What Is Christ’s Vision?
Closing Session – Vision of the New World – Tabula Rasa January 2022 Online Retreat—What Is Christ’s Vision?
We need to be taught innocence as little children because we are brought up with the ego’s way of adding meaning to and sorting out the reasons and purposes of the world. It wants us to take sides of what is good and what is bad, and it wants us to keep asking ourselves to make decisions in the world, based on whom the ego tells us to be. This is where all the chaos comes from. We have to unwind from it all by following the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Like in children’s eyes, everything is miraculous. Everything is perfect. No bad guys, no good guys, no sides. Just innocence and trust. That is our way of learning how to perceive a new world, perceive Christ’s vision. Enjoy this retreat experience with David Hoffmeister and the interactions between him and the participants.
Gold Nugget:
“Jesus says, ‘To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. Not one can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning.’ T-24.In.2:1-2 In other words, this is a pathway very much like self-inquiry, very much like Ramana Maharshi’s, ‘Who am I?’ That’s the central question of self-inquiry. What Jesus is saying is, I can help you go faster through the self-inquiry if you allow me to use relationships because the tendency is to project the guilt and the hurt and the pain onto these relationship figures. You do it more so with the figures than you do with trees and puppy dogs. You really get angry and raging with people. Even though they’re just images, you really go after them the most, and that’s why he says, ‘You let me give the relationships to you, and then I’ll show you through the relationships what you still believe, what you’re still holding onto, what you’re still hiding. And beyond that, I’ll take you into collaborative holy relationship, where everything you think and say and do is for the good of the whole.’”
Recorded at Tabula Rasa Online Retreat Vision of the New World on January 9, 2022
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