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August Monthly Lessons
See Next Thought
Write this down somewhere and never stray away from it.
Understanding of your present condition, of your present nature, the understanding of that is the answer. Because if you see that you can’t do it, which you can’t and never have, if you see that you can’t enter the Kingdom, once you see the impossibility of that, that is understanding. And the understanding itself is the foreverness that you want.
No, no, no, not foreverness for you, because part of your comprehension is that there is no individuality, no great man or woman who can endure.
All you can do and what you must do is see there is nothing permanent in your way of thinking, and knowing that, you could sit back in the chair and you can reflect wisely to yourself, “Well, well, here I am; how old am I? Forty, sixty, seventy, here I am all these years trying to convince myself that I'm right, that I've got it. At the same time, another voice was talking to me and telling me, “No, you don’t have it, but for the first time I heard that voice, and I welcomed it.”
Understand Your Present Nature
Find the answer, which means you no longer believe in yourself as you are now un-constituted. You no longer accept yourself as a source of guidance, of attention, of deliverance. You can’t believe, it’s marvelous to not believe in your acquired habits, so-called powers; it’s marvelous to not know what you’re doing or where you’re going.
See, you have one destination: financial, you’re going to make a bunch of dough, social, you’re going to get people to like you better. You’ve got your plans, oh, how sad, how sad, God has His own plans all ready for you, any time you’re willing to give up yours.
Why don’t you start, and I’ll change that, please do start finding some little small thing that you can give up tonight. Think about it a little bit, think about some little stubbornness, think about some little habit you have that you sense is unworthy and contributing to your heavy spirit, and just say, "I’m going to give it up."
For example, your love of a racing intellect, your love of a noisy mind. Come on, admit it, that all day long, twenty-four hours, there’s the collisions of thoughts and desires and opinions. You’re always jumping around, the acrobats up there are leaping and tumbling around.
Now I said, give something up, be watchful of your mind. It’s as simple as you going through your whole day watching your thought processes, and just say to yourself, make it simple and short, say, "see next thought," just three words. You can’t make it much shorter than that, SEE NEXT THOUGHT. Now, you have your aim is to see next thought.
... Do this at bedtime before falling asleep. Your sleep can be helpful to you too as you grow in replacing mental with spiritual. See next thought. You see it, anything at all, idiotic, foolish, wasteful, repetitious. Now, whatever it is, just let it go, let it fall away. Oh, I tell you, how many of you have your favorite series of repetitions in your mind? What event, what incident, takes you over, dominates you?
I order you, this isn’t a request now, this is an order, you will give it up. Oh, it’s not going to obey right away, it’s not going to fall away; it’s going to come back again and again. But you are doing something wise, you’re getting acquainted with how it operates, you’re learning how your mind works.... Late in the afternoon, I forgot all about it. That is educational, you know that you can’t do something, which of course is always the beginning of being able to do it. So you try it again another night and you fall asleep, or there’s a special assault on your mind and it gets hot, the impudent imps are especially busy and you get discouraged.
Listen to me, listen to what I’m going to say next. That discouraged thought is a thought. You don’t have to pay any attention to it. You don’t have to get discouraged. Your dismay and your feeling weak and inferior, all those are thoughts, and you let them go!
... And please remember, among everything else, no thought can change anything. What do you want? You want to stop eating cream puffs? How many want to stop eating cream puffs? How many have no intention to stop eating cream puffs? [laughter] Ah, I’m going to get you on this next one, how many of you eat cream puffs, pretending that you’re not? Aha, I knew I’d get you on that one. You talk to yourself while eating the third cream puff, or you watch television so that you can get the pleasure of the taste, but not be conscious of it ....
Now what are you going to put into your mind, besides practical thoughts, which we have to have of course, so we know how to drive our car. What are you going to put in your mind in place of all the junk and the terror and the ghosts and the heat that we’ve been so used to? What you’re going to allow in there is what we’re aiming for in this room, something else that exists.
