Hello teacher,
this is cool, you are also a classmate now ! Is that right ? Welcome ! This is a new experience. Let us have fun.
Love
Monika
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Breaking the silence of isolation
Dearest Students, there are times (as some of you have noticed) that I write privately to you. Some of you have expressed surprise and gratitude that I would take the time to do this. I cannot do it all the time, given the number of students in the School (outside of the Open Classroom).
The Open Classroom is where I answer most questions and keep in contact with you. It is also where you keep in contact with me (as well as each other). It is unlikely you will receive a private communication from me unless you post and comment here. Even if you have not received any private communication from me, I read everything you write here and this helps me to connect with you at deeply intuitive levels. Which means that when I feel called to do so, I can reach out to you both privately and here. I would prefer to have all of our communication be open to everyone, as there is truly nothing to hide, no story that is unique. However I understand and respect privacy.
One of the insidious forms the ego takes is ISOLATION. The ego thrives in isolation. In future lessons, I will reveal more of the many cunning tricks the ego uses to stay in control. One purpose of The Open Classroom is to help you come out of isolation - to recognize that your story is not so terrible that it must be hidden - that you must be hidden.
Here you have the possibility to speak your truth, even if your truth is false (the ego is always false). You have the possibility to come out of isolation. When you tell your simple human stories here, you give others the chance to relate to them, to understand that there is really only one story, told over and over again, in different ways.
In isolation, the ego thrives because it can hold onto its (false) story that it is special.
Remember that the primary function of the School is to bring into awareness that which was previously hidden from view. You are traveling a road from the darkness (of ego, ignorance, unawareness) to the light of Consciousness and Truth. This requires shining the bright light of awareness into every crack and crevice where the ego hides.
The Open Classroom is where I answer most questions and keep in contact with you. It is also where you keep in contact with me (as well as each other). It is unlikely you will receive a private communication from me unless you post and comment here. Even if you have not received any private communication from me, I read everything you write here and this helps me to connect with you at deeply intuitive levels. Which means that when I feel called to do so, I can reach out to you both privately and here. I would prefer to have all of our communication be open to everyone, as there is truly nothing to hide, no story that is unique. However I understand and respect privacy.
One of the insidious forms the ego takes is ISOLATION. The ego thrives in isolation. In future lessons, I will reveal more of the many cunning tricks the ego uses to stay in control. One purpose of The Open Classroom is to help you come out of isolation - to recognize that your story is not so terrible that it must be hidden - that you must be hidden.
Here you have the possibility to speak your truth, even if your truth is false (the ego is always false). You have the possibility to come out of isolation. When you tell your simple human stories here, you give others the chance to relate to them, to understand that there is really only one story, told over and over again, in different ways.
In isolation, the ego thrives because it can hold onto its (false) story that it is special.
Remember that the primary function of the School is to bring into awareness that which was previously hidden from view. You are traveling a road from the darkness (of ego, ignorance, unawareness) to the light of Consciousness and Truth. This requires shining the bright light of awareness into every crack and crevice where the ego hides.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
On Being Powerless
Dearest Students, You might like to consider (for those of you who like extra homework) the following: What in my life (that is causing me pain) am I powerless over?
Begin a list (in your special School notebook which I do hope you have by now!) of the things you are powerless over. Each time something that you are powerless over brings you pain or unhappiness add it to your list.
When you do this, you are telling yourself the Truth about what you are powerless over. This helps to over-ride the unconscious lies we constantly tell ourselves (that we have power where we have none). And it helps you direct your energy toward what you do have the power to change (more about this in future lessons).
For all Classes: Your next Lessons are coming soon, so please make sure you have completed your previous homework and read your lessons.
Begin a list (in your special School notebook which I do hope you have by now!) of the things you are powerless over. Each time something that you are powerless over brings you pain or unhappiness add it to your list.
When you do this, you are telling yourself the Truth about what you are powerless over. This helps to over-ride the unconscious lies we constantly tell ourselves (that we have power where we have none). And it helps you direct your energy toward what you do have the power to change (more about this in future lessons).
For all Classes: Your next Lessons are coming soon, so please make sure you have completed your previous homework and read your lessons.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
returning to peace
I was recently asked to contribute some of my writing to a website called, think peace, by Leza Labrador, and you can find it here: http://thinkpeace.wordpress.com/ I included a passage Returning to Peace from my forthcoming book, The Clear and Simple Way.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Everyday Life
Dear Students, Many of you write to me (privately) of your problems in every day life. Some of these seem so overwhelming that you do not know how to solve them. THIS IS THE POINT! YOU do NOT know how to solve them. And yet you continue to try, using the same techniques which have failed you in the past, or maybe seemed to work for awhile, but will not work with your new situation.
