Sidebar – Page 417

Paul Hedderman ~ Traveling Lighter 7-13-21

July 13, 2021

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).

Listen to the Recording

Watch YouTube

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show~7/13/21

July 13, 2021

During our time together, we will explore what it takes to live from an open, undefended heart. Naturally, any true exploration of living from the heart necessarily entails taking a deep and sustained look at what prevents us from keeping our hearts open. Grounded in the knowledge that the essence of us, our true nature, is the very lovingness within us all, we will explore how to recognize and release egoic energies by cultivating open-hearted awareness practices which support us in directly experiencing our true Self. By leaning into willingness, steeped in self-honesty, and with a consistent dash of courage, we endeavor to open to whatever life brings, as it brings it, that is, on life’s terms. In so doing, we trust that everything – absolutely everything – is here for us to use for healing, for purification, and for learning to live from the heart. We look forward to supporting each other in our individual explorations of how we truly embrace the entirety of this show we call life.

Listen to the Recording

Please note: it may be necessary to download the audio to listen to it fully.

*In the future, you will be able to find these recordings by going to our website>Main Menu>AT Audios>Sanctuary Teachers>Anne Blanchard>Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show. Here’s a direct link: Click Here

Mighty Companions ~ 7-11-2021

July 13, 2021

Revs. Glen Ganaway and Yolanda Mapes, who are interfaith ministers, share a delightful, funny and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM. You can find out more about the Mighty Companions on their website: www.themightycompanions.com

Live in the Sanctuary Sundays at 5pm ET/3 pm MT.

The Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj Open for Registration

July 12, 2021

This course is 4 weeks long.

“When I met my Guru, he told me: ‘You are not what you take yourself to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense I am, find your real Self.’ I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. …

I simply followed (my teacher’s) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being I am, and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the I am in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared — myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Join us as we contemplate the extremely profound teachings of a great sage, a cigarette salesman, who trusted his guru completely and awakened to become one of the most perspicacious teachers of our time.

In this course you will learn:

1. To allow inner spiritual intuition to guide you to a small portion of a teaching so you can go deeper within that teaching.

2. To write from beyond one’s self in order to realize additional clarity or commitment.

3. To meditate on the sense of ‘I Am’, also known as awareness watching awareness.

Class Structure and Schedule:

This is a forum based MPP course lasting four weeks and includes one introductory video and reviewing one other participant’s homework. The course begins August 11 and continues through September 8, 2021.

Specific Information:
The cost is $80.
The textbook needed is “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj (or use the free pdf format.)
This class will be offered in the Awakening Together Discussion Forum. Familiarity with the forum is helpful.
Registration closes on August 5.
For more information on this class, click here.

Click to register

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 192

July 12, 2021

Day 192 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI John 3 in full.
Contemplate this paragraph from today’s reading and write down the clarity that comes to you through this contemplation: “Men judge the world and one another, and they condemn what they see, but in their condemnation they fail to see as the Light sees. It is the Light that sees truly, for the Light sees as God sees. And so men must be mistaken in what they see and in what they think. Therefore, the judgment of man is meaningless. All that is meaningful is the vision that comes of the Light.”

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for 15-30 minutes and focus on being. If you would like to, watch this video as you practice the meditation: Snow Falling on Lake
When you notice a judgment in your mind, regardless of whether it is a self-judgment, a judgment of another person, or a judgment against a circumstance:
(a) Say to yourself, “This judgment blocks the light.”
(b) Look to see if you can notice that the judgment is self-centric, biased, closed-minded or mistaken.
(c) Say to yourself, “I forgive myself for not seeing more clearly. I am willing to see as the Light sees.”

(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #126

July 12, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #409-412 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

This house known as the body has not been made by anyone in fact! It is only an appearance, like the two moons seen by one suffering from diplopia. The moon is really only one; the duality is an optical illusion. The body is experienced to exist only when the notion of a physical body prevails in the mind; it is unreal.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 148 – NTI Romans 11

July 12, 2021

NTI Romans 2 is the story of a wish, “What if nothing is as it was?” It tells the story of how the wish was focused on to the point that truth was forgotten. It says:

Struck with [the idea that your wish came true], you became engrossed by it. And you tossed [the truth] aside. Faced with reality and the option of fantasy, you chose to step into fantasy.

Does that mean we rejected truth?

Today’s reading says we did not reject truth. When we “tossed [the truth] aside,” we merely repressed it, and what we repress we keep. That means the truth is always with us, whether it is acknowledged or not.

When our eyes are open to truth, the idea that we could reject truth is laughable. It is seen clearly that rejecting truth is impossible. It is the one thing that can never be done. However, before our eyes have opened, we can be-lie-ve we have rejected truth. We can even be-lie-ve that we continue to do so. This untrue idea can be the source of guilt and self-condemnation. Therefore, it is important to see that it isn’t true.

Today’s reading teaches that you have never rejected truth. It has always been with you. After reading today’s reading, consider spending some time in awareness-watching-awareness. Find out for yourself if you’ve rejected truth, or if you ever could.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 148

The way of within is silence,
not because everything is silent
around you,
but because silence guides
within you.

When the world is busy
and the mind follows suit,
the noise is merely on top of
the silence.

Silence still exists.

Tune in to the gentle prodding
birthed from the silence within.
Do not ask it to be like the noise.
Do not ask it to explain and justify itself.
Simply listen and follow,
and you are one
with the guiding force of love.

~From our Holy Spirit

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 191

July 11, 2021

Day 191 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Watch the following 19-minute video.

Tomorrow:

Set a timer for 15-30 minutes and focus on being. If you would like to, watch this video as you practice the meditation: Evening in the Swamp
(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)
Pick an exercise from the previous week to do again.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #125

July 11, 2021

Please read and contemplate quotes #405-408 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

This entire creation is pervaded by ignorance which sustains it.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Tips for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 147- NTI Romans 10

July 11, 2021

Today’s reading reemphasizes what we learned on Day 135. There are two scripts to choose from, one provided by ego and one provided by awake consciousness. It also points out that as we awaken, we tend to waiver between these two scripts. In one moment, we follow the script provided through intuition. In the next moment, we revert to believing thought again. However, the reading points out that this is progress. After all, wasn’t there a time when we listened almost exclusively to ego’s script?

We have made progress, and we will continue to make progress, especially as we trust intuition over thought more and more (and trust intuition over the world, which is also thought).

As we learned on Day 121, one of the things we can expect when we start following intuitive guidance instead of thought is resistance. Today’s reading reminds us how to be with resistance in order to heal it. It says:

When you find resistance in your heart and your mind, put not your trust there. When you find resistance, remember what you truly want. Rest, so that resistance will pass over you.

In other words, when you experience resistance, remember your spiritual aspiration and practice rest-accept-trust until you feel reconnected to your willingness.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 147

The way of within
is the way of rest,
because the way of within
is the way of flowing
with the guiding force of all.

The guiding force does not force.
It listens,
and then it delivers
through gentle prodding
that which is in the best interest
of all.

The guiding force is love
and it acts in love
as love
because love is all it knows.

~From our Holy Spirit