A universal assembly for true discernment
The Heart that is beyond words
is not beyond you.
It is only thought that would tell you so.
It is only thought that can deceive.
Put aside thought,
if only for a moment,
and then ask,
“Am I when thought isn’t?”
Surely you will notice
that you are not dependent
on thought.
Then ask,
“Am I when thought is?”
Surely you will notice
that whatever you are,
it is present both with
and without thought.
~From our Holy Spirit
The purpose of NTI 2 Thessalonians was to help us let go of the ‘I am bad’ belief. The purpose of NTI 1 Timothy is to help us let go of the belief in ‘me’ as an individual, separate person. This is also letting go of the belief in separation.
Today’s reading says:
The personhood of man, which is based on the belief in the world, is meaningless. It is meaningless because the world itself is not real, so all that is based on the world is also not real.
This is a very deep thought that you do well to sit back and soak in fully, for within this thought is another symbol that is key to your own salvation.
What is the “symbol that is key to your own salvation?”
It is Self-inquiry.
Who/What am I?
I was not ready for Self-inquiry when it was introduced in NTI 2 Corinthians 12, so like a GPS, inner wisdom recalculated to help me see that I am the Third Principle of God, the creative process. I accepted that teaching more easily. Through that teaching, I could see that I am not what I think I am and that the world is not real; it is made through attention on thought, perception and emotion.
In NTI 1 Timothy, inner wisdom asked me to contemplate that more deeply. If I go deeply into the realization that I am not what I think I am, that the world is made by attention on thought, emotion and perception, and that the body-personality is part of the world, I will eventually come to the question:
What am I?
And that question is key to salvation (awakening).
Some of you accept that you are not what you think you are. You accept that the world is not real; it is made by attention on thought, perception and emotion. Now, notice that the body and personality are part of the world. That means they are also made in the same way all manifestation is made. They can’t be what you are, so what are you?
Don’t make the mistake I made in NTI 2 Corinthians 12, when I went to concepts for the answer. Instead of answering with what you’ve learned, look.
Experience you intimately.
If not the body, if not the thoughts, if not the emotional-makeup, and if not the personality, what’s left as you?
Subtract everything that you identify with that is a type of manifestation.
What’s left as you that is not a manifestation?
Today’s reading points out that individual personhood—me, you, us, them—supports judgment.
Can that which is left when body-thought-emotion-personality is subtracted be judged like a body can be judged? Like thoughts can be judged? Like emotion or personality can be judged?
Anything that can be judged is part of manifestation. It is not real, and it supports the continued making of illusion.
That which cannot be judged is beyond all of it—beyond world, beyond body and beyond mind. And yet it is you.
What is that?
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The Heart is not the thought.
The Heart is beyond thought,
although the Heart can speak
through thought
when one desires to find
the Heart in form.
The Heart is that
which cannot be known with thought,
although its knowing
can be expressed in thought.
When looking for the Heart
put all thoughts aside.
Feel for that which communicates
when you move into a place
of patient and willing listening.
Listen as if you are listening
for the Voice of silence within the wind.
~From our Holy Spirit
The guidance I shared in yesterday’s tip said:
Letting go of [guilt and unworthiness] comes from the mind, since the belief that holds to the perception is in the mind. This is why I have been teaching you that the cause of guilt and unworthiness is not in the world or in anything that you experience. The only cause is belief in the mind. It’s important to remember that belief in nothing is nothing but belief.
Today’s reading reemphasizes that point.
Today’s reading likens the ‘I am bad’ belief to the busy mind. If you watch the busy mind carefully, you will find it is constantly judging you as less than your reality. The idea that you are less than your reality is the root of the ‘I am bad’ belief. Therefore, your busy mind is the cause of your sense of guilt, unworthiness, inadequacy and the like.
Today’s reading teaches a discernment practice. It asks us to “manage your mind” by using the practice it teaches. We can start by using the practice during meditation, during rest-accept-trust or anytime we want to sit quietly. However, once we are skilled at the practice, we can use it while we are active as well.
