As part of yesterday’s tip, we contemplated this scripture:
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. ~ Matthew 13:44
Today’s reading tells you exactly how to sell all that you have and buy the field that contains the treasure. Today’s reading provides very specific instructions.
The reading says that Self-realization is the “highest spiritual state.” In this context, a “state” is a particular condition that you are in for a period of time. In other words, it is another milestone on the journey, but it is not the destination. The destination is the absolute, the First Principle of God.
You can see the field as Self-realization. The treasure is the absolute.
Sell everything you have now, and buy the field.
Today’s reading tells you how.
Thoughts of Awakening # 322
Ideas are an obstacle
when ideas are a part
of self-identity.
No idea is a part of your truth.
Your truth is beyond all ideas.
Ideas are used to guide you in this world,
but an idea is best used to guide
when you listen, act
and then let go.
An idea held to
beyond its moment of usefulness
is an idea that forms self-identity.
This idea is an obstacle.
See the obstacle and let it go.
Stay within the flow of ideas
without clinging to any of them.
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, 316-322 including the Commentary on False Perception (Day 317) and the Commentary on Attachment (Day 321).
- Read the following messages from The Teaching of Inner Ramana: The Mind that Thinks it is Lord, A Contract for Awakening, Pain and Purification, The Grace of the Guru, Full-Time Inquiry for Self. There is no reading on days 317 and 321.
*If you don’t already have it, order The Seven Steps to Awakening. That will be our text for Year 3.
