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“THE WAY SHALL BE MADE”
8-26-07
Dr. Harry Morgan Moses
The message for today is entitled the way shall be made and we have
been talking about the new era, about the new time and of course my
encouragement for you is that you don’t think in terms of the new
era coming, that you think in terms of the new era being here and
that you begin to function in the standard. In the ways of being
that are necessary that the new time demands of us and of course the
primary course of that new time is to recognize that it begins with
the self. The very thing is we have to follow the self, we have to
trust the self, we have to honor the self, we have to choose the
self, and we have to choose into life. And the challenge is when you
begin to talk about any kind of esoteric subject you know we are
talking about the nature of unfolding yourself to the glory of God.
That is a big subject and not one that words will capture, one that
we can frame many many words and will find a lifetime worth of words
and ultimately its beyond words, ultimately it becomes an
experience, it becomes something that you feel. Today I wanted to
talk about and most of us are looking at and we have seen a lot of
souls in our community facing because of their path, because of
their soul, because of their karma, karma is only the use of the
word of the law. We understand there is a law that responds to the
sum total of our beingness by corresponding to the sum total of our
beingness and what we want in the Western world we want “ok there is
a law and it responds to the sum-total of my beingness and I work it
by doing one, two, three, four and we really want it to be very A,
B, C, D and the reality is that we live in a liquid universe the
great philosopher from the eighteen hundreds Ralph Waldo Emerson the
writer and essayists and lecturer he said we live in a liquid
universe that appears as a solid but what we know is that this thing
is always in motion and it is always expressing itself according to
the math, according to the inputs in the field of probabilities, in
other words if one thing is going to happen and something else
happens it changes the outcome and its moving around all the time in
this infinite intelligence that can respond to itself and this
constant flux of change. Well now we have this interesting enigma
because we hear there is a peace that passes all understanding.
There is a peace that passes all understanding, there is that which
is birth less and deathless and changeless, that which is the
constant of spirit emits in this sea of constant motion. We say well
I want to be the peace that passes all understanding but everything
is moving all the time and what did it say and how do I capture that
and it’s just our local mind our brain mind that constantly says,
“what was step one”? So what we are really looking for and we feel
it in our meditation and when we fall deep into that science and all
of a sudden we really do get comfortable with one another and we
allow that presence to be there. We feel it but then again the brain
mind wants to grab it and say “what was that”. Well the good news is
the presence of spirit and most of you can relate to this, have you
noticed the presence of spirit seems to somehow work for you in
spite of yourself? That even though you constantly Oh my God or you
have a nagging fear in your gut about whether it’s loneliness or
money or whatever the stuff in the physical world is and somehow you
keep making it and the thing that you really want to change is maybe
I could make it or maybe I could get my brain mind to be still long
enough to notice things are actually working out ok, that the
presence of God is finding its way in my life and if I could just
get that part of me that I have to get over to get out of the way, I
will maybe watch that the way is being made for us. So I want to be
clear today and give you three parts of the lesson so that you can
track. You can feed the brain mind what our friend Maria Nemeth
calls monkey mind. Maria says to me on the phone she says you know
Harry what is amazing is that monkey mind does with Chemotherapy in
other words when we get out of balance and then anything that comes
in our life it tends to feed the thing that is out of balance, so
until we really know how to get to that deep inner place we will not
be able to determine what’s just the chattering of our mind. I don’t
remember if it was Freud or Thomas Thoreau either one is a good
thinker or they said a neurotic thought pattern has a tendency to
repeat itself with a monotonous regularity. Should I say that again,
a neurotic thought pattern in this case the ones that make us crazy
has a tendency to repeat itself with a monotonous regularity meaning
energy set in motion stays in motion until something encounters it
yes? It is also true among thought that a thought will tend to stay
in motion until we replace it with a new thought, until we actually
get the new thing in there. So we are interested then in how do we
work with changing the tonality of that monkey mind. You cannot get
it to stop and you have heard me do the math before, sixty thousand
thoughts a day and this is now scientifically known and it is
measured by impulses, the average human being has sixty thousand
thoughts a day, 97% of those thoughts are repeated thoughts and I
love to flip that around and say that means you have a three percent
change of a new thought today. People are wondering why they are not
getting any new thoughts because unless you purpose yourself to get
a new thought and again I will refer to the great mystic from the
last century Ernest Holmes he said and reminded us very clearly and
it makes all kinds of since to me is new thoughts create new
conditions, old thoughts don’t create new conditions, new thoughts
create new conditions so one has to get oneself to the place where
you become and here is the new thought for today and I would
encourage you to practice this week, practice this week so much that
you create a law of attraction in yourself that people ask you what
are you practicing? How is it that you have that attitude, how is it
you do that because most people are really thirsty for a spiritual
truth but they don’t want to hear it in an old form, usually because
the old form stung them in someway. We in the new age, calling
people into the new era, calling people into the new way have to be
able to do it with new thoughts with new attitudes with a new law of
attraction. Everybody say I am, I am one with the cosmic sweep of
love and you let that energy move through you so that you become
that attractive force which is calling people towards a whole new
life, a whole new possibility. So here are the three stages of the
lesson so you can say today ok I know what he said today. You can
say back to the chattering mind here is step one! It works in three
phrases and I am going to talk to you about three things today.
