It's interesting too that it's never really a question about the body.
Because oftentimes when people study really deep nondual traditions including A Course
in Miracles, there can be an egoic reaction to some of the ideas as they're presented.
Remember in the Course there's a line that says, where Jesus says that "in no single
instant does the body exist at all, it is always remembered or anticipated."
So it starts to show from that sentence like, wow what a sneaky puff of nothingness this
is, to have invented something that doesn't even exist but appears to be remembered from
the past.
And appears to be anticipated, projected in the future.
And if you think about it, every single regret that you've ever had is always related with
the past.
Something the body didn't do that it should've done, or something the body did do that it
shouldn't have done.
Or the future, no one's ever had a worry that wasn't connected to the future of the body.
So really this is the gateway to the Kingdom of Heaven, this is the gateway to Nirvana.
"At no single instant does the body exist at all, it's always remembered or anticipated."
So really the issue is never the body, but the issue is time.
Time, linear time, the belief in linear time, is the great deceiver.
It's just a veil, you know how in the Bible it says there's a veil that was drawn over
the Christ?
A veil drawn over the Light.
Linear time is what the veil's all about.
And we have a Movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment, the movie "Dark City".
Eventually you get from the surface where there's all these projections and buildings
and bodies and everything and you get down underneath to the unconscious.
And that's where these little creatures, these dark creatures with their mouths moving, they're
like little attack thoughts, and they're all worshipping something and it's a big mask.
And at one point the bell rings and the mask opens up and there's a clock.
Underneath the mask.
It's a great movie, it's like A Course in Miracles put into a movie, it's spectacular.
You go, "Whoa!"
That's what the mask of the whole cosmos, of all of linear time and space is hiding.
That's what the quantum physicists are onto right now, that's what the great mystics and
sages, the avatars have been onto.
Jesus, Buddha, everyone who's penetrated down underneath that mask, comes down to the Holy
Instant.
That everything is perfect right now and always has been perfect and there never was a problem.
That's where the release comes in.
And so, we've used a tool called A Course in Miracles where in the early lessons Jesus
says, "We need to introduce new time ideas."
He's going right at it at the beginning of his workbook because he knows that's the core
problem, that the problem isn't the body, the body's neutral.
The Holy Spirit sees the body as neutral as a flower, neutral as a cloud, a planet, as
a black hole, it's just completely neutral.
But the ego is highly charged, it's judged the body so heavily, and that's where all
the shame and guilt comes in.
It's the shame and guilt of the ego.
Trying to make of the body an agent of error or sin or call it whatever you want.
So it's good, we can go into these topics very deeply but underneath, that's why present
contentment is the greatest gift that you could ever experience.