A universal assembly for true discernment
“I am that I am”
is open.
It is as open as the sky.
It has no end.
It continues forever.
This is the best idea of you.
This is the truth
without definition.
Do not put thought to this idea.
Merely let it be thought,
repeated,
by the mind.
And after it is thought,
rest the mind without thinking,
and then let this thought
be thought again.
~From our Holy Spirit
Yesterday’s reading asked us to:
Focus on the frequency that is God.
That is perfect guidance. According to Ramana Maharshi’s disciple, Paul Brunton, focusing on the Self is the “short path” to Self-realization. However, the fearful mind can distort that guidance into a corrupted mental message that goes something like this:
If I feel anything but peace, joy and love, I am bad.
That’s an untrue statement.
NTI 2 Timothy teaches us how to be with any feeling that is different than truth. It asks us to explore the feeling, see that it is just a feeling—an experience—and nothing more than that. In order to do that, we need to look at our feelings with pure awareness.
Thoughts are not pure awareness. Thoughts are judgments. Thoughts tell us what our feelings are, what they mean about us, others and the world, and what caused the feelings. Pure awareness doesn’t have any of these stories in it.
As you know, my dog, Jamie, was recently euthanized. That experience came with feelings. There was acceptance, joy and a strong experience of life. There was also sadness and a feeling of missing Jamie. The latter feelings came in short waves, and then passed. Each time they came, I gave myself to the feelings.
In my case, there were no stories about how things should have been different, so I did not need to focus on letting go of untrue stories, but I did explore the feelings as 2 Timothy recommends. I noticed what “sadness” felt like, especially in the heart. I noticed it wasn’t unpleasant (which is what the mind would have said about it). The sensation in the heart, which some people might call “a broken heart,” wasn’t there before Jamie’s passing. It was certainly related to her passing, but it was just a feeling. As I looked at it, I realized I did not know what it was. The mind wanted to understand why the feeling was there, but awareness was able to simply be with the feeling in gratitude for a present experience.
The same thing was true of tears. Every now and then, tears came. A couple of times there were a few seconds of hard crying, but none of that felt “bad” when looked at with awareness. It was just part of the experience of loving a pet and then losing that pet. If I label the experience based on how it looked through the eyes of awareness, I would say it was an intimate human experience. I felt what it feels like to be human.
This is what today’s reading teaches. We have the experience of being human because we want experience. Beauty and healing come when we allow the pure, unadulterated experience of experience. Stories, however, pollute experience with a particular spin or interpretation. When we are engrossed in stories, we still have experience, but our attention is more in the head than in the experience. In that way, intimacy with the experience is lost.
Love and intimacy are one.
By allowing ourselves to be intimate with an experience without becoming lost in stories, we love the experience. We are open to it and empty for it. When we love an experience, it moves through us. When it leaves us, we feel free. In the beginning, that freedom may be experienced as healing. However, openness, emptiness and freedom are our true nature. We come to know our Self by loving experience as it is.
Let me say that again.
We come to know our Self by intimately experiencing experience, because we intimately experience experience by being open, empty and free.
We be our Self, and so we know our Self.
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“I don’t know who I am”
is a helpful response
to any thought
that tries to define who you are.
Definitions are closed and limiting.
“I don’t know” opens
to potential and discovery.
“I don’t know who I am”
is a statement
that facilitates Self-discovery,
because it is a statement
that dissolves the idea
that definitions are fact.
~From our Holy Spirit
On Day 179, we learned:
A thinker is one who has an intention regarding thought, so when NTI says “you are the thinker” it means that you get to choose the intention in the mind. You can decide if attention will wander with any thought that arises, or if it has an intention to focus on truth and let other thoughts go.
Today’s reading says:
You are the Mind that Thinks…
And it encourages us to shift our attention—shift our vibration—so that we stay focused on truth.
I recommend contemplating today’s reading in this way:
If you do not have time to complete all 4 steps in the morning, use the entire day to complete the steps. For example, complete step 1 this morning, complete step 2 around lunchtime, and then complete steps 3 and 4 this evening. Or, complete the steps in a way that fits with your schedule.
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Expansion is the realization of truth
over illusion.
It is the putting aside of limits,
which never existed.
It is seeing beyond false identity
into the unknown
and ungraspable,
which is you.
You are not
to be controlled
or limited,
not even by you.
You are to be discovered,
and discovery happens
through allowing the mystery.
~From our Holy Spirit
When we believe manifestation is reality, we are in darkness as opposed to light. (Ref: Day 226.) That could also be called ignorance, as opposed to knowledge. However, that doesn’t mean that manifestation should be disdained. In fact, the opposite is true. The purpose of manifestation is love (joy).
