Sunday, March 29, 2015
Teaching idea #362
We cannot change ourselves. We can only be aware of what is there without judging it.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Teaching idea #346
Point of awareness can observe the conditioning, without identifying or trying to straighten it out. Only X knows what to do with the conditioning.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Teaching idea #46
Happiness is when you don't want to change anything. As long as we feel we have to gain something to be happy, we're in trouble. What value does feeling less than happy have for us?
Friday, March 20, 2015
Teaching idea #270
If we experience freely, we are peaceful. If we resist experiencing, we are in conflict.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Excerpt from the picture of man for 12 steppers
SUGGESTION
Did you know that all human beings are 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the time? It is part of the nature of Life on Earth. Acting on suggestion is what led to your suggestion is what led to your disintegrating state.
Any threat or promise is a suggestion.
It was a suggestion that drink or drugs or binges would change your inner feeling into something more pleasant. It was a promise, but a shallow one. When the substance wore off, the inner feeling was worse than before. The dire results were not part of the promise, were they? You can see that suggestion is often a lie.
People use suggestion to control others all the time. Many sales people, for instance, would be out of work without the handy tool of suggestion to make sales. Parents use it to control their little banshees. Institutions use suggestion for their bread and butter.
It is the nature of the human being to be subject to suggestion but he doesn't have to act on it. What he has to do is evaluate it. A suggestion received will always be evaluated, consciously or unconsciously. But if it is not to my advantage, I am not under any obligation to accept it. Part of the unification process is to stop reacting to suggestions, greedily accepting promises and fearfully accepting threats. I can stop reacting and respond, instead, by evaluating whether or not it is to my advantage.
Does a hit of cocaine or a drink contain a promise? That I will feel better than I do? Probably. Is it to my advantage to take this substance to momentarily change my feeling? Most likely not.
Suggestions are everywhere in our world. They refer to our health, our morality, our intelligence, our finances, our personal value, our value within a group. They threaten and they promise. They presume we are not capable of evaluating for ourselves what's going on and what's to our advantage.
The Science of Man says you are fully capable of being responsible enough to evaluate what is to your advantage; that you can transcend the usual reaction to threat and promise by responding, instead of reaction is to unconsciously act on the stimulus as to it's advantage.
Be always on the lookout for threats and promises. They are trying to usurp your own good sense.
Did you know that all human beings are 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the time? It is part of the nature of Life on Earth. Acting on suggestion is what led to your suggestion is what led to your disintegrating state.
Any threat or promise is a suggestion.
It was a suggestion that drink or drugs or binges would change your inner feeling into something more pleasant. It was a promise, but a shallow one. When the substance wore off, the inner feeling was worse than before. The dire results were not part of the promise, were they? You can see that suggestion is often a lie.
People use suggestion to control others all the time. Many sales people, for instance, would be out of work without the handy tool of suggestion to make sales. Parents use it to control their little banshees. Institutions use suggestion for their bread and butter.
It is the nature of the human being to be subject to suggestion but he doesn't have to act on it. What he has to do is evaluate it. A suggestion received will always be evaluated, consciously or unconsciously. But if it is not to my advantage, I am not under any obligation to accept it. Part of the unification process is to stop reacting to suggestions, greedily accepting promises and fearfully accepting threats. I can stop reacting and respond, instead, by evaluating whether or not it is to my advantage.
Does a hit of cocaine or a drink contain a promise? That I will feel better than I do? Probably. Is it to my advantage to take this substance to momentarily change my feeling? Most likely not.
Suggestions are everywhere in our world. They refer to our health, our morality, our intelligence, our finances, our personal value, our value within a group. They threaten and they promise. They presume we are not capable of evaluating for ourselves what's going on and what's to our advantage.
The Science of Man says you are fully capable of being responsible enough to evaluate what is to your advantage; that you can transcend the usual reaction to threat and promise by responding, instead of reaction is to unconsciously act on the stimulus as to it's advantage.
Be always on the lookout for threats and promises. They are trying to usurp your own good sense.
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