Seven Pillars of Enlightenment
Seven Pillars of Enlightenment by Harry Palmer introduces seven mini-courses, each corresponding to a Pillar of Enlightenment. Each Pillar addresses an aspect of human consciousness to empower and awaken abilities that already exist within you. It is designed as a workbook with exercises, readings, and easy to follow checklists.
Explore one or all of the mini-courses:
Pillar 1: Awareness - Basic Attention Management
Pillar 2: Insight - Belief Management
Pillar 3: Determination - Basic Will
Pillar 4: Perspective - Creating Definition
Pillar 5: Compassion - The Forgiveness Option
Pillar 6: Integrity - Personal Integrity.
Pillar 7: Alignment - Basic Life Alignment
More about each mini-course:
Pillar 1: Awareness - Basic Attention Management
The objective is to increase control over one's attention, with an expected result of increased free attention and a recovery of self-determinism. The course explores the idea that peace of mind is achieved by gaining command of one's attention.
Pillar 2: Insight - Belief Management
The objective is to explore and understand the relationship between your beliefs and your experiences. Beliefs can be managed and modified, and invisible or indoctrinated beliefs are the root causes of individual suffering. Discover how your beliefs are creating your life - and how to change them.
Pillar 3: Determination - Basic Will
The objective is to increase understanding of the functioning of will. Mastery of will is essential to control of mind and attention. Use tools that bring awareness and strengthen your inner determination.
Pillar 4: Perspective - Creating Definition
The objective is to illustrate the nature of being, its creative abilities, and the nature of definitions. Creating new things in the physical universe involves changing, moving, or recombining - learn how to use these abilities.
Pillar 5: Compassion - The Forgiveness Option
The objective is to explore and understand the consequences and the process of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a series of four steps to restore one's own peace of mind. Learn how it works and how to free yourself from the past.
Pillar 6: Integrity - Personal Integrity.
The objective is to become completely honest with yourself and take ownership of your experiences. Honesty is a path to happiness and self-renewal.
Pillar 7: Alignment - Basic Life Alignment
The objective is to explore the relationship between attention, motivation, and goal setting for the purpose of aligning with your life's purpose. Set a Right-For-You Goals that bring you to life.
Excerpt
There are word lessons and there are world lessons. A word lesson is an effort to convey an experience via spoken or written symbols. A word lesson can be informative or enjoyable or inspiring. A word lesson is an expression of someone’s belief. A word lesson can be a very nice thing, but it should not be confused with a world lesson.
A world lesson is something that you live through. It’s something you encounter and deal with in life. And from the world lesson you emerge changed, more experienced, wiser. A world lesson is an experience. It does not require translation into symbols or sounds for you to remember it. It becomes part of what you know, of how you define yourself to yourself. A word lesson seldom has this impact.
A world lesson becomes a word lesson as soon as it is expressed. What you know becomes a belief as soon as it is expressed. A word lesson can convey descriptions and instructions, but as far as experience, it is a pale substitute.
Your study of the mini-courses begins as a word lesson describing exercises and conveying instructions, but as you participate, it changes to a world lesson. The word lessons of the mini-courses are insignificant compared to the world lessons you create by your participation.
So, go beyond reading the words. Seek an experiential clarity of what is encountered. Bring it into your tent and try it on. If you’ve been studying about the taste of apples, go eat an apple.