Question: Good morning, my Friend. What would you share with a mind addicted to fear and judgment?
Answer: Relax into yourself, and realize that addiction is only illusion. The undercurrent wave that drives all things is love. Fear and judgment are only surface thoughts covering up the love of all that is. But since the surface is surfacy, like dust on furniture, it takes no effort to look beyond the surface to the undercurrent wave. You can see the dust and the furniture beneath it. You know which has true substance, which is foundational, and which is fleeting and meaningless.
The key is not to kill the fear and judgment. We are not here to extinguish anything. The key is to look through it to what is really there, what is truly guiding, what is honestly happening now. When you look beneath the surface of your mind, filled with its meaningless chatter, crazy fears and useless judgments, you find the heart. The heart is strong and solid, and you have uncovered the buried treasure enough to know it and feel it in any moment. It is merely a shift in what you listen to that is required. Shift your ears…your attention and belief…from your surface-thinking to your heart-knowing.
Surface-thinking is louder, but heart-knowing is more foundational. Surface thinking comes from not-knowing and fear. Heart-knowing is knowing and so it is solid in trust, even when the knowing seems to be a state of not-knowing now. It is the knowing beneath the not-knowing. It is the solidity of knowing, “I am love and I am driven by love. I do not know why I am doing this now, but I know this action comes from love because I am love and love drives me now.”
Surface-thinking will interpret that same action as coming from fear, but you can easily dive below the surface and find your current action always comes from love because love is what you are.
Question: Tell me how to do this, please.
Answer: The first step is to step away from thinking. As you pointed out yesterday, the thinking mind is learning right ideas and it will use them in fear to hide from its own judgments. This is all surface and being caught up in the surface so that the reality of the foundation is dreamed of but not known. We do not want to bring reality into the dream as an idea. We want to sit in it as a known, even as we experience the dream.
So the first step is to step away from thinking. This is done through remembering. You remember that you truly want to know the known now. You want to feel it, not think it. You want to know it beyond the words that come and go through the thinking mind.
An idea that will help you to settle into knowing is the idea that you want to settle into the truth of yourself. Put no thinking to this idea. Put no thinking into what the truth of yourself might be. Just know it is what you want, and it will be done. You will feel it; you will touch it; you will know it. And when you feel that certainty of the love that you are, you will know also that thinking of that truth is not the same as knowing that truth. This is why you want to move beyond thinking to knowing as an experience. Because thinking is not a substitute for the absolute that is knowing.
Knowing becomes better known as you simply want to know more. You do this by wanting without thinking and by knowing that the thinking you see is not knowing, so you gently and easily shift your listening from what thinking says to what knowing knows.