Today: Step 205 - I will not
judge the world today. (MP3)
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| Step 205 - I will not judge the world today. |
DO NOT LET YOUR MIND DEPRECATE ITSELF by projecting blame
upon the world. With blame the world becomes misunderstood, and your mind
becomes a burden rather than an asset to you. Today’s idea requires practice,
discipline and application, for your mind and all minds within the world have
been misunderstood, misused and misdirected. Thus, you are now learning to
utilize the mind positively by giving it a true function in service to
Knowledge.
DO NOT BLAME THE WORLD TODAY. Do not judge the
world today. Allow your mind to be still as you look upon it. Knowledge about
the world arises gradually. It arises naturally. An idea may speak of it, but
an idea cannot contain it. Knowledge represents an overall shift in your viewpoint,
an overall change in your experience, an overall shift in your emphasis and an
overall transformation of your value system. This is the evidence of Knowledge.
DO NOT BLAME THE WORLD TODAY. It is blameless, for
it is merely demonstrating that Knowledge is not being adhered to. What else
can it do but commit error and folly? What else can it do but waste its great
resources? Humanity can only be in error without Knowledge. It can only create
fantasy. It can only engage in loss. Therefore, it does not deserve
condemnation. It deserves the application of Knowledge.
PRACTICE UPON THE HOUR NOT BLAMING THE WORLD. Do
not let hours pass without your involvement. Give this day to serve the world in
this way, for without your condemnation your love for the world will naturally
arise and be expressed. In your two deeper practice periods, allow your mind to
enter stillness. Without blame and judgment, stillness becomes accessible
because it is natural. Without the imposition of your condemnation, your mind is
allowed to be still. In stillness there is no blame or judgment. In stillness
love will flow from you in all directions and will continue far beyond what you
can perceive through your senses.
PRACTICE 205: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
In this picture the signs read: Patriotism
~ Innovation ~ Beijing Spirit ~ Inclusiveness ~ Virtue. These words represent
the growth and development the world wants, in spite of the problems that come
along with it. This is of the world we look at without judgement today.
From the journal: Step
204 - I will be at peace today.
12:10
p.m. Sunday, March 11, 2001 – I Know what is needed – the regional compiler
codes to attach to FIPS codes – How do they get built?...
Step
204 – Practice #1 – I will be at peace today.
Where
am I? What is growing in my awareness is that I/we live in a Greater Community
with many different intelligences. The world is a stage – one of many – and the
audience/ensemble is huge. Throughout there is drama, trauma – and perhaps
comic relief – underlain by truth/peace/stillness –
So…different/new
learning and action is required. I'm on such a path – and the perspective
serves me – has allowed relaxation and enabled focus – I need not do
everything. Thus – I can be at peace today.
→Power in
manipulating the universe is not much in relation to the power of K which
created the universe. Everywhere that an enabler of life is honored, the
creator.
1:58
p.m. At my ironing board desk – watching Atlanta race – sorting cards/items –
my attempt to enjoy the race and be productive – filing as a half brain
activity.
→My challenge is
to manage the flow of info that comes to & through me.
→More focus,
better organization –
Ideas
to add→
Joe
Callahan @ Arby's "When you see the alignment of the regions, you see you are
working for yourself".
Races
– They have to end. – Beginning, middle, end. Races start – they end. They are
competition in an arena – context, setting.
RI –
Tools for enhancing regional community. – on signature for email –
10:25
p.m. Practice #2 I will be at peace today. That is where I've been. Working to
organize the flow of ideas I've had over the past 5 – 10 years, the business
cards of human contacts – and the mundane business of bill paying and letter
sending. About 5 p.m. after the race, it seemed time to go to the trail. The
woods or work was the choice – and – strangely work was the answer. I was
getting organized – is frustrating as that work is, so – I kept at it – only
went out to the store late. …
My
life is so much better thanks to the S2K practice. I am more at home in the
world by virtue of the expanded perspective.
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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