How to Find a Home in Your Peace of Mind-The Work of Byron Katie®
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2018
- Byron Katie does The Work via Skype with a woman from Virginia who struggles with her belief that “God should help me pay the rent.”
“Notice what happens when you believe this thought,” Katie says.
“I get very angry,” says the woman, “and I wonder what I did wrong. Am I being punished?”
Katie says, “If I believed that thought, I would become a beggar. I'd become guilty. I can see how I would put it all on God, telling God what to do, what’s best, and dictating where God's money should go. I'd be out of my business and into God’s bank account. So, right here, right now, who are you without the thought?”
“That’s a scary one,” says the woman.
“It is, but only if you put a future onto it,” Katie says. “So just right here, right now: who would you be if you weren’t that dictator?”
After meditating on the question, the woman says, “I would be somebody who likes God. I’d be at peace. I would not be afraid to look at more opportunities and find more ways to pay the rent.”
“Notice that you’re sitting with a roof over your head,” Katie says. “You don’t look too hot or too cold. Right here right now. This is where the gift is. We forget about the grace of what’s given now if we’re busy projecting onto the future. So now imagine yourself at a homeless shelter. Other than what you are thinking and believing, are you okay? The worst that can happen is what you’re thinking and believing, with or without your rent paid.”
“Yes!" the woman says. "Other than what I’m thinking and believing, I’m okay.”
“I'd love that you understand this beyond all apparent conditions in your mind,” Katie says. “It takes sitting in the silence and listening. Notice how the false images of a future will come like a tidal wave to wipe away your peace. You understand where that peace is. You understand how to find it.”
Being homeless is when I’m not present with myself.-Byron Katie
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Love that these two women face life so honestly and don’t shy away from the big taboo here in the callers heart and mind; homelessness. Brave. Facing our fears sets us free. 🤝💕💪
Katie, I don't have enough words to thank you. And I know don't I don't need to. I can see it's your pleasure to do this with people and that I'm nothing but welcome so the satisfaction is mutual. Your love knows no boundaries. You've changed this soul's life, someone you've never met in another "country" if there is such a thing, thousands of miles away. Finding you was like the cherry missing on top of a cake that was being built for years. Much gratitude, much love. ❤️
Thank-you for this. Very meaningful and resonates with me a lot.
I love having access to these videos and the process I find so helpful and clarifying. So grateful for these 2 women
Always love to hear new BK videos ....thanks so much for all this wisdom 💙💙💙..".it takes sitting and listening in silence"...."other than what you are thinking and believing, all suffering is in the past".....🌈🌈🌈
I remember when I was young and I begged God not to give me a child with the mental disability like my sister because it was so difficult to cope with the challenges it brought, and when I had children he gave me a child with mental disability and I hated him for it and I thought he was punishing me and that I deserved it, I blamed myself for it rather than understanding family hereditary disease...
Very powerful
Let's help God, that is a turn around haha
She lives in LA. Her name is Virginia. I belief...
God is paying my rent. True. As a matter of fact God is paying all my bills including 9 days School for the Work. "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the work". God is everything or nothing. All my rent paid. If I stay in the Now I notice I have everything I want right here right now. All by the Grace of God. I am grateful.
and ppl think i'm different 'cause i know joy around death...BUT BYRON' YOU EVEN SURPRISE ME....HOMELESSNESS AS THE WAY HOME....I DO KNOW MANY GREAT HOMELESS PPL ESP LIVING IN THE CITY CORE NEAR WONDEROUS KENSIGTON MARKET IN TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA....MAY THA LACK OF COMMAS SERVE YOU..& LEAD YOU TO THE INTERIOR TEMPLE
Unfortunately after years of using Byron's techniques, I don't understand her anymore.
Being Buddha in a homeless shelter is simply not a spiritual level most people can reach. I would be crushed and broken to wind up in a homeless shelter.
EllyMoody isn’t it so that Byron Katie was in a much worse place than a homeless shelter before she woke up and that her gift is she can help us face our minds worst fears as a result..
Yes, that makes sense. I recall reading years ago that BK was in a shelter covered in her own vomit and woke up to see a cockroach crawling on her leg - and that was the precise moment she woke up to what is real and what is not real. So I guess this is not a trivial point for her. It reminds of a story in my Thai forest tradition: Luangpor Teean, a humble illiterate layperson who had fruitlessly tried many meditation methods over 17 years, was sitting meditating when a family of scorpions fell on him. He changed completely, much like BK.
EllyMoody I am crushed and broken, just thinking about being homeless from the comfort of my own home. That's my reality. It has nothing to do with actually being homeless. I have these feelings now. I think that is what Katie means.
EllyMoody For years I had acfear that if I trusted Gid, I would end up homeless. "That which we fear will come upon us." At age 62 my job disappeared, I lost my dream home and everything material I had worked for. For 3 years I lived out of my car or couch-camped. Year 4 a couple from church offered me a room to rent for $300 a month. Odd jobs pay for food, gas, insurance, cell phone, other necessities. My epiphany came when I passed out at the YMCA at 5:30 in the morning. I woke up in my own urine and blood--my eyeglasses smashed into the side of my face--a full 20 feet from where I sat down last. Enough was enough. After 3 days in the hospital, I angrily told God, Either show up or ship out! I slowly began to take back control of my lifevthat I had relinquished to others. I have discovered there are worse things than being homeless: living in fear of fear, feeling trapped like a caged animal, being terrorized daily by our own thoughts, paralyzed by hatred for others. My experience taught me an entirely different way to live life, making up the rules as I go along, no longer burdened by society's expectations.
What does Katie mean by grace? She uses it often and it doesn't fit a dictionary definition. Strange choice of words for someone who doesn't believe in god. Why not "beauty" or "comfort" or "riches" or "safety" or "security?" Grace suggests a bestower.
She had a great explanation in "I need you Love is that true" when she said god's grace is "picking up a cup and putting it down" x
Sorry.. totally disagree with you Byron... peoples minds get twisted in these videos to the point that they begin doubting their own hearts.. very sad. Interestingly, we only see videos here where people give in and submit to your model of thinking. I'm all for people doing everything in their God given power to help themselves, and doing their part in this universe. However, if in spite of that a person is being called by God to prayer (and that does happen).. be it through the vehicle of a difficult problem (health, money, love, etc), and her heart is compelling her to pray to God and to ask for help.. then frankly speaking it is no one's business.. It is only between God and his disciple. God knows what he is doing, though you may not know, but can acknowledge that.. God gave people a heart to feel Him.. God is infinite and therefore has infinite resources.. but we have found that He/She often waits on people to completely surrender to His/Her Love, instead of solely depending on the external world. There's a balance.
Robin Ram God is a fiction of your imagination