Take The First Step To Worry-Free Living GF Live 5-24-25

KL#1:
It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it.

KL#2:
Stop looking for certainty, and you’ll stop finding uncertainty.

Exercise:
There's only one real way to stop and drop the pain of useless worry, and that’s to do what’s in your power, and refuse to do what’s not. What’s in your power is to BE where you are - with WHAT you are – and DO only what you are given to do in each moment, accordingly. There is no real power other than being Present, and no other power is needed…to be free.

Transcript

What's the title of our material today?

Take the first step on the road to worry-free living.

Is there such thing as worry-free living?

And the answer is absolutely.

But there is like all things related to realizing new possibilities in our spiritual life.

There are associated costs.

Now the curious thing about the cost when it comes to spiritual revelation,

And it's one of those paradox,

It is that in the end a person discovers that there was no cost.

Because what a person discovers,

As we will do today,

And if you'll pay close attention,

You'll see whether or not it's true,

The cost is always connected to giving up something that we're identified with that produces a false sense of self,

And that that sense of self is worthless.

So that what's the cost of giving it up?

The discovery,

The withdrawal,

And finally the revelation that there was never a you the way you imagined yourself in the first place.

So what was the cost?

It's not double talk.

We'll look at it together.

If you're ready,

Give me the thumbs up over there on the board and let's see what we've got.

I'm going to tell you a couple of stories.

One of them starts,

And imagine if you will,

Point of view.

Here's a couple,

A man and a woman,

And all we can do is more or less hear their conversation.

And he's saying,

You know,

I'm kind of dreading the rest of the day.

I've got this important meeting coming up,

And I'm not quite sure it's going to turn out the way it's going to go out.

And she says,

Well,

You think you're dreading the day.

I have to get ready for the family.

You know,

They're coming next week.

There's a lot of preparation that we have to make.

He said,

Yeah,

I know.

I hope you don't mind.

No,

She said,

I don't mind.

She said,

But from what I understand,

And we're going to have to deal with this ourselves when we go back and visit them.

They've changed a lot of the laws regarding flying.

I'm not sure the ins and outs is enough to drive you crazy.

And then he said,

Drive you crazy?

He said,

Those idiots over there in the government,

They've lost their minds.

I mean,

Where is this all going to end?

And so they talked for about four or five minutes like this,

And then she says,

You know what,

I have a stomachache.

And I did yesterday,

And I'm sure it's going to get worse.

And he says,

You have a stomachache?

What about this pain in my foot?

Now,

Just to make this clear,

You don't need a couple.

This can be you talking to yourself.

But let me get to the main point of this little story.

And finally,

After another few minutes of this dialogue,

She says to him,

Well,

I guess we better get out of bed and get our breakfast and get started with the day.

And then he says,

Yeah,

I suppose we should.

He said,

But I'm so tired I can't move.

Let me ask a question just to be clear.

Do we follow the humor in this story?

Does it connect?

It's extraordinary.

A person can exhaust themselves,

Fill themselves with stress and anxiety,

And not have done a single thing other than allow their mind in its rampant imagination to run through all of the negative possibilities that may or may not exist in those moments.

Another example.

I'm asking you to see whether this is true or not.

Please don't believe a word I say.

Maybe it's happened to you.

The flip side of all that busyness,

Maybe the middle of the afternoon,

Maybe in the morning having a coffee,

And everything's too quiet.

It's like nothing's happening,

It seems like.

And it's a problem that there's no problem.

It's almost hard to imagine that when a man or a woman has a moment that's empty of thought,

Generating some kind of torment or the promise of the end of it,

That a moment like that would be dreaded.

And if we examine why a moment like that would be dreaded,

It's because in that moment there's nothing to worry about.

There's no particular plan to pursue.

There's no possessions to protect.

Nothing's coming up.

And on the other side,

Sometimes things are going really well.

I know it's rare for most of us,

But there's no particular problem that has to be dealt with.

Just everything's kind of smooth,

Kind of quiet.

All the things you've been working on,

They're kind of coming together,

And it looks like that red carpet's going to roll out,

And you're going to stroll down to the end of whatever that reward is you've imagined.

And as you're sitting there kind of enjoying what it is that you,

In quotes,

Have controlled and made changes to effect,

Then suddenly there's got to be a problem somewhere.

I don't know what it is,

But it's coming.

I need,

What if this happens?

