A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read quotes 881-884 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
When the intellect withdrawn from questing after outward objects returns to its own natural home, the Heart, our Being-Awareness-Bliss, restored to us, abides for ever.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
In the next installment of Roundtable Sangha we will be sharing what was most impactful, hear from others about what they took away, and deepen into the teaching from the Satsang with Stephen Mitchell. Rev. Gloria Wells will be interviewing Stephen.
Roundtable Sangha will be facilitated by Rhoda Makled. You are invited to come and share or just listen to others. All are welcome!
We hope you can join us live, but if not, fear not. The Roundtable Sangha will be recorded for broadcast and replay on all of Awakening Together’s platforms including the website, radio, and podcast.
Day 348 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Listen to this audio teaching of NTI Philippians beginning at 19:10.
Note: Be sure you can be alone and undisturbed as you listen to this audio, since part of this audio is similar to a guided meditation. It will take 28 minutes to listen to this portion of the audio.
Tomorrow:
On Day 286, we saw that mental chatter is the belief in separation. It is the I-thought. It is the ego. We’ve also seen that paying attention to mental chatter is the greatest of all human addictions.
Today’s reading opens by saying:
“You must be willing to rest the thinking mind at every opportunity given.”
Just as the only way to stop smoking is to stop smoking, the only way to let go of mental chatter is to let go of mental chatter. That’s why we need to be willing to rest the thinking mind at every opportunity given, and today’s reading highlights some of the opportunities that are given in everyday life.
When we finish NTI Revelation, we will begin reading The Teachings of Inner Ramana. Letting go of mental chatter is a primary focus in The Teachings of Inner Ramana.
For now, pay attention to the suggestions in NTI Revelation 20, and start letting go of mental chatter whenever you notice the opportunity to do so.
In the first year of Gentle Healing, we learned that there are two awakenings. First, one awakens to consciousness, the second principle of God, and then one awakens beyond consciousness, to the first principle of God.
When one lets go of mental chatter, one awakens to consciousness. This is also commonly called true perception. Jesus referred to this awakening as being born again. (Reference John 3:3 )
However, a second awakening still waits. Sometimes the second awakening is called the final death of the ego or the final end to the sense of self. NTI Revelation refers to it as the second death.
This is why Jesus referred to the first awakening as being born again. When you awaken to consciousness you are born into true perception. This birth is followed by a period of maturing and learning to abide in the new way of seeing, and then a deeper calling arises. The deeper calling calls you forward into a second and final awakening.
You do not need to read from Revelation in the Bible today. You can go directly to the reading in NTI.
Trust in Me,
your inner-Self,
and trust in what I teach.
Give willingness to see
that the world is not real.
Give willingness to see
the All.
Give willingness to be
the presence of knowledge
in the experience of a world.
Give willingness to be
peace.
~From our Holy Spirit
Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of heart-felt deep-diving into truth, love, and awareness. This candid sharing is a time when Helen explores different modalities and teachings with various non-dual teachers and how the real-life application of those particular teachings is currently showing up in her life. She shares about experiences from her path of awakening including the demonstration of how to utilize these helpful processes and spiritual tools. In her most recent Awakening journey, she discusses radical truth and wisdom from teachers such as Mooji and Helen Hamilton.
Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface. She continues to share deeply from various non-dual teachings and teachers.
Day 347 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI Philippians 2 in full.
Tomorrow:
Please read quotes 877-880 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
A woman with a necklace round her neck imagines it is lost, and after long search elsewhere touches her own neck and there finds it; even so, the Self is here within. Probe for it there and find it.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Yesterday we saw that mental chatter is the greatest of all human addictions, and so the greatest of all desires is necessary to set yourself free from mental chatter.
As your desire for awakening increases, mental chatter catches on to your desire for awakening. It uses that, too, to try and save itself.
If you give mental chatter your attention, it will distort your desire for awakening into another desire that is similar, but not the same. It might distort it into the desire to attract people or circumstances. It might distort it into the desire to get approving attention from others. It might distort it into the desire to be a spiritual teacher. It might distort it into the desire to be part of a spiritual community. It might distort it into the desire to write and sell spiritual books, to sing spiritual songs, to be seen as spiritual by others, to buy spiritual objects, to go to spiritual places, to have a close relationship with an enlightened person or to feel spiritually special in some other way.
Today’s reading says:
“True desire is known by its desire for only one thing.”
True desire desires truth. It is immune to deception. If you remain fully focused on the desire for truth, you will not be sidetracked by the myriad of distortions that the ego can come up with. Because mental chatter is highly deceiving, you need to remain fully aware of what you desire in every moment.
Today’s reading says:
“The only way to pass through the tests of the thinking mind, without being led astray by false desire, is to remain fully focused on true desire now. There is no other way.”
You do not need to read from Revelation in the Bible today. You can go directly to the reading in NTI.
All that you see
with the body’s eyes
cannot harm you.
There is no reason to be afraid.
There is also no reason
to look on the world without love.
It is but Light
play-acting that it is not Light.
Have compassion for the ones
who do not know,
and choose for yourself
to remember.
~From our Holy Spirit
In this program, Paul through the vehicle of Satsang and repetition will be helping us to let go of misidentification and recognize Being Consciousness as our Truth.
Paul suggests repetition through Satsangs is helpful. It is an example of how the dreamING repurposes another programming element, repetition. What was used to (mis)identify, becomes instead a helpful undoing within the dreaming of that identification. The helpfulness of the Message is recognized in what Paul calls “traveling lighter.” In the surrender of an assumed need to escape/improve, the ever-present reality of consciousness already now/here becomes where our interest stays. Being consciousness in contact (in/as/through sensory experiencING), we appreciate being “successful” – already, as that Reality.
You can also learn more about Paul on his website www.zenbitchslap.com or his YouTube channel under the same title (Zen Bitchslap).
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