{"id":34437,"date":"2018-11-19T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:19:40","slug":"day-286-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/day-286-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Day 286, NTI Revelation 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s reading is about the obstacle to truth. It refers to the obstacle as the belief in separation. The Teachings of Inner Ramana\u00a0<\/em>refers to it as the \u201cI-thought.\u201d It is also commonly called the ego.<\/p>\n

What is the belief in separation, which is the I-thought and the ego? It is mental chatter.<\/p>\n

What is the belief in separation?
\nIt is mental chatter<\/p>\n

What is the I-thought?
\nIt is mental chatter.<\/p>\n

What is the ego?
\nIt is mental chatter.<\/p>\n

You can see this for yourself if you pay close attention to the mental chatter in your mind. Mental chatter is all about \u201cme\u201d and \u201cyou\u201d or \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem.\u201d It\u2019s about what \u201cI\u201d think, what \u201cI\u201d want, and what \u201cI\u201d don\u2019t want. Mental chatter is \u00a0<\/em>the belief in separation. Mental chatter is \u00a0<\/em>the I-thought. Mental chatter is \u00a0<\/em>the ego.<\/p>\n

In other words, the belief in separation isn\u2019t one belief buried somewhere in mental chatter. Mental chatter itself<\/em>\u00a0 is the belief in separation.<\/p>\n

The I-thought isn\u2019t merely the words \u201cI\u201d or \u201cme\u201d in the mind. All mental chatter is the I-thought.<\/p>\n

The ego isn\u2019t some aspect of mental chatter, while part of mental chatter is benign or \u201cmy real thoughts.\u201d The ego and mental chatter are synonymous. They are the same thing.<\/p>\n

One reason the ego is able to deceive people so easily is because most spiritual aspirants define the ego as some thoughts or some qualities of thought, and they continue listening to other thoughts or other qualities of thought as if they aren’t ego.<\/p>\n

All mental chatter is ego. There\u2019s no such thing as truth in mental chatter. When you give believing-attention to mental chatter, you give believing-attention to ego.<\/p>\n

Very few people have awakened to absolute truth, because very few people have disregarded mental chatter completely. The seventh step to awakening is disregarding mental chatter completely, regardless of what it says now.<\/p>\n

One idea that keeps people listening to mental chatter, even when they want to let go of ego, is:<\/p>\n

Something or someone will suffer if I do not listen to the ideas in my mind.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

My children will suffer.<\/p>\n

My work will suffer.<\/p>\n

My finances will suffer.<\/p>\n

My health will suffer.<\/p>\n

My relationships will suffer.<\/p>\n

My safety will suffer.<\/p>\n

Underneath all of those ideas is the idea, \u201cI will suffer.\u201d That is the ego\u2019s primary deception, which is also its primary defense.<\/p>\n

When mental chatter chatters about how you need mental chatter to get by or survive, mental chatter gets your believing-attention. In this way, mental chatter maintains its apparent existence as you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Whenever anyone says that you need the ego somewhat, and so you cannot let go of it completely, they have fallen for this trick. They have let go of some thoughts or some qualities of thought, but they have not let go of mental chatter entirely.<\/p>\n

Mental chatter is not needed, not even in the world. Awareness is absolute intelligence. One who abides as awareness knows what to say and what to do in every circumstance. The intelligence of awareness is far superior to the feigned \u201cintelligence\u201d of mental chatter.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the difference between mental chatter and using the brain to think.<\/p>\n

Compared to other animals, humans have large brains. The purpose of the human brain is survival. Awareness programs the brain so it can be used as an effective survival instrument. This programming is commonly called \u201clearning.\u201d For example, you learned language, math, computer skills, how to drive, how to ride a bike and much, much more. All of this is programmed into your brain.<\/p>\n

Some of what is programmed into your brain is so deeply programmed that you no longer have to \u201cthink\u201d about it. For example, you seldom have to think about words. You just use them. You don\u2019t have to think about how to ride a bike. You simply get on a bike and ride.<\/p>\n

However, when you are presented with a new situation, you have to \u201cthink\u201d about it. If you pay close attention to the \u201cthinking\u201d that is necessary, it is awareness. Awareness pays attention to what is being learned, and it programs the learning into the brain. Awareness also sorts through previous programming to see if something is useful in the current situation. If so, it forms a relationship in the brain between the new programming and the prior programming.<\/p>\n

What I have just described is not mental chatter. Mental chatter is different than the brainwork I just described. For example, when a new situation is present, mental chatter may say any of the following:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m never going to figure this out.<\/p>\n

Why did Jane put that there? Now I have to undo everything she did!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m right. John\u2019s wrong. I\u2019ve got to convince him to do this my way.<\/p>\n

Everything is always going wrong. How am I ever going to get ahead?<\/p>\n

When I get this done, I will be able to do that. Then things will open up, and I can \u2026.<\/p>\n

Once I get this figured out, everyone will see how smart I am, and then they will listen to me more.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t expect this. I thought that since we did that, this would work out the way we planned.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to blame Sally for this. I\u2019m going to forgive her. I\u2019ll be really nice next time I see her, and then she\u2019ll see that I am spirit-guided.<\/p>\n

I have to do everything around here. No one else is as committed as I am.<\/p>\n

And Etcetera.<\/p>\n

Mental chatter is the belief in separation. It is the I-thought. It is the ego.<\/p>\n

Look at the previous examples of mental chatter and notice the belief in separation, the I-thought and the ego in those ideas.<\/p>\n

Mental chatter is not thinking. Mental chatter serves no useful purpose at all. It can be let go completely.<\/p>\n

If you paid attention to your thoughts on Day 277<\/a>, you probably saw several comments that came from mental chatter as you read Revelation 8. (If you didn\u2019t see any chatter, it\u2019s likely you believed chatter without noticing it.)<\/p>\n

Step 7 in the awakening process is seeing mental chatter without giving it believing-attention. Seeing it without believing it is disregarding it. (When it is not seen, it is believed by default.)<\/p>\n

Please read NTI Revelation 17:1-6 in the Bible<\/a> before reading today\u2019s reading in NTI.<\/p>\n

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at\u00a0this link<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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