Amazing–Vatican response

Sawadee Khrap

Vatican Grants Emergency Plenary Indulgence for Divine Mercy Chaplet     

“The Church is responding to the problems we all face as a result of this pandemic with great seriousness and generosity. The Holy Father is throwing wide open the doors of the Church’s storehouses of grace for the faithful, making it as easy as possible for all of us to be assured of the graces we need to speed the sick and the dying through Purgatory, and to be assured of the graces needed for salvation at the moment of our deaths.
Spread the news of these special graces to every Catholic on the front lines of facing this disease that you know. Make sure they know how to make use of these graces”.     vatican

“throwing wide open the doors of the Church’s storehouses of grace”   Can you believe this, what is happening with the churches and their wealth?  
I think you know how I feel about this but I would like to hear your comments, God Bless.

Studying creation theories

Sawadee Khrap

Under self-quarantine and finding little to do all day. I want to respect and follow the directions issued by the Gov’t , to control the virus condition in Chiang Mai, so I am staying inside. Thank God for Netflix and the Internet – without them, YouTube and movies, my day would be very boring. Lengthy meditations and self-examination sessions are not really my cup of tea. Although I believe this world is a dream – at the same time, I cannot deny that it does seem very, very real to me.

YouTube, in particular, has some great videos – one series I am watching now is the 2017 IGH (In Genesis History) Conference lectures– looking at creation verses scientific theories and their differences. Since my own theology or explanation of life, revolves around the Biblical story, this series has some strong importance.

My belief is formulated from my study of ACIM and the Bible – Genesis 1 for creation and Chapter 2/on for the Dream of Separation, which does try to explain what science calls evolution and what is the meaning of life itself. Both creation and evolution have self-fulling theories in their own perspectives. In a previous post, “Day to day living”, I stated my observation of what and how this world is happening. Thank God, I (Frank) am NOT asked to change the world, but merely asked to remove my blockages to allowing it to change, by giving control back to the Dreamer.

I don’t need to really understand HOW this is done, but I am asked to observe that changes do occur when I relinquish my control of each situation. And that each change involves happiness for ALL involved and not a specific few where I am the center figure.

It is this EXPERIENCE I seek to realize, not the knowledge of how the impossible (Separation from God) happened or is happening. Truly, if God is LOVE then ONLY by seeing love everywhere can I realize a Oneness with the Divine.

Note:    I do want to point out that THIS blog is ONLY intended as a platform for my explaining MY experience, strength, and hopes – and NOT a a discussion forum for any subject.  I will post any and most comments but NOT to start a discussion.  If you have opposing views please post a link in your comment to your blog or website so others can go there to see what you propose..

But still I have to fill this boredom with something so the movies and lectures help.

God Bless Ciao

What should I do for him, Your holy Son?

Sawadee Khrap

Excerpt from ‘Song of Prayer’

What should I do for him, Your holy Son?” should be the only thing you ever ask when help is needed and forgiveness sought. The form the seeking takes you need not judge. And let it not be you who sets the form in which forgiveness comes to save God’s Son. The light of Christ in him is his release, and it is this that answers to his call. Forgive him as the Christ decides you should, and be His eyes through which you look on him, and speak for Him as well. He knows the need; the question and the answer. He will say exactly what to do, in words that you can understand and you can also use. Do not confuse His function with your own. He is the Answer. You the one who hears.

The Ego world looks at the character’s errors as Sins in the forms :

  1. There are the forms in which a “better” person deigns to stoop to save a “baser” one from what he truly is.
  2. The one who would forgive the other does not claim to be the better. Now he says instead that here is one whose sinfulness he shares, since both have been unworthy and deserve the retribution of the wrath of God.
  3. I will forgive you if you meet my needs, for in your slavery is my release.” Say this to anyone and you are slave. And you will seek to rid yourself of guilt in further bargains which can give no hope, but only greater pain and misery.
  4. All forms forgiveness takes that do not lead away from anger, condemnation and comparisons of every kind are death. For that is what their purposes have set.

Again telling me to look, listen, and do not judge.  Let not the character of the dream insist that the dream continue one way or another but ONLY to forgive, which means it it never happened.   DO NOT JUDGE THAT IT DID OR DID NOT and allow the Holy Spirit to make the judgement needed – together with the Dreamer, the Holy Spirit’s Judgement, will allow change to enter my mind, the dream, and result in a projection of a happy dream of Atonement.

God Bless      Ciao

Song of Prayer

Sawadee Khrap

Excerpt from ‘Song of Prayer’ :  Hard words to understand but with God’s Grace, I (we) will.

“It is impossible to forgive another, for it is only your sins you see in him. You want to see them there, and not in you. That is why forgiveness of another is an illusion. Yet it is the only happy dream in all the world; the only one that does not lead to death. Only in someone else can you forgive yourself, for you have called him guilty of your sins, and in him must your innocence now be found. Who but the sinful need to be forgiven? And do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself.

This is the great deception of the world, and you the great deceiver of yourself. It always seems to be another who is evil, and in his sin you are the injured one. How could freedom be possible if this were so?.

“Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies. Others will make mistakes and so will you, as long as this illusion of a world appears to be your home. Yet God Himself has given all His Sons a remedy for all illusions that they think they see. Christ’s vision does not use your eyes, but you can look through His and learn to see like Him. Mistakes are tiny shadows, quickly gone, that for an instant only seem to hide the face of Christ, which still remains unchanged behind them all. His constancy remains in tranquil silence and in perfect peace. He does not know of shadows. His the eyes that look past error to the Christ in you.
 
