A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read The Purpose of Surrender, Part Two from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 297.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
Holy Spirit,
it is my will
that I do Your Will.
I am aware
of a voice in me
that is not Your Voice
or Your Will.
I chose this voice
and gave it permission
to speak in my mind,
but now I make another choice.
It is my choice now
to return to My Will,
which is also Your Will
because our Will is the same.
Help me to leave
the habits I have formed
and return Home
to my Heart and my truth.
Show me when I have slipped
and begun to forget who I am,
that I may surrender the will I no longer want
and return Home to Your Will and my Heart.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
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 340
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 340
Holy Spirit,
it is my will
that I do Your Will.
I am aware
of a voice in me
that is not Your Voice
or Your Will.
I chose this voice
and gave it permission
to speak in my mind,
but now I make another choice.
It is my choice now
to return to My Will,
which is also Your Will
because our Will is the same.
Help me to leave
the habits I have formed
and return Home
to my Heart and my truth.
Show me when I have slipped
and begun to forget who I am,
that I may surrender the will I no longer want
and return Home to Your Will and my Heart.
Amen.
~ A prayer of awakening
Please read The Purpose of Surrender from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 296.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
Beginning today, instead of contemplating the Thought of Awakening with the inner teacher, contemplate the messages from The Teachings of Inner Ramana with the inner teacher each day. (Reference today’s tip.)
For the remainder of Year 2, use each day’s Thought of Awakening as a prayer that you return to throughout the day in order to remain in a state of devotion.
~339~
Holy Spirit,
let me remember
that a bird is not a bird,
a hand is not a hand,
a body is not a body.
Let me remember
that the sky is not the sky,
the clouds are not clouds
and rain is not rain.
All that my mind shows me
as I look upon the world
is an error and a mirage.
How can I think I know
based on what I see and experience?
To think I know
based on what I see
is to be a fool
believing a fool’s images.
Let me be wise
and trust not my sight.
Let me surrender fully
to You.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
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 339
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 339
Holy Spirit,
let me remember
that a bird is not a bird,
a hand is not a hand,
a body is not a body.
Let me remember t
hat the sky is not the sky,
the clouds are not clouds
and rain is not rain.
All that my mind shows me
as I look upon the world
is an error and a mirage.
How can I think I know
based on what I see and experience?
To think I know
based on what I see
is to be a fool
believing a fool’s images.
Let me be wise
and trust not my sight.
Let me surrender fully
to You.
Amen.
~ A prayer of awakening
Please read The Commentary on Mind from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 295.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
Join us for Movie Watcher’s Group on Sunday, January 27 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT. This month’s movie is is a favorite, Revolver, directed by Guy Ritchie. To the casual observer, it seems to be a crime-thriller involving gangs, gambling, cocaine trafficking, a high-stakes heist, murder and revenge. However, to the discerning spiritual student, it is one of the best films ever made about letting go of ego and awakening to pure, undisturbed peace. One spiritual commentator nicknamed Revolver as “The Formula to Enlightenment.” Even if you’ve seen this movie before, we recommend watching it with subtitles on so you don’t miss a thing.
Here is a link to the playsheet designed to assist with a Spirit centered movie watching experience: Revolver PlaySheet
The movie is available on Crackle (free to view), Vudu, Amazon, Itunes, Google Play, and Youtube. Watch the movie with Spirit, then come and share your insights with the group.
This class is 4 weeks long.
The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese spiritual classic. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BCE by Chinese sage and governmental record-keeper, Lao Tzu.
Tao means “the way.” Te means “virtue” or “inner strength.” Ching means “great book” or “classic.” So, we can translate Tao Te Ching as “The Great Book of the Way’s Virtue.” However, “virtue” in this context does not refer to virtue as humans typically understand it. In fact, if humans really understood, embraced and lived the virtue of the Tao, appearances like conflict and lack would be impossible.
In this class you will:
1. The participant will become familiar with the classic Chinese work, Tao Te Ching.
2. The participant will contemplate chapters from Tao Te Ching and realize effective leadership.
Class Schedule:
We are offering two class times:
~ On Tuesday afternoons, February 12 – March 5, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm ET (11:00am-1:00pm Pacific). Homework begins February 5. Facilitator: Rev. Connie Frazier.
~ On Thursday afternoons, February 14 – March 7, 2019 from 1:00pm-3:00pm ET (10:00am-12:00pm Pacific). Homework begins February 7. Facilitator: Rev. Carl Lammers.
Specific Information:
Cost is $80.
Textbook needed is Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell.
Registration for the Tuesday class closes on Feburary 3.
Registration for the Thursday class closes on February 5.
For more information on this class, click here.
Holy Spirit,
let me hold
no separate identity
apart from you.
Let me see all ideas,
all thoughts,
that tell me I exist
as a being apart,
and let me surrender those thoughts
into the dust of nothingness
from which they came.
As I surrender my thoughts,
I surrender my heart too.
But I surrender my heart,
not to nothingingness,
but to everything
and only-thing,
which is to surrender to You.
Make of me a slave,
moved only by You
through my desire
to have no semblance
of my own identity,
an identity I would call mine.
Make my identity
ours,
one and the same.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
