The Third Part of the Mind

We all have a right mind where the Holy Spirit dwells, and a wrong mind which is dominated by the ego and its thoughts of separation. Which part of the mind controls us is decided by the third part of the mind; the part that observes and chooses. That’s where our real power, the power of decision is. You make that decision mostly in how you choose to think of others.

You can always tell which students are understanding and applying the Course and which ones are not. The ones who are have no need to judge and condemn others, or if they do they catch themselves, stop themselves, and change their minds. On the other hand, the students who are resisting the message and practice of the course are very, very good at pointing out the ego in somebody else. They’re experts at it. “Oh, he’s in his ego,” is a favorite observation. But that’s not forgiveness. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

What You Would Have Him Be

You change your own experience, and ultimately what you believe is your own identity, by changing the way you think about and identify other people. As the Course tells us in the final section of the Text, “Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.”~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Real You

The ego is the false you, but there’s another you; the real you. The real you is something that has nothing to do with this world, or the body. Your body is simply a symbol of separation. The real you is something that is immortal, invulnerable, constant and unchanging, inseparable and whole, something that can’t be touched by anything in this world; something that can’t be threatened in any way. 

When the Course starts off by saying, “Nothing real can be threatened,” that’s what it’s talking about. It means the real you. When it goes on to say, “Nothing unreal exists,” it’s talking about anything else, anything that is not this immortal, changeless, invulnerable self. That’s why the Course is a purely non-dualistic spiritual thought system. It’s saying that of the two worlds, the unseen world of God and the falsely seen world of man, only the world of God is true, and nothing else is true. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Go By What it Says

I’m often asked various questions at my Workshops about what the Course means, and I usually start off by saying the best way to know what the Course means is to go by what it says. That may seem obvious, but the Course says a lot of things people don’t want to hear, and there’s tremendous psychological resistance to getting it. For example, it says, “There is no world! This is the central thought the Course attempts to teach.” Most people don’t want to hear that. They want the world, and desire the things in it they are attracted to; hoping at the same time that the bad things won’t come to them, or at least not be too bad. 

Yet the Course also says, (with the Voice of the Course, Jesus, speaking in the first person) “I once asked you to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant: If you have no investment in anything in this world, you can teach the poor where their treasure is. The poor are merely those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed!” The Course is talking here about your psychological investment. Its teachings are always done at the level of the mind, not at the level of the physical. You prepare yourself to go home by undoing the ego and gradually letting the Holy Spirit become the dominant force in your mind, and in the end, the only force in your mind. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Changing the Truth

The ego’s specialty is changing the truth, whether it’s The Vedanta, Lao-Tsu, Buddha, or A Course in Miracles. The only solution to that is what we’ve been saying to you since the ‘90s; you’ve got to undo the ego, or the ego will continue to undo the truth. It can’t help it. That’s what the ego does. It’s like a survival machine. And of course the students and teachers don’t know that they’re changing the truth. It’s like projection. They don’t know they’re doing that either. They just think they’re right. 
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Brother in Christ

PURSAH: Now, a reminder. Your forgiveness can’t be conflicted. It has to be universal, it has to apply to everyone without exception. And when you forgive someone, it can’t be partial. You have to forgive your brother completely, not half way. Do you know what I mean?

GARY: Yeah. He can’t be my shithead brother in Christ.

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Don't Accept the Ego's Interpretation of You

What you really are is something that can’t even be contained by the universe of time and space. Don’t accept the ego’s evaluation of you. It does not see truly. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Spotting the Ego

A Course in Miracles is not about spotting the ego in somebody else. It’s about recognizing that there is nobody else, not really, and the things you don’t like about others are actually what the Course calls “the secret sins and hidden hates” that you really have about yourself that you have chosen to see in other people through the dynamic of projection. Thus when you forgive the other person who appears to be there you are really forgiving yourself. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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Knowledge of God

When the Course uses the word Knowledge, it is referring to direct experience, or Knowledge of God. How does one get to this experience, which blows away anything this world has to offer? This is accomplished by undoing your ego. As ACIM succinctly puts it, “Salvation is undoing.” And that’s a brilliant approach, because if you could really do that; if you could completely undo the false you, theneventually the real you would be all that’s left.

