x2 Step 228 - I will not be poor today. – Journal – Step 227

Today:  Step 228 - I will not be poor today. (MP3)

 

I will not be poor today. Step 228

YOU NEED NOT BE POOR, FOR POVERTY is neither your heritage nor your true destiny. Do not be poor today, for Knowledge is the great wealth, and once it is allowed to emerge within any mind, it begins to generate its presence naturally in the world. It begins to balance and harmonize the mind that is its vehicle, and it begins to give specifically to certain individuals in specific ways. This is the genius that is with you. How can you be poor with such a gift? Only your self-deprecating ideas and forms of behavior can engender poverty.

THEREFORE, TODAY BEGIN TO LOOK MORE DEEPLY at those things that are forms of obstruction to you. Think of this upon the hour. In your two deeper practice periods, engage your mind actively in attempting to discern specific forms of self-deception and self-obstruction. Do this without condemnation, but with the objectivity that is necessary to view yourself clearly. Do not be dismayed that there are many subtle forms of self-deception. They are merely slight variations upon very simple themes. Their seeming complexity and number are unimportant except that you recognize them. They are all born of fear and the attempt to offset fear by engaging in illusion and by attempting to engage others in supporting illusion. All ideas without Knowledge serve this purpose, either directly or indirectly. Yet, real purpose is the great force behind ideas that are for true service, as it is the great force behind all forms of action and behavior that are for true service.

TODAY WE WILL LOOK AT OBSTACLES, but not with shame, guilt or anxiety. Look only to strengthen the presence and the application of Knowledge and only to prepare yourself to be a greater vehicle for Knowledge in the world. That is the purpose of today’s practice. Therefore, practice with true intent. You are greater than the errors that you perceive, and they cannot deceive you if you look at them objectively.

PRACTICE 228: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

So as not to be poor, we do many things for “good luck,” following the superstitions of our cultures, as pictured today. This on the grounds of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

From the journal:  Step 227 - I will not think that I know today.

April 3, 2001

1:20 p.m. What happens in stillness? Opportunity for alignment? – a thought on this day when the Step is: "I will not think that I Know today”.

8:30 p.m. Where am I? Here in my room. I don't need much of the world. As I walked home @ lunch – thinking of retirement. I'll only need the materials to write and continued connection to the world via the Internet. I won't need to travel – don't need a Winnebago to drive all over. I've not got a lot of places I must see. To sharpen my mind and remote viewing abilities.

Andy Guest died yesterday. Perhaps he'll join the Valley Tribal Council. I went to the visiting hours – no casket, no body. As I went I remembered stopping at Turner Robertshaw's [funeral home] to see Margaret Stokes [who had died of cancer in her 60’s]. I felt that it would help David and Sarah to have seen a body. It was a shock for me – like seeing my mother.

I write and write. Who is this writing for?

Let us continue.

NNC

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