Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. ²Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. ³The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. ⁴Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. ⁵Everything else is open to question. (ACIM, T-3.IV.2:1-5)
“Who am I?” Yan yung isang napakahalagang tanong sa buhay.
Kung sasagutin natin yun ng “Ako si Frederick at ikaw si < name mo >,” e sino tayo bago tayo nagkaroon ng pangalan?
Pero yan yung karaniwang isasagot natin kung identified tayo sa ating ego, yung identity natin na base sa illusion of separation from God.
Kaya ang tawag ng A Course in Miracles sa ego ay “split mind.” Kaya na-develop rin yung sarili nitong consciousness, or level of perception.
Kung si God ay “I Am That I Am,” para sa ego ay “I am what I do,” o kaya “I am what I have.”
Pero paano pag nawala na yung what I do and what I have? Waley na yung ego. Usually, sa rock bottom times yan nangyayari sa tao at nakakaranas siya ng breakdown.
Ang good news e yung breakdown ang madalas nagiging daan para sa breakthrough.
Nagkakaroon ng spiritual awakening yung tao at nag-shi-shift yung perception niya. At yan nga yung tinatawag na “miracle.”
⁴A separated or divided mind must be confused. ⁵It is necessarily uncertain about what it is. ⁶It has to be in conflict because it is out of accord with itself. ⁷This makes its aspects strangers to each other, and this is the essence of the fear-prone condition, in which attack is always possible. ⁸You have every reason to feel afraid as you perceive yourself. (ACIM, T-3.IV.3:4-8)
Yung ego ang tinutukoy ni Jesus sa phrase na “kingdom divided against itself.”
Dahil ang ego ay against itself, nagkakaroon ng inner conflict.
Imbes na inner peace, e inner war. Kaya naman laging in a state of fear ang ego.
At ganun rin ang mararanasan natin pag identified tayo sa ego.
²You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, clearly demonstrating that knowledge is not involved. ³The term “right-mindedness” is properly used as the correction for “wrong-mindedness,” and applies to the state of mind that induces accurate perception. ⁴It is miracle-minded because it heals misperception, and this is indeed a miracle in view of how you perceive yourself. (ACIM, T-3.IV.4:2-4)
Pag identified tayo sa ego, “wrong-minded” tayo.
“Right-minded” naman pag nag-shift na yung perception natin at bumalik na sa awareness natin yung true identity natin, which is of the spirit.
“Subject to degrees” kasi naka-depende siya sa level of consciousness natin, na naka-depende naman sa lawak ng awareness natin.
Perception always involves some misuse of mind, because it brings the mind into areas of uncertainty. ²The mind is very active. (ACIM, T-3.IV.5:1-2)
Prone tayo sa wrong-mindedness kasi pabago-bago ang perception natin. Malikot ang ating pag-iisip. Yun kasi ang nature ng mind – “very active.”
Kaya ‘di ba ang sabi, “be still and know that I Am (God).”
Be still para makilala natin si God at malaman natin yung “I Am That I Am.”
At ang highly recommended ko na tool to be still ay meditation.
⁶The mind returns to its proper function only when it wills to know. ⁷This places it in the service of spirit, where perception is changed. (ACIM, T-3.IV.5:6-7)
Kapag naging willing tayo to be still and know, babalik sa proper use ang mind natin.
Misuse of mind kasi pag ang master niya ay yung ego. Dahil ang ego ay terrible master.
Pero ang mind ay nagiging wonderful servant pag ang sineserve niya ay yung spirit of God.
⁹But it could not entirely separate itself from spirit, because it is from spirit that it derives its whole power to make or create. ¹⁰Even in miscreation the mind is affirming its Source, or it would merely cease to be. ¹¹This is impossible, because the mind belongs to spirit which God created and which is therefore eternal. (ACIM, T-3.IV.5:9-11)
At yun rin naman ang natural state of mind – in the spirit of God. Nararamdaman natin yun as peace of mind. Inner peace.
Powerful ang mind dahil yung power ay galing kay God. Either na-mi-misuse lang yung power na yun or nagagamit ng maayos.
Pero either way, the mind is always one with the spirit. Always was. Always will. Forever and ever, Amen.
The ability to perceive made the body possible, because you must perceive something and with something. (ACIM, T-3.IV.6:1)
Dahil yung separation ay nagbunga ng consciousness of the ego, naging conscious siya of something – yung body. At eto yung naging identity ng ego – not of the spirit, but of the body.
³The interpretative function of perception, a distorted form of creation, then permits you to interpret the body as yourself in an attempt to escape from the conflict you have induced. (ACIM, T-3.IV.6:3)
Solve na nga naman yung inner conflict ng ego. Nagkaron na siya ng identity: “I am some-body.”
Ang problema, kailangan ng ego na i-maintain yung identity na yun. Kaya naman naging desire ng ego to become more… Some-body pa more!
⁵This makes spirit almost inaccessible to the mind and entirely inaccessible to the body. (ACIM, T-3.IV.6:5)
So ayun, nagkalimutan na. Nalimutan na natin kung sino talaga tayo. Naging busy na tayo sa desires of the body, nalimutan na yung needs of the soul.
³I was a man who remembered spirit and its knowledge. (ACIM, T-3.IV.7:3)
Yun ang ipinunta ni Jesus sa Earth dati – para ma-remind tayo kung sino tayo.
Nagkatawang-tao siya noon para makapag-set siya ng example.
Kaya naman ang naging motto ni Jesus ay “I am the way.”
⁷I cannot unite your will with God’s for you, but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. ⁸Only your misperceptions stand in your way. (ACIM, T-3.IV.7:7-8)
Walk the talk si Jesus. Pero hindi niya mailalakad yung journey para sa atin. Kaya niya lang tayong i-guide.
Kung susundan natin yung guidance niya o hindi ay nasa sa ‘tin na.
Kaya wag mahihiyang magtanong… kung may guidance ba nito. Dahil lagi tayong may spiritual guidance.
Ang hadlang lang sa guidance na yun ay yung mga misperceptions natin.
¹²“Many are called but few are chosen” should be, “All are called but few choose to listen.” ¹³Therefore, they do not choose right. (ACIM, T-3.IV.7:12-13)
Many hear the call, but only few choose to listen.
Tulad ng naisulat ko sa Ganito Kami Noon, magkaiba yung hearing at listening.
Kasi yung listening may involved na choice yun. Kaya pag hindi natin pinipiling pakinggan yung spiritual guidance, maling choice yun.
At yung miracle is all about choosing again differently.
¹⁴The “chosen ones” are merely those who choose right sooner. ¹⁵Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls. ¹⁶God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality. (ACIM, T-3.IV.7:14-16)
Hindi special yung mga “chosen ones”. Sila lang yung mga nag-choose differently.
At available yung different choice na yun sa ating lahat sa lahat ng oras.
Paano natin malalaman na we’re making the right choice? Kasi nagkakaroon tayo ng peace of mind.
Kapag may peace of mind tayo, bumabalik sa alaala natin kung sino talaga tayo.
Sa peace natin nakikilala ang ating sarili. Sa peace rin natin nakikilala si God.
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