And you don’t have to do anything about the real you! The real you is already perfect; it’s already exactly the same as its Source. In order to experience that perfection, what you have to do is remove the ego within your unconscious mind; the walls of separation that block your experience of this perfection. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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What If It Didn't Matter What Happens?

The ego thought system is based on the idea of separation; the idea that somehow we have separated ourselves from our Source, which is God, as well as from each other. And if your happiness and peace of mind is dependent on what happens in this world, you’re in trouble, because the only thing you can depend on in this ego illusion of a world is that it will shift and change. That’s what it does. It’s fleeting and transitory, offering only temporary satisfaction at best.

But what if it didn’t matter what happened in the world? That’s heresy to the ego, but what if it really didn’t matter? What if you could be happy, strong and peaceful regardless of what happens in the world? That would be real power; it would be real strength and freedom, and it would be real spirituality. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Bring Your Illusions to Truth

The Course isn’t part of the self-help movement, even though people try to treat it that way. Everybody wants to improve their life and make a lot of money. And the Course doesn’t have anything against that. If it did it would be making it real. But always remember, when you focus on the effect instead of the mind, you’re making the effect real. You’re giving truth to something that isn’t there. And as J puts it, “When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying your belief in them. But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them.”

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Discerning Between the Ego and the Holy Spirit

Most of the time if the message is hopeful, makes your heart sing, and especially if it feels inspired, that’s the Holy Spirit. But if what you’re hearing has the tone of making the images you see real and judging others, or discouraging you from something you would really like to do in the dream, the odds are it’s the ego. Most of all, the Holy Spirit, which abides in the right part of your mind, is reminding you to forgive. The ego is always using its wrong minded ideas to try to get you to judge, which makes your world very real. As you go along your journey with the Course, you’ll develop more and more discernment. You’ll be able to tell which is which. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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Your Creations

When J uses the word creations in his Course, he’s not using it the way the world does. You think of your creations as being a song, or a book, or a painting, or anything you make or accomplish in this world. But J is talking about an entirely different level here. When he says the Holy Spirit will bless your creations, he’s referring to your creations in Heaven. In Heaven you create the same way that God creates, because God created you to be exactly like Him. There’s no difference or distinction between you and God. Yes, he created you, you didn’t create Him, but even that distinction is gone. You could think of it, and we’ve used this phrase before, as being a simultaneous extension of the whole. The human mind can’t really grasp the quality and the magnitude of it, but that’s the general idea.

We’re not saying there’s anything wrong with what you call your creations here. Indeed, beautiful works of art can be inspired by the Holy Spirit. But as far as the Course is concerned, only that which is eternal is real. You’ve seen great works of art, yet thousands of years from now almost none of them will exist. But what is created in Heaven will never cease to exist. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Establishing Your Own Identity

Despite what you see, there’s just one of you and one mind. But that presents a problem for you that you can’t see. The projection of a universe of time and space that you can see is coming from that one unconscious mind. That’s where the projector is hidden. Thus your unconscious mind knows everything. If that’s where everything that you’re seeing is coming from, then by definition, on some level, your mind knows everything. Even the truth is buried there, waiting to be remembered. And if the unconscious mind knows everything, then it knows that there’s really just one of you. That’s good news and bad news.

Here’s the bad news. Because the mind knows everything, including the fact that there’s just one of you, it will interpret anything you think or say, no matter how subtle, about another person, to really be about you! And it will determine how you feel about yourself, and ultimately even what you believe you are. That’s why the Course says every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is. That’s why the Course emphasizes that as you see him you will see yourself. And it’s true.

