The New Earth--Week Two started with a Sunflower image promoted by Chevy

Date:   3/10/2008 8:09:11 PM ( 16 y ago)

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&:33 PM
Well that was amazing!
to watch and be able to take these notes.


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Well, time for a nap!


6:04 PM
March 10, 08

One of the opening images
of THE NEW EARTH
second week,
was of a Sunflower Image.

Week Two of
THe NEW EARTH
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Who am I?
We identify with:
My story.
My successes.
My failures.
Bundle of thoughts.

Becomes a mind made entity.
a phantom, that lives with you.
refer to this as myself.
Narcissus.

Obsessed with mental image.
mind made me, consists of memories
opinions that make up this I,

O: if not this,
then who am I?

{ I have lots to do right now to prepare....
I need to go get the laminator....
What do I want to focus on now????

P. 28.
Identified with the "I"
identified with external object.

Seeing Well Being around you.
He speaks about not focusing
or talking about your illness,
unless you are speaking to a doctor.

Pain may still be there.
This requires surrender.
If mind complains about being in pain,
you have two kinds of pain.
psychological pain on top of the physical pain.

Well Being in nature....he recommends
contemplating nature.

A lady called in from Maui.
She was with a condition that was keeping her
in pain.

[ Oh, Sara Snow is on Discovery Channel tonight
at 9....I want to see that....she is the M.C.
Friday night. ]

Being present...giving full attention.
Not form based attention...
that has it's place....but
child wants to be acknowledged....space to be..

6:36 PM

Need to go get the laminator...

concept of bird....

deadened to the aliveness that is a bird...
lost in world of conceptualization.

This is called an Oak Tree.
The word is not the thing.
Don't say, it is an Oak Tree.
Loses its essence,
its aliveness,
when....
See the sunshine....
to continuously experience the reality of the tree....

P. 34 Content and structure

egoic mind conditioned by the mind
content and structure.

designer labels..

O: who got to wear what at the Oscars.
What do you have.
Is it exclusive.

Identify enhancers....

obsession....
going from image of herself as
she looked in her youth, to
being now.

identify with what is most obvious....

you realize the body does get old.

O: Pretty women, hard time, I thought.

E: see if you can bring a deeper dimention
into your life.

Caller: obsession having difficulty transitioning
from image of appearance in youth with ...

acceptance....is called for.
see is as a personal problem...

It is the destiny of every person to grow old
and experience the decline of the physical form.
I suggest, practice acceptance.
Destiny of Humanity.

with acceptance comes spaciousness.

comes peace around the condition.

O: rather than saying, I hate my wrinkles.

E: The destiny, all life forms go through that process.

identified with the external body.

Take attention to inner aliveness.
That does not grow old.

instead of external appearance.

Sensing the inner body.

O: The Lost Ring, P. 38,

E: Do you feel deminished in your sense of self.

had nothing to do with the ring.

O: As her body began to fade, inner light more luminous.

E: I knew some who lived in state of acceptance.
something deeper than the form, when they were about to die.

At Borders in Chicago: Study group.
Depression question

E: tendency to identify with the depression.
I dentify with my whole story.
If identified with my sad story.

E: I was depressed.
one night, I woke up,
this unhappy self is not who I am.
I described this as the self I can no longer live with.

O Friend will say....
become aware of one's thought process....

Tell what you have been doing...
observe your own thoughts...
thoughts are only thoughts
they are not who you are.

{wow, I am typing, and watching another screen
at the same time! This is amazing technology.}

O: just ask are you ready to awaken.
You can't bring others along.

You bring them along, by embody a different
state of consciousness.
Stay as a state of conscious spaciousness.

E: Alert presence, I found myself.
listening to her.

She said, This isn't important is it?
What did you do to me, she asked.

I did nothing. I was just present with her.
I did not feed her though processes.

Cathy from China: This is huge.
This one conversation around the world.

I lost thirty pounds.
it was spiritual work.
not just what I ate and exercise.
They look as if I am mentally ill.

O: Allow to be fed by the energy
within. What feeding yourself.
Aware, in touch with your body.

Not about the diet...about being aware...

Most of world focused on what you eat.

