May Jah Guide and Inspire I and I so that we may each REMEMBER our real self.
Ras John.
A system of Denials
and Affirmations is a part of the teachings of nearly all religious teachings.
From Lessons
In Truth
by Emily Cady:
Denial brings freedom from bondage, and
happiness comes when we can effectually deny the power of anything to touch or to trouble
us.
Repeat these four denials silently several
times a day, not with a strained anxiety to get something out of them, but trying calmly
to realize the meaning of the words spoken:
There is no evil.
There is no absence of life, substance or
intelligence anywhere.
Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death
cannot master me, for they are not real.
There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He (She) that is
within me than he (she) that is within the world.
As it is with denials, so
with the affirmations. There are four or five sweeping affirmations of Truth that cover a
multitude of lesser ones, and which do marvelous work in bringing good to ourselves and to
others:
God is life, love, intelligence, substance,
omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence.
I am a child of God, and every moment His (Her) life, love, wisdom, power flow into and
through me. I am one with God, and am governed by His (Her) law.
I am Spirit, perfect, holy, harmonious.
Nothing can hurt me or make me sick or afraid, for Spirit is God, and God cannot be sick
or hurt or afraid. I manifest my real self through this body now.
God works with me to will and to do
whatsoever He (She) wishes me to do, and God cannot fail.
Commit these to memory,
so that you can repeat them in the silence of your own mind in any place and at any time.
Strangely will they act to deliver you out of the greatest external distresses, places
where no human help avails. It is as though the moment you assert emphatically your oneness with God, there is instantly set
into motion all the power of omnipotent love to rush to your rescue.
A Daily
Meditation
Lord, make me an instrument of they
peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy;
O divine Master, grant that I may not so
much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying [to self] that we are born to eternal life.
Prayer of Saint
Francis of Assisi From Eknath Easwaran's very excellent book Meditation:
Commonsense Directions for an Uncommon Life (Nilgiri Press)...
Having
memorized the passage, be seated and softly close your eyes. We defeat the purpose of
meditation if we think about, admiring the bird on the sill or watching people come and
go....During meditation, we try to pull out the plugs (to our senses) so we can
concentrate more fully on the events within....So, shut the eyes - without getting tense
about it. Since the body should be relaxed, not strained, there is no need to be
effortful....If you have memorized the Prayer, you are ready to go through it word by
word, and very,very slowly.... Concentrate on one word at a time, and let the words slip
one after another into your consciousness like pearls falling into a clear pond. Let them
drop inwards one at a time....after assiduous practice, the words will fall inward: you
will see them going in an hitting the very bottom. This takes time, though. Don't expect
it to happen next week. Nothing really worth having comes guickly and easily...
Spend a half hour each
morning with this exercise and see where it takes your consciousness...
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