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The Same as God

God will always be your creator, and then you create the same as Him. The infinite extension of perfect love is not something the finite mind can understand, but the time will come when you’ll get to actually experience it. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  

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What Real Forgiveness Will Do

The Course’s kind of forgiveness overlooks the problem, doesn’t make it real, and replaces it with the truth. Yes, you have to notice what it is you’re forgiving. You’re operating within the ego framework, where healing is needed, and as long as you appear to be here you will see other bodies, and it will look like you have real problems, real bills to pay, and real relationships to forgive. But if you forgive them they’ll stop making you feel anxious, abandoned, lacking, or any of the other negative impacts these things may have on you. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other

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The Most Radical Teaching in History

When we say the Course is the most radical teaching in history, you’ve got to remember that almost all the teachings and thought systems in history are based on the so called wisdom of the ages and universal truths. But those truths and wisdom are not true, and the Course is not the same as them. Why? Because they’re all based on the universe being real. Even the non-dualistic teachings are taken by the world and devolved into making the error real. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

You've Done it All!

You, and everyone you know, have gotten to live every kind of a life, been every kind of a person, done everything, and had every kind of experience that anyone else has ever had. You’re not missing anything you haven’t already been through. Do you really think the people you have envied in this lifetime are having experiences that you haven’t had already, or been able to do things you haven’t done before? You’ve been everywhere and done it all. You’ve been among the richest people in the world and the poorest; the most famous and most obscure, the victim and the victimizer, the King and a prisoner, the sexed up and the celibate.

True, these experiences, which really happened all at once, except they didn’t really, will look different from one place and time to another. But the experiences are the same, just like your lessons from lifetime to lifetime may look different, but the meaning is the same. So, don’t waste your time being jealous of another. You’ve been there, done that, whether you remember or not. And none of it will bring you lasting happiness, but forgiving it will. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   
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It Only Appears to Take a Long Time

The unconscious resistance to doing the Course is formidable. But if you have perseverance the ego can’t win. Although the ego is ingenious, it has one problem. It’s insane. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, has a tremendous advantage. The Holy Spirit is perfect, and has a perfect plan. You may ask, if it’s so perfect, then why does it have to take the Sonship so long to wake up? The truth is it only appears that it’s taking a long time. 

The Course teaches that the world is already over; that the tiny mad idea was only a tiny tick of time that was corrected and ended immediately. But because this is a dream of separation, it looks like everyone is waking up at different times, when the truth is there was only one time, one instant, and even that never really existed. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other

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Only One Correct interpretation of A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles says what it says. It must be understood that there is only one possible interpretation of the Course. That cannot be repeated too much. Only God is real, and nothing else is real. The world does not exist. There are students who want the Holy Spirit to be operating in the world and fixing it up. No, the Holy Spirit is in the mind, not in the world. The Course says there is no world! So what world do they think the Holy Spirit is operating in? ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

It's About You

Despite what you see, there’s just one of you and one mind. But that presents a problem for you that you can’t see. The projection of a universe of time and space that you can see is coming from that one unconscious mind. That’s where the projector is hidden. Thus your unconscious mind knows everything. If that’s where everything that you’re seeing is coming from, then by definition, on some level, your mind knows everything. Even the truth is buried there, waiting to be remembered. And if the unconscious mind knows everything, then it knows that there’s really just one of you. That’s good news and bad news. 

Here’s the bad news. Because the mind knows everything, including the fact that there’s just one of you, it will interpret anything you think or say, no matter how subtle, about another person, to really be about you! And it will determine how you feel about yourself, and ultimately even what you believe you are. That’s why the Course says every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is. That’s why the Course emphasizes that as you see him you will see yourself. And it’s true. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   

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Forgive or Celectrate

Just because the world is an illusion, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time. Just the opposite. You can have a great time, and do it without guilt! It’s true that you are guiltless, Heaven was given to you by God, and you don’t have to earn it. But you do have to do the forgiveness work that it takes to undo the ego and return to reality in your awareness. So if there’s something to forgive, then forgive it. But the Course says if there’s nothing to forgive at the time, then what you should do is celebrate. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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...And Then Depression Set In

If it’s true that as you see him you will see yourself, and if you go through life thinking the world and people are just illusions, your mind will interpret it to mean that you are an illusion. That will leave you feeling empty and meaningless, which is a pretty good description of depression. 

