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

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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

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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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