Regina’s Tip for Lesson 41
Today’s Workbook lesson says:
“Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real and suffered out of its allegiance to them.”
It also says: “You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go.”
If we put these two paragraphs together, we see that we are holy because the Source of holiness is deep within us. It goes with us wherever we go because it is within us. Our holiness, or our true Self, is present within the background of our awareness. It is unaffected by the mind, and it cannot be lost. Truth realization occurs when we become consciously aware of the already present Self. The ego is active in the conscious mind, and it has a tendency to protect itself. As we try to bring conscious awareness deep within, to the background of awareness, the ego struggles to hijack attention before it reaches that level. That’s the challenge of meditation.
Today’s Workbook lesson is our first attempt at meditation. It is our first attempt to go beyond “all the idle thoughts of the world” to reach enlightenment, which is already present within us. As you meditate today, see thoughts about the world as the ego’s attempt to hijack your meditation. Do not fear or resist those thoughts; simply see them as unimportant right now. You can give attention to worldly thoughts later when you aren’t meditating. Gently remind yourself, “For these few minutes, I have a different and more important goal.”
Homework for this week
- Homework Assignment A: Workbook Lessons 36-42.
- Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Luke, Chapter 9 (p 144-146) and NTI Galatians (p 327-338).
- Homework Assignment C: Nondual Awakening Meditation – Where am I? by Gary Weber, which is a video in the Gentle Healing Playlist: Click Here to Watch