Personal Questions
Some newcomers to a truth-lecture were greeted by the teacher’s assistant who said, “Since this will be a question and answer session, may I speak frankly with you? Please do not ask personal questions of the teacher. You know, almost everyone wants to know the same things. People are curious as to whether or not he has a sex life. Would you permit people to ask you such a question? People wish to know how long it took him to attain enlightenment. That is asked out of the questioner’s anxiety over his own progress. Instead of such wasteful questions, enter into an exploration with the speaker. For instance, ask for guidance in applying the truth to daily affairs, or inquire into the nature of jealousy.”
The assistant concluded, “Please keep these points in mind and all of us will have a very profitable session.”
Productive results come from listening and reading with productive attitudes.
From Inspire Yourself, Chapter 3
Frequently Asked Questions
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How to End Suffering on Panic
The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
PANIC by Judith Anderson
Physical fear is only one kind of panic, as when the proverbial mouse or spider frightens someone. A garden snake suddenly slithers close by and startles a child. This reaction may be partly primal but is also taken on through imitation, for a mouse is not a lion.
More disturbing causes of panic are psychological, for they are primarily learned reactions. We fear a loss of something we value, and panic when it's suddenly and unexpectedly taken away. Perhaps a perceived threat from the loss of money, a romantic relationship, or the prospect of physical death (probably the top three fears). Man-made concepts are attached to these situations: threats to “my” security, “my” health, “my” fortune. These self-pictures seem to be under threat because I insist that "I am somebody who...." You fill in the blank. We should repeatedly ask who is this person I consistently say 'I' to? For in reality I am not my money, my marriage, my house, my job — my identification with anything I think is me or mine.
Here's one example: You forget an appointment, remember too late, miss a deadline. In a flash the mind says, "What will people think? I'll no longer be liked or appreciated. They'll ridicule me." This is all about the self-image you hope to project both to yourself and to others. Or you justify being rude to other drivers because "I'm late. Get out of my way."
Panic can be the result of minor issues, such as pushing the wrong button on the computer. You say, I've worked on this project for ages and suddenly it's gone. Or because of a computer "glitch," my Bookmarks all disappear [an easy fix but I don't know that yet]. Suddenly my friendly Mac becomes the enemy.
The worst thing to do at this point is to start nervously pushing more buttons which only makes things worse. Time, a man-made concept, suddenly seems crucial. I was moving too fast and if I react with agitation, I act with more rushing. Strong, unnecessary emotions erupt from subterranean depths. I become unhinged. Haste makes more waste.
Panic takes away natural intelligence, common sense. When becoming frantic, the mind wants to "fix things" fast. Like all negative emotions (such as fear, anger or self-pity), panic causes people to be impulsive, have knee-jerk responses or make irrational, unwise decisions.
Suddenly the mind thinks, "I have lost control of my life." Connected with these episodes is the illusion that the spouse or bank account provided you with security, that somehow they would be lasting and would protect 'me' from worldly threats and change.
You can see, if you have eyes to see, that this belief is based on a delusion you ever even had control of your life. And therefore the loss is imaginary. A shaky attitude built on shifting sands.
If you believe in the lie that this is all real, and then fall in love with the vibration of panic, you will try to keep it going, with unnecessary thought or talk or action. Maybe you try to drag other people into the drama to feel more and spread it around. The conscience has flown the coop.
Good students of Truth will use jolts such as panic for learning. We must challenge our mechanical assumptions and reactions.
Emotional panic can be the door opening up to new insight into wrong thinking, instead of just suffering unconsciously. Since it's a strong emotional feeling, it can shake us into awareness of where we are and where false fears lie. If aware of the state, we can at last catch a glimpse of Reality, what I'm actually like, instead of living in a fantasy.
Vernon Howard said instead of doing something, SEE something. Choose not action but inaction. At the moment of panic, stop everything. Do not fall in love with the vibration. Come to a complete standstill, and watch. See the scrambling mind; “observe your frantic chasings, which you now do unconsciously. “Next with quiet decision, let your day flow forward in any way it likes, without concern for what happens to you.... Quietly follow." (See Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 139.)
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