That’s why A Course in Miracles is a lot more proactive than most people realize. It doesn’t just describe the thought system of the ego, which is the thought system of most of the world; it completely replaces the thought system of the ego with the thought system of the Holy Spirit. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Don't Make Friends with Your Ego - Undo It!

There are people who will teach you that you should “make friends with your ego.” But I’ve got news for them. The ego is not interested in being your friend. Your ego wants to kill you. Because if you can be hurt or killed then you’re a body. And if you’re a body, then the entire ego thought system of separation is true. The only thing you can really do with your ego is undo it.

A Course in Miracles is about undoing the ego, or the false you that has come to identify itself with the body and separation. But the real you has nothing to do with the body or separation. As the Course says many times, “I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me.” And God created you to be exactly like God, the same as its Source forever, completely and eternally in a state of oneness. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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God Is...And Nothing Else Is

The Course says, “The miracle establishes you dream a dream, and that its content is not true.” But a lot of students seem to have a big problem going all the way with that. I mean, I’ll say that according to the Course the absolute truth is this: God Is. And they don’t seem to have much of a problem with that. But then if you tell them, nothing else is, you can see the resistance on a lot of their faces. They can get the truth of God, but they can’t get that absolutely nothing about the world and their lives is real. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   

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No Unanswered Questions

A Course in Miracles gives people the whole picture that they need. If you look carefully, you’ll see the Course doesn’t leave you with a bunch of unanswered questions. It tells you what existed before time began, which was given to you by God, how you appeared to get here, exactly what you can do about it, where you’re going home to and how to get there; not that Heaven is a place. It’s an awareness you need to re-awaken in, and how the Holy Spirit has a plan that’s guaranteed to result in that happening for everyone. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other

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You Gotta Do It!

It’s not enough to know about forgiveness or even understand it. And that’s rare enough. But once you do understand it you have to get into the habit of doing it consistently. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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A Pretty Sobering Thought

Your unconscious mind knows everything. It would have to because that’s where the projection of a universe of time and space is coming from in the first place. And if it knows everything, it knows that there’s really just one of us. And if it knows there’s really just one of us, it will interpret whatever you think about the world or another person to really be about you. That’s a pretty sobering thought. People wonder why they’re depressed. Just look at the garbage they’ve been thinking about other people, not realizing it was really just going to them, and that it would determine how they feel about themselves, and ultimately, even establish their own identity. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Changing Dimensions of Time

What happens is already pre-determined, but you still have the power to practice forgiveness at the level of the mind, and be free of feeling the uncomfortable effects of whatever happens. And even though the purpose of forgiveness is not to change the script, but instead be free of its effects, it’s also possible, within a fixed system, for the Holy Spirit to adjust time and space for you. You may then have a different experience than you would have. But that’s up to the Holy Spirit. Your job is to do the forgiveness work. The Holy Spirit knows if it’s appropriate for you to change dimensions of time. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Jesus and Buddha Weren't Interested in Starting a Religion

Most students want to be teachers instead of students. It feels special to be a leader instead of a follower. That’s how religions get started. People think they understand Buddha and so someday you end up with Buddhism. But Buddha didn’t want to start a religion. People would ask him, “What are you?” and he would say, “I am awake.” That’s what he wanted for them, not hundreds of rituals to follow. He was a wisdom Teacher.

And of course everybody and their brother thought they knew what J was saying, or they had an agenda that led them to say something to the contrary, and someday you have a religion purported to be about him. Yet like Buddha, a religion was not something J would be interested in. He was also a wisdom Teacher. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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You Can't Bypass the Mind

Don’t ever let anyone teach you that you can bypass the mind. J tells you in the Course that your mind’s ability to make a choice, your power to choose, is your true power in this world. Those who want to by-pass the mind are giving up the only power they have! Pure non-dualistic thinking with the Holy Spirit reverses the thinking of the world. And the choice you’re supposed to make is spelled out for you at the end of the Text, and the choice always involves the way you think about other people. “Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.” ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Experience of Enlightenment

The bliss of enlightenment is beyond words. Your body is barely noticeable. Yes, you take care of it and keep it clean, but you hardly eat any food. You drink water, but not too much. At the very end, you need no food or water. But when you’re at the very end, then by definition, you won’t be here for long anyway.

