I will not use the body’s eyes today.

This is one of the most important lessons you will ever learn. And probably the most difficult because since the time of birth you have depended on the body’s eyes to show you what is happening.

But the body’s eyes show you nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nothing.

When I say nothing, I do mean nothing.

You might say “I see a lot of love with my body’s eyes” to which I say, YOU SEE NOTHING. If you see “a lot of love” you see nothing because it means you’re looking at appearances. To see love in some things means there are some things that are not love.

Only when you see ONLY love are you seeing clearly.

One of the hugest traps spiritual seekers fall into is thinking they have learned something new they now can use in their daily life. And what ends up happening if you think you see love with the body’s eyes is that you will start categorizing again.

The whole point of training your mind in a systematic way through the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles is to stop categorizing.

Everything is exactly the same. My friend Max said “a great surf in the ocean is exactly the same as a bad car crash.”

HAHA. So true. Everything is exactly the same because this is a dream. It’s an illusion. The only distinction you can make is “true or false.”

“To behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs.”

- ACIM Teachers Manual, How Many Teachers of God are Needed to Save the World?

Only love is real.

Everything else – all form, everything the body’s eyes show you – is false and unreal.

That simplifies it.

The path of A Course in Miracles is “an undoing.”

You are undoing false ideas about yourself and the world.

What always ends up happening to anyone on a spiritual path is that you UNDO worldly beliefs in separation, you start to undo false ideas about yourself, you start uncovering the layers to get to the truth of yourself – AND THAT’S GOOD, ALRIGHTY THEN, WE’RE MAKING SOME PROGRESS – but then what happens is you start learning new spiritual ideas and before you know it, you’re making new layers again … which, by the way, will eventually have to be undone also.

So be vigilant.

It’s better to accept unequivocally that the body’s eyes don’t see anything.

Don’t trust your eyes. Don’t trust your ears.

Someone might say something horrible to you, and if you are using your body’s eyes, you will judge it as something horrible being said to you.

Your spouse might say something loving to you, and you will believe you see love, and that you are safe and secure, and the next day that same person says they’ve met someone else and want a divorce.

So don’t use your body’s eyes.

If you don’t use the body’s eyes, you will see only love. You will see your brother, the Christ, standing before you. You will see Love, no matter what what is happening.

You will begin to see how flimsy and transparent the world really is. It’s a thin veil with no meaning.

From Chapter 18, Section 6:

You cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. Some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures, and some of your deepest retreats you have evaluated as success.

So there you go. Sometimes when you think you are going backward and making no progress at all, thinking yourself as a failure (as the body’s eyes judge it), you are a total success out in universe, accomplishing more for the totality of healing for the world that you can ever imagine.

And when you think you are a success, spreading the message, doing good works, being a loving person, there is nothing at all happening.

So today’s lesson includes two parts:

1. stop using your body’s eyes.
2. stop judging

This can be a little tricky and trippy when you first begin practicing not using your body’s eyes, but you will get good at it and it becomes a happy game that transforms your life and the world.

Imagine someone ignoring you, or telling you they hate you, or ripping you to shreds, and you not being swayed by emotion at all?? Imagine staying in perfect constant peace while everything around you is swirling in chaos.

This is what is offered to you.

I will not use the body’s eyes today.