The sixth session of 59th round of the Academy Branch Workshops was held on 8 June, 2017 at 15:45 p.m., this meeting was held by Mr. Amin as the master and Mrs. Zahra as the secretary and the weekly agenda was "The tenth valley and its effect on me"
Mr. Amin: I hope you all success and prosperity. I hope you have experienced a fruitful Ramadan. In this year, we have achieved several things and it was a good experience. We encouraged some people to go on fast even for some percent (to fast for some extent), we experimented on it and we got good results. This type of fasting can increase people's tolerance point and fast will change from a very hard work to an easy one. This is our art to change difficult things into easy ones. If the work is applicable to someone (one that a person can do) and if it makes the person interested in doing that work, it will be applicable. We should do the work with love and we should enjoy doing that. The negative forces act quite opposite. They make an issue complex and insoluble. And they act in a way that they make grudge and hatred in the person. Just like a child who is forced to pray in 4 a.m. If we do an activity ad we earn more energy than we have spent, this activity will be continuous.
The tenth valley reads "Human beings' past attributes don’t remain the same because, he is constantly changing." However, nowadays they do not believe in this sentence. They claim some diseases are not curable. They do not say we are not able to cure them, but they are incurable. They claim that addiction is a progressive, mysterious and incurable disease meaning that the past attribute is not changeable; if a person has the trait of being an addict, they cannot change this trait at all. On the contrary, Congress60 believes the past trait including addiction can change. In the tenth valley, it has been stated that any problem has its own solution, we must seek for that solution to solve it.
Why are only human beings capable of changing their past traits? Because, they have the authority. What distinguishes human beings from other creatures is authority. Past attributes are not changeable for other creatures, for instance a lion which is a predator cannot change its attribute of hunting and eating meat; it cannot be domesticated and eat vegetables.
What is "authority"? When we hear this word, we think of our desires, I want to eat either cheese and bread or soup. This is my conscious selection, now we want to see how this authority exists in other creatures. All the creatures have wisdom and Self; however, human beings have authority in addiction. On the basis of Unified Self triangle, a human beings consists of three sides of Self, Soul and Jdinn. And this is unique to human beings. It can be concluded that other creatures have their own wants. In other creatures, the most important want is sought, meaning that if an animal is hungry or thirsty, they will follow their wants, if their fear is more than their thirst or hunger, they will not seek for water or food. But in human beings, the stronger want does not take priority over other wants. When we are on fast, we get very thirsty or hungry, but we do not quench our thirst or hunger. Or we may feel very sleepy, but we wake up in the morning to drink our OT (Opium Tincture). The difference between human beings and animals is that in human beings the stronger want is not always sought. If human beings follow their stronger want, their position will lower down even lower than an animal. Human or animal is their name, they are attributes. If human beings and animals always follow their wants, they become the same in property or trait. We mean the same when it is said that human beings lower their position to animals. Animals may hurt other animals as they respond to their wants, human beings either can make devilish plans against others and thy become more dangerous than animals.
The tenth valley states that you cannot hold your position for ever, you cannot say that I will not try or do more. When we acquire a position, I cannot hold it forever, but this is not the same for animals. If we had not the tenth valley, we would not try anymore to keep our position or achievements. This valley tells us that if you want to keep your acquired position you should try. It warns that if you take a wrong step or do not try, you will lose everything you have achieved.
This is an antidote for pride. In Congress60, when we get pupils, we may feel proud of ourselves. This valley tells us that you are always in need of learning more and more. Whatever you have got is the result of your own efforts. However, if you do not try more, you will lose your position very soon.
Another point is for the opposite group who have lost everything they had once. This valley is also for those who have lost their money, position, physical strength or morals to the lowest possible situation. Everything is disappointing to them. This valley acts another way for these people. This masterpiece of this valley is that it can help all the people (both proud or disappointed), those who have achieved everything and those who have lost everything. A masterpiece cycle also is depicted in the end of this valley. This cycle tells us now that you have realized you have a bad trait and you want to put it right, you have to have "healthy thinking". A drug abuser firstly learns to think appropriately as they enter Congress60. The result of healthy thinking is that they feel they need a trainer.
After "healthy thinking" we come to "healthy faith" in the cycle. In the healthy thinking, they understand that they are in need of a teacher. In the second step (healthy faith), they become faithful to Congress60. They believe that they will definitely be liberated from addiction in Congress60. After surrendering to Congress60, it is healthy action's turn. They obey all the orders and instructions, everything prescribed by their guide. Then, their senses become healthy and healthy senses are the key to "healthy wisdom" which leads to right thinking. In the last chain of the cycle, "healthy love" will appear. As a result of "healthy love", Congress60's members and guides love all the creatures. Only after passing these steps, one can realize true love. When a person loves others, it means that their past attributes have changed, all the past attributes have been ruined now.
Therefore, the cycle of change must go through these steps. This cycle is necessary for all the traits to change including addiction, jealousy and etc… The last chain of this cycle is "love" which is mentioned in the tenth valley.
Translated by Elahe
