When you really take it in
you start to realize that all of time
is just repeating that belief in the original error.
So it's just an error that seems to be repeated
over and over and over, and that's what makes time,
it makes the illusion of time, it makes the illusion of change.
Time is associated with change,
but it's always in flux, everything is changing, shifting..
The main distinction, you could say the one distinction,
that is required to
WAKE UP
from this dream, is just to see the impossibility of change.
If the world itself by definition is
the belief in change,
then... you can't really change the change.
(laughing)
You can only change your mind about the change.
What does that even mean; change your mind about the change?
You can see the impossibility of it.
That's it. That's what forgiveness is; it overlooks.
Because this is actually the answer
that solves all seeming problems,
because the only problem was the belief in change,
and when you come to this state of mind
where you see the impossibility of change, then - that's it.
It's like game over for the ego.
In fact it shows that there never was a game.
So, this is the joy and the happiness and the lightheartedness.
And yet the ego insists on changing everything.
How many versions of the Course are really needed?
Well, it's actually the practical application
of what I'm talking about tonight, is what's needed.
Not coming up with different versions and variations
and, you know, all this craziness of the world;
"Oh yeah, variety is the spice of life."
No.
"Different strokes for different folks."
No.
Jesus asks us in the Course,
he says, "Make this year different by making it all the same."
So really, there's nothing in time and space that you can look at,
perceive through the five senses, that relates to anything real.
That doesn't have anything to do with reality.
There's just one reality and that's eternal Spirit,
and it's not multiple realities, and
there aren't different perceptions of reality,
because reality is Spirit.
Reality is eternal and changeless, and
perception always changes.
When you look at interpersonal relationships,
you know, changing interpersonal relationships,
or what people talk about, changing a partner,
all those things are still an attempt to change the change.
But to change is false by definition,
and so you can't change the false,
you can just SEE the false as false.
See? And that's the difference.
It's not trying to change the false,
but just see the false as false. It's very peaceful.
It's very relaxing.
Very nurturing.
As far as concepts go, forgiveness is the
last concept you'll ever need.
And it's very, very, very relaxing.
Another way of saying this is; you can't heal what is unreal.
So that's why you can't heal the body,
because the body is just a part of fragmented perception,
but the body isn't sick.
It's just a piece of the puzzle.
And when you see the purpose,
for the body and for the world, is just forgiveness,
a very unifying purpose
which unifies all things,
then is the perception healed.
That's what the problem was all along.
It was cracked perception. It was fragmented perception.
It was distorted perception.
When you have a difficulty understanding this,
it's because, quite frankly, you still are invested in specifics.
You're invested in idols.
What does that mean?
Could be invested in people, invested in money,
invested in companies, invested in a sports team winning,
invested in a relationship looking a certain way,
invested in the body, thinking the body
has some value in and of itself.
All the things that people call life on earth
- which is not life at all, eternal life is what life is -
but all the projections that people call life
is basically just, again, a devotion, a dedication to,
an addiction to the changing.
And you can't change the changing.
You can only see the impossibility of it.
That's where the awakening occurs.
It's not in looking to make anything better,
looking to improve anything.
You won't find enlightenment in ego self-concept goals.
When you achieve them you will notice you are still not satisfied,
and that's because they're ephemeral, they're temporal.
If you're an eternal being you will never be
satisfied with the ephemeral.
It's quite, quite simple.
But the ego defense against this realization...
The resistance to understanding how simple
everything really is; let all things be exactly as they are,
and see that everything that happens to me
I ask for and receive as I've asked.
The simplicity of that is a unified mind.
I guess I've given away the mystery!
There's really no mystery to it.
Enlightenment is not mysterious,
it's actually the natural state of mind of the Christ.
It's the natural alignment with God; being sourced by God,
being created perfect, pure love, eternal Spirit
by an eternally loving Creator.
And that's what simplicity is,
and that's what waking up is all about.
But it's not something that you have to constantly guess at,
or it's not something where you're looking to try to
cue off of the form to know who you are.
That small, still voice within, that inner recognition
is what waking up is about.
Not about trying to find some evidence in the world
to support your identity.
As in the Matrix movie; you might remember when
they first go into the matrix, are driving along the street,
and Trinity is in the car, and Neo and Morpheus,
and they start talking about the noodles,
this place where Neo remembers a memory
of having some good noodles, and basically he's told,
"All those memories that you think happened, never happened".
And he doesn't know what that means,
and basically Trinity there is right there in the car
to give him the answer. She says,
"It it means the matrix cannot tell you who you are."
The world of images cannot tell you who you are.
You're not gonna find in a bunch of images and idols,
you're not gonna find the Holy Son of God,
pure abstract Spirit and love and light, in the images.
That's why you have to forgive them,
you have to forgive the veil.
I am one.
The father and I are one.
I am.
One.
And all you have to do is
open up
and embrace the fact
of
love.