08.01.10
No Body
Posted in Musings at 5:26 pm by Linda 
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I was recently inspired to write a poem called “In No Single Instant”. The poem can be viewed on our site under the category “Verse”. This inspiration arose from the contemplation of these ideas:
“Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body…” T-31. VIII. 1: 1-2
“At no single instant does the body exist at all.” T-18. VI. 3: 1
“ In no one instant can one even die”. W P1. 194. 3: 3
“The world you see must be denied, for sight of it is costing you a different kind of vision. You cannot see both worlds …”. T -13. VII.2: 1-2
The temptation to perceive oneself as a body is the movement of the belief in time. A body as the centre, locus or hero of the dream experienced in the past or in a projected future. And in the past or future is where hate, sin, guilt and fear will be experienced because hate, sin, guilt and fear need specifics to be experienced at all. That is the insane purpose of specifics until we change our mind about what we are and what the purpose of time and the world is.
And the world includes my thinking, feeling and responding to the “outside” world because my apparently private processes are an inseparable part of the motion of the belief in time, the body and the world. All of it is the outward picturing of the belief in separation. It is a single tapestry and all of it is false, unreal and does not exist at all. In Lesson 132 Jesus instructs us in the thought: “I am real because the world is not.” The whole Course teaching lies in that thought.
In my contemplation of these ideas I am brought back to the still point. The answer is already given by God and is in fact what I am. I am as God created me. There is no instant in which I am not. To bring to mind the recently featured article by Michael Dawson about the pitfalls of seeking, I cannot seek for what I am without becoming involved in time and projecting the dawning of truth into some distant future .
And what is to be done when there is the perception of perturbation, conflict, and divided loyalty? Nothing can be done, except perhaps to remember the ideas of the atonement and forgiveness. Jesus makes this plea to us:
“Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing else. “ I need do nothing” is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty.” T -18. VII. 6: 6-7
In the Spirit of surrendering and of accepting Reality as it is, let us say “Amen”.