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What is forgiveness? W.B.Page 401.(1)

mstreet #180 开云体育 One of my favorite sections from the Workbook. So I thought I would share this. Again.... This is taken from Ken Wapnick's tape series on the Lessons of the Workbook. Volume VI, tape (1.)?? 1. What Is Forgiveness? ? (W-pII.1.) "Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven." ? Ken: This is probably one of the most central ways in which the Course departs from every other spiritual system, many of which would emphasize our forgiveness of each other. But in the Course, Jesus is making it clear, that we forgive our brothers for what they have not done. ? In other words, since there is no world, and every one is simply a figure in the dream there is no one who could truly do anything. ? And the ultimate meaning of this, is that we forgive ourselves for what we have not done. We just believe that we have separated from God and destroyed His kingdom. In truth, nothing happened. ? So as I have said many many times, that there is no way that you could understand or practice this Course, without first understanding its underlining metaphysics. And so to understand the meaning of forgiveness, means - that you must understand that there is literally nothing to forgive. ? On the practical level of our daily experience, what forgiveness means - is, that what has not occurred, is that you have not taken away the peace of God. So - forgetting for the moment, that this is an illusion and we are not even here, even on the level of my experience of being here, and being involved with you, my difficulties all stem from the thought, that I am accusing you of having done something, or failed to do something, which took my peace away. So I forgive you for what you have not done. Because the only one who could take the peace of God away from me, was myself.? ? "What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?" ? Ken: Sin is not a fact. It is simply a mistaken thought. Basically it comes from the mistake in believing what the ego told us is the truth, and the Holy Spirit has lied. And the false idea about God's Son, is that God's Son is not this glorious Self of Christ, created by God, but that self rather is a separated being, that we give a name too. ? "Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go." ? Ken: As we will see in just a minute, this is the key theme of what forgiveness is. That it looks on the ego, and realizes that there is nothing to forgive. So that you cannot forgive without first looking at what is false. You don't have to deal with what is true. You look at what is false. You look at it. All of your false perceptions. All of your grievances. All of your investments in specialness. And realize that they are not what you thought. That you do not know your own best interests. ? What you thought would make you happy, which would always come at someone else's expense, was simply not true. But you won't know it is not true, until you first look at it. And the purpose of a relationship with Jesus, as I have repeatedly said - is to be in his loving presence - which allows you to share his vision and use his eyes, so that you could realize again, in the end that there is nothing to forgive. ? "What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God." ? Ken: So what forgiveness does - is undo the false and what remains, is the truth that is always present in our minds. ? Now, paragraph 2 and 3, talk about what the opposite is. What an unforgiving thought does. And basically what he is talking about here, is, the unforgiving thoughts I hold towards you. And how this is a defense against the ultimate unforgiving thought that I hold towards myself for having destroyed Heaven. ? (to be continued) .......... ?

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