As I write in Lesson Five (which some of you have not yet received) Einstein said that no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
This means that we must rise above our old level of thinking. When we rise as high as we can in our thinking and the problem persists...the next logical and healthy step is to admit our own powerlessness over the situation. Admitting that you are powerless does not mean that you must feel helpless. You are not helpless (without help) just powerless to affect the change you want. Being powerless does not mean you should stop, stagnate, give up, take no action. It just means that perhaps you should be willing to stop reacting from unhealthy patterns of thinking.
Perhaps Gandhi could have decided he was helpless and given up when he failed to affect immediate change in his world. Perhaps Mother Teresa could have looked at the starving faces in India and decided she was helpless and given up too! I am sure that these people also went through tremendous soul-searching, even their own doubt and fear...and they continued along the path of their dharma (duty) to fulfill their highest destiny.
When you "show up" and take the small steps in front of you; when you let go of trying to control the outcome; when you acknowledge the limitations of your thinking, then you are ready to turn to a higher source. If you do not have much practice turning to this Source - you may at first feel only a trickle of love, compassion, and wisdom emanating from this Source - you may feel only the doubt and fear of your own limited thinking - and decide that the doubt and fear is proof that nothing higher exists.
This is why the School offers small steps. Small homework. Let yourself be in kindergarten. Remember how much fun it was to just play, how excited you were to learn new things? Tell yourself that you do not have to be a big stuffy grown-up today. You can play and be light in your School. You will probably have a hard time believing this, but say it to yourself anyway. Even if people around you are being uptight and stuffy, you do not have to follow suit!
I know that when many of you look around life, it does not look so pleasant. I know that you see the mirror of your own fearful thinking. I know that some of you are experiencing some pleasant times right now. And I know that for many of you, if those pleasant times should leave you, you would fall into despair - unless you are firmly rooted in a higher consciousness. If our inner contentment is based upon anything that is impermanent, it is a false idea of happiness - because true happiness is free and independent of anything at all.
Exactly as you walk down a path, one step at a time, so must we walk through life. This may seem like a simplistic statement; I assure you it is not.
Most of you have been walking your spiritual path for a long time - you have been in therapy, workshops, read books, been educated in many ways. Many of you are teachers, business owners, parents, healers, and therapists in your own right. There are no "slouches" in the School. You could not be here if you were.
And now, even with all your accomplishments, I ask you to make yourself a beginner. I ask you to examine your belief systems. I ask you to be WILLING to throw away everything that is not YOU. And I tell you that simply reading your lessons, even a little, month by month, and applying yourself to your homework, even a little, will make a difference in your life.
The same consciousness that created the problem cannot solve it. When you gently and CONSISTENTLY apply yourself to the School over a period of time, your consciousness is gently and consistently transformed. The School is called a School because it is on-going; it is here to guide and assist you on your path. You, yourself, must show up and do the work.
Can you feel the love in these words? Can you feel compassion reaching out to you? You are not alone, even when it seems like it.
As I write in Lesson Five (which some of you have not yet received) Einstein said that no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
This means that we must rise above our old level of thinking. When we rise as high as we can in our thinking and the problem persists...the next logical and healthy step is to admit our own powerlessness over the situation. Admitting that you are powerless does not mean that you must feel helpless. You are not helpless (without help) just powerless to affect the change you want. Being powerless does not mean you should stop, stagnate, give up, take no action. It just means that perhaps you should be willing to stop reacting from unhealthy patterns of thinking.
Perhaps Gandhi could have decided he was helpless and given up when he failed to affect immediate change in his world. Perhaps Mother Teresa could have looked at the starving faces in India and decided she was helpless and given up too! I am sure that these people also went through tremendous soul-searching, even their own doubt and fear...and they continued along the path of their dharma (duty) to fulfill their highest destiny.
When you "show up" and take the small steps in front of you; when you let go of trying to control the outcome; when you acknowledge the limitations of your thinking, then you are ready to turn to a higher source. If you do not have much practice turning to this Source - you may at first feel only a trickle of love, compassion, and wisdom emanating from this Source - you may feel only the doubt and fear of your own limited thinking - and decide that the doubt and fear is proof that nothing higher exists.
This is why the School offers small steps. Small homework. Let yourself be in kindergarten. Remember how much fun it was to just play, how excited you were to learn new things? Tell yourself that you do not have to be a big stuffy grown-up today. You can play and be light in your School. You will probably have a hard time believing this, but say it to yourself anyway. Even if people around you are being uptight and stuffy, you do not have to follow suit!
