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Lesson 80. Let me recognize my problems have been solved.

 

Lesson 80. Let me recognize my problems have been solved.

(1) If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you
have no problems. Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no
other. Therefore, you must be at peace. Salvation thus depends on recognizing
this one problem, and understanding that it has been solved. One problem, one
solution. Salvation is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you.
Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God's plan
for salvation.

(2) Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to yourself
today, with gratitude and conviction. You have recognized your only problem,
opening the way for the Holy Spirit to give you God's answer. You have laid
deception aside, and seen the light of truth. You have accepted salvation for
yourself by bringing the problem to the answer. And you can recognize the
answer, because the problem has been identified.

(3) You are entitled to peace today. A problem that has been resolved cannot
trouble you. Only be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same.
Their many forms will not deceive you while you remember this. One problem, one
solution. Accept the peace this simple statement brings.

(4) In our longer practice periods today, we will claim the peace that must be
ours when the problem and the answer have been brought together. The problem
must be gone, because God's answer cannot fail. Having recognized one, you have
recognized the other. The solution is inherent in the problem. You are answered,
and have accepted the answer. You are saved.

(5) Now let the peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your eyes,
and receive your reward. Recognize that your problems have been solved.
Recognize that you are out of conflict; free and at peace. Above all, remember
that you have one problem, and that the problem has one solution. It is in this
that the simplicity of salvation lies. It is because of this that it is
guaranteed to work.

(6) Assure yourself often today that your problems have been solved. Repeat the
idea with deep conviction, as frequently as possible. And be particularly sure
to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise. Say quickly:

Let me recognize this problem has been solved.<
(7) Let us be determined not to collect grievances today. Let us be determined
to be free of problems that do not exist. The means is simple honesty. Do not
deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you must recognize it has been
solved.



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The commentary on this lesson (below) is from Kenneth Wapnick's eight volume
series of books, called: "Journey Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles,"
which can be purchased at the following site:??~ M. Street

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Lesson 80. "Let me recognize my problems have been solved."

*This lesson expresses even more specifically the message of Lesson 79.*

(1:1) "If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that
you have no problems."

*Recognizing that "my problems have been solved" can be understood as the
presence of the Holy Spirit in my mind holding the solution to every problem I
have, regardless of its form or complexity. Since He is already in my mind as
the answer, this means my problems are gone. Recall this previously quoted
passage about the role of the miracle in showing us that we have no problems:

"The miracle does nothing. All it does is to undo. And thus it cancels out
the interference to what has been done. It does not add, but merely takes away.
And what it takes away is long since gone, but being kept in memory appears to
have immediate effects. This world was over long ago. The thoughts that made it
are no longer in the mind that thought of them and loved them for a little
while. The miracle but shows the past is gone, and what has truly gone has no
effects. Remembering a cause can but produce illusions of its presence, not
effects." (T.28.I.1.1)

Thus our problems were also over long ago. Choosing the Holy Spirit's miracle
instead of the ego's grievance restores that simple truth to awareness.*

(1:2-7) "Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no other.
Therefore, you must be at peace. Salvation thus depends on recognizing this one
problem, and understanding that it has been solved. One problem, one solution.
Salvation is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you."

*The ego's answer to the Holy Spirit is conflict. I sinned against God, God will
sin against me, and thus are we in perpetual war with each other. We project
that battleground -- <kill or be killed> -- and now experience conflict with
everyone else in the world. Being freed from such distress does not come through
opposing or overthrowing the other party in the spirit of <one or the other>.
Freedom comes in realizing that the Atonement answer of love is already within
us. This means there is no separation, sin, or conflict. The Atonement is the
only answer that will work, for it truly saves us from our misperceptions of
separation and hate.*

(1:8) "Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God's
plan for salvation."

*The rightful place is the acceptance of our function to forgive, which has
nothing to do with the external. In other words, our rightful place is the same
as everyone else's: forgiveness. Our collective function is thus to recognize
there is only one problem -- the belief in separation and separate interests,
and only one solution -- the acceptance of the Atonement, reflected in our
recognition that only shared interests exist in the dream.*

(2:1-2) "Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to
yourself today, with gratitude and conviction."

*Once again Jesus does not intend this as an affirmation or mantra that you
simply say by rote, over and over again. Whenever you are tempted to be upset
and your peace disturbed, think of this statement and realize that if your
problem has been solved, why are you upset? Begin to understand the motivation
for your disturbance. I want to keep the answer away because in it my
specialness disappears. Thus I want to be upset, because that proves I am right
and Jesus is wrong. It proves I do not have a mind because it is my body that is
abused and unfairly treated. To this new understanding of the nature of your
problem and its underlying purpose, bring your perceived problems, and watch
them fade away, back into the nothingness from which they came (M-13.1:2).*

(2:3-5) "You have recognized your only problem, opening the way for the Holy
Spirit to give you God's answer. You have laid deception aside, and seen the
light of truth. You have accepted salvation for yourself by bringing the problem
to the answer."

*That is what opens the way for the Holy Spirit to give us God's answer, meaning
I am wrong about my perceptions. Perhaps what my eyes see is true within the
illusion, but my ego's reaction is far from true. Since all that is important is
the way I react, does it make it any real difference whether my perception is
accurate or not? What does matter is whether I let Jesus or the ego interpret
this for me. Choosing the ego <is> the problem. By thus realizing I am wrong, I
am saying the problem is not outside me but within, which means I am now
bringing it to the answer; the ego's deception to the Holy Spirit's truth.*

(2:6) "And you can recognize the answer, because the problem has been
identified."

