I’m finding that A Course in Miracles offers everything that I want including full enlightenment and I love the part that he mentions in Workbook Lesson 124 where he says “your benefit will not be less if you believe that nothing happens. You may not be ready to except the game today. Yet sometime, somewhere, it will come to you, nor will you fail to recognize it when it dawns with certainty upon your mind.” (This is just amazing — what a gift!)

Enlightenment is always present — are you ready?

The Course offers that enlightenment is but a recognition of realization, not a change at all. Enlightenment is always here and present with us and only waiting to be realized, really.

The Course offers some very clear practices for attaining the experience of enlightenment, if you are willing to do exactly what it says.

Are you ready to experience God in a way that you have never found available before because you just didn’t see it, you didn’t see the simplicity of attaining full enlightenment. I didn’t see it, I didn’t see how easy this awareness is until I realized I had a misunderstanding around the practice of meditation.

Although The Course talks about meditation only two times specifically — it does talk about getting still, being quiet and entering into an abiding awareness with and as the love of God in hundreds of places — and Jesus very clearly says to us in Workbook Lesson 106 that each hour’s exercise should begin with this request for your enlightenment:

“I will be still and listen to the truth.”

“What does it mean to give and to receive?”

The simple truth is enlightenment is right under our nose and we only need to learn to practice meditation A Course in Miracles style for the full attainment of our natural state of being — our full inheritance.

“Let me be still and listen to the truth.
Let me remember I am one with God.
I am not a body I am free.
I am still as God created me.
In quiet I receive God’s word today.
All that I give is given to myself.”

The simplicity of full enlightenment

Jesus gives all of these opportunities to us to access full enlightenment — the truth of who we are, the state that we all wish to retain and the freedom that’s available to all the world. He makes it so simple if we would practice this a couple times a day.

The ideas set forth in the Course to sit quietly and listen to God’s voice (likely will sound like my own) notice all of the noise, the passing clouds and the distractions of the mind and that’s okay — just let them be as they are — passing clouds just to be seen, just to be noticed but not to be grabbed a hold of, not to start engaging in but instead just noticed or give it to your guide —  give it to the Buddha in you, give it to Jesus and let him resolve it in the light. This is a great time to have dialogue with Jesus in this practice and any temptation to figure things out or start planning — just hand it to the Holy Spirit who will reinterpret it to true perception and you can continue abiding in God’s divine love as you remember the truth.

Try these ideas on for size as an experiment if you want to have the true experience of God.

When you are ready for a real experience in meditation A Course in Miracles style read workbook lessons 106, 124, 125 and also read the experience of enlightenment given to us in chapter 18, section VI – “Beyond the Body” and section VII – “I Need Do Nothing.”

If you’re willing to dedicate your practice to these ideas from the Course it is my belief and becoming my experience that the simplicity of full enlightenment lies right here.

NAMASTE!

I LOVE YOU.

Bill