What you leave behind is more valuable to a retreat than what you bring. It is in the absence of distraction that we can simply be with what is—and discover how much we are fighting it.
It is essential to clarify your understanding. Otherwise it becomes a systematic copying of routine and ritual whenever you enter any intentional community or Course group. You may unintentionally take on a culture not just a pathway. This can be as confusing as it is beneficial if with our "beginners mind" if we are not watching intimately and authentically how we feel by staying closely connected with our internal Teacher. Awareness of the Self can then be restored to this "open and unsealed mind.
The path designed to first get youin touch with the Voice of the Internal Teacher and secondly to invite a voluntarily embrace of the lesson allowing you to begin to question your known world in a safe and relaxed, yet intimate way. By doing this the Spirit works subliminally with the mind.
The invitation is more a slow unwinding from deeply held defense based opinions into a soft open recognition that only the Truth is true. Acceptance of the Atonement is the focus of the curriculum of the Course. This is the understanding that everything has already been Forgiven and that the world we look upon is a illusion. Awareness is restored as it appeared to be los in an instant. So you can't mess it up!
Comments