Bedtime Story & Reflection: Wishful Thinking

This talk begins with a short story entitled 'Wishful thinking; the parable of the wish-fulfilling tree.' All that you experience is your creation. First, you create it, then you experience it. The source of everything exists within you. Your desires and the experience of fulfillment. Do you know the power that lies within? How do thoughts become things bit by bit? This is a fundamental truth to be understood. When you are aware of this power, conscious living gets to a new level. Ponder with g

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Hello and warm greetings to you.

May we arrive in this moment together with grace,

Ease,

And comfort to receive words,

A collection of words that form a parable,

A story,

And that evoke that into further reflection with where you are in your life.

When you hear words,

Stories,

And reflections,

They get to wash through your head,

Your values.

How are you living?

Your heart?

What feelings do you feel?

So may you have an experience that is transformative,

Connected,

And illuminating for where you are.

Explore some intuitive movement.

Maybe there's some real or fake yawns.

Some 80s shoulder rolls back.

Some jazzercise.

Some weird jaw movement to relieve stress.

Maybe you sit down,

Lie down,

Have some tea.

Maybe you're painting.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Wishful thinking.

The parable of the wish-fulfilling tree.

The man was tired,

So he fell asleep under a wish-fulfilling tree.

When he woke up,

He was feeling hungry.

So he said,

I wish I could get some food from somewhere.

And immediately,

The food appeared out of nowhere,

Just floating in the air.

Delicious food.

Wow,

Just like that.

He immediately started eating,

And when he was feeling very satisfied,

Another thought arose to him.

Oh,

You know,

If only I could get something to drink.

And there is no prohibit in paradise.

So immediately,

Precious wine appeared.

Drinking the wine,

Relaxed in the cool breeze of paradise,

Under the shade of a tree,

He started wondering,

What is happening?

What exactly is happening?

What is happening?

Have I fallen into a dream,

Or are some ghosts around me playing tricks with me?

And the ghosts appeared.

They were ferocious.

Horrible.

Nauseating.

Ooh,

The ghosts appeared in and around,

In the mind around.

He started trembling,

And a thought arose to him.

Now I'm sure I'll be killed.

Those people,

Those beings,

They're going to kill me.

And he was killed.

This parable is an ancient parable of immense significance.

Your mind is the wish-fulfilling tree,

Whatsoever you think.

Sooner or later,

It is fulfilled.

Sometimes the gap is such that you have completely forgotten that you had desired it in the first place.

Sometimes the gap is years.

Sometimes even different lives.

So you may not be able to connect the source,

But if you watch deeply,

You will find all your thoughts are creating you and your life.

They create your hell.

They create your heaven.

They create your misery.

They create your joy.

They create the negative.

They create the positive.

Everybody is a magician,

Spinning and weaving a magic wand around himself,

Herself,

Themselves.

And when they're caught,

The spider is caught in its own web.

Once this is understood,

Things start changing.

Then you can play around,

Then you can change your hell into heaven.

It is just a question of painting it from a different vision.

Or if you are so much in love with your misery,

You can create as much as you want to your heart's content.

So when you're never complaining because you know that it is your creation,

That it is your painting,

You cannot make anybody feel responsible for it,

Then the whole responsibility is yours.

Then a new possibility arises.

You can stop creating the world.

You can stop creating it.

There is no need to create heaven and hell.

There is no need to create it all.

The creator can relax,

Can retire.

And the retirement of the mind is what we know as meditation.

Inhale.

Exhale.

You don't have to wait until 65.

Retire the mind today with an in and an out.

The thinker is creative with his thoughts.

This is one of the most fundamental truths to be understood.

All that you experience is your creation.

First you create it,

Then you experience it.

And then you're caught in the experience because you don't know the source of all that exists inside of you.

Once a man was traveling,

He entered paradise.

In the Indian concept of paradise,

There are wish-fulfilling trees.

Karpatarus.

You just sit underneath them,

Desire anything,

And immediately it is fulfilled.

There is no gap between desire and fulfillment.

You think and immediately it comes into a thing.

The thought realizes automatically.

These karpatarus are nothing but symbolic for the mind.

The mind is creative,

Creative with its thoughts.

Do you know that you're a creative being?

Do you know that you're here to co-create with divine source energy?

You're here to co-create with who's around you.

You're here to co-create with the strangers.

You're here to co-create with people in other places,

Spaces,

Dimensions,

People in a vibrational place.

You can even co-create through the internet.

You can co-create through different lifetimes.

If you are from source energy and source energy is creative sexual energy,

Why would you not be capable of this creative force?

Wow.

Wow,

Wow,

Wow.

It's nice to hear these stories because they make things blunt and obvious like boom.

Sure they can seem a bit silly.

Poof,

This came out of air.

Poof,

That came out of air.

But stories and fantasies are there for a reason for you to awaken,

To remember because it's so easy to get caught up in the busyness of our lives that you may not even remember what you're saying or thinking.

You know there's so many mantras,

Affirmations that are subconscious,

Unconscious.

I hope.

Seems innocent,

Doesn't it?

I hope that happens.

I try to eat better.

I try to eat healthy.

