On Day 172, we saw that emptiness is Love.

Yesterday, we saw that the qualities we attribute to ourselves are the masks we wear that hide our emptiness.

Today, we get a glimpse of the experience of emptiness, which is being awake to Love. It is being awake to consciousness, which is the second principle of God.

Today’s reading says:

“As you walk the earth, you know where you walk, so that the earth is merely a symbol within the mind. You shall not know brothers, but you shall talk to them.”

When one is awake to consciousness, one knows everything as consciousness. This is not an intellectual, learned knowing. It is the seeing that occurs when we are empty. It is as Nisargadatta described:

“Love says ‘I am everything.’ Wisdom says ‘I am nothing.’ Between the two, my life flows.”

It is through not-knowing, not-defining, and not-judging (not-declaring) that all wisdom arises spontaneously, including the wisdom of being with life as it is joyously.

Today’s reading also says:

“What is received when all that is false has been let go is only that which reflects truth. … It is upon this recognition, which is the completeness of recognition within time, that you enter the fourth and final earthly phase of the path of truth with me. …”

The purpose of your life in the fourth phase of living on earth shall not be different than the purpose at any other time. Only now, in the fourth phase, the distractions have been erased. … Now, in the fourth stage, your focus is complete.

In NTI Acts, we learned about the first three phases of the spiritual path:

1. The Search (NTI Acts 19)
2. Purification (NTI Acts 20 & 21)
3. Service and Merging (NTI Acts 22)

Up until this point, NTI 1 Corinthians has focused on the third phase by teaching us how to be the servant of inner wisdom. Through service, merging occurs. The fourth phase of the spiritual path occurs when merging is complete. It is the state of true perception. It is the stage of unity consciousness. It is being awake to the ‘I am,’ the second principle of God. However, it is still a “phase” or “stage,” both of which are a period one passes through  in a process or development.

What comes next?

Awakening to the first principle of God.

That’s why the reading says:

“The purpose of your life in the fourth phase of living on earth shall not be different than the purpose at any other time.”

The purpose of the fourth phase is to complete the awakening process by awakening from ‘I am’ consciousness to the absolute.

As the reading says:

“The one that seems to be in the fourth stage is but a symbol of the truth that is. So this one must pass away also. But in its passing, you pass from a final illusion of beauty to Beauty that cannot be contained in illusion.”

What’s most important for us to know is that we awaken to the second principle of God, which is the bridge to the first principle of God, by becoming empty. Being empty is being egoless. Emptiness is the prerequisite to awakening, so emptiness, which includes empty of self and empty of self-will, is our focus now.

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Thoughts of Awakening # 174

False ideas are false ideas
which means
they simply are not true.

Try not to worry
about false ideas.
When you worry
you are stating
the idea has some meaning
to be worried about.

But if it is false,
which means it is merely untrue,
does it merit your attention and worry?

Respond to false ideas
with no attention except this:

Look at the idea.
See it as false,
and realize it does not merit your attention.
Then follow through
by taking a break
and letting the false idea
pass by.

~From our Holy Spirit

We are Love. We are  the all inclusive nature of emptiness. That is our truth. Yet, we do not see ourselves as we are, because we attribute qualities to the emptiness, and we claim those qualities as what we are. In today’s reading, those qualities are called “the mask.” The reading says:

“Surely the one under the mask is the creator of everything that makes up the mask. Surely the one who made the mask is beyond the mask that he made.”

Here is a message that I received from Inner Wisdom several years ago. It is related to today’s reading:

To see that you are not who you think you are, remember first that all ideas are in the mind. Remember all ideas are the same, in that they are  all ideas and they all exist within the one mind that is you.

When you have a grasp on the realization that ideas are only ideas and they live only in the mind that is you, try this exercise:

Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the center to make two columns. At the top of one column write, “What I think I am.” At the top of the other column write, “Then I must also know.”

Now look at the personality-body that you call you, which is actually only a filter of ideas. How would you describe that personality-body using one word adjectives? List those adjectives in the first column.

Each adjective that you have used to describe the personality-body has an opposite. Write its opposite in the second column next to the corresponding adjective.

When you’ve finished this, look at both columns. Remember that everything you look at exists only as ideas in the mind. Now, see that both sets of ideas are  in the mind. Where there is beauty, there is ugly. Where there is smart, there is dumb. Where there is skilled, there is unskilled.

In order for you to know the experience of feeling beautiful, you must have at some time felt ugly. To know feeling smart, you must have felt dumb. To know skilled, you must have felt unskilled. Only by feeling both can you know both, and only by knowing both can you ‘choose between’ in order to identify yourself as.

In other words, both sets of opposites have been a part of your experience or you would not be aware of either. And if both are a part of your experience, can you truly be defined as only one?

If you are experiencing ugly, you have experienced beautiful, so which are you truly? If dumb, then smart also. And if unskilled, skilled.

As you look at these two columns, you will realize you know both experiences. This is the only way you can make comparisons, and only through comparisons can you ‘choose between’ in order to define. Accept that this is true. In this acceptance, definitions begin to fade.

If you are both, can you be either?

Think on this today, and be glad. In accepting this you release your hold on the false. In releasing your hold on the false, you open to only that which is true.

If you take the time to carefully complete the exercise suggested in the previous message, it will help you see through the mask that you carry around in your mind as you. I recommend creating the list and contemplating it to discover if you have felt/experienced the adjectives in both columns. Once you’ve done that, consider this:

If you are (or have been) both, can you be defined as either, or are all definitions false?

Here is an example of the list requested in the exercise, except your list should be modeled after how you define yourself:

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Thoughts of Awakening # 173

Relax.
Take a break.
Be still,
if only for a moment.

Feel love
and have gratitude
for everything you find
in stillness.

Do not worry
that you were not still enough.
Do not worry
that the length was too short.
Any worry is noise
that pulls you away from stillness.

Have gratitude
for whatever bit of stillness you reach,
however brief
and however fleeting.

Gratitude is love,
and in love
you extend stillness.

~From our Holy Spirit