Why We Don't Know Godliness 2.0

If you have the time, this track is a follow-up to Why we don't know Godliness? Listen to that one first and this one will fill in the gaps that I left out. I truly believe that if you live with an open heart then all of life's miracles will happen to you. This series dives into how to make that happen.

Transcript

Hello everyone,

Welcome again to another track by me,

Douglas Gromins.

If you've never listened to me before,

Then I'll fill you in a little bit on how I work.

I have a hard time thinking of everything I want to say all at once.

In fact,

I don't memorize anything.

It just flows out of me.

It's just a part of me,

A part that's like assimilated knowledge and information.

And then I feel inspired,

Or I read something,

Or I hear something,

Or I have a conversation with somebody.

And then I want to share that experience because I felt it's worth sharing.

So what I do is to make up for my lack of comprehension maybe in a short period of time is I make like three videos or three or four videos of the same subject,

On the same subject,

And go into a little more depth in each video or each audio track that I make.

Our topic that we've been discussing is,

I call or entitle it God's grace.

And whether you believe in God or not,

It doesn't matter.

I think that with an open mind and a receptive heart,

Then you can learn something and you can gain from these talks that I give and that I share with you guys and girls.

So if you haven't listened to the other talks I've put on here on Insight Timer as prerequisites to this track here,

If you watched the one I mentioned as a previous track,

Listen to that one and at the end of that one it will tell you to listen to another one.

And then you'll get the gist of everything.

Usually by about three or four sessions I feel that I've said everything I could actually say or try to transfer some wisdom into your lives.

So there are two approaches to this situation.

One is that of a person who has a negative mind or a negative frame of being where they don't believe in God.

And the negative can't be looked at as a bad thing.

You have to understand this a little bit.

It's easier for the person who has this black background to them,

Who will just associate negativity with blackness and darkness,

Because the opposite of having a white background.

So there are many people who have this white background and I call the white background that of the believer.

Now when a person with a white background has a disadvantage,

There are pluses and there are disadvantages to it also.

From the positive assertion it's easier to shift into knowing.

I say this with a word of caution because it's so easy to become complacent and to think well if God is everywhere,

If God is everything,

Then what do I need to do anything for?

A lot of people say that we've already reached it,

That you're already enlightened,

It's part of your nature.

So what are we searching for?

So the caution marked that lay in,

When I was raised,

My parents were pretty cool about this stuff because they didn't want to force religion on us siblings,

My brother,

My sister,

And myself.

They wanted us to make up our own minds and decide what to do,

Whether to be religious or to be not religious.

We were always given that freedom and we were never forced into going to a church.

We did go to church with our parents a couple times when we were young,

But it was never a forced thing.

It was always something that we wanted to do or else we were allowed the option of staying with a babysitter or something.

So this beauty of having this open essence about religion allowed me to accept it a lot easier and make up my own mind.

So that's the dignity that my parents gave to us.

So if you have a white background or a white board,

If you've ever seen a white marking board,

You have to use a black marker.

So the negative has to be brought in for you to see the contrast between your white background and that which needs to be expressed to you.

So that's the two essences.

With the black background,

You need a bright colored chalk or marker or whatever you have to contrast the darkness.

And it's not until you have that contrast and this understanding that negativity is not a bad thing.

It's just a different approach.

It's just a different way of living.

In fact,

Almost all the Buddhists in the world,

They don't believe in God.

Because Buddha basically said that there is no God or it's against his religion to believe in a God.

It's not exactly 100% true.

I think Buddha,

He didn't want people believing in God because that is the last roadblock.

That's the last stop for you before you realize God.

Because basically what happens is everything that you believed God to be is all fictitious.

It may be real,

It may not be real.

You don't know.

But if you have these ideas and these conceptions of what God is,

That blocks you from this true realization when you become one with God,

When you become enlightened,

When you become one and you become whole,

Or you re-enter the Garden of Eden,

As I've said before,

Or you're welcomed back into heaven.

It's all the same thing.

In Buddhist religion,

A part of you has to die.

In Christ's religion,

In the Western religions,

It is a submission.

It is an acceptance of the whole.

But unfortunately,

If the ego doesn't die,

This acceptance of the whole is superficial.

It's very shallow.