NTI 2 Thessalonians is a short section in NTI. However, what it teaches is powerful and incredibly useful. I recommend referring to NTI 2 Thessalonians frequently until you are free of the ‘I am bad’ belief completely.
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You are your Heart.
When you know your Heart,
you know you.
Therefore, your search for Self
is a search inward
to the Heart,
to the true meaning and
knowing of You.
I cannot tell you what you are.
You must know it for yourself.
But if you search inward for You,
you are looking in the right direction.
~From our Holy Spirit
Today, we are taught exactly how to heal the ‘I am bad’ belief.
You can practice these steps repeatedly until every shred of the ‘I am bad’ belief has been healed.
To help support today’s reading, here is guidance I received about letting go of the ‘I am bad’ belief:
Question: In order to feel my feelings (e.g., guilt, unworthiness) instead of repressing them, I cannot fear them. The problem is that I fear them because I still think they define me. I think they are true about who I am. How can I let go of this perception?
Answer: Letting go of this perception comes from the mind, since the belief that holds to the perception is in the mind. This is why I have been teaching you that the cause of guilt and unworthiness is not in the world or in anything that you experience. The only cause is belief in the mind. It’s important to remember that belief in nothing is nothing but belief.
To change your perception, look at this belief and say, “This is only belief.”
Call it by its name:
Not true, only belief
Be consistent and repetitive in this. That which isn’t true is coming into your mind now to be seen. This is a good thing, a great thing. Look right at it in full confidence of who you are—full trust and knowing. Don’t trust your eyes or your thinking mind. Trust only your Heart, which knows. With knowing, look at your beliefs and say, “Not true, only belief.”
It is important to practice the previous guidance with clarity and not with fear. Your underlying motive for the practice is essential to its effect. Truth realization is a different motive than the desire to avoid or escape something unpleasant.
Note: I recommend printing this tip for future reference.
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The truth of your Self is within.
It may seem hidden from you,
but it is not hidden.
It is within
and it is you,
as close as your own heart.
Even closer.
As close as your breath.
If your own truth is so close,
so inseparable from your own nature,
why is it that you cannot sense it…
cannot seem to know it?
It is because you are choosing to know
something else as your self.
Look at your choice.
See what you are choosing and ask,
“Am I willing to place this aside
in order to know something more?”
~From our Holy Spirit
On Day 217, we saw that the ‘I am bad’ belief incites denial and repression instead of healing. The goal of NTI 2 Thessalonians is to help us transcend the ‘I am bad’ belief so we can heal (let go of the false and realize the true) more quickly and more effectively. When this stumbling block is out of the way, the road is clear to find our way to awakening more easily (assuming our desire for truth remains strong).
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It is time to look inward
at the mind, the heart, and the soul,
and ask, “What am I?”
This is a question
that should not be answered too quickly,
for if an answer is given
that the mind can understand,
that is not the answer at all.
If an answer is given
that can be explained fully with words,
that is not the answer at all.
Search deep within your inquiry
and also search broadly.
Do not limit your answer
to what can be understood
or taught.
Do not limit your answer
to any idea that has an ending
or definition.
Limit your answer
only when defining what you are not.
When defining what you are,
know that the inquiry continues forever.
~From our Holy Spirit
Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.
~Commentary on Awareness~
Awareness is not judgment. Judgment is a thought that at its basic root sends a message saying, “This must be this way or something is terribly wrong.”
Judging sets up duality. It is the world of right and wrong, good and evil, good and bad. With duality there are right choices and wrong choices, and you can be worthy or unworthy, innocent, righteous or very guilty.
Judgment sets up a world of comparison of this and that, higher and lower, better and worse. It makes the world of joy and sorrow, happiness and pain, security and suffering. And judgment, as the king of the world, defines what is good and what is pain, so that you become a slave unable to be consistently happy in a world of this and that.
But all of this…everything that is created in a world of judgment…is illusion. The answer, which frees you from illusion’s images, is the simple truth of awareness.
Awareness is attention without judgment. It is observation with curiosity and without conclusion. It is perpetual openness. In awareness there is no pain, no suffering, no guilt, and no bad, because there is no judgment, no definition, that would make these things possible.
~From our Holy Spirit
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