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Q: Why the Ego cannot win?
A: Ideas are inseparable from the source. There are two lines: the Ego thought system is inseparable from the subconscious, the subconscious is the source of the Ego; and the Holy Spirit thought system is inseparable from memory of the truth within you, that is, your memory of Heaven. Then the two lines will “fight” within your self-consciousness. So why can’t the Ego win? This is because although your self-consciousness will be eroded by the ego, it will never be eroded to 100%. “The Disappearance of the Universe” once mentioned that Hitler was occupied by the ego to 99%, but he also kept 1% of memory of the truth so the truth memory that will not be totally lost is the reason why the Ego will not win.
“The Course in Miracles” is a course to train your self-consciousness to live again according to the Holy Spirit thought system. The practices of “The Course in Miracles” are also based on the memory of Heaven. So, “The Course in Miracles” is also a course that can expand your memory of Heaven. For example, when you expand the memory of Heaven from 20% to 90% through practices, you are very close to enlightenment, which does not entail 100%.
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Q: How do you understand that “the real world” appears outside of the sub-conscious and can in turn purify the subconscious?
A: when you practice miracle minds, your spiritual experience will be independent of the subconscious, and will become a territory of its own. This territory is the unified and safe state of mind of miracles, and the emergence of this state of mind is based on true forgiveness (true forgiveness can dissolve the guilt and fear in the subconscious). So the state of mind of miracles or “the real world appears” outside of the sub-conscious and can in turn purify the subconscious. So the practice of being a miracle state of mind is the only way for you to correct all your mistakes and dissolve the current dream. Correcting mistakes doesn’t mean you have to jump out of your self-consciousness first, then cancel your subconscious. The way to correct the mistaken route is to jump out of the control of the subconscious and become a miracle state of mind independent of the subconscious. Then your mind can stand on this foothold and return to dissolve all the guilt and fear in the subconscious and outside of the subconscious. This is the road map to fix the mind. In “the Course in Miracles”, the state of mind of miracles is also called the vision of the Holy Spirit or the holy moment, and the peak of the state of mind of miracles is called “the real world”.
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Q: As for the so-called “true forgiveness changes the script”, can it be understood as deleting the script of guilt and fear and adding a good script? Or switching into another script?
A: It will not add evil script, neither will it add good script. Miracle minds will only allow future scripts to constantly change (the constant arrival of Scripts of peaceful situation) with the early arrival of awakening.
Q: The script has been determined. What does “determined” mean?
A: After practicing miracle minds, the script will change constantly, and then this constant change will eventually form a script. That is to say, if you practice miracle minds, it’s one kind of script. If you don’t practice, it’s another kind of script. You can only choose one of them. And even if you practice miracle minds, there will be a third and a fourth kind of script in your future… Because when you practice very intensively or when you practice intermittently, you will create two different kinds of scripts respectively. However, no matter how many scripts you have in the future, you can only experience one of them. And the one you have experienced is just the one that is destined to happen, this is called “the script has been determined”.
Q: So for those who don’t practice, the script is very certain and unchangeable, right?
A: Yes, the script is relatively fixed for those who do not practice. However, his non-practice in this lifetime is also in his big script, because he will practice and wake up sooner or later.
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Q: “The Disappearance of the Universe” says that the date of life and death has also been set. Does it mean that people’s life span is certain? Pursah: “One day, as long as you find your own ability to choose, you will no longer be a robot. That is the big day when you declare independence.” How do you understand the above passage?
A: For example, your husband scolds you and you fight back. At this point, you are a robot controlled by the mechanism of subconscious conviction. However, if you practice miracle minds, you know that he scolds you and grumbles about you, it’s just the projection of guilt in your subconscious mind, which just happens in a dream and doesn’t exist at all. At that time you can forgive him, and forgive him for scolding you, because there is no such thing. At this time, you will retrieve your own ability to choose, and you will be independent.
True forgiveness can change the time of death, but it takes exceptionally energetic practices of miracle minds. There are several things that are very difficult to change in the world: the period of death, your spouse, and how many children you have. But the very exquisite practice state can change these, only the very exquisite practice is not easy to achieve.
Q: It doesn’t matter whether you change it or not when you practice exquisitely, does it? If it’s really changed, will you know?
A: 1. Excellent practice can really lead to “you will think it doesn’t matter whether the script is changed or not”. 2. In the process of excellent practices, you can feel that you have changed a very difficult script. But the normal situation is that you can only feel the script has been changed once or twice in the process of excellent practices, and then you can’t feel the “script change” later. This is because once you have confirmed perception, you will have absolute trust that miracle minds can change the nature of the script.
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Q: “The Disappearance of the Universe” says, “From the perspective of illusion, there are indeed lives on other planets, and they have their own courses of forgiveness to take. They are also brothers of Christhood.” I can’t help but ask, “is there a forgiveness course in the animal world?” I also know that it’s the ego’s thought system that’s doing the mischief, but I can’t help it. How can I forgive when questions like this come to mind?
A: You can think that if you are human, you can ignore animal affairs. Because if you are as eternal as God, then it’s not a question for you to consider whether animals can advance in spirituality or how they practice. And you’re the only one reading “A Course in Miracles”, you just need to practice the task in your interpersonal relationships. In “the Birth of the Course in Miracles”, there is a saying: the right side of the scroll is the future, the left side is the past, and in the middle is “God is”. One implicit meaning of this sentence is that you are the son of God who is one with the Lord and is eternal, and your left and right sides do not exist. So, how do animals in this world practice? Who will be the last enlightened person in this dream world? How will he wake up? Who is the first enlightened person in the world? In fact, you don’t need to think about such questions. Because such questions do not exist for you, the eternal Son of God.
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Q: What do you think of meditation, Mr. Zhong?
A: You can use meditation as an aid to practice, and then you can do it or not at will. Because meditation belongs to the practice completed alone, it does not involve the practice of interpersonal relationship. Meditation is relatively slow in the field of practice, and the text of “A Course in Miracle”also says: “you can meditate, but you may spend thousands of years to get enlightened through meditation.” In fact, meditation is neither “safe” nor much slower than practicing miracle minds in interpersonal relationships. So I suggest you read Chapter 8 of the required readings, and then compare the solitude of meditation with the practicality of miracle minds.
A person’s life can’t be just for one person to practice, or a person’s life can’t always be alone. For example, an adult must have experienced the situation that you did something with a friend outside your family, and then your family knew about it. After knowing it, your mother had a view on it. Your father had a view, your wife scolded you, your mother-in-law hated you, and your father-in-law encouraged you. So, when you’re in this complex environment, you say you meditate, is that possible? Your wife is mad at you, your father is hating your wife, and your mother is unhappy with your wife. Can you still have a meditative mood and environment?
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Q: I want to ask you about eating vegetables or meat. Most of the time, my mind doesn’t get tangled, but sometimes it gets tangled. For example, sometimes I want to eat meat, but I think it’s good to be vegetarian. At that time, if I don’t eat meat, my inner desire will not be satisfied. If I eat meat, I will feel guilty and other emotions. I feel that I have not controlled myself and indulged my desire, including some things that may worry about reincarnation. In this case, how do you train the mind to get peace?
A: The answer to this question is: it doesn’t matter what you eat in a dream. It’s not guilty of eating anything. But at present, there is no scientific and technological level of planting meat on the Earth, so you only need to do according to the objective laws of the Earth at present, that is to say, everyone eats meat, you eat meat, you follow the crowd. And you don’t have to define yourself as a bad meat eater, because if you define yourself as a bad meat eater, it’s not good for others to eat meat. So you can follow the crowd, and don’t care about others.
The Earth is a very sinister planet, but being sinister is not a single blade sword, because being sinister can also mean that you can more easily break away from samsara. However, the key to liberation is not the relationship between people and animals, but the interpersonal relationship. So you just need to practice your interpersonal relationships in this dangerous place. You don’t have to think too much about animals. And your relationships will keep you busy for the rest of your life.
