Which of the five versions of “A Course in Miracles”
should I read?
Has anybody ever heard that one?
Which of the five versions?
Now, let's take what Jesus says in the course
and let's apply it to that question. Okay?
When you decide upon the form of what you want,
you lose the understanding of its purpose.
Basically, that's an ego question.
Which of the five versions of “A Course in Miracles” should I study?
You see? Because Jesus is saying
all form is the same.
In the introduction he says, you know,
free will does not mean you can establish the curriculum.
It just means that you can decide what you want to take at a given time.
And then in the manual for teachers, Jesus even comes out and says
that you cannot even decide the form of the curriculum.
Isn't that lovely?
Now, if you cannot... If you take Jesus to heart
to what he's teaching in “A Course in Miracles”,
why would you ask which version of “A Course in Miracles”
you should be studying? When Jesus has already said
you can't even pick the form of the curriculum,
that it's all part of a prearranged plan.
That everybody... Helen Schucman was told everybody's...
The world’s worsening to an alarming extent, and everybody's
been called to accept their part in a prearranged plan.
What if the script is written?
What if there is no escape from what must occur?
What if you're just asking questions that aren't real questions?
They're just ego ponderings, you see? Because they're pondering about the form.
Which form is better?
That's what the ego's doing all day.
Which form is better?
What if there's no hierarchy of illusions?
What if there is no better form or worse form
because they're all the same mistake?
Every form is the same illusion.
Like lesson number one: “Nothing I see means anything.”
Now, that is getting into the practical application of “A Course in Miracles”.
You see? That's taking you more towards a transcendent state of mind
that's so peaceful that finally
you understand and who you are.
And when you understand who you are, you've just solved
every ego question in the world.
Every single ego question of the trillions.
were just a defense against remembering
Who am I?
And Jesus is saying, actually, it's a very simple answer.
And the Christ never asks the question.
The Christ is the Christ.
The Christ has always been the Christ.
The Christ will always be the Christ.
So, this is what we mean by practical application.
Devote your life, your mind, your heart
to knowing “the Lord thy God”,
and then what's how easily everything else in your mind falls away.
Watch how quiet you become
when you devote yourself to that purpose.
To really do that.
Watch how the questions start to disappear.
Maybe you had questions.
Go into the light in the stillness in your mind,
and watch how the questions disappear.