In fact,

A lot of Christians get into religion and they get very spiritual for a very short period of time and then they turn against it for some reason because there are so many ugly things out there that one turns away from.

But there are truths in both sides.

They're just different approaches.

The surrendering approach,

Surrendering to love,

Surrendering to Jesus,

Who is basically the essence of God or godliness,

This total surrender,

That's the key to it all.

It has to be done totally.

Without a total surrender,

Then you miss.

But you have to be aware of the ego coming in and once you get feeling like you're godly,

Then you start having an ego about it.

You start feeling like,

Hey,

I'm more special than other people because I'm saved.

I'm a Christian,

So I am saved.

And with this ego,

It basically destroys that love.

It pulls you and separates you from it.

And on Buddha's side,

On the contrast of the negative,

The black background,

It's very easy to believe that Buddha was literally saying that there is no God.

It's very easy to get lost in that echo.

And the pitfalls there are that you can,

In another way,

Become complacent and also not feel like you have to do any effort.

So like I said,

This talk is about God's grace.

And I have to discuss these approaches to you because understanding God's grace,

If you listen to the other tracks,

I likened it to basically you taking a cup and you flipping the cup upside down onto your coffee table and I say,

Try to pour water in that cup.

So as long as you have this negativity about you,

This male assertiveness that I am special,

I can do this,

I can do that,

Then you miss filling the cup.

The cup has to be flipped over to be filled.

And if you're always in a male assertive frame of mind or in a negative state of mind,

Then the cup stays upside down and it doesn't get filled.

You have to learn to flip your cup over and be receptive to either teaching and dive into it totally.

Whether it's Christianity or whether it's Buddhism or whether it's Jainism or Daoism,

Whatever.

Even Daoism's big marker point in the religion is to be total.

Be total in whatever you do.

And if I have to give you one teaching,

One thing that stands above all the teachings of any other guru,

It's like Nanak said in one of his songs,

That give into God's grace.

That's the biggest thing.

If you can just do this one thing,

All of the things will fall into place.

Everything else will be given to you.

If you can just do this one thing,

And that is to give into God's grace.

To become receptive,

Flip your cup over,

The cup of your soul,

Flip it over,

And be receptive and accepting of everything.

And don't just assume that you're being receptive just because you have a change of your mind.

Okay,

So this receptiveness comes from the heart.

And the mind has to become still.

And when the mind becomes completely still,

You're giving your consciousness a chance to grow and expand and take the lead.

Whereas usually the mind is in the lead and the mind is controlling everything you're doing.

Your consciousness works much faster than the mind.

It's much more expansive.

In fact,

The expansiveness of your consciousness is limitless.

It's bigger than the entire universe.

The entire universe can fit into one drop of your consciousness.

That's how big it is.

I don't know if because of the way my parents raised me,

Maybe I had an unfair advantage or a fair advantage,

Basically.

Meaning that to me,

I always knew God existed,

Even when I was just a believer.

I just knew God was there.

It's just this inner feeling in me that was the real center of my life.

Even though I wasn't centered on that center,

I felt it was very close because I was kind of a heart-centered person growing up,

More than I was an intense thinker.

And now I'm balancing these things out.

I've matured my intellectual body and doing so I can help bring this ancient wisdom or maybe these gaps in ancient wisdom to you guys and girls and help you grow from them and help you to flower into little Buddhas and little Christs.

So I have to end it with this.

Just be careful of the ego.

If you can submit and be submissive and totally surrender your life to God-consciousness or Godliness,

It's a beautiful thing.

I won't say it's a happily ecstatic thing.

Maybe in the first few seconds that you feel it,

It's kind of like the sunshine when a plant breaks through the ground for the first time and experiences what the sunshine is.

That initial wham is kind of a mountain climbing experience.

It's a peak experience,

You could say.

It's the first time you feel it and then you just kind of get used to it and things start to calm down.

Like I said in the other tracks,

When you first become a Buddha or a Christ,

You can say it.

Either word works just fine,

But as soon as you become one,

You're like a raindrop falling in the mountains and forming the streams and the waterfalls.

Then after things calm down and you accept that,

Okay,

I'm a part of God and God's a part of me,

God is in everything and now I realize He's in me,

In a way you've swapped off places with God a little bit because now He's using your eyes and your ears and your emotions,

Your intellect,

Everything to experience life through.

