I know when I read the,
the 50 principles of miracles at the beginning of A Course in Miracles, that was
that was one of them that really jumped out of me. A number of them jumped out over the years
but the one that jumped out pretty early to me was
miracles are involuntary and they should not be under conscious control
and
when we're talking about the doer, the doer wants everything to be under conscious control.
The doer is so concerned about behaviors and being, doing the right thing and
being correct and not making mistakes. The focus is always on the form and not on the mind.
As we had a beautiful witness from Aska there in Japan she
loves her job. She's teaching
English from 9:00 in the morning till 9:00 at night and she's having a ball and she's extending all this love and
it's her attitude that's doing the teaching.
She's not really
teaching English. She's teaching love.
And that's what all of us are called to do. Away from concern about outcomes, and productivity,
and what does it mean to the world? It's the feeling of love in our hearts and the extension of that love that
is what it's all about.
Even Helen Schucman the scribe of the course, you know, she
hung in there for a lot of years. It took seven years to bring through the course
from 1965 to 1972 but
then there came a time a little bit later in her life where she felt like wow
at least I did it, at least I completed the mission. And then Jesus basically told her well, actually it wasn't about the course.
And she was like astonished like what, what do you mean it wasn't about the course?
And Jesus said,
"I love you."
That is what it was all for.
All that taking down those words, all those
clarifying things and going back to sentences where there was resistance and getting it straight, you know
all that was just a backdrop for, "I love you."
That's the only thing that is important. Not even the book itself
was important to Jesus, it was the love, I love you. And that's what we're being asked to accept when we
release the doer.
So today I thought
in a practical way what we could talk about is
most people have that question always the question comes up. How, how do I undo the doer?
Here I've got my pad and pencil ready,
you just give me the formula and I will write it down.
And I will follow the steps like a good
student and then at the end I'm undone.
And
you know, we know that the undoing involves forgiveness, but that has to be under the Holy Spirit's guidance.
You cannot take personal responsibility
for the the seeming journey, you cannot as a person direct the undoing because
the person is the doer.
Why would you put the doer in charge of the undoing? That's not, doesn't sound very good.
No.
Oh I don't like the warden in this prison so I'm just gonna put all the prisoners in charge,
of the prison. Okay, our first decision is let's unlock all the doors
and get out of here, you know. You can't
look to the doer to do the undoing you have to look to the Holy Spirit and yet there is no formula.
So it's not like you can be given a formula. You could be given
the essence of the teachings which is what the Course is, but then you have to apply it, the practical application
is what is needed, and Jesus even says that a theoretical
basis is helpful, the text gives a theoretical basis, but it's in actually doing the exercises,
and experiencing that peace and happiness, that's where the undoing of the doer occurs.