My work is an expression of my life. CT Step 51 (MP3)
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| My work is an expression of my life. CT Step 51 |
The work you do today either serves you or it does
not. Therefore, in your Review of the Four Pillars, you want to make sure that
the work that you are doing is assisting you in finding your greater work. Here
the requirements for your work are not so great. Your work does not have to
fulfill you. It does not have to represent your greatest values. It does not
have to hold the ultimate meaning of your life. It simply needs to support you
in your greater endeavors. It is like working your way through school. If your
work in the world cannot fulfill this, then you will have to make changes in
this Pillar.
One of the problems is that people often confuse
their real work with the work they are doing in the world. They try to make the
work they are doing in the world their real work. Or they try to avoid all work
in the world and only do the work that is their real work before they are
really ready to do it, before it can be done in such a way that it can support
them. This is a problem in discernment. It is a problem in confusing levels.
It may take you a long, long time to find your real
work and a much longer time for it to support you financially. In the interim,
you do work that supports your real work. This is perfectly all right. In fact,
it has to be this way. If you live in poverty because you have refused to do
any work other than what you think is your real work, you will not have the
power, the stability or the foundation to do your real work, even if it becomes
known to you.
Here we have a problem in patience as well as a
problem in the confusion of levels. People want things right now! "I want
it now! I won't wait for it! I'll get it now!" They think that they can do
this themselves, and so they choose some kind of occupation that they think
will make them very happy. And they think, "Ah, that is my real
work!" And they drop everything and sacrifice everything to go off and do
that, but it’s not it. People’s real work is rarely what they think it is.
Your real work resides in the Mystery because if
you were to discover your real work before you were able to do it, it would be
a great tragedy for you, a great failure. Therefore, it is better that you not
know. It is as if your real work were around the other side of the mountain,
and you had to get over there to find it. From where you are now, you cannot
see it. So you do the work necessary to get there. If you have humility, you
will do this work. You will find a job that meets your primary needs, that
supports you in your Four Pillars, and there are usually many choices here. If
you are mature and can advance, you will not be in constant complaint about
this work even though it is not really what you are ultimately here to do. This
represents maturity, for here you are working for something greater than your
personal fulfillment.
In today’s practice, think about these things.
Consider what is being said here. Think about your own experience. Consider
your own impatience. Think about the compromise you have to make here. It is
not really a compromise at the level of Knowledge. It simply compromises your
goals and ambitions. Can you wait? Can you work towards that which is truly
worthy? Can you wait for the full expression of this? Are you willing not to
know? Can you trust in Knowledge and in the Creator that these things are
awaiting you in the future. Make these questions all part of your contemplation
today.
In your time of stillness, let all these questions
go and simply be close to Knowledge. Let your mind be free of its own thoughts
and conditioning. Upon the hour practice awareness and discernment, but
remember today to think about work.
Practice 51: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Camera crew at airport.
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
For the continuation of reading material, the next
book in Volume 3 of The Message is “Living The Way of Knowledge”. Five chapters are available as downloads.
Chapter
2: The Four Pillars of Life
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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