If your body is sick, that isn’t important to you. Sometimes the script calls for a Master to teach he or she is not a body by demonstrating it’s possible to go through the death of a seemingly sick body without pain, just as J appeared to die on the cross, but did it without pain. As a Master, it would be possible for you to heal your body with your mind. But you have chosen not to, just as J could have saved himself from the cross, but chose not to, and taught an important lesson instead. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

You Can't Make What You're Forgiving Real

Remember, not making it real is the smoothest short cut to practicing true forgiveness. In fact, it’s the most important part. You can’t forgive what you’re making real. If you do that it won’t work. That’s what the Course calls, “Forgiveness to destroy.” ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

When You've Forgiven and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

You’ll know for sure that you’ve forgiven something when it doesn’t bother you anymore. When it no longer affects you. When that politician comes on the TV who you can’t stand, and says something that used to make you go ballistic, and you go to react and there’s nothing there, and you feel peaceful instead, you’ll know that you’ve really forgiven him. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

A Dualistic Quagmire

Dualism is the condition of 99% of the people in the world, including those who are on a spiritual path. But A Course in Miracles is not a dualistic system. And it’s not just non-dualistic, it’s purely non-dualistic. That’s why the Course says, “Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.” But that’s a pretty tall order, which is why most students of the Course end up in some kind of a dualistic quagmire and never go all the way with it, including those who are convinced that they’re right about the Course making something exist other than God, when it certainly doesn’t. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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A Course in Miracles is not the Self-Help Movement

Let’s point out that there’s a difference between real spirituality and what has become accepted as spirituality in the last few decades, namely the self-help movement. It’s not my intention to put down the self-help movement. I’m not a hypocrite. I’ve used the self-help movement successfully in my life. It’s just that I know the difference between that and the real deal, and what my Teachers give me is the real deal. The self-help movement is about getting what you want, making things happen in the world, attracting things to you that are outside of you, and achieving your goals. That approach is based on a false premise. The premise is that if you get what you want it will make you happy. The truth is that if you get what you want it will only make you feel good for a short time. Then you’ll want something else. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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The Truth is God

The truth is a constant, and the truth is God. So the oneness we’re talking about isn’t in the dream, and it’s not in the world, and it’s not in the universe of time and space, and it’s not even a place. It’s an awareness; an awareness of a constant perfect oneness that cannot be altered, threatened, or even touched. The Course says, “His Kingdom has no limits and no end, and there is nothing in Him that is not perfect and eternal. All this is you, and nothing outside of this is you.” That’s pure non-dualism. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Enjoy the World, Just Don't Believe in it

Just because the world is an illusion, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time. Just the opposite. You can have a great time, and do it without guilt! It’s true that you are guiltless, Heaven was given to you by God, and you don’t have to earn it. But you do have to do the forgiveness work that it takes to undo the ego and return to reality in your awareness. So if there’s something to forgive, then forgive it. But the Course says if there’s nothing to forgive at the time, then what you should do is celebrate. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   

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Everything in the World Decays

People have been taught all their lives that God created the world. Now I didn’t have any problem with the idea that God didn’t create this world, and in fact doesn’t have anything to do with it. For me, that came as a tremendous relief, because I couldn’t understand how God could allow such terrible things to happen to good people. Then it turned out it wasn’t Him who did it, it was us; the one ego appearing as many through the idea of separation. This is our projection and Heaven is still perfect, but some people are still married to the idea of this being some beautiful thing created by the Divine, even though everything in it decays, falls apart and dies. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to survive that long. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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Your Life is a Lie

