Thanks for asking the issues which come to the mind, even if they seem “rather peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all perceived suffering has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness looked to create the misperception called pain.
Pain was the dream that Christ could leave a Caring Creator’s Mind. “If suffering is actual there’s number God. If God is true there’s number pain.”(W-190.3) The latter is true because Lord doesn’t have opposite. Enlightenment entails number pain or displeasure about a course in miracles for Enlightenment is Natural, Continuous Pleasure, Peace, Flexibility, and Joy. Being Continuous, Enlightenment knows maybe not of change. The illusion of susceptibility and fluctuating emotions moved as well. There’s number pride to fall “straight back into.” Nature Abides in light Love. All suffering has ended Today and nothing stays but an advantage of Stillness.
The Sacred Nature could be the note that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment could be the gateway to Eternity. The world of photographs was a world of illusion. Images are thus simple to the Holy Spirit. They were “neutralized” the instant they did actually arise.
What does this suggest in relation to the second issue? You cannot eliminate what has never existed, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness hurt is impossible. Figures were never born and never die because the planet of photos could be the past. It is impossible to locate beginnings and endings in a software that’s presently published and over long ago. There’s no living in images. This is actually the meaning of “Maintain no graven photos before the Master Thy God.” All photos were made to unknown the Reality from attention, and they can just be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions could possibly be split up in to residing and useless, natural and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment could be impossible. For what is Enlightenment but Natural Oneness, much beyond the possibility of department of all kinds? The separate brain was the illusion. Seek to not project the split mind to types and contact some types living and some forms dead. Lord understands maybe not form. The split mind was the “killer” illusion, yet the Sacred Nature tells the resting mind that what’s whole and specific cannot BE split. In Paradise Brain is One Nature, and also with regard to this earth forgiveness shows this Oneness. The forgiven world realizes the unity of the relieved brain and considers that there’s nothing “outside” of the simple mind which dreams lightly a pleased, delicate dream. The target of ACIM would be to dream lightly of a sinless world. This goal is more than probable, it is certain!
For my seeming diet, “consume what’s served” may be the Guidance I was presented with from the Sacred Nature many years ago. Join along with your brother and allow no principle come involving the Enjoy you share. That Advice hasn’t changed. “Dinner” is obviously a foundation for discussing the Joy of the Residing Moment. What the planet calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are actually yet in the Enlightened State. The Relieved Perspective considers the sameness of everything because all of them reveal the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perception is not “personal,” for in single perception nothing is personal. God is not any respecter of persons. I actually can’t “take” an animal’s “life” since Living is Nature and can only just be expanded or Provided as God Gives. “Take” does not have any meaning in my mind and since creatures haven’t “lived” it’s impossible that they might “die.” The opinion stated in thinking “individually take an animal’s life” has several underlying assumptions which are false. In right-mindedness it is clear that a few ideas are heightened because they are provided out or shared, and “taking” a “life” or some thing does not have any meaning. All that I give is given to mySelf, and in offering there is number reduction, no compromise, and nothing is actually recinded from wholeness and unity. The instructor of God does not want whatever can not be provided away. Such is the Joy of wonders! The thought seeds appear to be flung everywhere, yet there’s never a glance back again to see where the vegetables land. The seeds are never for an “different,” and because offering and getting are the same your head receives the gifts it gives. This really is truly the feast you seek for beneath the ego’s questions.
The only real problem that need be asked is a problem that’s not really ridiculous at all: Am I ready to learn that God’s Can and My Possess will be the Same? God’s May for Me is for Great Happiness. And what but that May could be the May of Christ? Joyfully, nothing can alter Timeless Love. Thank You Lord!