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"What is forgiveness" (3)

mstreet #187 开云体育 This is taken from Ken Wapnick's tape series on the Lessons of the Workbook. Volume VI, tape (1.)?? 1. What Is Forgiveness? part 3. Paragraph 4. ? (W-pII.1.4&5.) "Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still," ? Ken: And we will see, by the way in the lessons to come, how often Jesus talks about our being still. We have seen it other times and we will see it here too. And actually all of this is really coming from that famous beginning of Psalm 46. "Be still and know that I am God." And that line is referred to very often through out the Course. To be still, means that I silence the raucous shrieking of the ego. ? "Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing." ? Ken: It is the ego that tries to do. Doing was not something that was God's creation, or the Holy Spirit's correction. Doing, is what the ego did. I destroyed God - which is heavy doing. And then I have to do like crazy to protect myself from being destroyed back. So - forgiveness doesn't do anything. Jesus doesn't do anything. The Holy Spirit doesn't do anything. The right mind doesn't do anything. All of these - merely look. And they look at falsity and realize this is nothing but an idle dream, that has had no effect. ? "It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes." ? Ken: This - obviously is unlike what unforgiveness does. ? "It merely looks, and waits, and judges not." ? Ken: That is probably a line that I quote more frequently than any other. That is what forgiveness does. It merely looks at the ego thought system. It waits patiently for us to change our minds. And above all it doesn't judge. ? It doesn't judge the ego's of others. It doesn't judge the ego of myself. It simply looks at it and says: "isn't that a silly thought." Isn't this a silly behavior that comes from a silly thought. It is not evil. It is not sinful. It is not wicked. It is simply silly. Because it will ? " He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive." ? Ken: So - I have not forgiven myself in my mind. Which is my guilt. And I project that out, and now I protect that lack of forgiveness in myself by not letting anyone off the hook. ? So, I see the sin in you, and then rather than undo them in myself, I try to undo them in you - by punishing you for it. Which means - I keep you as the sinner. And I am not really doing anything. But deep down, I am reinforcing the sin in myself. So the judgment in this case would be a synonym, with an unforgiving thought. That is why we have such a tremendous need to judge and criticize and find fault. ? ''But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is." ? Ken: All that we have to do, is accept forgiveness that is already held for us in our right minds by the Holy Spirit. ? Right near the end of the workbook is a wonderful line: "we are concerned only with giving welcome to the truth." And the way we give welcome to the truth, is to finally turn our backs on the untruth. To say, the illusion is not what I want, what I want is the truth. "Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success." ? Ken: This is like the section in chapter 18: "I need do nothing." This doesn't mean that behaviorally that you don't do anything. He is making it very clear. You let the Holy Spirit guide you in terms of what you do. ? And it is not that He specifically tells you what you should do, even though that maybe your experience. It's His love would automatically reflect itself through you and your body would simply do what the content of that love is saying. ? "He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God." ? Ken: In other words, the Atonement Principle is already present in us. ? "Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God." ? Ken: So, just as we have been forgiven, by the Holy Spirit for what we have not done, we are asked to share that with others. To share that others, re-enforces that truth within ourselves. ? The end. ? I hope you got as much out of it, as I did. :-) ? Peace Martha :-)

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