The Course is the most radical teaching in history. That’s why most of the people who teach it don’t teach it. Even if they understand it, which is very rare, it’s not easy to explain to people that they don’t exist, and that they never have. Their life is a lie. The only place they really exist is in God, and the physical universe, including their own bodies and personal identities, not to mention those of everyone they’ve ever known, have never been true. And oh, by the way, their children are illusions. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Be Normal

You don’t need to give up the world if it’s not real. At the same time, you don’t have to go crazy experiencing worldly pleasures and orgiastic attempts to make it more tolerable. In other words, be normal! It’s from that place that it’s the easiest to actually apply the truth to the illusion you’re witnessing, because you can think more clearly and you have normal situations to apply the teachings to. Notice I didn’t say easy situations, I said normal. Sometimes situations in life are very hard, such as the death of a loved one. Yet even then, be normal. If you need time to grieve, take the time to grieve. If you get hungry, eat. If you’re sick, take your medicine, or whatever works for you. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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How You Know if You Have Forgiven Something

Some people mistakenly think that if you completely forgive something then it disappears from your mind and you never think of it again. That’s not true. The difference is that when you remember something that was painful in the past, it no longer has any effect on you. It doesn’t hurt any more. It becomes neutral instead of painful. That’s how you know you’ve forgiven it. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Enlightenment has Nothing to do with Individuality

Enlightenment has nothing to do with individuality. Indeed, it’s the relinquishment of individuality, psychologically that is, not physically, that leads to real fulfillment. That fulfillment can only be found in oneness. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Meditation is not the Ultimate Answer

Meditation by itself will not make you enlightened. That’s because it doesn’t undo the ego, which is one hundred percent necessary in order to achieve enlightenment. But meditation can, if practiced diligently, both calm and strengthen the mind. This, in turn, makes it much easier for the mind to be trained and disciplined. When the mind is in that condition, you can use it more effectively to practice a thought system. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Most People Aren't Ready for the Truth

Most people aren’t ready for the truth. People are comfortable in their cages, and the truth isn’t welcome to them at first. They’re fixated on making their lives work, forgetting that the ending is always going to be the same for every human body, and that it would be wiser to build their lives on something permanent, rather than the cheap imitation of life they are being shown by the ego. 

Still, you can’t blame them, because it’s all they know. The truth is like the Course. It may be simple, but it’s not easy. Plato wrote, “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other 
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Trials are but Lessons

If you could complete all of your forgiveness lessons in this lifetime, then that would complete all of your forgiveness lessons in every lifetime simultaneously. When you do your forgiveness work in this lifetime the Holy Spirit takes that forgiveness and shines it through every lifetime that you are not aware of at the moment.

The Course is correct when it says, “Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.” That’s not just true within the scope of one lifetime, it’s true within the scope of all of them. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other 

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God is Not Crazy!

God does not interact with the world, because God is perfect Oneness, and we should be happy God is not responsible for this world. If He was He’d be just as crazy as we are. But because God is still Perfect Love, as both the Bible and the Course say, that gives us a perfect home to go home to. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Understanding the Course Won't Result in Enlightenment

A true, non-dualistic understanding of the Course, which is rare, will not result in enlightenment. It’s only by practicing and applying the teachings in your everyday life, such as in your relationships, your experiences, and even the events you see on television that enlightenment will happen. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Happier if you Stick to Pure Non-Dualism

ARTEN: Although Atlantis was an extremely intelligent society, originally founded by your ancestors, who were not from this planet, they made the same mistake your civilization is making today. Despite a very spiritual and sophisticated minority, the majority chose the duality of the physical, or materialistic, instead of the pure, non-duality of spirit. Remember, just because beings are intelligent and technologically advanced it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re spiritually advanced.

GARY: Just because they’re intelligent it doesn’t necessarily make them smart either. I could name a few Ph.Ds I’ve met who use intelligent sounding words, but they’re not very bright. I like Einstein’s quote, “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

ARTEN: Unfortunate but true, in the illusory sense of the words. In any case, we’re not going to give you a big song and dance about Atlantis. The point about it is, and this is also the point of this series of visits, is that the majority of people find it impossible to stick to non-dualism, and especially pure non-dualism. You even see it today with A Course in Miracles. It seems that people will do anything to not stick to the message, even though they’d be happier if they did.

