The ego uses a selection of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is always one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother until you perceive the results back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them even more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the facts are well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, in addition to specialness (being different), to keep the illusion of separation going. a course in miracles online Usage of these kinds of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they are in line with the original separation. Remember cause and effect: Your brain you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you having to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It really is, however, all about the method that you enter and utilize them within the mind.
The choice which will set you free would be to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You need to function as person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even if you are the only 1. It is “special” until you transform it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, holds true Perception which shines a light of truth you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) is very clear that form will not matter. There is nothing in ACIM about behavior and when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, that is the same side of the ego mind. They may be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; nevertheless, you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is the same as any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you knowing that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
What you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However listed below are two questions to ask yourself:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my buddy from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you want to. It is never too late.
There is Only One of Us:
When you judge a brother, you’re using the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. This is the reason we emphasize that everything you see in another has to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another if you don’t chose from that part of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge what you don’t already believe to be true as it is based on the actually chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the initial separation because you opting for to utilize the ego mind. It really is where you are still keeping fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the truth.
Absolutely anyone who turns up and provides you with to be able to heal your mind is a gift you need to use. Turn it into a Holy Relationship. This is how you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually see it for themselves. Hold the light of forgiveness which gives all minds a chance to create a different choice. Judge and they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is a conscious mind behavior based on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point is to protect separate identity and therefore, all attack is really a demand love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you’re to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you’ll choose against the ego’s attacks in favor of correction (forgiveness) from the Right Mind.
Responding with love can mean a lot of things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely should be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to show total attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will provide you with a solution if you completely turn to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred which is to know the truth about you and your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). Once you share your willingness never to see error, you have shared what you want to keep and learn on your own. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing means to allow yourself to give to another what you need them to have. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you would like to have on your own. You are teaching them what you want to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do this and you will find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Surrender if you ask me what I’ve taught you.”
