{"id":25363,"date":"2017-10-07T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=25363"},"modified":"2017-09-29T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:41:07","slug":"tips-regina-lesson-260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-regina-lesson-260\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 260"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Sin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our special theme says, \u201cThere is no sin. Creation is unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is creation?<\/p>\n<p>You are creation. What you are is what <em>A Course in Miracles<\/em> means by the word, \u201ccreation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s revisit yesterday\u2019s analogy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the surface of the ocean, waves appear. Each wave is temporary, like the body and the personality. The water in the waves appear to be affected by the weather, just like you seem to be affected by the world and the mind\u2019s thoughts. However, the water that is part of the wave isn\u2019t really affected. It may sometimes appear calm and sometimes appear highly agitated, but it is always water. It doesn\u2019t become blood or seaweed. It is forever unaffected by the weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the same time, at the depth of the ocean, the water is untouched by even the <em>appearance<\/em> of being affected. The weather at the surface does not reach the depths at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the same way, your true Self is not affected at the surface, where there is the appearance of affected. And the appearance of affected does not exist at all within the depths of your Self. At the depth, there is no judgment, no duality, no ignorance and no outward focus.<\/p>\n<p>As this analogy makes clear, both at the surface and at the depth, you remain what you have always been, life-awareness. You have never not been life-awareness, and you shall always be life-awareness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me remember God created me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, let\u2019s contemplate what \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d really mean. Typically, when the mind uses these words, it refers to itself. It refers to thought as \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, that is not what \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d really mean. \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d are pronouns used to refer to one\u2019s self, and <em>thought is not a self<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When the mind uses \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme\u201d to refer to itself, it is a misuse of those terms. When we believe thought is \u201cI\u201d and \u201cme,\u201d we are confused about what we are.<\/p>\n<p>Ramana Maharshi said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That which rises as \u201cI\u201d in this body is the mind. If one inquires as to where in the body the thought \u201cI\u201d rises first, one would discover that it rises in the heart. \u2026 Even if one thinks constantly \u201cI,\u201d \u201cI,\u201d one will be led to that place.<\/p>\n<p>If you have 30 minutes for meditation today, I recommend this meditation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/self-inquiry-meditation-with-rev-regina-dawn-akers\/\">Self-Inquiry Meditation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sin? Our special theme says, \u201cThere is no sin. Creation is unchanged.\u201d What is creation? You are creation. 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