I read this article the day it came out, but it just sounded like blab, blab, blab...I put it aside, then picked it up again this morning and every word sang to me as if the article was written to me personally. I have been watching patterns of the ego/mind, but getting caught in not knowing what to do next, as I read your words...there is nothing to do, just stand back and see the falsity of old conditioning, allowing space for Grace to shine.
I absolutely love this paragraph you wrote..."We don't earn the healing. It is not a personal accomplishment. Healing is a natural effect of giving attention, of coming to the intensity of watchfulness so that the programming and conditioning no longer runs us. It's there, fine, but we are not being dragged along, forced by its energies to participate in chaos and destruction, bound to the suffering of separation.".....Thank you Sean.
Thank you Sean for helping me remember that those early workbook lessons are so powerful in their simplicity. I still get a chuckle thinking that I could breeze through them when I first read the Course some 50 years ago. For me they were, and continue to be essential in getting to 'don't know'.
Thank you Sean. Ah, yes the grind. The grind has been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you for the encouragement to just observe it and not fight it. I think I shall apply lesson 28 to my garden today. To the garden in the extreme heat in Florida and pray for overcast. But to be thankful for the extreme heat in the meantime. Yeah the grind goes on.....
Murry Bowen described the differece between being "reactive" and "responsive." Jesus said to be "in the world but not of the world." Michael White describes beautifully the difference between perception and interpretation. Mindfulness is thinking about what you think.
The ideas about what you think about what you think about the table seem very helpful. We are conditioned to interpret our perception of the table in certain ways that we get from our culture. When we say "table" do you think of a piece of furniture or a depiction of data in columns and rows? Maybe both and even more like the level of water in a natural container like a pond or lake.
The human mind, consciousness, is a wonderful thing and it is good to know what makes one tick. Thinking about what we think is called "contemplation" in some religious traditions. Thank you for sharing your contemplation.
I read this article the day it came out, but it just sounded like blab, blab, blab...I put it aside, then picked it up again this morning and every word sang to me as if the article was written to me personally. I have been watching patterns of the ego/mind, but getting caught in not knowing what to do next, as I read your words...there is nothing to do, just stand back and see the falsity of old conditioning, allowing space for Grace to shine.
I absolutely love this paragraph you wrote..."We don't earn the healing. It is not a personal accomplishment. Healing is a natural effect of giving attention, of coming to the intensity of watchfulness so that the programming and conditioning no longer runs us. It's there, fine, but we are not being dragged along, forced by its energies to participate in chaos and destruction, bound to the suffering of separation.".....Thank you Sean.
As always Sean, thank you. And thank you for walking the walk together. Much love
Thank you Sean for helping me remember that those early workbook lessons are so powerful in their simplicity. I still get a chuckle thinking that I could breeze through them when I first read the Course some 50 years ago. For me they were, and continue to be essential in getting to 'don't know'.
Thank you Sean. Ah, yes the grind. The grind has been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you for the encouragement to just observe it and not fight it. I think I shall apply lesson 28 to my garden today. To the garden in the extreme heat in Florida and pray for overcast. But to be thankful for the extreme heat in the meantime. Yeah the grind goes on.....
Sean, thanks for the reminder that in this world, release is a radical way to see. We all need help in choosing to return to stillness.
Murry Bowen described the differece between being "reactive" and "responsive." Jesus said to be "in the world but not of the world." Michael White describes beautifully the difference between perception and interpretation. Mindfulness is thinking about what you think.
The ideas about what you think about what you think about the table seem very helpful. We are conditioned to interpret our perception of the table in certain ways that we get from our culture. When we say "table" do you think of a piece of furniture or a depiction of data in columns and rows? Maybe both and even more like the level of water in a natural container like a pond or lake.
The human mind, consciousness, is a wonderful thing and it is good to know what makes one tick. Thinking about what we think is called "contemplation" in some religious traditions. Thank you for sharing your contemplation.