Yesterday we learned that the Loving All Method, or the declaration, “It is what it is,” is the way to undo the illusion of many things. On Day 139, we learned that surrender is the way to “unweave your way out of fantasy.”
Let’s pause for a moment and look at how these two practices work.
At its most basic level, illusion is the appearance of two things, the subject (you) and the object (everything else). You are the “I” that experiences everything else, which is “not I.”
The “not I” or object appears as many things, some that are judged as good or desired and others that are judged as bad or not desired. The Loving All Method undoes the judgment that creates the many things and collapses them into one object, which is consciousness.
Once the apparent many things collapse into one object, consciousness, there is still the feeling of “I,” the consciousness that sees, and “it,” the consciousness that is seen. In other words, the complicated many things collapse into the simplistic two things.
Surrender is the practice that removes the “I”. In NTI Acts, removing the “I” through surrender is called merging. When merging is complete, “I” no longer exists, so there can’t be a feeling of “I” and “it.” There is only consciousness. Without the “I,” non-dual (not two) being is realized.
Today’s reading focuses on the process of merging through surrender in order to collapse the “I.”
Thoughts of Awakening # 158
The flow of life is ease,
although the mind wants to tell you
it is not.
The mind says,
“The flow of life is sacrifice,”
and so you continue to fight the flow.
But which choice could truly be called sacrifice?
Surrendering to the flow,
which carries you in ease?
Or struggling against it,
attempting to forge your own way?
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 155-161 including Commentary on Fear (with 155), Commentary on Discernment (with 156).
- Read NTI Romans 14-16 & NTI 1 Corinthians 1-2 (No NTI reading on Days 155 &156.)
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, 173-178, The True Dreamer (part1)
- Exercise: Try to get a sense that the character that you take yourself to be is being dreamed by consciousness.