Comments on: Lesson 30

By: arulba

arulba — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:10 +0000

But what is the “you” that gets “discovered”? I’ve only ever had a few transcendental experiences, but always the experience is one of “not I” and discovery is not a term that fits with the experience at all.

If everything is God, then we must also that everything is “not God”, too. That’s a logical conclusion – thus the Nothingness in Buddhism. (Buddhists don’t believe in God.) At our core, there is no separation. No “you” or “me” to be experienced.

Although the ego is an illusion, we do experience the ego and there is no way of denying the experience – try as we might. So God must be in our egoic experience as well.

We get so stuck in a dualistic mindset (“either/or”) because that’s how our language works. But reality doesn’t work in terms of “either/or”. We are and we are not. God is and God is not.

We can’t get rid of our egoic experience, but we can transcend it. And when we transcend it, it isn’t a new “I” we experience, it is something altogether different.

By: Carol Wise

Carol Wise — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:09:43 +0000

Incredible. I was reading ACIM today and doing my lessons. Afterward I had to ask the Holy Spirit for help with a grievance. For some reason I keep thinking “that I will get there in the future!” I am there now. No goal, no “expected light”, no situation or experience of God that is not already here, RIGHT NOW. I’m going to let go of my expectations of a time in the future where I will “finally get” ACIM. I get it now!

By: Hayden Tompkins

Hayden Tompkins — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:32 +0000

“I think everyone has experienced attainment of a lifelong goal, only to see it is empty and hollow.”

I was lucky enough to have that realization while half-way through the process of attaining a JD. I am extremely thankful that I realized that being a lawyer was not my calling.

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:24:52 +0000

WOW!