IN YOUR REVIEW, FOLLOW THE PAST EXAMPLES and review
the week of instructions and the week of practices. Give special consideration
today to the ideas that we have presented. Understand that these ideas must be entertained
and experienced through many stages of development. Their meaning is too deep
and too great to be entirely obvious to you now, yet they will serve as a
reminder that Knowledge is with you and that you have come to give Knowledge in
the world.
OUR TEACHING WILL THUS SIMPLIFY ALL THINGS, which
will resolve the conflicts that you carry now and which will make conflict in
the future unnecessary. For to the extent that you are with Knowledge, conflict
does not exist. An unconflicted life is the greatest contribution that can be
given into the world, for this is a life that will spark the beginning of Knowledge in all, a spark
that can carry itself into the future far beyond your individual life. It is
this great spark that you are intended to give into the world, for then your
giving will have no end and will serve your current generation and the
generations to come.
THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU ARE NOW EXPERIENCING TODAY in
your world are the result of these reverberations which are passed from generation
to generation as Knowledge is kept alive in the world. The opportunity for you to have Knowledge is born of
the giving of those who have lived
before, as your giving will provide the opportunity for freedom for those who
will follow. This is your greater purpose in life: to keep Knowledge alive in
the world. But first you must learn of Knowledge—learn how to recognize it,
learn how to accept it, learn how to discern it from the other impulses in your
mind and learn the many stages of development that will be required in
following Knowledge towards its great fulfillment. That is why you are a beginning
student of Knowledge.
IN YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE, undertake your Review in
as much detail as possible. Allow confusion and uncertainty to exist, for this
is necessary in this stage of investigation. Be happy, then, for all the things
that can be truly recognized and know that Knowledge is with you, so
you are free to be uncertain.
PRACTICE 105: One long practice period.
From the Journal:
October
29, 1999
9:50
A.M. As we zoom into cyberspace, lets not forget the dirt/earth/physical
community where stuff happens.
10:08
A.M. Institutional Knowledge – the true patters which support sustainable life.
5:45
p.m. The way to save Knowledge over the generations is to put it in the genes.
My goal is to have the peace I have in the forest in my minute to minute life.
* I
operate from a priority soup. There are lots of things in there. Something
comes to the surface – I deal with it – then on to something else.
Almost nothing relating to the Step of this day,
but my dealings with the notion of Knowledge, limited as it is. The Steps book
comes through with green ink: "truth is revealed in its own time." This phrase had come to me in the past when dealing with other problems.
NNC
