Monday, April 28, 2014
Teaching idea #366
The only way to handle any situation is to wake up. To be awake is to see everything objectively. There is no judgment.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
From Headlines page 25
Only the strong can afford to be gentle and kind.
The strong never feel frustrated. They recognize challenge and know they are capable of meeting the challenge intelligently without violence.
Those who are strong are not infants with grown-up bodies having some technical education.
A machine is at the mercy of what happens to it.
Most people are mechanical in that their state is at the mercy of what happens to them.
There are a few people who determine their state of being regardless of what is happening to them.
The strong never feel frustrated. They recognize challenge and know they are capable of meeting the challenge intelligently without violence.
Those who are strong are not infants with grown-up bodies having some technical education.
A machine is at the mercy of what happens to it.
Most people are mechanical in that their state is at the mercy of what happens to them.
There are a few people who determine their state of being regardless of what is happening to them.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Gibson notes prior to 1971
Any emotional (sentimental) involvement in an interpersonal relationship is a disintegrative situation.
Impersonal: objective.
Impersonal: non-sentimental, objective. "I don't know what ought to be, therefore I am not entitled, I have no rights and am free to use my head."
Interpersonal: sentimental, subjective - "I know what ought to be, therefore I am entitled and I have rights, I must change things, including you, into what ought to be."
When I know how other people ought to be (or do), I am incapable of an objective impersonal relationship.
Respecter of persons - being involved with, identified with, "What will people think?" Etc. would result in an unreliable individual incapable of having an impersonal relationship.
A respecter of persons has to be sentimental. A non-respecter of persons can live without conflict, struggle, and resistance, without sentimentality.
Sentimentality is a form of control over human beings.
In an impersonal relationship, we see each person as they are without needing to change anyone.
Can we live an impersonal life? We must. An interpersonal life brings about death. The only time we make something important, we feel we know what ought to be, and are therefore entitled to have it the way we want it (have our own way, by right).
We are free to work to change what doesn't appeal to our taste. We may experiment and cultivate our own abilities. We are incapable of changing other people but we can experiment. We are not entitled to change people to meet our standards.
Impersonal: objective.
Impersonal: non-sentimental, objective. "I don't know what ought to be, therefore I am not entitled, I have no rights and am free to use my head."
Interpersonal: sentimental, subjective - "I know what ought to be, therefore I am entitled and I have rights, I must change things, including you, into what ought to be."
When I know how other people ought to be (or do), I am incapable of an objective impersonal relationship.
Respecter of persons - being involved with, identified with, "What will people think?" Etc. would result in an unreliable individual incapable of having an impersonal relationship.
A respecter of persons has to be sentimental. A non-respecter of persons can live without conflict, struggle, and resistance, without sentimentality.
Sentimentality is a form of control over human beings.
In an impersonal relationship, we see each person as they are without needing to change anyone.
Can we live an impersonal life? We must. An interpersonal life brings about death. The only time we make something important, we feel we know what ought to be, and are therefore entitled to have it the way we want it (have our own way, by right).
We are free to work to change what doesn't appeal to our taste. We may experiment and cultivate our own abilities. We are incapable of changing other people but we can experiment. We are not entitled to change people to meet our standards.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Teaching idea 315
As long as we blame the environment we have given the environment authority over us.
Teaching idea #291
This world is our initiation. If we could see this, we would not want to change anything. It is our opportunity to see the truth and wake up.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Teaching idea #251
When we get to the point that we don't react. we agree rather than defend, we have passed the third degree.
Teaching idea #250
The people who cause a commotion in our life are called the degree team. When we don't want to change anything, we have a peaceful mind and then can have a higher mind.
Teaching idea #247
Everything in the conditioned picture of man is hypnotism. All our work is to get out of this hypnotic trance.
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