Dick Sutphen - Master of Life Manual
Chapter 1: How You Work
Your Mind
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You are above all the problems in your life, but you don't realize it because you've accepted layer upon layer of fear-based programming:
Anxiety, Guilt, Anger, Insecurity, Jealousy, Inhibitions, Hate, Egotism, Repression, Vanity, Envy, Malice, Greed, Resentment, Possessiveness, Blame, Arrogance, etc. - You create your own reality, or karma, with your thoughts.
- You do not have a mind, you are mind.
Reality / Fantasy Tests
- Your computer part of the brain is obviously incapable of telling the real from the imagined. Both brain-waves are identical.
Using The Knowledge
- Your computer assists in creating the reality it is programmed to set into motion.
- You - and you alone - are responsible for everything that happens to you.
- Your viewpoint is totally based upon your past experiences. Your conscious mind has a viewpoint on every category in your life, and your subconscious mind also has a viewpoint on every category in your life.
- Your original self-actualized person is smothered by the layers of garbage and programmed fear. A magnitude 1 experience is the one primary experience that has created this problem within you.
Karma
- Cause and effect: "As you sow, so shall you reap."
- Karma works both ways - it rewards as well as punishes.
- Until we have learned from the past, we are destined to repeat it. Learning is the process of remembering the past.
Total Justice
- If there is meaning to life beyond that which we can substantiate with science, then there must be a reason or plan. Logically, it follows that justice exists as part of such a plan.
- The devil is a fear-based morality concept used to control masses of people. Yet it exists only when you give it power.
Learning
- We are conditioned to learn through pain. It is sad that we believe we have to learn this way when it is possible to learn through understanding, love and wisdom.
Chapter 2: Master Of Life Basics
Resistance
- There is a universal law of resistance that says: "What you resist, you draw to yourself. As long as you resist something, you are locked into it and you perpetuate its influence in your life."
- The first thing to understand about resistance is not to resist "what is."
- Resistance is fear.
Fear
- There is only 1 problem that exists between human beings: fear. Or even better: The fear of being unable to cope with a situation.
- You never fear what is - you only fear the future possibility. In accepting this fear and living with it, you are imprisoned within the fear.
- Courage is a matter of being afraid and choosing to act anyway.
Love
- If fear is the problem, love is the solution. Love is the ultimate power.
- Most of the love seen is fear, the fear of losing. Any love relationship based upon "need" is based upon avoiding losing.
- When you love someone, you can find joy in the positive aspects of your relationship and allow negatives to simply flow past you without affecting you.
Possessiveness
- "Those who attempt to possess are themselves possessed."
Conscious Detachment
- A problem doesn't need to be eliminated to be solved. Perspective or your personal viewpoint is the solution to most problems. When you are no longer affected by a problem, you no longer have a problem, although nothing about the problem situation may outwardly have changed.
- What anyone says to you comes out of their past and past-life conditioning, from the memory banks of their computer. Thus it is their viewpoint and cannot directly relate to you.
- Others' reactions to you are nothing but statements of their viewpoints, having nothing to do with the facts or the way things actually are.
Compassion
- You can experience the anguish of another's suffering, but you must live with the helpless knowledge that you can do nothing to save them from their pain.
- The degrees of compassion you feel will depend upon how much you care for each person, and very likely, whether or not they accept responsibility for their condition.
Judgment / Truth / Awareness
- We judge everything through our viewpoint.
- There is no such thing as truth. There is only what you call your truth.
- If you accept philosophical truths as valid, you accept restrictions ... you accept traps. A trap is an assumption, accepted without challenge, and it will keep you enslaved until you do challenge.
- Truth only exists as it relates to you.
- The only meaning in life is what we bring to our own life.
- Truth also directly relates to your awareness. Awareness amounts to how much you let yourself know of your own truth.
Problem / Opportunity
- The only difference between problem-oriented people and opportunity-oriented people is attitude... and it makes all the difference.
Now
- We do not exist in time. We exist in self.
- A Master of Life uses the time component, but never accepts it as a reality that entraps him in actions to achieve fulfillment in an illusory future. A Master of Life is always, at this moment, fulfilled, perfect, at peace and in balance.
Do What You Do When You Do It
- If you want your life to work better, when you work, just work - don't worry about whether others are working, or whether your work will be obsolete next week or not.
- Experience what you do as it is. Wisdom grows out of experience.
The Basic Human Rights
These basic human rights allow for expression as opposed to repression:
- It is your right to do anything as long as you do not purposely hurt someone else and you are willing to accept the consequences.
- It is your right to maintain your self-respect by answering honestly even if it does hurt someone else, as long as you are being assertive opposed to aggressive.
- It is your right to be what you are without changing your ideas or behavior to satisfy someone else.
- It is your right to strive for self-actualization (to become a master of life.)
- It is your right to use your own judgment as to the needs and priorities of yourself and others if you decide to accept any responsibility for another's problem.
- It is your right not to be subjected to negativity.
- It is your right to offer no excuses or justifications for your decisions or behavior.
- It is your right not to care.
- It is your right to be illogical.
- It is your right to change your mind.
- It is your right to defend yourself.
Posted on 1st September 2007 by Quintus Hegie