To add another point, you can wake up when you practice intensively in interpersonal relationships. The universe seems very big, and the things in the universe seem infinite, but these things have little to do with your awakening, because your awakening depends on the people you meet in your life. Although your subconscious mind projects a huge universe, you have established interpersonal relationships with these people (up to thousands of people) in your life cycle.
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Q: Since the universe is created by the subconscious, and the subconscious is deficient and fearful, it should have created what it has. Why can it create the way of nature? I have always thought that the laws of the universe are good, and the way is good.
A: To answer this question, first of all, we need to describe the heaven. 1. In the kingdom of heaven, you, Son of God, are one with God, and you are just an idea.
2. The idea of you realizes that you are the “center point” of Heaven (this is the meaning of the altar of truth).
3. You have an infinite number of Sons of God (ideas) that are integrated with you, and those Sons of God are also the “center points” of Heaven. So you and all sons of Gods have no possibility of translocation at all.
4. In the kingdom of Heaven, you will always realize that you are the whole kingdom of Heaven.
5. You will always realize that Heaven is eternal and infinitely large. 6. In the kingdom of Heaven, you will always realize that the kingdom of Heaven extends infinitely from the inner to the outer, but the kingdom of Heaven has no distinction between the inner and the outer, because there is nothing outside the kingdom of Heaven (this nothing is not total void or total emptiness).
7. There is no ideas of space and time, and there is no 360 degree spatial attribute.
So when you mistakenly think that you are leaving the Heaven and projecting the dream universe, you need to project a world completely opposite to the Heaven, because only in this way can you completely forget the Heaven and get rid of the fear of being chased by God. So, your subconscious mind projects translocation and 360 degrees of space, individuality, time, and so on, because these attributes are just the opposite of Heaven. Then there is another important attribute among the attributes of the kingdom of heaven, that is, eternity. So when you project the universe, you project the stages of “Becoming, enduring, decay and emptiness” instead of eternity, and the stages of “Becoming, enduring, decay and emptiness” generates all the natural laws, so the natural laws are not good.
So why is the subconscious so powerful? This is because you are extremely sacred, and you have the power to create (in the kingdom of Heaven, you and God have worked together to create an infinite number of spiritual power of unity). So you mistakenly think that after you leave the kingdom of Heaven, you will change your creative power into the ability of projection, and project an illusion opposite to the kingdom of Heaven in your dream.
Of course, you may not think you have such a great ability now, but sooner or later you will wake up from your dream. And when you wake up, you will naturally understand that projecting a universe is a small thing for your truth.
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Q: Is the Way, the eternal Way and the laws of the universe the same thing?
A: There is a saying in Taoism called “one Yang and ten thousand Yin”, which means only one Yang is true, and all the ten thousand Yin surrounding this Yang do not exist. This statement is left by an enlightened Taoist, who speaks the truth. And the Way you ask about, in view of the current era, is basically that immovable consciousness, that is, the very pure state before consciousness has yet become the subconscious (the water drop wanders and produces the pure consciousness in the first chapter of the required readings). This consciousness is also the truth of “Delicate True Mind” in the “Shurangama Sutra”. When the truth of “Delicate True Mind” is restrained by fear, it becomes the mind of delusion (subconscious), and then the mind of delusion projects the world. So from my personal point of view, in the current era, Taoism’s Way basically refers to that pure consciousness.
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Q: Are all systems, all methods and all images in the world created by the great power of the God?
A: No. The power created by God will not appear in this dream world at all.
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Q: Is the so-called Tao, emptiness, Nirvana silence, infinity and so on the first state of consciousness after the little water drops are wandering?
A: Nirvana silence is the word describing Heaven. So is infinity. But there is no Tao and emptiness in the kingdom of Heaven. Tao and emptiness belong to the level of illusion. For example, you can say that miraculous state of mind and the real world are peaceful, which is OK, but the kingdom of Heaven cannot be described by tranquility. Because the kingdom of Heaven is completely silent. Peace is not the same as silence.
Q: What’s the point of staying in such a heaven?
A: The good feelings in Heaven are more than ten thousand times better than all the good feelings you can get in the world. But you’ve forgotten that. And there is a saying in the world: “there is only happiness that people cannot enjoy, while there is no suffering that people cannot endure.” So the answer to this question is that one of the purposes of practice is to ceaselessly bring your mind close to the state of infinite well-being. And when your state of mind can withstand the state of Heaven, the God will pull your mind into his heavenly heart (awakening). On the contrary, if your state of mind is not able to bear the heavenly realm, God will not pull you, because if He pulls you in advance, you will be frightened by the heavenly realm of bliss. So God will neither cheat nor harm you.
Q: From the perspective of God, Is the number of the lifetimes of reincarnation before enlightening is insignificant, because they are all illusions anyway? Does it make much sense that you facilitate people’s enlightening?
A: Yes, that’s what God sees. Of course, God has sent the Holy Spirit who can absolutely awaken you. As for whether you are facilitating people’s enlightening, the answer is that when you practice miracle minds by setting an example, you are doing it. So it’s impossible for you not to facilitate people’s enlightening, if you are practicing miracle minds.
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Q: Are those so-called big wishes just a kind of psychological comfort before they live out miracle minds? Because, although I wish every day, but there are still troubles. I really wish to help others, but they may not change much.
A: Making a wish is useful for your own practice. It has little influence on others at the early stage, because in the early stage, practicing miracle minds by example is the behavior of universally facilitating sentient beings’ enlightening.
When you help others sincerely, while people still do not make much change, that may involve your sacrifice. You can read Chapter 6 of the required readings more.
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Q: Now I understand the meaning of “bite your teeth to forgive”. It’s really bite your teeth!
A: Yes, the first time you practice true forgiveness or the first several times you practice true forgiveness, you gnash your teeth. Because you have to endure the anger, and at the same time endeavor to forgive those who attack you and the incident you are attacked. For it just happens in a dream, so it doesn’t exist at all.
Q: When I first read the third chapter of the required readings, I suddenly had the idea that if I kill someone, I will not feel guilty and fear at all. When I finish doing it, I will completely forget it. No matter whether I am brought to justice formally or not, will I still get peace at the inner level? It’s mainly because I once listened to a teacher’s audio. She said something about so-called karma. If you kill five people, and you forget all about it when you have done it, and you do not worry that others will find you for revenge, and do not worry about retribution, nothing will happen. What do you think of it?
A: when you read Chapter 5 of the required readings, you find annotation at the end of that chapter. Because you dream of a law that can imprison the body, you’d better follow the law. And your teacher’s words are also very irresponsible, because if you kill people, your guilt will enter the subconscious, so you should not look for troubles.
Although fundamentally speaking, it’s a dream if you kill someone and get shot or sentenced to life imprisonment, why don’t you choose a better dream? How can you read in prison?
Therefore, it is suggested that you should not overestimate your mental state in the process of learning, nor think that the abandonment and forgetting in your mind can dissolve all kinds of guilt in your subconscious.
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Q: In the dream, what is the relationship between each mind that dreams, is this dream a common dream? If a dreamer in a dream wakes up, what is his role in the dream? Are all the waking minds one mind? What is the relationship between mind and mind? What is the relationship between the awakened and the dreamer? In the dream, when a dreamer wakes up, is the dream still going on?
A: The question you asked is rather poor, but I know what you want to ask. Let me talk about it:
1. A subconscious is divided into countless self-consciousnesses, and countless self-consciousnesses bind countless bodies, and then countless bodies bind different lives. It also includes your self-consciousness bound body and your life. Finally, these different bodies and lives come together in a dream world. This is the nature of the world in front of you.
2. The person who wakes up is the one who gets rid of the dream. The person who wakes up seems to be the Holy Spirit. His task is to live the truth by example in the dream. From the perspective of “A Course in Miracles”, the person who wakes up can not only practice miracles minds by example, but also share some experience or give others some guidance.
3. There is no such thing as “all awakened minds”. When you wake up, you know what everyone is; when you wake up, you know that all peoples’ minds are within one God. It’s just in this dream that when you wake up, you are likely to help others wake up because of gratitude. And this kind of help is very unsatisfactory, because the person who wakes up knows that other people don’t exist, but he has to tell these non-existent people the experience of breaking away from dreams. That’s the meaning of what the Sutra says, “I bring all living beings to nirvana, but I know that there is nobody to enter into nirvana.”
