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Congratulations on making it here and managing the program so far. You are doing really well.
You may have experienced, perhaps to your surprise that it has been much easier than you expected to stick to your daily allowance. The key issue is to employ your intelligence. Use your commonsense for your own good and be open to experimenting with new ideas.
This life is yours, and it is you who should be calling the shots, you should be the master. |
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There's an ancient story, an old fable about the state of man. It uses the simile of a house where the master is absent for a very long time.
Living in the house all by themselves, the servants became careless and impudent. The cook decided he'd rather be a gardener and he was doing an atrocious job of it, the maid was fooling around with the stable boy, and no-one cared when mold spread through the unaired rooms, dust lay on the furniture and mice were invading the larder. With such carelessness the house naturally turned into a mess. To kill time, the servants invented a game where each in turn pretended he or she was the master of the house, bossing everybody else around. But since they were all just pretenders, no-one really assumed responsibility.
When the master is away from home for a long period, the servants do just what they like, abusing their duties and the tasks they were entrusted with. But with such disgrace prevailing, the master cannot return to his home and is doomed to stay in exile until order is restored. To do that, a head-servant is sent to call for order and maintain it. The head-servant must be scrupulous and fierce - as it is a hundred folds more difficult to restore the control that was lost than to maintain it.
Nevertheless, if the head-servant is loyal, sincere and determined, the job can be done. And once order is restored and each servant abides to the house's rules, a general clean up can be performed and the master then invited to return home. |
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This ancient fable carries an important teaching - the servants represent our different mental faculties that have declared independence. We consist of many, many different 'I's', and each 'I' in its turn thinks and acts as if he's the boss. It is a state of chaos: one 'I' says it will commit to a certain thing at night, but in the morning it is another 'I' that has no intention of meeting that commitment. In such a state it is quite impossible to manage the house's affairs properly, and the only solution is to call for a 'head-servant' to reinstall order before the 'master' returns. The head-servant is your awareness and the master is no other but - YOU.
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