What is Enlightenment? The teachings of David Hoffmeister and ACIM

What is Enlightenment? The teachings of David Hoffmeister and ACIM

Question: What is Enlightenment?

Thanks for asking the questions that come to your brain, even if they appear "rather peculiar" to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to create the misperception called pain.

Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator's Mind. "If pain is real there is no God. If God is real there is no pain."(W-190.3) The latter does work because God does not have any opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure,   acim Constant Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions has gone as well. There's no ego to fall "back into." Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Now and nothing remains but a benefit of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit is the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment is the gateway to Eternity. The entire world of images was a world of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were "neutralized" the instant they did actually arise.

What does this mean with regards to your next 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 world of images is the past. It is impossible to find beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There's no life in images. This is actually the meaning of "Hold no graven images before the Lord Thy God." All images were made to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they are able to only be forgiven as one illusion. If illusions could 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 not 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 is nothing "outside" of this single mind which dreams softly a pleased, gentle dream. The target of ACIM is to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is more than possible, it's inevitable!

For my seeming diet, "eat what is served" is the Guidance I was presented with from the Holy Spirit several years ago. Join along with your brother and let no concept come involving the Love you share. This Guidance hasn't changed. "Dinner" is definitely a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the world calls "breathing" and "eating" and "drinking" and "sleeping" are really the same in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of all things because each of them share the exact same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective is not "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 just only be extended or Given as God Gives. "Take" does not have any meaning in my own mind and since animals have never "lived" it's impossible that they might "die." The belief expressed in thinking "personally take an animal's life" has many underlying assumptions which can be false. In right-mindedness it's obvious that ideas are strengthened since they are given away or shared, and "taking" a "life" or anything more does not have any meaning.

All that I give is fond of mySelf, and in giving there is no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever recinded from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not want anything that cannot be given away. Such is the Joy of miracles! The idea seeds appear to be flung everywhere, yet there is never even a glance back to see where in actuality the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are the exact same the mind receives the gifts it gives. This is truly the feast you seek for underneath the ego's questions.

The sole question that require be asked is just a question that is not necessarily silly at all: Am I ready to understand that God's Will and My Own are the Same? God's Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will is the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing may change Eternal Love. Thank You God!