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.
~*~*~*~
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.
~*~ Copyright 2013 Eve Care. All
Rights Reserved. ~*~
*Context used
from the original quote found in ACIM: “Nothing real can be threatened; nothing
unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”