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4. "WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S TEACHERS?" 

* Tolerance

13 God's teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without self-deception is impossible. Judgment implies that you have been deceived in your brothers. How then could you not have been deceived in yourself? Judgment implies a lack of trust, and trust remains the bed-rock of the teacher of God's whole thought system. Let this be lost, and all his learning goes. Without judgment are all things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart? Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust. No teacher of God can judge and hope to learn.

WHAT IS THE EGO?    
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   The ego is idolatry; the sign
   of limited and separated self,
   born in a body, doomed to suffer and
   to end its life in death. It is the will
   that sees the Will of God as enemy,
   and takes a form in which It is denied.
   The ego is the "proof" that strength is weak
   and love is fearful, life is really death,
   and what opposes God alone is true.
 
   The ego is insane. In fear it stands
   beyond the Everywhere, apart from All,
   in separation from the Infinite.
   In its insanity, it thinks it has
   become a victor over God Himself,
   and in its terrible autonomy
   it "sees" the Will of God has been destroyed.
   It dreams of punishment, and trembles at
   the figures in its dreams, its "enemies"
   who seek to murder it before it can
   ensure its safety by attacking them.
 
   The Son of God is egoless. What can
   he know of madness and the death of God,
   when he abides in Him? What can he know
   of sorrow and of suffering, when he
   lives in eternal joy? What can he know
   of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt,
   of hatred and attack, when all there is
   surrounding him is everlasting peace,
   forever conflict-free and undisturbed,
   in deepest silence and tranquility?
 
   To know Reality is not to know
   the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts,
   its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes,
   its plans for its salvation, and the cost
   belief in it entails. In suffering,
   the price for faith in it is so immense
   that crucifixion of the Son of God
   is offered daily at its darkened shrine,
   and blood must flow before the altar where
   its sickly followers prepare to die.
 
   Yet will one lily of forgiveness change
   the darkness into light; the altar to
   illusions to the shrine of Life Itself.
   And peace will be restored forever to
   the holy minds which God created as
   His Son, His dwelling-place, His joy, His love,
   completely His, completely one with Him
   
 
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I can be free of suffering today. 
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    Father, I thank You for today, and for
    the freedom I am certain it will bring.
    This day is holy, for today Your Son
    will be redeemed. His suffering is done.
    For he will hear Your Voice directing him
    to find Christ's vision through forgiveness, and
    be free forever from all suffering.
    Thanks for today, my Father. I was born
    into this world but to achieve this day,
    and what it holds in joy and freedom for
    Your holy Son and for the world he made,
    which is released along with him today.
 
   Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room
   for anything but joy and thanks today.
   Our Father has redeemed His Son this day.
   Not one of us but will be saved today.
   Not one who will remain in fear, and none
   the Father will not gather to Himself,
   awake in Heaven in the heart of Love.
 
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I can be free of suffering today.
 
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What would the day look like if you accepted your freedom from suffering today? What would be present in your day today and what would be absent? Jesus speaks to us about today, but it is no different than any other day. It is just that we give time reality and we put off for tomorrow what we could accept today. We think maybe, if we do enough work, the day would come when we would be free of suffering, but why not now?

In the movie, "Groundhog Day," remember the main character relived the day over and over again until he got the lesson, and we are doing the same thing. We relive each day, and will continue to do so, until we learn the lesson that there is no suffering. We can welcome in the Loving Presence at this very moment and experience joy and peace instead of suffering and pain. For this we are told to be glad today. A day of gratitude can be chosen today. "Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today." (W.340.1.5-6)
 
Until we accept the truth of who we are, we are repeating the same mistake daily by believing in what we have made, believing in the separation, believing in sin and guilt, and fearing punishment. What keeps us from the truth of who we are is our belief that we are unworthy. Yet Jesus says we cannot make ourselves unworthy "because you are the treasure of God, and what He values is valuable." (T.8.VI.5.13)(T.8.VI.46) He goes on to say this is because we did not make ourselves. All we did was make the decision to believe we are unworthy. If we made this decision, we could certainly choose again and we could do that in this moment. We can simply side with the truth. We can stop the searching for what is there now. We are all the same and we all want the same things, so seeing our brothers as guilty only hurts us. The light of God is shining through us now, but we are actively choosing to arrest it.
 
Now we can make another choice. All of our suffering comes from our own wish to be who we are not. This wish gives rise to our thoughts, from which come our experience of suffering. We develop strategies and defenses to protect ourselves from more suffering. While we hold onto these defenses, strategies, thoughts, beliefs, and stories, we will continue to feel like victims of external events. This Lesson is about realizing that the cause of all suffering is in our own false thoughts and beliefs. We are now invited to look at them and allow forgiveness to shine them away.

