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Study of Manual for Teachers 7-1-12

7-1-12
4 The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions. Spirit retains the potential for creating, but its Will, which is God’s, seems to be imprisoned while the mind is not unified. Creation continues unabated because that is the Will of God. This Will is always unified and therefore has no meaning in this world. It has no opposite and no degrees.

And oh what illusions we make! The variety! The realism!  How clever we were to lose ourselves in the illusions so that we could get the full flavor of the separation idea. And how perfect it was to keep that spark of truth, the memory of our Self so that when we were done with this idea, we would have a Guide to take us out of it. I wonder if guilt and fear were simply an inevitable result of thinking we were separated from God and if we anticipated that part, or if it was an unpleasant surprise?

The ego mind makes illusions endlessly and is not going to stop. It is the only thing it can do, being made for that purpose and only that purpose. This is why I have become willing to start stepping back from the thinking mind. It had never occurred to me I could do so until I started reading from NTI about becoming an empty shell. My Heart responded to that immediately though the part of the mind that is resistant to letting go of the ego identity has not gone down without a fight.

Reading The Teachings of Inner Ramana and practicing what I read has helped a lot, and the thinking, the constant chatter of the ego, has lessened. It is quieter and more peaceful in my mind now. I am far from empty, but I am encouraged to continue my practice by the results thus far.

I cannot create in any true sense from this imprisoned state, but I can learn to slow the illusion machine down and to make gentler illusions. I can learn to allow the Holy Spirit to reinterpret what I see of the illusions. A healed perception is my goal while I seem to be here.

For now, every thought I have, everything I do or say, every choice I make either binds my mind more tightly in the chains of illusion, or further releases me from the desire for this experience. So I do the only thing I can do, I exercise the only freedom I have allowed myself in this game, I choose the guide, the interpreter I will follow. If I look to the ego for meaning, I go more deeply into the illusion. If I call on the Holy Spirit to show me what each thing means, I move out of the illusion. This is not a choice I make and then it’s done. I make this choice moment by moment until it’s done.

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