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Teachings Tape #20 (Why is there not more written material on the teachings?) (What comes from within defiles a man.) [brackets for clarification]

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fellow students frequently ask why there is not more written material on the teaching of self-knowing and self-observation around the world as it is supposed to have been in existence for ages. Possibly it still is and only due to being conditioned, we have never noticed it. So, for the time being, we will discuss a few points of reference work which do indicate that self-knowing has been taught for ages upon ages. We will read from a very commonly known book: "Then He called the crowd to him again and said to them: 'Hear me, all of you, and understand, there is nothing outside of man that entering into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile a man. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.'" In other words, did you hear? Or did you merely hear some words? Hearing means inner-comprehension. I, without the conditioning hears. If it goes through the conditioning, one does not hear. Now it continues, "And when he had entered the house away from the crowd, his disciples began to ask him about the parable, and he said to them, "Are you also then without understanding?" "Do you not realize that nothing from outside by entering a man can defile him, for it does not enter his heart (his awareness) but his belly and passes out into the drain." Thus he declared all foods clean and he said, "The things that come out of a man are what defile a man." The awareness is within man and is often referred to as the heart of man. This awareness has been taken over by the basic idea that the whole purpose of living is to gain pleasure and escape pain on all levels, and the way to get it is to complain, stick up for rights, please, do as one is told by authorities, put on a different front and blame. All of this trying to gratify the four dual basic urges with the end result of trying to achieve non-disturbance. All of this makes up the heart of man and let's see what it says: He said the things that come out of a man are what defile a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, adulteries, immorality, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, shamelessness, jealousies, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. All of these evil things come from within and defile a man.. Why do they defile a man? They defile a man because X operates upon them as being true if I identifies with all these bits of conditioning. Now, how could one know that they were within a person unless he were observing self? It is implied by hear and understand that one would inspect what the "self" if made up of." Let's look at all the things he said would come out of the self: evil thoughts, thoughts of revenge, thoughts of accounts due one, thoughts of vanity, thoughts of defense of that false picture of self, thoughts of all sorts of things, etc. After all, thoughts of revenge would lead to murder if carried to its ultimate. It's getting even. ADULTERIES-which is to gain a pleasure, which is to adulterate things instead of seeing them in their purity--not only from the standpoint of interpersonal relationships between people, but to adulterate the teaching ideas; to convert it, twist it around. To adulterate the teachings is saying it has nothing to do with the inner state of man but only has to do with his outward behavior. To adulterate the teaching ideas is to change agape into being tolerant and to change being washed of (all these things that man would be washed of as he observes them) into merely being dipped into water-all this would be to adulterate. IMMORALITY-MORALITY: [I looked up the meaning for morality in Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary and it said: "conformity to the rules of right conduct"……Marsha] Possibly morality has nothing to do with one's particular behavior with others; but let us see what morality might mean. If I do not know how to control another person (and of course, I don't) would that be because I was moral or simply because I do not know how to control him? That could not be considered immoral. If I know how to control a person and do control him, would that be considered immoral?--or would that merely be cunning? But, if I know how to control another person and don't use that control over him because I do not feel that I have dominion over another man, but only over self or over things lower than man--that might be considered to be moral. JEALOUSIES: Jealousy is wanting the attention or approval that someone else is getting. Jealousy is feeling entitled to stick up for one's rights. It is the four dual basic urges in action with A running the show--complaining to get "my way", being pitiful. It is the act of making another person feel bad, "Come wait on me.". It is blaming someone for running off with the objects that so "aided my comforts and pleasures and gave me attention and approval"-"now they are giving that attention and approval to someone else." BLASPHEMY: Blasphemy is using that which is holy for an unholy purpose. If one takes the Teaching and uses it to control people by putting threats on them-uses the teaching to make them obey--that could be called blasphemy. PRIDE: Pride is defending the false picture of self. Pride is the self saying the self is fully conscious when it is not. The self is going along in a state of sleep, and I is identifying with all the Not-I's. There is purely reaction going on. So when someone calls self to account--out comes the defense: "I did it for a certain purpose." "I did