This past week Lisa and I completed the first 100 lessons in A Course in Miracles. The theme of the lessons lately has been very much on the topic of salvation, the freeing of ourselves by our Selves from the illusions of our minds – our thoughts, belief systems, and attachments to the body, material things, and grievances. The word salvation often conjures up the image of being saved by someone, but in The Course it’s meaning is more about freedom from the ego mind. Each of us as extensions of God are the source of our own salvation, which is happiness. The Course is guiding us in the pursuit of happiness, not the pleasure of eating chocolate cake or buying a new outfit, but the pure Joy and Bliss that is the state of being One in union with God and All.
Lesson 101: God’s Will For Me Is Perfect Happiness.
This lesson discusses how the illusion of sin, the mental constructs that we create, binds us into pain and suffering. L 101: God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but a sign you have misunderstood yourself. Now the idea that “sin is not real” does not mean that it is ok to harm others physically, emotionally, or spiritually. What it is saying is that attaching our minds to sins, grievances, or wrong-doings binds us and keeps us from being free, happy, and joyous. It also creates the illusion that someone else must save us and bring salvation to us: that someone else will make us happy.
Suffering, just like happiness, comes from within. Lesson 101 very much reminded me of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: (Click each below for my posts briefly explaining each)
- There is Suffering (Dukkha)
- The Truth to The Origin of Suffering (Samudaya)
- The Truth to The Cessation of Suffering (Nirodha)
- The Noble Eightfold Path (to free oneself from suffering)
Buddha, Jesus, A Course in Miracles, and many other religious and spiritual teachings attempt to guide us in freeing ourselves from our egos, our thought patterns, our belief systems, and mental attachments including not forgiving ourselves for our sins. It is through Love and Compassion for ourselves and others that we can free ourselves to enter into Happiness, Bliss, Joy, Samadhi, the Kingdom of Heaven, Enlightenment, Source, Consciousness, Wholeness, and Oneness.
God’s Will for me is perfect happiness. This is the Truth.
Lesson 103: God, Being Love, Is Also Happiness
The ‘kingdom of God’ is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come ‘in a thousand years’ – it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere…
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Blazing Light of Glory, is a co-created and cooperative writing, studying, and teaching effort of Lisa of BloomLisa and Julianne Victoria of Through the Peacock’s Eyes.
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