Tag Archive: the Work


Lord Pentland

Lord Pentland: But I don’t think that what is beyond self-observation ─ self-development ― is to mentally know what my weaknesses are, what my type is, and to be able to remember that and correct it. So what is beyond self-observation? You want to say? What is self-development?

Questioner: Transformation?

Lord Pentland: Yes. What is transformation? The work begins with self-observation. So what goes beyond self-observation? What practice?

Questioner: The power to see, to be separate from the observer, to lose the observer.

Lord Pentland: Yes. It’s true. It’s right. But you could put it very simply. What goes beyond self-observation is more self-observation. Being able to observe myself all the time instead of just at moments, which is seeing. Self-observation itself is a meeting point of the levels, the part that sees and the part that is seen. You understand me? And what goes beyond self-observation is to be responsible for self-observation, to be able to self-observe myself all the time, not just sometime.

Yoda, Nakoma, Thunder

ASLEEP AGAIN

Immediately upon getting off the cushion I fell asleep; but I only discovered this when I returned to the cushion. In between  I opened my eyes to see my cat Yoda out by the horses, Nakoma and Thunder. I called him away from them and returned to the cushion.

In sleep, “a dark and distant place in the universe” I had little possibility of being aware of the sensation of higher worlds. I was blind, deaf, was not conscious of smell, or physical movement. These happened but only for the body, not for Me.

In a state of sleep one does not know one is asleep. To understand this is to understand why wars are fought. To understand this is to see the world change. Fighting against wars or people is ineffective. We need to fight sleep. Neither war or people are the enemy. Sleep is the enemy of those who wish to awaken. But awakening means to come out of sleep  into awareness of myself, my functions and of Life around me and of which I am only a part.

In Sleep I cannot know The Source-The Absolute-God-The Creator-The Uni-Being. To know this I must not sleep.

Two Rivers

Two Rivers

The first glimpses, in me, of the two streams (rivers) is disturbing. The first flowing; filled with all sorts of debris, rocks, ice, water. In the second, one can breathe. The waters are calm and supportive.

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