Today: CT Step 54 - The Fire of Knowledge is burning within me now. (MP3)
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| CT Step 54 - The Fire of Knowledge is burning within me now. – Journal – CT Step 53 |
The Fire of Knowledge is burning within me now. CT
Step 54
What is the Fire of Knowledge but Knowledge moving
within you? This is a fervent awareness
of something that needs your attention, an area perhaps where you need
to take action or something that needs to be comprehended—-something that
cannot wait, something that cannot be put aside or delegated to some lower
priority. This awareness does not come from your personal mind. It comes from
Knowledge. Something needs your attention, and it is being missed. It is
flagging you down, calling you to stop. It is burning within you—an awareness,
a power. And it can carry with it urgency, and this is fine. Life can be very
urgent at times. That is normal.
Today consider in your life when you have felt this
kind of urgency. It was not a compulsion. It was not a fear. It was not some
petty thing, but something important. And if you attended to it, you realized
that it really was important even if it had to do with a relatively minor
matter. Then think of the Fire of Knowledge in greater things, a greater thing
that creates passion within you to contribute, to give to people or to educate
people in some specific area of life. This fire is important. It is purifying.
It will consume other distractions. It will consume weakness. And it will
consume the social conditioning that limits you and prevents you from
responding.
Today in your practice in stillness see if that fire
lives anywhere within you. See if you are passionate about anything, if
anything feels urgent or essential in your life-—something that cannot wait,
the thing you must do before you die, the thing that must be done and that you
must do. In stillness, listen. Watch. Feel. Let the body be an instrument of Knowledge
now.
Practice upon the hour and consider the meaning of
this lesson throughout the day. This Fire is what gives you vitality, creates
life force within you and gives you the energy, the commitment and the
enthusiasm to carry out greater things in life. See how it is missing in so
many people. See how their light is dim or has even died out. Determine that
this will not happen to you, that you will build and keep the fire going, for
this is the fire of light, the fire that does not burn but that consumes all
that is false and unreal. You need this fire. It is the source of your
vitality. It is the power that will move you forward.
Practice 54: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture:
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file
Wednesday,
October 17, 2001
6:15
p.m. Contemplation – Age 55+ 1 day –
Step
53 – "The Greater Community is a Greater Reality. I must be
prepared".
This
is a heavy step for what it implies/says. Today I was very busy with all my
work issues – living towns/ technology award LFCC – Battlefield Foundation
expansion @ Fishers Hill. Garland M… was there and he apparently did not
connect that action with the work we did in the early 90s.
I
was so busy – and my watch loose on my wrist – that I hardly made any hourly
practices.
Yet
the text says: "The GC is a greater reality. And it is overshadowing
everything that you are doing today and everything that you will do
tomorrow".
That
is sobering…yet I am working on "building community" in deep preparation
for GC.
I
believe that the ongoing war and terrorism can be a force to spur community
preparedness that will work for GC.
1/13/02
(and increase religious tolerance between Islam and other world religions)
Is
my foundation strong? I still am doing too much which weakens me. Still trying
to fulfill myself through work – get credit – have recognition – get money –
for my kids.
The
text says, "You must build a table with four strong legs and be able to
stand upon it. Otherwise, you will not be able to see and you will not be able
to give. You will be one of life's casualties and not one of life's
contributors".
I
feel that I have seen the needs for community and given to that – with risk,
reward and punishment. He lives through, (dammit they say) and keeps pushing.
With
the GC orientation, the need is greater for human community.
[Earth
a human community of communities.] 1/13/02
I am
overwhelmed with ideas – I need a way to get them out in the world. Amen &
Amen – Tom Su-ne
I
do have a sense of what I’m doing and why, but is it My Knowledge? A difficult
question to get answered. We continue.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen 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. Begin at
the beginning.
If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps
twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction
of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:
“This is the Steps
to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps
that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to
enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in
your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do.
If you have completed the book, Steps to
Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were
given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to
begin this more advanced study”.
If you are an independent student, that is
certainly an option. 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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