A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read and contemplate quotes #277-280 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
In my world nothing happens.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Note: Before reading today’s tip, read Acts 8:9-25 from the Bible or watch all of Acts 8 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts. (Here is a link to the Acts movie on YouTube.)
On Day 113, we learned how to be with an ego attack. Today’s reading reemphasizes the technique of not giving energy to an ego attack when it arises. There may be a temptation to see ego resistance as a battle—possibly a battle between you and the ego or a battle between you and Spirit. It is not helpful to see resistance as a battle, because then you are tempted to fight the battle or fear the battle. If you fight or fear the ego attack, you feed it with energy. Today’s reading encourages us to see it as a storm, and realize that the storm is passing.
Today’s reading also reinterprets a story about Peter and a man called Simon the Sorcerer. In the Bible story, Peter sees Simon as wicked, bitter and captive to sin. NTI points out that this way of seeing is not how the Holy Spirit sees. Peter’s way of seeing comes from the wrong-mind, not the right-mind. NTI says:
When the Holy Spirit looks at the world, it does not see holy men and men of darkness. It does not see men at all. It does not see men who are right in what they do and men who are wrong. It does not see men at all.
“Holy Spirit” is a symbolic term for spiritual wisdom. Spiritual wisdom is an aspect of the Second Principle of God, consciousness. Consciousness does not see separate people, some good and some bad, some righteous and some ignorant. Consciousness sees consciousness. Consciousness is aware of an awakening within consciousness—NTI calls it “the spreading of Light within an awakening mind”—but consciousness is not aware of separate parts.
To illustrate, imagine a bowl of white cake batter. Now, imagine that we want the cake to be blue, so we add blue food coloring to the batter. As we begin to stir in the food coloring, some of the cake batter is white and some is blue. As we continue to stir, more of the batter becomes blue. We see swirls of blue batter within the white batter. We do not see separate batter—it is all one batter—but we do see the spreading of blue within the batter. That is how consciousness sees awakening.
Just like the white batter will become completely blue, all aspects of consciousness will awaken to itself.
We allow ourselves to be awakened by the light that is spreading through consciousness by surrendering and willingly following intuition. That is how we are stirred. That is how the merging occurs.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
The mind is the story teller.
Peace is what you are.
The story teller can lay a story over peace,
but it cannot take peace away.
Try this today:
When the mind tells its stories,
take a break from what you hear.
Take a moment to notice peace,
which still is when the story is taken away.
That peace is you.
~From our Holy Spirit
This bi-monthly program is Awakening Together’s In the Company of Truth with Helen Hamilton that airs on the second and fourth Wednesday monthly from 3-4 pm ET. Helen’s core message is that the Realization of the True Self is possible for everyone, no matter what background you may have as long as you want it more than anything else. After all, we are only returning to our natural state, to what we already are. We are only coming to live as that Truth consciously.
Having reached a place of total peace, love, and joy, Helen has dedicated her life to helping others wake up too. The Truth is here and now and accessible to all. Helen will offer her teachings in this bi-weekly Satsang to help you Realize and BE the Self you already are.
For more information about Helen and to access her teachings, visit her website: www.HelenHamilton.org.
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMZJJW9DE10
In this program, Ian teaches about the traditional Mind, Body, and Spirit practice of Qigong (Chi Kung). Qi meaning life energy, referring to the energy circulating through the body, and Gong meaning cultivation or work. The two words are combined to describe a practice to cultivate and balance life energy. By following movements (forms) and a simple breathing technique, we encourage more Qi to flow which in turn allows us to feel more peaceful and at One with ourselves.
Day 158 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI Luke 15 (v1-10).
Tomorrow:
(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)
Please read and contemplate quotes #274-276 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
To take appearance for reality is a grievous sin and the cause of all calamities.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 7 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts. . (Here is a link to the Acts movie on YouTube.)
Today’s reading is really wonderful. I recommend reading it at least twice, maybe this morning and again this evening before going to bed. The reading gives a high-level overview of the process of awakening through following guidance. It is an overview of what happens during the merging process.
I have already walked ahead of you on this path, so I have the hindsight to say that everything written in today’s reading is true. You can trust it. I don’t know what surprises and miracles are in store for you as you trust inner spiritual intuition, follow it and let go of your personal sense of self and self-will, but I know there will be surprises and miracles along the way. I know how this works, because I am not different from you, and I have already given my trust and followed the guidance that came to me.
Enjoy today’s reading. Pay attention for the tips that will be most helpful to you as you take this journey. Write those tips down in your journal. Writing them down will help you absorb them, so they will be easy to recall whenever you need to remember them.
Note: Reference the related tips from Day 36 and Day 107.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
The mind will tell you stories,
which purpose is to defeat the peace within.
That is only because the mind was made
to deliver the experience of something different.
The mind is not bad.
It is not scary or frightening.
It is simply distracting you with stories
so you may choose to have an experience.
To return to the peace that resides within,
remember that peace is your reality
and stories are just a game you play.
~From our Holy Spirit
Michael Deforbes leads a weekly meditation on Tuesdays during the weekly program “There Is Only One.” His meditations are inspired by non-dual teachings, direct path teachings, and Buddhist philosophy. With each meditation, Michael takes us on a journey through a non-dual perspective via teachers and traditions such as Helen Hamilton, Scott Kiloby, and Pema Chodron’s Tonglen practice. Each week a new and different meditation is shared but with the Universal theme of encountering the direct experience of Truth as The One.
Enjoy this most recent meditation!
Day 157 AssignmentThis evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI Luke 14 (v15-24) to the end of the chapter.
Tomorrow:
(You may always select another meditation video from this playlist.)
