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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is peace? What's peace?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is it something you obtain after all your goals are checked?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
When will that be exactly?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know about you, but I have a lot
of goals, a lot of things that I hope for
that probably won't happen anytime soon, especially in today's economy,
with the pressures of living in the West.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I don't know. It seems like for most of us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For many of us, the goals of having X, Y,
and Z as a young person, whether it's a house,
whether it's a family, or even just a stable job,
for many of us seems far away, seems unattainable, And
so I ask you, is that the only time will
(01:01):
have peace when we reach that far off goal. It's
an interesting thing because our sages, our teachers, throughout time,
throughout history, throughout many of the world's religions tell us
something that we often forget, even if we are religious,
(01:24):
which is that peace is consciousness, is life, is God,
is light awareness itself. Peace is when we return to ourselves,
return to the garden.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Of Eden within.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We choose in a way to live outside of the
garden of Eden. Today, it's not about how perfect things
are outside the heavenly city could literally descend, and we'd
still have anxieties. We would think, who are these beings?
You know, these angels. We probably wouldn't think that necessarily.
(02:05):
We would assume they're aliens, assume.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
They're what have you? Right? And so we see.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Jesus himself or Mohammed or I don't know, you name
it right, Goddess, Zeus himself, whatever we believe in, we
feel like we can't find that peace. We feel like
everything we encounter should have a layer of.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Suspicion on it. Right. Often we approach our.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Significant others that way, we approach our life that way,
our jobs that way, and we may have good reason to.
But where's peace found in the layers of anxiety, the
layers of fear. Peace is what sees those things. Yes,
(03:05):
I'm here to break it to you. God's burden is
very light because God hands us through many of the
world's traditions, my favorite being Christianity. But for you it
can be different. Through Jesus Christ, he said, my burden
is not heavy. God wasn't speaking just to Christians. He
(03:28):
can show up and say, well, you know, really, I'm
talking to evangelicals. In the twenty twenties, no, God was
speaking to all as the son of Man, the son
of humanity. In fact, he called other sons of God
sons of humanity as well, but also.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sons of God. He called all of us children of God.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
He wasn't trying to stake out a claim in the
roster of religions.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, you tell me, was he?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We all intuitively know this, but sometimes through the rigmarole
of everyday conversations, through the tension between my identity and theirs,
we can lose the thread of Christ and many others teachings.
The Buddha taught a similar thing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Right. He was in the midst.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Of all this trauma that he saw, and that's what
weakened him to the pure bliss of being. That's what
compelled his heart his mind to settle for a while
underneath a tree and to find what we call enlightenment, what.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We call christ consciousness, what we call Christian consciousness.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Many names for this, because it's happened across history. There
are many names for God, even just in the Bible.
In fact, I saw the shirt recently. It was kind
of cool, but had all the names of God in
the Christian Bible, and it was just covered with so
(05:20):
many different names El Shadai, Elohen, Jehovah, Jehovah. There's so
many Jehovah's it's hard to pick from. Not that I
can remember any of them, but there are so many
names for God. It's Jehovah, this Jehovah, that, depending on
where the person encountered this divine being, this Yehushua, this Yeshua,
(05:49):
this Joshua, this Jesus. Yes, those are all pronunciations of
Christ's name in the New Testament, which is most likely
in long form.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah Hushua, yeah Hua.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Where we get Yeshua, where we get Jesus, and where
we get Jay dog for those of us who are
really cool. Besides how cringe religions become, sometimes there's a
reason the powers that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Be ended up using it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It wasn't because they wanted to use this radical spiritual
rabbis teachings about being kind having heaven within.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, they ended up using those.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Ideas or using the religion the label over those ideas
to contain and retain their power over people, to continue
to claim there supposed spot at the top.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And Yes, often the.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Greatest of tools can be used for the worst of purposes.
Worst the purposes, yeah, one of those.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And so in our.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Spiritual teachings, whether it's the Vedas, the Bible, the Qur'an,
we often have this narrative of the strength of the
human spirit. But it's not just a strength, a domination,
of ability to conquer. It's an ability to conquer from peace,
(07:41):
from God, from life itself being empowered in us because
we relied on God, on yehushwa, on Spirit, the Great Spirit,
the Creator. The crea trick says the Latin indicates in
(08:07):
the mainal Swedenborg's writing.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Female aspects of God. Perhaps is God female? Is God male?
