Greetings All –
DOING WHAT IS NECESSARY WILL ENGAGE YOU with
vitality in life, for life in the world, in all its forms, is engaged in what
is necessary. This at first seems oppressive to human beings, for they are accustomed
to living in fantasy, where everything is preferential and nothing is really
necessary.
YET, IT IS WHEN SOMETHING IS REALLY NECESSARY IN
LIFE, even if it is a dire circumstance, that people are able to liberate
themselves momentarily from their fantasies and feel purpose, meaning and direction.
This, then, is a gift to humanity, but people usually give themselves this gift
only under dire circumstances.
IT IS UNDER HAPPIER CIRCUMSTANCES that you must now
learn to receive this and welcome necessity as a saving grace in your life, for
you wish to be needed, you wish to be included, you wish to be vital and you
wish to be an essential part of community. This is all necessary. It is not
merely a preference on your part. It cannot be born of a casual choice but of a
deep conviction, for your greater giving must be born of a deep conviction if
it is to be great and complete. Otherwise, at the sight of the first adversity
or disappointment, you will be cast away and will withdraw back into fantasy
and illusion.
WELCOME, THEN, THE NECESSITIES OF THIS DAY. Do small
tasks without complaint, for they are small. Follow your procedure today in preparation,
for it is necessary and it is great. Do not confuse the great and the small,
for the small is only to express the great. Do not try to make the small great
or the great small. Understand their true relationship with one another, for
within you is both the great and the small. Within you, the great wishes to
express itself through the small.
THEREFORE, CARRY OUT YOUR MUNDANE ACTIVITIES TODAY.
Do what is necessary today. Remind yourself upon the hour of our idea for
today, and give yourself to your practice so that your day may be a day of
giving and receiving. In your deeper meditation practices, enter into stillness
using the word RAHN to take you deep into meditation. Do this because it is
necessary. Do this with necessity and you will feel the power of your own will.
PRACTICE 173: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step 172 - I must reclaim my Knowledge.
From the Journal:
6:15
A.M. Wednesday – January 5, 2000 – Restless night. Tired on waking. Where am I?
8:35
A.M. Pleasure GCW-II What has called to me?
Coming to planning, rural/regional planning; the greatest need was for data.
Information about what is, what was, and what are the trends? My focus has been
on getting data, but more importantly, using data so that people can understand
their context – then they will know/or can decide how to invest. This will
empower them to make their own lives better, as well as those of the coming
generations. It is a forming idea – for the investment community must be
larger.
The
Regional Public Corporate Database.
12:45
p.m. The challenge to living organisms, an advancing and sustainable
natural/built environment.
8:30
p.m. Busy day. No lunch break. Knowledge said “work” – so I didn’t go out. I
came home starved – ate bread, sardines, spinach, - and I’m tired – late to do
practice #2. “I must reclaim my Knowledge.”
What
might that be? If I’m ET from somewhere – What do I carry? The GCW-II section
on pleasure says we can know that which we are to do – because we work it
without obvious reward. I’ve been there – done that – and got burned on
relationship within the PDC> I may have learned, I may have learned, but I’ve
no longer the energy to work uphill on this.
9
p.m. 15 minutes – can’t complete practice.
Wow – that was interesting. I speculated about ET
origin. If you consider reincarnation real, the question becomes, where has my
soul been before. If you’ve ever felt you don’t quite fit where you are on
earth, identifying perhaps with the title/situation of the 1961 science fiction
novel “Stranger
in a Strangeland,” by Robert A. Heinlein, the ET thesis may have come into
your mind. You may not want to talk about it, but write it down to manage that
part of your thinking. Steps does help with such thinking, though you’ll need
to complete the Steps, and continue study.
It is another time I couldn’t complete a stillness
practice. I stuck to the program and kept going. It is your choice as to the
pace to proceed. If it takes 18 months, no problem with that. Should you wish
to keep up with my journey, just use the archived Step. They will be in order,
unless I mess up.
NNC
