|
“Portfolio That Counts”
Invest In Yourself
2-1-09
Dr. Harry Morgan Moses
We have been sharing for the last few weeks this
quote from Gary Zukav and he says the new way of evolving is through
spiritual growth. The old way of evolving is through survival. And
the real question that we would ask ourselves is are we a little bit
exhausted from surviving and wouldn’t it be nicer to get back in to
really living from the grander of who you are to really live from
the space of your ok-ness. That you don’t have to do anything to be
ok, that you don’t have to create anything to be ok that the very
fact of your being is already ordained by God and it’s sufficient.
And the truth of the matter is that the thing that is bugging you is
the fact that you haven’t fallen into the belief in your being. Let
me say it again the thing that is really bugging you is the fact
that you haven’t fallen completely into the belief of your being.
Because when you fall into the absolute reality that you accept that
I AM the I AM that I am a birth less, deathless changeless ever
expanding idea in the mind of God, ever expanding in the terms of
how much of my awareness I can have. My awareness can always expand
and since God is infinite I have the opportunity to expand into
infinite knowingness. Now with infinite knowingness there is always
going to be beingness, there is always going to be something to do
inside your being. I will remind you that Thomas Morton who was the
great mystic Buddhist and he was a catholic monk and a Buddhist monk
and he became both. He had embraced this idea of the beingness of
himself and he had embraced it from the West and he had embraced it
from the East and in the seeing of their brother having became
illumined and enlightened they all wanted to advance him they all
wanted him to become the leader, the wanted him to become the one
upfront and his job had always been to wash the dishes. So the
enlightenment came and they said here is your new job and you can go
to a higher level and have more authority in the world and he said
no I am fine washing dishes. One hundred years before Thomas Morton
brother Lawrence who wrote the original book practicing the presence
rewritten in another version by Joel Goldsmith both wonderful reads
and they talk about how it is that we can live in touch with the
spirit, that we can live coming from our relationship with the
divine and what happened to Brother Lawrence was exactly the same
thing. He was the dishwasher in the monastery and the brothers
noticed that he had become filled with light they had noticed that
the consciousness of miracles was happening all around him and once
again they said won’t you take on a higher authority, won’t you
become something more supreme in the physical world and he said no I
wash the dishes. So the expression that we learn is before
enlightment we chop wood and carry water, there is something to do,
before were enlightment there is something to do and after were
enlightened chop wood carry water. Before enlightment chop wood and
carry water after enlightment chop wood carry water. Meaning there
is always something to do but when we allow our doingness to get a
hold of us and we begin to think that we are our doingness we get
lost, we get confused and we get taken down into the machination,
into the chewing of human doing. And so here is the opportunity we
can shift our perception, we can shift our perception to this thing
is happening to me to the reality I am the thing that is happening.
I am the thing that is happening; I am all of the parts of the thing
that is happening. I am this thing that’s happening. And then we can
start looking in our world that if I am the thing that is happening
we can start looking inside and start going well how do I feel about
what’s happening. Do I like what’s happening and very often just
that awareness coming into our conscious awareness and shifting to
understand that nothing is being done to me, I am the one doing all
of this and what I am doing isn’t really what I like or isn’t really
what I mean. Do you see it when we start to see that then we don’t
have to change the circumstance we just have to change ourselves in
the circumstance and when we change ourselves in the circumstance
the circumstance will change, not always immediately but it will
always change? It will change the moment you shift on the inside.
That change is literally the quantum field and that change is what
results as the result of consciousness acting upon the field.