When I skydive,

I hardly ever pray to God.

I know that sounds weird and sacrilegious,

But I don't feel any separation between myself and God.

I feel He's always there.

He's inside of me.

He's outside of me.

God is ever pervasive.

He's in everything.

With that feeling,

When I skydive,

I always say a prayer to myself.

I'm like,

Okay,

God,

We're getting ready to do this.

Stay with me.

Experience it with me.

Let's do this together and feel the joy of this skydive.

Somehow almost every single time,

I feel that God is with me on every skydive.

It wasn't like that at first.

At first,

When I first got into skydiving,

They told me it was all about using the mind.

Skydiving and staying alive is all about using the mind.

They weren't wrong in a sense of teaching that to their students because you have to be able to think in a pinch.

What happens is if you're not centered on consciousness,

If you don't have this godliness awareness about you as you're skydiving,

You can panic.

If you use the mind,

The mind will panic and then you freeze up.

When moments are very precious and time is very short,

You've got to think and you've got to be able to move.

I know it's kind of like the samurai.

It's always been said in the ancient samurai days that the slower samurai dies.

The one that thinks,

He's the one that dies.

So a samurai has to learn to move and act faster than what his mind does.

Consciousness precedes what his mind does.

It's just lightning fast reflexes.

And the one time that I did have a double malfunction,

Actually,

Skydiving,

I was testing out another company's parachute.

They were demoing some parachutes and they gave me one to try on my rig,

But they had to put it on my rig.

They didn't want to trust me to put it on the rig.

I probably would have put it on backwards.

So anyway,

I got this rig on.

I went up to altitude,

No big deal.

I asked them if I could do free fall in it and they said,

No problem,

No problem,

Not at all.

Do whatever you want to do.

In hindsight,

I probably should have just done a hop and pop.

But anyway,

I went into free fall and I had an uneventful free fall.

It was fun.

Just did a little belly dive from 14,

000 feet.

And what I did was I wanted to pull high so that I could play with the parachute a little bit.

It's a new parachute.

You want to feel it before you try to land it.

So that's what I did.

I got opened at five grand and it was a line over and a line twist,

Which put me into severe spin.

Spins are not good.

In fact,

I saw a video track of a woman that went into a spin and she took way too long to try to get out,

You know,

Cut away from it.

And I remember in that video and seeing her do that when I went into a spin,

I cut away within three seconds.

I mean,

I didn't even spin more than twice,

I don't think.

But in three seconds,

I was like,

All right,

I'm out of here.

Boom.

So got rid of my main parachute.

But my RSL was still connected.

I didn't think about disconnecting it because this scenario never happened to me before.

So I just didn't think about it.

Normally,

You want your RSL to pull your reserve.

The RSL is a reserve static line.

But in this instance here,

When it pulled my reserve,

My reserve twisted all the way up and I had line twists all the way up on it.

I had probably about at least what I could count like 10,

10 line twists that it took me to kick and spin out of.

But since I opened up at 5000,

There was no problem.

The reserve opened up,

It was just twisted up.

So I just had to kick it like a swing and counter spin myself until the parachute finally opened up for me.

And it finally did at about 2000 feet.

And that was plenty of height and altitude for me to make it back to the drop zone safely and not have to land off field under my reserve.

In fact,

I'm the only one that's ever flown that reserve.

That reserve was built in 1989 and nobody ever flew it except for me.

And that was because I wanted to try somebody else's parachute.

If I would have left my parachute in it,

It probably would have been fine.

So anyway,

I guess the moral of the story is,

You know,

Be prepared in life,

Trust your intuition,

Trust that God is in everything,

But be receptive at the same time.

And this is the key factor.

If you can just do this one little thing,

Then the abundance of beauty and abundant consciousness and a life full of joy and bliss will enter you and fill your life and change everything about you.

So anyway,

I guess that's it for today.

We've talked on a little bit and I just wanted to share these final insights on God's grace,

Unless I can think of something more in the next track.

But I think this makes three or four tracks.

So anyway,

Thank you again for joining me.

My name is Douglas Grumman's and I hope you enjoyed and take care of yourselves.

Namaste to all my spiritual friends and Aloha to all you surfers.

Take care.

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