The End of Ambivalence

One fundamental confusion in which the ego keeps us trapped is that the thoughts we think we think are not our real thoughts. (c.f. ACIM:W-10, W-15) They are the ripples on the surface of a mind that thinks it is now an ego, and has forgotten anything else but the surface, and has no more inkling of the vast body of water underneath the surface, which is nonetheless there. As the Course puts it, we have become mindless by choosing the ego. So we think that the deliberations of what the Buddhist calls the "monkey mind" are really thoughts, when all they are is a cover over thoughts, to distract us, and make sure we don't remember we have a mind.

Logion 62 proposes the alternative. Here Jesus says that he discloses his "mysteries" to those who are ready for them, and adds the exhortation, not to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. What he means is not to engage in the ego's deliberations of "on the other hand," but rather to simply follow our "right hand" and follow Jesus, who thus can disclose his mysteries, because we have given up our reliance on the duality and ambivalence of the ego mind. We follow him onto the firm ground of the certainty of spirit, where there is no further ambivalence. His "mysteries" then also turn out not to be mysterious at all, once you realize that the only problem is that they make no sense in a dualistic world, but they do make sense if we come up to Jesus's level.

It is worthy of note that the world turns the table on Jesus with the notions of the mysteries of the faith, which are constructs that are designed to prevent us from inquiring into the true nature of things, and thus a protection of the ego thought system. The Course, and Jesus's teachings in general, work the opposite way, that by joining with him we will see through all the ego's shenanigans.