THE LAW OF THREE (88) NOTICING

 

LAW OF THREE (88) NOTICING

 

The next world is not like the popular idea of somewhere we shall enter after death.  It is the next world of here and now.  It is only closed to us because we have become almost totally conditioned to living in the world of these sense perceptions and the thinking which is an illusory and not even an existing world.

J.G. Bennett. 

 

There is a kind of information that at times enters our awareness in the form of a sudden noticing of something we have been looking for which was near us all the time. The change from noticing to not noticing is not a causal phenomenon.  It arises unexpectedly and almost accidentally.

We may be sitting in front of a key ring that we have been looking for for weeks, but we are not noticing it. Our conscious connection to the key-ring is missing.  When we suddenly notice it, an instantaneous change in our awareness occurs. We are aware and present.  Where were we before we noticed the key ring?

To Notice the unexpected, we need to be present and receptive.  The unexpected is 3rd force.  I often walk up and down our little house in a wakeful and receptive mood, hoping for the revelation of treasures hidden before my eyes.  Suddenly I notice a suspicious little crack in a wall, a lost postcard, the strange figure in a picture.  All these objects are calling me and filling me with energy to respond.

Noticing is freely given. It is nothing we can do.  In noticing, our attention has to be free to receive.  Noticing breaks the duality that we are locked into and brings space and colour into our daily lives.  It is only when we notice that we have the possibility of choosing and changing the course of our lives.

“Noticing enters our lives from another dimension or another world.  It is one of the simplest ways that influences from a higher world come into this world.”  J.G. Bennet.

 

 

THE LAW OF THREE (87) WAITING

 

THE LAW OF THREE (87)  WAITING

 

Receptivity is not inactivity. It is real activity but with no effort in the ordinary sense of the word.   If you want to call it effort. keep in mind that it is totally unlike any other kind of effort.  It is simply an attitude of waiting for the Ultimate Mystery.   

 

Thomas Keating   Open  Mind Open Heart.

 

 

Antony Blake: One imagines that being able to wait is such a small thing; but it is so powerful, so fundamental.  To be able to wait "until the time is right" can transform everything.  It seems as you are doing nothing:  but this this precisely what you have to "do".  If you can wait attentively without doing anything while the attention is consciously waiting, then insights may enter from another order.

 

As carriers of the 3rd or reconciling force we have power to hold the space between two opposing forces.  Without the separation of force 1 and force 2 and waiting with conscious attention (3^rd force), true discrimination and decision cannot enter the triad.   But before waiting there must be acceptance of the situation we are facing without taking sides.   Acceptance enables us to stand between the conflicting sides trusting that higher insights may enter our awareness.

 

When the power of waiting is not present in our life, the three dimensional space world in which we live is incomplete.  It does not offer us the ground of "silent waiting"  where the will (our true I) can develop. 

 

Conscious waiting enables us to rest and act at the same time because it is rooted at the still source of rest and action, .

 

Grounded in conscious waiting we may be able to discern the difference between the chatter of the ego and the voice of the deeper Self, 

 

 Receptive Waiting may be referred to the practice of exercising our ears to hear the voice of our deeper Self.