My relationships are an expression of how I view myself. CT Step 41 (MP3)
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| My relationships are an expression of how I view myself. CT Step 41 |
The greatest evidence of a person’s
self-understanding is the nature and the quality of the relationships that they
establish around themselves. This is very clear but goes unseen in the world.
People are not very scrupulous or discerning when it comes to establishing
relationships. For they are driven by other needs—the needs of their own
weakness, the fear of loneliness, the need for security, the need for financial
power or social recognition. Even the need for sexual reproduction can have a
driving force on people and unite them with others with whom they have no real
purpose.
Therefore, your relationships tell a great deal
about how you view and value yourself. If you value your studenthood and are
attempting to establish and to protect your integrity, then you will want to
establish relationships to serve this purpose. If you seek to deepen your
understanding of Knowledge and your experience of the greater movement of the
world, then naturally you will want to find people who will strengthen this
experience and enable this experience within you. This is a natural selection,
but here you must look at your relationships, for many of them were established
long ago in the past, at a time when your priorities were different than they
are now. Be very clear, then, about whom you associate with. In time, as you
advance, you will be able to serve the weak and the needy, but right now you
need to find your strength and you need others to assist you in doing this.
Practice stillness in your long practice period and
practice awareness and discernment upon the hour. Throughout the day consider
today’s lesson and its invaluable importance to you.
Practice 41: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: “Langar is a common
tradition in the Sikh community, where people of all faith and statures are
served food in an act that signifies equality and sharing among humanity”. "Sikh
Langar Feeds Thousands at Parliament of the World’s Religions Conference" Members of the Sikh relationship
community worked together to provide this. Others, looking for expanded
relationships and community, attended the event.
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
From the journal:
CT Step 40 - Who I am with will determine what I
will be able to do.
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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