What Is A Teaching?

by Eve Care

Since everything is known and there can be nothing that is unknown to the Awakened One, then why is a Teaching necessary, if there is truly nothing to learn, and there is only a process of unlearning?

There is an answer...

The Teaching, is not really trying to tell you something that you don't already know. Teaching, is more of what is known as Illumination or Enlightening of the mind, for only the mind needs to unlearn what it has been taught. Everything else is at ease.

So why is it called Teaching? Shouldn't it be called Un-teaching or Un-learning?

There is an answer...

Since teaching is really pointing the way, and unlearning is really understanding that all which has been perceived or experienced as untrue (which is NOT as the image and likeness of God, and all things good and beautiful that God has intended for His children to experience), then the truth is that which Illumines the way out of the unreality or the maze of the mind.

It is the Illumined finger pointing in a direction. That direction is into the present moment. The present moment is always happening right now, and is not found anywhere in the perception of the mind that views a "before" or an "after." This is timelessness, and it is also synonymous with oneness.

The pointing then, can be likened to a teaching...something that shows the way or direction - to the truth - and the way to the truth is found by becoming aware of something that is in alignment with your Life, like following the harmony of a pretty tune being sung by a bird on your windowsill, or by a simple happy sound like a baby laughing, or the tranquil sound of ocean waves ebbing and flowing. The truth, then, is found in the present moment, and there you meet as One with your Presence: this is where you become real – where your authentic Presence is present. And it is where you become real that you are then one with what "is."

What is the "is?"

The answer is, the "is" is what is real. Thus, nothing real can be threatened, Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.* Only in the moment - the present - can this be found.

The "is" are the "I's" of eternal vision: "IN-SIGHT." All of God, in form, as form, in many forms, as many forms, externalizing the divine plan through a beyond-infinite-measure of activity, and always seeing greater and greater perfection because the Godhead is eternally generating ESSENCE MAGNIFICENCE OF ITSELF THROUGH ITS MANY FORMS SO THAT THEY CAN BE FULFILLED AND CONTINUE CREATING WHAT IS BEING SHOWN IN THE DIVINE EYE OF VISION AND THUS THE PERFECTION OF ETERNAL LIFE CONTINUES TO EXPAND WITHOUT INTERRUPTION WHEN THIS DIVINE FLOW IS BACKED BY DIVINE LOVING WILL, DIVINE LOVE, AND DIVINE WISDOM ( WHICH IS AGAIN, THE ILLUMINATED FINGER POINTING THE DIRECTION OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE DIVINE PLAN IS TO BE CARRIED OUT ).

So you see, there is always Divine Direction occurring, and this is where the teaching originates from. The Presence is always trying to get you present! And It always has Its “I” on “U.” The “U”niverse is unfolding by Divine Will, because there is a plan, and it is called Life. God desires Life - It's own Life! - to expand - these are the children of God. All beings are children of the Life of God, and therefore are God-Essence-Magnificence due to the Essence of God that each one is - and each one is an I-S - an IS-ness of God, for God - plain and simply - IS.

*Again, "Nothing REAL can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

If everyone got still enough to experience the peacefulness of the present moment, there would be monumental planetary awakening, for all the things that have no value would pass away - it would be the death of the unreal (which does not exist anyway) and the unlearning could be likened to a great Light coming forth, for the shadow of ignorance (the sleeping dreamer) would also pass away and there would cease to be a dream....for nothing unreal could ever be sustained for eternity - all things not of Life must pass away.

Life is naturally Joyful, Loving, Blissful, Peaceful, Beautiful, and all things that are Good.

Life exists because of these qualities. Death must come for qualities that are contrary to Life. All that is unlife-like, must pass away - for Life would not accept anything less than Itself for It desires to expand Itself - and so more Life can be created. Life does not wish Itself to perish, and for It could not anyway, since It is already born eternal.

As such, the teaching points one into the present moment, and the present moment contains the truth, and the truth sets one free of all that is not real, and allows one the opportunity to finally live Life forever if one but chooses wisely.

They Key to Living Forever? It is only the desire for what is real - for the truth - and then when one finds that truth in the present - and accepts it - accepts the reality of their own God-Nature - can one be truly free, and as such, eternal life can and does ensue.

The next time you are at a crossroads and don't understand what has happened, look for the Illumined Finger Pointing the Way to the present moment, and come back to your center. There you will find revelation as the truth is revealed to you.

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Pointing the way explains what the teaching is, but now there is another question: HOW do you know what the way is, and which way to go?

There is an answer...

The "How" is in the "Way." And "How" exactly is that?

