LESSON 131
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.
“Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want.”
“You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it.”
“Why wait for Heaven? It is here today.”
“How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven?”
“I ask to see a different world, and think a different kind of thought from those I made. The world I seek I did not make alone, the thoughts I want to think are not my own.”
“You cannot fail today. There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps His ancient promise to His holy Son, as does His Son remember his to Him. This is a day of gladness, for we come to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your searching here, and all the seeking of the world, which end together as you pass beyond the door.”
Wow! That was quite a meditation. I went into it as the holy endeavor it was, seeking to end my searching, seeking to enter that sacred room. I don’t really want to try to put words to this experience. It was different than anything I have done before. I still feel the effect even now.
Regina’s Tips
It is very good news that “no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth,” but the key in that sentence is that it is the one who seeks that finds. When one is tempted to listen to recommendations to drop seeking, it might be helpful to ask, “How does not seeking serve the ego?”
Based on Jesus’ example of the woman with the lost coin, it seems that Jesus recommends determined seeking. That reminds me of a quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“We discover it by being earnest, by searching, inquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one’s life to this discovery.”
My Thoughts
I’m still a little disconnected from my thinking mind right now. I do believe in seeking and have never felt drawn to the idea that seeking is not necessary. I think even in an awakened state one will probably need to remain a seeker, in the sense that awakening is not an end but a true beginning. I am not at that place so I could be wrong.
Manual for Teachers
Jesus gives the Holy Spirit different names in the Course depending on His particular function in a situation. Just as He is the Voice for God He is also the Answer and is God’s Judgment. He is the Answer because through the power of our belief we have made problems that need an answer, and because we believe in what we make, we cannot answer our own problems. This conundrum is something Jesus speaks of more than once. We cannot heal ourselves, for that we need the Holy Spirit Who is God’s Answer to our self-made problems.
One time, I had one of those problems that triggered feelings of unworthiness. I knew this is the ego mind that is judging the situation. What happened is that a particular thing occurred that reminded me of something from the past, and without giving it thought, I automatically asked the ego what it meant. The ego reminded me of my unworthiness, and as I accepted the ego’s judgment, I began to feel bad about myself. I then projected this feeling onto the one that triggered me because I had asked the ego what to do about this feeling and projection is the ego’s advice.
When this happened, I knew that I had been listening to the ego and I knew that I must stop listening to the ego’s judgment and turn my attention to the Holy Spirit. I was reminded that my mind holds only what I think with God. This didn’t feel true for me at this time because I seemed to have a lot of ego at that moment. I asked Holy Spirit for guidance and I wrote into my journal what I received.
Holy Spirit: That your mind holds only what you think with God is merely a fact. When it seems to not be true, you may rest assured that you are dreaming of other things. You are dreaming that you can change the nature of God. You are dreaming that you are a human being rather than a Divine Being. But dreams do not change reality. Your mind holds only what you think with God.
Wake up, my sweet sister. Let me show you your real thoughts. You have been searching in dreams for these thoughts and that is not where they will be found. Even as you remember what you have read in the Course and recite these very true words to yourself, you do this alone within the ego mind made to give you the illusion of aloneness. There is no power in decisions made alone.
Now you are changing your mind in union with Me and that is power indeed, power that will move mountains. This seeming problem you have made within your dreaming is the mountain we are interested in today. Give me your wholehearted desire for the solution and I will be your Solution.
Me: Holy Spirit, I give you this problem, this belief that God could have ever created a Being that was unworthy, the belief that any Being could make of itself something that God did not create. I am ready to remember my true Self, to know myself as the magnificent creation I am.
Oh my gosh, Holy Spirit, I can feel the ego mind rushing in to save me from God.
Holy Spirit: Do not be afraid of the ego mind that continues to chatter away and makes futile efforts to keep you involved in this story. It is nothing, a collection of beliefs from which I will relieve you. It has no power to contain your glory unless this is your desire.
Me: I give You my ego; it knows not what it does.
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Since the Atonement is meant to undo the belief in separation, it naturally is for all. It undoes the belief that anything could be for me alone. I hear the ego in my mind separating out a brother and seeing him as guilty and it is just insane. How could my brother be separate from me? We share the same identity, the same mind.
The idea that I am different from you, separate and apart, is an illusion. If I would remember reality, this is an idea I must release. I cannot believe in the illusion of separation and believe in Reality at the same time. Could you believe that the sky is blue and believe it is red at the same time? One thought would have to be seen as wrong.
It is the same with illusion and reality. Only one is true. I can believe something is not true, but my belief will not change reality. However, if I believe a lie is true I will live as if the lie is true. This is what has happened. We have chosen to believe a lie and it has become true for us. Not true in reality, but true in our mind. This lie is that we are separate from each other and what happens to me does not affect you.
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