Saturday, February 23, 2019
Blaming
If a person says, "He made me angry", "The clock awakened me", "The fire burned me", etc. would this be misconception, an attempt to escape responsibility for self by blame placing? Would this mean that before a person could enjoy a better life that everything else in the world would have to change? Is this a rather large order to be filled before a person could be happy and enjoy living?
Monday, February 18, 2019
Bits and pieces from school work
What one pursues, what one seeks, is a feeling of freedom. However nearly everyone pursues freedom wrongly. Each seeks to be free from something but real freedom is freedom to.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Bits and Pieces from School Work
Freedom and Responsibility: the two sides of the same idea that results in a driving force and inner peace at the same time.
Freedom to: Responsibility, able to respond by being free to choose what is worthwhile.
Free from: Trying to escape responsibility by struggle, resistance and conflict.
Virtue
If I must not do something because it is wrong -- and I don't do it because I think it is wrong -- I have no virtue.
When I know that I am free to, yet I realize it is not to my advantage, I have virtue.
Virtue is freedom.
Freedom to: Responsibility, able to respond by being free to choose what is worthwhile.
Free from: Trying to escape responsibility by struggle, resistance and conflict.
Virtue
If I must not do something because it is wrong -- and I don't do it because I think it is wrong -- I have no virtue.
When I know that I am free to, yet I realize it is not to my advantage, I have virtue.
Virtue is freedom.
Monday, January 28, 2019
From tape 9 Accounts receivable
"I" believe that "I" am victimized by you and others into being made to feel angry, guilty, fearful, insecure, envious, jealousy and etc. And "I" believe that it is all your fault that "I'm" in this miserable state. Now, how much would the person have to pay before "I" cancel the debt and say, "I feel wonderful, all is forgotten."
You see, we have the idea of "forgiving" and we use it quite freely. But if one will observe the self when a given incident is brought up, one will find that the self wants to kick and scream and make all kinds of turmoil because the account has not been cancelled. We use the word "forgiveness" and we say, "I forgive" but actually only X can cancel that. So I can observe the self, report it to X, and we can experience forgiveness.
But I don't believe a one of us can truly forgive.
You see, the nature of I is to report accurately as to "what is" to X. Not what it seems to be when seen through the ideal of the world, which is what makes the debt. When one reports that this was an illusion, that nobody really owes the self down there anything, then X forgives. And one may experience that forgiveness, that lightness, that entire new state of being. But one cannot forgive, one only can use the words.
You see, we have the idea of "forgiving" and we use it quite freely. But if one will observe the self when a given incident is brought up, one will find that the self wants to kick and scream and make all kinds of turmoil because the account has not been cancelled. We use the word "forgiveness" and we say, "I forgive" but actually only X can cancel that. So I can observe the self, report it to X, and we can experience forgiveness.
But I don't believe a one of us can truly forgive.
You see, the nature of I is to report accurately as to "what is" to X. Not what it seems to be when seen through the ideal of the world, which is what makes the debt. When one reports that this was an illusion, that nobody really owes the self down there anything, then X forgives. And one may experience that forgiveness, that lightness, that entire new state of being. But one cannot forgive, one only can use the words.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
from The picture of man for 12-steppers
SUGGESTION
Did you know that 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 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 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 is 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. The definition of response is to consciously evaluate a stimulus as to it's advantage.
Be always on the lookout for threats and promises. They are trying to usurp your own innate good sense.
Did you know that 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 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 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 is 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. The definition of response is to consciously evaluate a stimulus as to it's advantage.
Be always on the lookout for threats and promises. They are trying to usurp your own innate good sense.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Teaching idea 156
Our #1 job is to make a total commitment to be responsible for our inner state of being. It is the most valuable commitment we make. Without doing this, everything else is nothing.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Teaching ideas
99. The whole idea of the Teaching material is for man to be aware of what is.
100. X generates action for every action the awareness values. All human energy comes from X. It is spiritual energy. The "Not-I's" using this energy is the disintegration of man.
101. Spirit, soul, psyche are all synonymous.
102. Man was never designed to have emotions-anger, guilt, fear, insecurity, and all the many sub-groups.
103. Expectation based on illusion is the disintegrating factor.
104. I owns nothing. I is an observer and reporter only.
105. Self-knowing means to be aware of the ideas one has lived by; being aware of the ideals that have been set up and the impossibility of their fufillment.
100. X generates action for every action the awareness values. All human energy comes from X. It is spiritual energy. The "Not-I's" using this energy is the disintegration of man.
101. Spirit, soul, psyche are all synonymous.
102. Man was never designed to have emotions-anger, guilt, fear, insecurity, and all the many sub-groups.
103. Expectation based on illusion is the disintegrating factor.
104. I owns nothing. I is an observer and reporter only.
105. Self-knowing means to be aware of the ideas one has lived by; being aware of the ideals that have been set up and the impossibility of their fufillment.
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