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Study of Manual for Teachers 3-8-12

Day 68

2 Thus does the son of man become the Son of God. It is not really a change; it is a change of mind. Nothing external alters, but everything internal now reflects only the Love of God. God can no longer be feared, for the mind sees no cause for punishment. God’s teachers appear to be many, for that is what is the world’s need. Yet being joined in one purpose, and one they share with God, how could they be separate from each other? What does it matter if they then appear in many forms? Their minds are one; their joining is complete. And God works through them now as one, for that is what they are.

Ah, now I understand how there is only one Teacher needed, when there seems to be many. As we wake up, we remember our wholeness and we remember our purpose, and so we know that we are one. We still appear to be separate entities, but we know that this is just an illusion that is helpful in the moment.

The Holy Spirit is a bridge between God and His sleeping Son. The Holy Spirit sees what we see, but does not believe it. In this way He can help us make the transition from the ego mind we believe we are to the whole mind we truly are. When I ask Him for help it feels like He is saying, “Yes, I understand how you feel. Let me tell you what is really happening.”

What Jesus is telling me here in this paragraph makes me think the aware Teacher reflects the Holy Spirit’s function.  I don’t remember what it is like to be awake so I can only speak from what I have read and what I feel, but I think it is something like this. The advanced Teacher of God seems to the rest of us to be in the world, in a body, sharing the same experiences that we are having. But this Teacher only seems to be the same as before. Her experience is very different. She sees the world we see but, like the Holy Spirit, is not fooled by the illusion. She has one function, one purpose that she shares with all and with God.

The difference between me and the one who is living awake is that I now often know my one purpose, but I also think I have other purposes. This dualism starts when I wake up. Because I travel in my work and often spend the night in a different hotel in a different city, I usually open my eyes and look around to situate myself in a place in time and space. Oh, I’m in a hotel room this morning. Yes, I’m in Alexandria. It’s Thursday, this means I will probably finish my rounds and go home tonight. I then remind myself that I have some writing to do and some posting so I had better find some coffee.

Just in that brief moment on awakening, I have established myself as a separate person with unique circumstances and needs. I have fulfilled my need to find the point in time and space which is different from anyone else’s on the planet. It is my purpose to occupy this space, to do the things I do, to see the people I see.

It is my purpose to visit customers and keep them bound to me so they don’t buy from someone else. It is my purpose to navigate the roads in such a way as to keep a bubble of separation around my car so that no one else tries to occupy my space at the same time I am in it. It is my purpose to eat healthy foods today and it also seems to be my purpose to often fail in this.

It is my purpose to seek comfort in knowing I am not entirely alone in my little bubble of existence by getting as close as I can (without invading their space) to certain other people. It is my purpose to defend my self in a thousand little ways all day long. Recently, it has become my purpose to remember that I have only one true purpose and to let the others go as accept that they have no value.

Just writing this makes me tired. It is a lonely existence even when surrounded by other people. It is lonely because we each have our own purposes and mostly these purposes are about defending our little point in time and space from other people. I hear the discordant voices. “Leave my customer alone. Leave my husband/wife alone. Leave my child alone. This is my house, what are you doing in it? My money, my food, my clothes. I win, you lose.”

It makes me sad that I still feel attached to this world of separation. I have tasted the truth and long for more and yet here I am, even before I lift my head from the pillow, deciding which purpose is the most urgent. I don’t know why I even wonder, coffee is going to win every time. ~smile~

Since I still sleep-walk through the world I can only guess at this next part, but I imagine that from an awakened awareness I will still do most of the things I do now, but I will not do them from a sense of purpose. Work will be what I do, not my purpose. I will drink coffee, or not, because it is there, not from a desperate need of caffeine to jump start my brain.

I will visit customers for the pure joy of it rather than for the purpose of protecting my territory. Things and people will be in my life and then will leave and the next things will appear only to disappear and I will be happy each time. There will be no sense of loss, because it is not my purpose to bring them into my world, nor my purpose to keep them in my world. I won’t spend my every waking moment planning the next moment because I will be directed, lived through, by something outside the self. I will have let go of attachment to everything that is not my one purpose.

These are my thoughts about living awake. And if I am wrong, that’s okay too. I know that in spite of my resistance, I am meant to be a teacher of God. I have one purpose that I sometimes forget, but I do have that one purpose, and I share that purpose with All That Is. I am ever so slowly letting go of attachment to all other purposes. Holy Spirit, please help me today to choose consistently for God. I give You all the willingness I have.

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