Ask, then, His help, and ask Him how to learn forgiveness as His vision lets it be. You are in need of what He gives, and your salvation rests on learning this of Him.”

Is THIS world real?

Sawadee Khrap

Just finished watching a great debate between a Christian and Islamic.  Both defend their particular points but both defend the “Law” and this world, be it Mosaic law or Sharia Law.  Both admit that Jesus talked about “His kingdom being NOT of this world” and both respect His teachings but both continue to defend the LAW and the Prophets.

Consider this against what Jesus taught – He came to “fulfill” the law (as it existed) and not to abolish it – and to show THIS world of separation and death held NO value, no matter what set of laws it tried to follow.   He did NOT come to establish a new law or to proclaim that another prophet would.  He clearly came to prove that SALVATION is of the MIND and not the Law,  body or anything in this material world.   This was entirely lost in the debate by both defenders of their faith. 

What profit a man to gain the whole world – under what ever law there is currently in vogue, and lose one’s SOUL or MIND.

God Bless     Ciao

World is waking up?

Sawadee Khrap

Truly, the world is finally waking up.  The Christian Religion is finally getting Christ’s message – He came to show us that sin is an illusion, or to say it another way – take them away.    It is over, it is finished.  Rejoice in the LOVE of God.  

Here is a great sermon by a young Christian minister who had taken Jesus down from the cross.  Click on the image for the video. salvation

God Bless      Ciao

What is LOVE ?

Sawadee Khrap

What is “LOVE”?. I believe that LOVE is Spirit,  an Idea,   an eternal STATE OF BEING.   LOVE is God, I AM. God is LOVE. It is not something one can achieved or developed. It can also be called God’s Grace, given in Creation. It is always maximal. It is LIFE itself, it can be denied but not changed or attacked or destroyed.   It can ONLY be shared or seen through the total relinquishment of the double edged sword of JUDGMENT.   I was Created in God’s Image!. Any judgment that I think I need to change what God Created will cause me to suffer the feeling of weakness and guilt. The Seven deadly sins, including pride, arrogance, grandiosity, selfishness, and/or holding resentments, grievances, or secrets will hurt me, because in reality they are just inappropriate judgements and in one way or another, will keep me feeling separated from God.

I am reminded of Lesson 68, ACIM, “Love holds no grievances”, which states:

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

Shut off from your Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh, yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.

LOVE is recognized it in this world only through a universal EXPERIENCE of seeing everything through a vision of forgiveness which is without condemnation or judgments.  For some examples, looking and melding into your lover’s eyes, a baby’s smile, an artist’s painting, a rainbow or many times in nature itself.  Actually just a remembrance of what was denied.

Only in a materialistic world, where love is denied, can the idea or illusion of separation, special relationships, suffering, hatred, bodies, DEATH and time APPEAR to exist. Therefore my goal is to seek ONLY how to remove the obstacles to Love and not to get lost in any theology trying the explain how the impossible did or could have happened.

God is LOVE, My belief is that Jesus realized He was God’s Son (The Christ) and therefore ONLY LOVE – “If you see me you see my Father”.    His commandment “ Love your neighbor as yourself” is the means to recognize the divinity in your neighbor and if that is true there then it must also be in you,  and THAT vision can only be obtained in a state of ONENESS or Love. Complete acceptance, without condemnation. This is the path I believe He taught and walked, to demonstrate the way to Enlightenment, Salvation and God’s Eternal Peace – REALITY.

This is my experience, strength, and hope which I share that it may help others eliminate their suffering and find a more lasting relationship with God.

God Bless    Ciao

New Foundation

Sawadee Khrap

Went to Monk Chat and learned a great lesson about myself. A guy there shared that he was raised Catholic and every week he was required to go to confession and that he would lie so he had a sin to tell, even if he had thought he not sinned. – That’s what I did many times.

That I had built the foundation for my future on faulty judgments that I would follow for the rest of my life. First I thought I had to tell a lie to be accepted, then after telling one I carried the guilt I thought was associated with it because I also believed lying was a sin and deserved punishment. I looked at the church as hypocritical and not that I was doing this to myself – Lies, resentments and more lies. They did not condone lying. I had imagined a future world here lying was acceptably and that is how I would fit in. I thought this was strength but it was WEAKNESS.

What a vicious circle. Only one from outside the illusion could help me recover, like the example I was shown in AA. The ONLY one that can truly understand and offer a way out is another alcoholic – one who has done it – one who has walked the path of recovery. Jesus (The Christ) is my example for recovery from the dream. If He can make it, so can I if I follow in His footsteps. That is what He said and that is what I am finding as True as I give myself over. “Ask and you will receive” – I had never really asked until now – NOW I listen and try not to judge  as others share their thoughts so that I can remember and correct what I stored away as my truths, never to question, and thereby rebuild my foundation.

God Bless             Ciao

Isn’t it true

hanks Paul’s Sunday Funnies –

Subject: How was I born?
A 10 year old girl asks her mom; “Mommy, how was I born? “
The mom smiled and replied:
“Once upon a time daddy and I decided to plant a wonderful little seed.
Daddy put it in the earth and I took care of it every day.
After a while the seed started to grow more and more leaves, and in a few months it turned into a beautiful healthy plant.
So we took the plant, dried it, smoked it, and got so high that we had sex without a condom! “
Gets you all choked up…

God Bless     Ciao