And the next thing you know,

This mind is making plans to protect itself from something that doesn't exist,

But that if it did happen,

Would ruin the pleasure of whatever it is that you've created and are sitting there in the comfort of a condition that your own thoughts then come up and ruin.

And then the mind in that moment,

It thinks to itself,

If I don't think through every possible problem that could happen,

Then somehow or other I would be irresponsible because I have to make sure that what it is that I want or have imagined unfolds the way that I want it and imagine it.

So let me bring you into this again.

True or not?

It goes completely unexamined.

If I'm not stressed,

If I'm not nervous,

If I'm not dealing with some problem that is likely to take place,

Then I'm irresponsible because I need at all points in time to protect myself from whatever it may be that's coming along to bring about more pain or pain that I don't want because everything seems to be fine.

And at the root of this,

And we don't see it,

Whether I'm stressed over something that may happen 10 minutes from now or 10 days from now,

Or if there's something that's promised that's good in 10 days or 10 minutes from now,

I'm not responsible if I'm not thinking about all of the permeations that may impact those plans or that may ruin them,

And I never question the fact.

And I'm asking you to see it and see the contradiction.

I'm not really happy unless I have a problem to solve because even when it seems like I've solved a problem,

Then I have to worry and solve the problem of what happens if the problem that I solved comes undone.

And I take all of that feeling,

All of that anxiety,

That pain,

I take every last part of it as the proof that somehow or other I'm a responsible human being because that's what responsible people do.

They worry.

That's what a responsible man or a woman is filled with is anxiety because if they don't have the energy of the anxiety to give them what they need to control what they're worried about,

They'll lose control.

And that consciousness,

That level of being can't see that when we are anxious,

When we are worried,

We are in fact in the control of a negative nature that has produced the very condition that it says we have to control by imagining that it may go south on us.

I'm setting the stage here.

Are you able to see it with me?

Our life is ruined.

But it's not ruined by the conditions that we blame the pain of a problem on.

Our life is ruined because we live from a ruinous nature.

Because if I actually would consider for a split second,

Really this is what it means to be responsible?

Imagine I'm getting ready to go on a beautiful trip and I'm a wreck because what if this happens and I don't have that?

Or what if I get there and they don't do this and then this doesn't work out?

So that the whole time,

Including the time I'm doing what I'm doing,

My mind is plotting and planning and trying to figure out how I can resolve this problem.

Hasn't happened yet.

But if it does,

By God,

I want to make sure I can deal with it on the spot.

And the problem that I'm trying to deal with on the spot doesn't exist.

What's on the spot is this self-suffering from its own imagination with no clue whatsoever that the sense of being a captive has nothing to do with what may or may not take place,

But with the way in which it views things and imagines how that has to go so that it can feel,

Listen to this,

Stress-free and without anxiousness.

So what am I actually responsible for?

If I'm filled with some form of worry or doubt,

And you need to see this,

It is so habitual to us,

It's unbelievable.

We wake up and the first thing we do is try to figure out what to do with the problem that our mind has told us waits for us that day.

For some of us,

Just how do I get out of bed?

Or do I have to get out of bed?

Or can I make enough money so I never have to get out of bed and I can get my breakfast in bed?

Fill in the blanks.

It's all part of this insanity.

So what am I responsible for if what I call being responsible is being filled with negativity of some kind over how to solve a problem that doesn't exist without me having imagined it into existence and then identifying with that fear,

That doubt,

Or that worry?

What am I actually responsible for?

The better question that I'm leading to is if I can see with my own clear mind for a moment,

Well,

That's nuts.

Then I have to ask not what am I responsible for at that level,

But who inside of me believes that it means I'm responsible if I'm anxious and worried.

Where did I get that idea that the only way in which I'm actually in charge of everything and controlling potential problems is if I get to the problem before it's happened.

If I can imagine every possible detail of the problem that is just about to come downstream,

Then I'll be able to deal with every aspect of that pain when it gets there.

And in that moment,

I'm experiencing every aspect of that pain and the fear of it as I'm trying to imagine what to do with something that only exists because this nature and its unconsciousness has created what?

That familiar sense of myself that says it hates to have problems.

It doesn't want to worry.

It doesn't want to face these moments.

And in being proactive,

Its responsibility is to get in there and deal with it before it takes place.

And by the way,

This,

And I haven't added this one fact,

Because this is part of what it means to be spiritually asleep.

How many times have I given up my entire life?

And by the way,

Your entire life is every moment.

How many times have I given up my entire life worrying over something?