it because of certain reasons." "I did it because I wanted to see how you'd react. "I did it because I wanted to see what was going on while I was free to do so and so, etc." Pride defends the false idea that one was conscious when in reality, one was in a dream state of thinking one knew "what ought to be"; but was merely reacting mechanically with the unpleasant emotions that come from within the heart or the awareness of man that is conditioned. FOOLISHNESS: Foolishness is awareness not paying attention to the Teaching in all things. Whenever one is not paying attention, it is considered foolishness in the teaching of all things. Foolishness is taking a false idea and accepting it as true. Foolishness is living by beliefs without checking out the beliefs. It is accepting a belief just because someone said, "If you follow so and so, it will give pleasure and comfort in the future."; or "If you don't follow ________ (their belief), it will bring pain." So is there any doubt that 2000 years ago that self-knowing was being taught--that the picture of man was laid out-that out of the heart of man (the awareness) comes these things that defile him. The heart is still the vital area of man. Is there any doubt that it was there and being taught at that time? Has it been adulterated down through the ages? Has the meaning been left out? In the past, certain religions prohibited the eating of certain meats. So has it been implied, "These ideas only have to do with outward foods?" You see, the foods were declared prohibited because they represented "conditioning" or "unconsciousness". The teachers back then weren't fully aware. They were using only the symbol of foods which they had perverted. With most of the various religions now, you can eat most anything; and you don't have to leave off all the prohibited foods. Somebody long ago said that you had to see within-see what is really within man-see what arises from within the person-then one can see what is really going on within. Now we can begin to be aware that the heart, or the awareness factor of man, is fully conditioned; and that I has been lying there asleep. Even though I has awakened; and, now and then, is able to observe that self-one can observe the fact that from the "self" comes all manner of things that defile the human being. The word defile comes from an old word meaning "trampled underfoot". Therefore, most of us feel we are trampled down. We feel we are controlled by all kinds of forces that we attribute to coming from "without". We indulge in great amounts of self-pity. We come up with "hate", and we come up with "revenge". We feel that we are "victimized". And, of course, there are plenty of forces [through people] that attempt to tell us that we are the "victims" of all manner of "circumstances" Man is told to look to his political ideologies or to his other various organizations to be "protected" from being "victimized". He is told there are enemies in the open, that they are outside of the organization and that the enemies are controlling him. He is told by these organizations that these other enemies must be overcome by force and by power. How many times have you been told to look within and you will find that which defiles you? What defiles one comes out of the conditioned area of man. The conditioning tramples man--the real living being--underfoot. The conditioning defiles him-tramples him under--renders him incapable of performing thereby allowing the conditioning to mechanically operate and destroy the human being. And while the conditioning mechanically operates the everyday affairs and while he is being destroyed, he suffers many agonies. This has been taught for thousands of years. It was taught, but very few heard it. The great teacher said, "Hear and understand." Now we do not understand unless we apply the ideas. We can hear something over and over, but until we begin to apply the ideas, it can in no way be said that the ideas are understood. Only by experimenting with the ideas--experiencing it--and discovering for self, can one say that one understands. So hear that all things that tramples one under, defiles him, causes him difficulty, comes from within. Now if that is the case, we will have to look and see where it is within? Is that correct? We would not find it in the muscles. We wouldn't find it in the bloodstream. We wouldn't find it in the saliva. We wouldn't find it in the heart pumping away-the physical organ. We would find it in the mind-in the area of the beliefs-in the awareness function of man. Now we can begin to look there by self-observation--by separating I, (the observer), the awareness function of man. By awakening it, we will begin to see, without any doubt, that which causes all the trouble in an individual's existence. We will see where all the trouble comes from. We will see what defiles him or tramples him under-makes him sick-makes him in conflict with his fellow man-makes him in conflict within. We'll see that all of that is based on the four dual basic urges--that false idea of the purpose of living. It's there, solid, and one can observe it. We can observe that within the self dwells the whole purpose to gain pleasure and escape pain, to gain attention and avoid being ignored or rejected, to gain approval and escape all disapproval, to feel important by being able to control others, and by feeling inferior when one cannot. And one can observe that one tries to gain these methods, these ideas, these purposes by complaining. Complaining includes jealousy. Complaining includes contention. Complaining includes envy. All of this comes from within the conditioned awareness function of man that has been conditioned. We might say