Greetings All –
Step 82 - I will not
judge another today. (MP3)
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AGAIN WE PRACTICE THIS LESSON,
which we will repeat at certain intervals as you proceed. Judgment is a
decision not to know. It is a decision not to look. It is a decision not to
listen. It is a decision not to be still. It is a decision to follow a
convenient form of thinking that keeps your mind asleep and keeps you lost
within the world. The world is full of error. How could it be otherwise?
Therefore, it does not require your condemnation but your constructive
assistance.
DO NOT JUDGE ANOTHER TODAY.
Remind yourself of this upon each hour and consider it briefly. Remind yourself
of this in your two meditation practices, where you make this statement and
then enter into stillness and receptivity. Do not judge another today so that
you may be happy.
PRACTICE 82: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly
practice.
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| "I will not judge another today." Step 82 |
This is the Right Reverend John, founder of the "Church of the Here and Now." In this 2003 picture, he's using the pulpit I built for his church use in 1980, when he left the PDC to start-up a new regional job training agency. He'd been a priest, but dropped out to study law. He did not judge people, he served them. He crossed over in 2006. He was a teacher.
Yesterday: Step
81 - I will not deceive myself today.
8 p.m. Wednesday, October 6 - 1st
session for S2K - "I will not deceive myself today." An illusion
wrapped around an illusion inside of an illusion. I probably [have] been very deceptive with
myself - in denial.
Self-condemnation is easy and
weak. (S2K)
8:30 p.m. How do I deceive
myself?
My beliefs about human behavior
have kept me going when signs were negative.
I have looked for direction,
but not found it in any one place.
My greatest self-deception
occurs at work - where I try to do more than I can and have over committed for
years. No one else is willing to do that for the long term, so I'm more and
more strung out. I think I can work it out, but I get more behind every day.
I've not been firm with the
executive committee - personnel committee> I wasn't so with ... or the staff
as it went downhill.
It may be self-deception that
that work is important.
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10:25 p.m. - I need to be fed
information and I need to simplify.
I
was then, and had been for a long time, defined by my work. That is a good
thing - right? Notes in the Steps book demonstrate some conflict.
Paragraph two, line one, is edited – the ˄ insertion changing the sentence to read: "YOU MUST ENTER “the hell of” UNCERTAINTY TO FIND
KNOWLEDGE.” In 2009 – black ink, I
crossed it out the hell of, suggesting
that the initial unresolved pain has been dealt with. Also added is: “Be Strong – my
father, Everette – was a very, very strong man. Mom!”
Through these Steps, one's life is rethought. Stick with it. Give
yourself time.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 81. This is for those who have completed
Steps once. Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life experience,
including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing
my first year Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence you in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
P.S. If you’ve some interest due to this or other
Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
