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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#27989721 - 10/09/22 08:32 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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I remembered a connection with guilt that has been touched on, but in that there is (along with the pleasant and neutral), suffering in the bodily states - suffering I think can equate with shame. When we suffer we are ashamed because we maintain it is our fault. Being faulted we have guilt. I am guilting me, but of course I project it - then you are guilting me, a predominant projection of the ego. Then we are warlike. Guilt seen as key to maintaining the separation.
We also guilt ourselves in trying to love, for we love in ways that are fearful, around the realm of opposites, ego, body. There are real reflections in our ways it reads, but I thought it funny saying that we love in ways that are fearful, because love and fear are said to be the only possibilities, and are mutually exclusive, and further, only one is real.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#27990219 - 10/09/22 01:34 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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I think a large percentage of us humans "love" another almost solely, or at least to a large extent, out of the fear of being alone, whether we realize it or not.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#27991463 - 10/10/22 07:37 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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"⁹They appear to lose what they love, perhaps the most insane belief of all."
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#27993145 - 10/11/22 04:38 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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We knew this, but going through the text again years later - it is having us give initiation, though it is not a beginning but a profound recognition of what is, covering past and future.
It is the way it works by law, apparently, and evidently, when we do something in this light, it is witnessed. It is empowered directly into the way in which we see ourselves. Your levity is the power of witness of the beings you bless, and yours theirs, and you see to that magnitude. It is an expansion, or remembrance of the nature of ourselves that is encompassing.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#27993158 - 10/11/22 04:52 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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It is a profound recognition because it is not mine, and something I am not able to do in my condition, though the welcoming of it is free, and given to us.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#27993184 - 10/11/22 05:55 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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It is an altar light that we become or hold and carry to others and thus see that they also are holding it, and our gratitude is the witness that grows, the witness of any form; joy, transmutation, exhilarant, completely still, dynamic and powerful.
Teachings are fractal in the sense that a line can contain the whole. Sometimes I am confused with the mass of teachings in remembering the right thing to say - that thing worked yesterday but I can't remember it exactly. But a child can form the whole of it, as in with something like, "I Am Love."
"³What holds remembrance of God cannot be bound by time. ⁴No more are you."
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#27993341 - 10/11/22 08:51 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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You are the one who provides succor, as one with the agents of God, to those whether in fear or in love, as the lonely and grieving are touched by the way that you form, like, "What God would have you be, what God would have you be, ..."
If not sure what God would have you be, read the course or other teachings, though is it self-evident that our inner nature is bliss-filled, free and guiltless. It is authentic because it is the immutable truth carried by the power of witness, and is the truth of oneness, already true.
Check the veiling power of separation, and the binding power of guilt, and wave them goodby as you see the fruit of that which you welcome to see through you.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28011161 - 10/22/22 06:43 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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That we consider ourselves different from one another, from the text, our only relevant error, "Your whole world rests upon it."
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You may be surprised to hear how very different is reality from what you see. ²You do not realize the magnitude of that one error. ³It was so vast and so completely incredible that from it a world of total unreality had to emerge. ⁴What else could come of it? ⁵Its fragmented aspects are fearful enough, as you begin to look at them. ⁶But nothing you have seen begins to show you the enormity of the original error, which seemed to cast you out of Heaven, to shatter knowledge into meaningless bits of disunited perceptions, and to force you to make further substitutions. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/219#5:1-6 | T-18.I.5:1-6)
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#28011945 - 10/23/22 04:37 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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That quote sounds like the reversal of what we call the "mystical experience" where one's awareness expands until you become the entire living universe.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#28011972 - 10/23/22 05:37 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, and the bringing home that we are that, it our being, the universe. The potency of the hack is profound, simply a decision. But the decision has to be unequivocal. I was just reading there pointing out that we only choose some situations, and not every situation to give over, which means we continue to split, that we still doubt. It points gently and says it's ok because we have already asked for that which actually can bring us back. Again, that will is not thwarted, but not forceful. It is silent, patient.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28014868 - 10/24/22 07:52 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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trip report
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11. Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. ²This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. ³It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. ⁴If you will consider what this “transportation” really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. ⁵It becomes part of you, as you unite with it. ⁶And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate. ⁷What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost your fear of union. ⁸The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you, and unites with it. ⁹And while this lasts you are not uncertain of your Identity, and would not limit It. ¹⁰You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. ¹¹You have accepted this instead of the body, and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by it.
12. This can occur regardless of the physical distance that seems to be between you and what you join; of your respective positions in space; and of your differences in size and seeming quality. ²Time is not relevant; it can occur with something past, present or anticipated. ³The “something” can be anything and anywhere; a sound, a sight, a thought, a memory, and even a general idea without specific reference. ⁴Yet in every case, you join it without reservation because you love it, and would be with it. ⁵And so you rush to meet it, letting your limits melt away, suspending all the “laws” your body obeys and gently setting them aside.
13. There is no violence at all in this escape. ²The body is not attacked, but simply properly perceived. ³It does not limit you, merely because you would not have it so. ⁴You are not really “lifted out” of it; it cannot contain you. ⁵You go where you would be, gaining, not losing, a sense of Self. ⁶In these instants of release from physical restrictions, you experience much of what happens in the holy instant; the lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy, and, above all, the lack of awareness of the body, and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible.
14. It is possible because you want it. ²The sudden expansion of awareness that takes place with your desire for it is the irresistible appeal the holy instant holds. ³It calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace. ⁴There are the laws of limit lifted for you, to welcome you to openness of mind and freedom. ⁵Come to this place of refuge, where you can be yourself in peace. ⁶Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. ⁷For peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love, and joined it where it is and where it led you, in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/224#11:1-14:7 | T-18.VI.11:1–14:7)
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28014931 - 10/24/22 08:25 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Cool, I got to the Little Garden section in 18 VIII (that in OP).
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#28015345 - 10/25/22 02:10 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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That's a great quote above, I hadn't remembered it. It really does sound like a trip report 
I especially like the part:
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You go where you would be, gaining, not losing, a sense of Self
which is interesting because we always refer to it as ego loss/death; be he offers a different viewpoint in this statement.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: Forrester]
#28015376 - 10/25/22 03:12 AM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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I think the idea ultimately is an attempt to find the 'true' self..
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Yeah, it's a separation death. Beyond awareness of the body, we separate from separation.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28020476 - 10/27/22 10:22 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I just realized that the use of the term relationship includes that with ideas and qualities (more ideas). It came from this:
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12. It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body and not find pain. ²It is essential that this relationship be understood, for it is one the ego sees as proof of sin. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/236#12:1-2 | T-19.IV-B.12:1-2) [emphasis added]
Often when is mentioned relationship, it is confusing to me to what it is being referred. It has already been said that we ourselves are ideas. Relationships are with ideas.
I may be taking the use out of context there, but nevertheless.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28020757 - 10/28/22 05:57 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Considering relationships as with ideas, ourselves as ideas, the body left the mind for an instant or two. It was very normal.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28020780 - 10/28/22 06:32 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Wow, I was just washing a pot in the kitchen, and I realized THAT was relationship, a steel pot. Relationship is with ideas. Steel pot is an idea and because it is a relationship.
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28020842 - 10/28/22 07:38 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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³The body can but serve your purpose. ⁴As you look on it, so will it seem to be. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/238#6:3-4 | T-19.IV-C.6:3-4)
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Re: The Little Garden [Re: syncro]
#28020887 - 10/28/22 08:12 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I think "your relationship", means that with everything perceived.
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