Steps to Knowledge - Post your practice notes if practicing

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http://www.stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step4-I-want-what-I-think-I-know.htm

STEP 4 TODAY: GOOD NUMBER, 4 PILLARS OF LIFE: RELATIONSHIPS SPIRITUAL WORK HEALTH

Ok all of this is in the New Message in the book called Great Waves of Change.

Step Today.

Step 4

I want what I think I know.

YOU WANT WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW, and this is what constitutes the basis of your understanding of yourself and your world. In fact, this constitutes the basis of your whole identity. You will find, however, upon honest examination that your understanding is based upon assumptions primarily, and these assumptions have not been founded upon your experience to a very great degree, if at all.

TODAY IN YOUR THREE BRIEF PRACTICE PERIODS, in which you devote your total attention to examining your assumptions, think about the things you really think you know, including things that you have not thought to question before — things that you think you know. Today’s exercise, then, carries forth from the previous steps where you begin to see the difference between what you think you know and real Knowledge itself and the relationship between what you think of as Knowledge and your own assumptions, beliefs and hopes for things.

THEREFORE, IN EACH PRACTICE SESSION it is very essential for you to think about the things you think you know. When you realize they are based primarily upon your assumptions, you will realize how weak is your foundation in the world. Understanding this may be upsetting and disconcerting, but it is absolutely essential for you to give you the impetus and the desire to discover your true foundation in the world.

Practice 4: Three 10-minute practice periods.

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Feeling first doubts at this, 2 time points, duality, 2 practices a day, 3 practices a day, so confusing. Trying to go one without worrying about imperfections in practice, for me having sat still most of the day on most days, practice time is always, this is different for me and other people may adopt a practice with different method and expression to I. So today I am recognising I think I know things that may be the opposite of what I know, or exist behind the polarity of perceived knowledge. Why not try this and see what happens? I seem to be mainly dominated by fear here.

Starting here I feel I have to have the energy to send a current through one channel in a straight line for the rest of my life and existence itself.

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AIA VANTA VATTA AIA TINKA AIA KERNOWA

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This is me Italianizing I want what I think I know, into some hybrid text that seems to flow freely but has encoded within it a blur or displacement of a sort, an emotional displacement, a bit like when you have an emotion and your thinking shifts to the side tilting a way you did not expect or want of yourself to do.

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It is very hard to let go of what I think I know, it is so hard, because it is the very foundation upon which I base my security.

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This is baby steps, so rudimentary, so easy, how could I not deceive myself, I could, but how could I not? It is like this whole create your own reality thing. Reality is coming through you all the time. What is there to create? (nothing is created or destroyed in the universe). We humans are expert garbage collectors, what we do is we collect garbage all day long and think it is our own minds, instead it is imprints from the - outside. We recycle material and there is nothing wrong with this, it is natural communication, but in the later stages of our spiritual development we must generate our own thoughts and mental space-time field. No person can avoid this - in their own lives.

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PRACTICE 2 (let's say)

I feel that I feed what I think I know, cause wanting feeds.

What does it feed? It feeds.

What do I really know?

Look here I know things I know, and I don't think them or feel them, I just know them.

I know for sure that reward systems are there for good, I can't help this, I need to use them to my benefit.

What do I want to achieve?

I want to achieve nothing, such as ideas, but reality is there to discover and to share, no wanting or thinking there.

Where was practice one?

I have to say that I have been actively thinking about the fact that I want what I think I know, and this has been very natural and freeing for me, my practice this morning in some way was in the day.

Trying to be honest here, it's hard, I have to do 3 practices but can't fit them in the day cause I'm constantly moving, so I tell myself I was practicing in the background when really there was no I to do anything in the background. I do it or I don't, such is that. I don't know, I will do one step a day and practice wherever I feel like it, I really don't care about external restraints cause things will realign and reopen in the long run if I stick with it all. The practice.

Edited June 29, 2018 by Hotaka

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Today step 5. S. Snake. Slither.

I believe what I want to believe.

Why not?

I don't believe this.

Do you have a choice?

No I can't choose this, it is just how I feel.

But if it's not you then why should you identify with it and say it's you?

I don't know.

Yes, why not, that is better than nothing. Because you can make nothing out of anything. What is the point? None of them have true points. Sorry.

Edited June 30, 2018 by Hotaka

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I am still a beginner now, but now on the Step where I am meant to be. Step 189: My Spiritual Family exists in all places. I am not starting from the beginning anymore while I am in the middle, as it is like starting a meal and not finishing it

So I am in a state where I find this step meaningful to me right now, because it is telling me I come from somewhere else, I don't come from this world, I am not from here, you are not from here, we are not from here, none of us are, even science says we are stardust.

Our essence must be so undifferentiated that our means of communication may be much more extensive and elemental than we think it is, all of this communication is occurring in the Silence, the most Neutral Thing there i.

This is identity undifferentiated, when you see you are just one of the many branches of the same tree, but in a sense you actually are just the Tree, with many branches going in different places.

 

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Gnosis is the best illness to the prevention of the cure to diagnosis.
Gnosis is the best prevention to the illness of diagnosis.
1Gnosis or 2Gnosis? 1 is absolute, 2 is dual, non-dual means non-separated, as a single whole, one, concentric, united within yourself, are you one or are you two? This is my diagnosis. What is there to know even when there is only one and nothing else. Even in clouds and trees.
What is there to know still? It is this diagnosis that I have already that must be discarded. It serves no purpose. This. why hold on to any diagnosis, even of the diagnosis, when I cure and illness both die together? Subject and object I both depend on each other to survive, they use each other for preference, they use each other for uniqueness. All this, it has no purpose, everything in this has no purpose (at all) other than to desecrate what is already one and none. So leave it at that, and it will continue in it's thatness to do what that does. Nothing else.

