There is a hush in Heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause of gladness in acknowledgment of the journey's end. For Heaven knows you well, as you know Heaven.
No illusions stand between you and your brother now. Look not upon the little wall of shadows. The sun has risen over it. How can a shadow keep you from the sun?
No more can you be kept by shadows from the light in which illusions end. Every miracle is but the end of an illusion. Such was the journey; such its ending. And in the goal of truth which you accepted must all illusions end.
The little insane wish to get rid of Him Whom you invited in and push Him out must produce conflict. As you look upon the world, this little wish, uprooted and floating aimlessly, can land and settle briefly upon anything, for it has no purpose now.
Before the Holy Spirit entered to abide with you it seemed to have a mighty purpose; the fixed and unchangeable dedication to sin and its results. Now it is aimless, wandering pointlessly, causing no more than tiny interruptions in love's appeal.
This feather of a wish, this tiny illusion, this microscopic remnant of the belief in sin, is all that remains of what once seemed to be the world. It is no longer an unrelenting barrier to peace. Its pointless wandering makes its results appear to be more erratic and unpredictable than before.
Yet what could be more unstable than a tightly organized delusional system? Its seeming stability is its pervasive weakness, which extends to everything. The variability the little remnant induces merely indicates its limited results.
How mighty can a little feather be before the great wings of truth? Can it oppose an eagle's flight, or hinder the advance of summer?
Can it interfere with the effects of summer's sun upon a garden covered by the snow? See but how easily this little wisp is lifted up and carried away, never to return, and part with it in gladness, not regret.
For it is nothing in itself, and stood for nothing when you had greater faith in its protection. Would you not rather greet the summer sun than fix your gaze upon a disappearing snowflake, and shiver in remembrance of the winter's cold?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Lessons 36-40 on Holiness
If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous.
We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think.
How darn and utter comforting to read these lines in the beginning of lesson 39, no nonsense, no way to deny the clarity of the timeless ideas that are awaiting my usages.
Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world, and your own. How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be He does not know His Son?
I simply love the directness of these ideas that are experienced for me as a comfort of the highest proportion. No matter the form of my dream, I turn to another moment a voice directing me as myself to say: " Here it is. The other world is right here and now in lesson 39.
In Auroville where we stayed the teachings of The Mother are now so reinterpreted and watered down, that I thought it a bit sad for a moment.
But then I rememberd that here message like any message of truth can never be lost ...its power is ever present.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Reflections
Of all the images I have seen in this past month in India, all the symbols of the Hindu Gods, the Budha and all their Temples errected for their Masters over the last 1000 years or more, it is a staggering awareness for me how man devotes such energies on caring for the unknown.
And still it is that, that drives him on to go on, and in India, the ceremonies, the bells, the washing of statues, the fire blessings, it all gives man a purpose a reason to exist
Each day thousands of flowers are woven to hang around statues, when Sonja and I bought one evening a string each and brought them to our nose, the seller was afghast.
The Gods for which they where intented do not need a smell, so we did not dare place them around our neck .......and say we are Gods.
In all the squalor of India that so many live their is always a temple being build to honor some God, each house has a small corner to bow before, or place incense or flowers.
Not that this is any different from my childhood home where the statues of Jesus, Mary had a special place in the best room and a little oil- light flickering in front of it.
Its the same idea in a muliple forms
Outside Varanasi about 18 km is a round temple where Budha gave his first sermon to his 5 disciples, now when I sat there on the edge and watched the monks from Thibet with their praying beads go round and around mumbling the prayers, I thought 'My God' What is the difference with my workbook lessons?
Somewhere I saw the flash of the history of man in his acknowledgement of some thing greater then anything he imagines and endlessly repeating his desire for contact
And still it is that, that drives him on to go on, and in India, the ceremonies, the bells, the washing of statues, the fire blessings, it all gives man a purpose a reason to exist
Each day thousands of flowers are woven to hang around statues, when Sonja and I bought one evening a string each and brought them to our nose, the seller was afghast.
The Gods for which they where intented do not need a smell, so we did not dare place them around our neck .......and say we are Gods.
In all the squalor of India that so many live their is always a temple being build to honor some God, each house has a small corner to bow before, or place incense or flowers.
