Love casts out fear,
because love does not believe fear’s stories.
Get in touch with love
by remembering your purpose,
and fear cannot be
a true temptation for you.
~From our Holy Spirit
A universal assembly for true discernment
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 72
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 72
Love casts out fear,
because love does not believe fear’s stories.
Get in touch with love
by remembering your purpose,
and fear cannot be
a true temptation for you.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Yesterday, we saw that although the true Self is present and pure, it is still helpful to purify the mind. Today’s reading recommends purification too, which it calls “healing.” It reminds us that in order to heal (purify the mind), we must replace old habits with new habits, especially with the new habit of surrender.
Although we have been asked to teach, today we are asked to see ourselves as students. Our teacher is the combined wisdom of NTI and inner spiritual intuition. In NTI, these two are referred to using the Judeo-Christian symbol, “Holy Spirit.” Remember what NTI Luke 4 said about the Holy Spirit:
Jesus came out of the desert a teacher, but the one who taught through him was the Holy Spirit. This is the same one that teaches you now, so that no time has elapsed since Jesus seemed to teach until the time that I am teaching you now.
In other words, your inner teacher is the one who taught Jesus. It is also the one that Jesus became as he merged with the inner teacher. That means Jesus is your teacher too.
It is one teacher that has led everyone who has ever awakened. Everyone who has ever awakened dissolved into the one teacher, so they are the teacher too.
Today, the teacher asks you to adopt two new perspectives:
I would like to echo the importance of these two recommendations.
When I was going through the purification stage, I was ‘religious’ about seeing every circumstance as an opportunity for my healing and as an opportunity to listen within for the highest vibrational option (guidance). Each upsetting circumstance was an opportunity not to react from my old conditioning, including my beliefs, fears and desires. Instead, each circumstance was an opportunity to find peace by letting go of old conditioning.
I cannot emphasize how helpful it is to see one’s life as a setup for healing, as if every detail is put in place to help you awaken. That is its purpose. See every person as an actor, who plays a role perfectly so you can purify your mind and awaken to who you are.
It’s also really beneficial to develop the habit of keeping inner wisdom in the forefront of the mind. This is why we use the Thoughts of Awakening. Each day there is a new thought from inner wisdom for us to read and mull over many times throughout the day.
Have you developed that habit yet?
If not, are you willing to give it more effort now?
Regina Dawn Akers read and shared from her contemplation of Conversation #9, Responses of Memory, from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.
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Kathy Smith explores the quotes from Experience Your Perfect Soul and shares from her contemplation of them.
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Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 71
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 71
Trust the awakening process.
It is what it may not always seem to be.
~From our Holy Spirit
Over the past couple of weeks, we have looked at vibrational choices. We have seen that you can maintain your current vibrational level or raise your vibrational level by the choices you make.
Today, we see that our vibrational level affects the vibrational level of the whole. In NTI Luke 9, inner spiritual wisdom asks you to be a teacher. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you will take a teaching role in the world. It is a request that you consistently raise your vibrational level, thereby raising the vibrational level of the whole, by contemplating the thoughts of Spirit and by practicing the teachings in your daily life.
For some, this idea of raising the whole may lead to additional motivation to practice. It provides additional motivation for me. It provided additional motivation for Buddha. He was motivated into the jungle to seek enlightenment when he discovered the suffering of sickness, old age and death. He wanted to find the answer to suffering for everyone. His motivation came from compassion for the whole.
Consider these quotes:
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. ~ Jesus referring to himself, Mark 10:45
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. ~ Ramana Maharshi
True compassion is seeing the suffering in the world, and then choosing to sacrifice one’s own ego in order to raise the vibration of the whole. It is as Jesus said:
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ~ John 15:13
Today’s reading also says, “You are the Christ, … Christ is your true Self.”
Christ is synonymous with consciousness, the Second Principle of God. The reading’s focus on consciousness as the inner Light is a reminder that, although we’ve been focused on purification and raising our vibrational level, the true Self is present and pure now.
If the true Self is pure, why go through purification?
To purify the mind.
Is that necessary, since the true Self is already pure?
The best way to awaken to the true Self is to do two things simultaneously:
Purify the mind of conditioning, false beliefs, desires and fears, and focus on awareness (e.g., awareness-watching-awareness).
When you focus on awareness, you can see that it is already pure. It is not the mind. However, as long as the mind causes suffering, mental purification is necessary too.
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
The reading tonight was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 94-101, Consciousness Is Self-Luminous & The Choice of Freedom.
Homework for the upcoming week:
Homework Assignment A: Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Thoughts of Awakening, 71-77.
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Luke Chapters 9-13.