Question: What's Enlightenment?

Thanks for asking the questions which come to the mind, even when they seem "rather peculiar" to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to make 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 has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, a course in miracles app  Constant Happiness, Peace, 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 finished Now and nothing remains but an advantage of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit could be the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment could be the gateway to Eternity. The world of images was an environment of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were "neutralized" the instant they did actually arise.

What does this mean with regards to the second question? You can't kill what has 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 get beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There is no life in images. This is actually the meaning of "Hold no graven images prior to the Lord Thy God." All images were made to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they can only be forgiven together illusion. If illusions could possibly 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 chance of division of all kinds? 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, yet 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 surely is nothing "outside" of the single mind which dreams softly a pleased, gentle dream. The goal of ACIM is to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is more than possible, it is inevitable!

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

All that I give is given to mySelf, and in giving there is no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever removed from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not want whatever cannot be given away. Such could be the Joy of miracles! The idea seeds seem to be flung everywhere, yet there is never a glance back to see where in fact the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are the exact same your head receives the gifts it gives. This really is truly the feast you seek for underneath the ego's questions.

The only question that want be asked is a question that is not really silly at all: Am I ready to learn that God's Will and My Own will 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 can transform Eternal Love. Thank You God!