We increasingly see that investing in our egoic thoughts only brings more pain, suffering and guilt into our lives. The question is, why do we so persistently hold onto our guilt and resist forgiving when we would be so much happier if we let it go? We resist forgiving because of our attraction to guilt and our determination to be right about the way we see others. We are still attracted to guilt, because we don't associate holding onto guilt with pain. We think projecting our guilt and seeing it in others is our way out of pain. We think judging others and holding them as guilty is how we maintain our own superior position of innocence. We don't see guilt is attractive to us because it maintains our separate self. Thus, as long as we see guilt as our salvation and love as our damnation, we will be unwilling to give up the false self. We live in the split of wanting what we value as our own thoughts, and wanting the peace and love offered us through this practice. The continuing attraction to guilt, pain, death, victim and victimizer keeps us rooted in the illusion, but this need not be. It is time to side with truth and refuse to listen to the ego. You are awakened now. You are the Christ. Accept that as the truth. Don't wait for tomorrow. Choose peace now.

When we see what we are doing to ourselves more starkly, our motivation to let these thoughts go increases. We become willing to let them go when we experience the joy and peace that come from bringing our unforgiving thoughts to the truth. Think of a difficult relationship you have and look at the resistance in your mind to letting that person "off the hook" for what you believe they have done. This is an example of our resistance to forgiving and our attraction to guilt. Or think of someone you have elevated as superior to you. Your feelings of unworthiness, in relation to that person, are another example of this attraction to guilt. It is about choosing to believe thoughts that are not true.

Jesus reminds us, "Babies scream in rage if you take away a knife or scissors, although they may well harm themselves if you do not." (T.4.II.5.2)(ACIM OE T.4.III.28) They think their pleasure is in playing with what will hurt them. We are like those babies, believing we know where our pleasure comes from, how our judgments serve us, and what will bring us happiness. Jesus reminds us our sharp-edged toys, which we think are our source of pleasure, are actually painful for us. He invites us to look at how we are hurting ourselves with what we think we need and want. He will never coerce us to give up our beliefs and values, but he clearly shows us what the cost is to us. He shows us our way only brings more unhappiness. Thus, we release our judgments in our own self-interest, and on behalf of our happiness. The ego tells us once everything falls into place, we will know peace and happiness. Spirit says choose peace now and everything will fall into place. Choose peace in all circumstances. Everything is called perfectly into our lives. There is nothing that should be different. We just need to see the perfection and accept it without judgment.
 
In Chapter 29.VII, "Seek Not Outside Yourself," (ACIM OE T.29.VIII "The Lingering Illusion"), Jesus reminds us we will weep each time an idol falls. We invest in idols, which we substitute for God's Love, believing that is where our happiness comes from. These are special relationships with things outside of ourselves. When the idol is broken, stolen, lost or leaves us, we suffer. We suffer when we don't have it and want it, and we suffer when we have it, because of the fear of losing it. Our only true happiness comes from remembering who we are. Any other search for happiness is futile. Until we are ready to accept this, we will continue to look for happiness outside of ourselves and demand things be different than they are. "For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there?" (T.29.VII.1.7-8)(ACIM OE T.29.VIII.43)

Jesus acknowledges we are all here because we still have hope of something outside of ourselves that will bring us happiness and peace. We will wander aimlessly searching for this 'something' we will never find until we become 'disillusioned' with our seeking for our happiness where it cannot be found. Then we become willing to give up our suffering, which comes from attachment to our separate identity, to our specialness, and to special people, things and events of this world. As long as we focus on the idols, we will not recognize the source of our pain and suffering is in our own minds. It has nothing to do with how things go in the world. In fact, the purpose of this world is to keep us from this truth. What we see in the world can now serve a different purpose, which is for healing of our minds. Nothing will be taken away from us. The power of choice is our own. We can take as long as we want. The question is, are we willing to look at our painful experiences and realize they are of our own choosing? When we do, we can either ask for help to release them or use these experiences to continue to justify our suffering. What was meant to curse can now bless!

We all have this incredibly deep, prevailing desire to go home. We may experience it as a yearning for our childhood home, our desire to return to our origin, a yearning for the good old days, or a yearning for a peaceful place somewhere in the world. It is well described in the movie, "Trip to Bountiful," which shows how deep and prevailing this yearning is. This old woman does everything in her power to return to her childhood home. The music is playing, "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling,"---calling all of us to come home. You can also see it in the wonderful movie, "August Rush," which is another metaphor for the separation and return home. When movies tug at something very deep in us, by eliciting this longing, it is an indication of how deep this yearning is. But what we need to know is that the longing is really for our true home in God.

