ACIM Podcast - Living a Course in Miracles

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Lessons may be repeated if desired. If it is an especially meaningful or difficult lesson, maybe it's recommended to keep with it for a day or two or so. However, there is a chance in thinking that a training must be achieved perfectly before shifting to the next one. This would be a trap because it is unlikely that most of us will ever do some of the lessons perfectly. If we could, we'd have reached this kind of advanced state of spiritual growth that individuals would not need the lessons at all.

The center of Lesson 95 helps know what direction to go if several days or weeks are missed in practising the lessons. Importantly, it's not necessary to start all over again. The instruction in Lesson 95 centers on recognizing how the ego creeps into the process, and that people ought to answer “our lapses in diligence, and our failures to follow the instructions” (W.pI.95.8:3) with forgiveness. That's the key.

Jesus doesn't record how punctual we are in following the instructions for your day; his interest is only in assisting us train our minds to think more and more with regards to forgiveness, and then eventually to generalize our understanding how to every aspect of our lives and experience. The core idea is that we are sincere within our attempts to study and practice what the workbook teaches, aware that people all have strong resistance, yet are willing to forgive ourselves for our often inadequate efforts. Provided that we continue to study and apply the lessons as we're instructed, we will make progress.

It is essential to concentrate on the content, rather than the form. What matters is creating a sincere effort to follow the instructions as carefully as we can, without judging ourselves whenever we fail. Indeed, we are able to claim that the objective of doing the lessons is to complete them wrong and then forgive our mis­takes. This will reflect our ultimate forgiveness of ourselves for the mistake of separating from our Creator-Source.

The manual for teachers, the 3rd book, is the easiest and most approachable of the three. The Course helps us realize that we are typical teachers and students of every other and that there surely is no line separating teachers and students. As we teach we learn, and as we learn we teach; but it has nothing regarding a formal teaching setting.

The meaning is that people teach by demonstration. A Course in Miracles is never focused on form (body) but only content (mind). The manual is available in question-and-answer form, with the questions addressing a few of the more important themes within the Course itself. There's an appendix to the manual, which Helen took down a couple of years after the Course was com­pleted.

That is called the clarification of terms, which in an expression is such as a glossary of a few of the key terms which are found in the Course, the ostensible purpose being to define them for the Course's stu­dents. What one finds, however, is that if you may not already know just what the word means, the clarification of terms probably will not be helpful. What it is, however, is an attractive, and often times poetic summary of what these terms mean. It is another means of revisiting what we already have.

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