that it is in his psyche or his soul. We might say that the awareness is lost and incapable of functioning as it was designed to function. All these destructive emotions arise-all the many lusts--the urge to gain gratification of the senses from whatever level-from having thefts of thinking, " I must have that so I will be non-disturbed"; or, "I must have that in order to give me pleasure". Of course, then there is the rise of what we know as crime. There are many kinds of thefts that are not mentioned here in the idea of crime. When I can thieve by taking credit by saying, "I did this," or "I did that." or "I did the other." "I did all these wonderful things". I does not know how to do anything! I can only be aware at best. And usually I can not even observe accurately as the observation is usually lost in the conditioning and can do nothing. ONLY X CAN DO! No one knows how to walk--even though one experiences walking everyday. No one knows how to chew food even though we experience chewing. We do not know how to see, but we experience seeing. We do not know how to hear-we experience hearing the physical sounds-usually not hearing what is implied and thereby understanding it. So I can only experience things, sense things, but I does not DO anything. When I claims to be able "to do" things, I is a thief. Is that correct? DECEIT: How does deceit comes about? Deceit comes about because I hopes to gain some pleasure. I feel I am about to lose in some way; but if I deceive someone, I will gain attention and approval. If I can claim to be something I am not; I can gain attention and approval. If I can put on a good front and appear to be different than what I really am--that is deceit. If I claim to be conscious, but really I am sound asleep and lost in conditioning--that is deceit. And the greatest one that is being deceived is self. I is being put to sleep and still convinced that it is awake and capable of choosing; but all it is doing is reacting moment by moment--reaction with never a solid moment of understanding of what is going on. Does this particular little parable we read indicate that self-knowing and self-observation were very definitely taught and has been available to every one of us? But we read it--"Hear, all of you, and understand." We, however, have always deceived self by saying "I understand because I understand the general, physical and literal meaning of the words". But we do not seem to understand that there is an inner state of man; and that this is what deceives a man. The inner state is what tramples him under, what destroys him. What disintegrates him is that inner state of being--that real inner state of being which is really unknown. The person usually thinks he is in a very wonderful state if the physical body is not hurting at the moment. The person thinks that if he has a few gratifications of the senses, then everything is fine. However, if the inner state could be seen, do you suppose we would say everything is fine? If one could see the inner state of being, one would have to say that everything is in a state of confusion, everything in the inner state is out of hand; and that the whole thing is lost. Possibly by careful, tedious work over a period of time by observing the self, it might be salvaged. To be salvaged is to be saved. The great teacher was the Savior because He brought the words and brought the Teachings whereby man could be salvaged-- that which was lost could be salvaged -his awareness is lost and full of conditioned material that defiles him, disintegrates him, and keeps him falling apart. What was true 2000 years ago, is still true today. Now let's see if we can, with renewed vigor and renewed valuing, see the purpose of observing--to begin to observe every aspect of that inner self--that conditioned state of things that we, at least at this point, have a small sketchy roadmap that shows us what is there in the inner state to some extent. It, at least, shows the families. We have the picture of man, and we can observe the function. We can observe the families of not I's and see that those families disintegrate and destroy the human being-those not I's defile and trample him underfoot. We can also see, as we observe it, that X removes those things that come out of a man that defile him. X begins to cast them out. By doing this, then one understand where illness comes from, where troubles come from, and where gradual disintegration of the whole being comes from. It comes out of the heart of man-the inner state of the awareness that has been conditioned. One then particularly pays attention to the constant bombardment of suggestion that tells one: "If one does this, sooner or later one will gain great pleasures and comforts." "If one does not do this, one will come upon miseries and agonies." One finds that there is all manner of forces [organizations] that are continually trying to exploit this conditioned inner man and does not want him changed one iota. If he changed, these forces wouldn't have the power to exploit him. If everyone was conscious, there would not be any power structures. There are constant suggestions that you are really to be pitied--that you are most unfortunate. There are constant suggestions that you have rights which should be stuck up for, and "I am going to stick up for your rights for you-for you to be non disturbed." That's what the rights always are. Generally, the word today is "security"-security meaning, "You are not only non-disturbed at this moment, but we will assure you of non-disturbance in the future." You have a right to have everything you want without doing anything for it because you were born, and that gives you the right to have it. You are