*The crucial aspect in this process is not the answer as such, but identifying
<where> and <what> the problem is. Again, simply stated, the problem is my
decision to push away God's Love so I can continue to be right, to be a special
individual. That is the problem. Once I recognize it and can look without
judging myself, I have availed myself of the answer. The process of healing does
not lie in affirming the Holy Spirit's answer, but in <recognizing the problem>.
It is the undoing of the ego by looking without guilt or fear that allows the
Atonement's answer to rise in our awareness. Remember that our task is not to
choose the truth, but to choose to "<deny the denial of truth>" (T-12.II.1:5).
Jesus makes the same salient point in the following passage from the text, which
in one summary sweep undoes our pain and suffering:

"Now you are being shown you can escape. All that is needed is you look
upon the problem as it is, and not the way that you have set it up. How could
there be another way to solve a problem that is very simple, but has been
obscured by heavy clouds of complication, which were made to keep the problem
unresolved? Without the clouds the problem will emerge in all its primitive
simplicity. The choice will not be difficult, because the problem is absurd when
clearly seen. No one has difficulty making up his mind to let a simple problem
be resolved if it is seen as hurting him, and also very easily removed."
(T-27.VII.2).

Looking at the problem "as it is" means looking within at our faulty decision
making, so it can be corrected. In that simple choice is the ego's defensive
shield of the thought and world of guilt removed.*

(3:1-2) "You are entitled to peace today. A problem that has been resolved
cannot trouble you."

*Therefore, if you are troubled by something you must be making it up, because
the answer is already within you. How can you be troubled by something that does
not exist and a problem that is no longer there? That question takes the wind
out of your ego's sails. When you begin to build a case against yourself or
someone else, remember this is a non-existent problem -- you are literally angry
over nothing -- which makes it difficult to justify your reactions.*

(3:3-6) "Only be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same. Their
many forms will not deceive you while you remember this. One problem, one
solution. Accept the peace this simple statement brings."

*We see how often Jesus repeats this theme. He would like us to repeat it as
often, each and every time we are tempted to forget its simple truth of <one
problem, one solution>, choosing instead to be blinded by our perceptions of
form.*

(4:1-2) "In our longer practice periods today, we will claim the peace that must
be ours when the problem and the answer have been brought together. The problem
must be gone, because God's answer cannot fail."

*If something is bothering me, I am in effect telling Jesus he is wrong, because
he is telling us here there is no problem, for God's answer has never failed us.
However, we counter: "Wait just a minute and I will show you how you failed me.
Look at what is going on! Look how upset or sick I am! Look at my real
problems!" Thus we keep the problem from the answer and retain our misery and
pain; a price we gladly (and insanely) pay in order to maintain our "rightness"
and Jesus' "wrongness." *

(4:3-6) "Having recognized one, you have recognized the other. The solution is
inherent in the problem. You are answered, and have accepted the answer. You are
saved."

*The problem and solution are in one place. The solution is inherent in the
problem because the problem never happened. That is the solution! Remember, the
Atonement principle is that the separation was a non-event. Moreover, since the
belief in separation and its correction are in the mind -- because there is only
the mind -- the ego's strategy of mindlessness is answered and undone.*

(5) "Now let the peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your
eyes, and receive your reward. Recognize that your problems have been solved.
Recognize that you are out of conflict; free and at peace. Above all, remember
that you have one problem, and that the problem has one solution. It is in this
that the simplicity of salvation lies. It is because of this that it is
guaranteed to work."

*The "reward" of peace is the ultimate motivator for choosing the answer over
the problem. We recognize at last that the former alone brings us peace. Simple!
That is how we know it is the truth, for truth is simple.*

(6:1-3) "Assure yourself often today that your problems have been solved. Repeat
the idea with deep conviction, as frequently as possible. And be particularly
sure to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise."

*Once again Jesus is urging you to use the idea for the day very specifically
when you are upset. Realize how quickly you forget what he has taught you, and
then forgive yourself for having forgotten, for having let the ego's engine of
hate and judgment rev up again. When you find yourself becoming upset, as soon
as you can, stop and say: "But the problem has already been solved. Stubbornly
insisting I am justifiably upset and right in my perceptions tells Jesus he is
wrong again. My upset proves it. At that point you should say quickly:*

(6:5) "Say quickly: "Let me recognize this problem has been solved."

*And then peace will happily return.*

(7) "Let us be determined not to collect grievances today. Let us be determined
to be free of problems that do not exist. The means is simple honesty. Do not
deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you must recognize it has been
solved."

*To make this point again, grievances are a way of saying I am right and Jesus
is wrong: the problem is outside -- just look at what these terrible people are
doing to me! Honesty is thus vitally important in this and all the exercises;
the honesty of looking within and understanding you made it all up. What will
aid you in this process is understanding the motivation for the problem:
preserving your separated self. That recognition is the simple honesty to which
Jesus refers. Anything outside you that bothers or upsets you is there because
you put it there to hide the answer, in the presence of which your separate and
special identity would gently fade away. Therefore, to preserve yourself you
ensured your were right by seeing external problems, and blaming everyone else
for your miserable situation. As King Lear observed: "That way madness lies
(III,iv,21). We come to learn through these lessons that sanity is our only real
choice, for only from that sane decision comes the peace and joy that is our
just reward. It is that -- <and only that> -- we choose today in simple
honesty.*


Love and Blessings,

Lyn Johnson
719-369-1822

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