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Lester Levenson - The Ultimate Goal The Ultimate Goal is Self-Realization Creator of Sedona Method / Release Technique Lester Levenson’s books include: ● Keys to Ultimate Freedom ●Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way ●Happiness Is Free and Easier than You Think ● No Attachments No Aversions ● Power of Love : How to be in the NOW Lester Levenson - The Ultimate Goal ( Ultimate Truth, Keys to Ultimate Freedom , no attachments no aversions ) I only know that which I can do The Ultimate Goal II "What is it, by knowing which, you will know everything?" The Ultimate Truth is Truth that is true now, has always been true, and will forever be true. Man cannot make this Truth nor can he change this Truth. He can only discover it. He may choose to live in accord with it. If he so does, he finds himself supremely happy beyond anything he could imagine! All limitations drop away and he discovers that all power, all knowledge, and all joy are his and that all this is his natural, inherent state. A unique characteristic of this Truth is that it must be seen by each one through his own perception. No one and no book can do it for him. Teachers and books (scriptures) can only point out the direction, the way, and the individual may choose to take it. Necessary is the proof of Truth and necessary it is that each one must prove the Truth for himself. Nothing should ever be accepted on hearsay. One should listen to, reflect upon, and then prove. The best attitude one may take would be to not believe nor disbelieve, but to accept Truth for checking. Then, and only then, after one has proven them without a doubt should one accept them. As Truth begins to prove itself, one gains more confidence in it, and then proofs come more easily and more readily; until finally, one perceives the Absolute Truth - that we are unlimited beings, unlimited in our knowledge, power and joy. We must start from where we are, so we start with thinking in the realm of thinkingness. Then we progress to a state of thought - feelings where thoughts have feeling to them. This continues until there is only feelingness. When this becomes the basis for our actions, we are intuitive and in tune with our world. Finally, there is only the realm of beingness, and in this state we perceive ourselves as being the All, and we see no-otherness. Beginning with thought, we direct our minds toward thoughts that will free us; liberate us from sorrow and unhappiness. This leads to happiness, which is in the realm of feelingness. When the feeling of happiness is developed fully, there is only happiness of being, and we then enter into the state of exalted bliss, tranquility and serenity. The time required to accomplish this varies widely. The quickness of one's understanding is directly proportional to the intensity of one's desire for truth. All authoritarianism is let go of, as the only authority for Truth is Truth and not man. In place of authority is given the dictum - Prove it yourself. Only when proven for oneself does one have it and can one use it. One knows only that which he can do. The Ultimate Truth is not the usual. If something should offend, shock or challenge, it is suggested that you check into it, as the chances are that a fixed concept might be needing reevaluation; that by doing so you might find yourself a bit freer. The Goal The goal is unlimited happiness. The goal is complete liberation - the attainment of limitlessness. All are seeking complete freedom and happiness, and everyone is seeking this either consciously or unconsciously. The goal is Self-Realization. I only know that which I can do Happiness • Happiness is our inherent, natural state. The best definition for happiness is peace, tranquility and serenity. Happiness is the absence of apathy, grief, fear, jealousy, anger and hate. Happiness loves. Happiness is freedom; absence of limitations. The less limited we are, the freer we are - the happier we are. • Happiness is keeping in mind the things we do want (BeHappy/Mental Diet); Unhappiness is keeping in mind the things we do not want. • Happiness is being cause rather than effect; master rather than victim. • Happiness involves thoughts of oneness; unhappiness; thoughts of separation. Happiness thinks of thou - with no ego motivation; unhappiness, I, with ego motivation. • Happiness is calmness with no emotion or effort; unhappiness involves energy, emotion and effort. • An attitude of giving makes one happy. Joy is the spirit of giving. Love Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it. Love is giving with no strings attached. Love is the natural, inherent state of man. Only by loving does love come to us. The more we love, the more love comes to us. Love is an attitude, a feeling, and requires no action. Love is a feeling of the other one. Love is acceptance. Love is taking other people as they are. Love is loving the other one because the other one is the way the other one is. Love is trust. Love is a feelingness of peace. Love is identification. It is being the other one by identifying with the other one. Love is what every being is seeking through his every act. Love is the answer to all problems. When there are problems, if we would love more, they would disappear. When the love is complete, the problem dissolves immediately. Love and understanding are the same. Love is communing; it is communication. Lending support, wanting for the other one what the other eon wants, that is love. The greatest help or giving one may give to another is to help the other to get the understanding of Truth. In this way, one gives the other the formula for happiness. Love is a power. It is the cohesive force of the universe. Love is attracting, integrating, and constructive and so effects/affects anything it is applied to. Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can. Almost all people mistake ego approval for love. Because it is not love, it is not satisfying. Consequently, one continuously needs and demands it. And this produces only frustration. Love is not sex. Love is not an emotion. People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves. Human love does not want to share its love with others, but rather wants its own personal satisfaction. Real love wants to share its love and the more it is shared, the more joyous it is. There is no "longing" in love, because longing is separation; love being oneness, it does not allow separation. True love cannot be gotten through marriage. It must be there before marriage. Love cannot be applied to one and not another. It's impossible to love one and hate another. When we love one more than another, that one is doing something for us. That is human love. When one loves people because they are nice to him, that too, is human love. True love is unconditional. In true love, one loves even those who I only know that which I can do oppose him. We should love everyone equally. It's impossible to get love. Only by loving can one feel love. The more one looks for love, the more one doesn't love. One should strive to love, never to be loved. To be loved brings temporary happiness, ego inflation. When one loves fully, one can have no concept of not being loved. To love our enemy is the height of love. When love is felt for the enemy, it makes the enemy impotent; powerless to hurt us. If the enemy persists in trying to hurt us, he will only hurt himself. One does not increase his love. One merely gets rid of one's hate. In a state of high love one has a feeling of harmlessness, and grants the other one the other one's beingness. When we love fully, we feel we have everything. Loving fully, one sees only love. When one really loves, one can never be hurt. Love has no personal angles. Anytime one feels good, one is loving. Anytime one feels bad, one is not loving. Love and egoism are opposites. Love is selflessness. Love is purity. Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety. Love eliminates insecurity. Love eliminates loneliness. Love eliminates unhappiness. Love attracts love. Love is the means and the end. Love is its own reward. Love seeks its own likeness. Love flourishes in love. Love is contagious. Love cannot be intellectualized. The sweetness of love cannot be described. It must be experienced. Full love is constant and never be not. When attained, one feels only it, sees only it, hears only it, and thinks only it. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful. It is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Peace Peace is tranquility, serenity and is a dwelling in the Self. Complete peace is our highest state and is the natural state. Peace is dwelling in the realm of all knowledge and all beauty in a complete harmony. Peace is at-oneness, no-otherness. Peace is non- resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything. Peace is a feeling and requires no action. Peace is in the realm of Beingness. Complete peace is impossible in the realm of thought. Thoughts agitate. There must be no thought to have perfect and total peace. In oneness, there is no other to think about. Peace is the best indication of one's state, and may be used as a measure to gauge one's progress. In meditation, peace shows itself in the freedom from unwanted thoughts, and in the ability to concentrate on a single thought. Truth Truth is That which never changes. All else is untrue, illusion, an apparency. The only authority for Truth is Truth. Truth is, regardless of people. No one can make Truth or unmake it. Truth cannot be taught. It can only be discovered, realized. One should never accept anything until he can prove it out for himself. There are two ways to prove things, externally and internally. Externally is proving it in the world by doing it. Internally is by seeing it intuitively through the omniscient part of oneself. There is no problem which cannot be dissolved immediately in the light of Truth. Truth can be approached on an intellectual level, emotional level, and intuitive level, and by directing all these three toward the Truth, Truth reveals itself. Truth is the realm of feelingness, and cannot be I only know that which I can do expressed in words, but only alluded to by words. Reason cannot get one to Truth, but can get one into the direction of Truth. Intuition, knowingness, super-consciousness, reveals the Truth that is. There's no Truth in the intellect. It's in the realm of feelingness. The intellect is used to guide the intellect to the feeling, which eventually takes over completely leaving no more intellect. Then one operates on purely intuitive feelings. To know the Truth, begin with the Truth, that is, there is only an Infinite One. Then let your thinking follow from there. Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited Self. Relative truth changes. Absolute Truth never changes. The Absolute Truth is the changeless Oneness, and Oneness is the only Truth. Truth is perceived through realization. When we realize Truth, we have it, are it, and can use it. Absolute Truth cannot be spoken, because truth is Oneness and in Oneness there is no other to speak to. One merely alludes to Truth. Truth and Reality are one and the same. The Self (God) The Self (God) is Infinite, Whole, Complete, Immutable, One, Perfect, Indivisible, Timeless, Eternal, Changeless, the only Reality. The Self is our very beingness. Nothing is more intimate than the Self (God). The Self has no qualities, no abilities, no actions. It is unqualified and unlimited beingness. We are now, we always have been, and we always will be the eternal, unlimited Self (God). All we need to do is to realize that by removing the ignorance of it, or by