That even when I worried over it,

The majority of it didn't unfold the way that I imagined it would,

Or that in my imagination and dealing with whatever I thought that problem was,

I came up with what I thought was a perfect plan,

And then invested my entire life in trying to protect myself from the experience that came with imagining what it might be like to be in a certain unwanted situation,

Only to realize that the very changes that I made didn't change anything.

Because now I just have a different set of things to worry about.

Instead of these problems,

I have those problems.

Because this mind imagines,

And especially because it can see other human beings that seem not to have the problems that you do,

That if you could just have a life like that,

Then you wouldn't have the problems you do in your life.

And I want you to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the consciousness that imagines a time to come when it won't have a problem to face and solve has already imagined a problem and a time to solve it in,

And it's a victim of the very consciousness that it believes it can escape by becoming something else that won't have the same problems that your old nature did.

Let's have a transition here.

I'll tell you a story.

So I don't know if you follow my work much.

I often use certain storylines,

And I use the characters because they represent definitive aspects of ourselves.

And one of my favorite stories is featuring a young woman named Christine who represents this potential wisdom,

This potential knowledge,

The nascent soul,

Sophia,

She represents,

And she is working to be a different kind of human being.

She understands that her life has been handed over without her having any idea that it has to all of these ideas,

And that basically she spends her life fending off challenges to ideas that aren't even her own.

Imagine.

Because she grew up demanding respect,

Her family did,

Fighting with people.

I can't have anybody look at me askew and question my character.

Are you kidding me?

So before the condition takes place,

She's busy trying to figure out how to control it and change the circumstances so she won't deal with the experience she gives herself as she imagines that problem that may unfold.

So she goes to the doctor,

And she says to him,

You know,

I've been with you a long time,

And I know you've told me the answer to this,

But I tell you I don't understand it.

I don't understand it.

It seems to me that things are getting worse.

Honest to God,

She said,

More and more,

I lay down in bed at night,

And usually I'm so tired I don't know what to do with myself,

But my mind,

I wish my mind felt as tired.

My mind starts to think about things.

What he did yesterday,

What she said,

How this might unfold.

What does this mean if it goes that way,

Given the way that I want it to go?

I lay down,

Then I go to bed,

And I try to pray.

I try to meditate,

But my mind,

It dominates me,

And then she says,

I have these dreams.

Not all the time,

But even if I don't,

I don't know what it is.

Sometimes I wake up.

Why would I wake up with dread?

It drives me crazy because I know I'm supposed to wake up,

She said,

With what this world has done to you.

I know I'm supposed to wake up filled with anticipation about the goodness of the day,

And sometimes,

She said,

I do wake up,

And I'm thinking about all the good things that are coming,

But while I'm having my coffee and eating my curds and whey,

She says,

Along comes a spider,

And the next thing I know,

I'm trying to figure out how to protect myself from whatever it is that may ruin this,

And then I get in my car on the way to work,

On the way to the market.

I might be even going to buy myself something nice.

I'm worrying that it may not have what I want,

And if they don't have what I want,

Where am I going to get it?

And then I come home,

And I have my dinner,

And I'm exhausted,

And now I'm judging myself.

She said,

I don't know what the hell to do with myself,

Because it's rinse and repeat,

Rinse and repeat.

What am I to do?

And he says,

Yes,

Christine,

It's quite clear to me.

Quite clear?

What's quite clear to you?

He said,

It sounds like severe dump whiny.

Excuse me?

It sounds like severe dump whiny.

Are you saying something cruel to me?

Dump whiny?

No,

I'm not.

Truth is,

That's the problem.

I'm not saying anything at all about you.

He said,

Dump whiny.

It's a rather sophisticated psychological term that describes the painful,

As you know,

Activity of a very disturbing character,

Quality,

That really can be ascribed only to an unconscious nature that plagues every human being that's not aware of it.

What?

Yes,

Dump whiny.

It's the activity of a disturbing characteristic in an unconscious nature that plagues virtually every human being.

What?

What is dump whiny?

And she said,

Please tell me what it is.

He said,

If you're ready,

Kate,

It's an acronym.

DMP-WNE,

Dump whiny.

Don't make problems where none exist.

Don't make problems where none exist.

That's the prescription.

That's the solution.

Now,

If you're at all like Christine,

She feels insulted.

Don't make problems where none exist.

What,

Are you kidding me?

Do you have any idea how many problems I have?

Do you have any?

Is it even in the veil of whatever it is that you look at for you to know all of the things that I have to deal with on a daily basis?

OMG.

