Don’t be afraid to die to what you imagine you are. You don’t know that you imagine you know who you are. You would vow that your imagination is you. All you have ever known is your acquired nature.
God says and Christ taught that if you die to your illusory self, which is a time-nature, you will have a spiritual nature that is endless and can never die.
Part of your false belief in yourself is that you are this very familiar physical body. Your hair is a certain color, you are 5’10” tall, you are 40 years of age, male or female physical structure. Calling yourself the body and your acquired thoughts–knowing that they die–you fear death. Of course, you do this, as long as you take yourself as your time-nature.
Your real nature does not go by the clock or calendar. It is not physical. It isn’t your fleeting thoughts and emotions. That is your mistake. As long as you make this mistake you will be afraid of all conditions. As long as you call yourself a marvelous person or a flop, as long as you call yourself anything in time, you will be scared and not have everlasting life. That is what Christ taught. What do you think all true teachings are about, except to understand that you are not your time-nature. Look and see what a mess you are and that will prove you think you are your body and experiences.
Simply let go and die to your false, artificial beliefs about yourself, and there can be no fear of death because you have died to death. Die to the belief that you are your thoughts about yourself. Die to that and you will die to death. You are under death now. You have no life.
Pray. Ask god to show you how to die. It doesn’t matter how awkward you are, or how little you know what you are talking about.
When you die, you will know you have died. You will not think the way you now think. You won’t have the death you now have. You are living in death without knowing it.
Christ came to teach people how to abolish death and they killed him.
You have got to get rid of your own hypocrisies that are keeping you in the state of death.
Obey the rules I have given you and you will have life, real life.
If you make a wrong turn while driving in an unfamiliar neighborhood, you return to where you made the wrong turn to find your objective. You don’t continue driving the wrong turn neighborhood, hoping you will happen upon your objective. Not understanding this thing I call self is making the wrong turn. Rereading this short talk a few times reveals what is blocking my connection to the higher. Give yourself a break, and read this many times. There is unseen gold in this talk.
Thanks for posting Steve. Very helpful!