{"id":29950,"date":"2018-04-12T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=29950"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:30:27","slug":"tips-from-regina-day-79-nti-luke-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-from-regina-day-79-nti-luke-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Day 79, NTI Luke 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading is an interpretation of three of Jesus\u2019 parables. You can read those parables at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke+15&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an idea that is accepted as fact by nearly every person alive. The idea is, \u201cI am a person, living and moving independently, in a world that is separate from me and bigger than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This idea is a perception. It is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, I got caught up in this mistaken perception recently while reading from <em>I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj<\/em>. It might be helpful to listen to that audio today, if you have time. It is a 1-hour audio. In the audio, you will hear how I moved from confusion to clarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/4-4-18-regina-i-am-that-me-in-a-world-or-a-world-in-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to the audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to realize that the true Self has never been lost. It isn\u2019t something we need to acquire or earn. It is present as us right now.<\/p>\n<p>Our challenge is not one of finding something that is lost. Our challenge is letting go of something that we cling to, something that obscures the true Self. That something is the mind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to be clear that if it were not for the mind, our truth would be obvious to us. This is important, because humans tend to value their mind above everything else that they value. That means that we put the obstacle to truth above everything else in our list of \u2018What Is Important to Me\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that I got caught up in confusion while reading <em>I Am That<\/em>. What does, \u201cI Am That\u201d mean?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Am That&#8221; means I am the essence that is everything. I am consciousness. Using an example from some exercises we imagined earlier this year, I am the clay.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t true that I am a person living and moving independently in a world that is separate from me. That is a misperception caused by the mind.<\/p>\n<p>It also isn\u2019t true that I am a part in a bigger world of many parts, which are all connected into one.<\/p>\n<p>I am the essence itself. I Am That.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing this is awakening. Realizing this is also what Jesus called \u201ceternal life,\u201d because we realize that we are that which is eternal instead of this temporary personality-body-mind.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s reading gives us a thought to accept. That thought uses a stepped process to step away from misperception. One who believes she is a person in a world accepts that she is within the Spirit of God and not separate from it. Once this is realized, she takes the next step to realize she is the Spirit of God.<\/p>\n<p>The same idea can be contemplated this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Existence is one.<br \/>\nNothing exists that is outside of existence.<br \/>\nI exist, and so I must be within existence.<br \/>\nI exist, and so I must be one with existence.<br \/>\nI exist, and so I must be existence.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of just saying these words, you can look and see if this is true. Are you existence?<\/p>\n<p>Here is another way to contemplate that idea:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Consciousness is one.<br \/>\nThere is only one consciousness.<br \/>\nMinds differ, but consciousness is always the same.<br \/>\nEvery conscious being experiences the same consciousness.<br \/>\nI am conscious, and so I experience the one consciousness.<br \/>\nOne who experiences the one consciousness is the one consciousness.<br \/>\nI am consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Again, you can look to see if that is true. Are you consciousness? Isn\u2019t it true that consciousness is more intimately you than the body or the mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading is an interpretation of three of Jesus\u2019 parables. You can read those parables at this link. There is an idea that is accepted as fact by nearly every person alive. 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