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July-September, 2015

Today I Learn to Give as I Receive — L 158

by Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C.

“We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.” (3:6)

Jesus finally explains why it is that our salvation is guaranteed. It has already happened. We are at the end of time, watching and reviewing what has gone before. We are fully awake, enlightened. We are the Christ, the Buddha, and every other enlightened being that has ever lived or will ever live. We are in God as we always have been. We are not living this dream story. We are watching it.

It is no wonder that this is all so confusing to us. We are playing a part and we are the watcher of the part. We are playing all the parts and watching all the parts. We are completely involved in the parts. We made time so this could occur and we believe in time. We are told this and yet we do not remember it.

“The script is written.” (4:3)

From our perspective, we seem to be trying to remember, trying to wake up, and yet the script is written and so this has already happened and all our effort is not going to change the moment of enlightenment, not going to bring it closer or delay it. If I awaken in this lifetime, it does not mean I finally did something right. If I don’t wake up in this lifetime, it would not mean I failed, that I didn’t give it my best effort, that I should have tried harder. It would simply be that it was not the time that I woke up.

“A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift.” (5:1-3)

If I were to awaken right now, I could not give you that experience. This is something that cannot be learned and cannot be given. But we do have a part to play here, something to learn and something to give. We have Christ Vision available to us. Because Vision is in Christ, it is shared by the Holy Spirit, and so we can learn this, too, even in the dream. Seeing each one as his true forgiven self is our goal here.

Here is how I have experienced this. I am with someone at work and they seem to be guilty of stirring up trouble. I see them doing it, and I see the distress they are causing, the damage they are doing. I feel resentful toward this person, and I am aware that person could turn their attention to me next and so I feel afraid. This is the ego vision that I have always used, and it is the vision that keeps me bound to the story and unaware of anything else.

In this lifetime I have become aware that there is something else. I realize now that I can see differently because there is something else to see. First it is a concept that I accept as true. Jesus says that we are not changed by our experience of separation. He says that we are as God created us and remain untouched by our experiences in the dream. In fact, he says that nothing we do, no matter how bad it seems in the story makes us guilty because we were created innocent, and creation cannot be undone.

I cannot see this innocence with ego vision, but I am learning that it is possible to see with Christ Vision. So I ask for this when I think about the trouble maker at work. I know how the ego sees this person, but I want to know how Christ sees this one. I sit in quiet for a moment to allow this healing of the mind. I wait for a shift, or I just trust it has occurred. When I see her again, everything has changed even though nothing has changed.

“Christ’s vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.” (7:1-5)

She is still living her script, but all I just feel love for her. I didn’t try to feel love. I didn’t try to see her innocence. I just desired to do so, and asked that I be given that vision. I truly desired it. I gave up any desire to blame her and see her sins, and just desired to see her natural state. Probably it is not as complete a transformation as it could be. I say that because if I saw her as she truly is I would likely fall to my knees before her glory. But I do see her very differently now and I am grateful for that.

“We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ’s vision looks upon ourselves as well.” (11:3-4)

Each time I do this, the other person receives what I have given, even if they are not aware of what is happening, and even if I do not see a change.

And, I see my own innocence more clearly than I did before. I forgive myself more easily.

“It matters not when revelation comes, for that is not of time.” (11:4)

This is not ending the dream, but it is ushering in the happy dream, and it does it for all of us. I feel it more directly as my life becomes happier and more peaceful, but it also changes all of the mind, and makes it easier for every aspect of our mind to accept change.

Now that I am getting a taste of what is possible, and now that I know there is something besides this dream, I want very much to wake up. Perhaps this strong desire for God is a precursor of an actual awakening, but there is no point in struggling for that, making effort and bemoaning my apparent lack of progress. This is out of my hands, but what I can do is learn to forgive and learn to see. I can experience this dream in peace and even in joy. This is my goal and it is a worthy goal.

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