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DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.
OU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.You
only entertain judgments about it and then attempt to understand your judgments.The world will reveal itself to you as you look without these restraints and limitations. In this, you will find that your beliefs can become useful in allowing you to take each next step in life.They need not limit your perception of the universe.You cannot be in the world without beliefs or assumptions.Yet, your beliefs and assumptions are meant to be tools to serve your mind, to give it a temporary structure and to allow it to engage its natural abilities in a positive manner. YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORLD TODAY. Be happy that this is so, for your condemnation is unfounded.You do not understand the world today.This gives you an opportunity to witness the world.
UPON THE HOUR REPEAT THIS IDEA as you look upon the world. Remind yourself that you do not understand what you see, so you are free to look again. If you are not free to look, it simply means that you are attempting to justify your own judgments.This is not seeing.This is merely entertaining your own fantasies. In your two deeper practice periods today, allow your mind to enter stillness, for without the burden of attempting to justify your fantasies, your mind will naturally seek its true place in service to Knowledge.You do not understand the world today, and so you do not understand yourself. PRACTICE 213: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.