Question: Is there a method of praying for individuals? I feel guided to hold certain individuals who are on my heart in the light, seeing them free, flooded with peace and light, complete and "one," having escaped the illusion of duality. Is there a more powerful way one might pray for another who has not become aware of the error of duality?
David Hoffmeister A Course in Miracles: Your "focus" is in the "right direction" in the sense that the experience of forgiveness dissolves the belief in "another" entirely. The form of prayer that might be called "praying for another" is a form of charity. Charity is seeing a brother or sister as much farther along than they appear to be in time, and so charity is a time-related reflection of Love. The Oneness of Love is a Universal State of Being that is Eternal, therefore Oneness transcends time entirely.
The Absolute Oneness of Love can have no opposite, and the belief in private thoughts and private minds—separate individuals—IS the belief that Love can be broken apart and divided up. The prayer of our heart is to feel and experience the Oneness of Love, and the witnesses that are called forth shine as a reflection of that prayer. The mind sees or perceives what it desires, and as our desire becomes purified and single, our perception becomes healed and whole.
The aim of meditation might be stated as emptying the mind entirely of erroneous thoughts and beliefs so that not one seeming "scrap" remains. The aim of prayer might be stated as knowing the Will of God as Eternal Oneness. Prayer and meditation in their early "forms" are seen as means to the "end" of Enlightenment, or Salvation, yet in the Present Moment they are but ways of describing the flow of the Spirit. It is helpful to ponder these ideas:
When I am healed I am not healed alone.
My mind holds only what I think with God.
Love has no opposite.
Truth is true and only Truth is true.
Means and ends vanish in the experience of Oneness, for What Is takes no time to experience.
I love You forever and ever,
David
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The particles way out there millions of light years away and the particles way over here were all connected.Quantum science andtoday’s striking Nonduality teachings are all leading to the same point—interconnectivity!
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Nonduality Demonstrated by Quantum Physics
ReplyDeleteQuantum Physics is showing us the reality of nonduality.The findings all started many decades ago when there was a group of scientists who first of all discovered the atom, and then began to study sub-atom particles. At first everyone thought that the atom was the smallest unit of measurement and that everything was made of atoms. But they started getting into protons, neutrons, electrons and nuclei, and the scientists decided to start studying the sub atomic particles.
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Nonduality Demonstrated by Quantum Physics
ReplyDeleteQuantum Physics is showing us the reality of nonduality.The findings all started many decades ago when there was a group of scientists who first of all discovered the atom, and then began to study sub-atom particles. At first everyone thought that the atom was the smallest unit of measurement and that everything was made of atoms. But they started getting into protons, neutrons, electrons and nuclei, and the scientists decided to start studying the sub atomic particles.
And guess what they found when they studied the smallest particles that they could study? They found out that it’s ALL energy. It’s ALL the same and that the properties of that energy and the properties of what they found,completely threw out every aspect of Newtonian physics. This science says that ALL is ONE. And that is what nonduality means—not two. Quantum physics didn’t just improve Newtonian physics, just like Copernicus said the world is not flat, it is round and we’re revolving around the sun. That was a big loop for everybody. Quantum Physics said, No, no, we’ve had it ALL wrong.In fact, when we measure things in terms of waves, light waves,and sound waves and so on, that’s as far Newtonian Physics can go.But what happened when they got into particle research was they found out that the particles behaved completely different than the waves.So, we have 2 different sciences there.The one that most of us read about in our science books was Newtonian Physics, and NOW Quantum Physicsisthe area of particles. What do we know from the scientists?
Well, first of all the scientists discovered some things that were absolutely shocking to their states of mind. They discovered that everything was connected. Everything was absolutely connected and everything was energy! Time and space had no bearing on it. They found that if you had a particle at one end of the cosmos millions of light years away,and another particle at the other end of the Universe, and if you did things to one particle it would influence the other particle.So, time and space had no bearing on anything.It was showing that everything was connected. The particles way out there millions of light years away and the particles way over here were all connected.Quantum science andtoday’s striking Nonduality teachings are all leading to the same point—interconnectivity!
~ David Hoffmeister
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