I know that when many of you look around life, it does not look so pleasant. I know that you see the mirror of your own fearful thinking. I know that some of you are experiencing some pleasant times right now. And I know that for many of you, if those pleasant times should leave you, you would fall into despair - unless you are firmly rooted in a higher consciousness. If our inner contentment is based upon anything that is impermanent, it is a false idea of happiness - because true happiness is free and independent of anything at all.
Exactly as you walk down a path, one step at a time, so must we walk through life. This may seem like a simplistic statement; I assure you it is not.
Most of you have been walking your spiritual path for a long time - you have been in therapy, workshops, read books, been educated in many ways. Many of you are teachers, business owners, parents, healers, and therapists in your own right. There are no "slouches" in the School. You could not be here if you were.
And now, even with all your accomplishments, I ask you to make yourself a beginner. I ask you to examine your belief systems. I ask you to be WILLING to throw away everything that is not YOU. And I tell you that simply reading your lessons, even a little, month by month, and applying yourself to your homework, even a little, will make a difference in your life.
The same consciousness that created the problem cannot solve it. When you gently and CONSISTENTLY apply yourself to the School over a period of time, your consciousness is gently and consistently transformed. The School is called a School because it is on-going; it is here to guide and assist you on your path. You, yourself, must show up and do the work.
Can you feel the love in these words? Can you feel compassion reaching out to you? You are not alone, even when it seems like it.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Being True to Self
Hi Everyone,
Hope this goes thru to you, guys. I sent a post on 3/19....went somewhere in cyberspace!
It's 12 noon in California....gorgeous sunny day. Watching my animals sitting peacefully in the yard. It's so simple for them....they're are content with just being. Loving, trusting....living in the moment. I do envy them.
I can chose to have a good day or not. It is a conscious decision. When I take "everything" personally, don't know how to separate my truth from others, I always get the same results. Self-loathing....it's old....doubt, resentment, then I blame everyone...think everyone has wronged me. .....can I just let people be who they are? Being aware helps...the behavior is familiar and habitual...know the answers are within. So glad to be part of this class and would like to hear if others identify.
Hope this goes thru to you, guys. I sent a post on 3/19....went somewhere in cyberspace!
It's 12 noon in California....gorgeous sunny day. Watching my animals sitting peacefully in the yard. It's so simple for them....they're are content with just being. Loving, trusting....living in the moment. I do envy them.
I can chose to have a good day or not. It is a conscious decision. When I take "everything" personally, don't know how to separate my truth from others, I always get the same results. Self-loathing....it's old....doubt, resentment, then I blame everyone...think everyone has wronged me. .....can I just let people be who they are? Being aware helps...the behavior is familiar and habitual...know the answers are within. So glad to be part of this class and would like to hear if others identify.
Monday, March 16, 2009
New adventure!
I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to all of you.
Seems that the questions I ask myself usually have the same answers even before I ask...self doubt...negative feelings. It's never productive....and exhausting. I'm addicted to that way of thinking..... Looking forward to a shift. Yesterday I was at a meeting where someone wise said....you have to have a breakdown to breakthrough. Will stay in touch. Indira is a joy and am happy to be one of her students in this journey.
Seems that the questions I ask myself usually have the same answers even before I ask...self doubt...negative feelings. It's never productive....and exhausting. I'm addicted to that way of thinking..... Looking forward to a shift. Yesterday I was at a meeting where someone wise said....you have to have a breakdown to breakthrough. Will stay in touch. Indira is a joy and am happy to be one of her students in this journey.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hello dear Annie,
I wanted to answer you under comments. Somehow this did not work, so I put a new post.
The first time I saw your picture in the open classroom I thought: 'I want to get to know this woman. She looks very interesting to me. Very soft. I want to know more about her.' And I did not know how to find a way to contact. So I am glad you did this step. I would like to know (and I do not mean you have to answer): What is your daily life. Do you have family. Are you living in town. Do you have a garden....... My imagination says you must have had until now very rich, profound, deep life experiences I can also learn from. What do you have in mind when you speak of a study group ? When I know more about, may be I want to join.
Something in my heart is full of joy to start a communication with you.
Love
Monika
wanting to connect
this is my second try at sending this. i accidently errased the first one. I go through life feeling like I cannot conect with people and I am having this same experience here. I have not been in the open classroom recently and I think it is because I feel left out when I see other people connecting and i am scared of not being accepted. It is very difficult for me to admit this because generally I do a really good job at hiding this trait of mine, but I am tired of keeping up this pretence. Would someone or someones like to join a study group with me? love and light Annie
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Dear classmates, teacher and Angels,
great, that you are all here. I like, that some of you have posted a picture of yourself. This gives me some idea of you. And I like, that some of you have written comments. As we are in some way on the same path I am interested about your thoughts, emotions, experiences.... according to the lessons, the school. Also I am interested about other parts of your lifes. And I confess, I do not know exactly how to comunicate all this. This way, with the open classroom and communicating through a computer with people that I do not know is pretty new for me.