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Here is Step 189: My Spiritual Family exists in all places-

YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY IS GREATER THAN YOU REALIZE. It exists in many worlds. Its influence is everywhere. That is why it is so meaningless to consider yourself to be alone when you are part of something so great that serves the greatest of all purposes. You must relinquish your self-condemnation and your sense of littleness to know this, for you have identified with your behavior in the world, which is little. You have identified with your personal mind and your physical body, which are little. Yet, now you are beginning to realize your relationship with life itself through Knowledge, which is great. This is done without punishing the personal mind or the physical body, for they become useful and enjoyable as they learn to serve a greater purpose. Then the body has health and the personal mind is utilized, rendering them meaning which they now lack.

YOUR PHYSICAL NEED IS FOR HEALTH, but your health is to serve a greater purpose. You need right utilization for your personal mind, which will give it meaning and value, for it only seeks to be included in that which is meaningful. What enables your personal mind and your physical body to find their rightful place in your life is Knowledge, which provides purpose, meaning and direction for you.

THIS IS TRUE IN ALL WORLDS. This is true throughout the physical universe of which you are a citizen. Expand your view of yourself so that you may learn to be objective about your world. Do not merely cast human values, assumptions and goals upon your world, for this blinds you to the world’s purpose and evolution and makes it far more difficult for you to appreciate that you are a citizen of a greater life.

TODAY, IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICES, engage your mind in active investigation of this idea. Spend the first fifteen minutes engaged in this investigation in both of your two longer practice periods. Try to seriously investigate the meaning of today’s idea. Then, when your investigation is complete, allow your mind to re-enter stillness. Realize the contrast between active mental engagement and mental stillness. Understand that both are important and complement one another. Upon the hour repeat the idea and consider it as you view the world around you.

Practice 189: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

You can't start a Fire of Knowledge without People. Practice with me.

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I have been on this Step for a while now and still trying to get my head mind body feelings around the existence of et life, both spiritual and non-spiritually oriented races

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Hey guys, just wanted to share with you all that I am still doing these Steps, and I am now back on where I was before trying to start again, cause I couldn't handle it and needed to begin again, but this was not at all possible for me, I had to go on, and I still go on and am going on now today, which is another day so distant to that previous moment, not because the present moment is in the now, but because the present moments are all 100% different, with no similarity at all to each other. This is the only constant, so different, but constant, as it stands alone because it feeds off difference. The constancy of change and mistakes is beautiful and so locked in that one could not see it without meaning.

STEP 189: Journal notes-straight into forum

Health, needs addressing, posture, breathing, prana awareness, prana cultivation, opening up the nodes in my body, in some way letting it all flow and circulate, challenging muscle tension.

Stretching, start in some way, with something.

Don't do Steps unless you really need to, you have 4 Pillars to work on.

Eat only when necessary.

Meditate on ideas, so as to learn something from the best library in the world.

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Ok here I go from where I left of, less ramble babble now, more rational, nodes of left and right and up and down are feeling more balanced in my chakras as a whole flow system, most of all are opening and emphasis is on crown now powered by heart to pump through a double Fibonacci spiral, so to say, or whatever system can hold duality of forces such as creation and destruction without any motion at all.

Energy body is expanding, eyes are more focused on the world, expanding outwards as I realise I am an individual non-solipsist one of the many. I see that I am more like a surface or possibility, and I can thus see I can be everyone, cause each is of the same structure both molecularly and genetically and thus they cannot know anything I don't know yet I am small, and so are they and we are everyone together one everyone looking at itself through it's many heads, peep-holes (people). I am recognising that I am in one position in space not many, yet I can imagine myself in other places if I like. I may need assistance such as music or sound or communication to travel. So I am still spatially located and more than ever because it appears this immediate location is all there is, and it can be anywhere and everywhere but my body is REALLY HERE. Even when asleep.

 

Step 189 was about my Spiritual Family existing in all places, interesting cause it focused on my neediness for others, and how it may be remedied by finally bridging the gap between myself and others through spiritual development and a giving in the physical (or spiritual) world to allow this connection to have a kind of roadmap or pathway of expression, or simply an opportunity for connection which may be mutually beneficial.

Step 190 was about: The world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds and that is why I have come. Step 190 speaks for itself because it is mind-blowing if you truly consider that only now I am discovering my position in a universe as a big massive jungle full of life instead of some nonsensical sort of prison on a single planet, yes beautiful, but not enough for the way of beauty to be my way. There is more to this, but I don't wish to share. Not that it's anything odd, just it is fairly unusual, and if anyone is interested I can share my understanding, if you ask.

191 My Knowledge is greater than my humanity. This saved my life, cause I really needed to realise in these last few days that my Knowledge is greater than my humanity, it is so relieving. Thank you Steps this has helped me a lot, beyond emotions human emotions and all that.

192 I will not neglect small things today. Another lifesaver, what could I do without small things to do? Where could I increase my circulation health and concentration at the same time? As a practice doing small things of any kind that require present awareness and an engagement of your senses without stimulation but only concentration in so essential and so rewarding if you do it in the long run. As it is it keeps many conflicts at bay because it keeps you distracted from the problem and engaged with the outside.

Step 193 I shall listen to others without judgement today. Wonderful beautiful Step, I have seen this clearly now, as I have recognised that some of the best listening is done when you are silent and still being yourself and in some way present to your experience more than another's experience but using that to listen into them directly through you.

Step today 194 I will go where I am needed today. I came here, I hope I am needed here, now.

 

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