4. Fundamentally speaking, there is no difference between the awakened and the dreamer, because both the awakened and the dreamer are illusory. So the real relationship is the unity of the Sons of the God and the God and the Holy Spirit, and this relationship only exists in the kingdom of Heaven.
5. After a person wakes up from the dream, his dream will still exist for a period of time. This is the “Enlightenment period” mentioned in “The Disappearance of the Universe”. But when he goes through the period of enlightenment and comes to the moment of abandoning his body, he will directly become the spirit of Heaven. And just at that moment, all infinite spirituality will be with him in the kingdom of Heaven. Then he will know that all dreams are over (including others’ dreams). Of course, this is for the person who woke up, such as Jesus. For Jesus, who is now living in the kingdom of Heaven, all the sons are already in the kingdom of Heaven, and all the dreams have already passed.
Then this answer will lead to another question, that is, since Jesus already knows that all the Sons of God are in the kingdom of Heaven and all the dreams have passed, why does he write “A Course in Miracles”? This is because for Jesus and all the Sons, although the dream is over, the dream can be classified into “long ending time” and “short ending time”. Generally speaking, although this dream only appears and disappears in a moment in your (the son of God’s) consciousness of, it is full of long and short time in this moment. So in order to save the time that appeared in that moment, Jesus wrote a book called “A Course in Miracles”, and let the book enter that moment, so that the time in the dream would be greatly shortened. So even though the dream is over for all the Sons of God, Jesus did that. And it’s not just what Jesus does, because it’s what you’re doing right now. You, the son of God, are “practicing the life of miracle minds” in the dream, which is a “miraculous life” that you, the son of God, throw back to the past dream that has ended. And your “miracle life” will shorten everyone’s waking time (in that moment). This pattern is the same as Jesus throwing back a “A Course in Miracles” to the “dream that is over”.
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Q: Is the Holy Spirit is our inner Buddha nature?
A: People who believe in Buddhism can understand it like that.
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Q: Is there no difference in merits and virtue between the pure consciousness of the first separation and the kingdom of Heaven? There is a sense of eternity, peace and so on in both Heaven and the pure consciousness. Is that right?
A: Pure consciousness also belongs to the level of illusion, not the kingdom of Heaven. There is no merit and virtue in Heaven, so the merits and virtues in the world are also illusory. The representation of eternity and peace in Heaven in the world is the miraculous state of mind, and that kind of heartfelt feeling has nothing to do with consciousness (subconscious).
Q: Can true forgiveness and the methods in the required readings facilitate the unity with God?
A: The practice of true forgiveness and the methods in the required readings can facilitate the integration with the Holy Spirit and the miraculous state of mind; the peak state of miraculous state of mind is “the Real World”, and then you will wake up in the Real World”, and the awakening can be regarded as the integration with the God. You can read the first four chapters of the required readings more.
Q: Knowing that the world is a dream has enabled me to let go of a lot. I like to hear you tell the truth and break my persistence. What is true knowledge?
A: Everyone’s way is different. I have also learned a lot of things, various things. Finally, I learned “A Course in Miracles”, but “A Course in Miracles” is the most practical and thorough one.
Q: Is Jesus the little drop of water in the metaphor in Chapter one of required readings by you? Are we all small drops of water?
A: Yes. Jesus is also a little water drop. We are all small water drops, we are the same.
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Q: One of the problems is that we habitually think in advance about things that have not yet happened in the future, and many times it’s a negative assumption. It didn’t happen, but when we think about it, we start to be afraid. Is this self-punishment? Is the illusion of time not broken?
A: What you said is the habitual fear, which is the fear of the future presented by the guilt in the subconscious, so you can deal with the fear with the methods in Chapter 4 of the required readings. The insight that “time is an illusion” requires years of miracle practices to acquire.
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Q:What is the nature of God’s love?
A: Practicing miracle minds in the dream world is the expression of the love of the Holy Spirit, which is most similar to the love of God.
Q: For thousands of years human beings transmigrate, Jesus also came, but the war never stopped. Does this mean that real peace can only be achieved in Heaven? Even if there are real saints in the world coming, the problem of war will never be solved at the phenomenal level. The illusion is doomed to be binary opposition?
A: If you are saved, the world will be saved.
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Q: For the saying “all over the world” in Buddhism, my understanding used to be that Buddha nature can be reflected in all things. Now “A Course in Miracles” says that God does not know the world, “I” just use the infinite power that God endowed me to dream out the world. Can all things in the world be said to be essentially “me”?
A: You will brush your teeth when you wake up in the morning. When you brush your teeth, you can think about whether the toothbrush in front of you can be put into your dream last night? The answer is absolutely not. The toothbrush in front of you can’t really be put into the dream you had last night. God is the same story. Like the toothbrush, the God will never enter your current dream.
Therefore, the essence of the world in front of you is nihility, and it will never become the real “you”, and the real “you” can only be the Son of the God.
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Q: When people are alive, this body is full of vitality, but why does the same body become a corpse after death? Who made him live, what did it lose that made it dead?
A: At the time of your death (under the condition that you have no enlightening experience in this life), your subconscious will simultaneously perform the following three manipulations. First, it will control your self-consciousness to come out of the body; second, it will project a soul entity and bind with your self-consciousness. Third, it will control your self-consciousness to think that you are dead and have become a soul entity. Finally, because of the belief “Becoming, enduring, decay and emptiness” that your subconscious holds, your subconscious will set that the body after your “death” will slowly decay and dissipate. So after you die, your body will slowly decay and dissipate.
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Q: The body is like a mobile phone, computer and other terminals. The program is the script of different terminals, which are all set by the Ego. And “the real me” is the received signal, like the air wave that never disappears. If a signal regards itself as a terminal, it is ignorance. When it realizes that it is a signal, which never disappears and is omnipresent, and is not locked by the terminal, that is liberation. I wonder if this metaphor is appropriate.
A: I can understand you. However, it will be clearer if I change these words. Self-consciousness is like a mobile phone, computer and other terminals. The subconscious designs different programs and scripts for the terminal, which are all set by the Ego. And “the real me” has been sending signals to the terminal, like the air wave that will never disappears. If the terminal accepts the program of the Ego (subconscious), it is ignorance. But if the terminal accepts “the real me” ‘s air wave, it will realize its truth, and then the terminal will realize that it is not a self-consciousness, but a ubiquitous, never disappearing “real me”, and then he will be free.
Of course, if you want to cross to the other side, you still need to rely on the miraculous state of mind. The world is so troublesome.
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Q: Can you tell me more about the meaning of “the Enlightenment period” in “The Disappearance of the Universe”?
A: Yes, take Pursah in “The Disappearance of the Universe” as an example. After awakening, she experienced another 11 years of enlightenment period, and then she abandoned her body (bodily death) and returned to Heaven. So why do awakened people experience the period of enlightenment? There are two key reasons:
First, show gratitude to brothers. Because when a person wakes up, he will have such a clear cognition that he can’t wake up without the illusory world and the brothers in the world. So the awakened person will have the desire of “I want to help those who have not awakened to wake up” because of the gratitude and the situation that many people have not awakened before him. At this time, the awakened one will embark on the path of sharing the experience of practice because of this desire. This is one of the reasons for the existence of “Enlightenment period”.
Second, the person who has experienced awakening will be frightened to some extent if he is allowed to return to Heaven “immediately”. Because the awakening experience is only the birth memory of the first son of God, that is to say, you will realize that you are the first and only son created by God at the moment of awakening, and there are no other sons in the kingdom of Heaven at that time. So awakening is just the birth memory of the “first” son of God. Then, when you experience this “memory”, you will experience another period of adaptation in the world, because you will slowly realize that the real Heaven houses actually an infinite number of unified Sons of God in this period of adaptation. Then when you have this feeling, you will not be frightened by the scene of “infinite Sons of God in Heaven” when you return to Heaven. So if you wake up, you will not immediately return to Heaven.
