I read some reviews of Keys to the Ultimate Freedom – Thoughts and Talks on Personal Transformation by Lester Levenson and seldom have I found such positive appraisals. For some people, this book has been the single most important one in their lives. Lester Levenson developed the Sedona Method, his own method of achieving enlightenment, which he taught for years. This book is a combination of questions and answers from these sessions and talks on several topics. From the book:
There is no growing into the natural Being that we are. That Being is whole and perfect, here and now. There is only letting go of concepts to the contrary, that we have troubles, that we have limitations. Anyone who says, “I have trouble,” has it in his mind. That’s the only place where it is because you can’t see anything anywhere else but in your mind. Whatever you look at, whatever you hear, whatever you sense, is through your mind. That’s where everything is. Change your mind and everything out there changes. Change your thinkingness and you change the world for you. Do this and you have the proof! So the way, the path, is simple. The method of undoing the limitations is not easy because of habit. We need a very strong desire to begin to let go of these wrong habits from the past. Without that strong desire there is no growth. This desire must be stronger than the desire to possess and control this world. The world as now seen really is a fiction when you see the Truth. It turns out to be a dream. First you’ll see it as a dream, then you’ll see it as a dream that never was. It is exactly as happens in a night dream. While you’re in the night dream you have a body there are other bodies, there’s action, interaction, there’s good and there’s bad. And so long as you remain in that night dream everything there is real to you. When you awaken from the night dream you say, ‘‘my gosh it was just a dream! It never happened! This dream was all in me!” And exactly in the same manner you awaken from this dream called the waking state. You come to see that it was only a fiction of your imagination, it was only a dream, and then you let go of it lock, stock and barrel and what is left over is the infinite you! Then you call yourself fully realized totally free. We are actually fully realized all the time. We are fully realized Beings saying that we are not. So all we do is let go of “we are not” and what’s left over is the fully realized Being that we are. Are there any questions on what I’ve said so far? No? Then everyone understands this, at least intellectually.
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I could have worded that a little better but rather than re write it I will stand with knowing there is no objective good. Only “the” non limited subject is Real good. Even the negative self that feels or thinks it knows the world is objectively bad is subjectively confirming a subjective value of thinking/believing it is right not a real objective reality and is free to do so. God or Good is unafraid to be open to the possibility of experiencing temporary passing suffering. Thus it is good to be unlimitedly free to be able to suffer until we see what is temporary and what is beyond time. Even every thing of this world is unlimited in the sense that no thing can only be what it is without passing or able to pass. But passing does not apply to non limit which is experienced as timeless.
Interesting that my ability to never accept what I think or believe I know today had led me to seeing that I am nonlimit and then as I did a web search looking for confirmation I stumbled on to this Holybooks site and then to the final chapter of this book which deals just with that. But of course so many teachers are pointing to just that but we have to keep opening the door with our minds until we fully experience and know in the absolute real now way that it is so. Questions of who or what I am cease. Objective worldly value or good has to by nature be limited and can not last. Not to say I won’t make the mistake of believing limited value is good again and start to suffer again but the more I see this the more I see it is self deception that I think the world which is made of objects that are empty of self nature and are by themselves neutral can cause deception and suffering.
PEACE!