Welcome to Notes!  But can you truly discover what is new and important in all this if you try to take this learning journey without unburdening yourself of your accumulated knowledge, struggles and experiences to date?  To discover the new, the old pattern has to be broken-up and reconfigured.  There is no real journey without a learning cycle of deconstruction and reconstruction.  There can be no dogmatic clinging to a final doctrine or formulated pattern of action.  Both study and practice of Yoga must be periodically taken-apart and renewed with an even better pattern within a more enlightened understanding. The new does not require that you be constantly shattered mentally and physically, but only now and then at the right times.  To really know the right times for deconstruction and consolidation of a reconstruction is of the deepest importance.  Historically, this is why enlightened teachers have usually been necessary. Make sure you understand the concept of a learning cycle before you go on to the next note.

This note now wants to introduce you more deeply and extensively to the deconstruction phase of the cycle of learning. It has to do with when you know you are stuck in a spiritual rut about your learning and development.   It means that you can somehow recognize that urgently necessary new truth is not going to conform to your present committed path or pattern of belief and activity.  New truth is necessarily pathless, but it will necessarily fit wonderfully into the new path ahead once it is fully understood.  We are not trying to perceive any immediate construction, form or path in our opening to new truth.  The old must voluntarily deconstruct for new truth to dawn in our awareness at the right time later.

This note means your mind is becoming quiet in the light of new truth about learning as a cycle within genuine higher awareness. Go very carefully into the next note.   If you rush into it, you will spoil something of incredible importance for your future.

You are now in a position to see how great your blockage against new truth can be.  Do you see how the mind of the brain wants to dominate all this with its usual confusion, effort, struggle or reaction coming from the old established mental pattern and behavioral habits?   Do you see how the old wants to interfere with the new and control it when it cannot get rid of it? Do you see how your previous knowledge and cumulative or maintenance learning are still preventing enlightened and innovative learning?   And, before you go on to the next note, try to see why it is easier to perceive the learning problem in others than in yourself.

This note wants you to be very clear how accumulative knowledge and maintenance learning or reinforcement of the old pattern with new facts is not a real awakening in the Unknown, not the significant, greater newness of truth.  Make sure this point is clear before proceeding to the next note.  Is it clear?

If you want to seek the urgently important new truth in the real Unknown with heightened awareness, you must suspend your entire pattern of present beliefs and disbeliefs, of acceptance and rejection.  Can you do this?  Will you do this?  Or will you just try to use Notes to reinforce your usual opinions?  This is the significant challenge you are facing before the next Note Session.  It is not going to cooperate with your usual trips about all this.

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