I mean, most of us believe God's.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Male, But no, I don't think that's entirely right, right,
because the Holy Spirit, even in Christianity, is often described
as feminine.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And indeed we're told in most.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
World religions that all goodness, all good things, are from God.
And indeed humanity, male and female are created in God's image.
And if there's a spectrum of male and female, which
we all have some feminine qualities, we all have some
(08:58):
male qualities. I mean, we all hopefully got something kind
from our mother, something kind from our fathers that we
can't help but express whether it's a certain look way
of thinking. Perhaps where is the line drawn between what's feminine,
(09:19):
what's not, what's now and what's feminine. Often these things
are overlapping, But you know, we get that, we don't
make a big.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Deal about that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's only when we start talking about silos and genetics
and how someone was born that we get kind of
buggered about things. And what's interesting about that is, honestly,
(09:52):
it's really not any of our business to judge, to
say someone and belong. I do agree there are times
where perhaps anyone can misbehave, anyone can mis behave, and indeed,
(10:14):
unfortunately in public spaces, there are often people who are
trying to rip other people off, steal from them.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But these things happen so small, so few.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Moments of our lives that when we get so caught
up in the issues of someone being in a certain space,
we forget christ consciousness of peace.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you think God would act the way you would
in a situation that triggers you.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's a good question to ask ourselves, because God actually
asks us, through the Christian Bible, through others, to be kind,
to love others as He loved us, willing to die
for others.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
That's what that means, right, among other things, willing to
suffer for others.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He asked us to love others as He loved us,
and we like to.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ignore this.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Very clear statement from Christ. He asked us to be
perfect as Father God is perfect. And often we get
into our heads about this. Oh it's too much, that's
not what Christ meant. But indeed, Christ and the Buddha
and Krishna asked us to accept the perfect life of
(11:52):
our natural, peaceful state. That's why Christ taught us to
turn within, saying Heaven is within you. So these things
I have to remind myself because often I'm just beating
myself up I'm not perfect, or I'm thinking, oh, well,
this won't change. But both those things are kind of
(12:17):
two sides to the same coin. There my mind in
a state of being over empowered. Honestly, when my thinking,
analyzing mind is over empowered, it means I'm not centering
in my piece.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And often the way to our piece it's simple.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
People have a lot of meditation techniques, but I think
it's quite simple. It's through our breathing and through our
awareness on our breathing. Often it's how it starts right.
When we want to calm down to a few deep breaths,
why will because we're thinking about our breathing, we're thinking
(13:04):
about thinking deep breaths. Deep breaths literally help us, and
they also help us through our thinking because we're focusing
on our breathing. It's not entirely about just distracting us
from the thing that's bothering us. It's also about just
returning to the embodiedness of spirit. Because our spirit is embodied.
(13:27):
That's how we have life. Our spirit is embodied, That's
how we have love. Thought, consciousness, energygetics, of material, of ourselves,
of our blood, of our nervous system. What's our nervous system?
How does that electromagnetic thing work right? How do things
(13:53):
appear in consciousness but without consciousness, in a nebulous state,
in our quantum physics?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How does life work?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How do we ever prove right that there's anything outside
of consciousness? It's impossible, there's no way to prove it,
because even when we read the results from a computer,
it's in consciousness, it's in our mind, it's in our
inner light. And often when we take too much stock
(14:31):
and how we think about things, what we think about things,
and we're so judgmental because we don't know our unity
with everything. We can't help but be anxious. Every little
thing in the universe is designed for you to be
you right now. Yes, not perfect by Father God maybe,
(14:56):
but still it was designed for you to be you
and for you to be here. And if you're taking
this seriously, for you to now reflect and find that
natural peace, something that we all come to, I hope
eventually and this life for hopefully in the afterlife or
(15:17):
the next life if they're already. It's this awareness of
what we are. Christ is called the Prince of Peace.
Why because he is the Prince of peace of us.
