Blessing as a Form of Service

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I have also prep’d a DRAFT transcript so it can be translated and shared in Germany, Korea and Japan which have large Researcher of Truth group activity.

‘Simplicity’ by Pierre Pradervand >>>> DRAFT ONLY <<<<<<

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Well, I think that the concern of simplicity in my life is one of my oldest concerns. And as a matter of fact I think in my whole adult life I have been concerned with the issue of simplicity because it has a lot to do with un-cluttering. Our lives are so cluttered up in the West, with activities with things, books, with encounters, with traveling here and there, a 1001 things. Everybody understands what I'm speaking about.And I think it is difficult to tread the spiritual path if you do not simplify your life down to a few essentials. You can not have 50,000 activities and pursue the spiritual path. At least I do not think it is possible. I wrote the first two books published in Europe, in French, on simple living 20 years ago when it wasn't a concern for anyone. But now it is beginning, beginning!, to become a concern for a certain number of people.And so with the un-cluttering of your life you have more space for blessing. But at the same time if you do a lot of blessings you will automatically want to unclutter your life because it will become so clear to you that all this clutter we have is such a detriment to our true spiritual growth. And I think there are privileged experiences which enable you to understand that, sooner or later, you must put first things first in your life. And I like to share here what is probably the most powerful spiritual experience of my whole life. no not probably, it is certainly the most powerful experience in my whole life and on which my whole spiritual outlook is based. [2;48]

I was in Africa, this was over 20 years ago, when I was attending the meeting, the General assembly of a peasant farmer organization of which I was one of the founding members. And the last day of our meetings which were held in a city called [ name unclear ] I caught dysentery. Now at the beginning it's not something serious but it is a bother because you have to run a great deal to the toilet. And I did my spiritual work, I didn't take any pills because at that time I handled all my health issues spiritually, and I thought that it had disappeared, at least it did dissipate towards the end of the afternoon. I went off with an old African friend. The next day when I went to the airport, it started all over again. And on the airplanes back to Paris I was traveling with my spiritual text, my readings, my prayers, my mantras and affirmations, all the things I usually did try to overcome any health issues. [4:10]And I was sitting next to an unaccompanied young boy, and the stewardess who is taking care of this little boy was so kind with him! She constantly came to check on him to see if he was okay and one woman she came and addressed him with a special tenderness. And suddenly I felt this most incredible gratitude for this woman, it was a Cosmic Gratitude that overwhelm me. And suddenly I was projected into a space outside the plane, outside of time, where the only thing present was Infinite Love. The only feeling I had was that of incredible Love. A love which is the cause, the effect, the source, the only power, the only presence. The only activity in the universe was his extraordinary, extraordinary, Love. [5:25]

But the most amazing thing in the whole experience was that Pierre Pradervand had totally disappeared. I had no consciousness whatsoever! There is no such thing as a citizen, with an ego or whatever. The only consciousness was, for certain while, I don't know how long because I was outside of time, only consciousness was the Divine consciousness. [5:57]

An American 19th century thinker and metaphysician, mary [ name ] … Once stated that “the divine understanding ray is all and there is no other consciousness”. Well that is exactly what I experienced at that moment on the plane. The Divine consciousness was my consciousness. And of course it is the most incredible feeling of freedom! The only time I have felt radical freedom in my life because my ego had simply and totally disappeared. [6:42] And suddenly, I was back on the plane, I felt something adjusting in my bowels and in matter of seconds I was freed of the dysentery. [6;52]

But the real healing wasn't the physical healing, the real healing was my vision of life, of the world, of the universe. And that has stayed as the foundation stone of my spiritual striving. I think we are all, ALL, called to the state I were our only thought will be Love. And of course I am still very much, very in the kindergarten of this practice. But I think it is, for me today, I see this is the Ultimate State which I need to aim for on the spiritual path. [7:44]

And so blessing is just one expression of this Universal Love. But at the same time, by practicing blessing, you learn to grow a great deal in love. Especially in non-judgment and I would like to stress that. It is impossible, the text on blessing said, it is impossible to love, to bless and to judge at the same time. It is impossible to bless and to Judge . Try it, is it possible. [8:27]

And the more you bless, the less you will judge. I think one of the most precious insights I have had in past years is that every single person, that includes president Asad of Syria and well known gangsters all sorts, everyone, at each moment, is at their highest level of consciousness. [9:03]

And when you have really understood this you cannot feel resentment, or anger, with anyone.Joel S. Goldsmith, that remarkable American mystic of the last century who created teaching called, "The Infinite Way". Joel says, “no one can come into my consciousness who needs could be forgiven, because I have already forgiven them, 70×7”. And I feel that what I felt towards the gentleman who tricked me with the Internet, when I first started out our conversation, I realize to that was his highest level of consciousness. So I can resent him for being at his highest level of consciousness, if he could have been elsewhere he would have been. And to understand this [fact] is a wonderful, wonderful, tool for overcoming resentment in any form. [10:23]

So, that is my small wisdom on the topic.