Remember the law of creation is pretty simple its deep, its very
deep but its pretty simple, consciousness acting upon the field
creates the outcome. So if its consciousness acting upon the field
that creates the outcome we know the field is always consistent, in
other words it will always receive the consciousness acting upon it
and the thing that constantly changes is the effect. Touch yourself
and say I AM can you see can you feel or have you noticed in your
experience that you have more than one dimension of being. That we
talk about the five senses but when we get together in spiritual
community and we begin to feel the presence when we begin to look
for something more divine its not really in the five senses its
something greater than the five senses isn’t it? So were multi
dimensional beings but this I want to remind you this dimension,
this physical dimension this is the slowest and often the last place
to move. Its often the slowest and the last place to move its
doesn’t mean it hasn’t moved first, this dense physical plane that
we think of is so real is the least real of all the dimensions and
is the very last dimension to reflect change. So I would ask you
this question just in terms of national conscious again it has
nothing to do with how you voted. It has to do with how you feel now
have you noticed that since we have had the inauguration have you
noticed that you feel better about the country? Now we also noticed
that billions of people and they are now guessing that it was
probably the single largest participated event in human history in
terms of global participation, the inauguration last week. So that
is a whole lot of consciousness shifting dimensions isn’t it? And I
was at the Mexican restaurant this week and listening to the
conversation going on in the bar and at least three or four
conversations that I heard all separate conversations had to do with
about how good they felt and they felt good about the nation. All of
them talking about well they felt good about the nation, they felt
we were on a change, they felt change had happened, all these
different groups all talking among themselves seeing something
different. But have you noticed that the news doesn’t seem to notice
yet? Because this dimension is the slowest dimension to change but
change happens the moment we shift on the inner side of our lives,
that change happens. Well we still have lots of chopping wood and
water to carry and there will always be chopping wood and water to
carry. The question is what is the consciousness that we are doing
our work in.? How are we holding ourselves as were talking care of
whatever is ours to take care of? Because once you start realizing
there will always be something to do, does anybody have a to do
list, a lot of folks in here make lists for themselves so does
anybody have either mentally or physically a list that has more than
one thing on it right now. So we think oh my god I’m not going to be
ok until I catch up with everything on my to do list. But you will
notice that on you’re to do list that as you go down your list there
is something else to put on the list. The to do list is never going
to be done and here is an announcement for you. There will always
not just this lifetime no I am talking about eternal forever and
forever do you get an idea of how far eternal is, there will always
be something to do.
So the problem is not my to do list because there will always be
one, the problem is how I am in the to do list and do I know that
I’m an immortal spiritual being and there will always be something
to do.
So it’s not a question of what’s on your to do list its a question
of is what’s on your to do list helping you to be more loving, more
joyful, more alive, more awake, more enthusiastic, more in tune,
more in love, more sensual, what does sensual mean you have to
touch, no sensual means can you really allow your love to be rich
just because you love each other can it be rich, is that ok? Oh no
what will he or she mean by that see we put all kinds of limitations
on our ways of being because we think somehow we have to get further
along in our to do list in order to be accepted and in order so that
we can be. When we run the system backwards like that we will always
be chasing a forever to do list.
So here is the deal have you noticed that when you invest in
yourself, when you recognize your high self and we have all had and
no matter how spiritual practiced we are we have all had moments
when we feel spiritually connected yes? Moments when we feel at
peace, moments when we feel real love and we don’t have attachments
to it we just let it fly we have all had moments like that. And in
those moments you are being your most divine and you notice that in
those moments your not in reaction to your to do list. You are not
even reacting to somebody’s else’s reaction to you because of your
to do list. Well your to do list is in the way of my to do list and
so your the problem with my to do list and then we get into reaction
and have you noticed the equivalent of reacting to somebody is you
get more reaction. They make television shows on how to react and to
stay in reaction and you notice after a half hour of watching you
get exhausted. No do we mean to react, no we don’t mean to react but
in our human-ness and because humans have been trained that there
whole thing is about doing, we tend to respond to action with
reaction and react to that reaction and somewhere along the line we
remember I think I had a high self somewhere. What happen to that
and we see exactly what happened to that. The same exact law where
your attention goes, your energy flows. As soon as we can and that’s
what waking up is about as soon as we can we realize I’m a long way
away from feeling how I want to see. Can you imagine in the story
about being with my son if I had been in reaction about how
important I was and how much I had to do and how could I be sitting
