Greetings All –
UPON EACH HOUR OF THIS DAY experience yourself
following Knowledge. Make small decisions about small things as it is necessary,
but make no great decisions without Knowledge. You have a personal mind to make
small, insignificant decisions. But greater decisions should be made with
Knowledge.
FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE TODAY UPON THE HOUR. Allow its
peace and its certainty to abide with you. Allow its overall direction to be discerned
by you. Allow its potency to affect you. Allow it to give itself to you as you
are now learning to give yourself to it.
IN YOUR TWO LONGER MEDITATION PRACTICES TODAY,
using the word RAHN, enter deeply into Knowledge. Enter deeply into the presence
of life. Enter deeply into this experience. Continue to direct your mind
towards this accomplishment. Continue to set aside anything that affects you or
holds you back. In this way, you train the mind and prepare it as well for that
which is most natural to it to occur.
FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY. If Knowledge indicates
something and you are very certain about this, follow it and be observant. See what
happens and try to learn to distinguish Knowledge from your impulses, your
wishes, your fears and your avoidances. This must be learned through
experience. In this way, Knowledge and everything that pretends to be Knowledge
are drawn apart in contrast. This will provide for you greater certainty and
greater self-confidence, which you will need in the times to come.
PRACTICE 176: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step 175 -
Review
No journal entry for Saturday, January 8, 2000. On
the Steps page I wrote:
Little Bear
– 5:40 p.m.
Sun down –
using flashlight.
Deer are about
in the woods -
My being here at
Patience NC: truth
is a
continuing necessity
Amen & Amen
T-om Su-ne
Necessity was the theme of this week. It remains a
powerful week of Steps. If you’ve gotten something out of it, be assured, more
lies ahead and for each round of deepening stillness.
NNC
