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The substrate of the existence of all this at this moment is silent. The Source of our existence is silent. The rug is silent. This is silent. Everything about us. Do you get what I’m saying? Out of that innate silence then is where, as you expand context, you begin to own the silence as yourself and that which is interfering with the silence is the not-self. The sound becomes the content. It’s only because of the silence that you can hear any sound. You begin to identify with the silence as that which you are. It comes on profoundly. The oneness with the silence is one’s own existence beyond all time. That which I am existed prior to this universe and will be here long after this universe expires, because universes come and go, like the dreams of Indra. The illusion of it all comes and goes. And creating and unfolding universes is how I enjoy myself. That’s my prerogative, all right? That’s a prerogative. I choose to do that. When you choose it, you’re not at the effect of it. So, you choose to experience this existence as you experience it. And in so doing, you let go resisting it and as you let go resisting it, you dissolve it. And you go back into that which you are, prior to this existence, … And that is the meaning of the silence.

To be that which you are now, you have to be the whole universe, because it’s all part of the whole picture. So, Indra’s dream, …—on an out-breath a creation arises and on an in-breath, it disappears. Over the millennia. Millennia. You have done it for millennia. All it is, is remembering who you are. That’s your Oneness with the Creator.

Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 5, Pgs. 123-124

(This book contains the transcriptions from the July & August 2002 lectures by Dr. Hawkins)

 

 

The ego sees success as gain and control.  Aware mind looks instead to fulfillment, completion, equanimity, and the pleasures of peace and lovingness.  To the ego, gains lie without; to spirit, they are internal as the ever present joy of existence, which is independent of content or form. To the spirit, a sunny day or rainy day are the same.  Awareness enjoys qualities rather than grasping at form.  Thus, it can enjoy ‘being with,’ without having to own or control.  Awareness is not driven by goals but instead values the capacity for equal pleasure in all circumstances.

“I”: Reality and Subjectivity: Ch. 18, pg. 317

The corollary to letting go of negative feelings is to stop resisting the positive ones. Everything in the universe has its opposite; therefore, in the mind, every negative feeling has its counterpart between smallness and greatness, whether we are constantly aware of its existence at any given moment or not.

A good and very illuminating exercise is to sit down and look at the feeling that is directly opposite the negative one that we are experiencing and begin to let go resisting it. Let’s say, for instance, that a friend’s birthday is coming up and we are feeling resentful and stingy; therefore, we just can’t seem to get out to shop for a present, and the day is getting closer. The exact opposite feelings are those of forgiveness and generosity. We just start looking for the feeling of forgiveness within ourselves and stop resisting it. As we keep letting go of our resistance to being a forgiving person, it is often surprising that it will come up with a surge. We will begin to recognize that part of our nature has always been willing and wanting to forgive, but we didn’t dare chance it. We thought we might appear foolish. We thought we were punishing the other person by holding the resentment, but we have actually been suppressing love. In the beginning, we may not consciously feel this specifically about our friend, but we will begin to notice that we do have this aspect to our personality. As we keep surrendering our resistance to love, we will notice that within ourselves there is something that wants to express itself through sharing and giving, letting the past go and burying the hatchet. There is a desire to make a friendly gesture; we want to heal the separation, to repair the wound, to make good the wrong, to express gratitude, and to take a chance on being thought a fool.

The purpose of this exercise is to locate within ourselves that which can only be described as greatness. Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles. It is the willingness to move to a higher level of love. It is the acceptance of others’ humanness and having compassion for their suffering by putting ourselves in their shoes.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 3, pg. 47-48

To be nonattached, then, means it’s okay if it goes “this” way, and it’s okay if it goes “that” way.  If I see the parade, I will enjoy it, and if I don’t see the parade, I won’t—I won’t miss it. Neutral is a very good space in which to work at that. Neutral, you’re released from your attachments and your—your avoidance and attachments. You’re pretty free. You can either stay or leave, it’s okay. If we make it to the movie on time, we’ll watch it. If we don’t get there, we won’t go. It’s okay either way. You’re not attached: you don’t have to cry that you missed it; you don’t have to get furious that your partner was fixing their hair and you couldn’t get out the door in time, and therefore you missed the movie, or whatever. You know how life goes with people and daily bickering life: “Well, if you’d hurried up, we would have made it in time. Now they’ve changed the price, and now it’s $4.50. If we’d gotten there when it was $3.50 . . .” So, life becomes this little, bickering trivia in which you’re attached to winning and losing, and winning and losing face, winning and losing control.