in this truck double parked as my activity for the day. Because if I
stayed in that reaction I would have pushed away the blessing and I
wouldn’t even noticed that my beloved was feeding my soul by
connecting to that part of me that is dad that got to be with his
kid. Wow if were not paying attention were going to miss the
presence of love even when it’s right there. And he did not really
need me to move anything but he was going through a change and he
just wanted to make sure and he did not know what he wanted but it
was what his subconscious wanted He just wanted to make sure that
dad was in the field in support. And there is nothing more
satisfying to me than to know that my kids know right? So you could
be in the midst of your blessing and if your so busy reacting you’re
not even going to see it, you’re not going to notice it. You are not
going to notice the money when it shows up, oh you will say oh thank
you for that money but oh my to do list needs more money and we
won’t even have time to celebrate the miracle when it unfolds right
in your face. We are the ones who have to decide where I am going to
put my investment. Because anybody who has a portfolio in the
physical world and I have compassion without your doing nothing it
looked like you lost a lot of money, without you doing anything and
they keep recreating it in the world, and the more you create that
breathe “oh” the more are added and world is out there taking deep
breathes gasping out of fear and what do you create, more gasping
out of fear. So were the ones who have to recognize wait a minute
where did my high self go and if I learn and if I practice investing
in my high self, if I practice investing in my high self I will
notice that that investment cannot be lost. Because matter changes
form consciousness acting upon the field creates matter and matter
changes form and we know that about matter. All it does is it comes
and it comes to pass but if my consciousness of wealth, if I’m
living in the consciousness of wealth then the matter will come and
it will pass and it will go to where you don’t want and back to
where you want and your consciousness will have never left the
wealth, your consciousness will be in the wealth.
This week in all that is going on I received a sweet compliment I
was singing back in the day when I first started in the foundations
class, when I first started to learn these things consciously my
soul resonated to these ideas because I knew God did not leave me
alone in the cosmos. Something in soul knew that and then I learned
about the principal of love and the principle of law and that you
could ask for an endless amount of love and if you keep asking for
that love the law will receive it and it will start feeding love
back into your life all the time and I learned this principal some
thirty years ago and I have been practicing the principle, every day
practicing the principal and in the first new thought churches we
did not have all of this original music that you are writing and
creating. We took old hymns and we put new words around them. So
back in the days with my teacher Bill Heart we use to sing what we
called the doxology and I did not know it until I learned it in new
thought and in new thought it goes like this. Praise God that good
is everywhere, Praise to the love we all may share, praise to the
light that sets us free, and praise to the truth that sets me free.
But it goes on and on and I’m doing office stuff and this song comes
out of my consciousness and I am singing praise god that good is
everywhere, praise to the truth we all may share, praise to the
light that sets us free, praise to the truth in you and me. And I am
just singing it and the person around me said you know what you
really live this teaching and I knew that was a high complement and
I said thank you but on the other hand I just want to remind you the
alternative sucks.
I have such compassion that people are out in the world and don’t
know that there is a loving presence that birthed them that cares
for them and with them now and forever and will supply them beyond
means, beyond any physical means for eternity and they don’t know
it. And they say well sometimes it does not feel like it and even in
my life sometimes it does not feel like it but that’s why we
practice. That is why we wake up and we pray in affirmation and we
pray in faith believing, we pray knowing that your good is coming.
We don’t wait and here our friend the teacher out of Chicago
Reverend Mark Anthony he says this time was meant to be and who we
will be during this time is vitally important. Because what is
happening in the consciousness of humanity is everything unlike the
dream is being called forth and washed out. And there is a lot of
stuff that we have miscreated that is not like the dream and have
you noticed? So it is being called forth and being washed out and
this time was meant to be. This time was meant to be and that does
not mean that you have to go into the yuck and participate with the
yuck of this time. Because the truth is I am an enlightened human
being, I am the gift of the most high anointed as the living
presence of the awakening Buddha, of the Christ itself, I am that
pattern there is no where else for it to be, it has to be in me or
it cannot come through into the world. Touch yourself and say it has
to be in me. How else is it going to come through into the world, of
course it’s in you because we believe what god’s going to do to us,
god is going to do through us. So the perfect pattern must be within
us so who we are in this time when my buddy Charley Gibson keeps
miscreating every night of the week I just have to love him and say
they will know he will know, Walt Disney who started the corporation
and owns ABC he knows and he will get the word to somebody because
we have to stop creating what we don’t want and put our imagination
on what we do want and begin to create from within.
