What is Enlightenment? The teachings of David Hoffmeister and ACIMPosted by hexac on August 3rd, 2024 Question: What's Enlightenment? Thanks for asking the questions that can come to your brain, even when they appear "rather peculiar" to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed 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's no pain."(W-190.3) The latter does work because God has no opposite. a course in miracles 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 moved as well. There's no ego to fall "back into." Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain has ended Now and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness. The Holy Spirit could be the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment could be the gateway to Eternity. The planet of images was an environment of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They certainly were "neutralized" the instant they appeared to arise. What does this mean in terms of your second question? You can't kill what's never lived, and in the Holy Spirit's Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die because the world of images could be the past. It is impossible to find beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There's no life in images. This is the meaning of "Hold no graven images prior to the Lord Thy God." All images were designed to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they can only 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 what 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 some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind seemed to be the "killer" illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what is whole and unified cannot BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and even pertaining to this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and sees that there surely is nothing "outside" of this single mind which dreams softly a happy, gentle dream. The target of ACIM is always to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is more than possible, it's inevitable! In terms of my seeming diet, "eat what is served" could be the Guidance I was given from the Holy Spirit a long time ago. Join along with your brother and let no concept come between the Love you share. This Guidance hasn't changed. "Dinner" is obviously a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the world calls "breathing" and "eating" and "drinking" and "sleeping" are actually yet in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of all things because all of them share the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective isn't "personal," for in unified perception nothing is personal. God is not any respecter of persons. I literally cannot "take" an animal's "life" because Life is Spirit and can just only be extended or Given as God Gives. "Take" has no meaning in my mind and since animals have never "lived" it's impossible that they might "die." The belief expressed in the idea "personally take an animal's life" has many underlying assumptions that are false. In right-mindedness it's obvious that ideas are strengthened since they are given away or shared, and "taking" a "life" or anything more has no meaning. All that I give is directed at mySelf, and in giving there's no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever removed from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not need whatever can not be given away. Such could be the Joy of miracles! The thought seeds be seemingly flung everywhere, yet there's never a good glance back once again to see where in actuality the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are the same your brain receives the gifts it gives. That is truly the feast you seek for within the ego's questions. The only real question that require be asked is just a question that is certainly not silly at all: Am I ready to learn that God's Will and My Own are the Same? God's Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will could be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thank You God! Like it? Share it!More by this author |