I will not use the body's eyes today

    Monday, March 23, 2009, 02:17 PM EST [General]

    Everything feels like an incredible wake-up call right now. It's undefinable and it is coming at me from all directions. There is something new happening and I am asked to step into it completely. It requires letting go of all ideas, emotions and previous actions. It is an active being in the present, taking full responsibility. It is, in fact, a growing up.

    There is a time when childhood should be passed and gone forever. Seek not to retain the toys of children. Put them all away, for you have need of them no more. The dream of judgment is a children's game, in which the child becomes the father, powerful, but with the little wisdom of a child. What hurts him is destroyed; what helps him, blessed. Except he judges this as does a child, who does not know what hurts and what will heal. And bad things seem to happen, and he is afraid of all the chaos in a world he thinks is governed by the laws he made. Yet is the real world unaffected by the world he thinks is real. Nor have its laws been changed because he does not understand.

    Ch.29.IX.The Forgiving Dream

    There are those days where nothing seems to go 'right'. You smile at someone, and they look away. You enter a room, and the one person in it leaves. You want to buy something, and it is out of stock. You eat something, and it doesn't sit right. It's a day where you prefer to stay in bed altogether, because you feel that nothing good can come of it. In the middle of that chaos, and maybe disappointment and a sense of depression, it is good to know that you are in fact in a transition. Nothing is ever static, everything moves and changes all the time, and sometimes there is a moment of chaos. And that is really all it is. It doesn't have any meaning.


    You are being undone. You, as you see yourself within a body and with an identity, have no reality whatsoever. It is the Christ in you that is real, and that is what you are. It is His eyes that you want to use, and not your own. The undoing can become pretty intense, and there are moments where you find that you have nothing to hold on to. Your old foundation is crumbling, but it is being replaced with the altar of God. It's exciting, maybe terrifying at times, but you are never alone. Jesus is with you, holding your hand. God is with you and He has never left you. The Holy Spirit is speaking to you right now. Angels are all around you and helpers are given you when you need them. Your purpose is clear, there is no need to worry, there is no need to try and solve anything. Let go and let God. Let Him show you what you need to see today.

    Father, Christ's vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body's eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

    The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created One.

    3.2 (1 Ratings)

    Lesson 3

    Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:25 PM EST [General]

    I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

    I don't understand it and I don't have to understand it. My only function is to be about my Father's business, and in that everything takes care of itself.

    It's a true thing. It's not about happiness in the world, it's simply about being happy for no reason whatsoever. And that can only happen in God. It's not about being successful, it's about the realisation that everything I need is given me. And that is a real experience. I don't have to make it happen, I only have to stand in the impossibility of a situation, recognize it for what it is, and trust. There is a God. He offers His help every moment, and it is never what you think it is. Let's take another look at the Introduction to the Workbook. It's astonishing in it's simplicity.

    Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world. If true perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishments anywhere impossible.

    The only general rules to be observed throughout, then, are: First, that the exercises be practiced with great specificity, as will be indicated. This will help you to generalize the ideas involved to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everyone and everything in it. Second, be sure that you do not decide for yourself that there are some people, situations or things to which the ideas are inapplicable. This will interfere with transfer of training. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see now.

    The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer.

    It's a simple reminder that A Course In Miracles has nothing to do with any study that you have done in the world, this training is completely out of time. Simply by doing the lesson for the day, you take a step in saying: 'I want something different.' And the whole universe responds. Your mind starts changing simply by the daily application. It doesn't happen through study, it's not through your understanding and it's not by your manipulation. Every time you think you have solved your problem, it only means that you are stuck again in the illusion of your mind. Let God take care of things, it will be resolved in such a way that the 'problem' never returns.

    You have been shown that there is a God, you have been offered the experience that you are not of this world and that this world in fact has no reality. You are standing in front of a treasure house filled with gifts from God, wondering if you should open the door. What are you waiting for? Not only can you open this door, but you can jump in with full speed. The experience of the awakening of your mind is waiting for you, and it is the only thing that will make you happy.

    Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.

    Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.

    Take the step, and go further. And still a little further. And still further... there's always more. At the same time everything is right here now. It's the paradox. Go figure. Today you are in the experience that you don't understand anything. Thank God. You don't have to understand it. Just let it go. There is a God, let Him take care of everything.

    3.7 (1 Ratings)
  • Sue
    Sue

  • Kristen
    Kristen

  • Elbert
    Elbert

  • taka
    taka

  • christina
    christin
    a

  • David
    David

  • Danny
    Danny

  • Diana
    Diana

  • suzanne
    suzanne

  • Celia
    Celia

  • Aaron
    Aaron

  • Frank
    Frank


    GREETINGS TO YOU IN THE HOLY NAME OF MY FATHER - YHVH (Yod He Vau He),

    I read your insightful blog and could not help but think that you were describing an episode of the Contemplative Mystics DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL. This stripping down of everything which one might consider a part of their individual self is somewhat painful to most people. It entails the complete surrender of one's will and desires. May the Glorious Shekinah engulf you completely until naught else remains but the Unconditional Love of the Great I AM. -- Aaron, lover of my Beloved Christ Jesus

    Aaron
    June 08, 2010
    08:19 PM EST

    Great post Tanja!! Thank you!

    Doug
    August 05, 2008
    09:15 PM EST