Question: What's Enlightenment?
Thanks for asking the questions that can come to your mind, even though they appear "rather peculiar" to you acim . In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to make the misperception called pain.
Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator's Mind. "If pain is real there's no God. If God is real there's no pain."(W-190.3) The latter does work because God doesn't have opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace acim, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions moved as well. There is no ego to fall "back into." Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is over Now and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness.
The Holy Spirit is the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment is the gateway to Eternity. The world of images was a world of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were "neutralized" the instant they appeared to arise.
What does this mean in relation to your second question? You cannot kill what has never lived, and in the Holy Spirit's Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die because the entire world of images is the past. It's impossible to get beginnings and endings in a script that's already written and over long ago. There is no life in images. Here is the meaning of "Hold no graven images before the Lord Thy God." All images were designed to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they are able to only be forgiven together illusion. If illusions might be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment will be impossible. For what is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the likelihood of division of all kinds? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive and some forms dead.God knows not form. The split mind was the "killer" illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what is whole and unified can never BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and even with regard to this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and sees that there's nothing "outside" of the single mind which dreams softly a happy, gentle dream. The goal of ACIM is always to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is a lot more than possible, it is inevitable!
As for my seeming diet, "eat what is served" is the Guidance I was handed from the Holy Spirit several years ago. Join with your brother and let no concept come involving the Love you share. This Guidance has not changed. "Dinner" is always a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the entire world calls "breathing" and "eating" and "drinking" and "sleeping" are very yet in the Enlightened State.The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of all things because they all share the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective isn't "personal," for in unified perception nothing is personal. God is no respecter of persons. I literally cannot "take" an animal's "life" because Life is Spirit and can only just be extended or Given as God Gives. "Take" doesn't have meaning in my mind and since animals have not "lived" it is impossible that they could "die." The belief expressed in thinking "personally take an animal's life" has many underlying assumptions which can be false. In right-mindedness it is obvious that ideas are strengthened since they are given away or shared, and "taking" a "life" or anything more doesn't have meaning.All that I give is fond of mySelf, and in giving there's no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever recinded from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not need something that can't be given away. Such is the Joy of miracles! Thinking seeds be seemingly flung everywhere, yet there's never a glance back once again to see where in fact the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are the same the mind receives the gifts it gives. This is truly the feast you seek for within the ego's questions.
The sole question that need be asked is just a question that's certainly not silly at all: Am I ready to learn that God's Will and My Own would be the Same? God's Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will is the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can alter Eternal Love. Thank You God!
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