What is the Christ?

Yesterday we saw that seeing Christ-consciousness in the world is “the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last.”

Our special theme continues by saying, “So therefore let us seek to find Christ’s face and look on nothing else.”

This sets the goal. Just as the instructions for Loving Consciousness Meditation ask us to love our consciousness and ignore everything else, our special theme asks us to seek Christ-consciousness in everything and look on nothing else.

That doesn’t mean that we should repress anything else that we might see. It means that we should practice the Loving All Method with it.

This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take action in the world if we would normally take action. It means we should practice the Loving All Method with anything we perceive, anything we experience, and any action we take.

Let’s review some of the instructions from the Loving All Method:

Love every thought you have exactly the way it is.

Love all your emotions exactly the way they are.

Love your body exactly the way it is.

Love the objects you see exactly the way they are.

Love the people you see exactly the way they are.

Love your actions exactly the way they are.

Love everything you feel, think, say or do exactly the way it is.

Love everything you see, taste, touch, smell or hear exactly the way it is.

Love everything other people do, feel, think or say exactly the way it is.

Love everything that happens exactly the way it is.

Love every activity exactly the way it is.

Love every experience exactly the way it is.

Love everything exactly the way it is.

If you don’t understand how to practice the above instructions using the word “love”, you can substitute the words “emotionally allow” for the word “love” in the above instructions.

After practicing everyday for one month using the words “emotionally allow”, you can substitute the words “emotionally accept” for the word “love” in the above instructions.

After practicing everyday for one month using the words “emotionally accept”, you can go back to the original wording of the instructions, just as they are, using the word “love”, and then continue using the word love from then on.

No changes in your external behavior are required.

For example: if a vase falls and you would normally try and catch it, you will also try and catch the vase while you are practicing the Loving All Method.

You do not allow the vase to fall because you are loving the falling.

If someone were to try to punch you in the face and if you would normally duck, you will also duck while practicing the Loving All Method.

You also love the fact that you are ducking to avoid being punched.

The Loving All Method is about emotional acceptance.

The Loving All Method is not about changing your actions.

If someone says something mean to you and if you feel bad emotionally because of what they said, then love your negative emotion and love yourself for having the negative emotion.

Love as much as you can love.

What you wish to change, you will still change.

The Loving All Method is developing a new feeling habit.

The Loving All Method is developing the habit of feeling love towards everything you perceive.

What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?

“God’s Son” is a synonym for consciousness.

Our lesson says, “Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You.”

The way to remember our source is to remember our truth. And the way to remember our truth is to continually focus on awareness (consciousness).

It is as Nisargadatta Maharaj said:

How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart in it. Interest there must be, and steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness.

If you have 30 minutes for meditation, I recommend this meditation today:

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What is the Christ?

Our special theme says, “And how long will [Christ’s] holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last?”

In the Bible, when speaking of the last days, Jesus said, “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.”

The end of the ego is near when we view all events from the perspective of Christ-consciousness. When loving all is our natural way of being, we identify with awareness-life-presence instead of the body-mind, and we see life as the truth of everything, we can know we are only a whisper away from the final end of the ego.

How do we know this is true?

The ego simply doesn’t see that way. The ego is judgment and separation. So when judgment has died in us, and we see everything as the same life-awareness that we identify with, the ego has grown very, very weak in us. It is on its last legs, assuming we continue with the spiritual practice that brought us this far. It is important to note that some sages warn that as long as even one thought remains in the ego thought system, the ego can regain strength if we do not continue to be vigilant.

Creation’s freedom promises my own.

Today’s lesson says, “The end of dreams is promised me, because God’s Son is not abandoned by His Love. … Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now? I will accept your promises today, and give my faith to them.”

We give our faith to the promise of awakening by listening to spiritual intuition, by practicing the Loving All Method, and by focusing on awareness in ourselves and life in all other living things.

We also give our faith by identifying with spiritual intuition over the ego’s thinking and with life-awareness over the body-personality.

There is a thought that may appear in your mind that says it’s arrogant to identify with spiritual intuition and life-awareness over thinking and the body-personality. The hidden idea in that thought is that you are thinking and the body-personality, and you are not good enough to be spiritual intuition and life-awareness.

This thought is an ego preservation strategy. It isn’t true.

The ego may also ask something like, “What will others think if you start talking like a spiritual guru?” Or, “What will others think if you aren’t concerned about things like you were before?”

Any thought like that is also an ego preservation strategy.

What are you?

Where do you place your faith?

Abide as that. Be that.

If you have 30 minutes for meditation, I recommend this meditation today:

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What is the Christ?

Our special theme speaks of forgiveness. It says, “The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. … For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ’s face?”

Our first special theme was, “What is forgiveness?” We saw that forgiveness is recognizing yourself as the unaffected Self. Therefore, “what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.” Forgiveness “looks, and waits, and judges not.”

In other words, forgiveness is abiding in the qualities of Christ-consciousness—acceptance of what is, openness, non-attachment, and unconditional trust. This is often called equanimity.

When we abide in equanimity, we allow spiritual intuition to be our consistent guide. That is forgiveness.

If I am bound, my Father is not free.

Today’s lesson says, “If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.”

The truth is, we are unaffected by the world. We are the unaffected Self.

If we believe the mind’s chatter—the mind’s definition of “I”—and if we project our attention into the body as if the body is “me,” we do not know our Self. We do not recognize our nature. And if we do not recognize our nature, we do not recognize the nature of our source.

Yesterday we contemplated what we wanted to be identified with. If Christ-consciousness was your decision, then be doubly committed to spiritual intuition and the Loving All Method today. The Loving All Method is the practice of equanimity, which is the practice of identifying with your true Self. Spiritual intuition reminds you to be what you are.

If you have 30 minutes for meditation, I recommend this meditation today:

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