Today: CT
Step 3 - I must be
patient in order to proceed.
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| I must be patient in order to proceed. CT Step 3 |
Everyone seems to have difficulty learning
patience. This is because people are living without Knowledge. They are trying
to establish their goals in life without Knowledge. They are trying to
establish their primary relationships without Knowledge. They are even trying
to be at peace without Knowledge. Thus, they are at the mercy of the
machinations and the conflicts of the mind. And they are at the mercy of the
conflicting forces that exist within the mental environment and the physical
environment. Thus things seem continually unstable and out of harmony. Great
effort is exerted in building things that can fall apart in a moment, things that
have no stability or permanence.
Therefore, come back to Knowledge in your long
practice period. It is infinitely patient with you, and you must become patient
as well. For what is patience but relieving yourself of your own frantic
pursuits to enjoy the luxury of stillness and the depths of true understanding.
At first, this will seem difficult, for your mind is racing here and racing
there and trying to solve this and trying to establish that. But as you become
quiet, you become more receptive and more in harmony with your deeper nature.
Therefore, develop this patience. Let not the
frantic yearnings of your personal mind govern your understanding, but abide
with Knowledge, which is permanent and which has true direction in the world.
Today, practice upon the hour and in addition to
your long practice period in stillness, consider the meaning of today's lesson.
Look about. See how it applies to the world around you. And look at your own
experience and see how it applies to you. Explore it meaning and its
implications.
Practice 3: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: This is the rock in the
Shenandoah National Park that I named Patience. This naming occurred sometime
in the 1980’s, as the hour walk walk in and out, I found, made me more patient.
It was essentially a labyrinth walk. There’s a Pinterest page Journey
to Patience.
From the journal:
CT
Step 2 - The gift of Knowledge is given me today.
9:39
a.m. Sunday, August 26, 2001
Trying
to re-experience thoughts of the early a.m. Deep thinking about the
relationships of the universe that S2K hints about – or states without
explanation.
The
manifest world becomes separate from the Creator as intelligence develops.
Intelligence – visioning perfection, can make one always dissatisfied. This is
the "Gap" in right use of will. Life can be good, but never perfect –
because that is a judgment. And each person has their own view/judgment. Life
moves and reacts to its environment.
Dances
with Wolves [dialogue]
Dances:
You always ask about the white people. You always want to know how many more
are coming. There will be a lot my friend. More than can be counted.
Kicking:
How many?"
Dances:
Like the stars.
Kicking:
(shakes head)
Dances:
Wichumpi (spelling?)
Kicking:
(shock)
Dances:
It makes me afraid for all the Sioux.
Kicking:
We should tell this to Ten Bears.
→ Shift to scene within tent. From a leather bundle, a Spanish conquistador helmet is revealed
by Ten Bears – he holds it.
The
men who wore this came in the time of my Grandfather's Grandfather. Eventually
we drove them out. Then the Mexicans came. They do not come here anymore. In my
own time: the Texans. They have been like all the others. They take without
asking. I don't know if we are ready for these people, but I think you are
right. I think they will keep coming. When I think of that, I look at this
helmet. Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it. Tomorrow
we strike the village and go to the winter camp".
3:39
p.m. Where am I? Physically, I'm on the mend from a sinus infection. Moving
slowly, little energy – need water. I am in a safe space, but my children are
not. David called – he and Jamie are moving out because Mary Ellen did an
intrusive inspection. Sarah is in a state hospital in Texas. I feel both of my
kids have been pushed to the edge of a cliff. Society must help them – I can
only love them.
Steps
to Knowledge has been good for me in that it gives a greater framework for
life, one that makes sense.
Step
2 – "The gift of Knowledge is given me today".
7:07
p.m. Stillness – before the Big Bang – the manifestation – there was stillness.
It remains – and it is to that we return, playing out the creation options in
the interim. All manner of matter has organized and come to be life – the What
if? is being answered. Social organization for embodied life is a great
evolutionary challenge. That is where I find myself now. In today's Step –
Stillness is presented as a gift – "Simply receive this stillness, this
gift, this reprieve, the luxury of peace where no problems have to be solved
and nothing has to be contemplated or corrected". In stillness, I did try
not to contemplate. In the first session – the stillness – primordial – pre-Big
Bang idea came through. I wonder why as such a small person I get such big
ideas? This emphasis on stillness where "no problems have to be solved and
nothing has to be contemplated or corrected", seemed to be a match with
the ACIM thought "I need do nothing".
Since
I am helpless to do for David and Sarah from here in the physical, I pray on
their behalf for Knowledge to emerge.
Amen & Amen
T-om Su-ne
The
scene from “Dances with Wolves” connected for me as an example of intervention.
Intervention is part of the Greater Community understanding that humanity must
reach, even though the presence of artifacts has not been proven. More and more
I am trying to apply Knowledge in my relationships. 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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