A universal assembly for true discernment
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. 108-113
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, 85-91.
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Luke Chapters 20-23.
Rebecca Gibson 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.
The ego is nothing
except the investment in ideas.
Therefore,
letting go of the ego is nothing more
than letting go of that investment.
~From our Holy Spirit
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below
9-10:30am – Consistent, Gentle Healing Year One with Rebecca Gibson
7:00pm – Growing with NTI – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, Tom Conway and Connie Poole
How to Enter the Sanctuary: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gathering-room-how-do-i-access-the-room/
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
Self-judgment is an obstacle
that need not be.
When you see the mind
choosing to judge itself,
remember that the mind is defining you,
and then judging what it has defined.
In other words,
it is declaring an idea to be reality,
then judging the idea it has made.
Step back from this process,
and notice this ‘doing’ in the thinking mind.
As you observe this doing,
you observe the mechanics called ‘ego’.
~From our Holy Spirit
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – – – – – See helpful links below
How to Enter the Sanctuary: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gathering-room-how-do-i-access-the-room/
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
Listen to the audio or watch the video below.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Joan.
Joan Tollifson has roots in Buddhism and Advaita, but she belongs to no formal tradition. She is interested in seeing through the imaginary problems that we think are binding us and waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Joan’s bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites a meditative exploration that is non-methodical and awareness-based, encouraging people to look and listen for themselves and to question all second-hand ideas and beliefs.
Joan is the author of 4 books: Nothing to Grasp; Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality;Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is; and Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life.
Joan offers private sessions and other meetings. For more information, visit her website at JoanTollifson.com.
Topic: “What is Resistance”
Description: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers led a discussion about resistance. What is it really? Is it something to be afraid of? Something to be ashamed of? Something to deny? Or is it better to be openly aware of resistance?
Reading: Rev. Wanda Almonte read an excerpt from NTI Luke, Chapter 11
O Holy Brother of Mine,
As you come to look upon the ego,
you may at first experience great pain.
Embrace the pain, Holy One.
It is a gift come to awaken you.
Continue to ask to look and see,
that you may see the blindness you have made.
In seeing it, you tire of it.
And you will choose to want it no more.
~From our Holy Spirit
All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See links below to join us in the Sanctuary
9:30am – Sunday Meditation – Rev. Karen Worth
Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/
