{"id":25361,"date":"2017-10-06T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=25361"},"modified":"2017-09-29T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:28:35","slug":"tips-regina-lesson-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-regina-lesson-259\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 259"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Sin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our special theme says, \u201cThere is no sin.\u201d That means, there is no judgment. There is no duality. There is no ignorance. There is no outward focus.<\/p>\n<p>Is that true?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. That is all true for the true Self.<\/p>\n<p>It is very difficult to explain how there is no judgment, duality, ignorance or outward focus for the true Self while also admitting that attention goes out to judgment and duality while ignoring truth.<\/p>\n<p>Let me use an analogy:<\/p>\n<p>The best analogy I know is the analogy of the ocean. At the surface of the ocean, waves appear. Each wave is temporary, like the body and the personality. The water in the waves appear to be affected by the weather, just like you seem to be affected by the world and the mind\u2019s thoughts. However, the water that is part of the wave isn\u2019t really affected. It may sometimes appear calm and sometimes appear highly agitated, but it is always water. It doesn\u2019t become blood or seaweed. It is forever unaffected by the weather.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, in the depths of the ocean, the water is untouched by even the <em>appearance<\/em> of being affected. The weather at the surface does not reach the depths at all.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, your true Self is not affected at the surface, where there is the appearance of affected. And the appearance of affected does not exist at all within the depths of your Self. At the depth, there is no judgment, duality, ignorance or outward focus at all.<\/p>\n<p>Our function now is to return the unaffected attention, which has been at the surface, to the depths of the Self, so it may know itself as it has always been.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me remember that there is no sin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today we contemplate the depths of the Self. We realize that awakening is realization of the depth as our truth. We accept that at the depth, there never has been judgment; there never has been duality; there never has been ignorance; and there never has been outward focus. The depth of the Self has always been only aware of itself.<\/p>\n<p>If you have 30 minutes for meditation today, I recommend repeating this meditation from yesterday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/direct-path-meditation-practice-instruction-description-z-with-tip-10-and-12\/\">AWA Description Z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sin? Our special theme says, \u201cThere is no sin.\u201d That means, there is no judgment. There is no duality. There is no ignorance. There is no outward focus. Is that true? Yes. That is all true for the true Self. 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