Why are we here? According to this Lesson, it is only to achieve this day, a day free of suffering, a day of achieving Christ's vision. Every day we are on this earth, we have this as a meaningful goal until we return to the awareness of who we are. When we experience difficulty in our day, there is such a temptation to feel bad. When we don't meet our own expectations for what we set for ourselves as spiritual achievement, we judge ourselves. But this is not helpful. The truth is we need do nothing. We are already redeemed. All that is needed is to be willing to look at our judgments without judging ourselves and be willing to let them go. Be watchful of your mind and simply be willing to look at what comes up, reminding yourself that any pain and anguish you are feeling is a false belief you are holding and not the truth about you or anyone else. Willingness is all that is called for. Perfection is a standard that the ego wants to set up for you so you could crucify yourself when you fall short. Continue to do the work, but be gentle with yourself.

Finally, we are reminded in this Lesson, it is a day of joy and gratitude. "Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today." (W.340.2.1-3) With a grateful heart, let us embrace the Lesson and know with certainty we have help along the way, and we can choose again, in every moment of distress, to be joyful in our day because our purpose is set.

"Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they have water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die for what has life has immortality." ( W.PII.Q13.5.1-4)
 
Jesus tells us, "Make this year different by making it all the same." (T.15.XI.10.11)(ACIM OE T.15.XI.112) He is reminding us that every situation, person or event we encounter in this dream is just another opportunity for forgiveness. And we do it over and over again until we recognize---that is all this world is for. It is truly like "Groundhog Day". Instead of treating every situation and event as having degrees of difficulty, realize that they all have one purpose---the healing of the mind through forgiveness. That is what today is all about, as is every day. Make every day the same.

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* Honesty

11 All other traits of God's teachers rest on trust. Once that has been achieved, the others cannot fail to follow. Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value. Honesty does not apply only to what you say. The term actually means consistency. There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and no word lacks agreement with another. Such are the truly honest. At no level are they in conflict with themselves. Therefore it is impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.
 
12 The peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience is largely due to their perfect honesty. It is only the wish to deceive that makes for war. No one at one with himself can even conceive of conflict. Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty. There is no challenge to a teacher of God. Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God's teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible. Therefore they can only succeed. In this, as in all things, they are honest. They can only succeed because they never do their will alone. They choose for all mankind, for all the world and all things in it, for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances, and for the Son of God and his Creator. How could they not succeed? They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice themselves.

* Tolerance

13 God's teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without self-deception is impossible. Judgment implies that you have been deceived in your brothers. How then could you not have been deceived in yourself? Judgment implies a lack of trust, and trust remains the bed-rock of the teacher of God's whole thought system. Let this be lost, and all his learning goes. Without judgment are all things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart? Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust. No teacher of God can judge and hope to learn.

* Gentleness

14 Harm is impossible for God's teachers. They can neither harm nor be harmed. Harm is the outcome of judgment. It is the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought. It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother and therefore on one's self. It is the end of peace and the denial of learning. It demonstrates the absence of God's curriculum and its replacement by insanity. No teacher of God but must learn-and fairly early in his training-that harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness. It will make him confused, fearful, angry, and suspicious. It will make the Holy Spirit's lessons impossible to learn. Nor can God's Teacher be heard at all except by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. No gain can come of it.
 
15 Therefore God's teachers are wholly gentle. They need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy. To those who would do harm, it is impossible. To those to whom harm has no meaning, it is merely natural. What choice but this has meaning to the sane? Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven? And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place of the unfailing, all-encompassing, and limitless strength of gentleness? The might of God's teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from God's Son nor his Creator. Thus did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source. And so their will, which always was His own, is free to be itself.

* Joy

16 Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. Gentleness means that fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy? The open hands of gentleness are always filled. The gentle have no pain. They cannot suffer. Why would they not be joyous? They are sure they are beloved and must be safe. Joy goes with gentleness as surely as grief attends attack. God's teachers trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. They hold His gifts and follow in His way because God's Voice directs them in all things. Joy is their song of thanks. And Christ looks down on them in thanks as well. His need of them is just as great as theirs of Him. How joyous it is to share the purpose of salvation!

* Defenselessness

17 God's teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth. They do not try to make themselves. Their joy comes from their understanding Who created them. And does what God created need defense? No one can become an advanced teacher of God until he fully understands that defenses are but the foolish guardians of mad illusions. The more grotesque the dream, the fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be. Yet when the teacher of God finally agrees to look past them, he finds nothing was there. Slowly at first, he lets himself be undeceived. But he learns faster as his trust increases. It is not danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is safety. It is peace. It is joy. And it is God.
   
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