So she says,

How can dump whiny,

Don't make problems where none exist,

How is that the solution to my problem?

And he laughed,

Which irritated her.

And he said very simply,

If you don't create a problem,

You don't have to solve it.

But the problem is,

He went on to say,

Is that you don't know that you're living from a nature,

A condition of unconsciousness that is constantly doing what you don't see it doing.

Let's bring up the second,

The first key lesson.

Kate,

Please.

Brief bit of an explanation.

Read along with me.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see that there actually are parts of us that are not just creating it,

But clinging to it.

We don't believe for a split second that what we are looking at with our mind's eye,

When we open them in the morning,

When we take our coffee,

When we're driving in the car,

When we're sitting at her office,

Getting ready to go into some supervisual meeting,

We don't believe for a split second that there is a nature within us that needs problems so that it can derive a sense of self and a strong one at that first from resisting the problem the mind has imagined is on its way.

Because if I don't resist it,

I'm not responsible because to not resist would prove that I don't care.

And here's the proof that I care.

I'm going to pull out my hair or just lose it,

Filling my day every day,

Virtually every moment,

Letting my mind run rampant,

Thinking about what may or may not happen and what it means.

And once my mind has decided what this condition may mean,

10 seconds,

10 days,

10 years from now,

Oh my God,

I got this prognosis.

What did the doctor say?

Oh my God,

What a problem.

Now I must get in and control everything.

And I make a problem in the moment that by the nature of making the problem,

Meaning imagining what it's going to do or cause,

Creates this immense wave of resistance and all of that energy.

The energy I need to heal,

The energy I need to be true and kind,

The energy I need to be aware,

All of that energy goes into resisting a condition the consciousness in its sleep has made so that I fight to struggle and overcome the demons of a dream with no awareness whatsoever that that sense of self,

So familiar I might add,

Is a lie,

Is a lie.

So let's imagine for a moment,

And I'm hoping that you can see what I'm saying is valid and true for us.

How does this help to know it?

How does knowing this help me?

Because,

And I understand this,

Don't worry about it.

Well,

I kind of see what you're saying is true,

But now I have another problem to solve.

Because I'm in a terrible way.

I'm sorry.

Please don't mistake my.

.

.

The word happy isn't it.

Joy is not the word.

One day you will see the opposites at once.

There's a certain release that comes with recognizing that you have been fighting a battle that doesn't exist without first you imagining the adversary to overcome.

If I can see with absolute certainty that my mind operates the way that it does,

And I know this is a stretch still for you,

It's addicted to having a problem because its pleasure comes from solving problems because then it has a momentary respite from the conflict that it was living in and created for itself.

Or if I can't solve the problem,

At least I have the possibility of becoming someone who will escape my pain.

So either way it doesn't matter.

There's pleasure in imagining I will overcome the problem that doesn't exist without me imagining something terrible.

Or there's the pleasure of this familiar drone of thoughts and feelings as I'm delivered from my own considerations by the next set of thoughts that,

By the way,

Once formulated will set a whole new set of problems for me.

Haven't you noticed this?

You keep imagining a life and the way that our life has meaning is it's filled with stuff.

It's filled with stuff.

And if there's not enough stuff,

I'll just imagine some more stuff.

It could be the stuff of getting rid of you,

Getting rid of that,

Going here,

Going there.

It could be the stuff of when I get there,

I'll get this.

It doesn't matter.

It's stuffing.

It's psychological stuffing.

And everything that the mind stuffs itself with,

Then it suffers over how to protect it or get rid of it.

And it wouldn't be involved in any activity at all.

It'd be quiet if it weren't self-stuffing.

So if I actually begin to see that,

Please,

God,

You leave me alone for a second,

I go into thought.

In fact,

I'm in thought with you.

I'm thinking about how to control you.

You're a problem to me.

What do you think all the accounts are that you carry with you about people in your life?

You can't have enough people that have bothered you.

You can't revisit enough moments that have been painful.

Because every time the mind picks you up,

And yes,

It's not you doing it,

Every time this nature picks you up and takes you back to the scene of the crime,

Now you have another problem to solve,

And one day you'll have control over it and you'll be comfortable at last.

Do you see it at all?

Because if I actually recognize,

Please,

God,

That I do,

Please help me to see where I have rendered myself powerless.

Please,

I pray for power.

I don't want.

.

.

The person who prays for powers is hoping that one day they will have enough power to create conditions where they won't have problems anymore.

