tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post1102506344646420456..comments2023-04-24T08:22:01.715-07:00Comments on Amritayana Buddhism: Biological SpiritualityWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-41661702648475407272009-12-26T13:30:24.806-08:002009-12-26T13:30:24.806-08:00I tried to find the passage in A COURSE IN MIRACLE...I tried to find the passage in A COURSE IN MIRACLES mentioned above. Because I want to document everything well, if possible. When I was studying the Course, I had an earlier edition where certain verses had not yet been edited out. It was the second edition and beyond that seems to have become the official version. There have been some people who showed an even earlier edition that the one I had, which never went into publication, and which Ken Wapnick had edited extensively, even changing the voice from 1st person to 3rd person. But the section where the verse, "If the mind is fully healed, the body will not die" was in the section called, "Obstacles to Peace", subsection, "The attraction of death" (aka the death urge), subsection, "The Incorruptible Body" (aka a body that does not age and die). You can see from this section that the omitted verse would fit in. Here is a small section from the chapter in question:<br /><br />"T-19.IV.C.5. You have another dedication that would keep the body incorruptible and perfect as long as it is useful for your holy purpose. 2 The body no more dies than it can feel. 3 It does nothing. 4 Of itself it is neither corruptible nor incorruptible. 5 It is nothing. 6 It is the result of a tiny, mad idea of corruption that can be corrected. 7 For God has answered this insane idea with His Own; an Answer which left Him not, and therefore brings the Creator to the awareness of every mind which heard His Answer and accepted It.<br /><br />T-19.IV.C.6. You who are dedicated to the incorruptible have been given through your acceptance, the power to release from corruption. 2 What better way to teach the first and fundamental principle in a course on miracles than by showing you the one that seems to be the hardest can be accomplished first? 3 The body can but serve your purpose. 4 As you look on it, so will it seem to be. 5 Death, were it true, would be the final and complete disruption of communication, which is the ego's goal."<br /><br />The language of the Course is very theistic, but I think it can be decoded into the more nontheistic language of Buddhism and have some relevant things to share. One of the interesting points in the section is how what we are afraid of is something that we are attracted to and this is what holds the fear in place in our lives. This process, in the mind, is what needs to be released in order for our bodies to not be subject to corruption (aka decay and death).Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.com