Saturday June 8th
2013 Workshop 10: I need do nothing (T18 VII and W337)
Wake up, the Course tells us. There is much to do, and we have been long delayed (T15 XI 10). To
help arouse us from the stupor of self-delusion, it gives us over a thousand
pages of mind-changing ideas, including a workbook of 365 specific lessons to do, tells us exactly how
to go about it, and urges us to get on with it. This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical
application (T11 VIII 5).
And all this, the whole Course itself, is only a nudge in the right
direction, it tells us, just a beginning. From here on, the Course
assures us repeatedly, you will be told
exactly what to do (T9 V 8, W47 3, SII 3.5); for there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open (T20
IV 8). Why waste any more time being unsure, unhappy, prejudiced, fearful and
aggrieved, when there is a better use for time?
Yet even as the Course encourages us to ask what to do, and tells
us what to do, and keeps reminding us to do it, it also reassures. Time is
kind. Forgive your limitations. You need
do nothing...But surely this contradicts its whole teaching. Do nothing? Only
remember to remember a given lesson, every fifteen minutes of the day. Only love
the person you can't stand. Only be content when everything goes wrong. On the
one hand the Course is so demanding that it seems impossible to do what it asks
of us, and then it tells us there is nothing to do.
So how does I need do
nothing help us to pay the bills and meet all the other practical and
emotional needs that arise?
This is the last workshop in this present series. We will be
looking at what we have (not) done over the past year and what we are (not)
going to do in the coming months. If you can join us, I look forward to seeing
you. Either way, have a happy summer.
Saturday 8th June, 10.30 am - 2.30 pm, Harrow Way, Andover SP10 3RQ. £15 Contact anna@unlearningschool.com
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