A New Interpretation of Easter
Session 1 – “The Lily Offering” Retreat—A New Interpretation of Easter
In this talk, a new interpretation of Easter is offered. We are invited to see this celebration as an opportunity to remember the resurrection of the mind and see the new meaning of the symbol of the cross. As we accept these new meanings and shift our mind, the result is happiness.
Gold Nugget:
“If you think I need a bridge to remember God and Heaven, the guidance is the key to forgiveness. It brings you to a focus on the present moment. It teaches you that you can let go of all past regrets and future worries. It teaches that you are perfectly safe, perfectly cared for, that you can put all of your faith in this guidance. And it will answer every question that you have, it will answer every doubt that you have, and it will show you a new perception of time that is wholly focused on the present. So, you surrender your mind into the present, and then you have no thoughts that anything needs to be different. And no thoughts that anything could ever be different. That they couldn’t have been different in the past, and they couldn’t be different in the future. It is a sense of completion. The sense of ‘It is finished. It is done.’ And you can see from this place of peace and rest, then you can behold the world in a new way, because you have no intention of changing anything.
The one experience that Jesus would have us have is the changelessness of our mind. The ego was a belief that mind could be changed, from being in the Mind of God, to being separate from God. That is the change that can never happen. Because what God creates is God’s will! So in the end, you must be humble, and you must surrender the belief that you can change your mind from the Mind of God. You live and exist in the Mind of God, and the belief that you could leave the Mind of God is the strangest belief there ever could be. Jesus calls it a tiny, mad idea. He says give it back. Give it back to the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit knows what to do with it. But if you believe in this strange idea, you won’t remember who you really are.”
Recorded at The Lily Offering Retreat on April 10, 2020 in Chapala, Mexico (with Spanish translation)
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