June 10th 2014 Lesson 36
My holiness envelops everything I see.
Today's idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived. You are holy because your mind is part of God's. And because you are holy, your sight must be holy as well. "Sinless" means without sin. You cannot be without sin a little. You are sinless or you are not. If your mind is part of God's you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. Your sight is related to His Holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your body.- Intention: Four three-to-five-minute practice periods are required for today. Try to distribute them fairly evenly, and make the shorter applications frequently, to protect your protection throughout the day.
- Practice: For the longer practice periods, close your eyes and repeat today's idea several times, slowly. Then open your eyes and look quite slowly about you, applying the idea specifically to whatever you note in your casual survey. Say for example:
My holiness envelops that rug.My holiness envelops that wall.My holiness envelops these fingers.My holiness envelops that chair.My holiness envelops that body.My holiness envelops this pen.
Several times during these longer practice periods, close your eyes and repeat the idea to yourself. Then open your eyes and continue as before. - Application: For the shorter practice periods, first close your eyes and repeat the idea; then open your eyes and look about you as you repeat it again; and conclude with one more repetition with your eyes closed. All applications should, of course be made quite slowly, effortlessly and unhurriedly as possible.
Insights/comments:
- Being a part of God means that we inherit all His characteristics, which is not a trivial statement. To be a part of God means, to say the least, that we are sinless, and therefore holy, but this does not apply only to us, for everything that is a part of God shares His holiness, and there is nothing real that is not a part of God. Fantasies, illusions and dreams may seem to be real, but they are not part of God and therefore do not exist, in spite of what we believe about them. The world we perceive is a dream, and in dreams, only the dreamer is real, while all that we perceive are our own illusions. Yet, these illusions are part of our holy mind, which can envelop them and make them holy. This is today's practice, to envelop our perceptions and the thoughts behind them with our holiness.
- It is a great revelation to know that we are holy and sinless, for this is the furthest thing from how we usually experience ourselves. The subtle implication then is that everyone and everything in God’s creation is perfect, and perfection means that all we think and say and do is as it should be. Why then is salvation needed? Exactly because we do not believe that we are perfect and so strive needlessly to achieve something that we already are. Perfection is not something that is variable; it does not change, and is therefore an eternal state of being. Perfection is what we are, because it is what God is. Salvation then is the process of recognizing what is already true by releasing our attachment to the dreams and illusions we have made and believe to be real. The incentive for salvation is the fear, grief, and pain we experience with everything that we have made. Nothing in the world we see, our make-believe world, that does not hold fear, grief and pain, so it is only when we truly acknowledge this that salvation will become attractive to us. We need not give up anything, we need only change what we think about it; change our thinking that it is real. Only then will we see the world for what it is, a glorious illusion that provides the environment to experience who we truly are. This is what it means to envelope everything with our holiness.
I and my Creator are One. 
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