Following Inspiration: Practical Advice

never do of yourself always remain open this is all very taoist and it's all very much what i've taught over my years and in the mastery class so remain open and then inspirations will come to you especially if you believe in god and inspiration you remain open and inspiration comes you know it's kind of one of those zen moments one of those in the zone moments that's the tao so i'm in this taoist state of mind the dao has kind of two parts the creative part and then the manifestation part which is

dao de ching so dao and day are the inspiration and manifestation so the way i describe it is you get an inspiration and then you focus and you go and that's how we manifest things in our lives some of us just get inspirations we never go and we wonder why nothing changes some of us in fact are okay with that because we think that by being ultra excessively passive we have passed the test we've become taoist-like or course in miracles like and in fact we're just lying to ourselves the tao is saying get the inspiration you focus and

you go it says you know the taoist sage the master is one who never collects weapons for war but if there is a war and they must go and help they are great at it you see they know how to sling the sword they know how to move and some of us go oh wait i like the first half of that the being but i don't like the doing part because we have such issues with masculine energy we want to sit in the passivity of waiting for inspiration but then when there's call to action we don't want to do anything about it other than when we do when we finally do

things we go way overboard and then we turn people off because we're being annoying we're talking too loud we're done you know we're being too excessive and hurtful so the dao was saying how to do without harming how to know you know never never gather weapons for war but if there is a war go do it not literally it's saying action of any kind so understand uh and you've heard me say this many times you don't mean to harm somebody in divorce but if you're going through a divorce you don't need to be stomped on you can

say i think what i'll do is get a really good attorney never hatred and if your attorney says we're going to stick it to them we're going to take everything we're going to leave them bankrupt you can say before you say no thank you you're gone you can say are you capable of doing this another way try another way before you fire them i remember one client who might even be watching about 15 years ago i think it was man bless her she did she followed my advice and the advice she had inside and she got in the zone and said i'm

going through a divorce it's not what i wanted to do but it's getting to be a drag and this person's really taking taking taking this person man they went and called and had consultations with like the three best attorneys in the city they lived in and then picked one but one reason they went to the three best was that as soon as their husband tried to go get the best attorney in the town it was a conflict of interest and that he couldn't get the best under higher it was incredible genius but she didn't do it to harm she

did it because what you do do well i can't tell you um it's at least nine out of ten friends clients students that go through things like that that end up on the short end of everything and they're usually heartbroken one in every few one in every many rather says i'm actually okay that with it but generally they come out on the short end and it's because of this thing that humans have about if i become spiritual it became it means i'm supposed to be weak and get stomped on it's all a lie and usually it was taught

to you by those who are the opposite who like stomping on people they're the people who bred you to be passive so that they can stomp on you so you go away if i remember correctly the right thing to do is passive that was never god that was never krishna that was never the tao that was never the the arts the true you know the the arts of mastery telling you that if you knew master you would know whatever i do i'm going to do well i'm going to do it with love but i'm going to do well you see and that that whatever the case

may be and that includes boundaries so briefly let me segue into that i promise i'll wrap it up as quickly as i can boundaries i've talked about that some of the other talks so just check those out but one thing i want to add today if ever a person says to you can you help me with something and you're not sure if you should or you know maybe you think i will one thing to watch out for are the people who tend to say can you help me with something well what's going on well i need to pay rent and it was due

yesterday i'll be homeless in an hour if you do not help me right now write me a check hand me cash as soon as they put you in a place of urgency for something that they got themselves into that is a form it's kind of like a a negative hypnosis it is a form of hooking they're actually trying to manipulate manipulate your mind not on purpose necessarily although sometimes it is this is what um unhealthy people with personality disorders will do to you it's what a narcissist would do to you it's what a co-dependent will do to you

but why are they picking you why are they you the one that they go to with the crisis all the time children often do this if they can get away with it so it's not always bad bad people it's even children will try it but if you have healthy boundaries they'll know well if i go to dad or mom who whoever it may be i know what they're going to say they're going to say sure if you want to do some extra chores around the house i'll give you that extra few dollars and the kids like i didn't want to do the work i was

hoping to pressure mom into feeling guilty to hand me the money so that's when you really catch them at their game but addicts do this a lot addicts will do this because they live in crisis they live in a state of not being in their center that's the sort of a definition of addiction i'm not in my center i'm always reaching out for something and i need it desperately so they're often out selling you know hawking something so they can get some money to pay for their drug of choice or whatever

um and i'm not picking on addicts i'm saying all human beings have this tendency to some degree or another i'm just saying kids can we'll try it addicts do it a lot codependents will definitely do it people with personality disorders i'm speaking not to them but to you if you notice people do this sort of thing hey listen can you help can you do this can you you know i need it right now i need it yesterday sometimes it is a one-off and it's okay to help because it's a one-off situation one-time situation but you

