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:
- The Search (NTI Acts 19)
- Purification (NTI Acts 20 & 21)
- 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.
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
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 169-175
- Read NTI 1 Corinthians 10-16
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, 185-187, The Here and Now of Presence
- Exercise: This week we have two games. The first is to tune into the sense of hereness. Notice that it doesn’t change no matter where you are. You’re always here. That’s consciousness.
The second is everything is happening now. Even thoughts about the past or the future are happening now. The now is stable and constant. Time happens in the now. Notice it’s always now. No matter when you notice, it’s always now. The same now.
The now and the here and consciousness are all the same thing. It is what you are. That’s why it is always here and now.