(15:39):
Some are called the Prince of I don't know name
of country. Let's say let's say Canada had a prince,
Prince of Canada, right, Prince of Germany if they still
had kings and queens. Christ is the Prince of peace.
(15:59):
God is the Prince, the King, the Queen of peace.
The Holy Spirit fills us. We're not offended when we
say Father God fills women.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Father God is in every person, so to speak, That's
what we're told. Jesus says, be and me, as I'm
in you and as I'm in my Father, and Father
is in me, Father God is in you is He
goes all around in different parts of the Bible saying
that right, making it very.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Clear that He's in us, the Father's in us.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
We don't find that offensive, but sometimes we find Mother
God offensive the idea. And so right now we're going
to finish with a quick prayer where we just accept that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We have assumptions about God.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So whether we're praying to Father or Mother, we're opening
our hearts saying, God, I only know you so much.
I want to know you further. I want to know
all your aspects in my life. Maybe through my spouse
I find the feminine aspects of your goodness. Maybe through
(17:29):
my heart I find femine assects as well. Maybe I
find masculine. Maybe I find masculine aspects in my spouse
as well, Oh Father, Mother, Jehovah, with many names in
the Bible and the Quran and the Penstok and vade us.
(17:59):
I opened myself to your spirit, your great spirit, open
my heart to your great love. I let go of
the barriers of my distracted thinking, my judgments about stuff
in a state of disorientation, and I accept the practices,
(18:26):
whatever they are for me, that will lead me to
my piece your peace, Oh God, whether that be focusing
on long and steady or so breathing, whether that be
bringing my attention back to my heart, to my chest,
(18:52):
to my abdomen, to my feet, to my hands, to
my head, to my shoulders, my back. Oh Lord, Oh
one of many names, you shine through all beings, a
(19:13):
heavenly one. Thank you for your blessing today. Thank you
for whatever is waking me out of my sumbur of
God into my greater peace. Sometimes a heavenly one. It's
fear that brings me back to you because I'm tired
(19:38):
of it. Sometimes, Oh God, it's pain, it's hurt. It's
anxiety that readies my mind for my greater spirit to
step forward and say, oh, I've been here all along.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Peace,
What is peace? What's peace?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is it something you obtain after all your goals are checked?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
When will that be exactly?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know about you, but I have a lot
of goals, a lot of things that I hope for
that probably won't happen anytime soon, especially in today's economy,
with the pressures of living in the West.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I don't know. It seems like for most of us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For many of us, the goals of having X, Y,
and Z as a young person, whether it's a house,
whether it's a family, or even just a stable job,
for many of us seems far away, seems unattainable, And
so I ask you, is that the only time will
(01:01):
have peace when we reach that far off goal. It's
an interesting thing because our sages, our teachers, throughout time,
throughout history, throughout many of the world's religions tell us
something that we often forget, even if we are religious,
(01:24):
which is that peace is consciousness, is life, is God,
is light awareness itself. Peace is when we return to ourselves,
return to the garden.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Of Eden within.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We choose in a way to live outside of the
garden of Eden. Today, it's not about how perfect things
are outside the heavenly city could literally descend, and we'd
still have anxieties. We would think, who are these beings?
You know, these angels. We probably wouldn't think that necessarily.
(02:05):
We would assume they're aliens, assume.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
They're what have you? Right? And so we see.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Jesus himself or Mohammed or I don't know, you name
it right, Goddess, Zeus himself, whatever we believe in, we
feel like we can't find that peace. We feel like
everything we encounter should have a layer of.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Suspicion on it. Right. Often we approach our.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Significant others that way, we approach our life that way,
our jobs that way, and we may have good reason to.
But where's peace found in the layers of anxiety, the
layers of fear. Peace is what sees those things. Yes,
(03:05):
I'm here to break it to you. God's burden is
very light because God hands us through many of the
world's traditions, my favorite being Christianity. But for you it
can be different. Through Jesus Christ, he said, my burden
is not heavy. God wasn't speaking just to Christians. He
(03:28):
can show up and say, well, you know, really, I'm
talking to evangelicals. In the twenty twenties, no, God was
speaking to all as the son of Man, the son
of humanity. In fact, he called other sons of God
sons of humanity as well, but also.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sons of God. He called all of us children of God.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
He wasn't trying to stake out a claim in the
roster of religions.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, you tell me, was he?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We all intuitively know this, but sometimes through the rigmarole
of everyday conversations, through the tension between my identity and theirs,
we can lose the thread of Christ and many others teachings.
