Let’s make a deal ( 2 min 145sec)
The ego offers many "gifts' and one final parting gift.
What's lurking behind door number one?
Preview
1. I gift to you the world and all it’s material possessions.
2. I gift to you the attributes of fear, guilt, and anger, judgment, and attachment.
3. I gift to you the burdens of both past and future.
4. I gift to you the delightfully mischievous privilege of experiencing the travails of separation.
5. I gift to you the gift of specialness and the opportunity to pursue pleasure to your heart's content.
6. I gift to you superiority, power, and control over others.
7. I gift to you individuality and autonomy.
8. l gift to you the body that ever major magazine craves.
9. I gift to you a remarkably healthy body that would make the Mayo Clinic proud.
10. With all the "gifts" I have bestowed upon you, you also agree to accept the following:
Conflict, confusion, mortality, vulnerability, chaos, competition, neglect, loneliness, isolation, disconnection, and death.
What sin really is. Sin is a product of the ego's thought system, which is based on the belief in separation from God and from one another. This belief in separation leads to feelings of guilt, fear, and feelings of unworthiness.
Sin is an error in perception, a mistaken belief in the reality of separation and individuality.
Sin is a misperception that can be corrected through forgiveness and the recognition of your shared oneness with God and all of Creation.
The patient need not think of truth as God in order to make progress in salvation. [salvation is awakening to the recognition of your divine nature and the release from the illusion of separation]
But the patient must begin to separate truth from illusion recognizing they are not the same and become increasingly willing to see illusions as false and to accept the truth as true.
11. You have sinned. "the wages of sin is death" - reinterpreted.
What sin really is. Sin is a product of the ego's thought system, which is based on the belief in separation from God and from one another.
This belief in separation leads to feelings of guilt, fear, and feelings of unworthiness.
Sin is an error in perception, a mistaken belief in the reality of separation and individuality.
Sin is a misperception that can be corrected through forgiveness and the recognition of your shared oneness with God and all of Creation.
The patient need not think of truth as God in order to make progress in salvation. [salvation is awakening to the recognition of your divine nature and the release from the illusion of separation]
But the patient must begin to separate truth from illusion recognizing they are not the same and become increasingly willing to see illusions as false and to accept the truth as true.
No comments.