The ego uses a variety of predictable patterns because the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them a lot more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the truth is well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, in addition to specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. un curso de milagros en espanol Usage of these kinds of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they’re in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: The mind you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you needing to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It is, however, all about how you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice which will set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even if you are the only one. It is “special” until you turn it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, is True Perception which shines a light of truth on you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite clear that form will not matter. You’ll find nothing in ACIM about behavior so when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, this is the same side of the ego mind. They may be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can pick the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby producing a different cause and effect.
What you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However listed below are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you need to. It is never too late.
There is ONLY 1 of Us:
Once you judge a brother, you’re utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. That is why we emphasize that everything you see in another needs to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another if you don’t chose from that portion of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge everything you don’t already believe to be true since it is in line with the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is really a statement of the guilt retained in your mind from the initial separation because you opting for to use the ego mind. It really is where you are still keeping fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you can use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is one way you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness which gives all minds an opportunity to make a different choice. Judge and they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is a conscious mind behavior predicated on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is really a demand love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you’re to know the reality about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose contrary to the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the Right Mind.
Responding with love often means a lot of things and sometimes, it can even mean no response. Other times, you might need a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to turn over-all attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will provide you with a solution if you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred which is to know the truth about you as well as your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). When you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you want to keep and learn for yourself. What you share you discover you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to share with another what you would like them to have. Your only reason behind doing this is because it is what you would like to have on your own. You are teaching them what you would like to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you may find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Give back if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”