x2 Step 264 - I will learn of freedom this day. – Journal – Step 263

Today:  Step 264 - I will learn of freedom this day. (MP3)

I will learn of freedom this day. Step 264

TODAY YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN more about freedom. The step you take today will be very substantial in giving you a new viewpoint about freedom, about bondage, about problem solving and about the nature of true advancement.

TODAY THINK ABOUT YOUR LESSON ON THE HOUR and think about what freedom is. In your longer practice periods, devote your mind to thinking about freedom. This is a very important focal point today. In your longer meditations in particular, devote your mind entirely to reviewing your ideas about freedom. What do you think constitutes freedom? What do you think prevents people from being free? What produces a freedom that is lasting and secure? How can this be achieved? What will support it in the future? After you spend approximately thirty minutes thinking about all this in each practice, enter into stillness and silence. Open yourself to allow Knowledge to speak to you. Abide with your Teachers there. After you have exhausted your ideas, enter into stillness and receptivity.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE AWARE of your own ideas about freedom because until these are recognized and adjusted, they will continue to cast their influence upon you. They will continue to dominate your thinking and thus your behavior. A greater freedom is now available to you, but you must learn how to approach it. Today you shall learn more about freedom—what you think freedom is and what freedom really is.

PRACTICE 264: Two 40-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  Step 263 - With Knowledge all things become clear.

7 a.m. May 9, 2001 – John Dunn? A spiritual family member? Slept okay – woke a few times. The complexity of all the services.

9:25 a.m. – I seek to experience the world through Knowledge.

8:35 p.m. A very klutzy day. Ink on my shirt, lost part of my pen,…

8:58 p.m. Practice #2

10:41 p.m.→ "With Knowledge all things become clear". After my meditation – about an hour or more – I am tired – ready for bed. What is simple – is a beer – in bed, with my $4 reading pillow from the thrift store.

The Step says one only has to learn to be w/K to – see what K sees, to do what K does; to have the peace of K, the grace of K, the inclusion of K, the relationships of K & all that K contains.

– In practice "Allow yourself to be immersed in K and all things will become clear, for w/K all things become clear and all questions disappear".

I was immersed. I have no questions. What is clear? That there are no questions? It is 2001: A Space Odyssey – a man, alone in a nice room, in a bed, silence. Then an embryo – Death – passage to a new life. That there has been movement through the universe, though time is immaterial. There is only life and only journey.

I've done very little to make this life happen. I am only in its flow, bouncing about – collecting what I can. I have a chest pain again. Stress? Probably.

I do not have the grace of K? Or the personal wisdom care for my body? Or other compulsion.

Have my gifts been given? Today I inspired … [five people mentioned]

David called. I called him back. Jamie has left. This is good – I supported him in his life. Jamie and he were not good together. My prayers for the kids and David.

I sent a box of tapes to Sarah. …

… [five more people mentioned]

What is clear? I serve a function. I have greater ideas for regional community. I’ll use the web to organize my approach.

I have busy days in the flow of life. I help people and am helped. There are millions/billions of souls like me in the flow manifestation.

I am conscious of present, future, past and seek to advance humanity. Because I'm there, people are helped daily.

I work so because of my faith in God and the creation. I'm tired because it does take energy. I need to simplify other parts of my life, and to make thought possible for others.

Has K been with me today? If K is service to humanity, then yes. So K is living a helpful life in the midst of difficulty.

So much can happen in a day, and if HS/K is not present – less will be done.

My work is serving people, not systems alone. The system wants credit and no change to the system. All are not service-oriented – except self-service.

There will be "work questions" to answer. The answer to the life question(?) is choose life. I've chosen life all day. I chose it every day of my 54 years – and, w/K, I continue to choose it.

These "progression" answers to life are more useful than metaphysics. There are many ways to live.

11:39 p.m. –

Things are getting more clear; some new perspectives appear. Still – getting more clear. Let us continue.

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.