A weekly exercise

A weekly exercise

Each week an exercise will be posted for the aim of living consciously.

When asked, most people would describe themselves as kind and considerate of others. We try to live by the Golden Rule, “Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” From an early age we are taught to be good, to do good. These intentions come from mechanical goodness of the lower self. Programmed emotionally within us they are oftened performed in a state of sleep. For example, opening a door for someone; food shopping; walking a pet; watering the plants; these acts of kindness are numerous.

In our school, we transcend mechanical kindness through the practice of external consideration. Consciously and deliberately we consider how to best serve a person through our third eye (our soul) at a given moment. Our kindness is outside ourself with any inner consideration excluded. In synchronicity, the giver and the receiver , one be-ing to another be-ing are present in the state of external consideration.

“Oh soul, we have positively appeared.” ~ Whitman

This week be the observer to your acts of kindness. Are they mechanical (lower self)or are they in conscious harmony with the soul (higher centers)

From our teacher, "Schools are the opposite of the life - they are characterized by external consideration, with everyone doing everything they can to help each other be present."

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