Archives for May 2017
May 3. 2017 Daily Quote
Audio & Homework – Week 17 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 5/2/17
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love. This group meets weekly and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings. Everyone who is willing to make a commitment to healing/awakening is invited to join this group.
Homework for the upcoming week:
Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 108-114. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 10 – 15 minutes each day. Practice your visualization plan daily. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Adyashanti Guided Meditation – The Art of Listening, which can be found in the Gentle Healing Playlist.
Homework Assignment C: Listen to Gentle Healing Music 3 at least 2-4 times this week. When you listen, listen to the entire playlist without being engaged in any other activity. Sit and listen; its okay to read along with the lyrics on the screen.
Gentle Healing Music 3 (audio only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJJJkiRukY&list=PLcCb8qlmwtFmQDj9AIB4506Jm2cJmFFPF
Regina’s Tips for Year 1 as an ebook
Gentle Healing Facebook group: Sharing in Contemplation Together
Growing with NTI ~ Luke Chapters 6-7 (v 24) ~ 5/2/17
Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 107, Truth will correct all errors in my mind
Yesterday’s tip pointed out that true spirituality is based on trusting the teachings enough to engage in spiritual practice. The benefits of spiritual practice are highlighted in today’s workbook lesson.
My outward-focused ego mind sees meditation as a waste of time. I like to meditate for a minimum of one hour, and I prefer to spend two hours in meditation. To the ego, there are so many things I could be doing with that time.
Since I’ve started meditating more, my house is less clean and I have missed working out in my gym. I’d love to workout and spend more time cleaning my house, but only if life rearranges itself so I can do those things without giving up time meditating.
Why has meditation become so important? When I meditate, it seems that nothing much is happening. Attention habitually goes into thought, and I gently pull it back to focus on awareness again. After a certain amount of time, attention rests more easily with awareness, but there is still some going out and pulling back that occurs. That’s it, nothing else for up to two hours. But there’s this intuitive feeling that I have. It’s a feeling that something much more powerful is occurring. Something that is subtle to the ego, which looks for progress and tries to measure it, but something very steady and very precise.
To put it in the language of today’s workbook lesson, truth is correcting all errors in my mind as I willingly pull attention out of thought and rest with awareness to the best of my ability. I feel my small, poorly skilled effort is allowing something remarkable to take place.
And that is what today’s lesson tells us.
“It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed. … Give truth its due, and it will give you yours.”
May 2, 2017 Daily Quote
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you’ because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Truth Teachings from Eastern Wisdom – 5/1/17
Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 106, Let me be still and listen to the truth
Today’s lesson encourages you to have your own direct experience of truth. It says, “Be not deceived by voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief.”
One primary obstacle to true spirituality is belief. If you look at members of traditional religion, you will see that their “faith” is based on believing what they have been taught. That happens in our spirituality too. People believe what they’ve read or what teachers say.
True spirituality isn’t about belief. It is about your own direct experience.
Our “faith” isn’t based on belief. Our “faith” is based on trust. We trust the teachings enough to try it for ourself. Instead of believing the teachings, we practice them, and through practice we experience truth directly.
Keep this in mind as you go forward with spirituality. There will be a lot of opportunities to believe something. Believing isn’t the point. Practice is the point.
May 1, 2017 Daily Quote
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