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

Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

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   Facebook.com/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
Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

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
Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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 
Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/photo

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 

Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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   Facebook.com/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

Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo