[From Marsha\u00a0\u00a0 When I was first introduced to this precious work, I treated it like all the other events in life including school, church, parents and peers to mention a few.\u00a0\u00a0 That is to say, I felt I must self improve to fit what they were trying to teach me.\u00a0 The ideas, however, are very different.\u00a0\u00a0 May this excerpt \u00a0be of value so that you can avoid this common trap.\u00a0 Dr Bob refers to the idea of observing what goes on in our daily events while we \u00a0use the Picture of Man (see illustrations on the website) to discover what\u2019s going on in the inner man and the inner state of being\u2026.]<\/p>\n
Here he says:<\/p>\n
There is an idea of surrender.\u00a0 We would say live with what we observe within as we use the Picture of Man without judging, condemning or justifying what we see\u2014just live with the fact without condemnation or justification.<\/p>\n
When you observe a not I within, there isn\u2019t anything you can do about it because if you try to \u201cchange\u201d what you see\u2014let\u2019s say \u201ccomplain to get your way\u201d, all you\u2019ll do is flip to the B side and try to \u201cplease everybody\u201d.\u00a0 If you try to quit\u00a0 \u201csticking up for your rights\u201d from the A side, you\u2019ll just start living and quoting your \u201cauthorities\u201d from the B side.\u00a0 If you try to quit \u201cliving by authorities\u201d, all you\u2019ll do is begin \u201csticking up for your rights\u201d.\u00a0 So all you do is jump around the Picture of Man \u2013 A side to B side and back to A side.\u00a0\u00a0 If you try to quit \u201cbeing different\u201d, why you start \u201cblaming everybody\u201d.\u00a0 And if you try to quit \u201cblaming everybody\u201d you\u2019re only trying to \u201cbe different\u201d or \u201cself improve.<\/p>\n
So nothing is gained by condemning or justifying what we observe\u2014it\u2019s just live with this fact and see that \u201cI am living by the infant mind\u201d.\u00a0 That\u00a0 infant value was set up by my ancestor — a little baby born back in wherever you were born.\u00a0 He\/she didn\u2019t know very much.\u00a0 He was naked, helpless and a whole bunch of other things, but he was pretty sharp, he made all these decisions–which was appropriate for him at that moment\u2014necessary to survive.\u00a0 He \u201chad to complain\u201d because that\u2019s the only way he could get his parents to notice him\u2014he had to beller and let them know he was hungry, wet or hurting in some way.<\/p>\n
But nobody ever gave him the opportunity to know anything about himself, and he grew little by little and never noticed that he got to be a big man or a big woman and was still working on these infant methods of getting his way or escaping the for dual basic urges (see website)\u00a0 So he only expanded these infant methods a little bit.<\/p>\n
So he sees that he can live with this and there isn\u2019t any use fightin\u2019 with it.\u00a0 Now sometimes it takes a little while to discover that we cannot alter it by main strength and awkwardness, okay?\u00a0 So that\u2019s all we can do is observe and live with it.<\/p>\n
[From Marsha\u2026You can go through the 48 basic tapes on the website to discover more about the Picture of Man and how to apply the ideas alone with many others.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The discoveries are well worth the diligence and effort.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[From Marsha\u00a0\u00a0 When I was first introduced to this precious work, I treated it like all the other events in life including school, church, parents and peers to mention a few.\u00a0\u00a0 That is to say, I felt I must self … Continue reading