So, then, at a certain point, one becomes nonattached; therefore, to win or to lose is really irrelevant. If the other person wins the argument, great. You won the argument. “Oh, you let him win the argument.” Why not? It’s fun letting people win. Did you ever do it? They cheat you out of a $1.20 and think you didn’t catch them. I let him have the $1.20. Why not? You know what I mean? What difference does it make, you know? You’re not attached to winning; you’re not attached to losing. You’re not afraid of winning and afraid of losing…

The attachments, then, which we try to relinquish are really coming out of the solar plexus. Everybody thinks sex is the base chakra. No, it’s the attachment. It’s the solar-plexus attachment to that activity and what it does for your ego and your sense of satisfaction and your sense of aloneness, desirability, your self-esteem, so it’s all the things that are piled into the meaning of that. So, we’re attached to the meaning of things, and that’s why we’re addicted to certain activities.

So, the perfect practice, then, in a meditative, contemplative kind of a practice is neither attachment nor aversion. You neither hate it, nor are you addicted to it. You don’t have to avoid it. If you’re attached to things, then you have to avoid them. You can’t have one piece of chocolate, because you know you’ll eat the whole box. I remember when I finally got off chocolate. And I’d released . . . I’d let go of chocolate for a long time, and chocolate kept coming up. Finally, I completely lost any desire, thought, or appreciation for chocolate altogether. And, I said, “Wow! I’m off chocolate. I’m free of chocolate.” I’d got unhooked from Diet Pepsi years past; now I have one can all day. So, all these things you get hooked on. I remember when I got free of chocolate; it was hysterical, because the very next night, the Course in Miracles group was coming out from New York and I had about 40 or 50 of them in the house, and they brought this huge chocolate cake! So, I didn’t have to avoid it, because I wasn’t going to get hooked by it again, so I could either have the chocolate cake or not have the chocolate cake. It was a great sense of freedom.

New! Spiritual Power and Integrity: Uncovering Reality and Realizing Peace, Love, and Divinity: Ch. 3, pgs. 74-75.

This book comprises the transcriptions of Dr. Hawkins July and August 2002 lectures.

So, in this lecture, our purpose is to see how can you transcend duality.

…The various techniques about which I’ve written, and about which we’ve lectured and which all of you have studied…Certain realizations seem to potentiate that transformation that transcends the limits of the ego, so that instead of being an obstacle, it begins to serve you. Certain things, merely to hear of them already begin to … accelerate one’s progress. If we say, nothing is—it’s not possible for anything to cause anything else; everything is manifesting its infinite potentiality by the grace of Creation which is continuous: just that knowingness, that thought is already powerfully transformative.

Let’s see what the calibration of that thought is…The thought has the power of 920. That’s the level of the truth of the thought. To merely hold that in mind, then, and to give it a certain reverence which we give to all Truth, then empowers that thought, which then sort of goes through your mind and …cuts off a whole bunch of circuits. See what I mean? You, like, let it loose in this syncytial nightmare we call the brain, and it runs around on its own now and begins to disconnect switches. Because causality is not what accounts for “That Which Is”; then the mind automatically increases, expands its context, and begins to try to sense what it is.

All that we look at, then, is content. As you mature spiritually, you look less and less at content and look more and more at context. One begins to sense the field in which that thought is occurring. Again, you see, as you expand context, the context itself is limited by certain definitions. And you start letting go of the definitions. Eventually context becomes the Infinite Presence out of which the entire universe manifests—the Unmanifest manifesting itself as the manifest, which is the source of Creation in which we experience existence.

Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 4, pg. 91-92

This book is a new release, the transcriptions from the July and August 2002 lectures by Dr. Hawkins