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Keys to the Ultimate Freedom: Thoughts and Talk on Personal Transformation KEYS TO THE ULTIMATE FREEDOM Thoughts and Talks on Personal Transformation By Lester Levenson TABLE OF CONTENTS THE BASIC GOAL AND WAYS TO ATTAINMENT.............................................. 3 PROBLEMS AND HOW THEY RESOLVE........................................................... 5 SPIRITUAL GROWTH.......................................................................................... 9 HAPPINESS....................................................................................................... 12 LOVE.................................................................................................................. 15 REALIZATION.................................................................................................... 18 LOVE, GIVING AND THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS.................................... 21 EGO ................................................................................................................... 23 MASTERING MIND AND MATTER.................................................................... 25 THE MIND.......................................................................................................... 28 METHODS OF MIND REVELATION.................................................................. 30 MEDITATION WITH QUEST.............................................................................. 31 DESIRE.............................................................................................................. 34 WHAT AM I? ...................................................................................................... 36 THE KEY TO CONSTANT HAPPINESS............................................................ 39 THE BODY ......................................................................................................... 41 TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY.......................................................................... 43 GURUS AND MASTERS.................................................................................... 47 HELPING OTHERS............................................................................................ 50 MORE ON HELPING OTHERS.......................................................................... 52 HEALING............................................................................................................ 54 ATTITUDE AND ACTION................................................................................... 59 THE WORLD...................................................................................................... 62 A PERFECT BODY ............................................................................................ 65 GROWTH CAN BE EVERY DAY ....................................................................... 68 FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS................................................................................. 70 WORLDLINESS AND SPIRITUALITY?.............................................................. 73 ALL ABOUT LOVE ............................................................................................. 76 KARMA............................................................................................................... 79 GROWTH AND RECEPTIVITY .......................................................................... 82 MEDITATION ..................................................................................................... 85 THE GAME......................................................................................................... 89 REALIZATION BY DROPPING THE UNCONSCIOUS ...................................... 92 WHY NOT GO ALL THE WAY? ......................................................................... 95 THE SELF, (YOUR SELF)................................................................................ 101 THOU ART THAT............................................................................................. 105 SESSION 1 THE BASIC GOAL AND WAYS TO ATTAINMENT That which everyone of us is looking for in this world is everything out there changes. Change your thinkingness exactly the same thing. Every being, even the animals, and you change the world for you. Do this and you have are looking for it. And what is it that we are all looking the proof! for? Happiness with no sorrow! A continuous state of happiness with no taint whatsoever of sorrow. Now, if So the way, the path, is simple. The method of undoing this be the Goal, why is it the Goal? The reason why it is the limitations is not easy because of habit. We need a the Goal is because unlimited happiness is our very very strong desire to begin to let go of these wrong basic nature! This is the real natural state, before we habits from the past. Without that strong desire there is encumber it with limitations. Now why is it that most of no growth. This desire must be stronger than the desire us do not have this continuous happiness with no to possess and control this world. The world as now sorrow? There's only one reason: being this infinite seen really is a fiction when you see the Truth. It turns Being with infinite happiness we do a way with this joy, out to be a dream. First you'll see it as a dream, then this happiness, by saying, “I am an individual, separate you'll see it as a dream that never was. It is exactly as from the All.” To make myself separate from the All, I happens in a night dream. While you're in the night must set up a means to accomplish this. The means is dream you have a body there are other bodies, there's my mind that creates my body and the material world. action, interaction, there's good and there's bad. And so Then I proceed, creating more and more thoughts that long as you remain in that night dream everything there create more and more matter until the thoughts and is real to you. When you awaken from the night dream matter have me so bogged down and blinded that I have you say, ‘‘my gosh it was just a dream! It never lost my real identity as the infinite Beingness that I am.” happened! This dream was all in me!” And exactly in the same manner you awaken from this dream called the The original thought of “I am separate from the All” waking state. You come to see that it was only a fiction necessarily creates a lack. Lack creates desire. Desire of your imagination, it was only a dream, and then you therefore cannot undo the lack, as lack is not there in let go of it lock, stock and barrel and what is left over is the first place, it is not real but assumed. And we go on the infinite you! Then you call yourself fully realized and on trying to satisfy desire and we never, never totally free. succeed. If we could succeed, we would be able to satisfy desire and therefore all desire would disappear! We are actually fully realized all the time. We are fully And then we would be desireless! realized Beings saying that we are not. So all we do is let go of “we are not” and what's left over is the fully The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to realized Being that we are. Are there any questions on learn, or to remember, our original natural state of what I've said so far? No? Then everyone understands totality, of complete freedom and no limitation. Once we this, at least intellectually. are led to see that this is our natural state, then we proceed to let go of all the limitations. The prime, the Alright if you understand it intellectually and you are not very first limitation is: “I am an individual separate from able to use it, it's because you're not looking at yourself the All.” Eliminate that and you eliminate all limitation, all honestly, truthfully, with deep desire to see your Self, in trouble, all sickness, all poverty. the process of which you have set up as the subconscious mind all the things you will not look at. To say this in another way is to say: “God is all! Let go However, it's not necessary to dig up this unconscious and let God be. It is not I but the Father who worketh mind, in fact it's much better to try to quiet the mind. through me.” We must let go of the ego sense which is When we're able to get the mind totally quiet, what's left the original sense of separation from the All and allow over is the infinite Self. Every thought is a thing of our natural Being just to be and then everything would limitation. Therefore when we quiet the mind, we still fall perfectly into line. these limiting thoughts and this infinite Being that we are becomes self-obvious to us. The Self is then not This is all very, very simple. If you want complexity you'll occluded by the limiting thoughts! We see It, we never see simplicity. Once this is accepted as the overall recognize that we never were that mind, that body, and way, however, we do not find it easy of accomplishment. from that moment on, the mind and body have no We don't find it easy because of past habits that have influence upon us. We determine for the body as we been established over thousands and thousands of would a puppet and it has no effect upon us, as a years. And for some silly reason we subconsciously like puppet that we would be controlling would have no these past habits of trouble and so we continue them. effect upon us. So the very best method of all methods We do it in a manner that we refuse to look at. We call it is to quiet the mind to see the Being that you are. Pose subconscious behavior! And we go on and on and on the question: “Who am I?” and if other thoughts come in, repeating all this behavior of limitation automatically, ask, “To whom are these thoughts?” The answer is
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