WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS?
page 5, paragraph 3
WHO ARE THEIR PUPIL?
Time=Illusion
3. The world of time is the world of illusion. 2What happened long ago seems to be happening now. 3Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. 4What has been learned and understood and long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach. 5Because your will is free you can accept what has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you realize that it was always there. 6As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. 7You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. 8And as you accept it, it is already learned.
Seeing
As Jesus has told us more than once in the Course, this world of time is an illusion. It is not really happening. It is not here. There is no ‘out there’ to see. You see it only in your mind. Just as when you dream at night, the things you see are in your mind only. You don’t even pretend to see them with the body’s eyes, and yet, on awakening, you can describe what was ‘seen’ as clearly as you think you are describing the room you sit in now.
The world you are presently witnessing is not real because all of this is passed. We are living in the past, so to speak. It has already happened and has already resolved itself. What if we simply accepted this? What would happen then? Perhaps this uncertainty is why we don’t simply accept what Jesus is so clearly saying to us.
Acceptance
We are on this particular path with A Course in Miracles, a curriculum designed to bring us to an awakening to the truth. Is it so hard to learn that it should take all of our life or even longer than a life to learn it? Jesus says that all we need to do is to accept it and it is already learned, so no, it is not hard. It is just frightening to us and so we resist accepting it.
This morning, I am questioning what it is that I would lose if I lost this world as I see it. I would lose sickness, pain, suffering, all sense of being Myron. I would never again have a child who is sick and suffering and never again be afraid of anything, nor have regrets and would not even remember what guilt felt like.
State of Bliss
What would I gain? I can’t really know this, but I can share what those who have accepted their awakening report. They say that they feel a constant and unwavering joy without fear and no guilt. They see God in everything and see no separation at all because everything is part of the one whole. Some have reported a state of bliss that does not end.
Admittedly, I don’t know too many awakened beings, but of those I know and those I have listened to or read, not one seems to regret their awakening. Not one has anything negative to report about living in that state, not even the slightest complaint. Not one has said that they lost anything that matters. I remind myself of this as often as I can. It is helping me to loose my grip on the illusory story of Myron.