In My Defenselessness My Safety Lies
Do Not Protect Your Ex—In My Defenselessness My Safety Lies
In this Q&A session, David Hoffmeister addresses questions such as “How can we go through the experience of the death of a loved one with more peace and less pain?” “How do I dominate the ego?” and “How can I break out of ego confusion?” The gathering also includes a discussion on releasing the ego’s sense of protecting and protectionism. Protecting is a block to clarity and peace of mind.
Gold Nugget:
“Do you really think that spirit needs to be protected? What would spirit need to be protected from? If spirit is love, if spirit is everything, and eternal, what could be the threat to eternity? The ego is very tricky. Whenever you protect or defend anything, you bind yourself to the ego, and you push yourself away from the spirit. And Jesus taught the very opposite of protectionism. If somebody smite you on one cheek, Jesus said, ‘Turn the other cheek.’ There was no protectionism there. He wasn’t even protecting a cheek! He said, ‘Just turn the other cheek.’ And in A Course in Miracles, he teaches, ‘In my defenselessness my safety lies.’ W-153 So he is saying, don’t ever defend yourself. Even when people accuse you of wrong-doing or try to threaten you. It is just an ego trick. Christ says, ‘No, stand with me. Show that you are not afraid, and prove that these accusations are unreal, not threatening at all.’ And so this is our practice to dominate the ego. And we practice every moment of every day, in the face of whatever comes. Because it all comes back to your state of mind. And you find that you are not afraid of anything, through the practice of joining with Christ. It works!”
Recorded on March 1, 2014 in Guadalajara, Mexico (with Spanish translation)
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