Friday, March 25, 2011
Was Jesus Christ Enlightened?
I found a comment under one of my videos, but I chose that question in order to elaborate on this note. So enjoy it!
Question: "Are you saying then that Jesus was not enlightened when he was on the earth?"
Comment: That's a very good questions, which is very easy to answer, but not necessarily easy to accept unless you are clear about what the Course in Miracles is about.
So, let me briefly elaborate. There is a significant difference between the Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of the course. And here is it. The Jesus of Nazareth was a story made up by the ego in order to make believe that the world of form is true, while the Jesus of the course is the Voice, the mediator, the one that communicates with us reminding us of Who we really are.
How could this possibly be, that Jesus of Nazareth never existed? Please, before you start throwing tomatoes at me, hehehe, pay close attention. ¿What is the most significant teaching of A Course in Miracles? "There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach." W-pI.132.6:2-3
That being said, how could it possible be that the world we are saying is not real, was real 2000 years ago? And how could it possibly be, that here we are trying to teach ourselves that we are not bodies, however, 2000 years ago, which we have already establishes that did not exist, there were bodies, and one of them was the body of a "man" called Jesus who walked amongst us, again, amongst people that did not exist, can you see the contradiction?
Now, you may not be ready to accept that, which is why the course says, "Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth." W-pI.132.6:3
But that's okay, because the Holy Spirit, Jesus, whatever you want to call it does not care if you accept that or not. What He surely ask you through out the whole course is to stop trying to teach yourself and to let Him teach you.
Now, here is an interesting thing. Many people, specially "spiritual teachers" say that they channel Jesus and that Jesus speaks through them in order to convey a message. And the funny thing is, each one has a different message that supposedly came from the same Jesus. Many of them talk about Jesus saving the world, or Jesus wants us to raise our energy for a higher vibration or that Jesus is telling us through them what to do in the world when we have already established that there is no world, and that message came from the same Jesus!
And again, the problem is that all these teachers try to apply the teachings of Jesus to form (world). And when you do so, you take the non dual message from Jesus and turn it into a dual message, which is ego. Because remember that anything that has to do with the world of form is dual. That's why the course is about changing our minds, not the world of form. "Therefore, seek not to change the world (form), but choose to change your mind (content) about the world." T-21.In.1:7
Jesus through out the course never asked us to pay attention to other egos and seek guidance through them, He simply asks us over and over and over and over again in many different forms the same thing, "If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God." T-4.I.4:7
So Jesus the man was not enlightened because Jesus the man never existed. But the Christ in you is enlightened and all he is trying to do is to teach you how to be like him, "If you want to be like me I will help you, knowing that we are alike. If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind." T-8.IV.6:3-4
The question is, ¿who do you want to listen to, the Christ in you or your illusions?
"I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching." T-8.IV.6:5


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