These are kind of like the harmless ones.

And there's of course the negative vibrational,

Lower vibrational ones.

If you only,

Oh I'm not fit.

I'm going to get a so and so and so.

Retire the mind.

Retirement may not be easy for your mind.

But at least when you slow down and enter a bit of retirement,

Even if it's 15 minutes a day,

Can you retire your mind for five minutes?

For five breaths?

Retire the mind for five breaths?

You can get some awareness.

What was that chatter?

What was the shadow self that has a tune playing?

What's the tune playing in your ear?

Extract that tune.

What's the new tune?

This is not a new concept.

The mind is trickery,

The monkey mind,

The egoic mind.

One of the biggest relationships you'll have is you with you,

The toddler within,

The angel the devil.

How can we find harmony because this is an ongoing thing and it's lots of trickery.

And if everything influences your mind,

How you sleep,

What you eat,

Who you hang around,

Then this is daily,

Daily work.

Law of attraction explores this,

Mindset explores this,

Every field,

Every religion,

Every spirituality.

How can we master the mind?

How do we end the chatter?

We can accept the mystery and just do the work.

You do what you can do and you feel good about it.

Meditation doesn't work.

Dynamic meditation.

Go for a walk.

Stare at a painting.

Listen to music.

Eat your food without a phone.

Remember everything is meditation.

There is no one path.

What are your power words?

What are the language with yourself?

Talk with a friend.

Recently meeting Marianne Williamson,

She mentioned when you think you're in a good place and you've done the work,

The inner work,

You feel you're refining your soul to be a being of light and love.

When you think you're done and you're like,

I'm good and you might be,

She's like,

Ask your friends what they think would be a next layer or level of healing,

Awakening,

Processing.

The crowd erupted in laughter because we think we know ourselves,

But your friends can have another opinion.

The outside eye is always,

It's there for a reason,

Right?

When we get an outside eye for the dance rehearsal,

Theater rehearsal for an editor,

Can you read this?

Personally,

My wellness oracle had four different editors,

So there's always work to be done.

Yes indeed.

For our thoughts create our reality.

I know that's hard to understand because then why the rapes?

Why the murders?

Why the bankruptcy?

Why the disease?

How the buying?

Do my thoughts create those?

I liken Osho's reflection saying how sometimes it's hard to connect the source,

Right?

Before you come into the incarnated body,

Remember because there's no judgment whether you are suffering your whole life in this body.

From your vantage point,

Because you know that it's an illusion,

The pain,

From your vantage point,

Because of the collective consciousness of the planet earth,

Maybe you coming here to suffer to help awaken empathy and compassion was the best vantage point.

I don't have the answer and it is horrible to think about the suffering.

I don't like thinking about it.

It doesn't make sense.

Why?

So I know that's a tough one.

Our thoughts create a reality.

How do you explain that,

Right,

To these situations?

But I love that Osho said that.

Sometimes it's hard to connect the source point.

The karmic points between people,

Different lifetimes.

Earth is not an easy place to exist.

Dolores Cannon says,

Really advanced souls come to this planet because it's hard.

It's tough here.

May we know our creativity and realize that word.

Let's reclaim it in a universality concept.

Creativity is more than just art.

It's more than drawing,

Writing,

Dancing.

That's why I say to people,

What's your connection to creativity?

And I remind people that the art of living is you with you,

You with your mind.

We are creative beings.

How do you create?

How do I create?

And how do we create?

These three questions,

Beautiful.

Thank you for offering them.

Even that can be your spiritual work.

You could take that and run the rest of your life.

When you realize that,

Wow,

Interesting conversations can be had with who you live with,

Who you work with.

I actually decided today,

I decided.

Remember,

Every day has the power to change and to shift a new ritual.

My meditation's on my back.

I have these balls that have relaxed the skeleton so that I can bring ease and alignment and breath and tones.

But I decided today I will end with eye gazing in a mirror.

It's very popular.

It's not anything new.

But today I decided,

Maybe I'll add that question.

How will I create today?

We can co-create just by breathing as we send vibrational sounds to the universe for we are connected in a beautiful way.

Embrace,

Accept,

Integrate.

These are beautiful words.

The integrate.

Anchor your being into your breath.

Take deep breaths.

And all of these thoughts can evaporate into the blue skies above.

What a beautiful visual.

Remember,

Visualization in meditation is an amplification of what meditation can be.

So maybe take that with you.

Breathe in.

Feel the thoughts floating out and up.

Exhale like clouds.

They evaporate.

That was a lot of words.

May you take what resonated.

Release the rest.

Hopefully there was something in the story in the post reflection that will get some clocks turning,

Some chimes within to echo your resonance,

To know your power.

May you be gracious with yourself and others,

But at the same time stern knowing this vibrational energetic language.

Stern and strict,

To focus,

To know this universal truth.

Very gracious and love based to the healing and to the contrast that has its edges.

Fear and anger is not a place to heal.

It's a place to awaken and to spark,

To release,

And then we return to love.

May you return to love one thought at a time.

Feel it in and around.

I bless you and your relationship with your head and heart spaces now and always in this lifetime and others.

Thank you.