Ina, I like your question about truth and thank the angels for the answer. The sentence "Do you realize that you have been giving mere questions power over you ?" did something with me. It brought me to an emotional confusion and I do not have a name for it. But then the emotions calmed down and as a result I felt very quiet and strong inside.
A similar reaction I had with the homework of lesson 3, writing down and reading the sentence brought up strange and uncomfortable emotions that I just observed. But then came a stream of power that drove me to do a lot of work very easy and efficient. mmmh ?
So, I am glad and at the same time a little fragile to share this with you.
Love
Monika
Monday, February 23, 2009
What Is Truth
Dearest Students, I would like to address a question from Ina, (who has not yet made her way into the Open Classroom). Ina says, “I’m so sorry but I have a really stupid question regarding Lesson 2. It says to focus on the truth, but I guess I’m missing it -what exactly is this truth that is being referred to? Thanks for your patience with me…”
First of all, no apologies necessary, and this is not a stupid question. I am very happy to see you asking an intelligent question, a question of the heart, a question that can actually lead you somewhere.
Lesson 2 actually says: “Maya means that we see the world, including ourselves, through a veil of illusion and believe that what we see is real. We allow our limited mind to define the world for us. The mind gladly takes over this job. The mind likes to stay busy. And so the angels suggest that you keep the mind busy with truth. Read these words and allow their deeper meanings to penetrate your consciousness. Print them out. Carry them with you. When you become aware that you are in pain, read some sentences from your lessons and allow the words to create new syntaxes – new pathways – in your brain. Dedicate yourself to letting go of everything that does not serve you in a positive way. Let your truest commitment be to knowing Truth in your life.”
Although most lessons begin with “answers” - our first Lesson begins with asking you to be aware of the questions you ask.
I am happy to see that Ina’s awareness has taken her to a true, deep question! THIS question has merit! THIS question can lead you higher! THIS question is the question of a heart waking up!
The paragraph I included above from Lesson 2 contains the answer to your question, dear Ina. However, the mind needs to keep hearing the same thing in different ways, because the mind is so accustomed to trusting its own untrue patterns.
Here is a little story to illustrate this point:
A man was brought to a psychiatrist by his wife. “He is convinced he is dead,” his wife told the psychiatrist. "All day he walks around saying, ‘I am dead.’”
The psychiatrist tried all his techniques, but could not convince the man that he was alive. Then he had an idea. He asked the man, “Do dead men bleed?” And the man replied, “No! Dead men do not bleed!”
So the psychiatrist pricked the man’s finger with a needle, and the finger began to bleed. “There!” exclaimed the psychiatrist, triumphantly! “You are bleeding!”
The man looked at his finger in astonishment, and declared, “My Gosh! I was wrong! Dead men do bleed!”
This is how ingrained we are in old habits!
And so read and re-read your lessons. Apply yourself to your homework.
I do not say the path to Truth is easy – the angels promise a clear and simple way – they say nothing about easy.
TRUTH is your Real Nature!
The main purpose of your School is to scrape away the layers of previous conditioning–false beliefs–to reveal the true splendor of your Being– ike cleaning tarnish from silver–like pushing away clouds to reveal the sun– ike breaking a coconut to drink the sweet milk within.
The mind can never know Truth. The mind, as you know it, disappears in the Light of Truth. What do we mean when we say, “the mind as you know it”? –We mean the mind that is a conglomeration of thoughts, impressions, and beliefs. Looking for truth within the mind is like looking for a needle in a haystack, when the needle isn’t even there!
Simply continue to let your mind evolve into higher questions. Notice the old questions, such as, “Does he really love me?” “Will I get a promotion?” “Why is God punishing me?” “What do those people think of me?”
Notice your habitual questions! Be aware, awake, and alert in your own world! Carry a sword through the forest of your mind. Cut away, or at least ignore, limiting, flase thoughts that keep you spinning on the wheel of karma–that keep you in darkness– hat keep you in pain. Cease to give those old questions power over you!
Do you realize that you have been giving mere questions power over you?
Do you realize that you are addicted to hopeless, negative questions and the feelings (reactions) that come when you ask those questions? DO YOU REALIZE THIS? (Don’t worry Ina, I don’t mean just you. I mean all of us!)
You might ask, how can that be true? How can I be addicted to something that is harmful to me?
I will answer this with another question – How can someone be addicted to drugs, to alcohol, to nicotine when they are so harmful?
Before we can commit to giving up a bad habit, we must first become AWARE of the habit, ACCEPT that we have a problem, and be WILLING to give it up.
