeness of itself and
left you totally and completely free to discover to choose to draw
forth whatever it is you will be? What if that’s the truth and the
glory of god is reflecting to you at this moment now exactly where
you are at. Oh I am born in the image and likeness of God and I drag
this third child with me everywhere I go, do you see it? I drag my
fears my doubts my worries, my shameness you don’t understand for
forty two years I have had this problem and don’t tell me I’m going
to be free of the problem because my god who would I be if I don’t
know myself as this. What you will be is something that is what you
intended to be when you let go of that. So what is the strategy how
then do I know everyone say I AM I am entitled to miracles Like a
miracle means that you just snap and pause out to whatever you mean
to create and you start creating that yes and with no process you
just instantly believe it. Now do you really believe you’re entitled
to miracles? And if that is so then you’re entitled to the ecstasy
and to the bliss to the glory of the most highest yes? Well then why
do I keep recreating my old energy and the answer is because you
keep recreating those patterns, you go back and you recreate that
pattern just exactly the way that you want it.
Let me give you an example of this and I will tell you a story, I
love the idea that whenever a devotee meets a devotee it doesn’t
matter from what tradition, whenever that truth sees itself and
recognizes itself then our identity loves to get all tied up in that
and it loves to share because it believes that this mastery should
be this mastery and this mastery should know this mastery and it
should all know itself as one. But isn’t it already one, its already
one so as the rachie was sharing with me and began to share models
and insights of peace strategies of creation strategies all that I
know wanted to rush forth and screet that knowledge to share because
he says it with a syllable and I say it with another syllable and
some people say I am saying syllable wrong. It doesn’t matter what
syllables that you use or which frame work you use what matters is
the truth that’s underneath it all. And so the way to drawn forth
the truth is not to participate in your third childness. So stress
strategies are about we already know I am an immortal spiritual
being, I am a creative being, life is responding to me by
corresponding to me, not to my thoughts not to my prayer, not to my
request but to the sum total of who and what I am is being responded
to, that is coming back into my life as my experience. And my
beloved loves me so much it continues to feed back exactly what is
so in my experience, exactly what is so and keeps asking do you want
to be your third childness, you understand I am not talking about
me, do you want to be your third childness by reason for I have all
of my reasons why it can’t break through why I can’t have miracles I
love to say I believe in miracles but I don’t really like miracles
to happen in my experience. I believe in miracles but I don’t have
any miracles oh I hate to do this part, this is the hard part I
believe in miracles but I don’t have any miracles and oh what do I
have to do and you hold up the mirror and say you see your lack of
miracles belief reflecting back at you, do you see? But I don’t want
to do that without compassion because I know to wake up to the glory
of who you are is to snap a shell is to break free of a crust that
has been holding me in bondage for lifetimes upon lifetimes. Am I
willing to step through but your going to have to step through, your
going to have to let go of something old in order to embrace the
something new. So let me tell you about a cheeseburger in paradise.
Now I know some of you are vegetarians so for those of you who are
vegetarians I want you to think Boca burger in paradise.
So yesterday as you know from the time that I finish on Sunday I
begin to look where the energy might go, where we might be willing
to grow into. The whole purpose of our work is that you take it into
your heart and your life brings forth the miracle because your good
is my good and the more miracles you bring forth the more miracles I
bring forth. The more anything that we do here helps us in
supporting and bringing forth our miracles the more miracles the
rachie brings forth towards inner peace, towards fulfillment love
toward understanding your own beauty and for releasing that the more
beauty there is in the world is good is my good yes ? So we want it
to expand we want it to grow and so yesterday I discover that we
have a lovely morning and my wife says she is going to visit her
father and I told you I was going to visit my father and you never
listen to me and I apologize I heard the visit father part I just
assumed it was Sunday and I did not think it was Saturday and she
said what are you going to do today and I did not know I had a whole
day and no plans. I said I am going to go to the beach and off I go
and it was a beautiful day to be at the beach yesterday so off I go
and I wanted to go for my first swim of the season and I went into
the ocean and it is cold and I had a nice swim and spirit just lead
the way and showing me this lovely day and then I think that I am
beginning to get hungry and I think I want to eat on the beach and I
think of all the different places to eat along the beach and of
course I get back into the car and the coast highway is just jammed.
