The ego uses a variety 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 the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother until you perceive the results back. Once those email address details are perceived, you’ll use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the initial 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, in addition to specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Use 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 are in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you choose from, as cause, can lead to the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It is, however, all about the method that you enter and utilize them within the mind.
The choice that will set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even if 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 you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness because it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form will not matter. un curso de milagros en espanol There is nothing in ACIM about behavior so 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 is the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you knowing that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating 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 want to. It is never too late.
There is Only One of Us:
When you judge a brother, you’re using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. Because of this , we emphasize that everything 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 portion 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 actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is really a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the initial separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still holding onto fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and provides you with a chance to heal your mind is a gift you can utilize. Turn it right into a Holy Relationship. This is one way you will return your personal mind to God, and how others eventually see it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness which gives all minds a chance to make a different choice. Judge and 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 is 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 will choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the proper Mind.
Responding with love can mean a lot of things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely must be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to show over-all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution in the event that you completely turn compared to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is 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). When you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you would like to keep and learn on your own. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to share with another what you would like them to have. Your only reason behind doing this is basically because it is what you need to have for yourself. You’re teaching them what you would like to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you may find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Give back if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”
