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.
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