One little glitch here...

seeks substitute for the sense of aliveness.

O: unchecked striving for more...
P. 37

destroying the oerganism by going for too much.

Joyce from Minnesota:

Goes shopping...

Who you are not...

When you can no longer feel the life you are,
you are likely to feel your life with things.

Gotten better since reading this book.

Looking for identify in things.

Joyce: Improved from book.

E: Now this will transmit to your son.
Importance to acquiring things has diminished,

O: you were a shopaholic....

Point out things that are of intrinsic value.

as in nature....acquisition instinct.
don't pick the flower.
activities that involve nature.
greater things than what you buy in the shopping mall.

E" honor things, but not look to them to five us identity.

Can enjoy it, but not need to buy it.

It;s beautiful. Leave it in the window.
Same as flower. Enjoy it.

E: use to window shop.

Person from India:

When we try to accept our bad habits, for good...

bring awareness to old conditioned thinking.
Old conditions forms of thinking.
drop away.

Not me...

awareness...comes...
eases compulsion.

42 illusion of ownership.

Poor in spirit...
no inner baggage...
poor in spirit defined...

E: saw to do with not carrying stuff inside.

saw in new Testament,
it made sense...

Renunciation of possessions,
will not necessarily free you of the ego.

Image of self as a spiritual person.

O: from book,
anytime you feel superior or inferior,
it is your ego.

better looking?
more wealthy?
position itself...
sense of
both ego...

people live lives in debt...

wanting keeps the ego...

Structures of the ego:
It is never satisfied.

never satisfies you.

nothing satisfies the ego for long.
continues to look for more.

ego's need for future...
looking for more in the future moment.
seeks to complete itself...

O: How to be satisfied with what we have
and who we are?

E: illusion of seeking fulfillment in the future.

Not satisfied for long.

Realize the thing of prime importance,
is what was overlooked,
the present moment.
The easiest exist point....

ego can't survive...
in present...
identifies with past...
looks to future. to complete itself.

O: Past memories that are pleasant?

There is only the now.
when you remember it,
that is the now.

There is no life apart from now.

The ego overlooks the now.

Ego gives more importance to past or future.
IF we can learn, recondition to be here now.
we can be more alive to do whatever it is,
when future here, only now.

Now is the foundation for the rest of your life.

Madilynn for Penn, she is 13:

Intense wanting

E: You are more advanced than I was at 13.

Yes, you are already awakening.
otherwise, the book would be completely meaningless.

I don;t believe you will be trapped in ego.

P. 47...no intense wanting...

ego of teens is in process of becoming.

E: do you understand the book.

M: Yes, I am understanding the book.

She was getting it at 13.

From Japan, email:

How does one move beyond the ego?

E: become aware of the ego.

O: road racing jerK????
in the moment.

E: if dimension of awareness is present...

give more attention to this moment...
make this the most important...
all fine...to plan how to get there.
be open to what arises in the present moment.

Make friends with the present moment.

Ego uses the present moment, to get to the next moment.

The ego dislikes the present moment.

IF you make the present moment the primary focus,
ego will diminish.

O: so you have to be present?

E: present moment your enemy? Ego is in charge.
Don't want to be here.

Striving away from now.

O: Now I am just here being with myself.
she had an experience.

E: inhabit this moment.
feel this energy.
feel alive.

Michelle from Phil:

confused.
IF someone takes your shirt, give them your coat.
take advantage of....???? where is the line.

E: more power in letting go than
hanging on.
empowered when let go.

does not mean people walk all over you.

even no...can be of two kinds...

No...can be clear...and straight forward and positive...

No, a high quality no...
such as a drunk...not giving them a ride home.

O: saying surrender what needs to be surrendered.
Does not mean being walked over.

the truth of who you are in any given moment...

O: The peace that passes all understanding.

don;t argue with what is.
even if you don't want it.
accept it.

Accept where I am...
but not arises out of negativity.

accept the isness of the present moment.

action empowered by life itself.

when in negativity...

non resistance....

I accept it...
then accept what is...

this is the peace..that passes...
live in alighment with the present moment.

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chapter three homework.
the core of ego...














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