{"id":341,"date":"2025-07-27T05:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.co.za\/?p=341"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:32:49","slug":"les-12-ek-voel-onsteld-omdat-ek-n-betekenislose-wereld-sien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/les-12-ek-voel-onsteld-omdat-ek-n-betekenislose-wereld-sien\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 12 - I am upset because I see a meaningless world."},"content":{"rendered":"

1. The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion. 2<\/sup>You think that what upsets you is a frightening world, or a sad world, or a violent world, or an insane world. 3<\/sup>All these attributes are given it by you. 4<\/sup>The world is meaningless in itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. These exercises are done with eyes open. 2<\/sup>Look around you, this time quite slowly. 3<\/sup>Try to pace yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. 4<\/sup>Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter, but try, instead, to keep a measured, even tempo throughout. 5<\/sup>What you see does not matter. 6<\/sup>You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rests on equal attention and equal time. 7<\/sup>This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. As you look about you, say to yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02<\/sup>Ek dink ek sien \u2019n angswekkende w\u00eareld, \u2019n gevaarlike w\u00eareld, \u2019n vyandige w\u00eareld, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u2019n treurige w\u00eareld, \u2019n bose w\u00eareld, \u2019n mal w\u00eareld,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and so on, using whatever descriptive terms happen to occur to you. 3<\/sup>If terms which seem positive rather than negative occur to you, include them. 4<\/sup>For example, you might think of \u201ca good world,\u201d or \u201ca satisfying world.\u201d 5<\/sup>If such terms occur to you, use them along with the rest. 6<\/sup>You may not yet understand why these \u201cnice\u201d adjectives belong in these exercises but remember that a \u201cgood world\u201d implies a \u201cbad\u201d one, and a \u201csatisfying world\u201d implies an \u201cunsatisfying\u201d one. 7<\/sup>All terms which cross your mind are suitable subjects for today\u2019s exercises. 8<\/sup>Their seeming quality does not matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Be sure that you do not alter the time intervals between applying today\u2019s idea to what you think is pleasant and what you think is unpleasant. 2<\/sup>For the purposes of these exercises, there is no difference between them. 3<\/sup>At the end of the practice period, add:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              4<\/sup>But I am upset because I see a meaningless world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. 2<\/sup>Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? 3<\/sup>If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy. 4<\/sup>But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. 5<\/sup>It is this you see in it. 6<\/sup>It is this that is meaningless in truth. 7<\/sup>Beneath your words is written the Word of God. 8<\/sup>The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. 9<\/sup>That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Three or four times is enough for practicing the idea for today. 2<\/sup>Nor should the practice periods exceed a minute. 3<\/sup>You may find even this too long. 4<\/sup>Terminate the exercises whenever you experience a sense of strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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