Guest guest Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Any ideas on how to get a twelve year old to open up to The Work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 > Any ideas on how to get a twelve year old to open up to The Work. *****Is that any of " your " business? I don't say that puritanically or dogmatically. The thought simply appears here since, of late, I have been giving MUCH thought to 's teaching on what is, and is not, a person's " business. " And thus your question seemed relevant for *me*. Perhaps for you also? I would say, do The Work yourself and the other may open to it, naturally, as a flower does when the sunlight kisses its petals. Do The Work yourself, and don't worry about the consequences. They aren't in your control anyway. Anything else, it seems to me, is manipulation or contrivance, a milieu that is not conducive to The Work. Just my two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 > Any ideas on how to get a twelve year old to open up to The Work. Hi there~ Before trying to get a 12 year old to open up to The Work, I'd come back to myself and work on my thoughts about why I want the 12 year old to open up to inquiry. (The 12 year old should do inquiry because...The 12 year old needs...I want the 12 year old to....) After taking a look at my motives and expectations, if I'm still interested in the child opening up to The Work, I can sanely walk over to the child and ask something like: Would you like to open up to The Work? Would you like to learn more about what it is? Would you like to try it? Then I can really *hear* the answer. For me, this is a kinder way to approach someone else opening up to inquiry. First undo myself, and then act from there. I find that when I do that, asking questions is a lot of fun because I'm not disappointed with the answers that come. From this place, I'm truly *asking a question* to get the other person's answer...and not just asking something for the sake of making the other person wrong for not saying what I want them to say. ~Mona Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2004 Report Share Posted January 9, 2004 Hi April, I love your stories! " I NEED FACILITATING! " Very nice! Inspiring, thank you. Maybe some day soon this one will think of asking a daughter to facilitate when a thought arises that there is a mess and that it shouldn't be there..... Also, it is my story that your reply to Andy's teaching ( " Behind, underneath all the " feel good " teaching of The Work I see an immense reservoir of spiritual insight arising out of a nondualistic understanding of what is. Apparently you don't see that...yet " ) came from a very nice place. So far, I like these stories about you. Eva > Here is a funny one.... one day the house was a real mess. The kitchen > had crumbs all over the counters. The birds had pooped on the floor > (cockatiels), I had been doing paper work and walked down to " this mess " > I was upset. I called all the kids down from their rooms to discuss > this. I said I NEED FACILITATING!!!!!! They were happy to oblige. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 People often ask me if I am an enlightened being. I don't know anything about that. I am just someone who knows the difference between 'this hurts' and 'this doesn't'. I am someone who only wants " what is. " ~Byron :-) cee-kay > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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