Issue: What is Enlightenment?
Thanks for wondering the issues that come to the mind, even though they seem “somewhat peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all observed pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness looked to produce the misperception called pain.
Suffering was the impression that Christ could keep a Supportive Creator’s Mind. “If suffering is true there is number God. If God is actual there’s no pain.”(W-190.3) The latter is true because God has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no suffering or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Natural, Constant Pleasure, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Continuous, Enlightenment understands perhaps not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and varying emotions moved as well. There’s number ego to drop “straight back into.” Heart Abides in mild Love. All suffering is over Today and nothing remains but an advantage of Stillness.
The Holy Nature may be the note that Life is Eternal. The Provide Moment is the gateway to Eternity. The planet of photographs was an environment of illusion. Pictures are thus natural to the Sacred Spirit. They were “neutralized” the immediate they seemed to arise acim .
What does that suggest with regards to your second problem? You can’t eliminate what has never existed, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness damage is impossible. Figures were never born and never die because the entire world of pictures could be the past. It’s impossible to locate beginnings and endings in a software that is already published and over extended ago. There’s number life in images. This is the meaning of “Hold number graven photos prior to the Lord Thy God.” All pictures were made to obscure the Reality from consciousness, and they can just be understood as you illusion. If illusions might be separated up into living and useless, natural and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment would be impossible. For what’s Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, much beyond the likelihood of section of all kinds? The separate mind was the illusion. Seek never to challenge the split mind to types and call some forms alive and some types dead. God understands perhaps not form. The separate mind was the “killer” dream, the Holy Soul reminds the sleeping brain that what’s whole and good can never BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Heart, and even with regard to this world forgiveness shows this Oneness. The understood earth understands the unity of the healed mind and sees that there’s nothing “outside” of this simple brain which desires softly a happy, delicate dream. The target of ACIM is to desire lightly of a sinless world. That purpose is more than probable, it is expected!
For my seeming diet, “eat what’s served” is the Advice I was presented with from the Holy Soul several years ago. Join together with your brother and let number notion come between the Love you share. That Guidance has not changed. “Dinner” is always a backdrop for sharing the Delight of the Living Moment. What the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are very all the same in the Enlightened State. The Relieved Perspective considers the sameness of everything because all of them reveal the exact same Purpose: forgiveness. That Perspective is not “personal,” for in unified notion nothing is personal. God is no respecter of persons. I literally can’t “take” an animal’s “life” because Life is Nature and can only just be prolonged or Given as Lord Gives. “Take” does not have any meaning in my mind and since creatures haven’t “lived” it is impossible that they could “die.” The belief stated in the thought “personally take an animal’s life” has many underlying assumptions which can be false. In right-mindedness it’s clear that ideas are strengthened as they are provided out or discussed, and “taking” a “life” or anything more has no meaning. All that I provide is given to mySelf, and in providing there’s number loss, number compromise, and nothing is actually recinded from wholeness and unity. The instructor of God does not need whatever can not be given away. Such may be the Delight of miracles! Thinking seeds seem to be flung everywhere, however there’s never a view back to see where in actuality the vegetables land. The vegetables are never for an “other,” and because giving and getting are exactly the same your brain receives the gifts it gives. That is really the party you find for underneath the ego’s questions.
The sole question that need be asked is just a question that’s certainly not foolish at all: Am I ready to learn that God’s May and My Own are the Same? God’s Can for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but that May could be the Will of Christ? Cheerfully, nothing can change Eternal Love. Thank You Lord!