The "Way" is the direction in which one must go to the present. So if there is something there that the mind is trying to create (which the mind can't really do - it only just loops and plays back story for the mind has nothing new or original of its own - it can only re-act, it does not "act" on its own) to get you to pay attention to its own little will...then there is an opportunity for one to see what is there and to go deeply into it. After all, it's only an old tape being played to get attention so the smaller will/lower self/ego can be "right" again and have a little longer Lifespan, which it just TOOK from you because you ALLOWED it to have its way again, instead of participating with the opportunity that was being afforded you to see.

Every time you allow the ego to have its way, you give life to death, and allow some of your own energy - life force- to pass away, and take on the appearance of the unreal. it really is that simple.

And when you engage opportunities to heal that which must pass away, and make the effort to transmute the energy by some technique of forgiveness to resolve the conflict with whatever is there, then you forego death and allow Life to come forth, and all of a sudden, a few weeks, months, or years come off of your appearance because you just gave Life the opportunity to become more eternal through you. Since Life is Eternal, It will Live Eternally through you, if you allow it. On the other hand, if it is the lower self that keeps being fed, it is that which is unreal that which you will become, and as such, the unreal will take you with it when it passes away. Yet your soul will once again rejoin with the Oneness of God through that transition, and you will be afforded the opportunity to return and set things right next Lifetime.

One need not do that though - pass through the transition called "death" - for as we already have discussed, we know that Life is eternal and cannot be threatened.

The I AM IS ALLOWING ITS OWN LIFE TO LIVE ETERNALLY WITHIN YOU, THROUGH YOU, AND AS YOU....WHY NOT AFFORD YOUR OWN GOD LIFE (AS ONE WITH YOUR CREATOR) THE OPPORTUNITY TO FULFILL ITS OWN DIVINE PLAN THROUGH YOU, FOR IT IS YOUR ETERNAL JOY THAT IT DESIRES FOR YOU, AND FOR THAT JOY TO CONTINUE ON EXPANDING IN ITS EVER-PERFECTING GLORY.

BUT YOU FIRST MUST LET DEATH PASS AWAY, AND COME INTO THE PRESENT BY HEEDING THE ILLUMINED FINGER THAT POINTS THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE....AND THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN THE PRESENT MOMENT.

Only in the present moment can true source energy come through you which is the authenticity of the GodLife within you, which knows It can fulfill Its Divine Plan through you, AS you act in the moment; the GodLife you are cannot authenticate Itself in the past or the future, for there is no Life in either perception. There is only repetition, and God does not replicate. God only creates. It is mankind who mimics.

And so, true reality exists only when one is present, and in the present moment. In the present moment, the Presence of one's true self can be engaged and brought forth. As long as there are no thoughts trying to take the attention away from what is real, then the Divine Plan cannot falter. Only when one allows their attention to be taken away from what is authentically in the Divine Flow of the moment can the progress of the Great Divine Plan be impeded

Yet the Great Divine Plan does not cease; it is only when (s)lower thoughts of perceived "time" are engaged does it delay progress - and that is because the unreal has been engaged. When the unreality is engaged within one's self, it is slowing the progress of the reality because it is focused on the illusion of story and not of the reality of the moment.

It's like a child reading a storybook; the child is so absorbed in the story when meanwhile the sun is shining and it's a beautiful day and there are plenty of things to do and be experienced, but the child is too wrapped up in the story and so it sits inside the house not venturing out to see what is present for them to create, and allows them self to get so absorbed into the story that the child loses all sense of the day's activities and potential that could come forth and as such, misses an opportunity to expand the perfection of life that God has intended for His child to experience and revel in!

This is the "way" of the mind; it is the training of one's self to become unreal, to pass away, to be no more. Yet, it realizes not that the Life within the being of this mind is the same energy that animates the mind.....the mind doesn't realize it has nothing of its own....it lives not on its own...and this is why it needs to feed the story to you, because it needs you to pay attention to its pages in order that it might live another day within you, and carry out its own plan of living the unreality because its knows not what it thinks it knows.

And now that you know the truth, you might say that you have been taught how to unlearn what is not real and just be in the moment, for that is where you will find what is real. There is no actual direction that the Illumined Finger Points to, for that is a metaphor for the one Truth, and that is - You cannot truly change who you are, you can only awaken to who you are, and when you do, you will see that it is really only one of us who has been here all along.

The only direction that changes is from death to Life, and it is but a simple choice to be made which changes the direction - to live eternal life and let death pass away. And in the moment that decision is made, you instantly stop dying and begin to live.

*Context used from the original quote found in ACIM: “Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

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