Question: What exactly is Enlightenment?
Appreciate your asking the questions that can on your mind, even if they appear “rather peculiar” for you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has disappeared, for but wrong-mindedness gave the impression to make the misperception called pain.
Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is real there’s no God. If God is real there isn’t any pain.”(W-190.3) Aforementioned holds true because God doesn’t have opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions adjusted as well. There isn’t any ego to fall “back into.” Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain ends Now and zilch remains however a blessing of Stillness.
The Holy Spirit will be the reminder that Life is Eternal. The current Moment could be the gateway to Eternity. The world of images would be a arena of illusion. Images are thus neutral to the Holy Spirit. We were holding “neutralized” the moment they gave the impression to arise.
Simply what does this imply regarding your next question? You can’t kill what has never lived, along with the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness harm doesn’t seem possible. Bodies weren’t born and never die because the world of images may be the past. It can be impossible to locate beginnings and endings inside a script that is certainly already written well as over sometime ago. There’s no life in images. This is the meaning of “Hold no graven images prior to Lord Thy God.” All images were created to obscure reality from awareness, and they also could only be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions may be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment would be impossible. For what is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the potential for division of any sort? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive and some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind seemed to be the “killer” illusion, the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what is whole and unified can not BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, as well as with regard to our planet forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and is aware that there is nothing “outside” of this single mind which dreams softly a happy, gentle dream. The aim of ACIM would be to dream softly of the sinless world. This goal is much more than possible, it can be inevitable!
In terms of my seeming diet, “eat what’s served” could be the Guidance I had been given from the Holy Spirit many years ago. Join with your brother and let no concept come involving the Love you share. This Guidance hasn’t changed. “Dinner” is always a backdrop for sharing the industry of the Living Moment. Just what the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” can be extremely all alike within the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of other nutritional foods since they all share precisely the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective is just not “personal,” for in unified perception absolutely nothing is personal. God isn’t respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” because Life’s Spirit which enable it to just be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” does not have any meaning produce and also since animals have never “lived” it is impossible that they can could “die.” The idea expressed in the thought “personally take an animal’s life” has numerous underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness there’s no question that ideas are strengthened since they are given away for free or shared, and “taking” a “life” or anything at all does not have any meaning. All of that I give is offered to mySelf, as well as in giving there is absolutely no loss, no sacrifice, and zip is ever revoked from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not want anything that is not given away for free. Such could be the Joy of miracles! The thought seeds are most often flung everywhere, yet there exists never even a glance time for see the location where the seeds land. The seeds are never on an “other,” and also, since giving and receiving are similar your head receives the gifts it offers. This is the feast you search for under the ego’s questions.
The only real question which need be asked can be a question which is not really silly whatsoever: Shall we be held ready to are aware that God’s Will and My own, personal are exactly the same? God’s Will for Me is good for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will is the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can adjust Eternal Love. Thank You God!
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