You can also refer to a real case in 《The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other: A History of Mighty Companions》: a seriously ill man wakes up a week before his death, and then he says to his wife, “the world is just a scam.” This case shows that no matter how long you will experience the Enlightenment period, even in a few days, it will still exist. In 《The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other: A History of Mighty Companions》, the awakened one will surely accept and recognize the existence of infinite Sons of God in the kingdom of Heaven in the next few days. Then he can return to the real Heaven in a peaceful and correct thinking and cognition.
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Q: That is to say, through “A Course in Miracles”, we are also cultivating a “sober” illusion, living in the illusion soberly. If we can live without a trace of restraint, when the time limit of the physical body is up, we don’t need to package and reincarnate in the form of soul, that is to say, the awakening is complete. If you have any hesitation about the illusion, you have to pack it for reincarnation.
A: No. If you don’t wake up in this lifetime, you will be reincarnated. The awakening experience must also occur when there is a body, and it lasts about 20 seconds. You can read 《The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other: A History of Mighty Companions》 several times. It’s very clear. 《The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other: A History of Mighty Companions》also emphasizes that awakening can only happen when there is a body, and it will never happen in the soul world after death.
Q: The experience of awakening happens when there is a body. When the body extinguishes, it will completely settle in Heaven, right? The guidance and transcendence of Bardo after death can enhance the situation of illusion, but it can’t awaken. The above is my current understanding raised for discussion.
A: Yes. In the awakening experience, your mind will first be drawn into his heavenly mind by God, and at the same time, your mind will be transformed into spirituality. However, in the awakening experience, your thought consciousness will not disappear, because your thought consciousness will get a lot of confirmation in the awakening experience. For example, your mind will confirm in the awakening experience that you are the son of God, that the world does not exist, that reincarnation does not exist and so on. After many things have been confirmed, your spirit will once again transform into a mind and return to your body, and then the awakening experience is over. Of course, the awakening experience does not cause any change in your appearance, because it only means that your mind has been reborn.
The enlightenment experience of Gary in “The Disappearance of the Universe” can’t promote the word “confirmation”, so everyone has to experience the “confirmation” of awakening.
Regarding the guidance and transcendence of Bardo: transcendence for the dead is useless for the dead. Because he (everyone) can only practice when he has a body. When he has no body, he is waiting for the state of reincarnation. Where he was born and his next life experience are all created by his life experience. So you can think of transcendence as a kind of caring funeral ceremony.
However, if you really practice true forgiveness and give innocence to the dead, it is of great use to the dead (forgiveness of the soul body of the dead does not exist and gives him the idea of innocence). Because this kind of practice can save the awakening time of the dead person (from the perspective in a broad sense and cross reincarnation).
The two worlds of life and death are just one dream, not two dreams, so true forgiveness and giving innocence can “Penetrate” the two worlds of life and death. Generally speaking, there is no boundary between the two worlds of life and death.
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Q: There are two questions I would like to ask you for help. 1. A Christian told me on the way yesterday that there are actually two gods, one male God and one goddess. How do you understand this? 2. Why do some souls have been reincarnated for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, and some souls have only been reincarnated for hundreds of years, and does the subconscious project countless individuals in an instant? Is there any subconscious in different periods?
A: 1. You don’t need to pay attention to the saying of two gods. There are many practices in the world that can’t even touch the side of truth. 2. At first, whether a subconscious split into many bodies at once, or whether a subconscious split into only one body and one self-consciousness, then split into two, two into four, and up to now, there have been countless body and countless self-consciousness, for those myths, you don’t need to study too much. Because this history has nothing to do with your current practice. The world in front of you is like this at present, so you can practice “according to the present”. About how it split at first? How about the form? What is the process like? These problems will not affect your current practice, and have little to do with your current practice. So in the required readings, I wrote the words “a subconscious can project an infinite number of bodies at once”. The purpose of my writing is to match the current situation of the world, so that you can better practice according to “the present”.
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Q: Why are you alive? Is it to meet the needs of relatives?
A: One of the key objectives of practicing satisfying the sincere plea for help from others is that only when you interact with others can you define yourself by seeing what others are. This route is a practice process that you can’t get around. So if you don’t have this cultivation process and you just solely realize what you are, it may take you a lot of time to know who you are, or you can’t find who you are at all. So finding out who you are is the key purpose of practicing meeting other people’s sincere plea for help.
Q: “To live” is to remember and experience that you are “joy, freedom, love”. It is very important for us to confirm that we are “abstract”, which is the key point of our revision.
A: Yes, your task in the world is to remember your own truth, but the step of recalling your own truth is to see what others are before you can confirm what you are. But under what circumstances can you see what others are? It must be in interpersonal interaction, in plea for help from others, or in the common choice of you and others.
For example, my water heater is old. My wife is worried about leakage every day. She wants me to buy a new one. However, I don’t want to buy a new one, because I don’t want to spend money. I want to save for some time. Well, at this time, I will procrastinate with my wife and sometimes quarrel. At last, my wife and I cried out every day that she was afraid of being electrocuted. I saw that I couldn’t delay, so I bought a new one. After I bought it, I thought: to make thousands of RMBs to fill the water heater deficit. Well, this is a very common set of ego thought and action. In this set of thought and action, although the water heater was purchased, I did not dissolve any deficiency, guilt and victim emotion in this incident. Then I will change a set of miracle minds and action to deal with this matter. My miracle minds and action are as follows: I will use the illusory money to satisfy my wife’s illusory but sincere plea for help, so that my wife’s fear can be dissolved. Then I will practice that I will not have any deficiency and fear because I am not bound with my deposit. In the end, I shall deem that the energy and time I spent buying water heaters are illusory, so I am willing to do it. Well, after I have practiced the above miracle minds and done the miracle action for the water heater event, although the water heater has also been purchased, my wife’s deficiency, fear and the victim emotion that I may have will disappear. This is the difference between miracle minds and the Ego’s thought system, and this difference is not the difference in the outcome in the illusory world, but the state and outcome of your mind being guided is different. One is being manipulated by the subconscious to continue to live vaguely in the dream, the other is jumping out of the subconscious control and integrated into the miraculous state of mind.
Q: The problem that has been puzzling me has been completely solved this time, that is, my family and I are very willing to help others, but why do they always quarrel? Now I found the reason.
A: Well, helping people with the Ego thought system and helping people with miracle minds are totally different stories. Because they lead you to different destinations. One leads to the continuous reincarnation, and the other leads to the end of spiritual practices: Heaven. What’s more, miraculous state of mind can bring you peaceful situations continuously, and these situations can consolidate your will to practice, which is more powerful.
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Q: It’s not enough to see the body as a phantom. You have to give Brothers purity and innocence first, right, teacher?
A: Yes. Why Chapter 3 of the required readings bound to true forgiveness and the giving of innocence? It’s because you see what other people are, and you become what they are. So if you only practice true forgiveness, your subconscious will define you and others as illusions and nonexistent, but at this time, you will be distorted. So when you practice true forgiveness, you have to give out purity and innocence, so that you can become pure innocence, so that you will not be distorted. So who is innocent? That must be the Son of God. That’s why I’m solidly riveting true forgiveness with the first lesson of the Holy Spirit, which is giving out purity and innocence.
Q: The body is illusory, but the noumenon is spiritual and real. So if we only look at the body as a phantom and deny the existence of noumenon, then the noumenon is also denied. Is that so, teacher?
A: Yes. So the first step of your practice is true forgiveness, and the second step to follow closely is to see that others are pure and innocent, so that you will not deny the noumenon. Of course, this noumenon (miraculous state of mind) just resembles the kingdom of Heaven, it’s just a raft that carry you to the other side.
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Q: What is the overall structure of “A Course in Miracles”?
A: The structure of “A Course in Miracles” is: on the basis of telling you that you are the Son of God in a large scale, it uses a lot of ink to tell about the role of the spiritual thought system and all the tricks of the Ego. “A Course in Miracles” compares the result of miracle minds and the Ego thought system continuously, and the purpose of these narratives is to let you choose miracle minds automatically. This is the overall structure of “A Course in Miracles”. Popularly put, “A Course in Miracles” tells you that there are two things between Heaven and you: one is the world projected by the subconscious and the set of thought system (the Ego) that takes the world seriously; the other is the miracle mind thought system and the miraculous state of mind to which that thought system leads you. You are free to choose which world and which thought system.
