What is Enlightenment? The teachings of David Hoffmeister and ACIM

Question: What is Enlightenment?

Thanks for asking the questions that come to your mind, even when they appear “rather peculiar” to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to create the misperception called pain.

Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator’s Mind. “If pain is real there is no God. If God is real there is no pain.”(W-190.3) The latter does work because God doesn’t have opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace,  a course in miracles  Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions has gone as well. There is no ego to fall “back into.” Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is over Now and nothing remains but a blessing of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit could be the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment could be the gateway to Eternity. The planet of images was a world of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were “neutralized” the instant they appeared to arise.

What does this mean in relation to your second question? You cannot kill what’s never lived, and in the Holy Spirit’s Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die because the entire world of images could be the past. It’s impossible to locate beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There is no life in images. This is the meaning of “Hold no graven images ahead of the Lord Thy God.” All images were made to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they are able to only be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions could be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment would be impossible.

For what is Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the likelihood of division of any kind? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive and some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind was the “killer” illusion, the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what is whole and unified can never BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and even with regard to this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and sees that there’s nothing “outside” of this single mind which dreams softly a happy, gentle dream. The target of ACIM is to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is significantly more than possible, it is inevitable!

As for my seeming diet, “eat what is served” could be the Guidance I was presented with from the Holy Spirit many years ago. Join along with your brother and let no concept come involving the Love you share. This Guidance has not changed. “Dinner” is obviously a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the entire world calls “breathing” and “eating” and “drinking” and “sleeping” are actually yet in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of things because they all share the exact same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective isn’t “personal,” for in unified perception nothing is personal. God isn’t any respecter of persons. I literally cannot “take” an animal’s “life” because Life is Spirit and can only be extended or Given as God Gives. “Take” doesn’t have meaning in my mind and since animals have not “lived” it is impossible that they might “die.” The belief expressed in the idea “personally take an animal’s life” has many underlying assumptions which can be false. In right-mindedness it is obvious that ideas are strengthened because they are given away or shared, and “taking” a “life” or anything at all doesn’t have meaning.

All that I give is given to mySelf, and in giving there is no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever taken away from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not want something that cannot be given away. Such could be the Joy of miracles! Thinking seeds appear to be flung everywhere, yet there is never a glance back again to see where in actuality the seeds land. The seeds are never for an “other,” and since giving and receiving are the exact same your brain receives the gifts it gives. That is truly the feast you seek for beneath the ego’s questions.

The sole question that require be asked is just a question that is certainly not silly at all: Am I ready to understand that God’s Will and My Own would be the Same? God’s Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will could be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing may change Eternal Love. Thank You God!