Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Leaving It All at the Door

Would you stand outside while all heaven waits for you within? ....All the complexities of the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.
ACIM Lesson 122:6:1,7


Wow! Serendipity is a strange and wonderful thing.  As I was contemplating the Lessons in A Course that spoke to this idea of taking the "unforgiving mind" to the door of the higher Self where it would simply disappear and where once in with out it, we could sit quietly in the peace and happiness we long for....I came across a video.  In this video, Mooji, a spiritual teacher, during a Satsang is getting students to imagine walking into the room of the Higher Self but before they can come in they must leave everything about the ego identity, all that makes the "unforgiving mind", at the door. It is amazingly effective technique that helps bring us into the "isness" of our life. It just seemed so serendipitous that I should run across the video when I am writing about Lesson 121, Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Let's look more at the "unforgiving mind" described in Lesson 121. :

  • It looks upon the world with sightless eyes, and shrieks as it beholds its own projections rising to attack its miserable parody of life. (w-121:4:2)
  • The unforgiving mind is in in despair, without the prospect of a future which can offer anything but more despair.(w-121:5:1)
  • ...and does not see it has condemned itself to this despair.(w-121:5:2)
  • It does not ask because it thinks it knows.  It does not question, certain it is right.(w-121:4:4-5)
What all this is saying is that the unforgiving or ego mind does not see clearly.  It looks out at a terrifying world and becomes afraid of what it sees.  It feels threatened and in despair not realizing that it created all that frightens it.  And it thinks it "knows everything, that it is right and that it knows for certain it is doomed.

Of course, we would want to leave something like that behind, wouldn't we?

The thing is, it is doomed when we show up at the door of the higher Self but we are not...because we are not it.  We are not this thing ego has created, identified with, named itself as. We are something beyond that, beyond the concept of "little self".  We will realize that when we open the door.  Forgiveness, according the Course is the key that will let us in to that Truth.

Hmm! All is well. 

Be sure to check out the video below.

References :

Foundations of Inner Peace (2007) Work Book For Students. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume. Third Edition. Mill Valley: Foundation for Inner Peace.

Mooji (n.d.) Invitation to Freedom. Mooji TV . Retrieved from https://mooji.tv/freemedia/an-invitation-to-freedom/


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