The ego runs on the variety of predictable patterns as the basis of its thought system is judgment whose origin is due to sin, fear and guilt. Judgment is definitely one or the other. As you perceive a brother through judgment, you’ll project and judge on that brother and soon you perceive the outcomes back. Once those results are perceived, you will use perception repeatedly to project and judge them even more.
Unfortunately, this uses both sides of the ego wrong mind and compounds the original error until the facts are well hidden. Handing over judgments for correction (forgiveness) stops the cycle.
Holy Relationships:
The ego uses special love and hate relationships, as well as specialness (being different), to help keep the illusion of separation going. Usage of these kinds of relationships as cause, can be the ego mind as cause; and the result would be to continue separation between brothers because they are based on the original separation. Remember cause and effect: The mind you select from, as cause, will result in the corresponding consequences (effect).
This is simply not about you needing to be alone or avoid relationships in life. It is, however, all about how you enter and use them within the mind.
The choice that may set you free is to choose to have your relationships be Holy Relationships. You must be the person practicing forgiveness in all of your relationships, even though you are the only 1. It is “special” and soon you turn it “Holy.” To see another as a brother, a prerequisite to going home, is True Perception which shines a light of truth you both. The ego cannot prevail against Oneness since it is not real.
Form and Content:
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is very clear that form does not matter. There is nothing in ACIM about behavior so when you judge a brother on his / her behavior, that is the same side of the ego mind. They might be acting from the ego “wrong” mind; but you are judging from the ego “right” mind. To the ego, one judgment is equivalent to any other.
What the Course says is that content matters. Content may be the mind. ACIM concerns itself with you understanding that you can choose the Holy Spirit Right Mind as your internal Teacher thereby creating a different cause and effect.
What you or another does in form (behavior) will not matter. However listed below are two questions to consider:
When I acted, did I act from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
Is my interpretation of my brother from the Holy Spirit Right Mind? (Content)
You will not have peace unless you can answer “yes” to both. Choose again if you want to. It is never too late.
a course in miracles online There is Only One of Us:
When you judge a brother, you are utilizing the ego mind as cause for that judgment to become a real effect. For this reason we emphasize that what you see in another has to be forgiven in yourself first. Here’s why: (1) You cannot see fault (judgment) in another unless you chose from that part of the split mind in the first place; (2) You cannot judge everything you don’t already believe to be true since it is in line with the mind you chose from; and (3) Judgment about another is a statement of the guilt retained in your thoughts from the initial separation because you are choosing to use the ego mind. It is what your location is still keeping fear and guilt rather than choosing correction (forgiveness) for the reality.
Absolutely anyone who shows up and provides you with to be able to heal your mind is really a gift you can utilize. Turn it right into a Holy Relationship. This is one way you will return your own mind to God, and how others eventually view it for themselves. Contain the light of forgiveness gives all minds an opportunity to create a different choice. Judge and they run and hide further into darkness and error.
A Call for Love:
Attack is really a conscious mind behavior predicated on projection, judgment and perception. The ego’s point would be to protect separate identity and for that reason, all attack is often a call for love, or forgiveness, that is joining. The more determined you are to know the truth about yourself and a brother, the more you will choose contrary to the ego’s attacks and only correction (forgiveness) from the Right Mind.
Responding with love often means a lot of things and sometimes, it could even mean no response. Other times, you may want a boundary or even to take some action. To respond with love, you absolutely must be practicing forgiveness and using the Right Mind to show total attack and judgment. The Holy Spirit will give you a solution if you completely turn compared to that Right Mind for help. “Completely” is the key word.
Eventually you see no attack (error) occurred and that is to know the truth about you as well as your brother. There is no defense necessary (“defenselessness” on the Split Mind diagram). When you share your willingness not to see error, you have shared what you would like to help keep and learn on your own. What you share you find you have.
Sharing:
Sharing methods to allow yourself to share with another what you would like them to possess. Your only reason for doing this is because it is what you would like to have for yourself. You are teaching them what you would like to be yours. Teaching is instruction of ideas and principles. Do that and you will find you own it because you’ve literally said, “Give back to me what I’ve taught you.”
