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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