Let me look towards the Greater Community to
understand where my life is going. CT Step 15 (MP3)
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| Let me look towards the Greater Community to understand where my life is going. CT Step 15 |
Again you return to the bigger picture of your
life, for it is within the bigger picture that you will see yourself in a
complete way. Here you will see yourself in relation to the world, to other
people, and to the movement of all life. This practice is added amidst your
other practices where you are learning to focus on your inner life and on you
outer involvement with people. Here you practice at every level,
simultaneously. Here you are brought into the minute aspects of your life and
into the greater aspects of your life, for they are all related and go together.
In this way, your awareness is built at many levels at once, but in such a way
that they are all united.
Today, spend time thinking of the meaning of the
Greater Community for you. Recall what you have read in Greater Community
Spirituality and in the Books of Wisdom. Return again to this greater
threshold. Look about in the world and see how few people are aware of life
around them, how preoccupied they are with their individual endeavors and
personal concerns or conflicts. See how much they are missing and how much you
are missing. Give this your attention today in addition to your one practice in
stillness and in your hourly practice in awareness and discernment.
You are part of a Greater Community. You are
emerging into a Greater Community. You are learning Knowledge from the Greater
Community. Be visionary today and see beyond the normal parameters of your
life. Just look. If you continue looking, you will see. If you can see, you
will know.
Practice 15: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Pictures: Above is the view looking out, instead of up from this location, the The Reichstag observation deck, Berlin, Germany on June 2, 2008.
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
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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