a very special person; therefore, that is why you are being mistreated. NO! We are all the same. We are all conditioned and discovering that we are conditioned; and thereby mechanical. This discovery is not something to be upset about. It is the first step to come out of that state of being controlled by that which is within. The cleansing starts the moment one recognizes that one is in a conditioned state--lost state, if you please. (observed by a dis-identified I which is noted by writing a capital I with a line drawn under it--I) The conditioning is operating purely as a machine. "I" is not on the job at all. "I" has been hypnotized--put sound asleep. The real individual (the real I), is totally out of functioning-is asleep. The individual is operating from the not I's--false personalities--bits of conditioning--programming is a good word to use today. It is much like a computer; it is programmed and does whatever it has been programmed to do. Whether the programming is true or false does not matter--it does what the programming has laid out for it to do. When one realizes that one is programmed and that one is manipulated by whatever fits that programming, one has discovered something. When one realizes that one is used merely as a machine, and that from that machine comes all manner of things that are destructive to the entire organism--to the temple of the living being--then one has discovered something to be very thankful for. One is true. One has set out on a chore-one has set out on a task that takes some length of time. It is a meaningful task. The task has worthwhileness to it-it has value to it. One has found the path that leads to the ending of misery and disintegration. One can enter through the narrow gate and start on the way that will begin to bring liberty and freedom and life. Without making that discovery where the whole problem is, we will search for it through doctor's offices--through pills and potions, through drugs and alcohol, through every manner of attempting gratifications, and on to total and final disintegration. It has always been taught that man must know himself. He must be in the state of knowing self from moment to moment. He can only know self from self-awareness which can only come from self-observation--but that is usually glided slightly over; and, of course, we always say, "I heard and I understand." This is deceit because we could not say, "I don't understand what that means-"I will have to check it out for myself." "I will have to experiment with everything that I read here to find out what it means. If I read that all this is coming from within me instead of from temptation from without, then I would have to observe "self'and see. By following this self-observation one comes upon what is truth. To know the truth, begins to make one free. In order to know what the truth is, one must see what is, and what is, is that we are conditioned. Even if we have observed it a while, we still have gobs of that conditioning in the heart of man--that is to see the truth of the matter. When one sees the truth, X then operates on it. The statement is: know the truth (be aware of the truth) and the truth will make you free!! That seems to be exactly the way it works. It does not say, know the truth and then work real hard on the truth and maybe you'll make it free, or try to change what you've found, or deny what you have found as being truth, and that will help. It is know the truth and the truth will make you free. One sees the fact (the truth of one's state) that is reported to X, and X does the appropriate work that undoes the agony and begins to remove the conditioning-(that which defiles a man)-(that which tramples him under and utterly destroys him.) So we see for one statement here that this teaching has been around a long long time and that it always starts out always with self-knowing. * The statement that was read is from the New Testament, the Book of Mark, Chapter 7, starting at Verse 14 and going through to Verse 23. [My teacher said that not i's always lie. In observing self over some time, I've discovered that "self" strongly accepts and believes what the not I's are saying at a particular moment of "seeming crisis". If I remember to look at how I saw the "seeming crisis" a day or so later, I can then see that the not I's were indeed lying-however, that's when more information has come to light on that previous situation. Many times the not "I's" have convinced me that I will lose my job, or everyone will disapprove of me. In reality-(even if the worse thing happened and I lost my job over what I was worrying about-which I can't remember ever happening-other jobs come along all the time.) If people disapprove, well, it didn't change the "seeming crisis"-the only thing that happens is I usually let it make me feel guilty for something I had no control over. The point is that so often after the "seeming crisis" has passed, I forget to check up and see that the not I's were indeed lying. I've also discovered that the "self" when accepting what the not I's are saying reacts in the present moment from those lies and then later regrets things said and done-these are some of the agonies and miseries talked about. In one of the past workshops, we talked about "delaying response", and I've found that to be very useful. Not I's seem to be one-dimensional-they never see the total picture. They don't know all the influences to the situation. They don't know motives or conditioning of all those involved-including self. Not I's thrive on ignorance, misinformation, mis-communication and misconception about and between self and others……Marsha]







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