January 08th, 2014: The primary objective of the concentration is to cause the emotions and the intellect to respond to the quiet consciousness. Then when difficult situations present themselves, our unclouded impartial understanding will see what is right.

Our biggest problem is an active consciousness. The active consciousness is like a windswept sea. We are unable gaze beyond its disturbed surface into what is true. This, basically, is a problem of the ego, in that our consciousness desires to become its own arranger of purpose and order. This type of mind is rebellious toward the purpose prepared for it to re-discover. It is always planning and seeking its own goals. A consciousness that is active is blind to what is true, and is therefore forced to make unwise discussions, with only limited outer knowledge to rely upon.

Knowledge then becomes the source material for decision. But decisions arrived at by this means can never be correct, because all unseeing decisions severe us further from our true purpose. A mind forced to make decisions is always in conflict with itself and from frustration and anger, a mist arises in the mind that further clouds our reason. First we have conflict, but as we make excuses and establish those excuses as “truth”, we have confusion.

In contrast, the mind that sees the futility of choosing its own pathway through life, through waiting patiently and watching, will become tranquil, able to perceive what is true. This is patience, or “waiting without agony”.

In perceiving what is right for each moment by the light, we begin to see a pattern of occasion coming to being. Is there any choosing in the matter of the course that your body will follow when you see where you’re going? It is only ambition that leads us to deny our spiritual commitment to and unfoldment from, the light of truth.