Archive for February, 2008

Trust That Which is Constant

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Question: How can I learn trust?

Answer: Trust can come from identifying with the strength or the power within. The difficulty in identifying with this power is that it has no form, and you are much too attached to form. Yet it is form that cannot be trusted. It is form that does not last and is not consistent. If you continue to look to form for trust, you will not find it, and you will only continue to learn lack of trust.

Shift your focus from the outside from the self to the inside, the Strength. Know and feel this Strength within. Do not look to form. Know and feel this Strength within that overlooks form.

That Which is Constant

When you are able to watch form move in and out of experience without looking to it as an attachment for trust, you will be able to feel the constancy of Strength, which is trust. Then you will be able to trust no matter what seems to be happening in form. And this includes that which seems to be happening around you, but most importantly, it also includes that which seems to be happening in the aspect of form that you call mind.

The Strength is constant. Place your trust there, with the formless. Then your trust will not waver with form.

Where are you?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Last night I asked my 11-year old daughter a question. I asked, “Where is your soul?” She balled her hand up into a fist and hit her chest. I understood from her body language that she felt her soul was within, and she associated it with the heart.

Next I asked her, “Where are you?” She threw her hands out away from her body in a “Ta Da!” type of motion. The expression on her face said, “Here I am, on the outside.”

I laughed. It is clear she knows her soul, but she is presently identified with the self…the outside…the temporary form.

When The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) uses the word “soul,” it is synonymous with “being.”

It’s funny that we don’t identify with our soul…our being…don’t you think? We identify with the temporary form, but not with the eternal spirit.

In NTI 1 John, Chapter 1, Holy Spirit says, “God is our own soul, the heart of our truth, the Spirit that endures forever without end.”

What is self? It is misidentification with the outside, the world of form, the temporary personality, thinking mind and body. It is misidentification with that which does not last.

When we look at that…”misidentification with that which does not last”…we can see why identification with self results in suffering. We are identified with that which does not last, which means it must result in the experience of loss at one time or another. The most pronounced experience of loss is the one we call death.

Of course everything temporary is just experience, because we are eternal being. It only results in suffering if we identify with it…if we think that is what we are. The peace of God comes from identifying with being…that which moves in and out of experience, but continues forever.

NTI I John, Chapter 1, is a great expression of our true Self. As a gift, here it is in full:

NTI 1 John, Chapter 1

We proclaim the Word of Life.

This is a sentence of Self acceptance. This is a sentence that comes upon your heart as you look within and see that which you find there.

That which you find is Love, and it is you.
That which you find is Life, and it is you.
That which you find is beyond description,
and so we simply call it “the Word”
and that which you find is you.

God is Light; in Him there is no darkness at all. What, then, is God?

God is an awareness that is pure,
because it looks on only that which is wholly true.

This is God. And God, as an awareness, exists within you.

God is our own soul, the heart of our truth, the Spirit that endures forever without end. God is all that is true, and that which is true overlooks the false, because the false has no meaning in the Light of truth.

To Know thy Self, return the mind to God. This is done in a moment of peace when God is your only desire.

The most effective way

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Holy Spirit: Your will is everything. This is a lesson I have sent you to learn. This is the lesson you have wanted to learn, because it is your will to learn it.

Now that the lesson has become clear within your awareness now that there is no doubt as to what must be done if your goal within this lifetime is to awaken now that you realize your goal is to awaken and your will is the way, I would like to talk to you about ways you can increase your will to awaken.

The most effective way to increase your will to awaken is through awareness. Whenever I speak of awareness, I am speaking of seeing or noticing or being aware of without judgment. In reality, you cannot be aware with judgment. Judgment is the tool of illusion. So by definition and through purpose, whenever you judge you are choosing illusion, and so you are also choosing not to be aware. Illusion is not seeing as it is, so illusion is also not being aware.

The most effective way to increase your will for awakening is by being aware of the ego. The ego is something you do not want, but you do not realize you do not want it when you are blinded by illusions. When you are blinded by illusions through judgment you create the illusion of “choose between”. Choose between is a trick, because it seems to give two options and to hold one above the other. You then feel attracted to the one that seems to be held above, and you believe you have chosen something you want. But you have not chosen something you want. You have simply been blinded by the false glimmer of the ego so you would not look at and be aware of the ego. If you were to look at and be aware of the ego with the natural unblinded heart of the Son of God, you would know that you do not want it.

Know that whenever you choose to listen to judgment whenever you choose to believe that one option or possibility is better than another you are also choosing to be blinded so that you do not see. When you realize that this is what “choose between” is, you will begin to lose your desire for choose between. As you naturally no longer experience the desire to be blinded, through an observable awareness that this is what you have been choosing to do, you will also naturally begin to choose differently, and this is the beginning of the end of choosing judgment.

The most effective way to increase your will for awakening is to be aware of the ego without judgment. Again, judgment does not let you be aware. Remember this, and you will lose your taste for judgment.

Awareness is watching, knowing and seeing without attachment, but awareness is not lack of desire. Awareness is clear on desire without distraction and awareness watches from the purpose of desire. In this way, awareness, without effort, directs everything through desire. This is not a conscious effort, although consciousness can be enlisted in support of it. This is simply the quiet power of awareness that is aware without the blinding distraction of judgment.

Awareness is the way to increase your desire for awakening, because awareness is pure awareness of desire without distraction. In truth, as you have been told before, the Son of God has one true desire. This is the desire to know the Son of God.

Awareness, without an intellectual conception of this desire, is this desire. So awareness, not covered by the blind distraction of judgment, directs all things in the fulfillment of its only desire.

Awareness is the light of the Son of God, because awareness is His awakened desire known and unhidden by the misperceptions of judgment.