Lost coin notes from August 19, 2008

This is not a Psychotherapy group Daniel suggests that it is not a good idea to leave the group temporally and come back since it affects the group and our individual progress. The things that he objects are the most self defeating for us.

Many civilizations? knowledge gets lost because a stronger culture wiped the up through war and their treasures are lost.  Tibet is an example of this in our present world.

Gurdjieff   in one of his books talks about a being that encounters the legalism ? Jules of knowledge left from a destroyed culture.  In order to appreciate the gifts from other civilization the new culture needs to be ready to receive them.

The gospel from some religions talks about love, hope and faith as transformational words. People do not hear this message because they are mechanical. Unfortunately, the message is not specific enough about the ?how to? of this message and it gets lost.  If people receiving the message were conscious they could benefit from it.

An attempt to explain the content of the faith, hope and love as transformational tools, here are some thoughts:

Have faith in that you can wake up and live in a conscious way. Accept a few sound principles; embrace them with all your heart and you?ll be a different person. 

Love of consciousness evokes the same response unless is done with self-serving purposes.  In a relationship if a desire to support grow of consciousness is present it will evoke the same from the other person.  

Love of body is physical attraction and it depends on body types and biochemistry, people respond to body size, height, etc.

Hope of consciousness is like being a warrior, not a victim as if one is just passing through. 

Hope of feeling is slavery; always trying to feel something different makes us slaves.

When one sees the ?One mind? whether is in the Christian tradition or as a Buddha is really the same thing but each person will describe it with different words and apply it within their frame of reference. This knowing does not create conflict because it is not in the realm of thoughts. If you can suspend thought long enough you can get it in your own way.

Is like in the game of chess, nobody really beats you, you are the only one that defeats yourself. The first thing that will stop you is lack of faith (unconsciousness) or thinking that other things are more important and more worthy of love than consciousness.

Following the assignment from last week we shared observations based the question

?Where do I put my attention in a habitual way?

Attention is your ?coin?. The only coin you have. Attention is the more pure form of love. 

When one focuses on being included it can turn into a level of defensiveness. The way to break this is to be inclusive on-self. 

Notice cause and effect, wherever you put your attention you?ll create it in your life.

This week: see yourself more clearly, notice where your attention goes. Keep it simple and basic, sex, food, fears, etc. Do not think too much about it just notice it. ?The practice starts where the concept stops.? Life tries constantly to ground us, we are meant to fly. Have a good week.