must be wise jesus says be as gentle as doves but as wise as serpents meaning always have that love and yet know what you're dealing with don't be silly don't be stupid don't be excessively naive um so just kind of keep that in mind with relationships the importance of boundaries you know again it's part of what masters masters are balanced they're not always doormats you know they sometimes stand up kick butt they know how to say yes they know how to say no but more importantly they know when and

they know why to say yes and why to say no masters have boundaries and i have seen people that claim to be spiritual teachers that are so excessively passive they enable harmful behaviors because they actually believe without realizing it that if they step up it'll look like they're not spiritual so to keep their facade to keep their image look how spiritual i am they'll go out of their way to talk soft or or to get you know trampled on or to let other people get trampled on without saying something

i'm not necessarily going to do that i will try to bridge i will try to find you know if i were talking to two different people a divorce situation or whatever i will try to find what common you know ground we can find in a conversation but if someone's acting up if someone's being out of line i will say it i won't go well um you you know you both are having problem no if one of them is being rude i'll speak to the one that's being rude that whole thing about non-committal you know that spirituality

spiritual teachers get into uh well well we all are playing a part well if one person's kicking another that's the one i'm going to talk to the one that's kicking i might later talk to the other one and say why do you think that happened because that's a better timely situation ask later but i will not sit and do nothing the tao that you know these concept even you know believe it or not christ consciousness teaches us that jesus would have never enabled such behaviors there's a point where he says not today

he did it when he was alive he encourages us to do it now that he's ascended in consciousness so stick to your guns be balanced the best you can i'm not encouraging you to swing another direction i'm asking you to recognize the value of being balanced and feel validated in it do not think this is some like newfangled spirituality michael's encouraging her or propagating here no i'm actually telling you the world is lying to you in yet another way listen to the great sages the masters of old i can say i'm

teaching it to but you can go and validate it anywhere you want ins including your own heart balance is what we should be looking for not the the excessive you know uh getting trampled uh your case he's saying uh to be a christian or to be spiritual does not mean you're a doormat he said it very well and there's another wise person saying that so in in kind of in closing um remember that i've talked about this many times but you are not a human being who's supposed to be here getting trampled on just hoping for a

few crumbs of life that's not what we're supposed to be doing jesus has some very dramatic descriptions of life on earth it's quite it's quite weird like one of them paraphrasing it slightly he says earth is where people where earth is where the starving and hungry come to die like wait a minute what you know because he's saying the souls that think they're separate from god come here and stay in this perpetual state of karma and kicking each other's butts you hurt me before i'm going to hurt you

now and back and forth gee have we evened it out yet no you still owe me fine and you just get sucked into it because somebody says so um that's why if if i'm in a situation and i see somebody say to me you know they're trying to wrong or shame a decision i'm making i would always want to look at that and say okay let me look at that keep an open mind but when you know what you know when you know that you know when you know that this represents balance when you know you're getting a divorce but

you're not trying to harm somebody they can complain you're hurting me how could you say you're spiritual if you're hurting me because my intentions are not to hurt you my intention is to create peace for both of us that we could not seem to figure out how to manifest while married so i'm actually still committed to you and me finding peace see find the positive way the positive angle do you think they're gonna like that no they will not they'll just find another angle to to try to crush you for knowing

what you know but don't just don't buy it know what you know and if you can't get it across to people shake the dust off your feet walk away that's a metaphor uh jesus gave you know it means just not don't even keep the residue of that conversation on yourself brush it off and walk stay clean clean stay clear stay in who you really are remember jesus himself teaches taught you are gods and goddesses what an incredible sentence statement in the scriptures you are and he says the old testament he's even referencing

didn't the scriptures tell you already and so therefore i'm validating he's saying you are gods and goddesses so knock it off step up because the pharisees were like we're not allowed to be too spiritual or we're not allowed to to to think of ourselves as connected to god well jesus said bs you are gods and goddesses you have the right to step if you step in god's light you are a god goddess because now you're a co-creator that's why my online course that we did months ago is about co-creating because it's all

about the humility of saying here i am god um michael mirdad does not teach like some of those teachers about you can become and you can do it and you can be a millionaire and you can create this and you all that's just vain anyway it's all just ego as soon as we start talking about stuff being the priority it means we're out of our minds literally and figuratively we're out of our divine minds we're now egotists and i'm not interested in doing that so i love it man the humility of with god go with god adios means

you know with god so when you go adios doesn't mean adios partner it means go with god like what an amazing way to say hello or goodbye to greet with divinity you know namaste or adios or something that says man oh you're leaving now go with god how profound is that but it also means do everything you do with god so that's a big part of what i teach do everything with god and in so doing you are starting to then awaken the inner christ and as you awaken the inner christ you won't walk around acting like a

jesus with a white robe and whatever whatever what you do is you start manifesting the master so god first awakening the christ but you start living it as you awaken the christ it's not supposed to be philosophical you're supposed to live it but what does that look like what it looks like is god's goddesses but that's to abstract for some people so i call it mastery you learn to live in balance you learn to make love a priority you learn to when it's time to relax oh i think i'll meditate today and then

