Commentary on ACIM Lesson 238

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

On my decision all salvation rests.

Spiritual sadhana includes everything, and excludes nothing, so of course it includes 'death of the body'. That is how it disappears as a practice, and simply becomes the state of being we exist within, the IS of who we are.... beyond name, beyond form, beyond any identity or attachment.

The Tibetan Buddhists mantra 'Gaté, Gaté, Paragaté, Parasumgaté, Bodhiswaha...' means, loosely translated, 'Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Beyond Beyond, Hail the Goer'.....

As I sat today being with my fathers body, sometimes tricks of light seemed to happen.... once, as Mom and I stood looking at his face, the one eye resting half open seemed to have a flicker inside it. Ah, the veils between the worlds.... sometimes so thin. It was hard to really believe he is dead, despite the bodies evidence. As I shaved him the last time and combed his hair, it seemed like it would be so easy to wake him up, as if from a dream, and have him 'alive' again. For what is the difference between the truth of him as an eternal being and the perception of him as a dead body but the place I am seeing from...

That, it seems to me, is the whole point of this life.... to see everything truly, as it is. Inside of that understanding, everything becomes the curriculum for developing whole seeing. And what keeps us from such seeing? Naturally, only ourselves being 'personal vantage points', believing we have found 'the truth'. Such beliefs separate us, and blind our hearts to our Oneness.

We can't squeeze Godness into an ego, no matter how hard we try. But love does always invite the ego into God..... that IS available....like water flowing downhill.

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Thank you for surrounding me with Godness today.... as I release my father to return to his true home, I am sure he takes a part of the eternal me with him, and that he is leaving a trail of blessings (and blessed examples) for me to follow through this life.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 238

On my decision all salvation rests.

Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy. You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your Son's salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well, that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self.

And so, again today, we pause to think how much our Father loves us. And how dear His Son, created by His Love, remains to Him Whose Love is made complete in him.