increasing our knowingness of it. The easiest way to contact the Self (God) is through the feelingness in the heart of "I" or "I Am" with nothing more added. This feelingness is the Self, the Real - Inner Self. The moment we add anything at all, like "I am good or bad"; "I am poor or rich"; "I am great or small"; or "I and that"; we are imposing a limitation on the "I Am" and creating the ego. There is no investigation possible into the Self (God). The Self, being only one, who is there to investigate it? Investigation can be only into the ego, the non-Self. The Source of the ego is the Self. Find the Source and the ego disappears, leaving only the Self. When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps toward us. What is it, by knowing which, everything becomes known? The Self (God). What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy. When we let the inner self express, there are no problems. Man, as man, cannot know God; by looking up to God, God is always separate from him. Only when he looks out from God can make know God. One will never find God in the body, but one will find the body in God. The higher the state of the body, the thinner the sheath hiding the Self. God, generally, is the highest concept one has of oneself. Stop having, stop doing, and just be your Self. At first this being your Self is momentary. As you keep trying, it remains more and more until it becomes permanent. The Self is total Quietude. Quietness is necessary and one of the greatest ways to the Self. The Self being One, the All, when one realizes this, one becomes, and identifies oneself as, every being, every atom, of the universe. When one moves into or abides as the Self, one moves up and way from thoughts. The thoughts become submerged. Until one is established in the Self, the thoughts reemerge and take over. In moving away from thoughts, one can become the objective witness of the I only know that which I can do thoughts and not be influenced by them. When this objective witnessing is made permanent, one is in perfect, eternal, peace and joy. A fully realized individual does not identify with his thoughts and, therefore, they have no effect on him. Self (God) is not subject to laws. A knower of God has to wait only as long as he is not merged in God! Teacher of Truth How do I choose a real Teacher? How do I know a Teacher is the right one to be followed? What can a Teacher do for me? The qualifications of a Teacher of Truth are: • He has attained inner peace • He must have experienced the knowledge he teaches. • He gives freely of his knowledge with love. • He sees us as equal with himself. • He has no reactions. • He loves all equally. • He is desireless. • He wants only God. • He lives what he teaches. Truth is, regardless of the Teacher. No one can make or unmake Truth. There is nothing new in Truth - is it eternal. A Teacher can direct one toward Truth, but each one must see it for himself and prove it. If the Teacher's or anyone's word is accepted, it is only hearsay. Anything the Teacher says should be accepted for checking. Only after proving it, does it become your knowledge. A Teacher may be chosen intuitively. Intuition is tapping the source of omniscience within. It is a feeling. It is gotten with absolutely no thinking. Be there any thought with it, it is no intuition. When it comes, one knows that it is so and knows that he knows. A Teacher lifts us high enabling us to perceive higher knowledge. He gives us the mental support that is helpful in getting the new realization. A Teacher can lift one to his own level of understanding and no further. One of the greatest things a Teacher can do for us is to get us to see our ego. We have blinded ourselves to our ego making it most difficult to let go of it. A Teacher has a quieting effect on our minds. A Teacher keeps one in the consciousness of the right direction. A Teacher makes the way easier. A Teacher is more helpful than scriptures and books. The Ego Ego is the sense of individuality as opposed to the One. The start of the ego is the sense of "I am separate". It then creates thoughts, (called mind) of limitation like "I am a body" or "I am a body limited", through which thoughts one loses sight of the fact that one is Infinite. Ego comes from the subconscious knowledge of the terrific Being that we really are, trying to express itself through a very limited thing called the personality. The I- thought, the thought that "I am a separate individual", is the source of the ego in all its forms - physical, astral and causal. Every day one goes through the physical, astral, and causal realms in waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep, respectively. Eliminate the ego and all three states are eliminated. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a I only know that which I can do facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of the others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings. We thereby develop a distorted pattern of behaviour that becomes habitual, automatic, and subconscious. This pattern necessitates unhappiness, as we become incapable of expressing our own true feelings. The subconscious automatic behaviour, by its very nature, blinds us to ourselves, others and the world. To be happy, it is necessary to see things are they really are. This may be done by (1) reevaluating the situation by seeing its present time reality; (2) digging into the subconscious in order to make it conscious so that we may change it (3) perceiving our real Self. The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love. Seek the Source of the ego and it disappears. The greater the misery, the greater the ego. Misery can be removed by seeing its cause as being the ego seeking love. Only by loving can one be happy. In these days of atom smashing, the only safety is ego