Number one is the feeling of what it is like to be in the new
energy, to feel what it is like. Now when we talk about feelings you
will notice your monkey mind gets nothing to chomp on because when
we talk about feelings monkey mind doesn’t know step one and
feelings. Does it feel rich, does it feel powerful, do I feel
connected, and you notice in our mediation when we let our energy
get surrendered to the people in front of us and behind us where we
let ourselves become not alone, it feels different? But monkey mind
cannot go what did I do to get that different feeling, there is no
step to that, it just emerges, it comes up from a feeling nature. So
I want to describe how it feels and then I want to describe the
experience of that feeling and how it comes out in the world of
form. First I will describe the feeling and then describe how it
comes out and I am going to describe stories in my experience of how
it comes out and then the third piece is what are the practices,
what do I do in order to experience this. There is what we are going
to give monkey mind; here is what you get to practice. So what I am
feeling, what I’m experiencing and what I’m practicing. So I want to
go to this line from Ernest Holmes.
It tells us a lot and it might give you insight into your own
experience so Ernest is answering the question what we teach. He
says you are one with the creative spirit of the universe. There is
a universal divine spirit which will inspire, guide, direct and
companion you but there is also a universal law of cause and effect
which sees to it that every act, every thought, every motive must be
accounted for. Finally and here is the interesting part that you
might be able to relate, finally through suffering you will finally
learn to distinguish right from wrong. You will live in conscious
union and in conscious communion with the divine spirit. Finally
through suffering, finally through suffering, anybody relate to that
idea? Finally through suffering you will surrender, you will live in
communion with this divine principal. Now take a look for those of
you who have been in the journey here for the last year or so, take
a look at this community. Take a look at the events and use your
consciousness and sweep in your memory the events, take a look at
the music, take a look at all of the experiences we have had, now
have we not come a heck of a long way? And haven’t we come a long
way because we each sort of dug into our consciousness and as soon
as we start going oh there not explaining it right, or there not
doing it, or he did that, or she did that, as soon as we go back out
into form we loose it. Because monkey mind is always saying, “what
was step one”? I had a great experience there but what was step one?
It always want to go back and say something’s not right, it wants to
attach itself to the separation and so the new thing is, the new
thing is that it moves in accord with feeling and feeling is hard to
put in a linear order, it emerges within us we feel something
different. So this is how it is feeling to me now the interesting
thing is that it doesn’t really matter and I have had several
conversations this week with different souls and I have been
describing this feeling and I happen to have spent a lot of time in
the water and I also love the mountains and I have spent time in the
mountains so I know horses and I know horse back riding and I know
mountains and trees and streams I know them pretty intimately I love
all of that and I know the oceans, I know oceans from boating, and
sailing and oceans from waterskiing and I know oceans from kayaking
and I know oceans from body surfing. So all of these different
experiences and it doesn’t matter when you owe your experience in
the world through horses, through soaring and some people have had
flying experiences and experiences where they were carried by the
winds up and some people have been carried by waves, for some people
if your on a horse, there is a way to fit in the saddle where that
horse and you become one, and some people have swimming, some people
relate to rivers. My friend Mary Morrissey when I was talking to her
I said think of a river you know a river you can flow in various
parts of the river you can stay along the side and there is not much
current and you can move closer in this current, but there might be
rocks and you can move deep into the middle and you get carried
without rocks depending on where you place yourself in the stream.
