The Work

The Work is very practical. It’s a full time job. Yes, at the risk of having no food, no house, no heating, no money. You’re going to lose all of that anyways. But if you are really in a proper state, a normal state, you are not going to starve or sleep outside. You don’t realize that? You still want your ’own’ ? Your own this, and your own that? Well, I’m not so sure how serious THAT is!

The Work of today is the same Work as always, but in the language and circumstances of today. It incorporates the same principles - a program for evolution. Its meaning is in an area completely different from the things usually considered. An 'unknown' area, actually - dealing with the 'next world'. Though it's unknown it can be smelt, touched or intuited at times. But it is, for the most part, unknown. So, how do you talk about the unknown?

It's the place that sustains the Work, now. There's no 'credit' in the Work. Yesterday is gone - the issue is always what is going on now

WORK is wide, not only deep. When you take aim at something through a gun-sight, you position your target in the 'cross-lines' : the horizontal line and the vertical line. The TARGET must be right where those two lines intersect. The Sign of the Cross, exactly : the Line of Time, and the Line of Eternity. One should always be aware where those lines meet.

The Work replaced the past, takes the place of the present, and indicates the future. 
The Work constitutes a cleansing agent. All molecular, atomic and sub-atomic elements are, or may be, known. But the fact that the 'solution' works is the criterion, and the exclusive concern.

There is a very important statement in the Work that is so large that no one even thinks about it, hardly. And that is:
“The only thing that can really be called thinking, is thinking from an idea.”
It’s referring to a Work Idea! It is connected with the notion of ‘the difference between looking at life through the eyes of the Work rather than looking at the Work through the eyes of life’. When you catch that difference, you can make much clearer efforts.

When you look at an issue more deeply, you are using more of your intelligence. Yeah - you’re doing the best that you know at the moment - you can never know, for sure, what the results will be!
The Work says: ’Don’t work for results, work for the sake of the Work.’

The Work is not just a lot more words thrown at this ’generalized issue’ called the ’spiritual’. It has very specific intentions and is very ’tight’ in covering the dangers and known pit-falls. It’s deceptively simple - because it’s talking Truth. One of the signs of hearing the Truth, is that when you hear it you have the feeling that you always knew it! That’s a good thing to recognize - but it’s also a good thing to watch that you don’t go to sleep in! The Truth is very simple - but staying with it is not simple! We’ve been conditioned in a totally other direction.
It takes something totally comprehensive to cut through the cold reality of the ’normal’ level we’re living at. I’ve had this image in the past: the ’Work’ being like an ice-cutter that’s used in the Arctic. They break a path through the thick ice - a V shaped-plow in the front of the boat! It is engineered in such a way that no matter where the ice hits, it cuts through. It doesn’t collapse if something, say, hits from the side. Whatever the conditions, it can break-through! And that’s how precise the Work is - it can ’cut through’ under all and any circumstances.
It has been said that the people who can work are the people who have ’magnetic center’. You’ve heard about that. Magnetic center is indicated by ’something’ in you that recognizes ’B’ influences - that which originates from a HIGHER LEVEL.
When people meet the Work - it takes over from magnetic center!

’Work’ is a little like someone in a boat. They’re in the middle of the ocean or the middle of a lake, whatever, and there’s a small hole in the bottom of the boat, the boat is slowly filling with water - and they don’t know how to swim! So what do they do? As the water rises in the boat they get down on the floor - and practice how to swim. Yeah.

The Work, in a way, is like ’avoiding the avoidance’. If your focus is on remembering yourself, in watching, in self-knowledge, self-study: to know what the mind, the heart, the body is doing. If you’re focused on ’seeing’ then you become ever less compulsively attached to the results of what’s happening. Being more objective to it you see more, because you don’t care so much - you care if it knocks you off your horse! The Work talks about: ’bringing awareness up to the level of incoming impressions’. It’s a considerable process, it’s completely different from the ’normal’ way we relate to life - more pleasure less pain, more pleasure less pain, am I getting, getting, getting, am I losing, losing, losing!