The ego uses a selection of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, along with specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. un curso de milagros en espanol Use of these kind of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the result is to continue separation between brothers because they are based on the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you choose from, as cause, can lead to the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about the way you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice that will set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must be the person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only one. It is “special” and soon you transform it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, holds true Perception which shines a light of truth on you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form does not matter. You’ll find nothing in ACIM about behavior and when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, that is the same side of the ego mind. They might be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; nevertheless, you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you knowing that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However here are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my buddy from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You won’t have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you want to. It is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
When you judge a brother, you are using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. This is why we emphasize that what you see in another has to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another if you don’t chose from that part of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true as it is using the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the initial separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It really is what your location is still holding onto fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and you with a chance to heal your mind is really a gift you can use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your personal mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness gives all minds an opportunity to create a different choice. Judge and they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is a conscious mind behavior based on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point is to protect separate identity and therefore, all attack is often a demand love, or forgiveness, which is joining. The more determined you are to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love often means many things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to turn over all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution in the event that you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” may be the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred and that is to know the truth about you as well as your brother. There is absolutely no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). When you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you want to help keep and learn for yourself. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to share with another what you need them to have. Your only reason behind doing this is because it is what you would like to have for yourself. You’re teaching them what you want to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you may find you have it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”
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