The ego runs on the variety of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin stems from sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or another. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you will 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 even more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the facts are well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, and also specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. Use of these types of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they are in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: The mind you select 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 method that you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice that may set you free would be to elect to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only one. It is “special” and soon you turn 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 because it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is very clear that form does not matter. There is nothing in ACIM about behavior so when you judge a brother on his or 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 may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can pick the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby producing a different cause and effect.
Everything you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However here are two questions to ask yourself:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You won’t have peace if you don’t can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. It is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
When you judge a brother, you are utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become real effect. This is the reason 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 portion of the split mind to begin with; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true since it is based on the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the original separation because you are choosing to utilize the ego mind. It is where you are still holding onto fear and guilt instead of choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and provides you with a chance to heal your mind is a gift you may 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 which 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 really a conscious mind behavior predicated on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is often a demand love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you are to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose contrary to the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love can mean many things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. un curso de milagros en espanol Other times, you may want a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely must be practicing forgiveness and utilizing the Right Mind to turn over-all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you 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 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). Once you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you need to help keep and learn for yourself. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to share with another what you want them to possess. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you need to have on your own. You are teaching them what you would like 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.”