September/Chapter/Manual-Question 14 on Lesson Two

The course is often described as an aid to unlearn everything we believe to be true. What we have chosen to learn has formed our view of everything we see and is used as a means to form our view of what we have yet to see.

Lesson two is the second step of unlearning the use of judgement, which is based on past experiences, to understand what we are seeing. It is the practice of honestly looking at any and all things as they are now, and admitting that we have uniquely defined what we see by our own individual and private (i.e., hidden) measures.

As with every chapter, chapter 14, in part, reemphasizes the honesty theory behind the lesson:

C14:11:3:2–8: Learning has been accomplished before its effects are manifest. Learning is therefore in the past, but its influence determines the present by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you. Your learning gives the present no meaning at all. Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past. Your past is what you have taught yourself. Let it all go. Do not attempt to understand any event or anything or anyone in its "light," for the darkness in which you try to see can only obscure.

How we "let it all go" is to reaffirm the aim, and to state both the goal and the plan for overcoming it:

C14:11:6:6–9: [The aim:] When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself: [the goal] I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.

Lesson 2 is part of the plan that we believe in and put into action.

That's the classic 5-step achievement process.

Aaron