So the feeling to me is in this new energy is there is a wave
rising, there is something rising within us and when we let this
thing rise, when we let this thing rise within us there is a moment
in surfing and if I was a surf instructor and we were laying outside
the waves and you would be saying well what do we do and I would say
the wave will come and were going to paddle in the direction of the
wave and at some point you are going to paddle, paddle fast and you
will catch the wave and the wave will carry you. Now if the wave
hasn’t come yet your monkey mind will say “what is going to happen
now”. I will say the wave is going to come up it is going to rise up
from underneath you and at a certain point we are going to paddle in
the direction of the wave and when we paddle fast enough and the
right timing we will catch the wave and then you will be surfing.
Well what does surfing feel like, oh let me tell you again we are
laying here the wave is going to come up and at the right time were
going to paddle, paddle now you can see that if you haven’t felt the
wave yet you are going to ask me again and again and you see that is
like going to “what is step one”? What’s going to happen well you
will feel the water rise and at some point it will rise underneath
you and as a coach I’m going to say paddle, paddle and when I say
paddle, paddle you must paddle, paddle and then the board will get
caught by the wave and you will go. There is the same thing in
skiing. In skiing is simple the motion of down up and down again,
down up and down again and if you don’t go down, there isn’t any
coming up! You have to be in that position in order to finally get
it and you can explain it to people again and again because no
matter what you do, it’s down, up down. It didn’t work for me and
that’s because your up and you can’t do it right and you explain it
again and until one day they come down and “I got it” it was down up
down and they are so excited and you think I wasn’t a very good
teacher because I explained it down up down oh what is it now it was
down up down, fascinating, do you see it because it is not the
teacher, its not the teacher it’s in you, something is going to rise
up within you and you will catch it oh it down up down look at that
and all of a sudden I can ski. The wave comes up and paddle, paddle
wow now I am surfing, all of a sudden but you see here is the good
news, you don’t create the waves! You can sit there outside the surf
and meditate all you want and pray all you want and you’re not going
to create the waves.
The wave will come according to its own volition when it’s ready. It
will come according to its own volition. So will your awakening,
your awakening will come according to its’ own volition and in
accord with the timing that’s right in your world. And in the mean
time spirit is floating you. You see we all have this idea that
spirituality is like fireworks, like it’s going to blow up and
explode in me and the room will turn light and I will see it as it
actually is and then I will be great and you know what they say
after ecstasy the laundry. Before awakening chop wood, carry water,
after awakening chop wood, carry water. So you see all along were in
life, we are being carried by life and we don’t realize it and our
suffering is because were not giving ourselves over to being
carried. Is there something to do yes, at the right moment paddle,
paddle, at the right moment paddle, paddle, paddle? So it’s this
feeling now how then what rises up and I’m going to jump to the
third part to give you and the third part is how I practice right?
How do I practice because what it is that you are seeking to
practice is really getting so that you’re chattering mind doesn’t
through you off. That is really what you are trying because you are
already in the divine stream, at the end of the day you will see the
face of God and say how was life, oh life was great except I was so
bothered by my neurotic thought patterns that repeated themselves
with the monotonous irregularity. Well why don’t you turn the volume
down on those thought patterns because they don’t go away because
that mind has a mechanism and it can receive information and tell
you how to do things and if your in the airport and you look up at
the screen oh your flight has been changed and it is a valuable
thing to know how to do that the mind is looking for things to grab
that will help you with. It is always going to be looking for things
to grab that’s what it’s suppose to do but we have to know how to
follow the self and listen to the self and how to feel the waves and
be one with the spirit, have our eyes open. William James if our
perceptions were cleansed we would see things as they actually are,
infinite, to live in that comfort right? So the feeling is rising up
and the problem is how do I invite this rising up and that’s all
about your consciousness of receiving. It is all about your
consciousness of receiving and receiving is something that can only
happen according to the way your allowing it to come in. Let me say
it again everything new is going to happen out of your consciousness
of receiving, however your the one who sets the filters about what
you will receive you see it ? Were the one setting the filters about
our capacity to receive? So the practice then is innocent perception
and I will give you an idea of innocent perception. If you have
every seen a two year old walk and that’s what they call the
terrible two’s right? The reason they call it the terrible two’s is
because the child learns “no” for the first time. A two year old
will move and if you watch a two year old it will move across the
room and look at the toy and be interested in the toy and then
something will happen over there and they will look really
interested and then they will be a bug and just sit down and be with
the bug and after it is finished with the bug it will stand up and
it will go toward whatever and a child at that age is one hundred
percent engaged in every little thing that it is doing. It is
totally present in every little thing. It goes from one thing to the
next thing but whatever the thing is it is totally present in it,
that’s that innocent perception. That capacity to get fresh with
whatever is going on out there but you see what is the expression in
our culture? Our culture same stuff, different day. And that
expression means that I have no innocent perception meaning I have
already determined that today is going to look a lot like yesterday
because my consciousness is filtering it out today is going to look
a lot like yesterday and there is no room in there for anything new.
