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Q #606: I have been studying A Course in Miracles since l989. My lesson more and more is that differences do not matter. Obviously this is a process and not easy. My experience is that I feel a bit shut down when I "quietly smile and do nothing". I still feel superior to others when I identify with what the Course teaches and hear what some others espouse. On the other hand, I also feel inferior when I speak with those who are on a different path, as they tend to sound very together and peaceful. I understand the Course would say that nothing needs to happen and I just need to look with Jesus on this. There certainly is a struggle between the right mind and the wrong mind, and I find that I am still predominantly in my wrong mind. It seems like such a long process. But at least I am aware of that. Could you speak to this experience? Am I mixing levels?
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>>My lesson more and more is that differences do not matter.<<
True enough, differences do not matter, but this does not mean they will not seem to matter. When they do seem to matter, it is perfectly fine to respond to them as seems appropriate or best to you at the time. This involves a lot of "seeming" interchange, but that is what the dream is about. Just remember that beyond the dream, your reality is certain, unchanging and perfect now...you have NOTHING to change or fix about yourself, despite all that seeming.
>>Obviously this is a process and not easy.<<
The type of obviousness you speak of is dreamside obviousness and is not real. This is NOT a process....and this IS easy...so easy in fact that people resist it like the plague. Why? Because they have become conditioned and have been specifically taught that something must be complex, difficult and even painfully hard to endure in order to have value. That idea is false, and the efforts expended to obey it have no value whatsoever. The truth is that the dream has only one value...that of showing you what is true, that which you are, that which specifically lies BEYOND that seeming obviousness.
>>My experience is that I feel a bit shut down when I "quietly smile and do nothing". I still feel superior to others when I identify with what the Course teaches and hear what some others espouse. On the other hand, I also feel inferior when I speak with those who are on a different path, as they tend to sound very together and peaceful.<<
Super!!! That is your dreamside experience. You need not validate it or invalidate it. It is unreal...however it seems very real, and much fear and pain can arise into the dreamside experience if you do not attend to how it seems. Just let it seem to be whatever it seems to be, and respond to it however you wish, and as freely and spontaneously as possible. Do not judge your feeling responses or behavioral responses...just know that the true self is there all the while, and that is what you are, and that is what determnies your value...not your feeling or behavioral responses.
>>I understand the Course would say that nothing needs to happen and I just need to look with Jesus on this.<<
Jesus looked to the father within. I suggest that you do the same. Your "father" is simply your true self. Look to that and know the truth of all things. It is correct that "nothing needs to happen"...and is more accurate to say that nothing does happen. But that does not remove the world of appearances that calls you to attend to it round the clock. Allow this to be so and do not resist it more than seems necessary...and know that the father is with you through it all, seeing your true and whole value, and rather than judging you for your dreamside folly (which cannot truly be seen), is simply calling you to see the love that you are. Respond to that call within, regardless of how you may choose to handle the dream's appearances....even if it seems in your judgments that you handle it poorly. If you go to the father within, that is ALL that matters.
>>There certainly is a struggle between the right mind and the wrong mind, and I find that I am still predominantly in my wrong mind. It seems like such a long process. But at least I am aware of that.<<
Your reference to "certainty" is incorrect. What you are describing...the struggle....is an example of "uncertainty"...not certainty. This is because there seems to be a right mind and a wrong mind, when in truth there is only one mind and it is wholly perfect, extending love even this very moment. The dreamside view is apparent as it is only because you have resisted the whole view your father within would show you. Thus, the idea that you are "predominantly in [your] wrong mind" is also incorrect. You have no wrong mind to be in, but are merely experiencing a mistaken use of your function, a tiny error, easily correctable, which happens to "appear" horrendously complex and difficult to correct. Again...it "seems" to be a long process...it surely does....so remember to look beyond that appearance, even while it seems this way. To say that you are "aware" of something that is not so, is also incorrect. You are experiencing the appearances which correspond to "unawareness"...not awareness. This can only come from inattention to the only thing of which you could ever be truly aware....your true self, the father within.
>>Could you speak to this experience? Am I mixing levels?<<
One could go on and on and on about levels and their mixing...but that is all about appearances. Do not worry about mixing levels, for in the dreamside view, it is absolutely impossible to not mix levels, for levels (plural) is what the dream is. It is this way for a reason...to show you what the idea of separation and its appearance-based alleged joys are about. And it eventually shows to everyone that these are changing and thus unfaithful. This unfaithfulness tempts and taunts with false visions of goal-oriented or future-oriented joy to overflowing that will last forever, and bases this upon memories of past events that never occurred, and really were not wholly joyous even when experienced in the dream. In absolutely every case, the dream proves its unfaithfulness by taking even what little seeming joy one finds, and exchanges it for seeming pain, suffering, sacrificial imagery and death. So do not worry about mixing levels...the design of the dream will ensure you get plenty of that. You can run, but you can't hide!
Instead, look beyond levels to that which "is" faithful and not faithless, to that which brings joy of peace because it is indeed constant, and thus certain. There is a light within you, and you are its altar. You are that light and the altar upon which it shines. As you shine throughout the entire (real) universe, as you already do, you have available to you to see all that is...and to discover all that is right there within you. You ARE the universe, every single fiber of its beingness, every nuance of knowledge...a perfect love, filled to overflowing with the joy of peace. Know thyself and be free forever of self-doubts that assail you and would try to convince you of a littleness that was never true, and which indeed could never be true.
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The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace."
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