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taken from: How to Get Out

All education, other than maybe ‘close to the truth’ Religious Education, is an attempt to train us to improve the future that is rushing towards us. That education of man has brought us all the mass consumer products that are driving us mad and sick, it has brought us the atomic weapons of mass destruction - a constant knife hanging over our necks. It has brought us all the 'stick with your own kind' violence and brutality. The 'time mind' wants a better future - how about that!

Related Subjects: Education, Time mind
taken from: How to Get Out

Do you really believe that you can change, affect the future? Now mind you, this is exactly what the time mind presupposes! That is why it is busy telling other people that they should or must do this or that or that they should not or must not do this or the next thing. The time mind that watches the politicians with their plans, and attempts to forecast the personal implications - how it will affect their future. The time mind that wishes to educate the children for one or another result in the future etc., etc. ad infinitum! The time mind says you had better 'adjust' those things and people around you in order to suit your picture of what you would like the future to be. Do you really still think you can affect and change the future?

Well, your push or pull mixed in along with everybody else's push or pull will no doubt combine to affect some aspects in the social reality - do you really expect to be the 'prime mover' of the future? This IS the illusion of the time mind, it functions only on this basis - it sucks us dry with its essential madness and illusion and violence.

Related Subjects: Time mind
taken from: End of Days

In the absence of directed and focused attention, the average mind is predisposed to constant thinking about 'every which thing' - a constant burning-up of energy, as well as the leaking of energy due to the emotional frustration caused by the inconclusiveness of the various thoughts. People think and think and think, without end. It’s all a projection in Time.

Related Subjects: Time mind
taken from: End of Days

Our sense of separateness is the result of our usual 'level of mind', accurately labelled as the 'sense-based-mind'. This first level of the mind utilizes data that was recorded through the five senses.

Related Subjects: Sense based mind
taken from: Respond Ability

And that's where the 'religious mind' comes in. A basically religious person has a natural sense that we're living in a TOTALITY which is GOOD. In ITS terms, not necessarily ours.

Related Subjects: Religious mind
taken from: End of Days

We have a real basic and for the most part unconscious habit! Whenever we think in terms of making things better we think in terms of the future. Our thinking is always geared to plans of action of a consecutive, sequential nature - we shall 'do this and then that' so that things will be better later on - in the 'future' ! That's the way our minds work habitually - that's the way we've been trained - and that must CHANGE! We must come to realize that the change that we want and Need has to do with NOW!

Now is the moment to be acted on - the only moment that there is, constantly recurring, constantly current, always now and here. Our minds, after seeing the truth and the simple logic in the situation must make a complete change. From always and habitually functioning in the pattern of past/present/future in an attempt to fulfill its desires it must now start to function in a total dedication to the present, the NOW. It has seen some of the imagination inevitably resulting from the 'time mind' and understands the necessity of moving behind this picture world, separating from it, to the peace and energy flowing NOW through ‘good conscience’ emotions and relaxed body.

The mind must now start to work for the now, through the now and from the now.

Related Subjects: Religious mind
taken from: End of Days

'Good deeds' force a person out of their usual patterns of, as if, 'self-interest', which are essentially based in fear and objective ignorance. Ignorance, in this most essential sense, is what is 'thought to be known'.
Good deeds, totally free of expectation, remove one from habitual patterns. With the support of positive emotions, replacing the usual fear and anxiety, one has the beginning development of a 'new mind', that in potential is infinitely expansive, objective and increasingly free from the prison of restrictive egoistic boundaries

Related Subjects: Good deeds, New mind
taken from: End of Days

The motivation of the 'usual mind' is most essentially based on fear and the need for protection relative to the future. It functions in fear of Time.

Related Subjects: Mind/time/fear
taken from: Perverse Criticism

If a person wasn’t ‘running off at the mouth’ and reacting from the poison they picked up in society - all the stupidity, all the ’digs’, all the criticisms - what then would they do? The mind cannot stand being inactive. If you leave it alone, it will do all the old shit. That is one of the things that make the Work Ideas so unique. Even if you cannot practice all that you already ’know’ - at least there are things that you can ponder. You can remember that pondering is thinking and feeling about something at the same time! There is what to do: self-observation, non-identification - just to mention a few!
This is just where the expression comes in: “If you don’t call on the Work - it cannot help you.” And god knows that you need help!

Related Subjects: Mind, Pondering
taken from: End of Days

The religious mind 'sees' that everything in the world is interconnected and interdependent. To be intelligently concerned with the part, one must be concerned and knowledgeable of the Whole. The religious mind has no difficulty sensing the extraordinary intelligence in the whole set-up and has no embarrassment in admitting the probability, if not the necessity, of a Higher Intelligence/God behind it all.
The religious mind uses the word 'GOD' as the ALL THAT IS. And also sees that the 'all that is' shows every sign of being intelligent and not merely an accident of nature. The religious mind says, in addition, "I may not know the Truth, but obviously ALL THAT IS is the Truth and thus if I am to have any chance of coming into an understanding or harmony with IT, I must be uncompromisingly careful in regard to the truth, large or small, that falls within my realm." In other words, only the truth can lead to knowing the Truth. So obvious and so perverted is this simplicity.

Related Subjects: Religious mind