Being New

Surrender

Hold on to "I Am" only

The first agreement - Be impeccable with your word- Don Miguel Ruiz

In retrospect, I should have read or listened to this great work upon first hearing about it years ago! Today I am thankful for the receiving of all such ancient practical teachings. "Impeccability with the Word" is where the creative journey begins, and often (as a masterful writing coach once put it in our session) this clear expression is both concise and precise, for the purpose of communicating only Truth, Light and/or Love whenever possible, and most importantly remembering kindness unto oneself. All implies a Being of Divine Essence within each individual Soul, that which IS the true beholder of Light, Love, Truth, capable of correcting all sin (defined as "going against yourself") and also of working by example to create/experience “Heaven on Earth”. Word becomes deed, however it be interpreted by me, according to my cultural/lingual dispostion. Meaning that is intuitively grasped, immediately & spontaneously.

Jdz

The SECOND Agreement: Don't Take Anything Personally

"Listen,Trust & Obey"

"The work of Awareness creates bliss, removing obstacles and releasing energy simply by understanding the true nature of Life and Mind. Intelligence is the way to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”

“All that lives, works for protecting, perpetuating, and elevating consciousness. This is the world’s sole meaning and purpose, the very essence of yoga...”

Face the Fact...

  "I’m in sorrow. Psychologically I’m terribly disturbed; and I have an idea about it: what I should do, what I should not do, how it should be changed. That idea, that formula, that concept prevents me from looking at the fact of what is. Ideation and the formula are escapes from what is. There is immediate action when there is great danger. Then you have no idea. You don’t formulate an idea and then act according to that idea. The mind has become lazy, indolent through a formula which has given it a means of escape from action with regard to what is.

 

 Seeing for ourselves the whole structure of what has been said, not because it has been pointed out to us, is it possible to face the fact: the fact that we are violent, as an example? We are violent human beings, and we have chosen violence as the way of life—war and all the rest of it. Though we talk everlastingly, especially in the East, of non-violence, we are not non-violent people; we are violent people. The idea of non-violence is an idea, which can be used politically. That’s a different meaning, but it is an idea, and not a fact. Because the human being is incapable of meeting the fact of violence, he has invented the ideal of non-violence, which prevents him from dealing with the fact. After all, the fact is that I’m violent; I’m angry. 

 

What is the need of an idea? It is not the idea of being angry; it’s the actual fact of being angry that is important, like the actual fact of being hungry. There’s no idea about being hungry. The idea then comes as to what you should eat, and then according to the dictates of pleasure, you eat. There is only action with regard to what is when there is no idea of what should be done about that which confronts you, which is what is."

 

 The Book of Life, August 23, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

 https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/face-fact