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Study of Manual for Teachers 6-16-12

6-16-12
4 All living hearts are tranquil with a stir of deep anticipation, for the time of everlasting things is now at hand. There is no death. The Son of God is free. And in his freedom is the end of fear. No hidden places now remain on earth to shelter sick illusions, dreams of fear and misperceptions of the universe. All things are seen in light, and in the light their purpose is transformed and understood. And we, God’s children, rise up from the dust and look upon our perfect sinlessness. The song of Heaven sounds around the world, as it is lifted up and brought to truth.

As I continue my day-to-day practice of mind watching, and giving my willingness to be corrected, I am actually hastening the resurrection. My focus seems to be on my own personal resurrection, but there is nothing personal. There is nothing that is just Myron’s. When I say “my” body, I simply mean it is the body that is my focus at this time. “My” mind is the part of the mind that I am aware of at this time. We are one appearing as many. The idea of personal, ownership, and every other concept of separation is what is being undone to bring us to the resurrection, the day we rise from the idea of death to embrace Life.

Here is a simple example of how I am learning that I don’t want to cling to the idea of death. I have a large yard and on three sides I have thick hedges. I step out into my yard and enjoy the illusion of being in my own little kingdom. Recently, the hedges have been overrun with vines that were killing them, and my friend, Mary, who does my yard work, began the laborious job of pulling out the vines so the bushes can breathe.

I’m usually gone when this happens and when I got home the other day I was dismayed to see that there were huge gaps in my hedges. It seems that some of the bushes did not survive and had to be removed. Mary planted some new bushes in their place, but they are small and will take awhile to fill in the empty places.  I really hate looking at the hedges now. I look over and I see my neighbor’s yards. I feel exposed.

This has been an interesting experience for me because that feeling of being exposed is a perfect reflection of an inward fear. I seem to be very transparent as I write about my personal journal, but I pick and choose what it is I share. There are still things I do not write about, there are things about myself that I do not want to expose. I keep myself separate from my brothers and sisters with my secrets, just as I try to keep myself separate from my neighbors with my hedges.

There is still an expanse of hedge that Mary has not cleared. A part of me wants to say “Stop, leave me some cover at least!” Its too late though, because we have gone too far on this project and to leave this bit undone would just look weird. Again it reflects an inward condition. Sometimes when I post something I wrote and it is not accepted by someone, I feel exposed and vulnerable in the same way I do when I look at my bare hedges.

This feeling of needing to hide is a form of death. The need to be separate, the fear of being judged, these are death. Holy Spirit, I ask you to look at this with me and heal my mind from the belief that death is salvation.  I have lived with this sick illusion for as long as I care to, and am ready to release the fearful thought that sourced it. I am ready to be free. I am ready to live.

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