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Manual for Teachers 2. WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS? P 5- 10-2-17

2. WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS? P 5
5 When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.

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We are reminded that all it takes to become a teacher of God is that we see in another person the same interests as our own. So when we come together to study the Manual for Teachers as we are doing now, we are sharing the same interest. We put aside our apparent differences, all that seems to separate us, in this coming together. Your interest is the same as mine and mine the same as yours and so we are both teachers of God.

What comes through me comes from the Teacher. This Teacher is the real teacher. What comes from you comes from this same Teacher of God. Coming together like this creates a holy relationship and guarantees His presence in it. You may not say anything aloud in response to what is said in this writing, but within your mind much is happening.

A shift, sometimes immediate, sometimes slowly, occurs. Perhaps it has something to do with what is written here, or maybe not. Maybe it is simply the joining for one purpose that opens the mind to healing. The same is true for me. I might take on the role of teaching, but I am the student receiving the teaching. I am the student receiving the healing from what comes through, and sometimes from responses that open me to another way to see. But always, I receive as I give and as I join in the giving.

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Study of Text, C 15: The Two Uses of Time, P 13, 9-29-17

I. The Two Uses of Time, P 13
13 How long is an instant? It is as short for your brother as it is for you. Practice giving this blessed instant of freedom to all who are enslaved by time, and thus make time their friend for them. The Holy Spirit gives their blessed instant to you through your giving it. As you give it, He offers it to you. Be not unwilling to give what you would receive of Him, for you join with Him in giving. In the crystal cleanness of the release you give is your instantaneous escape from guilt. You must be holy if you offer holiness.

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Clearly, the way to happiness and to freedom is to give love and forgiveness every chance we have.  If someone says or does something unkind, I can defend myself and join them in a hell of our own making, or I can forgive the entire idea and see them as temporarily confused but unharmed by that confusion. They remain in my mind the holy being they always have been and always will be.

There was a time that this was just a concept I wanted to believe. I did understand why it was true but I wanted to feel that way about everyone. It never quite made it from my head to my heart. In the journey, it got tangled up and turned into something else. I would feel like a victim being trampled because it wasn’t spiritual for me to defend myself, and mostly, I just felt resentful.

Things have shifted since then. For the most part, the distance from head to heart has shortened and is usually almost instantaneous. When I slip into the old way of thinking, I don’t stay there long. I want everyone to be innocent. I want to see the true brilliance of every brother. I am happy to see that they are not affected by their temporary insanity and neither am I.

How long does this take? An instant, maybe. And if it takes longer, I know that each time I choose to see what is real about my brother, I shorten the time it takes and I do this for us all. Here is something that I know Jesus said this was going to happen, but it was still something of a surprise; I love myself more now. I believe in myself, and I believe in my innocence much more than I did before. It seems that it is true, as I forgive my brother, I forgive myself. As I free my brother, I free myself.

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Study of Text, C 15: The Two Uses of Time, P 12, 9-27-17

I. The Two Uses of Time, P 12
12 You will never give this holy instant to the Holy Spirit on behalf of your release while you are unwilling to give it to your brothers on behalf of theirs. For the instant of holiness is shared, and cannot be yours alone. Remember, then, when you are tempted to attack a brother, that his instant of release is yours. Miracles are the instants of release you offer, and will receive. They attest to your willingness to be released, and to offer time to the Holy Spirit for His use of it.

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The next time I am tempted to hold a grievance against someone else, I am going to think twice. A grievance is a prison I put them in, a prison of beliefs about them that cannot be undone, and so, in my mind, they must remain condemned.

I remember when I was still working I had a grievance against a coworker. I thought she was the kind of person who would gladly stab you in the back if it was to her advantage. Because I believed that and did not allow that belief to be undone, everything she did seemed to prove I was right. I saw all her actions through the filter of my belief.

I held her prisoner of my beliefs, but I also was prisoner to them. I could not turn my back on her because she might cause me problems with her actions or words. I could not relax around her and my anxiety level was high while we worked together. Through my unquestioned judgment of her, I had taken myself hostage and I could not be at peace.

What a lesson that was! I also had the long-lasting grievance against my son. It didn’t feel like a grievance, but I was judging him and his situation and I believed it was a problem. That is a grievance, too, and confusing it with love didn’t change that. I am getting clearer on that situation, as well. I am learning the difference between love and fear.

Perhaps, having learned from these situations, I will never again do that. I hope not. I know that once in awhile, I get that same feeling of judging someone and believing my judgment, but now I mostly only do that briefly, and then I release the other person and in doing so, I release myself. Ahh, freedom!

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Manual for Teachers 2. WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS? P 3- 9-26-17

2. WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS? P 3
3 The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach. Because 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. As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is already learned.

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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.

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, and death. I would lose all sense of being Myron. I would never again have a child who is sick and suffering. I would never again be afraid of anything, nor have regrets and would not even remember what guilt felt like.

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. They have no fear and no guilt. They see God in everything and see no separation at all. They see that 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.

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Study of Text, C 15: The Two Uses of Time, P 11, 9-25-17

I. The Two Uses of Time, P 11
11 If you are tempted to be dispirited by thinking how long it would take to change your mind so completely, ask yourself, “How long is an instant?” Could you not give so short a time to the Holy Spirit for your salvation? He asks no more, for He has no need of more. It takes far longer to teach you to be willing to give Him this than for Him to use this tiny instant to offer you the whole of Heaven. In exchange for this instant He stands ready to give you the remembrance of eternity.

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Have you ever looked at a menu and thought that a sandwich would be good, then before you ordered, changed your mind and decided that a bowl of soup was what you wanted? How long did that take? How hard was it? We all know we can change our mind; we do it all the time. I’ll park here. No, wait; there is a better place. I’m going to do some writing, or no, I’m going to take my walk first. Easy peasy, just change your mind.

But suppose you love the sandwich and you love the soup. You might go back and forth for awhile. It might be hard to decide which one, but eventually you will make a choice. Until you do you will be hungry. This is what happens when I decide that I am tired of being fearful and decide I will give my problem to the Holy Spirit rather than the ego. It is no different from deciding between the sandwich and the soup, and no harder. If I put it off and sit in indecision, I will hunger for peace, but eventually, my hunger will drive me to a better decision.

I don’t keep up with the news too much, but today my wandered to something in the headlines and then to the next thing. I felt an emotional reaction to what I was reading. Instead of letting that emotion pass on through, I fed it by thinking about the story, making judgments, projecting blame. I wanted to tell someone how I felt about it, I wanted to take sides and present a reasoned argument against the other. As I did so, I stoked the fire of my indignation and then the emotions were running high.

How long will it take the Holy Spirit to turn this around for me? How long will it take Him to heal my mind of the beliefs that were triggered by those stories? No time at all, it is done in the blink of an eye. The only thing that takes time is for me to decide if I want to add to the illusion of hate and fear, or do I want an awakened mind? Do I want to live in the peace of God, or do I want to be part of the problem? It took me only a few minutes to make that decision.

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