A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read and contemplate quotes #622-623 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Only when you know yourself as entirely alien to and different from the body, will you find respite from the mixture of fear and craving inseparable from ‘I-am-the-body’ idea.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.
Review Lesson 172:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(153) In my defenselessness my safety lies.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
Eshwar Segobind shared his message and it was startling in its simplicity. Eshwar’s spiritual path is remarkable both for its brevity and for the depth of practical insight he manifests. In less than a year, Eshwar went from a recovery program to a profound spiritual awakening to his true nature. He shared about his journey and how he came to know the Truth as it is for him now. Enjoy his stark clarity. It is palpable.
He also extended an invitation that he is happy to speak to those with sincere questions and does not charge for his time. He can be reached at sensewithoutmind@gmail.com.
Upon listening to the recording of the Satsang, Eshwar requested that the following note be added to this post for clarity:
There was an error on my part when I refered to “Nothing.” The way it seemed was as though this nothing is what you are, and this “nothing” is a goal to attain. I did not realize this. Just clear seeing that even the sense of existence never existed. Nothing ever happened, nothing is going to happen and nothing ever happened. “Nothing” is not anything. Muted. No-thing, not a thing, not anything, not nothing.
The second part: it may seem as though i was eluding to a TRUE Self that you become. The above clarification dismisses that possibility. What was being pointed at: We must accept that we are here and now and that we do exist, whatever shape and form that takes for each of us. The idea of a separate self or individual or the way we think of ourselves is just that, an idea. Only then can we accurately de-construct whatever it is that we believe exists. This idea that we are something and even more subtle, when the idea is gone, this nothing that’s left is what we are. This nothing that’s everything and nothing.
Here’s the follow-up Satsang with Eshwar:
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Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
Kate shares her experience as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
Title: “Window Shopping Awareness with Lazy Lazarus”
Description: After having various experiences of ‘dying before you die’, Rev. Meghan Reinhart passionately shared some of the themes the ego faces when it witnesses that, in fact, the “I” must die again: entirely.
Reading: Rev. Billy Sinitris read a Q&A with Rev. Meg acting as Nisargadatta Maharaj and a questioner from #53 in I Am That.
Please read and contemplate quotes #618-621 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
To be a person is to be asleep.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Today we begin our fifth review period. The review introduction says, “This time we are ready to give more effort and more time to what we undertake … that we may go on again more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld more surely.”
There is a beautiful prayer in the review introduction, one you may want to read at the beginning of each day of this review period:
Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.
And then we are asked to contemplate this thought as we review lessons 151-170:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
Here is my recommendation for this review:
Trust whatever comes to you. Remember you have prayed for guidance to lead your practice. Remember that guidance is always individualized to fit each person perfectly, and then trust the guidance that comes to you each day of this review period.
For your convenience, I will provide links to the tips for each lesson that is reviewed throughout this review period.
“Let us raise our hearts from dust to life” as we let intuition guide our individual practice throughout this review period.
And now for Review Lesson 171:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(151) All things are echoes of the Voice for God.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(152) The power of decision is my own.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
Please read and contemplate quotes #614-617 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Get busy with your ego — leave me alone. As long as you are locked up within your mind, my state is beyond your grasp.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
A skunk does it. A snake does it and family members will even do it. What’s that, you may ask. We defend ourselves from fear with attack.
You have all probably heard Jacquelyn tell stories about when she, our Mom and I were living together on my property and contemplating turning the property into a spiritual community. In our process there were many lessons learned. If you listened to Jacquelyn, her stories consist of how Mom and I were mean to her and would gang up on her. Mom and I always seemed to be in a state of disbelief when Jacquelyn, totally unprovoked, would verbally attack one or both of us. I suppose the reason we didn’t kill one another and grace would drop in to save was because we all had a sublime intent to create a community for the purpose of awakening.
I remember one evening in particular when Mom and I had just sat down to dinner. Jacquelyn came into the room and said something that appeared at the time to be harsh to Mom. I heard it as if someone had leaned over and whispered into my ear, “This has nothing to do with you.” I am quite sure without the grace, I would have sensed fear and defended Mom via an attack on Jacquelyn (maybe we did gang up). Just like the skunk and the snake do, I would have become defensive and attacked out of my fear. I know this because this scenario habitually played out many times as the three of us struggled to get the spiritual community set up.
To give up the habit of attack we need the desire or the grace to give it up. We resist the urge to attack by practicing rest, accept and trust when energy arises that would seem to advocate a need for attack. Our lesson today tells us fear is protected, not escaped when we use cruelty as a means to protect ourselves. Today’s lesson also tells us , “You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and unescapable.” Every defense if truly seen is an attack. Jacquelyn was right. We thought we were merely defending ourselves, but in reality we attacked her because we allowed fear to become our safety and protector of our peace when we turned to it for solace.
If in the moment you hear a call for defense and Grace doesn’t come and whisper in your ear to drop the cruelty of attack, then lets be prepared to release this cry for defense. Again, lets give up the habit of attack and defense. Let us rest, accept, and trust that all defense is foolish and be released from what our lesson calls abject slavery. This is within our grasp with this simple practice of rest, accept and trust. With this practice, our lesson tells us, “Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. [Now] there is no cruelty in God and none in me.”