Yesterday, we saw that love loves the whole, not just selected parts or circumstances. Today’s reading guides us to love all of humanity exactly as it is, without asking any part of humanity to be different. The reading is reminiscent of Jesus’ last instructions to his disciples:
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
~ John 13: 34,35
Love loves. That is its nature. It does not select what it will and will not love. Selection and rejection are aspects of judgment, and judgment is the tool that was born out of a desire for something different from truth. (Ref: NTI Romans 2.)
To return to the realization of truth, be truth. Truth is love (joy).
Today’s reading offers a means by which you can genuinely love everyone just as they are. It asks you not to see people through the filter of personhood, which includes rules and expectations that define “good people” and “bad people,” “attractive people” and “unattractive people,” etcetera. Today’s reading recommends that you see all people as expressions of freedom. To see everything as an expression of freedom is to focus on a quality of consciousness. Therefore, to focus on everything as an expression of freedom is letting go of the filter of personhood. (Ref: Day 214.)
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Within you
there is a place
where I am
and you are
and there is no difference between us.
This is a state of oneness,
where the two are joined,
and they are the same one.
There is no loss
in this state of awareness.
There is only more.
This is why I have asked you
to inquire deep and broad.
Within depth, there is expansion.
~From our Holy Spirit
This is one of my favorite Bible scriptures:
This is the day that the Lord has made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Psalm 118:24
When my grandma died, I was asked to plan the funeral service with the minister. He asked if there was a Bible scripture that I wanted read during the service. I requested Psalm 118:24. He couldn’t see how that scripture fit in with a funeral service, so I agreed to share it during my portion of the service.
I opened my eulogy with Psalm 118:24, and then went on to talk about what a joy it was to have this woman as my grandma. I talked about my experience with grandma in full. I remembered her homemade cinnamon rolls, butter and cheese, which everyone loved, and I remembered that she trusted no one and said some pretty outrageous untrue things about other people, which wasn’t what everyone loved about her. I openly loved it all. I loved every aspect of the personality-body-mind that was my grandma. I said:
This is the Grandma that the Lord has made for me;
I rejoice, and I am glad she was my grandma.
Today’s reading says:
To love they Self is to love all things and all circumstances …
If life is the source and essence of all things, we can only love life as it is by loving all things as they are. If we reject any part of life, we aren’t loving it as it is, because life is not a part; it is whole.
This is why the Loving All Method is such an important practice. If we don’t love all, we separate and divide life through judgment. Separation is illusion. Life is one.
What if you cannot love everything as it is?
Today’s reading says:
To train yourself in godliness [loving all], be willing to rest the mind frequently. Be willing to step back and observe while remembering all that I have taught you. Remember that all circumstances come to you for your awakening, because you are the creative process that is God and awakening is the purpose you have chosen.
Here is a link to a 1-hour audio that is related to NTI 1 Timothy’s teaching about the personhood and about loving every aspect of the personhood as it is:
Note: You can find The Flow as a written message in two parts at this link.
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Rest the mind frequently today,
as often as you remember,
and notice as you take a moment
to do nothing
and to think nothing
that you exist.
Just notice this.
Notice that nothing needs to be done
for this one magnificent fact to be true.
Nothing needs to be thought
to realize this truth.
The fact of existence already is.
It is now.
It is true.
It is complete.
And take a moment
to thank your Father
for the gift of existence.
~From our Holy Spirit
As I write this, it is the day after euthanizing my dog, Jamie. Yesterday, after she was gone, I decided to go for a walk, which is what I would have done had she been alive and healthy. I went to one of her favorite places along the Arkansas River.
As I walked, I noticed lizards, grasshoppers, ants, birds, trees, the water, and the wind. I felt awed by the intensity of life. It was so full of itself—vibrantly present and immediate. I could not find death in life. I knew the dog, Jamie, had ended, but yet there was no loss or lack in life. There wasn’t a hole in life where Jamie had been. Life was perfectly intact.
As NTI John taught, life and light are one. NTI John 1 said:
The Light is in all men and with all men. The Light does not fade or wither, but the darkness that fills the sight of man does not see the Light or choose to know it. And so, the Light waits on welcome, that it may be known.
What is the “darkness that fills the sight of man”?
It is the belief that manifestation is reality. It is the belief that I am the person, that Jamie was the dog, that an ant is just an ant, etcetera.
On Day 212, we saw that it’s a mistake to see ourselves as merely manifestation. It is more correct to say we are the creative principle than it is to say we are the person. To say we are consciousness is closer to truth. To say we are life is truth. To say we are all of it (life, consciousness, creation and manifestation) is the essence of truth, since consciousness, creation and manifestation are made of life. Life is the source and essence of all things.
Today’s reading says:
Rest within the acceptance that the temporal being you seem to be is not the totality of your Beingness, and so it cannot be the truth of what you are.
The person that you appear to be is to be loved, just as Jamie was to be loved, but the person is a temporary expression occurring through the creative principle. You are much more than that.
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