Movies to Learn From

Excerpts from a Teaching by Wisdom Master Maticintin

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Harry wasn’t angry at his friends for giving him those feathers of cowardice. He just went out to save them, to help them out in the war, and then to give their feathers back. He had to say, ‘I am not a coward.’…He did it for himself, but he really did it for the good of the whole, because the whole would have been diseased had he not gone to the Sudan at that point….Everyone benefited. His father learned that a guy does not have to be in the army in order to be a true hero….He had scorned his son, but his son turned out to be the greatest of heroes just by being true to himself. Harry’s father, his friends, all learned something from him, and Harry learned he was protected as long as he was cleanly dedicated to the tasks that he set before himself….To develop that kind of trust shows he is on his way spiritually. How in the world could we ever argue with a man who had learned all that he had learned? We couldn’t; he was too clean, an impeccable warrior.

As long as we are following what our hearts tell us to do, we are totally protected. We cannot even die. Harry had so many opportunities to be killed….He came so close, but always he was saved, always, because he wasn’t looking at himself and his feelings. That tiny little part of ourselves that runs inward and says, ‘But, what about me?’ is destructive….Instead, we serve the whole by taking our attention off of ourselves….That’s the answer to all suffering….We can get into all kinds of problems, and we’ll just walk out of them; it will be all right. The energy that protects us is that lack of self-centeredness. Divine energy cannot come into to play if there is self-centeredness. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have a little house that we call ‘ours,’ and lives that we call ‘our’ lives, but we function from this knowing place in our hearts.

Harry didn’t try to be a hero; he did not try to flaunt anything. He didn’t concern himself about looking a certain way….He just did what he knew he had to do. The only other person in that film who did what he knew he had to do was Abou. He was a true warrior. Harry’s friend, Jack, was a good warrior too, but misguided in his thinking. Jack was going out to serve the queen, to fight on someone else’s soil, to take over somebody else’s land, and to try to command people who didn’t want to be commanded. We can’t force people. People don’t want to be taken over by others and ruled.

It is so important to get the self out of the way....We cross over a line inside ourselves, and we just don’t look at our feelings. We’re aware of memory and feelings as they arise, but we see them without getting involved in them….Then, everything we do is for the good of the whole. We are totally protected and we are living according to our hearts.

We can’t live as divine beings wearing bodies until we stop internalizing everything….In the moments we don’t internalize, we can feel that we are flowing as one with something. We go through these periods, but we fall back. We have to train ourselves not to fall back. Then, because our attention is that strong on how to operate in life, we pass the irreversible way. But first, we have to do the work….We don’t pass the irreversible way and then train ourselves….We can’t be irreversible without that training, and that’s the self discipline….No one can do that for us, we can only do that for ourselves, but when we do it for ourselves, everyone benefits.

We really have to be that strong to awaken. It doesn’t mean we have to go to the Sudan and live in a prison, but we have ‘prisons’ of our own making that we are living in….When we stop being emotionally involved in our own prisons, we’ll find we are not in prison. It is our emotions that keep us in prisons. That is what is meant by looking in at ourselves. It’s emotions—anger, lust, greed, vanity, and attachment—that imprison us; it is the only thing that can imprison us….If we don’t carry any of those states in us, then everything will be all right….Of course, the emotions are all tied to habitual energy, so we can’t be tied to habitual energy. We have our processes and our ways of doing things, and they are part of our prisons. We have no agility in that manner. This habitual energy is a big part of what keeps the emotions in place, and of course, the emotions keep the habitual energy in place. They love each other, but it is a personal love….There is constant conflict, constant struggle….It makes negative karma; it drives the karmic wheel. It is a motor for what we do not want.

When we get freed from the emotions and the habitual energy, what is stopping us from being healthy? Nothing. But as long as we have ideas that things have to be a certain way, that’s habitual energy. Therefore, we are not open enough to receive health or anything else we need….In order to receive, we have to be open….Everything that happens to us, we should say, ‘I receive the bounty of the Divine Consciousness,’ even if it is something that wasn’t the way we thought it should be….Watch it turn around; it will turn around. What we didn’t like will become the bounty of the Divine Consciousness….We open ourselves and receive….Everything will take care of itself if we do that. It means we stay out of our emotional bodies….We can make our world exactly as we want it to be.

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