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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