So never mind I will go to the closest place and I am sitting at the
window overlooking the beach and a wedding was being set up so now I
am going to have the beach, and a cheeseburger and a wedding and all
is going very well and so I order my cheeseburger in paradise and I
don’t like my cheeseburger over done so I ordered it med rare and it
comes back tar tar not cooked at all so they put the thing down and
instantly walk away. So now I have a cheeseburger that I can’t eat
and it sitting there and it is still the sunset and I finally flag
someone down and could you please put this back on the grille and
there happened to be a young women and her god father were sitting
next to me and they were discussing her career opportunities and
what she might do and the young women looks at me and say boy your
not getting your meal the way that you asked for it and I said its
ok and they are working on it and she said we have an extra crab
cake and were not going to eat it and I said sure I will take it and
so I have the crab cake and the burger comes and no ketchup. An
instantly they disappear and so before I even notice I don’t have
ketchup there is no one for me to ask for ketchup. And the young
women say boy you are really having a hard time getting your burger
the way that you want it. I said no it is all coming and I asked for
some ketchup and sure enough ketchup comes and the burger is perfect
the ketchup is there and I get to enjoy my burger. But you see what
I didn’t do what I didn’t do was old energy, old energy is “you know
what is the matter with this restaurant “Do you know what the matter
with your waitress is, do you know what I am talking about where you
go into a restaurant and it’s not going well and you decide you are
the repair man of the whole restaurant industry and by the way you
want the accommodating discount that goes with it yes? So you see
that that way you end up distraught you cannot eat your upset you
frustrated there is no part of the beautiful meal not the sunset not
the bride not the wedding none of its going to be there because you
did not get your ketchup on your cheeseburger the way you liked it
and darn if your not going to do something about it. That old energy
begets more of that energy. So I said to the young women who said to
me twice I said listen you said I did not get what I wanted and I
want you to notice that everything here is exactly the way that I
wanted it and did you notice that I didn’t get mad at anyone and I
never got upset. All I did was be clear about what I meant and
clarified my intention and stayed persistently on point. You see the
message you see old energy is go back into the old and try to create
the old way which is what you did out of your separation which is
causing you your pain. The new way is how can I do this in love as
love with love and for love for the highest good of all, when you
decide not to be crabby you may even get a crab cake, do you see it?
Because you make a choice to go into the new energy and to create
from the wholeness of who you are, no matter how long you have been
the third child. No matter how long your holding on to the reasons
you cannot create in the glory of God and one other sidebar while I
am sitting there the restaurant is on the water and there is a two
way street and the wedding was across the street and just as I was
finishing my meal and I looked out the window and I noticed that the
two way street was bumper to bumper traffic on both sides. Now mind
you I had gone to this place to avoid having to do all of that
traffic and still be on the beach so I looked up at the universe and
looked out into the traffic and I said by the way my love and I was
speaking to my love, myself the self shall lead the self by the self
through the self with the self I said by the way my love I would
really like it if that traffic is gone by the time I leave this
restaurant. I got up and finally paid the check and went to leave
the restaurant just as the bride was walking across the red carpet
and I stood back and I watched the bride cross the red carpet and I
looked at both side of the street and the traffic was gone.
In the new energy the soul has two faces one gauzes at the glory of
God the other directs the senses. If I let that which is gauzing at
the glory of god direct my senses direct my actions I will have
discovered what it is to be stress free, I will have discovered what
it is to be in the midst of the glory of god. So my friends it is my
honor and privilege to speak to you this morning and I invite you to
think on these things and together let us explore the
possibilities..
Namaste......................................
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