In the parable of David I seem to go through cub scouts and boy scouts and
our motto was 'be prepared'.
And so you know that could be helpful, but you really have to look at what what is the preparation?
We were always prepared you know with our hikes and
always have water and carry some tools. It was all survival of the body, be prepared,
But actually,
if you really look at it spiritually "be prepared", it's be in touch, be in tune,
stay connected,
stay aligned,
stay allowing,
stay allowing with everything.
In the Manual for Teachers of the Course in Miracles, Jesus has
the stages that you'll go through,
he also
lists the characteristics of a teacher of God, and it starts with trust and he
tells you the stages you'll go through but
trust is the cornerstone, trust is the first
attribute,
first characteristic and all the rest he said
rest on trust.
So trust is very important. Trusting the Holy Spirit, but then if you go through all the ten
characteristics the last one, number ten, he says perhaps the last one to come in
into
accomplishment or fruition is
open-mindedness. That's where this is all heading.
There's nothing greater than a tranquil
open mind.
An open mind does not judge. It doesn't already think that it knows something. It simply
stays completely open, completely present
and therefore that's
you might say the most delightful
state of mind that you could ever experience and even when you're going through the other
stages and you're developing those other characteristics
you have a great appreciation for open-mindedness
because it's free.
An open mind is free, an open mind doesn't have an agenda, an open mind doesn't have
preset conditions. It's not already thinking it knows something.
It's completely in the
unknowing about the world and
it's made way for
Divine Knowledge, for Heaven, for
Pure Spirit to be welcomed back into awareness because it doesn't try to tell Spirit what it already is.
It's open to be shown to have it revealed and
that's really what salvation is. Salvation is not
knowing something about the world. It's coming with empty arms,
with openness.
I do not know the thing I am, what I'm doing, where I'm going or how to look upon the world or upon myself.
That's what Salvation is.
We've actually let go of all the definitions of time and space
and the definitions of yourself and the definitions of God
And you come without a definition.
That's what open-mindedness is. There's not the slightest
attempt to define a meaning.