The Buddha taught a similar thing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Right. He was in the midst.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Of all this trauma that he saw, and that's what
weakened him to the pure bliss of being. That's what
compelled his heart his mind to settle for a while
underneath a tree and to find what we call enlightenment, what.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We call christ consciousness, what we call Christian consciousness.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Many names for this, because it's happened across history. There
are many names for God, even just in the Bible.
In fact, I saw the shirt recently. It was kind
of cool, but had all the names of God in
the Christian Bible, and it was just covered with so
(05:20):
many different names El Shadai, Elohen, Jehovah, Jehovah. There's so
many Jehovah's it's hard to pick from. Not that I
can remember any of them, but there are so many
names for God. It's Jehovah, this Jehovah, that, depending on
where the person encountered this divine being, this Yehushua, this Yeshua,
(05:49):
this Joshua, this Jesus. Yes, those are all pronunciations of
Christ's name in the New Testament, which is most likely
in long form.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah Hushua, yeah Hua.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Where we get Yeshua, where we get Jesus, and where
we get Jay dog for those of us who are
really cool. Besides how cringe religions become, sometimes there's a
reason the powers that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Be ended up using it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It wasn't because they wanted to use this radical spiritual
rabbis teachings about being kind having heaven within.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
No, they ended up using those.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Ideas or using the religion the label over those ideas
to contain and retain their power over people, to continue
to claim there supposed spot at the top.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And Yes, often the.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Greatest of tools can be used for the worst of purposes.
Worst the purposes, yeah, one of those.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And so in our.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Spiritual teachings, whether it's the Vedas, the Bible, the Qur'an,
we often have this narrative of the strength of the
human spirit. But it's not just a strength, a domination,
of ability to conquer. It's an ability to conquer from peace,
(07:41):
from God, from life itself being empowered in us because
we relied on God, on yehushwa, on Spirit, the Great Spirit,
the Creator. The crea trick says the Latin indicates in
(08:07):
the mainal Swedenborg's writing.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Female aspects of God. Perhaps is God female? Is God male?
I mean, most of us believe God's.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Male, But no, I don't think that's entirely right, right,
because the Holy Spirit, even in Christianity, is often described
as feminine.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And indeed we're told in most.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
World religions that all goodness, all good things, are from God.
And indeed humanity, male and female are created in God's image.
And if there's a spectrum of male and female, which
we all have some feminine qualities, we all have some
(08:58):
male qualities. I mean, we all hopefully got something kind
from our mother, something kind from our fathers that we
can't help but express whether it's a certain look way
of thinking. Perhaps where is the line drawn between what's feminine,
(09:19):
what's not, what's now and what's feminine. Often these things
are overlapping, But you know, we get that, we don't
make a big.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Deal about that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's only when we start talking about silos and genetics
and how someone was born that we get kind of
buggered about things. And what's interesting about that is, honestly,
(09:52):
it's really not any of our business to judge, to
say someone and belong. I do agree there are times
where perhaps anyone can misbehave, anyone can mis behave, and indeed,
(10:14):
unfortunately in public spaces, there are often people who are
trying to rip other people off, steal from them.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But these things happen so small, so few.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Moments of our lives that when we get so caught
up in the issues of someone being in a certain space,
we forget christ consciousness of peace.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Do you think God would act the way you would
in a situation that triggers you.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's a good question to ask ourselves, because God actually
asks us, through the Christian Bible, through others, to be kind,
to love others as He loved us, willing to die
for others.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
That's what that means, right, among other things, willing to
suffer for others.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He asked us to love others as He loved us,
and we like to.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ignore this.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Very clear statement from Christ. He asked us to be
perfect as Father God is perfect. And often we get
into our heads about this. Oh it's too much, that's
not what Christ meant. But indeed, Christ and the Buddha
and Krishna asked us to accept the perfect life of
(11:52):
our natural, peaceful state. That's why Christ taught us to
turn within, saying Heaven is within you. So these things
I have to remind myself because often I'm just beating
myself up I'm not perfect, or I'm thinking, oh, well,
this won't change. But both those things are kind of
(12:17):
two sides to the same coin. There my mind in
a state of being over empowered. Honestly, when my thinking,
analyzing mind is over empowered, it means I'm not centering
in my piece.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And often the way to our piece it's simple.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
People have a lot of meditation techniques, but I think
it's quite simple. It's through our breathing and through our
awareness on our breathing. Often it's how it starts right.
