The ego runs on the selection of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the results back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them even 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, and specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these types of relationships as cause, is also the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they’re in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about how you enter and utilize them within the mind.
The choice that will set you free is to elect to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to be the person practicing forgiveness in every of your relationships, even if you are the only 1. un curso de milagros en espanol It is “special” until 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 TRAINING 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, this is the same side of the ego mind. They might be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but 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 may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby producing a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) does 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 will not have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. It is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
Once you judge a brother, you’re utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. Because of this , we emphasize that what you see in another must 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 everything you don’t already believe to be true since it is using the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the original separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still holding onto fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and provides you with a chance to heal your mind is really a gift you need to use. Turn it right into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your personal mind to God, and how others eventually see it for themselves. Contain the light of forgiveness gives all minds a chance to create a different choice. Judge plus 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 would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is really a demand love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you are to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose contrary to the ego’s attacks and only correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love often means many things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and utilizing the Right Mind to show over all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will provide you with a solution if you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” may be the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred which is to know the truth about you as well as your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). Once you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to help keep and learn on your own. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to give to another what you would like them to have. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you want to have on your own. You’re teaching them what you want to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you will find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender to me what I’ve taught you.”