Before reading today’s tip, please read Revelation 6:1-14 in the Bible.
On Day 273, we saw that everyone is able to open the symbolic scroll, which means that everyone is able to awaken to absolute truth. The six seals mentioned in today’s reading are six of seven steps that are part of the awakening process.
Step 1– Desiring awakening more than anything else. As we have seen repeatedly since Gentle Healing Year 1, the desire to awaken is the most important part of the awakening process.
Step 2– Seeing through the ‘mask’ of your own ferociousness. Ferociousness is being aggressive towards others (or towards circumstances), and it can show up in a number of ways. Some synonyms for ferocious include brutal, vicious, cruel, merciless, severe, raging, and murderous. Every unenlightened human is ferocious in some way, even if it only shows up as mental attack. Step 2 is acknowledging your own ferociousness and then looking beneath it to see what drives it. In this way, you see beyond it, and it loses its power. It no longer has any value when you see through it. (Root Cause Inquiry is a tool used in Step 2.)
Step 3– Tiring of judgment, which is tiring of wanting things to be different than they are. (The Loving All method is a tool used in Step 3.)
Step 4– Letting go of the belief that life is temporary. This belief comes about when you believe the body-mind-personality is primary and life is secondary to it. The ego, being mental identification with a specific form, sees life in form. It sees life in people, life in animals and life in plants. That’s why there appears to be death. If form is primary and life is secondary, when form ends, life ends. (Awareness-watching-awareness is a tool used in Step 4. It helps us see that life-awareness is primary and form is secondary.)
Step 5– Learning to trust all that is as it is. (Living with an attitude of trust.)
Step 6– Letting go of perception, which is letting go of thought as me.
Today’s reading does not address the seventh step. We will look at the seventh step in a couple of days. However, the seventh step is giving no meaning to anything the ego says or any experience you may have as the ego dies its final death.
It is helpful to contemplate today’s reading in NTI carefully. How do you feel you are doing on the six steps that are discussed in today’s reading? We aren’t asking this question in order to condemn ourselves, but we do want to find out if there is a desire for and an opportunity for improvement. I recommend asking yourself if you would like to work on these steps more directly than you have been, just as you’d work directly towards any goal if achieving the goal is important to you.
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