"Heaven asks nothing."

It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice.   Our present trust in the Creator is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, joy that constantly increases, as our lives become a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality.  Let our present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only our defenses would conceal.

Without defenses, we become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own.  It will lead us on in ways appointed for our happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born.  Our followers will join their lights with ours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy.  Our brothers and sisters will lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify.  from "Underneath the Mango Tree."  by BID  

"We defend ourselves thinking we are attacked."

An attack that is not real giving illusions full reality and attempting to handle them as real.  This sense of threat is an acknowledgement of our inherent weaknesses; a belief that there is danger which has power to call on us to make appropriate defense.  The world is based on this insane belief.  Defense is frightening.  It stems from fear.

The body is not in need of defense.  It will be strong and healthy if the mind does not abuse it.  We must understand the "self" that needs protection is not real.  The body, valueless and not in need of defense.  We need merely to perceive as apart from us, and it becomes a healthy, serviceable instrument through which the mind can operate until its usefulness is over.  Defend the body and we have attacked the mind.   from "Underneath the Mango Tree"  by BID

"Let us perceive forgiveness as it is."

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world.  The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it see illusions as illusions, not as truth.  There is a simple way to find the door to true forgiveness.  When we feel that we are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow our minds to dwell on what we think he/she did, for that is self-deception.  Ask instead, "Would we accuse ourselves of doing this?"

We must keep our minds as free of guilt and pain as God intended it to be, and as it is truth.  Lies would condemn.  In truth is innocence the only think there is.  Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the hell of guilt and Heaven's gate.  Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach us its beneficence.

Let us perceive forgiveness as it is.  Would we accuse ourselves of doing wrong?  We would not lay this chain upon us.  No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter Heaven by themselves.  from "Underneath the Mango Tree." by BID. 

"I will not value what is valueless."

There are no satisfaction in the world.  Each choice we make brings everything to us or nothing.  If we learn the tests by which we can distinguish everything from nothing, we will make the better choice.  If we choose a thing that will not last forever, what we choose is valueless.  A temporary value is without all value.  Time can never take away a value that is real.  What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to the person who chooses it.

If we choose to take a thing away from someone else, we will have nothing left.  When we deny a person's right to everything, we have denied our own.  Because what the ego wants it fails to recognize.  If we feel any guilt about our choice, we have allowed the ego's goals to come between the real alternatives. 

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain.   I will not value what is valueless.  Only what has value do I seek.  Only that do I desire.  I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me.  From "Underneath the Mango Tree." by BID

"Loose the world from all I thought it was."

What keeps the world in chains but our beliefs?  What can save the world except ourselves?  The thoughts we hold are mighty, and illusions as strong in their effects as is the truth.  Anyone is free to change her mind, and all her thoughts change with it.  To change our minds means we have changed the source of all ideas we think or ever thought or yet will think.  We have enslaved the world with all our fears, our doubts and miseries, our pain and tears, and all our sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to our beliefs.

The world is nothing in itself.  Our minds must give it meaning.   There is no world apart from what we wish, and herein lies our ultimate release.  Healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world.  The world does not exist.  It is our imagining, then we can loose it from all things we ever thought it was by merely changing all thoughts that give it these appearances.  We are as God Created us.

Our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it.  We who remain as God created us, would loose the world from all we thought it was.  Choose our own reality instead.  from "Underneath the Mango Tree."

"No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth."

Failure is all about us while we seek for goals that cannot be achieved.  We look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger; immortality within the darkness of the dream of death.  Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of ones searching, and the place to which one comes to find stability?  Goals that are meaningless are not attained.  There is no way to reach them, for the means by which we strive for them are meaningless. 

We ask to see a different world, and think a different kind of thought from  those we made.  The world we seek we did not make alone, the thoughts we want to think are not our own.  Today we seek and find all that we want.  Our single purpose offers it to us.  No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.  From "Underneath the Mango Tree."

"It is impossible to see two worlds."

What we see reflects our thinking.  Our thinking reflects our choice of what we want to see.  Our values are determiners of this, for what we value we must want to see, believing what we see is really there.  No one can see a world his/her mind has not given value.  And no one can fail to look upon what she/he believes they want. 

Who can hate and love at once?  Who can desire what she/he does not want to really have?  And who can choose to see a world of which she/he is afraid?  Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is imagined.  It is impossible to see two worlds.  Let us accept the strength God offers us and see no value in this world, that we may find our freedom and deliverance.  - BID "Underneath the Mango tree."