A Quiet Mind

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Perhaps if you're into it, we could get some of these doctors and therapists that are here right now and they'll tell you miraculous stories. See I can talk all I want and it's only talk, but when it comes to the doctors saying this happened in my clinic, that's a different story, that's the proof of the pudding. And this is what gives the other doctors and the other therapists and the patients what you call hope.

And if we can give you hope that there is a cure, then that's a great thing. To change the world you're going to help each other. It's like a domino effect, if Bill helps you, you help somebody else, that somebody else helps somebody else and he just keeps going and that's what you call sharing love. Sharing wisdom and wisdom is love, it really is. Wisdom is a God-given intelligence before the contamination of human thought.

And it lies inside dormant. When I say inside, I don't mean inside the body, this is just a way to express the unexpressible. Inside means really beyond time, space, and matter and you're connected to those three principles that lie before time, space, and matter and those three principles are the wisdom you're looking for, but you can't find it because you're caught up in a divine illusion and your own little mind, your own little thought system is jamming it because you see an illusion.

You go past the illusion and there it is. You'll say, "Well, how do you do that?" Try and find a quiet mind. You can't think your way into a quiet mind. All you have to do is just be, that's all, just be. And that quiet mind will take you there, but you'll never find it with a busy mind. So you more you think about what I'm saying, the worse it'll be for you.

Don't think about it, if you get a nice feeling, enjoy it. That's the way. If you're driving home, don't try and figure it out, but I bet you 90% will be well. That it's when you get all of a sudden, you know how some people will say, "I was having a shower and suddenly I realized I was driving down the road and I just realized, "Wow!" It's my own thoughts that were creating the problem because they weren't thinking.

The greatest, the greatest experience you could ever have in your life is in a complete state of no thought. Because when you're in a complete state of no thought, even for one second, this is what you call self-realization. Because you've stopped thinking from this world, you've touched those three principles and the purest form, you go beyond this physical world to the state of absolute purity and you find out the secret to life.

And again you start thinking, you're back into this world, but you're back with a message. You've found it. And you can never explain it because nobody, but nobody can give you wisdom. Nobody can tell you wisdom. They may have wisdom inside them, but the second you put it into your form, it has to be a metaphor because they're trying to describe the undescribable, they're trying to describe the formless.

So they put it into your metaphor as close as they can and they tell you via the world. And this is why they say to you, go beyond the world. Now when I first started talking like this, I'd get to the audience and let's see, please don't listen to what I'm saying and they say, wait a minute, what kind of a night is this? We come here to listen to you, we're not supposed to listen to you as words.

I don't want you to listen to my words. You know why? Because you start believing me. And if you start believing me, that means you say you're following whatever I'm saying. I don't want that. I want you to be your own person. I want you to go beyond my words. Go inside, have an insight. That's a sight from within, find your own wisdom and you say, wow, you know when I just found then I'd say to you, good for you, I'm proud of you because you're not listening to me, you're listening to your little voice deep in your soul and you know what soul is?

Pure consciousness. You know how some people will say you're losing your soul, you're losing your consciousness. You're losing your understanding. You're going to stray and somebody will come along and say, I know you're going to stray, I'll take you back again. Just listen to this story and I'll tell you a story and you think, well, it's just a story. No, it isn't. It's a metaphor and if you listen very carefully, you go beyond the words.

That's what George was trying to tell people the other day, how to listen and quite often we talk to people and they'll say, well, I am listening. I say, no, you're not, you're not hearing what I'm saying, yes, I am and they can repeat the words. They'll repeat the words and they'll say, you're saying mind, consciousness and thought. I've got a pet party that could say that but that doesn't mean to say the pet party knows what it's talking about, it's the understanding beyond the words of mind, consciousness and thought.

Now a lot of the Eastern philosophies, they talk about big mind and little mind . They're talking about what they call, what they call, God mind or universal mind or the spiritual mind, then they talk about the little mind being your freedom of thought and reality. There isn't a big mind or the little mind because that's a duality. There is only one mind and unless you see in the singular you will never find it.

You have to see in the singular and if you look, if you hear in the singular, this is where the death will hear and the blind will see. It's all inside, it's already there. And if somebody tells you that it takes years and years of study to get there, don't listen, don't listen, you know how close you are, you're one thought away, one thought and you've got it, two thoughts, you're getting close, three thoughts, you're not so close , a hundred thoughts, you're really getting away, a thousand thoughts, you're really missing the bullet.