I used to work with alcohol and drug addiction and, in fact, was trained to do so in graduate school. Some of you may know that there is something called a “dry drunk.” This means an alcoholic who has stopped drinking, but continues all his old habits–goes to the bars every night, associates with all the same people. This person believes he is “cured” but in the end always goes back to drinking. This is because there has been no real inner transformation and all the same habits continue.
Your School gives you an opportunity to transform at deep inner levels. When you find your mind making its way along old familiar (and painful) pathways – do something new and different!
Read your lessons! Follow your homework! Become your own teacher!
You are not alone now! You have your School and your lessons. You are connected to other students who are focused on Truth. There is great energy when a number of people come together in the quest for Truth. You can learn from each other. You can learn the way the mind works. You become part of a greater mind – a greater quest. Is this not beautiful?
What is Truth, really, dear Students? Truth is a clear unbroken stream of Light that flows continuously to and through you – like a sparkling stream flowing effortlessly down a mountain – unimpeded, free, and peaceful. No obstacle can stop the water – not rocks, not storms, not darkness – just as nothing can stop Truth.
When you live in Truth, you live like the flowing stream – spontaneous, and free-flowing, not trying to impress anyone, not trying to control life, not trying to be something or someone – simply BEING – pure, radiant, and sparkling.
Then you are a truly nice human being. You are pleasant to be around. You are your own best friend. Your actions are not contracted, controlled, and guarded, but free, spontaneous, and open.
Truth feels good! It feels right! Truth is not a temporary high - a rush of excitement - a "fix" for the mind.
When you get lost in thoughts, in darkness, in questions that lead nowhere but to more darkness, you might like to imagine a sparkling stream of water flowing down a mountain, or a flower growing in a field, or a bird singing just because it can.
Nature gives us reflections of Divine Truth every day. Use everything that comes your way to take you closer to Truth.
Please keep in mind that words themselves are NOT Truth.
Words are simply guides to truth - sign posts along the way.
You can look at the word Russia on a map. You can point to it with your finger and see its exact latitude and longitude, and this does not give you the experience of being in Russia! You have to go to Russia to have the experience! You have to eat a mango to know what it tastes like.
A very good question, Ina! Please do your best to continue to allow your mind to evolve away from old, hurtful questions into these higher questions.
And remember that you do not have to know all the answers today.
You are on the PATH to Higher Consciousness. Surely you will arrive at Truth and when you do, the mind will no longer be there with its doubts and fears.
All love, Indira and the angels.
First of all, no apologies necessary, and this is not a stupid question. I am very happy to see you asking an intelligent question, a question of the heart, a question that can actually lead you somewhere.
Lesson 2 actually says: “Maya means that we see the world, including ourselves, through a veil of illusion and believe that what we see is real. We allow our limited mind to define the world for us. The mind gladly takes over this job. The mind likes to stay busy. And so the angels suggest that you keep the mind busy with truth. Read these words and allow their deeper meanings to penetrate your consciousness. Print them out. Carry them with you. When you become aware that you are in pain, read some sentences from your lessons and allow the words to create new syntaxes – new pathways – in your brain. Dedicate yourself to letting go of everything that does not serve you in a positive way. Let your truest commitment be to knowing Truth in your life.”
Although most lessons begin with “answers” - our first Lesson begins with asking you to be aware of the questions you ask.
I am happy to see that Ina’s awareness has taken her to a true, deep question! THIS question has merit! THIS question can lead you higher! THIS question is the question of a heart waking up!
The paragraph I included above from Lesson 2 contains the answer to your question, dear Ina. However, the mind needs to keep hearing the same thing in different ways, because the mind is so accustomed to trusting its own untrue patterns.
Here is a little story to illustrate this point:
A man was brought to a psychiatrist by his wife. “He is convinced he is dead,” his wife told the psychiatrist. "All day he walks around saying, ‘I am dead.’”
The psychiatrist tried all his techniques, but could not convince the man that he was alive. Then he had an idea. He asked the man, “Do dead men bleed?” And the man replied, “No! Dead men do not bleed!”
So the psychiatrist pricked the man’s finger with a needle, and the finger began to bleed. “There!” exclaimed the psychiatrist, triumphantly! “You are bleeding!”
The man looked at his finger in astonishment, and declared, “My Gosh! I was wrong! Dead men do bleed!”
This is how ingrained we are in old habits!
And so read and re-read your lessons. Apply yourself to your homework.
I do not say the path to Truth is easy – the angels promise a clear and simple way – they say nothing about easy.
TRUTH is your Real Nature!
The main purpose of your School is to scrape away the layers of previous conditioning–false beliefs–to reveal the true splendor of your Being– ike cleaning tarnish from silver–like pushing away clouds to reveal the sun– ike breaking a coconut to drink the sweet milk within.
