Teaching idea #189

We don't have to be defensive if someone sees us as less than the ideal they have of us.

Teaching idea # 134 135 136 137 138 139

134.  Don't be seeking the first decision. (that the purpose of living is to regain the non disturbed state). Instead seek for your own personal integration, which is an end to all conflict. Then all other things will be added to you. Don't be impatient in getting it.

135.  It has been said that it is extremely difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Integration) and one must become as a little child. Riches are anything a person depends on or has accumulated or protects, such as ideas, opinions, view points, ego, etc. To be as a little child is to be not knowing and teachable. It is to be inquiring instead of defending or protecting the self.

 136.  All resentment, anger, and aggression come from the conditioned belief that we have rights. Our solution to resentment, anger, and aggression is to realize that we have no rights. I do have privileges and I am free to enhance, to maintain and to increase my privileges.

137. Once a decision is made with feeling, it is the rule of attitude-action until it is unmade or re-evaluated. It is not what happened to an individual, but the decisions that were made about what happened.

138. If we are finding fault, we are looking through a misconception.

139. The awareness owns nothing. It is an observer and reporter only. X renders Not-I's inoperative, when they are observed and reported. They cease to be conditioning. They cease to operate the body.

Teaching idea #144

Are we brave enough to dump all authorities? If we are going to be free individuals we first get rid of the authorities. If we have authorities, we will have conflict.

Teaching idea #117

The conditioned self is the victim and the victimizer. Feeling like a victim has nothing to do with anything outside ourselves.

Teaching idea #123

Sticking up for rights is hooked into self pity.

What's going on here page 37

Question: Often when I look at the conditioning, the task of removing it seems impossible. It seems something akin to hacking away at an iceberg with a spoon. I don't feel I will ever come close to getting the job done -- in fact it seems hopeless.

Answer: Who said you should remove the conditioning? Let's say you live in a multi-storied house which has a basement. There are all kinds of creepy-crawly, hideous creatures in the basement, and of course it's very dark down there. You wouldn't stay in the basement, you would move up to one of the upper levels. The aim is, by being in charge of your own inner state, keep your mood "upstairs" above the chaos below. If your mood is always in vital interest or above, you will not be affected by what may be in the basement. Eventually you won't even be aware of it being there. X

Teaching idea #100

X generates the energy for every action the awareness values. All human energy comes from X. It is all spiritual energy. The "Not-I's" using this energy is the disintegration of man.

Headlines page 48

When one has an intention, without association as to ways to have that intention, one actualizes that intention NOW.

Teaching idea #163

Only the "Not-I's" justify. Anything that has to be justified is invalid. I, the awareness function, need not justify anything.

Headlines page 12

Does freedom consist of being free from pain, from being ignored, from being rejected, from being disapproved of, from feeling inferior, from the possibility of being in danger? Or does freedom consist of being free to experience whatever may arise in one's way today and freely choose the response?

Headlines page 7

  "What is" versus "what ought to be". Is "what is" the fact as seen which can be dealt with and responded to in some way? Is "what ought to be" a picture in the mind and thus a fantasy? Is this fantasy used as a basis of judging "what is" as good, bad, right, wrong, happy, unhappy, et cetera?
Does judging prevent one from responding to "what is?" Does it create struggle, conflict, and resistance to "what is?'

Headlines page 6

Is the ideal a reality or a picture in the mind?

Teaching idea #24

If we let circumstances determine how we feel, we are not in charge of our inner state. When we are responsible we can feel anyway we choose to feel. We don't have to let the clouds determine how we feel. What (or who) keeps me from feeling good--right now?

Teaching idea #360

If we're interested in gaining or escaping, forget about being spiritual.