Commentary on ACIM Lesson 79
©2010 Rev. David Seacord
Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
The last line of todays lesson ("You will be heard, and you will be answered.") will serve as our 'beginning' today. Have you a sense of what it is implying? To me, it implies God Knows Me. That I am totally KNOWN. Isn't that mindboggling? In a universe as vast as we have come to understand it is (and I suspect we are still in the dark ages even now about that) the Creator of All That IS Knows each of us (both personally AND impersonally). That is some trans-dimensional bio-spiritual-cosmic supercomputer! A complete and universal hologram program, infinitely creative and responsive (to the slightest use of our free will to deny the Great Eternalness especially)... That is God AS A COMMITMENT TO US, THE SON OF HIS OWN BEING.
While we often think (inside the cultural indoctrination) of God as a 'Father', the commitment running this hologram is identical to 'a Mother's Love'. Therefore to me, our 'Infinite Source' is both Father/Mother, Lover/Beloved, and the Beginning/the End. But notice these are ALL FULL CIRCLES. None of them are of 'duality'. None of them are 'split', or exist 'in separation'. They are simply both of the 'arms of truth'. And (conceptually) they exist for us, as we LOVE to be Held by God 'tightly', with both His/Her arms surrounding us. That is the experience that brings us into Absolute Trust, which is immediately before complete and total ego surrender.
'What' does the ego surrender? As revealed in todays lesson.... one thing it surrenders is "complexity". Is it not self-obvious we all somewhere in us yearn for 'the simple life', while the world preaches its truisms that 'you gotta get with the program' (which is almost always [in my seeing] some version of survival-based fear-motivated action). This is probably 'true' even if you Love your work. Just contemplate quitting, with no new job or self-work income lined up, and see if you don't experience a few survival issues. For us in the 'modern world', the loss of tribal/tangential (local neighborhood) community survival support is huge. And then, when we are able to 'schedule a vacation from it all', what a lot of us do is get as simple as possible.... go be in nature, relax on a beach, go for a walk of many hundreds of miles (throwing in my dream)... any way we can figure out to just get simple. When our 'free time is up', if we are 'normal', we reluctantly return to the slavery of our complexity, so that we can 'make it' financially, after which we dream we can relax and live 'the good life'. It is a bit of tail chasing, and not nearly as 'directly present' as 'picking the apple and then eating it'. But this is what our ego tells us we Must Do....
Contrasting all that then, what I see todays lesson as being about is the essential possibility of spiritualization, i.e., reducing all our life's complexities down to simple, basic fundamentals and thus being able to live much more freely and simply amidst all the complexity. Amazing possibilities arise out of this, like being fully Present at all times, for instance... Luckily, it is not about believing or not believing anything. It is simply about a way of seeing (or not seeing) so that there is no internal confusion. The basic fundamentals are 1. Live with open eyes (metaphorically and spiritually and actually). 2. Live with an open heart. 3. Trust the Promise (that God knows your life, its needs, and 'has it all covered'). These three work together as an empowering unity. Just like we do to, with God...... This is 'the mystery of the universe'.... that Man 'is One' with God. Said artistically, in our ordinariness is our splendor.
Therefore, let me recognize there is no problem, so that it can be solved... :-).
Namaste,
David
©2010 Rev. David Seacord
Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
The last line of todays lesson ("You will be heard, and you will be answered.") will serve as our 'beginning' today. Have you a sense of what it is implying? To me, it implies God Knows Me. That I am totally KNOWN. Isn't that mindboggling? In a universe as vast as we have come to understand it is (and I suspect we are still in the dark ages even now about that) the Creator of All That IS Knows each of us (both personally AND impersonally). That is some trans-dimensional bio-spiritual-cosmic supercomputer! A complete and universal hologram program, infinitely creative and responsive (to the slightest use of our free will to deny the Great Eternalness especially)... That is God AS A COMMITMENT TO US, THE SON OF HIS OWN BEING.
While we often think (inside the cultural indoctrination) of God as a 'Father', the commitment running this hologram is identical to 'a Mother's Love'. Therefore to me, our 'Infinite Source' is both Father/Mother, Lover/Beloved, and the Beginning/the End. But notice these are ALL FULL CIRCLES. None of them are of 'duality'. None of them are 'split', or exist 'in separation'. They are simply both of the 'arms of truth'. And (conceptually) they exist for us, as we LOVE to be Held by God 'tightly', with both His/Her arms surrounding us. That is the experience that brings us into Absolute Trust, which is immediately before complete and total ego surrender.
'What' does the ego surrender? As revealed in todays lesson.... one thing it surrenders is "complexity". Is it not self-obvious we all somewhere in us yearn for 'the simple life', while the world preaches its truisms that 'you gotta get with the program' (which is almost always [in my seeing] some version of survival-based fear-motivated action). This is probably 'true' even if you Love your work. Just contemplate quitting, with no new job or self-work income lined up, and see if you don't experience a few survival issues. For us in the 'modern world', the loss of tribal/tangential (local neighborhood) community survival support is huge. And then, when we are able to 'schedule a vacation from it all', what a lot of us do is get as simple as possible.... go be in nature, relax on a beach, go for a walk of many hundreds of miles (throwing in my dream)... any way we can figure out to just get simple. When our 'free time is up', if we are 'normal', we reluctantly return to the slavery of our complexity, so that we can 'make it' financially, after which we dream we can relax and live 'the good life'. It is a bit of tail chasing, and not nearly as 'directly present' as 'picking the apple and then eating it'. But this is what our ego tells us we Must Do....
Contrasting all that then, what I see todays lesson as being about is the essential possibility of spiritualization, i.e., reducing all our life's complexities down to simple, basic fundamentals and thus being able to live much more freely and simply amidst all the complexity. Amazing possibilities arise out of this, like being fully Present at all times, for instance... Luckily, it is not about believing or not believing anything. It is simply about a way of seeing (or not seeing) so that there is no internal confusion. The basic fundamentals are 1. Live with open eyes (metaphorically and spiritually and actually). 2. Live with an open heart. 3. Trust the Promise (that God knows your life, its needs, and 'has it all covered'). These three work together as an empowering unity. Just like we do to, with God...... This is 'the mystery of the universe'.... that Man 'is One' with God. Said artistically, in our ordinariness is our splendor.
Therefore, let me recognize there is no problem, so that it can be solved... :-).
Namaste,
David
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12:19 AM
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