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you have to prepare, and you have to do many things.' The mind is a doer.
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN: FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED.
Jesus says: Okay, then be like small children who are helpless. The child just cries and weeps for the mother, and the mother runs to the child. When the child is in misery, the mother comes to comfort. So mourn, let your prayers be cries of helplessness. Remember, the definition of a prayer is: meditation through tears, meditation with tears. When the tears are your meditation, it is prayer, When meditation is with love, and you think about yourself as a lost, small child, and existence is a mother or a father... that's Jesus' approach. He says: Then pray, cry out of your helplessness and the help will come and you will be comforted.
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK: FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
And become simple, humble, meek; don't be arrogant. Now listen to the difference. The first was 'poor in spirit'. It does not say be humble, because in humbleness a subtle ego remains. You have the idea that 'I am humble' -- the 'I' is there. First you were thinking 'I am very great', now you think 'I am very meek'. But 'I am' is still there; the 'I' still continues.
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK: FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
So, a little barrier, that's why it is in the future. You cannot be right now. That small barrier of humbleness, meekness will go on surrounding you, and will go on dividing you from the truth.
BLESSED ARE THEY
WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS:
FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
Now do good works, be virtuous and God will come and fill you.
BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL:
FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY.
Be merciful, be.compassionate. Whatsoever you want that God should give to you, you give to the world -- to God's world. That's the law.
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.
Even with purity... some distance.
Poverty is ultimate. In purity, there is still some ego: 'I am pure, holy, sacred, holier-than-thou', and things like that continue. The sinner is one who claims the ego -- gross ego. The saint is one
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