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There is much I must unlearn. Step 102 (MP3)
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| There is much I must unlearn. Step 102 |
YOUR
LIFE IS FULL OF YOUR OWN NECESSITIES AND IDEAS, full of your own requirements
and ambitions, full of your own fears and full of your own complications. Thus,
your vehicle for giving is burdened and cluttered, and your energy is largely
misappropriated. That is why it is God’s first step to unburden you. Until this
happens you will simply attempt to resolve your situation without knowing what
to do, without understanding your predicament and without accepting the
assistance that you will surely need in time. Therefore, accept your
unlearning, for it will unburden you and give you reassurance that a greater
life is possible and inevitable for you who have come here to give.
UPON
THE HOUR REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and consider it. View its reality in terms of
your perception of the world. In your two longer practice periods, once again
practice mental stillness in silence, where nothing is attempted and where
nothing is avoided. You are only engaging your mind to be still so that it may
learn to respond upon its own to that which calls to it. With each step you
make in your unlearning, Knowledge will fill in that which had replaced it.
This is instantaneous, for you are only moving yourself into a position to
receive so that your giving may be generous, genuine and fulfilling to you.
PRACTICE
102: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Riding
my grandson's bicycle in Greenville, Texas. Riding a bike is a physical leaning
our bodies need not unlearn.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the presence
of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of Knowledge this
blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see no-VAHR-ay
co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence anyone 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.