The mind can never know Truth. The mind, as you know it, disappears in the Light of Truth. What do we mean when we say, “the mind as you know it”? –We mean the mind that is a conglomeration of thoughts, impressions, and beliefs. Looking for truth within the mind is like looking for a needle in a haystack, when the needle isn’t even there!
Simply continue to let your mind evolve into higher questions. Notice the old questions, such as, “Does he really love me?” “Will I get a promotion?” “Why is God punishing me?” “What do those people think of me?”
Notice your habitual questions! Be aware, awake, and alert in your own world! Carry a sword through the forest of your mind. Cut away, or at least ignore, limiting, flase thoughts that keep you spinning on the wheel of karma–that keep you in darkness– hat keep you in pain. Cease to give those old questions power over you!
Do you realize that you have been giving mere questions power over you?
Do you realize that you are addicted to hopeless, negative questions and the feelings (reactions) that come when you ask those questions? DO YOU REALIZE THIS? (Don’t worry Ina, I don’t mean just you. I mean all of us!)
You might ask, how can that be true? How can I be addicted to something that is harmful to me?
I will answer this with another question – How can someone be addicted to drugs, to alcohol, to nicotine when they are so harmful?
Before we can commit to giving up a bad habit, we must first become AWARE of the habit, ACCEPT that we have a problem, and be WILLING to give it up.
I used to work with alcohol and drug addiction and, in fact, was trained to do so in graduate school. Some of you may know that there is something called a “dry drunk.” This means an alcoholic who has stopped drinking, but continues all his old habits–goes to the bars every night, associates with all the same people. This person believes he is “cured” but in the end always goes back to drinking. This is because there has been no real inner transformation and all the same habits continue.
Your School gives you an opportunity to transform at deep inner levels. When you find your mind making its way along old familiar (and painful) pathways – do something new and different!
Read your lessons! Follow your homework! Become your own teacher!
You are not alone now! You have your School and your lessons. You are connected to other students who are focused on Truth. There is great energy when a number of people come together in the quest for Truth. You can learn from each other. You can learn the way the mind works. You become part of a greater mind – a greater quest. Is this not beautiful?
What is Truth, really, dear Students? Truth is a clear unbroken stream of Light that flows continuously to and through you – like a sparkling stream flowing effortlessly down a mountain – unimpeded, free, and peaceful. No obstacle can stop the water – not rocks, not storms, not darkness – just as nothing can stop Truth.
When you live in Truth, you live like the flowing stream – spontaneous, and free-flowing, not trying to impress anyone, not trying to control life, not trying to be something or someone – simply BEING – pure, radiant, and sparkling.
Then you are a truly nice human being. You are pleasant to be around. You are your own best friend. Your actions are not contracted, controlled, and guarded, but free, spontaneous, and open.
Truth feels good! It feels right! Truth is not a temporary high - a rush of excitement - a "fix" for the mind.
When you get lost in thoughts, in darkness, in questions that lead nowhere but to more darkness, you might like to imagine a sparkling stream of water flowing down a mountain, or a flower growing in a field, or a bird singing just because it can.
Nature gives us reflections of Divine Truth every day. Use everything that comes your way to take you closer to Truth.
Please keep in mind that words themselves are NOT Truth.
Words are simply guides to truth - sign posts along the way.
You can look at the word Russia on a map. You can point to it with your finger and see its exact latitude and longitude, and this does not give you the experience of being in Russia! You have to go to Russia to have the experience! You have to eat a mango to know what it tastes like.
A very good question, Ina! Please do your best to continue to allow your mind to evolve away from old, hurtful questions into these higher questions.
And remember that you do not have to know all the answers today.
You are on the PATH to Higher Consciousness. Surely you will arrive at Truth and when you do, the mind will no longer be there with its doubts and fears.
All love, Indira and the angels.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Good morning dear classmates, dear Judy and dear angels,
I made an interesting experience last night. In the evening I read again the second lesson and I had a problem with homework one. Not about asking an ego question, but to feel the answer.
In the night I had a dream, in the dream I hit my children very hard, like a fury and then I felt so guilty that I couldn't see a perspective to live.
When I woke up, I felt such a pain, I cried and I thought that I have no permission to exist. Something deep in me tells me that and I think that happens more often than I recognize it.
I still feel this emotion, but now, being awake, I feel also something peaceful in my heart.
I am.
Maybe there are some parts of me I don't know about, but all in all, I am.
And when I say that loud I feel being invited to live and to make all my experiences like all of you.
And I thank you again of being part of the school,
love, Antje
I made an interesting experience last night. In the evening I read again the second lesson and I had a problem with homework one. Not about asking an ego question, but to feel the answer.
