Letter from the Field: An Effective Student Writes Home
Good Morning Fred!
Thank You! Looking forward to it [our next appointment].
I totally enjoyed the new video on how to be a better student. I am always not sure whether I am talking too much and flooding your mailbox. I decided you will stop me if I do. Wanted to share this.
I keep feeling that this teaching and the Satsang group are an answer to a sincere prayer. I prayed that I might be taught by a teacher who respects the student also. Like Chris said, there is NO DOUBT the teacher has the higher seeing, but the student is also not an idiot. I Couldn’t be more grateful for your attitude towards your students reflected in your words… “climb on my shoulders ” and grow. Takes a lot more courage to say than saying always hold on to my feet!
and maybe also empty out your pockets before doing that!
I had also prayed for association with awakened beings and that is our Satsang group. I prayed that they may come to my home. And they do, even if only a screen.
I used to think this might happen in an ashram in India or if I am part of a large spiritual organization. Never imagined that my prayer would be answered this way. One more solid proof that Meera knows nothing!
Also grateful for the unasked blessing of my husband who supports me in what I do.
As part of being transparent and reporting my current seeing to my teacher, I wanted to tell you that I hear all your videos like a download and clear up every time but the one video that I cannot understand is the bubble of self reflection. Sorry for one more long mail.
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Meera
Meera
Meera is a student who woke up with me in the last year or so; Meera was raised in India – and just got back from a visit there – but she has long American roots as well. I advised her to ask her question about The Bubble of Self-Reflection in Sunday’s satsang, which I’m sure she will do. Thanks, Meera!
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Fred
Fred
October 29, 2016 @ 1:55 am
That’s the one I’ve re-watched the most! Definitely let’s bring it up Sunday. I feel like it’s totally me, but it’s an interesting experience because I still have to approach it like looking from the eye’s periphery (in the dark, when looking dead on has less acuity). If I “think” to dead on it’s like I’m trying to put the message itself into the bubble. Sometimes I get the opposite sense, like I DID catch it dead on ever so briefly, but that’s like the camera pointing at itself – and there’s just a flash!
Also, I’ve also told Fred almost the exact same thing, about almost desperate prayers long ago for where I could go/belonged. It really seems to have played out like Fred says, to be willing to be other than – BUT only also with the acceptance of what IS. Then this happy dream could come to be, to the degree I recognize I need do no-thing. And that being everything, it’s more in alignment to be giving, than need-y.
In communion, Mike
October 29, 2016 @ 1:59 am
Thank you, Mike. Great talking to you today.
(For the record, Mike is my longest-running Internet student. He was with me way on back on the original Awakening Clarity blog, which was more than three years ago.)