The price for freedom is high but it is simple and it is vigilance,
stand porter to the door of your consciousness and pay attention to
what you are creating, pay attention to when you leave your high
self and call yourself back high. Trust that that soul who is facing
a problem has the answer and the answer is going emerge and trust
for that soul in that situation the answer is there. And what do you
do for national crisis, you do the same thing, trust that the answer
is there, trust in the midst of national crisis the answer is there.
Trust in the midst of international crisis that the answers is
there, trust in the midst of your own struggles and challenges the
answer is here. Claim the answer, demand the answer begin to live
from the answer because that is where it will emerge from, this is
the last plane in which it will move through. It is dense here but
the higher we hold that vibration the more consistent we are with
that vibration, the more believing we are in that vibration the more
faith we have in that vibration and here is a great acronym for
faith.
Faith full assurance in the heart so open your heart and trust that
the answer in your world is making itself known, trust that the
answer for the economy is making its self known. Trust that the
answer that you are looking for in your business and your success
and your career, trust its making its self known. Full acceptance in
the heart and here is what Dr. Holmes says about that. Treatment
that is our word for affirmative prayer and the reason we wanted it
to be a different word, the reason Ernest Holmes brought it forth as
a different word is because we use to use the word prayer meaning I
am helpless. Oh I will pray for you, oh I will light a candle for
you, no, no, prayer does not mean your helpless, prayer means you
have all power and your going to bring the power of prayer and your
going to treat it, you are going to treat the situation or
circumstances and that is why we changed the name because we don’t
want a spiritual mind treatment or a claim in the I AM presence we
don’t want that to be a beseeching petition unto God. We already hit
a bad place when we do that, “oh please God if you have enough room
to take care of my problem while your running the cosmos”, and can
you fit me into your schedule and that kind of prayer doesn’t get
answered. Because it is a prayer of non belief and non acceptance
and Ernest Holmes says treatment is not a petition but an
affirmation based on the belief that it is the nature of reality to
give to us and to express through us. Do you believe it is the
nature of reality to give to you and express through you, do you
believe that? That is the nature of reality and that is why it
birthed you to express to you and through you, it did not forget
about you. In this sense prayer is an acknowledgment, it’s a
statement of acceptance, a belief that the desired thing already is.
Prayer is a belief of the desired thing already is and in such a
degree that this acknowledgment is complete, the petition is
transmuted into acceptance. The question, the asking is transmuted
into an acceptance. God is providing that for me now and the mind
actually feels that the optic of desire is an accomplished fact. But
you can’t do that from your low self you can only do that from your
high self and the more time you spend investing in yourself in your
spiritual practice and so this wonderful complement that says you
really live this, yes because one the alternative is not good and
two the thing that I am is the glory of god itself. And it makes
sense to purpose myself to reveal the glory of the I AM that I AM.
It makes sense to invest your time your energy and your attention in
revealing the glory that god already knows that you are. When we
practice, practice and the reason that the song rises up out of my
soul is because praise god that good is everywhere. Praise to the
truth we all may share, the light that shines in you and me, praise
to the truth that sets us free. When you get your consciousness to
live in that praise and that glory your life will become a song,
your imagination will become the dream and there is no limit to the
size of your portfolio. How much good are you willing to have, how
much good are you willing to receive and the question is how much
are you willing to invest in yourself because that investment will
determine the size and the shape of everything that is in your cup,
your portfolio and what I know for you and what I’m holding for you
because I know your good is my good, I am holding that everyone of
us is living our lives from our cup running over. Because were the
ones who know the investment that counts, is the investment in
ourselves. You are that spiritual magnificence you’re worth every
ounce of investment and I know that what you are is a blue chip as
it could possible be and I invite you to think on these things and
together let us explore the possibilities.
Namaste............................................
|