We set the tone and innocent perception is I am going to be willing
even as an adult, I’m going to be willing to receive the new in this
day, I am going to be willing to receive the new in this day. So
this is how it works for me and I’ll go back to the concept of
context and content and so I know again in our Sunday we would like
to have all the information so I can throw out some information to
much for me to explain in one Sunday morning so the will works on
three different levels. The will works on the level of God’s will,
its works on the level of the will of the high self and it works on
the will of the level of the personal self. So rather than get into
a whole discussion about will what I suggest is that we are suppose
to do something with our will and the more our will is in tune with
God the more power we will have. Let me say that again we are
suppose to do something with our will and the more our will is in
tune with God the more power we will have meaning the capacity to
live our lives in the direction of our dreams and choices. So how
then do we line up with the will of God and I believe that the right
way to line up with the will of God is to choose the context of your
life and to get out of the content business because when you do that
you create the opportunity for innocent perception to rise up so let
me give you an example of how this works.
Our daughter is twenty four and she loves horses and she grew up
working with horses and she is quite an accomplished equestrian. She
also loves children and when she was ten years old she had a little
horse camp that she ran teaching kids how to deal with horses and
she loves horses and she loves children. So what of course did she
manifest as a job just out of college a summer job running the horse
program at a camp in the high Sierras? So this is a girl who loves
children and she is coming down to visit with us and we love our
daughter and were excited that she is coming and we haven’t seen her
for a month and she is coming down for one day and she says what are
we going to do? She had her birthday in August and we said we will
take you out to the Magic Castle and we will make a big birthday
dinner and she says oh well you know that would be great but we are
changing sessions and some of the counselors are leaving and there
are planning a meeting and so maybe we can go to dinner and then go
to Hermosa Beach and then how are you going to get from Hollywood to
Hermosa beach oh we can take a taxi and I said well that will be
your whole counselor salary for the year and she said you don’t
think that will work and I said no but we will figure it out when
you get here, she was calling from the bus on the way down. So all I
know is we are going to have a wonderful time with her we don’t
quite know what we are going to do and I know she has more than one
agenda and her parents full time is not what’s on that agenda, we
are part of it but not all of it. So all I know is the context of
this great love that we are going to get a chance to share. My
morning meditation and my morning prayer and I mediate in love and
being and self and I AM and spend a lot of time in that and as I
emerge I start to use my conscious mind to create the context of my
day, meaning today I seek to be an instrument of that which is the
highest level of love, I seek to know that which is joy I seek to
experience that which is intimacy, I experience connection and
longing you decide pick all the qualities of God any quality of God,
harmony, love joy, peace, freedom, providence grace magnificence,
glory you decide, what part of God would you like to experience
today and I call out that as the context of my day. And all that I
know about content is somewhere along the way we are going to get
together in the afternoon with my daughter and do something. Well
she said something about Hermosa Beach and I have not been to
Hermosa Beach since my dad was the congress man in Hermosa Beach and
that’s thirty years ago and I don’t know where you turn to get to
Hermosa Beach. So I Goggled Hermosa Beach and I said I know there is
a harbor down there and I know we can go to some seaside restaurant
and I think there is a pier in Hermosa Beach so I goggled Hermosa
Beach pier and so I look at the map and it shows up as Hermosa Beach
and Pier avenue and I said well we will just go there. Now mind you
she is meeting up with the other counselors who have a plan to meet
at some bar in Hermosa Beach somewhere and my wife says well maybe
we can just do Mexican food, as if I know of Mexican food in Hermosa
Beach. I don’t even know how to get to Hermosa Beach! So she is
going to some hotel in West LA so I Goggled the map quest from the
hotel to pier avenue in Hermosa Beach, don’t have any idea what is
going to happen get there and pick her up and we go down to Pier
avenue at Hermosa Beach and there are thousands of young people all
over the place and this is like wow, look at this trip going on down
here. I had no idea this was there and this was this wild scene and
the first thing my daughter says is oh my God parking is going to be
so hard. Cannot help but be Father Harry, and I said never ever
worrying about parking places let spirit show you and so we drive a
couple of blocks and I am just letting spirit show me and I turn to
the right and I get a parking place right on the coast. We go one
