Question: What exactly is Enlightenment?
Many thanks for asking the questions that can come on your mind, even though they appear “rather peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has gone, for which but wrong-mindedness seemed to produce the misperception called pain.
Discomfort was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is real there isn’t any God. If God is real there is absolutely no pain.”(W-190.3) The latter is true because God has no opposite. Enlightenment entails pain free 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 has gone also. There is absolutely no ego to fall “back into.” Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Now and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness.
The Holy Spirit could be the reminder that Life’s Eternal. The actual Moment is the gateway to Eternity. The world of images was a arena of illusion. Images are therefore neutral for the Holy Spirit. We were holding “neutralized” the moment they seemed to arise.
Simply what does this mean regarding your second question? You can’t kill what has never lived, along with the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness harm is not possible. Bodies weren’t born and never die because the whole world of images may be the past. It is impossible to find beginnings and endings in a script that is certainly already written and over sometime ago. There is absolutely no life in images. Here is the concise explaination “Hold no graven images prior to the Lord Thy God.” All images were created to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they are only able to be forgiven as one illusion. If illusions could be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment will be impossible. For the purpose is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the possibility of 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 several forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind was the “killer” illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what exactly is whole and unified cannot BE split. In Heaven Thoughts are One Spirit, and even pertaining to this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity in the healed mind and understands that nothing is “outside” of this single mind which dreams softly a contented, gentle dream. The purpose of ACIM is to dream softly of the sinless world. This goal is much more than possible, it can be inevitable!
Regarding my seeming diet, “eat what exactly is served” may be the Guidance I had been given in the Holy Spirit a long time ago. Join with your brother and let no concept come relating to the Adore you share. This Guidance has not yet changed. “Dinner” is definitely a backdrop for sharing the industry of the Living Moment. What are the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are actually all the same inside the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of other nutritional foods given that they all share exactly the same Purpose: forgiveness. This attitude isn’t “personal,” for in unified perception there is nothing personal. God is no respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” because Life’s Spirit and will only be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” does not have any meaning over the internet as well as animals have never “lived” it is impossible that they can could “die.” The assumption expressed within 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 more doesn’t have any meaning. Everything that I give is offered to mySelf, along with giving there is absolutely no loss, no sacrifice, and zilch is ever taken away from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God doesn’t want whatever can’t be given away for free. Such may be the Joy of miracles! Thinking seeds appear to be flung everywhere, yet there is never a good glance returning to see the location where the seeds land. The seeds should never be with an “other,” as well as giving and receiving are similar the mind receives the gifts it offers. This can be the feast you search for within the ego’s questions.
The only question that require be asked can be a question that is not really silly in any respect: Am I willing to understand that God’s Will and My own, personal are identical? God’s Will for Me is perfect for Perfect Happiness. Along with what but this Will could be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thank You God!
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