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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Is it wrong to ask God for help?

The whole point of non-dualism is that there is no "right" and no "wrong". There's only Truth. In this world, we are (deliberately) set apart from Truth. So, while we believe we are human, we have choices to make.

It's not wrong to ask God for help. But it is not optimal or efficient. Here's why:

First, you're not really talking to God, even if you think you are. When you pray from within a dream to a reality outside the dream, you're not truly communicating. God exists in Reality, not illusion. When we try to pray to God, we're trying to bring God INTO our illusion. God cannot enter illusion because God is Real. So our prayers here are directed to Spirit or ego. Spirit is the part of our mind that remembers God, while ego is the part that believes in separation.

Second, when we pray for help, we usually think we have correctly identified what the problem is and what needs to be done to solve it. That's a big mistake. The things in our daily lives that seem problematical are almost always defined as such by parameters set by our belief in ego. Since ego is false, our definition of our problems has to be false, too.

We have only one problem, and it's already been solved. Our only problem is that we believed separation from God was possible. It's not possible. Problem solved.

Now we just have to accept that fact. That can take a lot of time. Time is not a problem to God. To us humans, time seems very real. Saving time and doing things efficiently is important to us while we still believe in limitation. Praying to ego all the time thinking we're praying to God can set up more interference and thus takes more time to unravel.

Here's a more efficient way:
1) Check your peace awareness. Do you feel peaceful?
2) If not, direct your prayer to Spirit by admitting (confessing) that you must have made an error.
3) Express willingness to see the situation differently.
4) ASK for another approach or perspective.
5) Do all you can in your mind to be open to a new way of seeing things when it presents itself. (Which it will do!)

This is much more optimal than praying about the details of our dreary little lives.

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