The ego runs on the selection of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you’ll use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, in addition to specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these kinds of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the effect is to continue separation between brothers because they’re using the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you needing to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about the way you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice that will set you free would be to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even if you are the only 1. It is “special” and soon you transform it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, is True Perception which shines a light of truth you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness because it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form will not matter. You’ll find nothing in ACIM about behavior so when you judge a brother on his or her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. They might be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you knowing that you can pick the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby producing a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) does not matter. However here are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. course in miracles It really is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
Once you judge a brother, you’re utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. This is the reason we emphasize that everything you see in another needs to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another unless you chose from that part of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge everything you don’t already believe to be true as it is using the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the initial separation because you opting for to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still holding onto fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and provides you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you may use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is one way you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness which gives all minds a chance to create a different choice. Judge plus they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is really a conscious mind behavior based on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is often a demand love, or forgiveness, which is joining. The more determined you are to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you will choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and utilizing the Right Mind to turn over all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution in the event that you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred and that is to know the truth about you as well as your brother. There is absolutely no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). When you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to keep and learn on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to give to another what you would like them to possess. Your only reason for doing this is basically because it is what you need to have on your own. You’re teaching them what you want to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender to me what I’ve taught you.”
Saturday, December 9, 2023
