Question: What is Enlightenment?
Thanks for wondering the issues that come to the mind, even though they seem “fairly peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all perceived suffering has faded, for what but wrong-mindedness felt to produce the misperception named pain.
Suffering was the illusion that Christ could keep a Supportive Creator’s Mind. “If suffering is actual there’s no God. If God is actual there is number pain.”(W-190.3) The latter is true since Lord has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Continuous Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Continuous, Enlightenment knows perhaps not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and changing emotions moved as well. There is number ego to fall “right back into.” Nature Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Today and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness.
The Holy Soul may be the note that Life is Eternal. The Present Time could be the gate way to Eternity. The entire world of images was a full world of illusion. Photographs are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were “neutralized” the quick they appeared to arise.
What does that suggest in terms of your next question? You can’t eliminate what’s never existed, and in the Sacred Spirit’s Perception of forgiveness hurt is impossible. Figures were never created and never die since the entire world of pictures is the past. It is impossible to get beginnings and endings in a software that’s presently written and over extended ago. There is no living in images. Here is the meaning of “Hold number graven pictures prior to the Lord Thy God.” All photographs were made to obscure the Reality from recognition, and they are able to just be understood as you illusion. If illusions could be separated up in to living and useless, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment could be impossible. For what is Enlightenment but Genuine Oneness, much beyond the possibility of department of all kinds? The split mind was the illusion. Seek not to challenge the separate brain to forms and call some forms alive and some types dead. God understands perhaps not form. The separate brain appeared to be the “killer” dream, yet the Sacred Spirit reminds the sleeping brain that what is whole and specific cannot BE split. In Paradise Brain is One Heart, and even regarding that world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The understood world acknowledges the unity of the recovered brain and considers that there is nothing “outside” with this simple brain which desires gently a pleased, delicate dream. The goal of ACIM is always to desire softly of a sinless world. This purpose is significantly more than probable, it is certain!
As for my appearing diet, “consume what’s served” could be the Guidance I was given from the Holy Spirit a long time ago. Join with your brother and let no notion come between the Enjoy you share. This Advice hasn’t changed. “Dinner” is always a history for discussing the Delight of the Residing Moment. What the planet calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are very all the same in the Enlightened State. The Relieved Perception considers the sameness of all things because they all share the exact same Purpose: forgiveness. That Perception isn’t “personal,” for in specific belief nothing is personal. Lord is no respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” since Life is Nature and can only just be extended a course in miracles or Given as God Gives. “Take” does not have any meaning within my brain and since animals have never “lived” it is impossible that they may “die.” The opinion stated in thinking “personally take an animal’s life” has several underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness it is evident that some ideas are increased since they are given out or shared, and “taking” a “life” or anything more doesn’t have meaning. All that I provide is fond of mySelf, and in providing there’s number reduction, number lose, and nothing is actually taken away from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not want whatever cannot be given away. Such may be the Joy of miracles! Thinking vegetables be seemingly flung everywhere, yet there’s never even a glance back once again to see where the vegetables land. The vegetables are never for an “other,” and since giving and getting are the exact same the mind gets the presents it gives. This is really the party you seek for beneath the ego’s questions.
The only problem that want be asked is really a problem that’s not really foolish at all: Am I ready to know that God’s May and My Own will be the Same? God’s Can for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this May may be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thank You God!