Going Deeper part 1
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edited to bring clarification to certain points of the dialogue and
for easier readability. For this reason, it does not match the corresponding
audio mp3 word-for-word. However, the overall content and the expressed
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One Problem One Solution
The first topic of discussion: One problem, one solution
– Salvation is accomplished. Our dialogue begins with a discussion
of lesson 79, “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.”
“W-79.1. A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it
is. Even if it is really solved already you will still have the problem,
because you will not recognize that it has been solved. This is the
situation of the world. The problem of separation, which is really the
only problem, has already been solved. Yet the solution is not recognized
because the problem is not recognized.
W-79.2. Everyone in this world seems to have his own special problems.
Yet they are all the same, and must be recognized as one if the one
solution that solves them all is to be accepted. Who can see that a
problem has been solved if he thinks the problem is something else?
Even if he is given the answer, he cannot see its relevance.
W-79.3. That is the position in which you find yourself now. You have
the answer, but you are still uncertain about what the problem is. A
long series of different problems seems to confront you, and as one
is settled the next one and the next arise. There seems to be no end
to them. There is no time in which you feel completely free of problems
and at peace.
W-79.4. The temptation to regard problems as many is the temptation
to keep the problem of separation unsolved. The world seems to present
you with a vast number of problems, each requiring a different answer.
This perception places you in a position in which your problem solving
must be inadequate, and failure is inevitable.
W-79.5. No one could solve all the problems the world appears to hold.
They seem to be on so many levels, in such varying forms and with such
varied content, that they confront you with an impossible situation.
Dismay and depression are inevitable as you regard them. Some spring
up unexpectedly, just as you think you have resolved the previous ones.
Others remain unsolved under a cloud of denial, and rise to haunt you
from time to time, only to be hidden again but still unsolved.
W-79.6. All this complexity is but a desperate attempt not to recognize
the problem, and therefore not to let it be resolved. If you could recognize
that your only problem is separation, no matter what form it takes,
you could accept the answer because you would see its relevance. Perceiving
the underlying constancy in all the problems that seem to confront you,
you would understand that you have the means to solve them all. And
you would use the means, because you recognize the problem.
W-79.7. In our longer practice periods today we will ask what the problem
is, and what is the answer to it. We will not assume that we already
know. We will try to free our minds of all the many different kinds
of problems we think we have. We will try to realize that we have only
one problem, which we have failed to recognize. We will ask what it
is, and wait for the answer. We will be told. Then we will ask for the
solution to it. And we will be told.
W-79.8. The exercises for today will be successful to the extent to
which you do not insist on defining the problem. Perhaps you will not
succeed in letting all your preconceived notions go, but that is not
necessary. All that is necessary is to entertain some doubt about the
reality of your version of what your problems are. You are trying to
recognize that you have been given the answer by recognizing the problem,
so that the problem and the answer can be brought together and you can
be at peace.
W-79.9. The shorter practice periods for today will not be set by time,
but by need. You will see many problems today, each one calling for
an answer. Our efforts will be directed toward recognizing that there
is only one problem and one answer. In this recognition are all problems
resolved. In this recognition there is peace.
W-79.10. Be not deceived by the form of problems today. Whenever any
difficulty seems to rise, tell yourself quickly:
Let me recognize this problem so it can be solved.
Then try to suspend all judgment about what the problem is. If possible,
close your eyes for a moment and ask what it is. You will be heard and
you will be answered.”
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