And there's no such thing because the more a human being imagines a time to come when they will finally be free of their suffering,

That time they've imagined becomes the source of their suffering when life challenges it and tears it down as it always does.

If I understand any of this,

The solution couldn't be clearer.

I'm going to get into it with you now.

First,

Take a nice deep breath because I want to show you two sides of an understanding,

Two levels of being,

Two ways in which we are meant to interact with this world.

First,

If I see all of this,

It's obvious.

If I know that every time I sit down at my office desk,

Every time I sit down in my chair in front of the window,

Every time I'm driving in my car,

Every time I go get ready to have a family meeting,

Whatever it is,

If I know for a fact that even before that takes place,

Something in my mind is going to start making a problem,

It doesn't think to itself it's making a problem.

It thinks to itself,

Here's how I protect myself from having a problem.

The mind doesn't think I'm going to make a problem.

The mind is thinking about how to avoid them as it imagines they may take place.

And we're so identified with the consolation of the comfort that comes from having solved the problem that doesn't exist yet that we're blind to the fact that we're caught in this loop and if I see the loop and I know that something in me is complicit in it and that as mind-boggling as it is,

Something in me wants to suffer over what may or may not be true in the moment.

Because isn't that what worry is?

You don't have happy problems.

And even if you say,

I do have a happy problem because I've got more money than God or,

You know,

I just got the fifth out of six abscess or whatever the hell it is a human being imagines makes them real.

Now I got to keep doing this and I got to keep doing that and how am I going to protect this?

So this is the condition.

Now,

If I understand the condition,

Then the cost is quite clear.

And what's the cost?

No matter what,

I can't be complicit in the continuation of that sense of myself when it appears.

No matter what,

I cannot,

Must not,

Lend my mind,

Let alone identify with the misery of some form of stress,

Worry or anxiety when it comes into me.

Now,

Slow down everybody,

Please.

Because you can't throw the baby out with the bath water.

This is why in the truest sense of the words,

And it's across the board,

You don't understand.

I live in a crazy world and I have real day-to-day problems.

I have to put food on the table.

I have children.

I must be responsible for them.

There's the issues with my health.

And that's something that requires attention.

So,

Sir,

Now you're talking to me.

Are you saying that when I feel that something has happened or that a plan that I've made to ensure that my family has some form of security,

Whatever that may be,

My car is breaking down,

I'm going to have to take some kind of measure because without my car I can't get to work.

If I can't get to work,

I can't earn enough money to feed and clothe myself and my family.

Are you saying these aren't problems?

No.

What I'm saying to you,

Simply put,

Has been said in a thousand different ways,

But I'll just cover a couple of them.

We don't understand them.

First,

Innumerable times,

New Testament,

Old Testament,

Take no thought for tomorrow.

Consider the lilies of the field.

What man taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Eastern scripture,

Put your faith in Allah,

But tie up your camel.

What are these things referring to?

Surely they're not saying be an irresponsible parent,

Be a haphazard householder.

No.

These ideas are speaking to the fact that there is the fact of a moment and that in the fact of the moment,

There's nothing in the fact that says you can't be free dealing with the fact.

Nothing in the fact of the moment says that you must suffer the moment that is the fact.

Nothing in the fact of the moment says that you must suffer the fact of that moment the way that we now suffer the fact of that moment.

And our suffering the fact of the moment is 99% psychological,

99% resistance to what the mind says that moment means and then trying to escape the meaning that our own mind has assigned to that condition.

Can you escape the meaning of your own mind by letting a mind that is filled with meanness dictate to you how it is that you get through that moment?

So the question becomes,

What's required of me?

What is my real responsibility?

Not this default responsibility.

The passion with which I speak when I get to moments like this comes from realizing as you must one day for yourself see,

How did I believe for a split second that making myself a wreck so that I'm filled with resistance and anger and resentment and frustration and then I take it out on my brother,

My mother,

My sister,

My family.

How did I ever arrive at the conclusion that being someone who has been so swallowed up by trying to escape a problem that I'm consuming not only my own soul but the life of everyone else that comes around me.

How did I become someone who believes that's what it means to be responsible?

I read this very wonderful short quote from a man much like yourself,

Meaning from someone who as a sincere aspirant got to the point where and I'll put it in juxtaposition for you,

St.

Paul.

Why do I do the evil that I do instead of the good that I would?

Why do I suffer constantly making problems for myself when nothing but evil comes out of that pain?