When we want to calm down to a few deep breaths,
why will because we're thinking about our breathing, we're thinking
(13:04):
about thinking deep breaths. Deep breaths literally help us, and
they also help us through our thinking because we're focusing
on our breathing. It's not entirely about just distracting us
from the thing that's bothering us. It's also about just
returning to the embodiedness of spirit. Because our spirit is embodied.
(13:27):
That's how we have life. Our spirit is embodied, That's
how we have love. Thought, consciousness, energygetics, of material, of ourselves,
of our blood, of our nervous system. What's our nervous system?
How does that electromagnetic thing work right? How do things
(13:53):
appear in consciousness but without consciousness, in a nebulous state,
in our quantum physics?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How does life work?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How do we ever prove right that there's anything outside
of consciousness? It's impossible, there's no way to prove it,
because even when we read the results from a computer,
it's in consciousness, it's in our mind, it's in our
inner light. And often when we take too much stock
(14:31):
and how we think about things, what we think about things,
and we're so judgmental because we don't know our unity
with everything. We can't help but be anxious. Every little
thing in the universe is designed for you to be
you right now. Yes, not perfect by Father God maybe,
(14:56):
but still it was designed for you to be you
and for you to be here. And if you're taking
this seriously, for you to now reflect and find that
natural peace, something that we all come to, I hope
eventually and this life for hopefully in the afterlife or
(15:17):
the next life if they're already. It's this awareness of
what we are. Christ is called the Prince of Peace.
Why because he is the Prince of peace of us.
(15:39):
Some are called the Prince of I don't know name
of country. Let's say let's say Canada had a prince,
Prince of Canada, right, Prince of Germany if they still
had kings and queens. Christ is the Prince of peace.
(15:59):
God is the Prince, the King, the Queen of peace.
The Holy Spirit fills us. We're not offended when we
say Father God fills women.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Father God is in every person, so to speak, That's
what we're told. Jesus says, be and me, as I'm
in you and as I'm in my Father, and Father
is in me, Father God is in you is He
goes all around in different parts of the Bible saying
that right, making it very.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Clear that He's in us, the Father's in us.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
We don't find that offensive, but sometimes we find Mother
God offensive the idea. And so right now we're going
to finish with a quick prayer where we just accept that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
We have assumptions about God.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So whether we're praying to Father or Mother, we're opening
our hearts saying, God, I only know you so much.
I want to know you further. I want to know
all your aspects in my life. Maybe through my spouse
I find the feminine aspects of your goodness. Maybe through
(17:29):
my heart I find femine assects as well. Maybe I
find masculine. Maybe I find masculine aspects in my spouse
as well, Oh Father, Mother, Jehovah, with many names in
the Bible and the Quran and the Penstok and vade us.
(17:59):
I opened myself to your spirit, your great spirit, open
my heart to your great love. I let go of
the barriers of my distracted thinking, my judgments about stuff
in a state of disorientation, and I accept the practices,
(18:26):
whatever they are for me, that will lead me to
my piece your peace, Oh God, whether that be focusing
on long and steady or so breathing, whether that be
bringing my attention back to my heart, to my chest,
(18:52):
to my abdomen, to my feet, to my hands, to
my head, to my shoulders, my back. Oh Lord, Oh
one of many names, you shine through all beings, a
(19:13):
heavenly one. Thank you for your blessing today. Thank you
for whatever is waking me out of my sumbur of
God into my greater peace. Sometimes a heavenly one. It's
fear that brings me back to you because I'm tired
(19:38):
of it. Sometimes, Oh God, it's pain, it's hurt. It's
anxiety that readies my mind for my greater spirit to
step forward and say, oh, I've been here all along.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Peace,
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