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==Heading==
===Topic: ''The Apprenticeship of the Golden Rule''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Anyas]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “You were just [[reading]] about the [[clarifications]] that [[Jesus]] gave [[Paper 139|His disciples]] about the [[Golden Rule]]. It is a universal rule of [[conduct]] for the [[Children of God]]. How so?
“Stop for a [[moment]] and ponder how you [[practice]] the Golden Rule in your life. This will clearly show you the current level of your [[spiritual development]]. The first level of the application of the Golden Rule is the trickiest one. It is at the ‘level of the [[flesh]]’ and this is the reason why, due to the lures of [[selfish]] agendas at this level of your [[being]], you should refrain from [[interpreting]] the Golden Rule as a license to do whatever [[Gratification|gratifies]] you physically.
“The Golden Rule gains in effectiveness at the ‘level of the [[feelings]]’, when your [[actions]] are guided by [[empathy]] and [[compassion]]. By putting yourself in the shoes of your [[siblings]], you feel their [[pain]] and wish to alleviate it. The Golden Rule will then strongly [[guide]] your [[intuition]] in doing what is right for them.
“Its third level, as explained by [[Jesus]], is ‘the level of [[mind]]’ that brings into [[play]] its [[reasoning]] skills as well as the [[intelligence]] of the [[experience]]. “Good [[judgment]] dictates that such a rule of living should be interpreted in consonance with the highest [[idealism]] embodied in the nobility of profound self-[[respect]].” ([[147:4|UB Paper 147, Section 4.6]]) Indeed, ‘mind over matter’ should come into the [[equation]] and help you greatly expand the scope of the Golden Rule.
“Next comes ‘the level of brotherly love’, described by [[Jesus]] as “the unselfish [[devotion]] to the welfare of one’s fellows… a new and far more [[beautiful]] [[interpretation]] of this basic rule of life.” At that point, you already have greatly evolved in your [[spiritual growth]]. You have increasingly severed the attachments to your small [[self]] and expanded your identity to one of heartfelt oneness with the overall [[human condition]]. You take personally what befalls your siblings and do something about it, [[motivated]] by the growing love you harbor in your [[heart]].
“[[Eventually]], you will graduate to ‘the [[moral]] level’ of the Golden Rule, having acquired “real [[insight]] into the rightness and wrongness of things… You will begin to view such [[problems]] of interpretation as you would imagine a high-minded, idealistic, [[wise]], and impartial person would so view and interpret such an injunction as applied to your personal problems of [[adjustment]] to your life situations.”([[147:4|Paper 147 Section 4.8]]) By doing so, you will indeed acquire more [[objectivity]].
“Finally, you will start applying the [[Golden Rule]] from ‘the spiritual level’ by asking yourself the leading question: “What would [[Jesus]] do in my stead?” What would a Divine Son do? Indeed, this Rule of Life is foremost “the divine command to treat all men as we [[conceive]] [[God]] would treat them.” ([[147:4|Section 4.9]])
===Closing===
“No matter where you find yourself in the [[apprenticeship]] of the [[Golden Rule]], know that the mastery of each one of its levels is a [[necessary]] [[stepping stone]] toward the next one. Eventually, you will master [[Love]] in [[Action]] and no longer have the need to refer to the Golden Rule, as you will embody it and [[spontaneously]] act in abidance with it.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Anyas]]
[[Category: Ethics]]
[[Category: 2018]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''The Apprenticeship of the Golden Rule''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Anyas]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “You were just [[reading]] about the [[clarifications]] that [[Jesus]] gave [[Paper 139|His disciples]] about the [[Golden Rule]]. It is a universal rule of [[conduct]] for the [[Children of God]]. How so?
“Stop for a [[moment]] and ponder how you [[practice]] the Golden Rule in your life. This will clearly show you the current level of your [[spiritual development]]. The first level of the application of the Golden Rule is the trickiest one. It is at the ‘level of the [[flesh]]’ and this is the reason why, due to the lures of [[selfish]] agendas at this level of your [[being]], you should refrain from [[interpreting]] the Golden Rule as a license to do whatever [[Gratification|gratifies]] you physically.
“The Golden Rule gains in effectiveness at the ‘level of the [[feelings]]’, when your [[actions]] are guided by [[empathy]] and [[compassion]]. By putting yourself in the shoes of your [[siblings]], you feel their [[pain]] and wish to alleviate it. The Golden Rule will then strongly [[guide]] your [[intuition]] in doing what is right for them.
“Its third level, as explained by [[Jesus]], is ‘the level of [[mind]]’ that brings into [[play]] its [[reasoning]] skills as well as the [[intelligence]] of the [[experience]]. “Good [[judgment]] dictates that such a rule of living should be interpreted in consonance with the highest [[idealism]] embodied in the nobility of profound self-[[respect]].” ([[147:4|UB Paper 147, Section 4.6]]) Indeed, ‘mind over matter’ should come into the [[equation]] and help you greatly expand the scope of the Golden Rule.
“Next comes ‘the level of brotherly love’, described by [[Jesus]] as “the unselfish [[devotion]] to the welfare of one’s fellows… a new and far more [[beautiful]] [[interpretation]] of this basic rule of life.” At that point, you already have greatly evolved in your [[spiritual growth]]. You have increasingly severed the attachments to your small [[self]] and expanded your identity to one of heartfelt oneness with the overall [[human condition]]. You take personally what befalls your siblings and do something about it, [[motivated]] by the growing love you harbor in your [[heart]].
“[[Eventually]], you will graduate to ‘the [[moral]] level’ of the Golden Rule, having acquired “real [[insight]] into the rightness and wrongness of things… You will begin to view such [[problems]] of interpretation as you would imagine a high-minded, idealistic, [[wise]], and impartial person would so view and interpret such an injunction as applied to your personal problems of [[adjustment]] to your life situations.”([[147:4|Paper 147 Section 4.8]]) By doing so, you will indeed acquire more [[objectivity]].
“Finally, you will start applying the [[Golden Rule]] from ‘the spiritual level’ by asking yourself the leading question: “What would [[Jesus]] do in my stead?” What would a Divine Son do? Indeed, this Rule of Life is foremost “the divine command to treat all men as we [[conceive]] [[God]] would treat them.” ([[147:4|Section 4.9]])
===Closing===
“No matter where you find yourself in the [[apprenticeship]] of the [[Golden Rule]], know that the mastery of each one of its levels is a [[necessary]] [[stepping stone]] toward the next one. Eventually, you will master [[Love]] in [[Action]] and no longer have the need to refer to the Golden Rule, as you will embody it and [[spontaneously]] act in abidance with it.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Anyas]]
[[Category: Ethics]]
[[Category: 2018]]
