ACIM Lesson 268:
Let all things be exactly as they are.
Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In Love was I created, and in Love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?
Adyashanti by the way, does not mention ACIM that I have heard, but this is one of his most central lessons. Let everything be just as it it.
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Nonsense, as usual.
Letting all things be exactly as they are implies taking no action at all. First of all, it is not possible to take no action, for we are all naturally driven towards value fulfillment, which by necessity calls for at least some action. You cannot not create.
But more importantly, life in this physical plane was not designed to be experienced passively. Without any action, without moving at least something, this experience would be pointless. Think about it: without the feedback loop between your deeds and their causes, you could not experience your objective self!
Ask Adyashanti why is he publishing books and giving speeches? For this action of his (hers?) is interfering with the way things are.
Here, by the way, is Steve Jobs' take on this very issue: Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life.
ttl said...
Nonsense, as usual.
YIKES! That was kind of harsh, Dude! :-(
YIKES! That was kind of harsh, Dude! :-(
Harsh? Just saying like it is. Do you have anything to comment on my reasoning? Or that of Steve Jobs?
ACIM has something to provoke anybody. Because it is **not** designed to get a better life in this world. This is so hard to understand because everthing else is.
It's designed to learn that this world does not exists and is therefore meaningless, and to eventually leave it entirely. Give up the illusion.
I agree very much with Steve Jobs here.
This applies to the bulk of human life. Being cause.
But there's a think slice of life at the top and at the bottom, where you don't care at all. At the bottom, it's apathy, it's because you've been beaten down. At the top, it's serenity, and it's because you've risen above the world of form.
I'm not saying I'm there yet, but it's good to have an idea of the greater picture.
Because it is **not** designed to get a better life in this world. This is so hard to understand because everthing else is.
I understand the basic tenet of ACIM very well. (What's so difficult about it?) But this is exactly why it is absolute nonsense. Statements like "this world does not exist" reduce to a meaningless tautology.
ACIM is a mind control system (brought to you by the same folks as MK-ULTRA). The mental tactics are exactly the same as used in many cults.
There's one good thing to be said about ACIM: If psychologists need test subjects that are depressed, withdrawn, unmotivated and who phrase everything in the negative, they need to look no further than ACIM students.
There used to be a substantial “Criticism” section in the Wikipedia article on ACIM. But alas, after an edit war, it got dropped on seemingly no grounds at all.
It is not that the world is an illusion ,but the notion that it has an independent existence different from the observer's perception is an illusion.
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