~ The Lifetimes Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other

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There is No Universe

It may seem noble to be one with the universe, until you remember there is no universe. What you want to be one with is God, which is all that truly exists. ~ The Lifetimes Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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The Ego Loves Pain

The problem is that the ego likes pain because pain is one way the ego proves that it exists apart from God. If pain is present, God is non-existent. ~ Cindy Lora-Reanrd, A Course in Health and Well-Being
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What You Really Are

The magnitude of what we really are is beyond comprehension. As we continue undoing layers of guilt, the light becomes more dominant and we are becoming more of what we really are in Truth. The Light is always there, but it gets blocked by the dark clouds of guilt. This is why the Course emphasized forgiveness. It is true forgiveness that undoes the guilt. ~ Cindy Lora-Renard, A Course in Health and Well-Being   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

To Make Guilty is to Make the World Real

True forgiveness undoes the error we see in others and the world by letting go of our illusory interpretations and belief in separation.  With true forgiveness, we are forgiving people not for what they’ve really done, but what they have not really done.  The reason they have not done anything is because separation is an illusion, and we are still at home in God.  Nothing happened, and our experience here in the world is only a dream.  Events in a dream are not true, they are made up. To make someone guilty then is making the dream real and reinforcing the guilt in the mind that believes in separation. ~ Cindy Lora-Renard, A Course in Health and Well-Being  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Your'e Not A Victim

If it were true that something outside of you could cause you to suffer, you would certainly be a victim of the world. There is no power in that. The Course says, “I am not the victim of the world I see.” This is because the world is just a projection coming from your mind. There is no world outside of you. You see what you want to see, and that is all. With practice and willingness, you can learn to see right-mindedly, with Truth as your goal, and with Christ Vision, which is true vision, true perception, and innocence. ~ Cindy Lora-Renard, A Course in Health and Well-Being  Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

You're in Charge of Your Mind

I’ve noticed in my own life how much smoother things go when I choose to let go of my own judgment on things, and let the Holy Spirit take over.  The events might not appear to change, but my experience of the event changes, and it is more peaceful.  That is worth everything.  The Course says if you don’t like how you feel, you have the power to choose.  You are in charge of your mind! ~ A Course in Health and Well-Being   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

The Paradox of Time

Time is holographic, yet the choices you make here appear to be linear. That's the paradox of time. In terms of the hologram, it has already happened, but in your linear experience, you've still got to do it. What you want to do is refuse to take the linear nature of time seriously and make the only real choice you can make, which is simple. That choice overlooks the mad illusion of time. ~ Love Has Forgotten No One   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Forgiveness is the End of Specialness

To follow the Holy Spirit's guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum.

The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the end of specialness.

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The World is a Projection

A Course in Miracles teaches that the world is a projection that is coming from our own collective unconscious mind. What was in our mind on a massive metaphysical level - namely the terrible unconscious guilt we felt over the initial separation from our Source - was denied and projected outward. ~ Love Has Forgotten No One    Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Not About Balance

Most spiritual systems try to balance body, mind, and spirit. They're all equally important, but that's not the approach of A Course in Miracles. With the Course, you learn how to use the mind to choose between the body, which is the great separation symbol of the ego and spirit, which in the Course is perfect oneness, not to be confused with the idea of an individual soul, which is still a separation idea. ~ Love Has Forgotten No One   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

No Namaste for You

There are many in India who practice an idea that we (Americans) have borrowed from them. You see and hear it at a lot of Unity churches in this country. It’s the idea of Namaste, which means, “The divinity in me bows down to the divinity in you.” That’s certainly a step in the right direction, but, it doesn’t go far enough.

