Issue: What’s Enlightenment?
Thanks for wondering the questions which come to the mind, even though they appear “fairly peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all observed pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness appeared to create the misperception named pain.
Pain was the dream that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If suffering is true there’s number God. If God is actual there’s number pain.”(W-190.3) The latter holds true since God doesn’t have opposite. Enlightenment entails number suffering or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Genuine, Constant Happiness, Peace, Flexibility, and Joy. Being Regular, Enlightenment knows perhaps not of change. The dream of susceptibility and changing thoughts moved as well. There’s number pride to drop “straight back into.” Nature Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Now and nothing stays but a blessing of Stillness.
The Holy Soul is the reminder that Living is Eternal. The Provide Time could be the gateway to Eternity. The entire world of pictures was a full world of illusion. Photos are therefore natural to the Sacred Spirit. They certainly were “neutralized” the immediate they seemed to arise acim.
What does that mean in terms of your second issue? You can’t eliminate what has never existed, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness hurt is impossible. Bodies were never created and never die since the world of pictures could be the past. It’s impossible to locate origins and endings in a script that’s previously written and around extended ago. There’s no life in images. This is the meaning of “Maintain no graven pictures ahead of the Lord Thy God.” All photographs were designed to hidden the Reality from recognition, and they could only be forgiven together illusion. If illusions might be divided up in to living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment will be impossible. For what is Enlightenment but Real Oneness, far beyond the possibility of division of any sort? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the separate brain to types and call some types alive and some forms dead. God knows perhaps not form. The split brain seemed to be the “killer” dream, the Sacred Spirit reminds the resting mind that what’s whole and unified cannot BE split. In Paradise Brain is One Soul, and also pertaining to this earth forgiveness shows this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the recovered brain and sees that there is nothing “outside” of the single mind which dreams lightly a happy, gentle dream. The goal of ACIM would be to desire gently of a sinless world. That aim is more than possible, it is inevitable!
In terms of my appearing diet, “consume what is served” could be the Guidance I was given from the Holy Nature many years ago. Join together with your brother and allow no principle come involving the Love you share. That Advice has not changed. “Dinner” is obviously a background for sharing the Joy of the Residing Moment. What the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are really the same in the Enlightened State. The Recovered Perception sees the sameness of everything since all of them reveal the same Function: forgiveness. This Perception isn’t “personal,” for in single notion nothing is personal. God is no respecter of persons. I virtually can not “take” an animal’s “life” since Life is Soul and can only just be prolonged or Provided as God Gives. “Take” doesn’t have indicating in my own mind and since creatures have not “lived” it’s impossible that they might “die.” The belief expressed in the thought “privately get an animal’s life” has several underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness it is obvious that a few ideas are increased as they are provided out or distributed, and “taking” a “life” or anything at all doesn’t have meaning. All that I give is given to mySelf, and in giving there is no loss, number compromise, and nothing is actually removed from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not need something that cannot be given away. Such could be the Joy of miracles! The thought vegetables appear to be flung everywhere, however there is never a glance back again to see where in fact the vegetables land. The vegetables are never for an “different,” and since offering and getting are the exact same the mind receives the presents it gives. That is really the feast you seek for underneath the ego’s questions.
The only real problem that require be asked is a issue that is not necessarily silly at all: Am I ready to know that God’s Can and My Own will be the Same? God’s May for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but that Will could be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Timeless Love. Thank You God!