Problem: What’s Enlightenment?
Thanks for asking the questions that can come to your mind, even though they seem “fairly peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all observed suffering has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness looked to create the misperception called pain.
Suffering was the illusion that Christ could keep a Supportive Creator’s Mind. “If suffering is real there is number God. If Lord is true there is number pain.”(W-190.3) The latter does work because Lord does not have any opposite. Enlightenment entails no suffering or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Natural, Continuous Happiness, Peace, Flexibility, and Joy. Being Regular, Enlightenment knows maybe not of change. The impression of vulnerability and changing feelings went as well. There is number confidence to fall “right back into.” Heart Abides in delicate Love. All suffering is over Today and nothing stays but an advantage of Stillness.
The Holy Soul is the reminder that Living is Eternal. The Present Moment could be the gate way to Eternity. The world of photos was an environment of illusion. Photos are thus neutral to the Sacred Spirit. These were “neutralized” the immediate they did actually arise acim.
What does this mean with regards to your second problem? You cannot destroy what’s never lived, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Figures were never born and never die because the entire world of images is the past. It’s difficult to get beginnings and endings in a software that is already prepared and over extended ago. There’s number living in images. Here is the meaning of “Maintain number graven pictures ahead of the Master Thy God.” All pictures were designed to obscure the Truth from recognition, and they are able to only be forgiven as one illusion. If illusions might be split up in to residing and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment could be impossible. For what’s Enlightenment but Real Oneness, much beyond the chance of section of all kinds? The separate mind was the illusion. Seek to not task the separate mind to forms and call some types living and some types dead. Lord knows maybe not form. The separate brain appeared to be the “killer” impression, the Holy Heart tells the sleeping brain that what’s full and single cannot BE split. In Paradise Brain is One Heart, and also regarding this world forgiveness shows this Oneness. The understood earth recognizes the unity of the recovered mind and sees that there’s nothing “outside” with this single brain which desires softly a pleased, mild dream. The goal of ACIM is always to desire lightly of a sinless world. This purpose is more than probable, it’s certain!
As for my seeming diet, “eat what is served” may be the Guidance I was handed from the Sacred Heart many years ago. Join along with your brother and let number principle come between the Enjoy you share. This Guidance has not changed. “Dinner” is obviously a background for sharing the Joy of the Residing Moment. What the planet calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are actually the same in the Enlightened State. The Relieved Perception sees the sameness of everything since all of them reveal the exact same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perception is not “particular,” for in good understanding nothing is personal. God is no respecter of persons. I actually can not “take” an animal’s “life” since Life is Heart and can only just be prolonged or Provided as Lord Gives. “Take” doesn’t have meaning in my mind and since animals have never “lived” it’s difficult that they might “die.” The belief stated in the idea “personally take an animal’s life” has many main assumptions that are false. In right-mindedness it is apparent that ideas are heightened since they are provided away or discussed, and “taking” a “life” or some thing has no meaning. All that I give is directed at mySelf, and in providing there is no reduction, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever taken away from wholeness and unity. The teacher of Lord does not want anything that cannot be provided away. Such is the Delight of miracles! The thought vegetables be seemingly flung every-where, however there is never even a glance back to see where in fact the seeds land. The vegetables are never for an “different,” and because giving and getting are exactly the same your brain gets the gifts it gives. This really is truly the feast you find for underneath the ego’s questions.
The only problem that want be requested is really a problem that’s not necessarily foolish at all: Am I prepared to know that God’s Will and My Own are the Same? God’s May for Me is for Great Happiness. And what but this Can could be the Will of Christ? Cheerfully, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thank You Lord!