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Visit the Awakening Together Retreat House

April 27, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

La Veta, Colorado is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, and the upcoming months are the best time to enjoy it. Consider a visit to the Awakening Together Retreat House. Come for one of our scheduled retreats or come when there isn’t a retreat scheduled and follow your own inner calling for a personal retreat. Our lodging prices include most meals. Local Awakening Together members look forward to meditating with you and showing you around the La Veta area.

Here are a few pictures of what you can expect:

Wahatoya Lake, next door to the Retreat House

We look forward to seeing you at the Retreat House soon!

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #81

April 27, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #237-240 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

One forgets the Self and thinks the body is oneself and goes through innumerable births and in the end remembers and remains the Self. Know this is only like awaking from a dream wherein one has wandered all over the world.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 70

April 27, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 70. My salvation comes from me.

Guilt is the gift of the ego or the false self. Salvation is the gift of the Holy Spirit or the True Self. In this lesson Jesus tells us “God would not put this remedy [salvation] for sickness where it cannot help.” The place that needs the help [salvation] is, of course, in our minds. So, again in this lesson Jesus says, “When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place.”

So if salvation, the answer is there in our mind, why would we suffer? We suffer because we don’t believe that “My salvation comes from me.” Futhermore, you don’t believe that “today’s idea [regarding salavation] places you in charge of the universe, where you belong because of who you are.”

Why don’t we believe we are in charge of the universe? Because we don’t believe “that all guilt is solely an invention of [the] mind.” If you believed this you would realize that it ALL is an invention in the mind. Guilt is an invention of the mind. Salvation is an invention of the mind. The universe is an invention of the mind. They are all inventions of the mind.

Remember the code? We wouldn’t need guilt or salvation nor the universe for that matter, if we hadn’t bought into the ideas of the code. Remember the code is ideas, and all things in illusion are code. Anything we experience in form is illusion created by the code. Anything we can be aware of is code. And while both guilt and salvation are ideas in the illusion of our mind, salvation is an idea, a remedy for sickness for a mind who has forgotten it is a part of one mind joined. My salvation is not believing the code. We’ve already been told if we are willing not to believe even a little, we have the potential to break free –salvation.

Let this lesson be the impetus to stop believing in the illusory thoughts of our minds. Let this lesson be the impetus for us to realize that salvation comes from our Internal Wisdom. It is right there when we step back from all the insane concepts, constructs, beliefs and thoughts of the code. My salvation comes from awakening to the whole me, as one joined will.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #80

April 26, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #233-236 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Only by courtesy is the body, vulnerable and born to die, called an entity substantial. The sole reality, the only thing permanent and ultimate, is Self-awareness. That alone.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 69

April 26, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 69. My grievances hide the light of the world in me.

Yesterday, we defined grievances as a ‘limited and biased point-of-view’. Today’s lesson encourages us to let go that limited and biased point-of-view of ourselves in regard to our ability to awaken.

Our tendency is to see ourselves as limited and trying to reach the unlimited. We believe that we must become better, work harder, gain the favor of God or the Universe in order to reach awakening. Today’s lesson tells us we need not feel ill equipped to reach the object of our true desire, because the light (Truth) is within us and because it is the will of God, or our Source, that we do so.

The lesson encourages us to be confident in our ability to go beyond the dark clouds of thought that have kept us from seeing our Truth until now. The Truth is not something that is added to us; it is within us, hidden only by our belief in our own lack and limitation–“the veil of darkness that keeps it concealed.”

Today’s lesson reminds us that we do have the power to see that which we will to see. We need merely recognize that our awakening “is dearer to us than all else” and have “real determination” to awaken.

The call that we make to our Father has been answered. It is our joint will that we awaken to our Truth. Let us not be limited in this holy endeavor by thoughts that whisper otherwise. How could we not succeed when our will to awaken is joined by all the Universe?

This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ April 28, 2019

April 25, 2019 By Dawn Fernandez

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 7:15 am PT for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

Title: “Call Off the Search.”

Description: Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will speak about how discovering Truth is not about making a journey from where we are now to enlightenment, but a deep exploration of what is here now.

Reader: Rev. Wanda Almonte will read an article by Adyashanti entitled: “Are You Ready to Lose Your World?”

Here is the link to the article: https://www.adyashanti.org/teachings/library/writing?&nstart=1&start=3#are-you-ready-to-lose-your-world-

*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Rev. Jay McCormick

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Join us at 7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Regina is reading and sharing from The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi.

