A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read quotes 789-791 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of the last quote:
In order to qualify as an aspirant, one must have the absolute conviction that happiness, the sole aim of all living beings, can be obtained not from external objects but only from one’s own inmost Self.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Today’s reading is too good to read quickly. It begins with a reinterpretation of Jesus’ crucifixion. Many of us were taught that Jesus died for our sins. Today’s reading says that Jesus “released the sins of the world as illusion … and returned himself to the Awareness of God,” and then it asks us to make the same decision.
Are you ready to give no more meaning to illusion?
Are you ready to give all of your love and attention to truth?
Today’s reading shares a couple of ‘tests’ we can give ourselves in order to be honest with ourselves regarding our own spiritual progress.
First, we are asked to notice how we feel about others. If there is anyone we “do not love truly,” there are misperceptions in our mind that still need healing.
Next, we are asked to notice if some things in our lives have higher priority than other things. If some matters have more meaning to us than others, we do not yet see all things as God. The only exception to this test is when truth has more meaning than illusion.
I hope you decide to read today’s reading slowly and contemplatively. I recommend taking notes as you read today.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
The mind wants to think,
but the Heart wants to be still.
The Heart knows that stillness
is the surety of God.
Thinking is the frantic-ness of illusion,
of play, or non-reality.
A step from frantic-mind
is desire-stillness.
Recognizing desire
leads to direct-experience.
Direct-experience of stillness
is knowing-surety of God.
It is lasting and always present,
because God is lasting
and always present.
~From our Holy Spirit
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom, and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.
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.
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.
If you would like to read the transcript of the Awakening Together Satsang with Miranda Macpherson: Click Here
If you would like to learn more about Miranda, you can visit her website: mirandamacpherson.com
In the future, each Satsang will have the transcript included on the Satsang’s post page for each guest speaker that we have. Here’s a direct link to the original post for the Miranda Macpherson Satsang: Click Here
Day 319 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI 2 Corinthians 12 in full.
Tomorrow:
Please read quotes 786-788 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Your most important objective must be realizing the Self. If you have not done this, you will spend your time in ignorance and illusion.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Today’s reading opens by saying:
We proclaim the Word of Life.
A word can be a declaration, so the essence of the statement above is this:
You are Life!
(said with great declaration and emphasis)
Today’s reading also says:
God is an awareness that is pure,
because it looks on only that which is wholly true.
This is God. And God, as an awareness, exists within you.
That means that when you see life and only life, you see with God-awareness.
Here’s an example:
Recently, while traveling in New Mexico, I stopped to go to the bathroom at a truck stop. When I went into the toilet stall, my heart leapt with great joy when I saw a fly resting on the toilet seat. It actually took the mind another second or two to realize it was looking at a fly on a toilet seat in a truck stop. When that was realized, I laughed, because I knew most humans would not understand the great joy I felt.
The joy was natural and spontaneous, prior to thought. It was God-awareness leaping for joy when it recognized its Self. It didn’t see a fly on a toilet seat in a truck stop. It saw life-awareness!
Life-awareness experienced life-awareness and felt great joy being aware of itself.
On Day 254, I gave the example of a tree as a representation of the enlightened mind. I said that the tree does not judge the people who gather under it, and the people who gather under it do not affect the tree. Of course, the tree does not see people gathered under it. In order to see people, the tree would need a brain. However, the tree does see. Actually, it would be more correct to say that the tree knows. The tree knows the life-awareness that is gathered under it as people, and the tree experiences joy. That joy is the joy of life-awareness in the presence of life-awareness.
For more understanding, watch this 3-minute video about my experience as an apple.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Inner stillness is inner-discernment.
Without stillness,
one cannot say, “I discern.”
For the “I” that has decided
is thinking.
Stillness is letting go of thinking.
It is letting go of problems,
and desires and acquired “knowledge”.
It is not-knowing and
it is surrender.
Through true stillness
helpful guidance emerges.
Helpful guidance
comes from discernment.
~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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