Q: When I encounter specific problems, sometimes I forget to practice true forgiveness and miracle minds. Is this normal?
A: This is normal. The normal process of practicing miracle minds is: when you are dealing with various problems, you will repeatedly jump around in two sets of thought systems. Sometimes when you jump to the Ego thought system, you will be unlucky. When you are unlucky, you will wake up and practice miraculous minds. This kind of back and forth jumping itself is a normal process of practice. And for beginners, procrastination of practices is also very normal. It’s good to be able to practice, even if you procrastinate it a little bit.
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Q: “A Course in Miracles” says that “what one owns” and “what one is “are the same thing. Teacher, what are “what one owns” and “what one is “? Can you delve into it?
A: For example, if you forgive someone opposing you, then when you forgive him, his body image will become an illusion to you. So when his body image becomes a phantom in your thought and cognition, your body image will also become a phantom. This is the reason why you will become the definition of the reference outside of you. Then, when the image of the person opposite you becomes illusory, there will be a vacancy in his image, and at this moment, there will also be a vacancy in your own illusory image. At this time, you can give the idea of innocence into the opposite person’s vacancy. Then when you complete the above steps, you will find that the vacancy in you has been filled with the purity and innocence you have given out. At this time, your mind will experience purity and innocence. So this pure and innocent spiritual experience is an idea mentioned in “A Course in Miracles”: “what you own” that you give out is the meaning and direction of “what you are”.
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Q: After reading your required readings and practicing for some days, I think I can understand “A Course in Miracles”. Thank you, teacher!
A: No need for thanks. It is a task for me to write the required readings, and I am very relieved to finish the task. However, the required readings do have the following functions: ① the required readings are the practical narration of all the core concepts of “A Course in Miracles”. ② these narratives can greatly reduce the difficulty of everyone’s learning “A Course in Miracles”. ③ these narratives can accelerate the advent of “the era of miracles”. ④ these narratives can lead everyone to the right path of self-cultivation. ⑤ these narratives can shorten many people’s lifetimes to be awakened to Self-nature. ⑥ these narratives can help all the masters of miracles in the future save a lot of teaching time, so that these masters will have more time to do one-to-one spiritual healing work. ⑦ these narratives can make those who “don’t understand miracles and talk about miracles everyday” disappear gradually.
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Q: How to forgive and deal with the worry of damage in reputation of people around me?
A: When the reputation of the people around you is damaged or other aspects are damaged, what you are afraid of is not what they have to lose, because you will worry about what you will lose “in a wide range”, and the most direct expression of this worry is that you will be afraid of whether they will take it out on you and how they will take it out on you. For example, your mother gets angry at work, and then she goes home and starts to make trouble. At this time, of course, you can’t help her solve the problems in her work, and if you attack and resist her, it doesn’t work. So all you can do at this time is to forgive your mother and the fuss she make at home continuously. Because once you use miracle minds to deal with her family tyranny, the Holy Spirit will be called out by you, and then the Holy Spirit will help you to correct some of your mother’s wrong thinking, and then you can really help her. Well, you can infer other things from one fact and think about it for yourself. Because there are so many things in the world that I can’t talk about them all at once.
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Q: Excuse me, sir. It says that Thomas was executed by the warlords when he was 36 when he went to India to preach. And Thaddaeus was gay. I suddenly felt that the disciples of Jesus were so unlucky. If I had practiced “A Course in Miracles”, wouldn’t I have become so unlucky?
A: Oh. Counting from when Jesus ascended to Heaven to the present, you have reincarnated for more than 20 lifetimes after Jesus’ ascension. So do you think you have wasted those 20 lifetimes? How can it be? If you are now on the way of practicing miracle minds, it can be said that you have practiced and contributed to the truth in the past 20 lifetimes. What’s more, now that we have entered the era of law, the past era of lawlessness is gone forever. So you don’t have to think about that useless thing, you don’t have to compare “your life” to “Jesus’ time.”.
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Q: You wrote in the required readings that the subconscious manipulates us. I want to ask if the subconscious is controlled by the Holy Spirit. What is the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the subconscious at present?
A: The Holy Spirit does not control the subconscious, because the subconscious does not exist. The relationship between the Holy Spirit and the subconscious is that the Holy Spirit will turn the subconscious and the world it projects into tools that can make you return to Heaven.
Q: Which audience is “A Course in Miracles” for? Is it the Son of God (unified spirituality), the pure consciousness, the subconscious, the self-consciousness, the Ego, the decision maker, or the observer? Besides, who is practicing true forgiveness?
A: “The Course in Miracles” is about self-consciousness and letting it dissolve subconscious and self-consciousness, so self-consciousness can be called the decision maker. Then along the way of learning and practicing, your self-consciousness will feel that there is no self-consciousness and subconscious (including the world projected by the subconscious), and the only one that exists is the miraculous state of mind that closely resembles Heaven.
Q: Oh. That is to say, it is self-consciousness that initiates true forgiveness, and what feels the miraculous mental state of purity and innocence is the mind resembling the Holy Spirit. Is that right?
A: Yes. When you practice miracle minds, it’s when your mind and the Holy Spirit are unified.
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Q: Can the teacher talk about the fear of money? I always fear that when I am still alive, my money is gone.
A: Because a lot of your self-worth and sense of existence are tied to money, it needs a complex and long-term practicing process to overcome your fear about money. As for how to practice, the key issue is interpersonal relationship. Because most of the fear about money is bound to the interpersonal relationship in specific events, that is to say, although money is immobile, the people in the specific events that money finally binds are alive. Take me for example. My idea and experience of overcoming fear about money is that I always spend most of my money in interpersonal relationships to practice meeting the sincere plea for help from others. At last, these practices will turn into long-term peaceful situations, which also include my family’s identification with my personality. Because my practices will make them feel that I have no deprivation and fear about money, they will think that I am a person who can bring them a sense of security. In the end, my family’s fear about money will continue to decrease because of my practices.
So, how to spend money is the core of overcoming fear about money, not how to earn money. How to earn money is a public affair, and how to spend money is a matter involving interpersonal relations and private affairs. And the practices of miracle minds will certainly be carried out in the field of interpersonal relations and private affairs. So you can spend most of your money on your family and the relationships around you. In addition, other methods to overcome fear about money is not very useful, because everything shall revolve around your core interpersonal relationships, your trial is not “far away”.
Finally, you should pay attention to one thing about the field of spending money, that is, when spending money for children, it may involve education, which is similar to work and business. So when you spend money for your children, you should be sober. Don’t spoil your children too much (no matter whether they are adults or not). The money that should be spent shall be spent, while the money that should not be spent shall not be spent. In this way, you won’t make serious mistakes in education, and your children won’t suffer a lot in the future. This is a matter of attention in the field of spending money.
Q: My husband asked me to save money carefully. How can I practice?
A: He asked you to save more money, which is also his sincere plea for help, so you should save more money, which is also a kind of practice.
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Q: Why is educating children similar to work?
A: Why is educating children a “job”? It’s hard for me to make it clear in a few words, but you can think for yourself, are all the institutions that educate children in the world a kind of “business” institution? Then you can also think, whether your child is an object of education for you as his/her parent, even though you do not work in these “business” institutions? Think about these questions and you’ll see why education is close to work.
Well, consider the above answers for yourself. Let me say a few more words. In Chapter 13 of the required readings, I also talked about some key points of educating children. Now I’ll expand these points.
Take me for example, I pay great attention to the following two points in terms of educating children:
The first is to teach children to be honest. At the right time, I will instill in my children: “no matter how big a mistake you have made, as long as you tell me truthfully, nothing will happen, and even punishment will not come to you.”
