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- November 22, 2024 at 6:20 am EST #402667Magsy KapoorPartÃcipe
Dear Gianni,
Is the bulk of the work done specifically when you don’t wanna do it? It feels like this is the only place where I can go against the ego, because even if there is a small desire to do the work, I am not going above reason, I am still in self-love, fulfilling that small desire. So, logically, the more resistance I experience, the better. But how can I come to this place? What can I coerce the body to do? Go to meetings? Read? Watch lessons? I find that every time I decide to coerce the donkey to do something, it tricks me by finding pleasure in it. This makes it impossible for me to find a place where I can go above reason. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you! <3
- November 22, 2024 at 12:22 pm EST #404501Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
We’re supposed to find pleasure, but to find pleasure in the place where the true pleasure is. In every moment, we nevertheless have work to go Above Reason. Try and see how, despite what you said, there is still a place to go Above Reason.
- November 21, 2024 at 4:11 am EST #402580RickiPartÃcipe
Could workshop rules be applied to creating a common prayer in the ten? What are some guidelines for a person to consider when writing a prayer into a group-chat: text that is formatted together with the additions from other members of the ten to create one common prayer of the day? Each person contributes to the whole and I’m wondering if there is an established approach or recommendations for writing in a way that can bring the ten closer to the creator and avoid it being charity.
- November 21, 2024 at 11:36 am EST #402601Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
The workshop rules are general guidelines but the rules are much deeper. The whole work is really a workshop with the Creator through the friends, so it’s not amenable to a few rules. I think in the asynchronous case, in a chat, I need to be found in a state as though I’m really hearing the friends, integrating with their desire, and continuing them just enough and not more than the ten needs.
- November 20, 2024 at 7:58 am EST #402492maria santosPartÃcipe
Hello Gianni.
I keep hearing in various classes and reading in various articles that we have to come to the point that we realize we don’t and can’t really love our friends and that we have to reach a point where we feel so deeply how much we love ourselves that we are thoroughly disgusted and ask the Creator to help us change. Yet all I hear in the tens is how much in love everyone is with their friends, and so on. Should we not be trying to uncover our deep-seated love for ourselves, and not trying to fool ourselves into believing we love one another? It seems that trying to get ourselves to believe that we really love one another is prolonging our progress in the work, because until we come to the realization how evil we are in our will to receive we cannot come to a true prayer and that is what is needed.
What am I missing?
- November 20, 2024 at 8:51 am EST #402499Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
That’s right except that we can only sink more into our ego by thinking about it. By trying to do the opposite – loving the friends – we can expose our opposite nature and then have a prayer.
- November 19, 2024 at 4:32 pm EST #402338Kimadigital7PartÃcipe
Could we also say that connection is also direction? In other words, directing the friends to the Creator?
- November 19, 2024 at 4:34 pm EST #402339Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
If you can awaken friends to the connection, then certainly everything they need is found there in the connection.
- November 19, 2024 at 3:54 am EST #402249RickiPartÃcipe
Why am I powerless to avoid a decent, even when i can see the trough of the wave is approaching? For example one day i have a fantastic feeling of being so in love and concerned for the friends, i volunteer all sort of things toward them and aspire for equivalence of form with all my heart. Then, a couple days later, I’m skipping meetings and am more interested in what I’m having for lunch, even though I continue to receive reminders and invitations to engage. I’m stuck as to why this keeps happening and why each time there is more internal resistance to overcome.
- November 19, 2024 at 11:25 am EST #402292Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
Because it wasn’t with your whole heart, with all of you, that you decided. With all of you, you have to decide, and the totality of the heart [desire] is revealed bit by bit – because all at once, certainly we couldn’t overcome.
- November 13, 2024 at 4:05 am EST #399593Zorica KostadinovskaPartÃcipe
Hi Gianni, many times we speak that the actions in this world don’t really matter, but the intention behind; then why are we creating this illusion of reality? Why does corporeality exists if what we say or do doesn’t really matter?
Thank you!
- November 13, 2024 at 11:30 am EST #399651Gianni – KabU InstructorModerator
It does matter, otherwise the Creator would not create it. Precisely through this reality I must attain the Creator. I have nothing but corporeality with which to work toward Him. It is actually the spiritual world that I just see in this way, and so if I want to skip over it, I won’t be able to.
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