someone has fallen you get up and go help you don't go well i would but i'm just being you know because you will you will you're a hypocrite when you do that and you will pay the price for that in some way so get up and help um one time at unity of sedona i'm sharing this story as as much as it might be gross and graphic to some it just blew my mind here i was on at the podium and i was teaching didn't really know what was going on because i'm teaching and we're interacting and doing things

but there was this moment where the senior really older man um ended up having an accident with his bowels and um you know a couple people were with him so they knew it was happening and it didn't become apparent to everybody else but they walked him into the bathroom and it was one of our chaplains that said i'll take care of it he went in there and cleaned up a grown man's mess um again you know if it's too weird or graphic for you i understand then go watch something more lightweight somewhere but

all i can tell you is that is impressive to me i mean that's god man that's that's what you're supposed to be doing you know and i'm i was just i i didn't out the guy and say oh congratulations you know because he might not have wanted that to be known but i did say it in a chaplain meeting how impressed i was see now this guy may or may not ever hear this see this uh this um feed here um but i'm telling you because his action is still affecting people today because i just told you that story and that's

going to make you go wow i remember i did that so you should be not prideful but you should be proud you should be happy that you ever stepped up and did the right thing in any given moment it's just so beautiful it's totally lacking on this planet but it's the right thing and it's a beautiful thing right things are not just put before you for you to go well i bet that's the right thing for someone to do it's for us to consider doing ourselves step in and be part man and i just think it's beautiful so if

somebody's you know if someone were in conflict um yeah i might have to go and step in there and say how can i help i've couple times broken up fights that i saw happening and when i did none of them got hurt i didn't get hurt and it was kind of cool and they don't know who i was and they probably don't even care they they just didn't end up in a fight although they started a fight and started throwing blows they don't know that they need to be um in a state of gratitude they don't know that they might have

hurt somebody permanently or killed them and that they should be grateful they're just probably thinking they probably don't even remember the event but it's still the right thing to do we don't do the right thing for credit we do the right thing because it's the right thing so please remember you are gods and goddesses we are gods and goddesses we should act like it to the best of our ability gods and goddesses are not to be held up where we say we are not pleased that's the arrogance

of royalty who thinks that they're you know gods and goddesses what we do is we realize as gods and goddesses if we are gods and goddesses then there's also people that don't act like it right they're called humans so you have humans then what is the purpose of the gods and goddesses it's one of two things we're either here to be served by them them mortals or because we're gods and goddesses we're here to serve them we're here to help you know how could god ever say i created you to

all be servants that's not what creation was about creation was an expression of love becoming more love so if you're a god and goddess you never think of superiority you think of service but then that's not inferiority service either it's balance so i know that the dow again is telling us that when you recognize your divinity you will be silent and humble about it and you will serve mankind but they will be so grateful and being served that they will turn and serve you as though you are royalty so in other words it's not for

that purpose but it's saying that's how the sage lives in such perfect balance there's no overly doing no overly taking there's no overly giving no overly taking and even when people say there's a give and take most are usually doing one or the other remember balance guys give and take and i don't even call it that i call it sharing one word i don't pray and meditate i commune which is to pray and meditate at the same time i blend the two that's called synthesis and in the far east they say synthesis is the highest

form of learning it's where you you know integrate and breathe in everything instead of just being kind of tunnel vision or one-dimensional so just recognize how i am i am an awakening god goddess you can believe in fairies and elementals and realize i'm part of i'm like a goddess i'm like oberon and titania you know i'm part of the kingdom of elementals and then when it comes to angels i'm an angel on earth and i feel great to be an angel on earth and the when i need some help the archangels would even serve me because

they know to serve is to be an angel you know they're messengers of god and assistance they're they're they're here to help and so are we so we start to recognize in all that we do you know and uh i'm a speaker at unity of sedona you know i teach there and all that and yet when somebody walks in off the street middle of the week i happen to be there let's say they say excuse me um can you tell me more about this place or can you tell me am i allowed to go walk the labyrinth i don't tell i don't excuse me i am

michael murdad i am the spiritual leader here we'll have to get one of the minions to help you because i'm just being i don't tell them who i am for all they know i'm a hippie just hanging out you know i'm always wearing you know comfortable baggy clothes they they wouldn't know me from adam and i'm in fact i'm usually wearing swim trunks during the day that's my comfort clothing so they wouldn't know me from adam and it's kind of cool i think it's beautiful so that i can just almost disguise

myself into just being helpful and i dig that sometimes they get uncomfortable if they know who i am and help them so i kind of dig it uh you know and i think that we should all have that sort of a little a bit of a you know miracle workers you know in disguise so think about it consider it how you can apply that in your own life think about times you have pulled it off and you should be absolutely proud of yourselves because as i said those who say they do it do not do it and we on the other hand when we see we

have absolutely soak it in and be proud of yourself and be thankful for anybody in your life that's ever done such for you you