Changes

===Opening===

===Opening===

Good evening. This is your friend and teacher Welmek. And I bid a special good evening to our newcomer this evening. Greetings to you, S.

Good evening. This is your friend and teacher Welmek. And I bid a special good evening to our newcomer this evening. Greetings to you, S.

 

I began a serial presentation last week on the topic on the nature of Trust. Actually this is a discourse on the topic of faith as we are going more deeply into the nature of what it means to live in faith: the ability to trust, the nature of trust, how to grow your trust. We spoke of the components of trust, what it means to trust, and we also spoke of those problems that exist in human life that do not allow you to fully live in the state of trust.

I began a serial presentation last week on the topic on the nature of Trust. Actually this is a discourse on the topic of faith as we are going more deeply into the nature of what it means to live in faith: the ability to trust, the nature of trust, how to grow your trust. We spoke of the components of trust, what it means to trust, and we also spoke of those problems that exist in human life that do not allow you to fully live in the state of trust.

Tonight I will to take you on a little journey into the experience of trusting to help you get a firmer conscious awareness of what it feels like to be in the trust dynamic while you are moving through a problem obstacle or difficult life situation. But before I begin, are there any questions or comments on what we discussed last week? Or are there any ideas that came to mind during your life this past week?

Tonight I will to take you on a little journey into the experience of trusting to help you get a firmer conscious awareness of what it feels like to be in the trust dynamic while you are moving through a problem obstacle or difficult life situation. But before I begin, are there any questions or comments on what we discussed last week? Or are there any ideas that came to mind during your life this past week?

 

Student: Welmek, I had a feeling that last week I was thinking of trusting someone in a passive sense, like an evaluation that you have to make in different situations. And I recalled that in Jesus' life here, one of the most strange words they use to describe Jesus' behavior was aggressive. He was a very aggressive person. And I thought well so was Ghandi. He had to change the whole relationship of India and England. So it occurred to me that there's a kind of trust that's actually active, it's an extension. You extend trust, almost like faith, acting on the evidence of things not seen. Trust is this extension; it's like a gift, a generosity that you extend to others before it's actually warranted.

Student: Welmek, I had a feeling that last week I was thinking of trusting someone in a passive sense, like an evaluation that you have to make in different situations. And I recalled that in Jesus' life here, one of the most strange words they use to describe Jesus' behavior was aggressive. He was a very aggressive person. And I thought well so was Ghandi. He had to change the whole relationship of India and England. So it occurred to me that there's a kind of trust that's actually active, it's an extension. You extend trust, almost like faith, acting on the evidence of things not seen. Trust is this extension; it's like a gift, a generosity that you extend to others before it's actually warranted.

Very well, let us begin. I ask you now in your minds-eye to sit in a place of darkness. Picture in your mind that which you see and feel all around you is dark, and I would say, even cold. And it is not the most comfortable place to be. Now imagine at a distance in front of you, is a small pinhole of light that you see. It is intriguing, and it is appealing, and it has a certain magnetizing effect upon you that makes you know within you that you want to see more light and have this grow stronger. I want you to experience the fullness of this mental picture of being in the dark, feeling what that is like, but yet seeing this light in the distance and being attracted to it. (Pause) Now with your eyes closed and staying in a still state of mind, I ask each of you, if you are willing, to share with me in a brief sentence or two what you are experiencing in sensing the contrast between the dark and the light.

Very well, let us begin. I ask you now in your minds-eye to sit in a place of darkness. Picture in your mind that which you see and feel all around you is dark, and I would say, even cold. And it is not the most comfortable place to be. Now imagine at a distance in front of you, is a small pinhole of light that you see. It is intriguing, and it is appealing, and it has a certain magnetizing effect upon you that makes you know within you that you want to see more light and have this grow stronger. I want you to experience the fullness of this mental picture of being in the dark, feeling what that is like, but yet seeing this light in the distance and being attracted to it. (Pause) Now with your eyes closed and staying in a still state of mind, I ask each of you, if you are willing, to share with me in a brief sentence or two what you are experiencing in sensing the contrast between the dark and the light.

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student: Welmek, I guess because I just love darkness, it's so expansive; it's hard for me not to just be the darkness and try to be all around the light. I kind of feel that little speck of light right in the middle of me.

Student: Welmek, I guess because I just love darkness, it's so expansive; it's hard for me not to just be the darkness and try to be all around the light. I kind of feel that little speck of light right in the middle of me.