Your Nov. 28th Message

Hello Indira, I hope you enjoy your trip to Austin! Your Nov. 28th message about the ego being drama and darkness... This message dawned a light of understanding about the ego, for me, that I have never had before. I have always struggled to understand even a glimpse of what the ego is. Thank you opening my eyes so I can begin to understand it, and be aware of it. This message was sooooo helpful to me! Love, Mary

Happy Thanksgiving

I just created a new Happy Thanksgiving sort-of-poem on my blog. I have created many poems there lately. I hope you enjoy the poem of your life today.

Today is my 16 th Reiki Master birthday. I am very gratefull for this path full of learning, growth and fullfillment in my life.
Monika

Welcome Mary Birdsong...

...to the Open Classroom. You can sit anywhere you like and be just who you are!

Response to Gabi and Jen

Hello Dear Students, I decided to create a new post here, rather than adding to the comments in the recent questions and posts. 

Gabi, I very much like Elisabeth's response to you and to Jen. Elisabeth (Sanatha) has often made herself vulnerable here in the classroom, talking about her own battle with depression (an inherited predisposition)...and her last comments here show that she is imbibing the teachings. I so admire each of you for reaching out, for making the inner commitment to break free. I admire your courage. It is not easy to make one’s self vulnerable….even here in the Classroom. It may seem easier to hide in the shadows….not to make ourselves too vulnerable to ridicule or pain. It seems safer, sometimes, in the shadows.

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: Welcome to YOUR classroom!

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: Welcome to YOUR classroom!

Hi everybody,

I just wanted to add a further question to the angel message from the 7th of November. What should I do if I can't or don't want to live up to somebody's demands or expectations. Should I just say sorry, that is your problem and not mine, or try to be nice and do what is expected of me even if it is against my own intrest or feelings?

With love,

Gabi

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: Welcome to YOUR classroom!

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: Welcome to YOUR classroom!

Hi Indira and classmates,

I just read the daily message from November 7th. I love it, but I have real problems with it. How can I stop expecting and demanding things from people I am close to? Can,t I expect help from my husband with house work and other things? Can't I expect colleagues to do their fair share of work...... ? It feels to me that when I stop demanding things I have to do everything myself which will be more peaceful but would not feel right either.

I would be very greatful for an answer.

With love, Gabi

NOVEMBER 2009 MESSAGE

I encourage you to read the monthly message on my website (here)...particularly because it compliments your lesson this month. This month each of you, even beginning students, have received the same lesson. Because receptivity and gratitude are important for every student, no matter how advanced you are (or think you are). This is is an important lesson for all of you to receive. So please do receive it and contemplate the quality of receptivity and gratitude this month. all love, your teacher

Welcome to Andi too!

Oh--I left out a Welcome to Andi. Sorry, Andi, I hardly noticed your shadow picture there among the followers. Good to see (sort of see) you there!

Welcome to new classmates!

Wanted to give a hearty welcome to Jen, who made a comment below, but doesn't have her name or picture over there as a follower yet. And hello to you silent students who sit in the back row and are too shy to introduce yourself (as Indira says in the Intro up above)....glad to be sharing the spiritual journey with all of you, seen or unseen. Thanks for being here! Kevin

Good Morning, Afternoon, or Evening, Wherever You Are...

where are you, by the way? I mean, are you here - present - awake - and aware? Are you showing up for your life and your spiritual work? Are you being lazy? Are you thinking that spiritual work should be easier?

Actually, spiritual work is much easier than the way most people live their ordinary lives - trapped in the mind which brings endless suffering. It is much easier to forge your way through the forest of ego than to sit in the middle crying because you are lost. It is much simpler to stand up and shout joyfully into the dark forest of ego, "I am lost!" Why is this joyful? Because you are telling the truth and your heart loves truth. You, the small you, the ego you, are lost. When you are tell yourself the truth, you can get on with forging your way joyfully through the dark forest of ego into the Light. So be here now. Show up for your lessons. Do not sleep your way through school.

Thursday Morning in Los Angeles

First, Happy Birthday, Dear Monika, to whom I have sent a birthday poem. Monika is my translator in Mainz and Maulburg, and a wonderful translator she is, as many of you who attended my talks and seminars can attest to.

The rain here has been replaced by blazing sunshine and temperatures are expected to reach 92 (that's around 34 celsius). Wherever you are, I wish you sunlight in your heart.

Back to the Classroom

Hello Dear Students,

I am back in L.A. in the rain. I was not able to visit the Classroom during my long tour in Europe, and am happy to see that some of you kept in communication here. I have sent a Happy Birthday Poem to Antje. You, too,may receive one when you write me to let me know your birthday is near.

Happy Birthday Antje! May your 44th year be one of joy, spiritual evolution, peace, and creativity.

I was happy to meet many of you in Europe, some for the first time. And some of you met each other for the first time, during seminars or talks.