Not that this is any different from my childhood home where the statues of Jesus, Mary had a special place in the best room and a little oil- light flickering in front of it.
Its the same idea in a muliple forms
Outside Varanasi about 18 km is a round temple where Budha gave his first sermon to his 5 disciples, now when I sat there on the edge and watched the monks from Thibet with their praying beads go round and around mumbling the prayers, I thought 'My God' What is the difference with my workbook lessons?
Somewhere I saw the flash of the history of man in his acknowledgement of some thing greater then anything he imagines and endlessly repeating his desire for contact
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Last Day in India
Yesterday we where well enough we thought to venture outside a riksha-ride with Dirk to a coffee shop ..Yes Mumbai is more western then any place in India.
This trip a short one Dirk held out 30 rupees to the driver and was given back 21 rupees, as that was the fair, we where week with laughter on the foot path as we at last realized how much the rest of India had charged us for similar trips like 30-40-50-60-or 80 rupees.
I know we cannot be ripped off but it still was giving us much hysterics thinking about it. In Mumbai the rikshas have meters a must of the government.
The coffee shop was great for Dirk but we could not manage a cappucino and those that know us will be amazed. We went back to bed and Dirk went to the Taj Mahal..
We ventured out a few hours later and did manage some shopping, cannot keep a shopper down for long
Dirk took the train and told us when he returned that the wagons are for woman and man as you are so packed together like sardines that you could not possible be having man and woman together in one wagon.
When I said to Dirk "Why did you not buy first class? He said" That was first class"
So our journey is ending today ..I am of to London and Sonja and Dirk on to New Zealand.
It has been a hell of a ride the agony and exctacy of India are pictures in our minds of such wide variety of experiences that has given the ideas of our most loved message A Course in Miracles a whole new perspective and humbleness to see how many many forms this dream is presenting to include.
With Love To All
This trip a short one Dirk held out 30 rupees to the driver and was given back 21 rupees, as that was the fair, we where week with laughter on the foot path as we at last realized how much the rest of India had charged us for similar trips like 30-40-50-60-or 80 rupees.
I know we cannot be ripped off but it still was giving us much hysterics thinking about it. In Mumbai the rikshas have meters a must of the government.
The coffee shop was great for Dirk but we could not manage a cappucino and those that know us will be amazed. We went back to bed and Dirk went to the Taj Mahal..
We ventured out a few hours later and did manage some shopping, cannot keep a shopper down for long
Dirk took the train and told us when he returned that the wagons are for woman and man as you are so packed together like sardines that you could not possible be having man and woman together in one wagon.
When I said to Dirk "Why did you not buy first class? He said" That was first class"
So our journey is ending today ..I am of to London and Sonja and Dirk on to New Zealand.
It has been a hell of a ride the agony and exctacy of India are pictures in our minds of such wide variety of experiences that has given the ideas of our most loved message A Course in Miracles a whole new perspective and humbleness to see how many many forms this dream is presenting to include.
With Love To All
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
India
Well we are in Mumbai in a nice appartment ...but all I have seen so far is me bed and the bathroom ...India got me well and good ..but this morning it looks rosier Sonja came out of here bedroom with a mozzie bite on her eye not a pretty picture, and she is feeling better as well some sniffles some coughs but oh well its all India .......
Monday, February 1, 2010
India
We arrived in Mumbai and our first day here was spend for me mostly in the bathroom ...India at last got me well and good in that my body feels like been beaten bbadly
Sonja also is resting today as she is coughing, at least we are in a comfy appartment and lying down is the highlight of Mumbai so far ..
Our much planned shopping expedition has`to wait ..After Varanasi, Mumbai is a haven of cleanliness, no cows to dodge in the streets or the amazing amount of poop everywher
We are here in a very nice area of Mumbai but so far the pine trees outside my room are the only vista today
Sonja also is resting today as she is coughing, at least we are in a comfy appartment and lying down is the highlight of Mumbai so far ..
Our much planned shopping expedition has`to wait ..After Varanasi, Mumbai is a haven of cleanliness, no cows to dodge in the streets or the amazing amount of poop everywher
We are here in a very nice area of Mumbai but so far the pine trees outside my room are the only vista today
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)













