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Allen Watson
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Fri Jan 27 00:38:05 EST 2006
Dear David,
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On 1/26/06 10:52 AM, "DAVID MILLER" <soloton10 at email.uophx.edu> wrote:
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> Subject: [Acimwkbk_list] Lesson 27 - January 27
>
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>>
>>
>> Lesson 27 - January 27
>>
>> "Above all else I want to see."
>>
>> Practice Summary
>>
>> Purpose: to bring closer the day when you want vision more than everything
>> else.
>>
>> Exercise: at least every half hour (3 or 4 times an hour is suggested)
>> Simply repeat the idea. You can do this even in the middle of
>> conversation.
>> Don't worry if you don't fully mean the idea. Repeat it to bring closer
>> the
>> day when you will mean it. If repeating it arouses fear of having to give
>> up
>> something, add, "Vision has no cost to anyone," and, if still afraid, say,
>> "It can only bless."
>>
>> Remarks: This is a very important lesson, the second lesson in frequent
>> practice (the first was Lesson 20). It is clearly serious about this
>> frequency. At the beginning of the day you are supposed to set the
>> interval
>> you will use (e.g., every twenty minutes, every thirty minutes). If you
>> have
>> not done that yet, it would be good to do so now. Then, for the rest of
>> the
>> day, you are asked to do your best to stick to the frequency you yourself
>> chose. The Course realizes that, in all likelihood, you will not do this
>> perfectly. When you forget a practice period, do not get angry with
>> yourself. This eventually makes you feel like giving up (and is, in fact,
>> an
>> ego ploy to engineer just this outcome; see 95.7:3-5, 10:1-2). Just get
>> back
>> to your practicing as if nothing happened. What is important is not
>> lamenting past failures to practice, but doing the practice in the present
>> and future. The benefits of this can be enormous. Just one truly sincere
>> repetition can put you forward years in your development.
>>
>> COMMENTARY
>>
>> This is reminiscent of Lesson 20, "I am determined to see," to which a
>> subtle reference is made in the first line: "Today's idea expresses
>> something stronger than mere determination." It puts the desire to see
>> into
>> first place, "above all else." I want to see more than I want anything
>> else.
>> If we mean this, we will choose the path that leads to vision every time,
>> no
>> matter what other lesser goal might be tempting us.
>>
>> The lesson recognizes that the idea may not be wholly true for us yet.
>> Since
>> desire determines vision, if it were now wholly true you would <already>
>> see, and therefore would not need the lesson! So working with a lesson
>> like
>> this is not hypocritical; it is an exercise intended specifically for
>> people
>> for whom the idea is not yet wholly accepted, designed to move us closer
>> to
>> the day when it will be.
>>
>> The phrase "above all else" may tempt us to think we are being asked to
>> sacrifice. "Vision at any cost!" Therefore the lesson suggests that if we
>> feel uneasy about unreservedly committing ourselves to vision, we should
>> add
>> this thought: "Vision has no cost to anyone." If that isn't enough, add,
>> "It
>> can only bless." Put them all together: "Above all else I want to see, and
>> vision has no cost for anyone. I can only bless."
>>
>> This hints at an idea stated clearly many times in the Course: this path
>> does not believe in sacrifice. It says we are asked only to sacrifice
>> illusions, and that this is in reality only an illusion of sacrifice.
>> "Nothing real can be threatened."
>>
>> Still, the lesson is leading us towards this kind of single-minded,
>> unreserved determination to have true vision. We <do> need to be willing
>> to
>> put vision above anything that seems to compete with it. It may <seem> at
>> times that we are being asked to give things up, and we may actually have
>> to
>> give them up, but when we do, we will realize we have given up nothing we
>> truly wanted. The entire process is perfectly safe, and entails no real
>> loss
>> of any kind.
>>
>> The practice requirements suddenly leap into high gear in this lesson:
>> repeat the idea "at least every half hour." That's <at least.> "...and
>> more
>> if possible. You might try for every fifteen or twenty minutes." (Things
>> will ease up again tomorrow.) Specific structure, with a set time
>> schedule,
>> is recommended. All we are asked to do each of these times is to repeat
>> the
>> one sentence to ourselves, "Above all else I want to see." This is not a
>> big
>> deal. There isn't any reason we can't do it, even in the middle of a
>> conversation--if we want to, if we are willing.
>>
>> "The real question is, how often will you remember? How much do you want
>> today's idea to be true? Answer one of these questions and you have
>> answered
>> the other" (4:1-3). How often we remember will be the measure of how much
>> we
>> really want to see above all else. This will be a very revealing day!
>>
>> Notice carefully how we are supposed to deal with the fact that we
>> probably
>> will forget and come nowhere near the ideal of every fifteen minutes. It
>> says a lot about how the Workbook views this whole matter of "practice."
>> Basically it says, "Don't let your 'failure' bother you; just get back on
>> track immediately." All that it takes to save "many years of effort" (4:6)
>> is to, just once during the day, repeat the idea with perfect sincerity.
>> To
>> achieve that one time, many repetitions are needed. Simply do the best you
>> can--but let it be the <best> you can do.
>>
>>
>>
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