Lessons

LESSON 9

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 9

 I see nothing as it is now.

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What we call “seeing” is an attempt to cut (shatter) what is Whole, Complete, Perfect, and One.

You “see” what-is-Whole through a lens that shows you a shattered existence, much like using a kaleidoscope as a looking glass. You have convinced yourself that each different color, shape, and angle is a sane reflection of reality. You have assigned meaning to this “sane reflection of reality” where there is none. This meaning allows you to organize parts of what you see, while other parts defy meaning and organization.

The importance that you give those parts of what you assign meaning to differs from the importance you give to other parts you see. This seeming importance distracts you from questioning the lie of differences, distinctions, and separation.

In your past, you taught yourself the meaning and importance of things. This clouded lens is why you see nothing as it is now.

This is upsetting because the recognition of Truth, known to you as wholeness and completeness (Oneness), is buried in your mind. There are no parts in this Oneness. You are upset but are not fully aware of this upset because it is like a constant, dull pain that you would only recognize when it is absent.

Actual seeing occurs outside of time and space. Actual seeing will notice differences but find them unimportant, like the boundaries of a shadow falling across a leaf. The shadow does not cut the leaf that it falls across. A “cut leaf” can only be true if the difference between the shaded and unshaded areas is of profound significance.

There is no “significance” in Oneness.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Lessons

LESSON 8

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 8

 My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

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You believe that time is true.

Time can only be true if difference and separation are true.

Time is an attempt to separate eternity into different parts; each moment is different in that it seems to follow in a sequence with other moments. These moments are in your past, your present, or are imagined to be in your future.

 The past seems well worth your attention because you imagine that it allows you to control and predict the future. This makes time seem even more important. This seeming importance distracts you from questioning the lie of difference and separation.

Real thought occurs outside of time, now and now and now and now; each “now” is the same “now”.

In Oneness, there is only this one NOW, and there is no “not now”.

There is no time.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Lessons

LESSON 7

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 7

I see only the past.

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It is in the past that you have learned the context you use to interpret today’s experiences.

This past is like tinted glasses that you have always worn. Now, you are unaware of the tint because you have come to believe that the world is “that hue”.

The vision these tinted lenses provide is a context in which Oneness is not true and the “other” is real and a threat.

You have come to think of this as, “Just the way that it is”.

Today, we call this view into question.

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INSTRUCTIONS:

This blog aims to assist you with deepening into A Course In Miracles by clarifying the Course concept of Oneness.

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back, to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

Comments are welcomed and appreciated!

To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter the number of the lesson (also try using Coarse notation). Examples: LESSON 467 would be “467” (or W-pii.467). When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Lessons

LESSON 6

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 6

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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You believe the voice in your head; you call it “My thoughts”.

 

Notice that, among upsetting things, one thing is always more upsetting, more special than another. This makes them both special and different. You are upset and do not remember that differences cannot be true if Oneness is true.

Consider these questions:

Are you the “thinker” of these thoughts or simply the audience for this voice?

Do you have these thoughts, or do these thoughts have you?

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Lessons

LESSON 5

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 5

 I am never upset for the reason I think.

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The essence of upset is generally about the “other”, even when it seems to be about “me”. This is because we know and define “m

e,” by contrast, with the idea of some “other” (some “not me”).

The idea of the “other” is based on the assumption that the idea of “something-else” is not only possible but true. This must be a lie if Oneness is true. You cannot focus on this lie while you are upset.

In other words, “Upset-ness” is a wonderful distraction from noticing that separation is not true.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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LESSON 4

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 4

These thoughts do not mean anything.

They are like the things I see in this room

[on this street, from this window, in this place].

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You have questioned the meaning that you have given the experiences of your perceptions. It is time to consider the thoughts that supplied that meaning.

You may notice that most of these thoughts are about “something-else” and about what makes “something-else” special.

A Course In Miracles states, “What is everything leaves room for nothing else.“ (ACIM, T-26.III.1:12)

This means that Oneness, God’s Reality, is the only reality. “Something-else” is not possible.

Many accept intellectually that Oneness is true. However, generally speaking, if you seem to be “here”, you believe in “something-else”. If you did not believe in “something-else”, you would not seem to be “here” in this room, on this street, in this place.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

  1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
  2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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