Also, welcome to Andi, who has become a member of the Open Classroom. Andi is in the 4th Class. She has no picture of her own, so you can must imagine one there, where her name is.

Now I am recovering from jet lag, which means I am awake a lot in the night. And recovering from a cold, which many people had while I was in Germany, and which followed me here. But I have a candle burning, the rain falling, my dog and cat snuggled next to me, bright flowers in a vase, and love in my heart and soul.

I will be resuming the daily angel messages tomorrow.

Hello dear Antje,
yesterday was your birthday and I hope your new year started well in Portugal. I wish you a year full of good surprises, happyness, truth and sunshine in your heart.
And yes, my birthday is soon, the 16th of October. We can have a celebration together, when you come back.
All the best to you
your friend
Monika

Dear classmates,
now the new version...
and thank you Ruth for all your mails!
love, Antje

love
there is only love
nothing else exists
sometimes it seems different
but only when I'm not willing
to see, to feel the truth
so it is up to me
only to me
to open my heart
moment by moment
sometimes it seems to be difficult
but only when I'm not willing
to see, to feel the truth
because
nothing else exists
there is only love
love

Hello again...
this morning I woke up and there was a poem for all of you in my mind,
or better, in my heart...

love
there is only love
nothing else exists
sometimes it seems like that
but only when I'm not willing
to see, to feel the truth
so it is up to me
only to me
to open my heart
moment by moment
sometimes it seems to be difficult
but only when I'm not willing
to see, to feel the truth
because
nothing else exists
there is only love
love

Hello and love to all of you,
dear Judy, I remember that you told us you would write a birthday present poem when we have birthday!! My 44th birthday is october the 12th! Children would say only 6 times to sleep...and I feel a little bit like them, because we fly to Portugal on my birthday!!
At first we will have a wonderful breakfast, then we'll buy some food and now the best - we go swimming in the beautiful, powerful, deep blue, maybe wild atlantic!! And the rest of the day...maybe the angels have some ideas.
I wish you all a wonderful time full with love and guided by your angels,
love, Antje
ps: Monikas birthday is four days later!

Hi Judy
Thank you for this wonderful, interesting weekend. I really enjoyed it, but now I feel whirled up and empty. I would like to fill up
this emptiness with love but I don't now how.
I can hear and feel the love of the Angels to me, but I don't now what to do that I feel love for me. Can you tell me this?
Thank you
Ruth

Greetings from Mainz, Germany & Special Homework

Hello Dear Students,

I have been staying here with your classmate, Monika, who is a Reiki Master, crystal healer and teacher. I have given two talks, a seminar, and many readings. I have also been doing my best to send you daily messages, with the changes in time zones and using another computer with a German keyboard.

A 4th class began the School on September 8th, but I see none of them have introduced themselves here in the Classroom. Still, they are here, just as you are here.

I have a question....have two lessons a month been too much for most of you? Do you prefer to receive only one lesson each month, along with your daily lessons? I thought, anyway, this is what I will begin doing now....for those of you who have been taking the lessons since the beginning. I can write many lessons, but perhaps you need more time to imbibe the deeper meanings and complete your homework.

Also, for those of you who have not kept up with the lessons....YOU have special homework....I would like you to give yourself a marathon weekend.....where you make a plan and take the time to read ALL of the lessons you have not read. Come on, you can do it! Think of your old days in school, where you waited until the last minute to study or cram for an exam.

Think of the weekends or days or hours which you spend being depressed, thinking negative thoughts, or doing silly (and also fun) things like watching old movies on television. If you can give yourself time for those things, you can give yourself time for your lessons.

Forget about understanding everything you read. You cannot possibly understand everything you read in the lessons right away. Understanding is a process of unfoldment. Just make a commitment, take a deep breath, plunge in, and read all the lessons you have not yet read.

Catch up!

This is a way to push out what is not essential to your happiness and fill up with what is essential to your happiness. Make a commitment to your spiritual upliftment. Your heart will be so happy. Your heart wants to live in truth and happiness. It is up to you to provide an environment of truth and light for your heart to live in, just like you provide a beautiful room for your children or family or yourself to live in.

No excuses now! The angels will be watching you! Put a smile on your face. Catch up on your lessons. Make yourself tea or coffee. Go for autumn walks when your mind gets too full. Come back and read some more. Watch what your mind does as you read. Watch it complain or think it knows more than your teacher. Watch it do the dull ordinary things it always does. Pay no attention to it. Just read your lessons.

When you read the last one, write and tell me that you have caught up. I will send you a gold star in your dreams and you will be filled with light.

Do it NOW. Make a deeper deeper deeper commitment to your own heart, to your spiritual path, to God, to the angels, and mostly to YOU. You will be glad you did.

All my love,

your teacher

Hello to all,
yesterday evening there was a really great talk in Ingelheim with Judy. The place was crowded with people. What I also liked was to meet some classmates in person there. And one of them took us with his car to the talk and back, thank you again for that.
Love
Monika