Join us at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT for Movie Discussion Group with Jacquelyn Eckert

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will lead us in Movie Discussion Group where we will be discussing the movie: Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi remains a dimly understood historical figure. A lot of us know he was a great Indian leader without quite knowing why and such is our ignorance of Eastern history and culture we may not fully realize that his movement did indeed liberate India, in one of the greatest political and economic victories of all time, achieved through nonviolent principles.

Join us at 9:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm PT for Fully Human Fully Divine Satsang with Craig Holliday

Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #79

April 25, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #229-232 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Vast, whole, immutable, the Self reflected in the mind’s distorting mirror may appear to move. Know that it is the image moving, the true Self never moves or changes.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 68

April 25, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 68. Love holds no grievances.

You who were created by Love like Itself can hold grievances. You can hold grievances because you are free.

You are free to forget who you are.
You are free to see yourself as a body.
You are free to let the ego rule your mind.
You are free to condemn the body to death.
You are free to sleep.
You are free to redefine God in your own image.
You are free to suffer guilt.
You are free to become fearful.
You are free to dream of hate.
You are free to betray yourself.
You are free to deny you were created by Love.
You are free to hold grievances and not know your Self.

“Grievance” can be redefined as a ‘limited and biased point-of-view’. In other words, “Love holds no grievances” means: Love—wholeness, or the awareness of totality as my Self—holds no limited and biased point-of-view.

In yesterday’s lesson, “Love created me like Itself” Jesus offered us a revelatory experience; a thoughtless interval of awareness of blazing light.” Today he offers to set us free. He says all we have to do is let go of all grievances (or our limited and biased point of view) and …

You will no longer feel all alone in the universe.
You will see everyone as a friend.
You will remember they are a part of you.
You will think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything.
You will think of yourself as safe in a world which protects you and loves you and which you love in return.
You will feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up.
You will believe (and rightfully so) that nothing can harm you in any way.
You will know you are perfectly safe.

You will know all this because when we give up our grievances we come to know our true Self.

That is quite the promise Jesus. Thank you.

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #78

April 24, 2019 By Regina Dawn Akers

Please read and contemplate quotes #225-228 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The goings-on of the empirical world, true-seeming and beguiling in the mind’s borrowed light, are nothing but illusions in the bright light of pure Awareness.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 67

April 24, 2019 By Jacquelyn Eckert

Lesson 67. Love created me like Itself.

This tip is for those who are new to meditation.

As you know, we have begun practicing awareness-watching-awareness each day as part of the Gentle Healing curriculum. Next week, the homework instructions will include practicing daily awareness-watching-awareness meditation for 10 – 15 minutes each day. Today’s workbook lesson gives good instructions for moving into the awareness-watching-awareness practice. It says:

“You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient, and that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about yourself. Yet, perhaps you will succeed in going past that, and through the interval of thoughtlessness to [your Self.]”

The difference between meditation and simply sitting quietly with eyes closed is that in meditation we are doing two things: 1) We are removing our attention from thinking & mind-wandering. 2) We are attempting to place our attention with truth. We may not know what that means, so we go about it with the attitude of being an ‘inner astronaut’, observing and exploring the inner environment looking for the Self.

For beginning meditators, and on some days for seasoned meditators, step 1 takes some gentle effort. We need to softly work at not being lost in thinking. As today’s lesson recommends, we can repeat the workbook lesson to ourselves to remove attention from thought and to go back to being the inner astronaut. However, sometimes if we use the same idea too much to make this transition, the mind will begin to mindlessly repeat that idea while we are lost in thought at the same time…even while the idea is being repeated by the mind. When we notice this is happening, we can move to related thoughts. This will bring our attention out of being lost in thought, because it will take more attention (focus) to allow the related thoughts to come clearly.

Whether you are repeating the workbook lesson for the day or allowing related thoughts, let the words come slowly with space between them. Also allow as much space as possible between sentences, and move into exploring the inner environment during the space between sentences. This space between sentences may gradually become longer and longer until you are involved in the inner exploration and the sentences are no longer needed to ground your attention in meditation (or they are only needed from time-to-time).

If you would like to review the instructions for awareness-watching-awareness meditation, read sentences #10-52 at:
http://albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/chapter07.htm

If you want further Clarification, read #1-166 at:
http://albigen.com/uarelove/most_rapid/chapter08.htm