Question: What's Enlightenment?

Thanks for asking the questions that can come to the mind, even though they appear "rather peculiar" to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to create the misperception called pain.

Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator's Mind. "If pain is real there's no God. If God is real there's no pain."(W-190.3) The latter does work because God has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant, Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions moved as well. There is no ego to fall "back into." Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain has ended Now and nothing remains but an advantage of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit is the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment is the gateway to Eternity. The entire world of images was a full world of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They certainly were "neutralized" the instant they appeared to arise.

What does this mean in relation to your second question? You can't kill what has never lived, and in the Holy Spirit's Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die because the planet of images is the past. It is impossible to get beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There is no life in images. Here is the meaning of "Hold no graven images prior to the Lord Thy God." All images were designed to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they are able to only be forgiven as one illusion. If illusions could be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment will be impossible. For what's Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the chance of division of any sort? The split mind was the illusion. Seek never to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive and some forms dead.

God knows not form. The split mind appeared to be the "killer" illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what's whole and unified cannot BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and even regarding this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and sees that there's nothing "outside" of this single mind which dreams softly a pleased, gentle dream. The target of ACIM is to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is a lot more than possible, it is inevitable!

For my seeming diet, "eat what's served" is the Guidance I was handed from the Holy Spirit many years ago. Join with your brother and let no concept come involving the Love you share. This Guidance hasn't changed. "Dinner" is obviously a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the planet calls "breathing" and "eating" and "drinking" and "sleeping" are very yet in the Enlightened State.

The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of everything because they all share exactly the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective isn't "personal," for in unified perception nothing is personal. God is not any respecter of persons. I literally cannot "take" an animal's "life" because Life is Spirit and can only be extended or Given as God Gives. "Take" has no meaning within my mind and since animals have never "lived" it is impossible that they may "die." The belief expressed in the thought "personally take an animal's life" has many underlying assumptions which can be false. In right-mindedness it is obvious that ideas are strengthened as they are given away or shared, and "taking" a "life" or anything at all has no meaning.

All that I give is directed at mySelf, and in giving there's no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever taken away from wholeness and unity. acim The teacher of God does not need anything that can not be given away. Such is the Joy of miracles! The thought seeds be seemingly flung everywhere, yet there's never a good glance back once again to see where in fact the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are exactly the same the mind receives the gifts it gives. This is truly the feast you seek for within the ego's questions.
 

The only real question that want be asked is really a question that is not really silly at all: Am I ready to learn that God's Will and My Own will be the Same? God's Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will is the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can change Eternal Love. Thank You God!