In the name of Allah
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This way and journey can be the journey of nicotine (treatment)
The 9th session of the first round of Congress 60 virtual educational workshops for fellow travelers in Zal Pars branch was held by Ms. Zahra, a guide of William White’s legion (nicotine treatment), as the master of the ceremony, the agenda was “the Eighth Valley (the Path Is Revealed with Progress) and its Effect on Me”
Master’s speech:
The agenda of this week's meeting is “the path is revealed with progress”. Nothing is created in inertia, inertia produces nothing, everything takes shape with movement and then structures emerge and creatures are created and travel starts in different Rings of Creation and continues [Congress 60 believes that other hidden Universes or Rings of Creation have been created which cannot be dicerened using our bare eyes and even highly-developed telescopes].
This valley reminds me that Satan is my greatest enemy and since the Beginning Day of Creation, I’ve made a pact with the Supreme Power (God) to carry out the commands of my Lord; and with joy and honor, to return to the point from which I’ve diverged once upon a time. But in this path, I always find myself at a crossroads, either I should choose the devil, who has a very deceptive appearance and a very terrifying inside, or I should traverse the path of light and divinity, and this journey is quite adventurous.
This expression that “the path is revealed with progress” is a rule and this is the rule of the straight path and how beautifully Attar Neishaboori (a great Iranian poet) described this law: “if you are the man of battles, you must pass through the battlefield filled with blood; if your feet are tired, you must crawl the rest of the way; you step on the path and don’t say anything, the path itself will tell you how to continue the journey”.
This way and journey can be the journey of nicotine treatment. Like any other journeys, for this journey, you are faced with two ways on your path, either you continue the wrong action and destroy your body, and instead of solving your problems, you destroy your body and do all kinds of anti-values such as smoking hookah and cigarettes or having negative feelings like despair, fear, etc. or you choose the other way that is treatment and learning to surf when the waves of problems rush towards you, learn how to solve them and act like a standing and strong tree.
These choices are always on our way, but I have to go through this mountainous area with a map and equipment, a guide is also available to me, I put the CD of “Cigarettes and Replacement” in my backpack [I listen to this CD] and I also apply the CD of“Wisdom and Faith” and start moving and I have to set my mind to this point that when I want to march, it is not required to gather all the information about the journey, I shouldn’t expect to know all the details, for example how many turns this road has, as it is impossible to predict everything that might happen along the way. This means that what I imagine can be very different from reality and when theory is put into action, many of our calculations could have a different outcome.
In this situation, the eighth valley tells me “do not be afraid in the journey of nicotine treatment, do not worry and just move. Definitely in moving, the path will be revealed. Take action, others will also come to help you”.
I have to consider some important points to move on this journey: First, my goal must be clear. Is my goal to be healthy and achieve full treatment or do I have another goal? Because sometimes we don’t even know what we want along the way, do I want to cure my nicotine addiction?
Another point is that when the goal or desire is determined, I should strive to reach my goal, like a thirsty person striving for water. I must constantly pay attention to my goal and concentrate on it fully. We must mention that reaching some goals requires a great amount of time. It takes also ten months for my nicotine cure journey to be performed, like planting a tree which needs caring through time to produce a crop.
The third point is that, along the way I will be confronted with multiple ways. These ways are fallen into two major groups: values and disvalues, or vices and divine and which way will I choose? Will I be attracted to cigarettes or hookah again and deviate my path without thinking and go further and further away from the right path? Like a fawn that seas delicious herb away from the main road, changes his way without thinking and takes more and more distance from the main road, or not, my goal will be to reach comfort, peace and health?
I may have done some damages to my body and psyche consciously or unconsciously, so I must pay my debts initially. First I must forgive myself and try to make amends for those damages. I should know how much I’ve hurt my family, how much the smoke of my cigarettes or hookah has done damages to my spouse and child, I must make amends.
How much damage I’ve made to the society and the enviroment, such as ashes of my hookah and cigarette I’ve thrown into nature or in the park and other places I’ve gone and smoked. Some young people have seen me smoking, modelled me and told themselves “what’s wrong if we also smoke”, in fact we haven’t respected the sanctities of the society and we’ve represented indecency of this act as decency.
I hope we will return joy and vivacity to our body, family and society with the green path of Congress 60.
Translated by Companion Sepideh, Sheikhbahaee Branch of Congress 60
Reviewe and editted by Elahe