Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.
~Commentary on Awareness~
Awareness is not judgment. Judgment is a thought that at its basic root sends a message saying, “This must be this way or something is terribly wrong.”
Judging sets up duality. It is the world of right and wrong, good and evil, good and bad. With duality there are right choices and wrong choices, and you can be worthy or unworthy, innocent, righteous or very guilty.
Judgment sets up a world of comparison of this and that, higher and lower, better and worse. It makes the world of joy and sorrow, happiness and pain, security and suffering. And judgment, as the king of the world, defines what is good and what is pain, so that you become a slave unable to be consistently happy in a world of this and that.
But all of this…everything that is created in a world of judgment…is illusion. The answer, which frees you from illusion’s images, is the simple truth of awareness.
Awareness is attention without judgment. It is observation with curiosity and without conclusion. It is perpetual openness. In awareness there is no pain, no suffering, no guilt, and no bad, because there is no judgment, no definition, that would make these things possible.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening # 221
It is time to look inward
at the mind, the heart, and the soul,
and ask, “What am I?”
This is a question
that should not be answered too quickly,
for if an answer is given
that the mind can understand,
that is not the answer at all.
If an answer is given
that can be explained fully with words,
that is not the answer at all.
Search deep within your inquiry
and also search broadly.
Do not limit your answer
to what can be understood
or taught.
Do not limit your answer
to any idea that has an ending
or definition.
Limit your answer
only when defining what you are not.
When defining what you are,
know that the inquiry continues forever.
~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, 218-224 including Commentary on Awakening (with 221)
- Read NTI 1 Thessolonians 3-5 & NTI 2 Thessalonians 1-3 (No NTI reading on day 221)
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p215-220, Consciousness Peace ‘I’ and Just This.