Second, I will teach my children not to hide. I will instill in my children: “before you do something, you should ask yourself, do you dare to tell mom and dad after you do it? Dare you tell Grandma or Grandpa? Dare you tell your teacher? If you think you dare tell these people, do it; but if you think you dare not tell these people, don’t do it. ” (children’s version for “non-concealment”)
So why should I pay attention to these two? This is because in this era, some children are either too independent or too domineering, and they are not easy to communicate with others. Therefore, as a parent, the first task is to establish a smooth communication with children, and the smooth communication can only be established on the basis of children’s honesty and non-concealment, which is the “core technology” of educating children. So if you can master the “core technology”, you can better control and guide children. It also allows you to use fewer punitive methods to educate your children. Finally, if you and your child can maintain a smooth communication, you may continue to suggest to your child: “I am an adult, I know better than you the standards of good and evil in the world, and I have more experience than you, so when you encounter a question you don’t understand, you can ask me, and then I will tell you how to do the best, so you won’t do wrong.” That means you have mastered all the “core technology” to educate your child, and your child will suffer a lot less due to this “core technology”.
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Q: The article says that time is always holographic. According to the course, the past, present and future all happen at the same time. Can you illustrate to me with popular examples? I still don’t quite understand.
A: For example, you are called Wang Wu in this lifetime, you were called Zhang San in your last lifetime, and you will be called Li Si in the next lifetime. Now, Wang Wu is chatting with Wechat. But at this moment, Zhang San is also living in his life and writing calligraphy. The same is true of Li Si, who is also living in his life and reading books. So you and Zhang San and Li Si are living at the same time. This is the popular meaning of holography.
Q: “I’m typing with Wechat now. Zhang San is also living in the present moment writing calligraphy. Li Si is also living in the next life reading books. These three “I”s are living at the same time.” Excuse me, teacher, is this a parallel world? How do you understand this?
A: This is not a parallel world, and there is no parallel world for you at all. Because you have only one subconscious, and one subconscious can only project one dream world. However, in this only dream world, time is holographic, and the reincarnation of each of your lifetimes also happens at the same time. So linear time is basically a hoax. This scam also includes the time of this lifetime of yours, for example, your childhood and your present time also happen at the same time. Just because of manipulation by the subconscious, your self-consciousness can’t perceive that time is holographic, which is the trick of the subconscious.
There is no time in Heaven, only eternity, so the world projected by the subconscious must be the opposite of the Heaven, so the subconscious projects time, and controls the self-consciousness to experience time, and then time becomes linear. This is actually a means for subconscious to deceive self-consciousness. Of course, this kind of deception is also a kind of self-deception for the subconscious.
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Q: Can it be understood that practicing “A Course in Miracles” is also practicing in a dream? For those who don’t practice, they have awakened in essence, but they don’t know.
A: “The Course in Miracles” is a course practiced in dreams. On the issue of other people’s awakening, you don’t need to abruptly deem that all people have awakened, because the awakening experience is something that will happen in the level of illusion, and this thing also has sequence in illusion. So you can think of others as Sons of God who have never left heaven. At this time, you can completely distinguish whether others wake up (something unrelated to your practices) and how you see others (real practice).
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Q: I just read a sentence in the text of “A Course in Miracles”: “Please also remember that even if your invitation is only an understated gesture, the Holy Spirit will still respond with all its strength.” This gives me great peace. My understanding is: for example, I’m afraid that my wallet will be stolen. When I read this fear, I realized this idea. Then I entrusted this idea to the Holy Spirit, and I knew that the Holy Spirit would help me. But when you just had a discussion with a practitioner, you replied, “When you are in fear, the Holy Spirit will not care about you. “It makes me feel unsafe. Is it that I when I am in fear, the Holy Spirit doesn’t care about me, and I have nothing to resort to?
A: I’ll tell you more about it. The meaning of “a gesture” in this article is: take the case of losing your wallet. When you are afraid, if you doubt a little about the situation of losing your wallet may also be a dream even if it happens, then that little doubt is called a slight gesture for the Holy Spirit, and then the Holy Spirit will intervene. Then your little doubt is likely to turn into a practice of confronting fear (entrustment) due to the intervention of the Holy Spirit. That is to say, you will practice once because of this doubt: my wallet being lost is also an illusory situation, I am not afraid to experience this illusory situation, and I will not be the victim of this situation. At this time, fear is far away from you. Of course, according to the laws of the world, you still have to put your wallet in place, and you can’t be careless.
Q: I can understand that even a little question about this idea is an invitation.
A: Yes. Under the principle of true forgiveness, if you question the authenticity of an event a little, make a gesture to the Holy Spirit, and then the Holy Spirit will intervene. At this time, your “right doubt” will continue to grow, and it is likely to become a practice of miracle mind.
Q: Is this kind of appeal OK? For example, “I’m fed up. I don’t want to take this anymore. I’m fed up. Holy Spirit, take it away for me. “
A: It’s not an appeal. It’s a way to escape fear and push it into the subconscious. So it’s impossible to resolve fear in this way, and the Holy Spirit will not intervene.
The minimum standard for calling on the Holy Spirit is: you can call on the Holy Spirit to help you see the unreal nature of the event and the world, or you can call on the Holy Spirit to give you some inspiration to help you see the unreal nature of the event and the world, which is the minimum standard for calling on the Holy Spirit.
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Q: What is to love oneself, what is not to love oneself?
A: From the point of view of actual practice, not loving yourself is to identify a brother as a body and convict him. Because when you attack your brother, the subconscious, the world and sin come true for you, and you are hurting yourself.
To love yourself is to understand that you are the pure and innocent Son of God, and that other people are also the pure and innocent Son of God. Therefore, the principle of loving oneself is to love others as oneself, and the attribute of love must be an organic whole. Of course, the practice of loving oneself sometimes show up only when it collaborates with practices of various miracle minds.
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Q: The last element of forgiveness is trust in the Holy Spirit and determination to rely on his power. Does trusting in the Holy Spirit and relying on his power mean relying on the power of the Holy Spirit under all the circumstances, or limited to interpersonal relations?
A: What this sentence means is that, please trust the thought system taught by the Holy Spirit and practice it well, because the thought system itself represents the power of the Holy Spirit, and the real you is the Christ who is integrated with the Holy Spirit. This is the meaning of this sentence. The reason why this sentence is called the last element of forgiveness is that this thought system of the Holy Spirit is based on true forgiveness.
Then, does everything depend on this thought system, or only in interpersonal relationships? This answer to this question entails your own learning and the accumulation of your own experience. But this thought system is really applicable to interpersonal relationships on a large scale.
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Q: Can you explain the practice of “the Whole in Unity” of 《Love Has Forgotten No One》? The book says that Jesus practiced it.
A: Yes, the practice of “the Whole in Unity” originates from《Love Has Forgotten No One》. This practice was actually practiced by Jesus all the time. But to illustrate this requires specific cases, so I will illustrate it with the example in Chapter 8 of the required readings. But when I’ve finished, please do not think this practice is easy. Because this practice is more suitable for those who have practiced the miracle minds painstakingly for several years in their lives.
In that example of Chapter 8, your father and your mother are quarreling about a matter. You watch them quarrel. At this time, you look around, you are surrounded by two people. At this time, you can practice “the Whole in Unity” on the basis of Chapter 8.
First of all, you can look at your father first. After you see him, you can think like this: my father’s body is just a fantasy I dreamed of, which does not exist at all. At this time, his quarrel with my mother and their mutual conviction are just a dream of mine, which does not exist. In this way, it can be concluded that my mother’s body image and the body image of all sentient beings in the world are false and nonexistent. And the dream world is just an illusory image of oneness, which has never existed.
Then you should continue to think: my father is just an abstract idea of innocence, and this idea of innocence will not be restrained by my father’s illusory image, because the abstract innocence is beyond the body and will be extended infinitely. So my father’s innocence has been extended to me and my mother, and this innocence will be further extended to the whole world and all sentient beings.
When you have completed the above exercises, your mind will not only experience that the unified purity and innocence have covered you and your mother, but also experience that the purity and innocence have covered the whole world and all sentient beings. And just at this time, your mind will feel that it has become that purity and innocence. At this time, you can complete half of “the Whole in Unity” practice. Because, in this specific event, you have two objects for practice. So at this time, you need to practice the thought a moment ago aiming at your mother once again. In this way, your practice of “the Whole in Unity” can be complete.
