On the contrary. You’re separating both. You’re putting them into categories. There’s only One. As an example, say somebody cheated you, and you sue them in court. When you sue somebody and you’re getting involved in something like that, you’re sending up an energy. Even if you win the case, you’re going to have to sue somebody else and then sue somebody else, and it never stops. You’ve set up a pattern for yourself. But if you go about it the other way, and if you know the truth about yourself, you also know the truth about the guy who cheated because you both are One.
Robert, let me give you another example. Let’s say that weall stay here and we have no money. Tomorrow we’re all hungry in the morning, and we say we’re not going to deal with this problem, but because our hunger is so great and keeps mount- ing, we really can’t think of anything else. Eventually, we can’t think of any of these ideas that you told us about because we’re so extremely hungry.
Your first premise is wrong. It doesn’t work like that. It would never work like that. If you’re hungry, something will happen to appease your hunger. What you’re thinking about is that you sit down and you do nothing. It doesn’t work like that. When you know the truth, somebody will knock on the
door and bring you food.
Something will take care of you. When you came to this earth, everything was predestined. And everything is aware of how to take care of you, and what you’re going to go through. But it has nothing to do with you. The secret is not to react. Just do what has to be done. And you will do what has to be done. You can’t help it.
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I brought up the example a week or two ago about the holocaust, and remember I said how the attitude of the Jewish people and especially the Rabbis was that God is living in Nazis, God has manifested himself through Auschwitz and the others, and so we must go along with this. Would you say that’s the attitude the Jewish people should have had?
On the contrary, because that’s an attitude. I’m not talking about attitudes. I’m talking about realization. Reading the Bible and making quotations is one thing. Being a living embodiment of the Truth is another thing.
There’s a difference in knowing the Truth, and just letting yourself be walked on. This does not mean you become a rug for somebody to step on you. You become a doormat for no
one. You are abiding in the Self. When you abide in the Self, everything will be OK. You’re not a coward. You’re not running from anything. You’re abiding in the Self. When you abide in the Self, if you have to pick up a sword and fight, you will. Ifyou have to run, you will. But you will do what you have todo. But it has nothing to do with you. It’s different than you think. It’s not like you think.
Then, you’re saying to deal with the problem. ; On the contrary, if you become the truth, the problem will take care of itself.
Yes, but you’re speaking of a state to which we are aspiring, and I believe that would happen, but we’re not in that state. We are not fully in that state because we cannot fully grasp it and manifest it. ;
Ifyou take it personally, and you workon yourself: as | said, you will do what’s right. You will not be passive.
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