smashing! Ego smashing is one of the fastest ways toward the Goal and the only safety. We create an ego and then try to escape from it from that moment on. When the ego disappears, only God remains. The God-part of us is there all the time - just covered over by the ego. Who is doing the striving? The ego. Let go, and let God. All the power and grace of God is at every moment trying to come through to us. All we need to do is allow it by setting the ego aside, scorching it by ignoring it. An unrecognized visitor soon leaves. The Mind Mind is consciousness that has assumed limitation. We are naturally unlimited until we assume a mind. Then the evolution begins of progressively limiting ourselves until we can no longer bear it. When life becomes altogether unbearable, we then start the devolution. We reverse the process by letting go of thoughts more and more until the complete peace and total freedom from thought is reestablished. One makes life easier by recognizing the laws of nature, which are only the laws of cause and effect. When one discovers that mind or thinking is the cause, and what happens in the world is effect, he then consciously controls his circumstances and environment. That which we think - we create. That which we hold in mind - we sustain. That which we let go of in mind - we dissolve. Stay on the positive side. Do not be "against" (anti) anything, but be "for" its opposite. "Being against" is holding in mind that which you do not want and thereby sustaining it. Every thought is causative. That which your mind is on, you become! Whatever happens to us originates in the mind. Think only what you want - that is all that you will get. It is impossible to get rid of a problem, because ridding oneself is holding it in mind and thereby sustaining it. The more the thought taking, the greater the problem. The less the thought taking, the more obvious the Perfection. Mind is an instrument used by the ego to create and then reflect back the physical universe. The world is an out-projecting I only know that which I can do of the mind. When we realize this, we can change the projected picture. Mind is intelligent; body is insentient matter. Body is the materialization of mind. The body is an exact copy of the mind. The moment the mind is right, the body is right. Disease of the body is disease of the mind. Suffering is in mind. When the body hurts, it is felt in the mind. Thinking is rationalizing, usually our emotions and desires, and has its source in the ego. Thinking can be used to make life easier for the ego by causing the world to ease its pull on our attention. Then our attention can be better directed to the Self (God). Correct thinking is thinking that leads us to good conditions of health and supply, then to mental traits of love and peace, and finally to Oneness, where, there being no other, thought is impossible and all is in harmony. Taking it from the top, the most correct thinking is "no thoughts". Truth is in the realm of knowingness. It is when all thoughts are stilled that we remove the blanket covering the omniscience that we all have now. Pure Mind is mind with no thoughts. It is knowingness. Pure Mind allows the omnipresent omniscience to flow through us. Real knowledge lies just behind thought which is relative knowledge. The mind will never know God because the mind is a thing of limitation. The finite can never know the Infinite. The only thing which blinds us from the Self is mind activity. Mind (1) gives rise to thoughts of desire (2) that lead to attachments and aversions (3) causing bondage. Eliminate any one in this chain and be free! Habit makes us believe that is difficult to stop thinking. If the error is discovered by realizing one's inner state of all-knowingness, one would not foolishly and unnecessarily burden oneself with the effort of thinking. Habits of thought are latent tendencies and are the greatest enemy to realization. They are most stubborn and adamant. However, they must be let go of if one wants to realize the Self. Intellectual knowing is merely like a tape recording; real knowing is understanding and can be tested by the fruits. Our intellectual knowledge is used by the ego as a substitute for real knowledge. The mind is a composite of several functions: sensing, recording, memory, and ability to discriminate. Discrimination is the highest function. Discriminate Truth from untruth, the Real from the unreal - and be free! The mind never forgets - it just doesn't recall at the moment. Mind is about 90% subconscious. The 10% must be used to make it all conscious. Every mind is a transmitting and a receiving station, receiving in its own wavelength. Keep it high! Mental efficiency is in the art of concentration. The mind is like an electric light bulb radiating in all directions. When it is focused, it becomes like a powerful beam. A mind focused on it's self will crack its secrets and reveal Truth. A concentrated mind is one that can keep its attention on one thing at a time without other thoughts coming in. A concentrated mind is the secret of success in the realization of Truth. A concentrated mind is also the secret of success in the world. All successful people in the world have the ability to concentrate their minds. Real solitude can be hand only in the mind; not in location. Solitude is obtained through practice of non-attachment. A man in the city might be free of thought and alone in peace, while a hermit in the country might be plagued with the company of many miserable thoughts. Thoughts of happiness give relative happiness. The highest and absolute happiness is beyond thoughts. I only know that which I can do The World All behaviour, every act in this world, is based on the desire for love. This desire causes us to seek for approval, acceptance, attention, power, fame, and fortune. Unfortunately, however, love