LESSON 107
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
Our errors will disappear where we welcome truth. We cannot believe the truth and believe the separation thought at the same time. For instance, I can believe in lack or in abundance, but not both, not together. And if I believe in lack sometimes, the belief in abundance will not be complete and so I will not have a full experience of abundance. There will always be an underlying anxiety that is the fear of returning lack.
Jesus asks us to imagine a state of mind without illusions. I’m trying. I will start with imagining a world where I felt pure love for everything and everyone. In this world, I would never feel confused and conflicted, never feel dissatisfaction. I would never feel the need to be right and victimization and unfairness would not even be words in my vocabulary.
Guilt and fear would be unheard of. I would walk the world without concern for my safety. All animals would eat from my hand, and sit quietly beside me in peace. I try to imagine what it would be like to exist without form, to exist not as human but as God, swimming blissfully in a vast ocean of God. I cannot.
I will stick with imagining the world without fear and guilt in any form. This is something that can be achieved even in our human form as truth corrects all errors in our mind. In paragraph 5, sentence 1 it says:
“When truth has come it harbors in its wings the gift of perfect constancy, and love which does not falter in the face of pain, but looks beyond it, steadily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the truth needs no defense, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond illusions, and can not be brought to them to turn them into truth.”
This reminds me of how it was last week with Someone I care about very much. I worried about his sobriety because of the extreme stress he is under. I brought my worry thoughts to the Holy Spirit to be corrected. I chose happiness instead of anxiety. My experience of the situation changed. I was able to be with him without being affected by his pain, neither the mental anguish or the physical pain he is in because he cannot afford the injection that would bring him relief. I do not bring the illusion of no job and physical pain to the truth to be transformed. Illusions cannot be made into truth. This is why I always pray for my thoughts to be corrected, not my body or my bank account or my relationship.
Today, we approach the truth with firm and steady feet, not from a perspective of a supplicant, but as the Son of God expecting what is ours in truth anyway. We are certain of success. We begin this practice by asking Him Who goes with us upon this undertaking. If I feel any uncertainty, this sentence will bring me back to reality. “You are not made of flesh and blood and bone, but were created by the self-same Thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well.” That certainly stiffens by backbone.
Regina’s Tips
Why has meditation become so important? When I meditate, it seems that nothing much is happening. Attention habitually goes into thought, and I gently pull it back to focus on awareness again. After a certain amount of time, attention rests more easily with awareness, but there is still some going out and pulling back that occurs. That’s it, nothing else for up to two hours. But there’s this intuitive feeling that I have. It’s a feeling that something much more powerful is occurring. Something that is subtle to the ego, which looks for progress and tries to measure it, but something very steady and very precise.
To put it in the language of today’s workbook lesson, truth is correcting all errors in my mind as I willingly pull attention out of thought and rest with awareness to the best of my ability. I feel my small, poorly skilled effort is allowing something remarkable to take place.
And that is what today’s lesson tells us.
“It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed. … Give truth its due, and it will give you yours.”
My Thoughts
This is why I keep practicing meditation even though my mind continues to suffer from lack of discipline, and even though I don’t want to keep up the practice. The ego doesn’t see enough verifiable proof of progress and so wants to stop. But I believe that something very important is happening just out of range of ego thinking. So, I think this will be a good time to use Adyashanti’s guided meditation, The Art of Listening.
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