Question: What is Enlightenment?
Thanks for asking the questions that can come to the mind, even when they appear “fairly peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all perceived suffering has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to make the misperception called pain.
Suffering was the impression that Christ could keep a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is actual there is number God. If Lord is real there’s no pain.”(W-190.3) The latter holds true since God has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no suffering or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Real, Continuous Happiness, Peace, Flexibility, and Joy. Being Continuous, Enlightenment knows perhaps not of change. The dream of susceptibility and changing feelings moved as well. There is number vanity to drop “back into.” Spirit Abides in mild Love. All suffering has ended Today and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness acim.
The Sacred Spirit could be the memory that Living is Eternal. The Present Time is the gateway to Eternity. The world of images was an environment of illusion. Images are thus simple to the Sacred Spirit. They were “neutralized” the instant they did actually arise.
What does this suggest with regards to your second problem? You cannot kill what’s never existed, and in the Sacred Spirit’s Perception of forgiveness hurt is impossible. Figures were never born and never die because the entire world of photographs could be the past. It is impossible to locate beginnings and endings in a script that is already published and around long ago. There’s number living in images. This is the indicating of “Maintain number graven photographs before the Lord Thy God.” All pictures were built to unknown the Reality from understanding, and they could only be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions could be separated up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment will be impossible. For what’s Enlightenment but Natural Oneness, far beyond the possibility of team of all kinds? The separate mind was the illusion. Seek to not task the separate mind to forms and contact some types living and some types dead. Lord understands maybe not form. The separate brain seemed to be the “killer” impression, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what is whole and unified can never BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and actually with regard to this world forgiveness reflects that Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the recovered brain and considers that there surely is nothing “outside” of the simple mind which desires gently a happy, light dream. The target of ACIM is to desire gently of a sinless world. This purpose is significantly more than probable, it is expected!
For my appearing diet, “consume what’s served” is the Advice I was handed from the Sacred Soul several years ago. Join with your brother and allow number principle come between the Enjoy you share. That Guidance hasn’t changed. “Dinner” is obviously a backdrop for sharing the Delight of the Living Moment. What the world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are very yet in the Enlightened State. The Relieved Perspective sees the sameness of everything because all of them share the same Function: forgiveness. That Perception is not “particular,” for in unified perception nothing is personal. God is not any respecter of persons. I actually can’t “take” an animal’s “life” since Life is Spirit and can only be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” has no indicating within my mind and because animals haven’t “lived” it’s difficult that they could “die.” The belief stated in the thought “privately take an animal’s life” has many underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness it’s apparent that some ideas are strengthened as they are given away or distributed, and “taking” a “life” or some thing does not have any meaning. All that I provide is given to mySelf, and in providing there is number reduction, number compromise, and nothing is actually taken away from wholeness and unity. The instructor of Lord does not want something that cannot be provided away. Such may be the Joy of miracles! The thought seeds be seemingly flung every where, however there’s never a glance back again to see where in actuality the vegetables land. The seeds are never for an “other,” and since offering and receiving are exactly the same your brain receives the presents it gives. That is truly the party you seek for beneath the ego’s questions.
The only issue that need be asked is just a issue that’s certainly not absurd at all: Am I prepared to learn that God’s Can and My Own are the Same? God’s Can for Me is for Great Happiness. And what but that May is the Can of Christ? Cheerfully, nothing can change Eternal Love. Thank You God!