In the night I had a dream, in the dream I hit my children very hard, like a fury and then I felt so guilty that I couldn't see a perspective to live.
When I woke up, I felt such a pain, I cried and I thought that I have no permission to exist. Something deep in me tells me that and I think that happens more often than I recognize it.
I still feel this emotion, but now, being awake, I feel also something peaceful in my heart.
I am.
Maybe there are some parts of me I don't know about, but all in all, I am.
And when I say that loud I feel being invited to live and to make all my experiences like all of you.
And I thank you again of being part of the school,
love, Antje
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Hello to all of you,
now four days later I found this window where I could find what you wrote and where I also can write a comment....
thank you for being part of you all...
dear Judy, now I know that you received my mail, I think everything will work now, step by step...
in the night, after thinking about the first lesson, I could sleep very, very, very well, thank you!
Thanks Monika for telling me from the school!
And hi Christel!!
Now I try a third time to send my words and I wish you all a wonderful day,
love to all human beings and angels... Antje from Mainz, Germany
now four days later I found this window where I could find what you wrote and where I also can write a comment....
thank you for being part of you all...
dear Judy, now I know that you received my mail, I think everything will work now, step by step...
in the night, after thinking about the first lesson, I could sleep very, very, very well, thank you!
Thanks Monika for telling me from the school!
And hi Christel!!
Now I try a third time to send my words and I wish you all a wonderful day,
love to all human beings and angels... Antje from Mainz, Germany
Monday, February 16, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Monika's Question
Monika, your last comment is about taking responsibility for what is not yours. It is about being afraid of not pleasing others. Please yourself! It is up to other people to please themselves. Only when you are pleased within yourself, pleasing God, feeling pleased - can you be truly pleasing to another person. As the angels always say:
The only thing you have to share with anyone is your own state of being.
The peace of your own being is a wonderful gift to share! When we live in peace, our very living is pleasing to God. This is true service!
Love and Light,
indira & the angels
The only thing you have to share with anyone is your own state of being.
The peace of your own being is a wonderful gift to share! When we live in peace, our very living is pleasing to God. This is true service!
Love and Light,
indira & the angels
Student Support
Dearest Students,
I read all of your questions, emails, and comments. I am happy to read the support and encouragement you are giving to each other, as well as about your own growth and understanding. You are already becoming a community of human beings intent upon letting go of what does not serve you. Isn't it comforting to know that you are not alone on your spiritual journey? God is with you. Angels are with you. Most importantly, you are with you!
The next lesson will arrive in a few days. Until then, continue to observe the questions that come to you. You do not necessarily have to find the answers to all of those questions today. The purpose of this exercise is not to find answers - but to find the questions hidden deep within you, and to identify the questions that spin constantly in your head. Asking the same helpless, hopeless questions over and over just keeps your mind spinning, with no end in sight!
Be still! Observe the questions themselves! Look at those questions intently. Ask yourself intelligent questions about the questions themselves!
Once again, I remind you to be patient, loving, and kind with yourself. Enjoy the journey. If you are having troubles, take a deep breath of fresh air! Bring yourself here! Now! Into the present moment! Tell any mean thoughts of fear, lack, loss, and limitation that they do NOT have permission to steal one moment of happiness from you. Do not let other people steal from you, either! Your next lesson will tell you more about this.
Love and Light,
Indira and the angels
I read all of your questions, emails, and comments. I am happy to read the support and encouragement you are giving to each other, as well as about your own growth and understanding. You are already becoming a community of human beings intent upon letting go of what does not serve you. Isn't it comforting to know that you are not alone on your spiritual journey? God is with you. Angels are with you. Most importantly, you are with you!
The next lesson will arrive in a few days. Until then, continue to observe the questions that come to you. You do not necessarily have to find the answers to all of those questions today. The purpose of this exercise is not to find answers - but to find the questions hidden deep within you, and to identify the questions that spin constantly in your head. Asking the same helpless, hopeless questions over and over just keeps your mind spinning, with no end in sight!
Be still! Observe the questions themselves! Look at those questions intently. Ask yourself intelligent questions about the questions themselves!
Once again, I remind you to be patient, loving, and kind with yourself. Enjoy the journey. If you are having troubles, take a deep breath of fresh air! Bring yourself here! Now! Into the present moment! Tell any mean thoughts of fear, lack, loss, and limitation that they do NOT have permission to steal one moment of happiness from you. Do not let other people steal from you, either! Your next lesson will tell you more about this.
Love and Light,
Indira and the angels
Gabi's Question about Ego
Dearest Students,
Gabi ask a question about the meaning of the word ego. I hope you have all carefully read the Introduction, (on my website under Online School) which is, in itself, a Lesson and part of The School of Being You!
