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Uncle Willy,
Posted by: Jim |
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19-Dec-2004-21:11:15 |
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Re: Uncle Willy |
Oh, maybe you mean Willy and Father Flannagan. Rama used to change his voice radically between the Good Father with heavy Irish accent and tiny Willy. It used to make us roar with laughter in the meditation hall. You can hear it on the Psychic Development/Selfless Giving tape which is going to come out on CD but isn't scheduled as the next series - the Laksmi tapes will be available next after they are dropped to CD -- but here's an excerpt from that tape recorded November 1, 1985:
Selfless giving is a lot of fun. And I think if you view it in that way, in other words, don’t think of selfless giving as a unpleasant prescription medicine that YOU have to take so YOU can reach higher levels of attention and feel all that power and ecstasy surging through every cell in your body -- No. Not at all. Selfless giving is just plain fun. Meaning you’re going to do something that’s going to make you feel better than you feel at the moment. Not necessarily because it’s going to help anybody else.
“Oh, Willy, now. This is Father Flannagan now. Today you’re gonna go out and we’re gonna do some work for the parish and you’re gonna go out and you’re gonna sell those little Christmas seals. You’ll raise a lot of money, and Willy, it’s good. Aye, the Holy Mother, she used to sell them too.” (He laughs.)
Well, Willy might go out and sell those Christmas seals and feel lousy. And even if he sold a lot and he walked back into Father Flannagan, and he expected the father to really pat him on the head and say, “Oh Will, aye, you sold more than anybody, you’re a great kid. You ever think of joining the priesthood, Willy? We have nice cars, you know. You like cars, Willy?”
You see, Willy isn’t really practicing selfless giving. Because he probably had a drag of a time going from door to door selling those little seals. And then even once they were sold, his ego got involved in the whole action. What a drag being Willy. Willy was probably happier before he did any selfless giving. Now he’s miserable because Father Flannagan ignored him, or the Father will say, “Oh Willy, you’re such a good lad, Oh Willy! I had a dream about you this marnin’, Willy. In the dream God spoke to me, and he said ‘Willy, that Willy, he’s O.K.’ You hear that now Willy?”
You see, so then, Willy will feel, I’m wonderful, I’m better than others, I am superior. And his ego will inflate. Willy was better off before he did anything. He was happier. Did you ever have that experience? You’re happier before you started meditating and practicing self-discovery? I know a lot of people like that.
Oh, they’ve learned a lot, and they’re more powerful now. But they’re still not happy, actually, they may be not as happy. Well, is that because there’s something wrong with meditation and self-discovery and selfless giving?
No way. What’s wrong is their approach. Meaning, they did not have fun. In other words, if you are performing: selfless giving, meditation, gazing, mysticism, occultism, and all those exciting arts, and you don’t enjoy them while you practice them, if you’re like gonna go through the “Oh, I’m gonna suffer, and it’s gonna be hard, but boy, one day I’ll have a swimming pool, and a big house and a camel of my own!” If that’s your attitude, nothing’s going to happen, really. Nothing in particular, that is. Because while you may be able to lift weights all day long and get strong muscles, you can’t necessarily practice self-discovery all day long and become enlightened. It has to be done in a certain spirit. Because unlike other arts, it’s not simply a physical practice that causes anything to happen. “You can chant those mantras all day long, and do those beads, brothers and sisters. And you can send in them cards and them letters and them pledges and them dollars. But if you doin’ it for the selfish motives, you not goin’ anyplace. Matter of fact, you may go down. So I’m tellin you right now, you better get down with selfless giving. That’s right.” (He laughs heartily).
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