Reality

The following are notes taken from a discussion of REALITY as defined in ACIM by Aaron Abke 1.Reality can not cause suffering because reality is non duel. Only duality can cause suffering. 2. Vision is what we attain when we go beyond individual perception. Perception is subjective because every individual experiences the world according to what is in their mind. Conditioned thoughts make up our mind. We, however, are NOT our mind. Vision is a much less distorted view of reality. 3. In duality we are caught between the waves of pain or pleasure, desire or fear. 4. Whenever judgement enters, reality slips away. 5. The world we experience is a perfect mirror of how we see ourselves. If we hate ourselves we see a world full of hate. If we love ourselves we see a world full of love. Both are projections but love is the mind seeing reality clearly and suffering is the mind mispercieving reality. 6. When mind is cleansed of its misperceptions and errors, its projection of reality is what we describe as love. In other words; SELF looking at SELF. GOD looking at GOD. REALITY looking at REALITY. 7. Reality is like a compass that always points to truth. Anything that points away causes us to become lost. 8. Suffering is a signpost that indicates we have strayed away from the truth in our thinking. 9. The only shadows in reality are the ones we conjure up. 10. What we call evil can only manifest in the absence of God. 11. The will of God; everyone has the free will to create the world they wish to exist in AND to escape it. 12. Reality can not be possessed or pushed away. The practice is to let it come to you. REALITY=LOVE=GOD 13. The ego is a distortion filter as it only sees along the binary continuum of good/bad, desire/fear, pain/pleasure, right/wrong. REALITY is non dual. It is perfect unity in love. When the ego experiences love, compassion, etc it is seeing a less distorted view of reality.