The Introduction states:
Being You heals the dis-ease of ego that keeps us living in pain and separation. As the dis-ease of ego heals, you begin to live your True Magnificence!
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There are many ways to define ego.
Essentially, ego is that which keeps you living in pain and separation – from yourself and from God. You could also call the ego your false self.
There is no reason to try and get “rid” of the ego. You can’t anyway. This would just be the ego trying to get rid of itself, and the ego will not willingly take this route.
The ego is composed of who you think you are. Thoughts. Impressions. Beliefs. A body. A face. A feeling. All of these things are temporary. You – the you-ness of you – not the ego-ness of you – are Eternal!
For now, do not worry about what is selfish and what is not selfish. You have been trying to be unselfish for years, trying to take care of your husband. If the old way did not work, try a new way.
Here is what the angels have to say about pleasing others:
Angels are not trying to please anyone. Angels know their being is pleasing to God. This is all an angel needs to know. Angels are free and spontaneous because they do not have to decide if what they are going to do or say will please you.
Continue to read your lessons and apply yourself to your homework. All answers shall appear as you move closer to the Light. In fact, all answers already exist! But you are like someone in a dark room, trying to read the answers on the page. You cannot see the answers in the dark. As you move closer to the light, you see the answers are already there in front of you. So, continue on your path. All shall be revealed in the Light of Understanding.
Love and Light, Indira & the Angels
Gabi ask a question about the meaning of the word ego. I hope you have all carefully read the Introduction, (on my website under Online School) which is, in itself, a Lesson and part of The School of Being You!
The Introduction states:
Being You heals the dis-ease of ego that keeps us living in pain and separation. As the dis-ease of ego heals, you begin to live your True Magnificence!
..........................................................................................................................................
There are many ways to define ego.
Essentially, ego is that which keeps you living in pain and separation – from yourself and from God. You could also call the ego your false self.
There is no reason to try and get “rid” of the ego. You can’t anyway. This would just be the ego trying to get rid of itself, and the ego will not willingly take this route.
The ego is composed of who you think you are. Thoughts. Impressions. Beliefs. A body. A face. A feeling. All of these things are temporary. You – the you-ness of you – not the ego-ness of you – are Eternal!
For now, do not worry about what is selfish and what is not selfish. You have been trying to be unselfish for years, trying to take care of your husband. If the old way did not work, try a new way.
Here is what the angels have to say about pleasing others:
Angels are not trying to please anyone. Angels know their being is pleasing to God. This is all an angel needs to know. Angels are free and spontaneous because they do not have to decide if what they are going to do or say will please you.
Continue to read your lessons and apply yourself to your homework. All answers shall appear as you move closer to the Light. In fact, all answers already exist! But you are like someone in a dark room, trying to read the answers on the page. You cannot see the answers in the dark. As you move closer to the light, you see the answers are already there in front of you. So, continue on your path. All shall be revealed in the Light of Understanding.
Love and Light, Indira & the Angels
ego
Hi everybody,
I am happy to be part of this school to learn to be happy to be me. There is a lot that I have to learn. Reading our first lesson I got stuck with the word "ego". What does it mean? Is it a part of me? Is it only negative? I always undersood the word as I, myself and egoistic as selfish, putting myself first. If it is a part of me how can I / should I get rid of it?
For a long time I've put my husbands needs first and after some years this made me unhappy, angry and upset. Now I try to be more selfish, try to get him to do more for me and feel better for it. Am I getting mean? Is the ego taking over?
I am looking forward to some answers,
Many thanks, Gabi
with gratitude
dear Indira and classmates,
today I had a wonderful feeling and it is because of what you and the angels gave me a few days ago. There was some real tension in my family and when this happens I always go to fear and what will happen and what will be taken away from me. but this morning as I was going there I suddenly took a different path, the no one can take anything important away from me... me.! I have me and together we will make it. As I write this I am already scared it is not real and will not last. but I want to stand on my own two feet in all ways. So I ask for support in this because I have been too unsure to do this before. Johanna, I felt so much for you when I read your blog and wanted to tell you my heart is with you. Annie
today I had a wonderful feeling and it is because of what you and the angels gave me a few days ago. There was some real tension in my family and when this happens I always go to fear and what will happen and what will be taken away from me. but this morning as I was going there I suddenly took a different path, the no one can take anything important away from me... me.! I have me and together we will make it. As I write this I am already scared it is not real and will not last. but I want to stand on my own two feet in all ways. So I ask for support in this because I have been too unsure to do this before. Johanna, I felt so much for you when I read your blog and wanted to tell you my heart is with you. Annie
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