Yesterday’s tip pointed out that the word “lie” is in the center of the word “belief.” Today’s reading seems to echo that point when it says:
“All that you experience and believe to be true is not true.”
When something is true, it is in accordance with fact or reality. Today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true, because it is not in accordance with reality.
Instead of believing that statement, let’s use inquiry to find out for ourselves.
For example, I can ask, “Is it true that I am a woman?” It appears that I am a woman, but is that a fact that is in accord with reality? There was a time when I would have said, “Yes,” but after practicing awareness-watching-awareness, I realize woman is not my essential nature. It is an appearance and an experience, but it is not the essence of my reality.
Also, if I look at awareness as what I am, I find that it is not an experience or a belief. I do not experience awareness. Awareness is that which is aware of every experience. Also, I do not hold a belief that I am awareness. Awareness is a direct knowing. In fact, it is the most intimate known about me.
The reason today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true is to help us return our focus to reality.
The reading says:
“Let’s pass through your dream, see it is not real, and return in glee to all that is real and has not changed.”
As NTI Acts 25 pointed out, we have a choice about how to “play” our role in the world. We can believe our experiences and suffer with them, or we can use each experience for awakening.
Today’s reading gives us another opportunity to consider how we want to play our role. Here are some questions to consider as you contemplate today’s reading:
What is your purpose for this lifetime?
How do you choose to focus your attention as everything happens?
Are you ready to look at thoughts you’ve held dear until now
and realize you don’t want them anymore?
Are you willing to relinquish judgment and self-will?
The reading says that creation/Heaven does not suffer over your experiences in the world. In this context, both “creation” and “Heaven” are symbols for consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t suffer over your experiences in the world, because consciousness knows reality, and when it sees you, all it sees is changeless, unaffected reality.
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Thoughts of Awakening # 145
Do not ask.
But listen only
for what you are to give.
When one asks for himself
one is listening to the mind
that thinks it is separate
from other.
When one does not ask,
not even for the smallest
or humblest of needs,
one is knowing
there is no need to ask.
For there is only the Whole,
which always serves its Self.
~From our Holy Spirit
