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A Short Course in Enlightenment - Part 2
By Stephen BE
Chapter 11. Lessons
While an issue is the disharmonious experience you have of a situation, and requires specific skills to discover, claim and enact your Personal Truth, a lesson is the broader application of what you learn from an issue. The issues are indicators of when a lesson is present. The lessons are the steps needed for your growth. When you deal with an issue, you have settled a situation to the point where you no longer feel disharmony. When you learn the lessons imbedded in an issue, you no longer need to re-experience that same issue. Knowing and continuously addressing current lessons in your life, can often preclude the need to create specific issues.
Learning to identify lessons is an advanced emotional skill. It can only occur through consistent use of the basic emotional skills. You learn to see lessons by recognizing the patterns in your issues. You must be able to deal with your issues effectively as they arise, before you can make sense of the patterns.
At every level of consciousness, there are many lessons to be learned. Someday we might be able to catalog these lessons. But even if there was a comprehensive list of the lessons everyone would eventually need to face at each level of consciousness, there would be no predicting which lesson you would need to face at any given stage in development. Personal growth is personal. You learn through your own inner experience, not by studying a cognitive report of inner experience. There is not now, nor could there ever be, a sequential curriculum that is the same for everyone.
To fully understand this concept of lessons, you must ponder your beliefs about the nature of life. Who says there are lessons? Who determined these lessons? How are learning situations set up? Who says you must learn them? What happens if you refuse to learn? How long do you have to complete the learning process? And so on… These are profound questions of faith.
To learn lessons, in the pursuit of Higher Consciousness and Enlightenment, you must also challenge your faith, simultaneously undertaking the lessons on another aspect of being. You do not need to practice advanced emotional skills until you have mastered the basic emotional skills. In fact, you will not be able to do so. But you can begin to see how, when you raise the skill level of your emotional aspect, your consciousness will rise to the next least developed aspect and demand that you learn additional skills there too. Next, the issue of “issues.”
©2005, 2004 BEing There Enlightenment Systems, Inc.
By Stephen BE
Chapter 11. Lessons
While an issue is the disharmonious experience you have of a situation, and requires specific skills to discover, claim and enact your Personal Truth, a lesson is the broader application of what you learn from an issue. The issues are indicators of when a lesson is present. The lessons are the steps needed for your growth. When you deal with an issue, you have settled a situation to the point where you no longer feel disharmony. When you learn the lessons imbedded in an issue, you no longer need to re-experience that same issue. Knowing and continuously addressing current lessons in your life, can often preclude the need to create specific issues.
Learning to identify lessons is an advanced emotional skill. It can only occur through consistent use of the basic emotional skills. You learn to see lessons by recognizing the patterns in your issues. You must be able to deal with your issues effectively as they arise, before you can make sense of the patterns.
At every level of consciousness, there are many lessons to be learned. Someday we might be able to catalog these lessons. But even if there was a comprehensive list of the lessons everyone would eventually need to face at each level of consciousness, there would be no predicting which lesson you would need to face at any given stage in development. Personal growth is personal. You learn through your own inner experience, not by studying a cognitive report of inner experience. There is not now, nor could there ever be, a sequential curriculum that is the same for everyone.
To fully understand this concept of lessons, you must ponder your beliefs about the nature of life. Who says there are lessons? Who determined these lessons? How are learning situations set up? Who says you must learn them? What happens if you refuse to learn? How long do you have to complete the learning process? And so on… These are profound questions of faith.
To learn lessons, in the pursuit of Higher Consciousness and Enlightenment, you must also challenge your faith, simultaneously undertaking the lessons on another aspect of being. You do not need to practice advanced emotional skills until you have mastered the basic emotional skills. In fact, you will not be able to do so. But you can begin to see how, when you raise the skill level of your emotional aspect, your consciousness will rise to the next least developed aspect and demand that you learn additional skills there too. Next, the issue of “issues.”
©2005, 2004 BEing There Enlightenment Systems, Inc.
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