cannot be gotten this way, and we become frustrated and unhappy. Only by loving can be find love and be happy. Man was never intended to be a victim of circumstances. He is the controller of them, but has lost awareness of this fact. When he regains his awareness of it, he again becomes the master of circumstances, and consciously controls his environment. Matter, energy, space and time are in the mind. When man realizes this, he has mental control over them and controls them at his will. There is no intelligence in matter. The world is nothing but matter. The intelligence that is in man, and it determines this world. However man is unconsciously determining the world. When he wakes up to this, he gains conscious control. Perceiving the Reality one gains dominion. Creation is a mental projection. The Reality is just behind it! The world does not disappear on seeing the Reality; the wrong concept of it does! The world is a school in which there is only limitation. The lessons on limitations teach us how to surmount them until we are limitless. Life in the world necessitates misery, as it is in the realm of limitation. Be in the world, but not of it! When one cannot bear being alone with his thoughts, he seeks entertainment. Entertainment is escaping, running away from one's thoughts. Happiness needs no entertainment. Be happy by loving. The more one loves, the less one needs entertainment. Socializing is looking for love in the wrong place. It's looking for love and acceptance from people. And what we really want is the love of God. Love of God is found only by going within in quietness. It is loving, and not looking for love. Pleasures gained in the world are momentary. Any joy gained through understanding the Truth or the Reality is eternally ours. You want to help the world? Help yourself. Only then may you do so. You cannot show others unless you know yourself. That which we give out to the world we receive in return - is the law of compensation (karma). Many know this but few realize that karma is created in the thought rather than the act. If we want good and happy lives it is necessary to think good and happy thoughts only. If one gossips about others, one does not hurt the other one, but hurts himself in accord with the law compensation. Gossip is a form of hatred because it tears down the other. When one judges, the ego is playing God. Anything we deem right or wrong is judging. Any thinking that is "anti" (against) is judgment. When there is mutuality and harmlessness there is no judgment. Harmlessness and mutuality always direct one into correct behaviour. There's no right or wrong, good or bad. There's only experiencing for the purpose of learning the Reality. There's nothing wrong with the world when you see it alright. The only way out of the world is through the world by seeing every atom of it as your Self. I only know that which I can do Sex and Marriage Realization is not determined by one's being single or married, but by the realization of who he is. A married man may realize the Self by learning to concentrate his mind. A concentrated mind will do it. Real love should be the basis of marriage. Real love has no element of needing the other one, or possessing the other one. Real love wants only to make the other one happy. Marriage should be used to aid one's growth by developing love more and more - until it is complete. If you are a parent, the greatest help you can give your child is to help yourself to a higher state of loving. Then you automatically do what is best for the child. Following rules from books will not be very effective. See your spouse and children as children of God. Never say "They are mine" as they are God's. Increase your selfless love for them until it is Divine Love. The greatest happiness we can give to a mater comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. Don't marry because you feel you need, or you must possess, the other one. This is not love and will have its consequent unhappiness. The happiest marriage is one in which each partner lives only for the other's happiness. This is a love marriage and helps one toward the goal. Marriage is too frequently only a sexual union. One marries a member of the opposite sex and sex is frequently pursued. Marriage should be a love union. Man is confused on sex. Sex is a physical union of male and female, the purpose of which is procreation. The greatest attachments man has are to sex. Man ties in two other things with sex, one mental and one spiritual. The mental aspect is the desire for ego approval. The spiritual aspect is love. Man has gone so far astray from the normal that he can no longer get any standards are to what is correct, normal sex. He might realign himself by looking at the animals to learn the purpose and function of sex. If he does, he will see it - a physical act of procreation. But man is higher than the animal and is gifted with a mind much further developed than the animal. Animals think only deductively while man thinks not only deductively but also inductively. The latter gives him the ingenuity to do all that he does that is greater than the animal. This inductive thinking allows man to be self-conscious. Man knows he is man. Animals knows only the way and means of procuring and satisfying the needs for preservation. Only man looks into himself and seeks, thereby advancing himself. The mental aspect of sex is the seeking for ego approval. Man looks for a partner that can give it to him, and when he finds one that can give him ego approval constantly, he says he is madly in love, and wants this one as a constant mate. So long as he is getting this approval, direct or implied, he says he is in love and happy. However, and this is big however, this happiness although it may be the greatest he has yet experienced is of necessity at the same time mixed with