{"id":30160,"date":"2018-05-04T01:50:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=30160"},"modified":"2018-04-18T06:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:20:43","slug":"tips-from-regina-day-101-nti-john-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-from-regina-day-101-nti-john-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Day 101, NTI John 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading is about a wish, a fog, and a shadow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wish isn\u2019t fully conscious in most humans, although it drives their behavior and decision-making processes. It is the wish to be something, commonly felt as the wish to be somebody. It is the wish for distinctness. It is the wish for identity. It is the wish for separation.<\/p>\n<p>This wish is core to the human psyche. From the time that a child is a toddler, it begins seeking identity. At first, the child looks to its parents or caregivers for its identity. Whatever they tell the child it is, it believes. Later, the search for identity broadens. Identity comes from a wide range of \u201csources\u201d including other people, media influences and most especially, one\u2019s own developing mental chatter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fog and the Shadow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Driven by the wish to be something, we each develop a view of the world and a sense of self. The fog is one\u2019s view of the world. The shadow is one\u2019s sense of self. They are completely illusory, decided upon solely by the individual mind. It is as Nisargadatta said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The world you can perceive is a very small world indeed. And it is entirely private.<\/p>\n<p>Since our world and individual sense of self is completely private and not shared with anyone else, they can\u2019t be truth. They are individual made-up illusions.<\/p>\n<p>As we learned on <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-from-regina-day-85-nti-luke-20-v1-8-v9-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 85<\/a>, we are free to maintain a false sense of self and a false sense of the world. We are not guilty for doing so. However, \u201cthe fog and the shadow\u201d block truth as long as we cling to them. Even more, we typically suffer because of the fog and shadow we\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Antidote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the wish to be something is the reason we made up an individual view of the world and self, a different wish (or different desire) is the antidote. That different wish is one\u2019s spiritual aspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s reading is about a wish, a fog, and a shadow. The Wish The wish isn\u2019t fully conscious in most humans, although it drives their behavior and decision-making processes. 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