Mistlberger 12/09/05

Principles of ACIM and Buddhism

Listen to Phil's teaching recorded from ACIM Gather on PalTalk, Dec. 9th, 2005

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Philip Mistlberger Returns

His Topic:
"Principles of ACIM & Buddhism"

His website:
http://www.satoritrainings.com

Phil Teertha Mistlberger has been a transpersonal therapist, group leader, and spiritual teacher for close to twenty years. He was born in Montreal and was educated at John Abbott College and Concordia University. He is the author of the book "A Natural Awakening: Realizing the True Self in Everyday Life". He trained in an "A Course In Miracles" community from 1986-88, graduating from two 6-month programs and receiving certification as an ACIM practitioner in 1988. He also trained in the Gurdjieff Work, spent a decade with the East Indian mystic Osho, and has received Tibetan Buddhist empowerments. In 1993 along with Duane O'Kane he co-founded Clearmind Institute and was co-director for its first 18 months. In 1994 he founded Shamballa Trainings, a personal growth school based on a variety of spiritual teachings, that he directed for seven years. From 2002 to 2004 he taught Advaita Vedanta via formal satsang meetings that he hosted in Canada and the U.S. Phil has traveled widely, through the Far East, India, Nepal, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Europe, and North America, in search of spiritual truths.

Bruce Skipper is an internationally acclaimed coach, counselor, speaker, rebirther and transpersonal workshop facilitator. For more than 12 years, he has worked and studied with some of the greatest personal development and spirituality teachers on the planet. He also trained extensively with Duane O'Kane and Clearmind Institute. Bruce uses his keen intuition, insight and razor-sharp clarity to assist his clients in identifying their obstacles to fulfilling their wildest dreams. Bruce has facilitated workshops and groups in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. He brings an exciting synthesis of spirituality, personal development, business, music and comedy to everything he teaches. An accomplished actor, comedian, musician, singer, artist, entrepreneur, writer and photographer, Bruce brings a wealth of personal life experience to his work. Bruce’s outrageous humor, intensity, tenacity and contagious energy brings out the best in everyone he works with.

The Lotus and the Rose: The Legacy of Buddha and Christ -- Sample chapters from a book on two of humanity's greatest sages. http://www.geocities.com/annubis33/BuddhaAndChrist/mystery9.html

".....All 365 lessons in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles are designed to guide us into a state of being, dis-identified from thought. As such, the Workbook is entirely about meditation in the purest sense of the word.

A Course in Miracles refers to the here-and-now as the Holy Instant. Time, like spatial dimension, is, strictly speaking, a function of the ego-mind. Thus all guilt is of the past, and all fear is of the future. The ego is essentially nothing other than the perception of being isolated, cut off from the greater whole (Source, or God) and its living current of Energy (Spirit, or Holy Spirit). This Divine Energy exists only in the here-and-now, for the simple reason that only the present moment is real at the level of Ultimate Reality. Time, thus, is an artificial creation of our minds, but a necessary one, because in the awakening process (what the Course calls the Atonement, or correction of perception) we must be led out of our dream world in a sequential manner, step by step. Thus the paradox: there is a direction and linearity to our growth, through space and time, but our Real nature is trans-dimensional is beyond space and beyond time....

There is a wonderful line in ACIM: "You need do nothing". To our Western "just do it" conditioned minds this line can be very enigmatic, if not frustrating. And yet, it is the heart of the Awakening process, of meditation, and of what may be termed spiritual maturity. In the ancient Taoist teachings of the Chinese mystic Lao-Tzu, considered by many to be the purest of all spiritual philosophies, the term "wu-wei" (non-doing) stands as a testament to the one essential condition of Awakening, paralleled by the Sufi mystic's Surrender to God, and by the teaching in the ACIM that "all suffering comes from believing that God's Will and yours are separate". Thus, actual Awakening does not involve a struggle of will at all. A discipline of some sort is required, yes, because our minds tend toward laziness, but that discipline is designed to bring us to a state of realization that nothing actually is required of us, beyond being who we really are, a condition which by its very nature is effortless once we are in it..."

http://www.geocities.com/annubis33/MedACIM.htm