School of Hard Knocks?

 You want to give God a gift? Give Him your junk.

Michael A. Singer

Michael Singer reminds us in the below linked podcast, that the entire purpose of our birth is to go back up with less than what we came down with.

What the Fork, crazy lady? 

We are here in bodily form in this carnation that we call "my life" to purify Self of samskaras? We go through what we need to go through in order to grow. Growth is all about cleaning out and learning to allow Life to blow through without resistance.  If we are full of stuffed and stored junk, Life gets all snagged up in it as it passes through.  We will then resist, react, run from, avoid, distract by seeking outward, cling and create even more junk inside for Life to get all caught up in.  We do not grow! We become heavy with "worldly things". We go back up with more than what we came down with. This life...this incarnation becomes a wasted round.

It is a wasted round to go back up with more...

Earth is a school where souls come to evolve.  Just as students in a classroom are not expected to be perfect during the learning process, we are not expected to be perfect during the living process. It is a given that we will make mistakes, hand in messy work, fall behind and fail even.  We may get to the end of our school life without getting what we were here to get. And that is okay. We just come back andpick up where you left off. As long as we go back up with a little less junk than we came down with...we have grown.

You lose nothing of what you gained in your disciplined life

"I am not here to be perfect or not have trouble...I am here to learn."

So, in this school of "hard knocks" we are going to go through many challenges etc. Sometimes it will seem like we are being punished by Life...like the Universal Teacher is picking on us and making it hard for us to learn. The human we are in may convince itself and others that it had such a "hard life" for random reasons...but that is not the case.

Your past is the definition of what you needed to go through!

Everything you go through is not "personal" but at the same time it is there for your learning. 

You go through what God puts you through...

Each circumstance, each challenge, each so called "hardship" is there to test you in some way.

 Not about what happened ....it is about how you handle what happened

Your intent is to let go and release samskaras...your purpose is to do your best to relax into what is.

As we open to each challenge, accepting what Life gives us , seeing it as there for our learning...we will learn with each challenge, we will get better in our attempt to relax despite the tendency we have  to protect ourself. We will eventually resist less and accept more. We will start offering the samskaras up to Life circumstance...and utter things to the Universal Teacher like "Bring it on...and take this from me. too". We will advance in this school when we do this.

Every single situation is an opportunity to let go of yourself. 

All is well!

Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sunds True ( Septemeber, 2025) The Perfect School: Life as the Path to Liberation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSt0R662xw&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1&t=114s