Today: Step 272 - My Teachers
will guide me as I proceed. (MP3)
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My Teachers will guide me as I proceed. Step 272
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YOU WILL REQUIRE TEACHERS TO GUIDE YOU as you
proceed on the path to Knowledge, for you will be venturing far beyond your own
concepts and assumptions. You will be engaged in a life that you have not yet
comprehended. You will be accessing power and resources that you have not yet
fully recognized. You will be venturing deeper into life, beyond human assumptions,
beyond human beliefs and beyond human conventions. This will require very
strong guidance for you, both from Knowledge and from your primary
relationships. Your Inner Teachers represent your most primary relationships,
for these relationships are completely based upon Knowledge, and they are given
to you to cultivate Knowledge safely and completely.
THEREFORE, ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATIONS AS A STUDENT of Knowledge
so that you may proceed with the assistance that will be required. Be grateful
that such great assistance can be given to you and that it can permeate any
circumstance because it is invisible to your eyes. Be grateful that you can
experience it in any circumstance and that you can receive the counsel of your
Teachers at those junctures in life where it is called for.
AFFIRM THE PRESENCE OF YOUR TEACHERS TODAY so that
you may have great courage and enthusiasm in your support of the emergence of
Knowledge. Upon the hour remind yourself that your Teachers are with you. In
your two deeper practice periods, enter into stillness and silence with them so
that they may render their presence and their counsel to you if needed. Accept
your studenthood so that you may learn to give to the world.
PRACTICE 272: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
271 - I will accept responsibility today.
7:05
a.m. Thursday, May 17, 2001 – The Regional Water Supply gets presented tonight
– Local isolates, Regional integrates. Local is always bounded – regional is
not. Bounding focuses the integration effort – the "New Integration”
If
you want a service, you need to be a market –<create a parade and the
leaders will get in front of it >
5/26/01
–
Privacy by design –
I've
had many experiences in this life. Whether or not I've learned – well – “slow learner here"
8:05
a.m. What's wrong with this picture? It's picture.
I
need to send Sarah money weekly. I've sent money to David thinking he'd get out
on his own. Sarah just needs support. $25 a week for the rest of my life…that
won't hurt – until I have to stop.
11:09
p.m. Local Government Forum – Water Supply Presentation less effective – PC
projector didn’t work. … The meeting went poorly – but the reception was good.
I'm
still angry…but – the unburdening was needed and I'm still advancing projects.
Life
goes on… I really needed a break from the PDC and got it. Steve was working
late… he'll be doing more of that. I'll build my constituency.
…
from
GCW II – CH-34 – Walking the Way of K
p.
415 "… intelligence itself creates a great and oppressive burden upon the
individual".
My
intelligence is not that great, but it is a burden. It is enough to envision
perfection and – by failing that, always making the unhappy – always missing
the mark. There are small successes in intelligence – yet the big when is never
scored.
What
I am doing… is beyond my intelligence. RI – regions work – is a mission beyond sense.
I don't know how I got it. I'm afraid another will use it…but I'd be happy to
have another who gets it.
Intelligence
causes the pain, but spirituality comforts it –
Purposes
1.
Have individuality accentuated & validated – more unique, important,
special
2.
Deeper desire for union, cooperation, community, affinity, shared purpose &
shared accomplishment
[text
of above photo – can’t do actual arrows in text]
Really
they are
1.
Is desire for greater separation
2.
Is desire for union
Yet
the deeper part of you is looking for a place to Give ↑
Not
looking to acquire more of what drives everyone in the world mad ↑
The Steps are getting more serious. This one is
about responsibility. We’ve been here before, but the last time the answer was
incomplete. Wisdom II tells us: "… intelligence itself creates a great and
oppressive burden upon the individual", so reconcile that with our lives dedicated to become educated! OK –
let us continue – there’s more to integrate.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other
Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
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