So at this time, you need to focus on your mother and practice your thought a moment ago once again: my mother’s body is just a fantasy I dreamed of, which does not exist at all, and at this time, her quarrel with my father and the matter of mutual conviction is just a dream of mine, which does not exist. In this way, it can be concluded that my father’s body image and the body image of all sentient beings in the world are false and nonexistent. And the dream world is just an illusory image of oneness , which has never existed.
Then: my mother is just an abstract idea of purity and innocence, and this idea of purity and innocence will not be restrained by my mother’s illusory image, because the abstract purity and innocence is beyond the body and will be infinitely extended. So my mother’s innocence has been extended to me and my father, and this innocence will be further extended to the whole world and all sentient beings.
At this point, when you finish the practices focusing on your father and mother respectively, the two innocent experiences that your mind has acquired (one for father and one for mother) will be combined. At this time, you have finished a practice of “the Whole in Unity”. Of course, I’m not saying that there is any difference between these two pure and innocent spiritual experiences, because they are the same thing as each other in an organic whole.
Well, based on the above explanation, if you can practice against your father and your mother at the same time when they quarrel, that is to say, when they quarrel, you are able to think that the images of both of them and all the sentient beings in the world are illusions, and you are also able to think that they and all the sentient beings own the very and sole purity and innocence that is mutually contained, mutually integrated and extended infinitely. Therefore, the key point of practice of “the Whole in Unity” is whether you can forgive and acquit your objects and non-objects of practicing (all sentient beings) comprehensively and giving all of them innocence, when you encounter specific problems. If you can, then the unified purity and innocence you acquire by practice will become a natural state. At that time, it was impossible for your mind not to experience purity and innocence.
Of course, when encountering specific problems, you are likely to attach a lot of other miracle minds to practicing “the Whole in Unity”. So I just said, “Please do not think that the practice of “the Whole in Unity” is easy to accomplish. Because in actual practice, it’s very hard and uncommon for you to combine and practice miracle minds correctly according to specific events and characters, and this kind of uncommon practice is very likely to have made you “try your best”. So it’s even more difficult for you to carry on the practice of “the Whole in Unity” on that basis. That’s why I say that the practice of “the Whole in Unity” is hard to accomplish.
Finally, “the Whole in Unity” refers to the natural purity and innocence, and refers to the pure and innocent spiritual experience that is mutually contained, mutually integrated and infinitely extended. This spiritual experience is called “the face of Christ” and “the Real World” in “A Course in Miracles”.
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Q: According to “A Course in Miracles”, miracles can make people’s perception leap from horizontal to vertical. How to understand “horizontal” and “vertical”?
A: The meaning of this sentence is that when you practice true forgiveness and give pure innocence in your interpersonal relationship, you are giving true forgiveness and pure innocence to other people horizontally, and this horizontal giving represents that you have first integrated with your brother in the purity and innocence. And just at this time, the Holy Spirit will directly enter into the unified purity and innocence, and your horizontal giving will directly become the vertical connection between you and the Holy Spirit (the Holy Spirit is the communication channel between you and God). Therefore, the moment when you practice miracle minds horizontally towards your brothers, the Holy Spirit and God will simultaneously and synchronously establish a vertical link with you. So it’s much easier and faster to perform this practice than to grope for the truth. For example, meditation, sitting still and other ways are difficult to achieve your instantaneous connection with the Holy Spirit.
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Q: In the face of people close to me, how can I forgive their past?
A: In the process of your cultivation, it is difficult to forgive the past of those close to you, especially those who are still around you at this moment. Because you will evaluate what they are going to do now based on what they have done in the past, and these things will make you a victim. Therefore, to forgive the past of a close person, you should take multi line operations: 1. Forgive the past of that person. 2. Lay down your past assessment of them. 3. Let go of all your current assessment of them. 4. Face what will happen by means of entrusting fear. 5. Consider whether what will happen is a sincere plea for help from the other party. If so, deal with it appropriately.
However, the above answers do not apply to the scope of educating children.
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Q: Will you still be distracted after you have broken away from reincarnation? What if you dream again when you have gone back to Heaven?
A: To answer this question, first of all, we need to illustrate the relationship between truth and belief. The reason why truth is true is that truth is within you. Therefore, belief in truth cannot be confirmed by you or identified by you as proof through the description of someone outside of you. Because the answer is in you, you can only realize the truth is true. That is to say, you can only experience the truth that you are the Son of God and reside in Heaven through your own experience and final experience (this is an auxiliary answer).
Next, I will forcibly say the whole process of “things” in words:
“In the beginning”, God created the only one you (Son of God) who lived in him. Then you and God create an infinite number of Sons of the God (that is the meaning that you are the co-creator of God), and the kingdom of Heaven is accomplished. So the “accomplished” Heaven is a state in which the infinite number of Sons of God are with God. That is to say, the “present” appearance of the kingdom of Heaven has gone beyond the “original” (in fact, there is no original) process that God created the only one you. Then because the kingdom of Heaven is eternal, all the Sons of Gods in the kingdom of Heaven are unified and the same, which makes every Son of God in the kingdom of Heaven share the memory of “I was the first one created by God in the beginning”. So in the kingdom of Heaven, every Son of the God can’t tell who is the first one to be created. It’s like cell division. Cell A divides into Cell B, and A says that it divides into B. However, B can also say that he divides into A. Therefore, all the Sons of God in the kingdom of Heaven have a common awareness and recognition, that is, each of them thinks that he is the first one to be created, and he also creates an unlimited number of other Sons of God.
After describing the appearance of Heaven, let’s talk about what happened later: when the infinite number of Sons of God are in the same Heaven, you (one of the infinite number of Sons of God) enter the dream. After entering the dream, you become the pure consciousness, then the subconscious, and finally you project the universe.
As you project the universe, you become a body. When you become a body, you start to wander in your dream. Then when you wander, you learn something. After that, you begin to distrust the big dream of the universe. For example, after you learn “A Course in Miracles”, you begin to practice miracle minds. At the end of the practice, you experience awakening. At the moment of your awakening, you will recall the most ancient memory: you are the first Son created by God. So the awakening experience is just a real reappearance of memory. In this reappearance, your mind will change into spirituality and be in God. Then you will truly feel again how you, the first Son of God was created by God. Then, when you feel the whole process of being created, your awakening experience will end. So in the awakening experience, you will not perceive the existence of other Sons of God, because the awakening experience is only the most ancient memory, and the “after” of this memory is that other infinite number of Sons of God are created at the same time. So in the awakening experience you cannot perceive that the infinite number of other Sons of God in the same God with you. That’s why “A Course in Miracles” says that “awakening is also an illusory experience, and only a part of awakening experience is real experience”.
Then, when you experience awakening, you will return to the body, and then you will experience some years of enlightenment. In this period, you will understand that all people can awaken just like you, and all people are Sons of God and live in the kingdom of Heaven together. At this time, your preparations for a complete return to the kingdom of Heaven (breaking away from reincarnation) are “ready”. At last, when you come to the last moment when you abandon your body in your dream, you will directly enter the kingdom of Heaven where an infinite number of Sons of God is unified and together, and then you will be fully activated. And at this moment, you are not the only one who is activated, because at the moment of your complete return, you will confirm that other infinite number of Sons of God have never left the kingdom of Heaven, at this time, other infinite number of Sons of God will be activated by your return. This is what “A Course in Miracles” says: when you come back, you come back together with the infinite number of Sons of God. So the moment when you return to Heaven thoroughly, you and all Sons of God will have the following awareness (the awareness of being activated) at the same time: we (I) seem to have had a dream, we (I) also seem to have entered the dream, but at this moment, in the eternal Heaven, the dream completely disappeared. Gee, it’s interesting, but it’s a total nonsense.
Well, I’ve finished the whole process of “things”. The end of this process is that all the Sons of God are “activated”, so when you have broken away from the reincarnation, you will never enter any dream again.