When you say, “The divinity in me bows down to the divinity in you,” you’re limiting that person to a tiny speck of time and space. You’re making individuality real. You’re also making the two of you separate, like a subject and an object. What J did was overlook the body. It’s not that his body’s eyes didn’t appear to see other bodies. But he understood that he wasn’t seeing with the body’s eyes and that he wasn’t actually in a body. He knew what he was seeing with was his mind.  ~ Love Has Forgotten No One
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Undoing Guilt is the Core of the Curriculum

A Course in Miracles states, “To follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum.” I think I should repeat that, because I don’t think many Course students know this probably because many people who call themselves Course teachers don’t get it. “To follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance is to let yourself beabsolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. IT IS THE CORE OF THE CURRICULUM.” ~mikey

From recent Gary Renard interview:
Being in the now, well that’s a great idea, the only problem is you can’t stay in the now as long as you have this unconscious guilt that is there in your mind which prevents you from staying in the now. You might get into the now for a second, then it’s gone. Because there’s something holding you back. There is something in your unconscious mind that you can’t see, that is preventing you from really being in the now.

And that guilt is what also prevents you from hearing the Voice of the Holy Spirit more clearly. It is responsible for all the illness and sickness we see in the world. All the things that are hidden in the unconscious mind are what runs the world; it’s what’s responsible for all the madness that we see on our TV screens; all the crime and the war and the terrorism and the violence. It’s all being run by this stuff that’s in the unconscious mind that people aren’t even aware of. What the Course does, through the miracle, it actually allows the Holy Spirit to heal that for you. To actually remove this unconscious guilt from your mind, remove the ego interference, and actually set you free. That is happening every single time you practice A Course in Miracles.

Link to aforementioned interview: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awake2oneness/2016/08/05/the-disappearance-of-the-universe-with-gary-renard

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Special Hate is Really Self-Hate

All people seem to know how to do is condemn their special hate objects in one way or another. Even if they don't do that very much, they find some other way to suffer and act out the ego system, through accidents and sickness and a hundred other ways - because you can project the guilt onto your own body as well as others, since all hatred is actually self-hatred anyway. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

Look to the Living One

From the Gospel, "Look to the living One as long as you live. Otherwise, when you die and then try to see the living One, you will be unable to see."

In this saying, the "living One" is the Holy Spirit, who speaks for Christ and God on this level. You look to Him to attain your salvation while you are still seemingly in a body. If you don't, you're not going to find enlightenment somewhere on the other side afterwards. In other words, you have to forgive and make your progress NOW.

Heaven is not a reward that is bestowed on you by an outside force for good behavior or clever metaphysical musings. The symbols that give you your opportunities for enlightenment are all around you - if you accept the Holy Spirit as your Teacher in forgiveness. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe
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The Complexity of the Ego

The ego is very complex and highly individualized. I assure you the universe would have it no other way. 
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Better Angels of our Nature

Sometimes the idea of wrong- and right-mindedness has been spoken about profoundly. What the Course would call the wrong mind, at least on this level, Carl Gustav Jung called your "shadow"; and what the Course would call right-mindedness, Abraham Lincoln referred to as "the better angels of our nature." Only the Course puts everything in perspective. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe 
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Unity Church and A Course in Miracles

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore were marvelous people. They were somewhat influenced by Mary Baker Eddy, and their love for J and their loyalty to the more loving and forgiving aspects of Christianity were obvious. Still, they made every cell in the body real. Although the Course has often found a friend at Unity churches, and people can obviously do both at the same time, the two still shouldn't be confused with being the same. ~ The Disappearance of the Universe Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

A Dream is a Dream

Gary: How could there ever be a tiny, mad idea within perfection Doesn't that make a flaw in perfection?

Arten: A dream of imperfection is not a real imperfection. A dream is a dream, not a defective part of reality. God did not create the dream; you made up yourself inside of your own dream. Then because it seems real to you, you ask, "Why did God make this dream real:" or "Why did God let me dream?" The answer is that He didn't do either, and it isn't really happening, so there's no point in asking how it could have come about, because it hasn't! It just isn't.

When you awaken from a delusion, it simply vanishes, and you go on with your life, in this case your real life. As J puts it, "From the forgiven world the Son of God is lifted easily into his home. And there he knows he has always rested there in peace." ~ Your Immortal Reality Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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