What is Enlightenment? The teachings of A Course In Mircles

Question: What exactly is Enlightenment?

Appreciate your asking the questions that can on your mind, even though they appear “rather peculiar” for your requirements. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has disappeared, for but wrong-mindedness did actually generate 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’s no pain.”(W-190.3) The second is valid 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 too. There is absolutely no ego to fall “back into.” Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain ends Now and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness.

Simply what does this imply with regards to your next question? You are unable to kill what’s never lived, as well as in the Holy Spirit’s Outlook during forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die as the world of images may be the past. It is impossible to discover beginnings and endings in the script which is already written and also over long ago. There isn’t any life in images. This is actually the concise explaination “Hold no graven images ahead of the Lord Thy God.” All images were created to obscure reality from awareness, and they also is only able to be forgiven jointly illusion. If illusions could possibly be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment can be impossible. For the purpose is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, beyond the possibility of division regardless of the sort? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive plus some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind have also been the “killer” illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that precisely what is whole and unified can not BE split. In Heaven Brain is One Spirit, as well as with regard to the world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity in the healed mind and sees that you’ll find nothing “outside” with this single mind which dreams softly a cheerful, gentle dream. The aim of ACIM would be to dream softly of the sinless world. This goal is much more than possible, it is inevitable!

For my seeming diet, “eat what is served” may be the Guidance I became given through the Holy Spirit long ago. Join with your brother and let no concept come between your Love you share. This Guidance have not changed. “Dinner” is obviously a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. Just what the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are really the same inside the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of all things simply because they all share exactly the same Purpose: forgiveness. This angle is just not “personal,” for in unified perception nothing is personal. God isn’t respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” because Life is Spirit and can just be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” has no meaning i believe and also since animals haven’t “lived” it’s impossible that they can could “die.” The assumption expressed in the thought “personally take an animal’s life” has many underlying assumptions which might be false. In right-mindedness there’s no question that ideas are strengthened because they are given away for free or shared, and “taking” a “life” or anything at all doesn’t have meaning. Everything that I give is given to mySelf, and 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 something that can not be distributed. Such will be the Joy of miracles! Prospect seeds seem to be flung everywhere, yet there is never obviously any good glance time for see in which the seeds land. The seeds will never be on an “other,” and also since giving and receiving are similar your head receives the gifts it provides. This is the feast you seek for under the ego’s questions.

The only question that need get asked can be a question that’s not really silly in any way: Am I ready to realize that God’s Will and My own, personal are similar? God’s Will for me personally is good for Perfect Happiness. Along with what but this Will may be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thanks a lot God!
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