When the good that I would would be to see that if I weren't imagining what the moment means or what it's going to take from me or cause me to experience,

I wouldn't have to deal with anything that I call a problem.

So here's the shortest way of saying that.

Worrying is not thinking.

Don't you think that worrying is thinking?

This is what the Master said.

Worrying isn't thinking.

We think that worrying is thinking.

When you're worrying,

You're not thinking.

You're being sunk.

You're being robbed.

You're remanding the whole of your soul,

Not to mention your physical life and the vital energies you need to be attentive to the real issues.

You're handing it all over to a surreptitious,

Unconscious nature that requires worrying about something so that in its suffering,

It can find the stuff it needs to make sure it doesn't have to go through that experience again.

So how do I balance this?

You have,

I assume,

You have a family,

A job.

I run a foundation.

Lots of people with lots of problems.

What about this and what about that?

How has what we've learned at once point to the futility of living from a nature that can't wait to go into the dump,

Whiny?

Don't make problems where none exist and on the flip side to realize there are real circumstances in life that we have to deal with.

So here is the exercise.

I'm going to go over it with you.

This is a way in which you can begin to put to work,

If you felt the truth of what I've said,

In a real-time circumstance,

Real-time situation.

Read along with me and don't skip.

There's only one real way to stop and drop the pain of useless worry and that's to do what is in your power and refuse to do what's not.

Only one real way to stop and drop the pain of useless worry and that's to do what's in your power and refuse to do what's not.

What's in your power,

What's in my power,

Even as I'm speaking,

What's in your power is to be where you are with what you are and do only what you are given to do in each moment accordingly.

Break it down.

What's in my power and no one else's and no one can take it from me is to be where I am.

Where am I?

I'm in this chair,

In my room,

I'm looking out at a beautiful day.

That's where I am.

Where are you when you're worried and trying to solve a problem?

Are you in your room,

In your body,

Experiencing everything that is being given to you that moment or are you trying to protect yourself from what you think might be taken from you by going out into thought,

Into some imagined time and place?

So when I'm worrying about a problem,

I'm not where I am.

I'm where something has taken me to protect me so that one day I can get to be in my room where everything's fine.

Do.

You understand that.

To be where I am with what I am.

Ah.

So first I have to be where I am,

Here and now.

Here is physical.

What's now?

Now is the experience of here.

Now is the experience of here.

Here is the interaction,

The intersection of everything that is creating the awareness of who and what I am in this moment and with what I am is the result,

The awareness of the sum of that.

If I just had that much to be where I am with what I am,

But here's the problem.

I say,

Well,

I want to be where I am,

But where I am is filled with what I don't want to be.

No.

If you're filled with what you don't want to be,

You are not where you are.

You are in a place where you're looking at something that is telling you this is who you are and this is what you have to deal with if you want to be delivered from this pain.

Now you're in time again.

Now you're trapped again.

What's in my power is to be where I am with what I am and to do only what I am given to do in each moment accordingly.

What am I given to do?

Well,

Sitting here with where I am and what I am,

What I'm given to do is to continue to feed out this information.

I am given to let what is moving into me move through me and out to you.

That's what I am given to do.

I'm not here given to do worry whether you like what I'm saying or not.

That is not what I'm given to do.

I could say I'm given to see that something in me is concerned about that,

But if I see that that's a problem I'm making,

Then the problem is solved the minute it's clear that that's what the nature is doing.

My power is to be where I am,

To be present to what I am,

And to do in that moment.

I'm in my car on the way to work.

Is it in my power to change what that person is going to say to me at my desk when they bothered me for 50 years?

Is that in my power?

Or have I left the car endangering myself?

No,

I will do where I am and what I am.

I'll get to the place,

I'll get out of the car.

I'll see the shake shack over there and suddenly all my mind wants is a milkshake.

I'll be late,

But at least I'll be happy going in.

You do what you are given to do in the moment.

I'm on my way to accomplish something,

But being on the way doesn't mean suffer what I imagine is in the way of what needs to be done.

There is no real power other than being present and no other power is needed to be free.

Remember the acronym Dump Whiny.

How many of you like dumps?

Dumps are where used things are thrown away.

Dump.

You like the idea of a dump?

Nobody does.

Whiny?

How about whiny?

Dump whiny.

Don't make problems where none exist and you won't have to solve problems because you won't have inadvertently,

Unconsciously given life to a nature that lives to make problems so it can be the great solver.

Write it down.

Dump whiny.

Don't make problems where none exist.

You'll be happy if you really consider these ideas.

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