Q: Hearing your reply, I have become confident in my practices. Thanks!
A: You can understand the whole question in combination with the auxiliary answer just now. That’s the only way to answer your question. But even if this question is answered, it may not help others, because the answer to this question is only an external explanation for the practitioner. So the key question is whether you can trust the truth within you. However, the truth inside you can only be trusted by you through your own practice. This is the general position of the practitioner. So it depends on your own choice whether you can “confront the difficulties”.
Finally, if you want to ask, “how did the kingdom of God come from? What was it before the advent of God?” There is no answer to this question, because Heaven has neither “before” nor “after”.
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Q: Is dream the projection of the guilt in subconscious? Do we need to be aware of and forgive it? Or is everything meaningless and doesn’t need to be analyzed?
A: Do you mean dreaming at night? If so, there is no need for too much forgiveness. Night dreaming is only a shallow projection of the subconscious.
Q: Is it better to release fear in a dream? Otherwise, it can’t be detected because it is hidden in it (although in fact, the dream at night and the experience during the day are not real, they are all dreams).
A: Oh, let me give you an example. For example, you are afraid of divorce, but you often practice for divorce, for example, you often entrust the fear of divorce. At this time, if one day you dream of your divorce, it proves that your fear of divorce has been released. So for a miracle practitioner, the dream you have at night is probably a sign that fear has been released, which is a good thing.
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Q: Does everyone need to pass the same exercises of practicing?
A: Everyone’s exercises of practicing are different. But the practitioners do experience the same practicing situation along the way. This situation is that everyone will practice repeatedly and perennially for a certain period of time, so that he can complete a larger life task. For example, some practitioners in this Wechat group need to practice repeatedly for their husbands’ attacks, some for their wives’ sacrifices, some for their elders’ behaviors all year round, and others for their loneliness at present. This is a situation that all the practitioners have to experience. And the experience of this situation also represents that the practitioner is getting through a relatively large “mind block” in his mind. At this time, his state of mind will go up to a higher level due to the opening of the block and continuous learning.
From a certain point of view, the larger life topic is the key to practice, followed by learning. Because the things that can hinder your mind growth are actually those big “mind blocks”, so opening these blocks is the basis for your further understanding of miracle wisdom. It’s like this: if “A Course in Miracles” is a perfect medicine that can cure your mind, the premise and guarantee that this medicine can flow through the “whole mind” is that those big blockages in your mind are opened.
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Q: I’ve heard you say that peace can be given by initiative. Can you tell me more about it?
A: It’s a kind of advanced miracle mind to actively give peace. In terms of actual practice, active peace giving is a dynamic exercise based on many miracle minds. For example: a core member of your family, who has mental or physical illness, often loses his temper to you because of his illness, and he often loses his temper to you in front of others. In the face of this family member, you have seriously practiced miracle minds. For example, you know that he is only a patient, and every time he loses his temper, it is only a kind of sincere plea for help, because he just wants to get more care. So in the face of such a patient, every time you practice true forgiveness, giving purity and innocence, satisfying the other party’s sincere plea for help (taking care of him in various ways), asking nothing in return and overcoming sacrifice. Then you will constantly entrust the following fears: if one day, I go out with him to have dinner with others, and he gets angry with me again in front of others, then I accept it, I accept it, because that situation is just a dream, it doesn’t exist, and I’m not the victim of that situation. At this time, from the perspective of actual practice, you actually have practiced a lot of miracle minds perfectly. However, if you and him really go to a dinner party until one day, then if you still fear that he will lose his temper to you in front of many other people, you can exercise to give peace actively in the process of attending the dinner party. The thinking mode of this practice is as follows:
1. If he lose his temper against me in front of others, I will continue to forgive and not fight back. Because what I think and do is just to prepare for the final peaceful ending.
2. If he loses his temper against me in front of others and asks me to leave this room and go to another room, I will forgive and accept the offer at the same time, because what I think and do is also preparing for the final peaceful ending.
3. If he loses his temper against me in front of others, and they continue to dissuade him and ask me not to fight back, then I will silently forgive their interaction and keep not fighting back, because their interaction is also preparing for the final peaceful ending.
4. If he loses his temper against me in front of other people, they dissuade him and let me go to another room first to stay away, I will also accept other people’s suggestions, because I will not prevent them from making some suggestions, which are just preparing for the final peaceful ending.
5. If he loses his temper against me in front of others and asks me to go to another room, I will go. Then, after I leave, if someone exchanges and persuades him, and finally asks me to return to the restaurant, I will accept the suggestions and return to the restaurant. Because I know this series of events are preparing for the final peaceful ending.
6. If I go back to my room and he loses his temper against me in front of me again, I will still forgive and not fight back. Because my repetitive thoughts and actions are still preparing for the final peaceful ending.
At this point, if you can handle the dinner according to the above thought and action, you will complete the dynamic exercise of giving active peace, and then the exercise will show you a safe ending that cannot be completely described in words. As an example, the end result is that all the people who attend the dinner party and your family members will succumb to your continuous inner peace, their wrong thinking will be corrected by the Holy Spirit at the same time, and then you will become a man of men in everyone’s mind. At this time, other people will neither blame your family members nor think you are a victim, because other people can fully feel how powerful the immeasurable peace inside you is. This kind of power will not hurt anyone, but radiate the light of love others as yourself. So at this time, in addition to being unable to praise you accurately with words, other people will also have great respect for you. This is the peaceful ending that you can finally get for everyone, and this ending will have a profound impact on your future.
However, it can be said that if you still use the old conviction mode to deal with the problem when you participate in the dinner, the dinner will end, but the end is: everyone will think you are still the victim full of resentment and fear.
When you are in a specific event with more participants, you not only need to practice all kinds of miracle minds led by true forgiveness in the process of this event, but also need to constantly confirm in the process of practice that the continuous peace within you will manifest a peaceful ending that can be shared by all participants of this event. At the same time, you have to constantly believe that the decisions made by some people involved in the event are all in preparation for the final peaceful ending, and their decisions are only an integral part of that ending. At this point, you won’t stop someone from making a decision. At this time, you will no longer fear that some decisions made by some people will bring you bad results. At this point, your mind will be completely peaceful, which is to give peace actively.
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Q: After a period of practice in accordance with Chapter 9 of your required readings, I feel that my illness has been alleviated. Then I would like to ask if my illness can be completely cured in a period of time?
A: I can answer your question in this way: in practice, the process of a person’s practicing physical diseases with miracle minds is relatively vague, and the time span is also very large. The normal situation is: you will get sick constantly in your life, and then when you are a beginner of miracle practices, you are likely to use drugs to treat the disease first, and then “a little” miracle minds may play a role in curing your disease. But as time goes by, for example, 10 years later, you may be able to use “half” drugs and “half” miracle minds for diseases at the same time. Finally, it will be another 10 years before you are likely to use miracle minds on a “large scale” in cooperation with “a little” drugs. So from a practical point of view, there are only two important principles for you to cure all physical diseases in your life: 1. Full patience; 2. Flexible use of medical methods and miracle minds. Remember, “the useful is the best.”
Although “A Course in Miracles” has said that you can stand up directly from the hospital bed. But this sentence is only said from the perspective of absolute monism, so this sentence is not the same as the actual practice, because the actual practice must be: un untrained mind accomplishes nothing, and exercises depends on time.
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Q: I would like to share your required readings with a Taoist disciple I know. Is that ok?
A: Of course. If a person takes off the mask of religious belief, he is just a common person. Even if he can take off all masks, he will not break away from daily necessities and interpersonal relations. Therefore, the required readings can be shown to anyone, no matter what kind of religious belief he has.
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Q: I’m a new comer. After entering the website and reading the required readings, I decided to practice miracle minds. Can you give me some suggestions in advance?
A: the misfortunes and blessings of life are almost instantaneous and unprepared, so you need not prepare to practice this set of Holy Spirit thought system. But only when you think about it in person and preferentially according to this system can the Holy Spirit be one with you. Therefore, the general proposal I can present is: “Heaven is running ceaselessly, so the gentleman shall improve himself continuously.”