If an appearance is an illusion, then it
is a lie. It is claiming to exist and it doesn't. It is claiming
something that is not true. So it is a lie.
But it's impossible to lie about nothing.
A lie, in order for it to be a lie, must be lying about truth.
So you greet each appearance with the question, "What is
the truth that this appearance is lying about?" The answer
of course is always the only Truth there is -- God being all
there is. But God is infinite beingness manifesting infinitely
right now. So the only thing you ever could see is God's infinite
manifestation. So what is going on when you see what you call
an "appearance?" You wouldn't be calling it an appearance
unless it was something that claimed to be less than or contrary
to God. But who or what is making such a claim? Is it the "appearance"
that is actually doing this? Is the appearance something out
there existing external to you that somehow has a life and existence
of its own apart from you? Of course not. You, yourself, are
every moment creating the appearance by making the claim yourself
that something less than or contrary to God is possible.
Anything even the slightest bit other than
God is absolutely impossible, and never happened at all. There
isn't now, nor has there ever been, anything happening anywhere
that wasn't God being God's infinite self. You aren't in the
business of using truth or God or mysticism or prayer or treatment
or demonstration or meditation or nothingization for the purpose
of fixing something that's wrong with the world. Rather you are
in the business of realizing that God already is and always has
been the only reality anywhere and is right now absolutely, completely
and perfectly present in full infinite manifestation right here
and right now.
"Miracles" appear to take place
when you get a glimmer of that. But the miracles themselves are
illusions too. Nothing changed. The broken bone did not change
into a whole and perfect bone. It's simply that the totally non-existent
illusion of the broken bone was revealed or discovered to be
nothing. As long as you keep thinking it ever was, it won't disappear.
And when you realize that it never was, you simply have stopped
believing it is possible, you have stopped believing that it
is. And it is simply because you had been believing that it is,
that it ever "appeared" in the first place. You are
actually creating, moment by moment, the entire dream of illusory
appearance simply because you continue to believe that something
other than God is.
The only reason why it seems so hard to let
go of that belief is because it has created such a persistent
illusion. But again, the illusion itself is not persistent; it
has no life or ability that would enable it to persist. No, the
illusion doesn't persist, but rather you persist in believing
the illusion is. It simply isn't. Simply because God is all there
is and all there can be. Simply because God is Truth and anything
other than Truth is simply not Truth and simply not so, and therefore
simply isn't. Any notion of complexity in any of this is also
an illusion. God is. Nothing else is. So all there is is God
being infinitely present right here and right now. There's nothing
complex about it at all.
You are not in the business in helping God
along with the monumental task of being infinite perfection manifesting
infinitely. Rather you are in the business of relaxing the monumental
effort you put forth in trying to be something other than God.
God is already infinitely and perfectly present effortlessly.
So what is your efforting all about? What are you efforting against?
Peril? Misfortune? Suffering? Loss? Chaos? Poverty? Loneliness?
Illness? Degradation? Entropy? Evil? What are all these things
that you work so hard to avoid? Does it make any sense to work
hard to avoid nothing? And if God is all there is and all there
can be, then what can all these things possibly be but nothing.
Knowing your absolute union with God is effortless.
It's believing that you are separate from God that's such a monumental
task. What could be more monumentally difficult than trying to
be something that is impossible? It's impossible for there to
be anything other than God, so why keep trying? Why keep pushing
and efforting? Why? To wake yourself up from the illusion? But
the illusion has no existence other than your creation of it
through your obstinate and effortful clutching to the unintelligible
belief that something other than God could be. Why the obstinance?
Why clutch to a belief that is absurd? Is it because you don't
completely Trust God? Trust God to do what?
You are not in the business of trusting God
to protect you from all the bad things that are possible, but
rather you are in the business of realizing that God is all there
is and therefore "bad things" are impossible. In the
end, it's just that simple.
Awareness does not become what it is aware
of. It may be aware of itself, but then it simply IS what it
is aware of, it doesn't become it. So being aware of a human
identity does not make awareness human, any more than being aware
of water would make awareness wet. Awareness remains untarnished
by anything it ever becomes aware of. But if awareness becomes
aware of what IS, it is then aware of itself. When awareness
is aware of the presence of God, awareness is being aware of
itself. This is absolutely true, but utterly incomprehensible
until awareness actually focuses its attention on the presence
of God as the only reality. If the momentum of habit is continually
inclining you to allow your attention to veer away from God several
times a day, then awareness is not focusing its attention on
the presence of God as the only reality, and it will be impossible
for awareness to be aware of itself as God.
This is also why you cannot "find God"
simply by "going inside." God can't be "inside"
if "inside" implies something "outside."
Yes, it's important to block out the dream at intervals and "go
deep inside" to meditate. But then when you come out of
the meditation you must remain aware only of God's presence everywhere.
Otherwise you are simply falling back into the habit of believing
in something other than God. If it seems impossible to be aware
of God's presence everywhere always, that too is just another
habitual response of believing that you YOURSELF are something
other than God.
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