People say, you know what I think, I say, no I'm not interested, because it's all like some world of thought. And if you can find the secret to thoughtlessness and I've had people say to me , you know, said you're full of it, I'll say okay, how come, well I'm talking about one particular person a long time ago, well I've been in that state of no thought and I didn't like it one bit and I'll say, oh really, you're in the state of no thought, yes, he says it was a scary thing I ever had in my life, I said tell me about it, he says, well I was driving past St Mary's Lake and all of a sudden my mind went blank and I panicked, I really panicked, I thought it was, oh God he says it was horrible and I said, well what made you

panic? He says, well the thought of having no thoughts, something's wrong here, now let's, the state of no thought is, do you know when you, I don't know if she'd say this or not, you know when you die, everybody, everybody becomes enlightened, everybody and that's the beauty and I don't care who says something's judging you're not, that's not true, it's only the human-minded judges, when you die you will see that this world has been for you a divine illusion and you've gone home, but the only thing is you're dead, you don't live to tell the tale, the enlightenment you do live to tell, the tale, now I've sometimes talked about the three principles for an hour to people and they'll say to me, well when are you going to tell us about the principles and how they work, well I already

have, many times, see those wise people from the past, all these great mystics, they'll take you by metaphor to the door, they'll even open the door for you, but you've got to walk through, nobody can peek you through that door, if you want to go past this physical world and find out the ultimate secret, you have to do it in your own, if you want to find a wisdom inside yourself, you have to do it in your own, because somebody could talk to another person till health freezes over, every day in life and they'll never find it because they're going to go through it, and here's another beautiful thing, some people will say, well I've been talking to this man, it really knows of this woman, it really knows what we're talking about for 40 years, so I know more than you, time is an illusion,

and somebody can walk in here, sit down for five minutes and be ahead of you, me and everybody else, so don't ever be fooled by anybody saying to you, I'll have to teach you because I've been listening for X amount of years, that has nothing to do with it, if that's the case, those people do not know that this life is an illusion, it's an illusion, it's a divine illusion, and it's held within the boundaries of time, space and matter, and this is why time, space and matter are illusions, you see, this is all tied into physics, main conscious and thought, they're all tied up, like that E equals MC square, never mind this square and B speed of light, because that's finite, and no matter how big a number it is, it can still come to an end, the answer to that should be infinity, an infinity is the

energy of all things, whether in form or formless, therefore that is for infinity is, a lot of people argue what is infinity is is such a thing, of course it is, because this is what creation is, it's the energy of all things for them form or formless, that's why a lot of these mystics say, excuse me, there's no beginning and no end, now with our little minds we can't possibly imagine, no beginning and no end, can you imagine a piece of string with this only one end, try it, you have a ball of string, you have a piece of that, you can't do it, and that's where the secret to life lies, when you see there's no beginning and no end and everything is just energy, you and I are created from that energy, the

trees, the birds, the lakes, the sky, everything is created from the same energy, it's an illusion, an illusion comes to an end, you come to an end, and that's what they call death, but life and death are really the same thing in a different form, because they're all the same energy, now as I say the intellect can't understand that, but you can realize it, and you realize it, you must step inside, go beyond the intellect, peace of mind and there it is, it's right in front of you, always has been, always will be, that's why the great nothingness, some of the sages talked about, is before creation and the great nothingness and the allness of the same thing in a different disguise, would you like to explain that one George, nobody can, how can you explain nothing, formlessness, formlessness and

nothing of the same thing, and this is where space is an illusion, because you see if I take this hand and I take this hand, never mind my face, and you say well what's in between, what's in between here and here, and the answer is nothing, the samety space, that's not true, because this hand is created from the formless energy has taken a form, this hand is the same energy, the formless energy that's taken a form, and in between there's air, there's oxygen, nitrogen, there's particles of dust, and there's energy, all in between , all created from the same formless energy, now if that's true these two hands are really like that, there's no, there is no space, it's an illusion, and this is what the physicists are looking for, why is this and this look different, when in actual fact, if you're here

and you want to get it there, that's all you have to do, because it's all one, everything is all one, everything is an illusion, well thank you very very much for coming, I really appreciate it, on behalf of Bill and I, we really thank you.