block down the pier on the boardwalk in Hermosa Beach and there is
the Hermosa Beach Pier and around the corner is a Mexican
restaurant, which was across the alleyway from the bar where they
were suppose to meet everybody. You see I had no idea of any of that
context, I only knew the content which was love and I let everything
else emerge of the content, out of my innocent perception of “I
don’t know anything about Hermosa Beach, and I have no conscious
knowledge of Hermosa Beach and I ended up in the flower of Hermosa
Beach and that’s the way in experience we work with context and
content. Because the more we say my content is a BMW it feels like
the leather in my BMW, I see the vibes of my BMW and I have BMW
content and I am living my life going where the hell is my BMW and
then we throw one in after that, where the hell is my BMW and where
the hell is God? When you have narrowed your perception down to such
a small range of content there is no room for God to get in to
reveal its glory. There is no room for God to emerge its nature to
you and it is always going to come out of your nature. So you see
the feeling is something is rising up with me, some possibility and
you can feel it in your own life, do you feel it in your own life
that there is a possibility that you could really live your life
fulfilled. You could ride on all of the success, everything that has
already happened in your life, you could give that room to breathe
and you could be fresh and open to what ever is going to emerge in
your life and what about the possibility that in this lifetime I’m
getting vibes, what about the possibility in this lifetime that you
could actually die happy. I lived my life and I really lived it
well, and that’s in you and you know that’s in you and you say no,
it can emerge even now. You can forgive all that stuff, you can
forget all and just take the good part and allow but it is not going
to happen unless you enter into a new practice, to a new practice
that will open you to a new thought, so here is the interesting
news, you already know what the old thoughts do, you have full
knowledge of what the old thoughts do and what about the idea of
opening yourself up to the context of letting God emerge today, of
letting God emerge today, what would it look like, what would it
come out like. I have no idea but I said I will go and support our
God son and it was this thing it was like “wow”. I did not have any
idea but I didn’t know what the context was so we have a choice, we
can choose. Do I want to engage in a life that allows spirit to
emerge fresh in my life today; change will be consistent with
consciousness. So if you have to go to the office today, you will
know it will look like the office today but you do not know what
will emerge in the office today? It may look like your regular work
but you don’t know what will emerge. In other words we have to
create the context of this is the day the lord has made and I shall
rejoice and be glad in it. It will not just happen on its own
because there are too many other people making two many other
choices and if you don’t make a choice you will ride there choice.
We have to make the choice to set the context so the practice is I
will remember that it is up to each one of us, nobody can do it for
you, we have to decide am I a spiritual being and if I’m a spiritual
being isn’t the most important part of my life is understanding my
nature as a spiritual being? If this is the most important part of
my life and I chose it, I am choosing this as a priority not because
anyone impels me to or compels me to but because this life of
neurotic thought patterns repeating themselves is boring me, or I
have suffered enough and finally through suffering I have learned to
companion myself with the infinite, finally through suffering I have
leaned. So the suffering can end the moment you learn, the moment
you say Oh it’s about companioning me with the infinite. I will use
my free will to choose how I will be today, what I will align myself
with today and then I will watch it emerge and then the only work
that I have to do is if something is showing up that is not like
what I have set as context that I know where I have to work, what I
have to do, what I have to become, what I have to allow in order to
allow the context which I am choosing to emerge and all of a sudden
you will go from being victim to being my God. Choosing the way your
world will be and the good news is you’re like God because you are
with God because you know God is your true and eternal nature and
that’s the possibility that exists. So if you want to know what did
he say he said practice, change your priorities make the choices on
the inside of your life, how important is God to you, how important
is knowing yourself in God to you and according to that priority
will the perceptions rise up that will be revealed to you. So the
choice is am I willing to receive from God in a new way today. Am I
willing to receive from God in a new way today and if I am willing
to receive from God in a new way today the way shall be made, it
will be done unto me and my part is simply to paddle, paddle, in the
right times, in the right moments and the rest of the time breathe
love and joy, be all that you really are. My friends it is an honor
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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