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"I can give up the world I see by giving up attack thoughts." (3)

mstreet #260 开云体育 "I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts." (W-23) This is taken from Ken Wapnicks commentaries on the Workbook Lessons. (Volume 1...Tape 3.) continuing from paragraph 5, and on. ? Ken: Paragraph five, is where I had originally derived the three steps of forgiveness, that I used to teach a lot.? (W-23.5.) ? "The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified" ? Ken: In other words - the problem is not what is outside in the world. The reason I am upset is not because of what my body is doing, or not doing. Or what someone else's body is doing or not doing to me. The cause of my upset is a decision I have made in my mind. That is the first step. ? And then - there is the second step ..."Let go." ? What letting go means, I now ask Jesus or the Holy Spirit for help - that I look at my guilt differently. The cause of the world and my attack thoughts (another way to say my guilt) and I realize that just as my attack on you, was a projection (it was made up) so was my attack on myself made up too. That I remain as God created me. ? Nothing has changed who I am. So - letting go, means I let go of the guilt and my attack thoughts, with the love of Jesus next to me. And the third step: ? "and then let go, so that it can be replaced." ? Ken: At the moment that I ask Jesus for help and I look at my guilt and my attack thoughts with his love next to me, then in that instant he shines on the guilt, and it is gone. My job is to bring the guilt to him. First the guilt I have projected on to you. I bring that inside in my mind, and then the guilt that is in my mind,? I bring to him. Which is - what looking means -and the moment I do that, it is gone. Because I have accepted the love and light that was always present.. ? "The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not." ? Ken: Our job is simply (which is what a little willingness reflects) - our job is to bring to him all our ego thoughts...the ego thoughts we have projected out and made up about the world. And the ego thoughts we have made up about ourselves. ? "Your images have already been replaced." ? Ken: So the line I quoted earlier from chapter 28, "The world was over long ago." That everything that we believe is already gone. We just believe it is here. That is why he refers to it as a hallucination. ? "By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so." ? Ken: So what enables us to realize that the Principle of the Atonement is true, and nothing else is, what enables us to do that - is to change our mind, at what we were so sure that we were right about. That there is world out there that hurts me. Victimizes me. And that is a defense against an inner world, which is even more painful. I was wrong about the world outside, and I am wrong about the world inside. ? "Besides using it throughout the day as the need arises, five practice periods are required in applying today's idea. As you look about you, repeat the idea slowly to yourself first, and then close your eyes and devote about a minute to searching your mind for as many attack thoughts as occur to you." ? Ken: I discussed last time, the importance of searching your mind. The reason that we have to search our mind, is because these attack thoughts are hidden. So part of the training that we undergo as students of the Course is to really allow us to see the attack thoughts that are there, but are covered over.... (now skip to the next paragraph.) ? "In the practice periods, be sure to include both your thoughts of attacking and of being attacked. Their effects are exactly the same because they are exactly the same. ? Ken:There is no difference between being a victim and being a victimizer. Attack is attack, is attack. ? " You do not recognize this as yet, and you are asked at this time only to treat them as the same in today's practice periods." ? Ken: So this is a theme that we find recurring. Where Jesus is making it very clear that he is not expecting us to identify or believe it. But he is asking us to practice it. ? " We are still at the stage of identifying the cause of the world you see. When you finally learn that thoughts of attack and of being attacked are not different, you will be ready to let the cause go." ? Ken: This means - you have to give up your investment in being a victim, because you would realize that being a victim is the most vicious form of attack there is. Because if your a victim, somebody else is going to have to pay the price. ? This is the hardest one of all. Because our very existence is based on the idea that we are a victim. We did not choose to come into this world. Our parents brought us into this world. We did not choose to have these bodies; the personalities, or the problems that we have. It was our genes that determine this. Or - the environment. ? It is very difficult to see - that seeing yourself at the mercy of forces beyond your control is an attack. This is what he is talking about here. ? So he is not asking you to accept it at this point, he is just asking you to hear, and try to understand it, and to include those thoughts - of victim and victimizer in your practice periods. ? The end. ? And may we always remember that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are always with us, and all we need do, is turn to Them. A reminder for me. :-) ? Peace Martha :-) ? ? ??????????????????? A Course in Miracles is a registered service mark of the ?????????????????????? Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES? ???????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? Catalogue of teaching materials at: ?????????????????? ??? 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