Dissolving the Ego Thought System

All sorrows of your life are caused by some form of judgment, which makes the belief in separation real, but you have it within yourself to end all suffering with forgiveness, and dissolve the ego thought system. The devil disappears along with it, for they are one and the same. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo Facebook.com/photo

The Devil is Separation

So the devil is really separation and the mind’s belief in it. After all what is war but separation? What is projection, the blaming of people, inquisitions, torture, and punishment but separation? What is all violence and terrorism? How can you have judgment, and all its tragedy, without separation? The devil may be blamed, but the belief in the seeming separation from God and the endless symbols that go along with it will always be the cause. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other
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Belief in the Devil

Over the eons, people have been fascinated with the struggle between good and evil, between what they've perceived as God and the devil. Well, this is one of the things the Course says about the devil, "The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very fearful, and this belief IS the devil. It is powerful, active, destructive, and clearly in opposition to God, because it literally denies His Fatherhood. Look at your life and see what the devil has made. But realize that this making will surely dissolve in the light of truth, because its foundation is a lie. " So the devil is really separation and the mind's belief in it.
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You Can Still Be Killed

GARY: But even if you forgive everything, can‘t you still be killed like J was?

ARTEN: Yes, but by that time J had decided to gently lay his body aside for the final time, and he was perfectly willing to be killed in order to teach he couldn’t be killed. He also could have stopped it if he wanted to, but he chose not to. So it wasn’t karma. He was deliberately choosing to teach the message of the crucifixion, even though only a handful of people could understand it. He knew many more people would understand it later.

GARY: So even though it looked to others like he was being horribly murdered, that wasn’t his experience. They could only imagine how they would feel under the same circumstances, and then they projected their perception of suffering onto J. Then, before you know it, you have J supposedly suffering and sacrificing himself for their sins.

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Finding Real Love

There's nothing wrong with talking about love. But you won’t find real, permanent love by talking about it, or trying to be more loving, or even by trying to emulate J. You’ll find it by undoing the barriers to it. You should keep looking to forgive anything you’ve placed in between yourself and your true nature. The ego is a formidable illusion. It’s like a machine. It keeps persisting, which is why you’ve got to be vigilant. Always remember this vital quotation from the Course:

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false.”  ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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Enlightenment in this Lifetime

So you’ve learned from the Course that in your present state you are a mind, and that you have the power to choose. And what you choose to believe in is what will affect you, and ultimately determine what you believe you are. Never underestimate the power of the mind. With its choices you will remain separate from your Source in your experience, and feel like an ego among egos, or you will return home to your Source in the glorious condition of Oneness, guided there by the Holy Spirit. You’ve learned from the Course that mind is the activating agent of spirit. Use this mind to go in the right direction with every choice you make. In doing so, you can be enlightened in this lifetime.  ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo
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Understanding the Crucifixion

GARY: But even if you forgive everything, can‘t you still be killed like J was?

ARTEN: Yes, but by that time J had decided to gently lay his body aside for the final time, and he was perfectly willing to be killed in order to teach he couldn’t be killed. He also could have stopped it if he wanted to, but he chose not to. So it wasn’t karma. He was deliberately choosing to teach the message of the crucifixion, even though only a handful of people could understand it. He knew many more people would understand it later. 

GARY: So even though it looked to others like he was being horribly murdered, that wasn’t his experience. They could only imagine how they would feel under the same circumstances, and then they projected their perception of suffering onto J. Then, before you know it, you have J supposedly suffering and sacrificing himself for their sins.

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You Can't Skip the Undoing

It’ll always come back to the fact that salvation is undoing, and forgiveness is the way to undo the ego. Then love, which is what you are, will be there naturally. But you can’t skip the undoing part, or your love will be temporary, mixed in with the ego, and your mind will be a mixed bag. Without the complete healing of the Holy Spirit you’ll stay stuck on psycho planet forever. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo

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With Guilt There's Karma

GARY: So within the framework of the illusion, whatever you do to another person does come back to you later.

ARTEN: Yes, until you forgive yourself for what you haven’t done. Until then, there’s guilt, and with guilt there is karma. But if you take away the guilt with forgiveness, then the karma is healed.

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Ascetic

Lao-Tzu was unusual in the sense that even though he understood non-dualism he was also an ascetic, and he demanded that his students be ascetics. This led his students more to an experience of semi-dualism rather than non-dualism because if you believe you have to deny yourself worldly pleasures, then you’re making the illusion real through your resistance to it. ~ The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo   Facebook.com/DWMJF/photo