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- (4137) Sat 5 Aug 95 10:59
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- By: Frank Gaude
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- To: All
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- Re: Okay, okay...
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- @MSGID: 1:203/8888@fidonet.org 828d6486
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- Hello, everybody!
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- Okay, I give in. I will do it one more time! Post the unpostable:
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- A Simple Trinity (Sat-Chit-Ananda)(Being-Consciousness-Bliss) (Father-Son-Holy
- Ghost)(Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu)
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- Here are three deceptively simple ways to approach a fuller, deeper
- understanding of the mystical core of our existence. Among the many hints, tips,
- tricks and techniques that Joe and Guin Miller (Theosophical Society) shared
- over their many years in working with the young people who looked to them: these
- three recurred in their discussions over and over again. Any of these three
- hints lead straight to the Goal if employed earnestly and boldly in everyday
- life.
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- 1. "Just BE." Whatever circumstances you find yourself in, whatever
- disappointment or adversity you encounter, just be yourself, who you really are
- from the depth inside. Then, you will discover that inspiration and strength
- come spontaneously. Their source is the very Oneness. That, the Oneness,
- No-Thing, is always waiting for us to open the inner doors and windows.
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- 2. "Take a gentle, in-drawn breath into the heart and feel unselfish love
- flowing out." Try it when you've painted yourself into a sad little corner
- emotionally or mentally. Without taking courses in Pranayama or worrying about
- where or what the Kundalini is, just gently breath into your heart cavity and
- let pure love radiate from you. Feel the expansiveness, the magnetism? Feel the
- rush of pure Energy? That's a big piece of the map home.
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- 3. "Be still, be very still." Without resorting to exotic meditation techniques
- or contortions of the mind. Just drop the concepts that are running your life
- for one moment. Be still! Let the Awareness you ARE in depth FEEL Itself for the
- space of even a single breath. Feel the Limitlessness? Feel the Peace that
- abides INSIDE?
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- These are not empty platitudes or little puzzles for novices to unravel: Each
- strikes directly to one of three Divine principles at the core of human
- existence, Sat-Chit-Ananda or Being-Consciousness-Bliss. To "Just BE!" is to
- relax directly into the Beingness (Sat) which is the unbreakable, ineffable,
- imperturbable core of all. "Being still" cultivates the Attitude of Simple
- Awareness (Chit). Taking that "gentle, in-drawn breath, radiating love" enlivens
- the Feeling Heart (Ananda). (Does this sound like esoteric Christianity? Yes!)
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- "It can't be that simple," the mind insists. "What about me?" the ego cries.
- "There has to be more to it than that," the doubter says. "Can't build a big
- promotion around this, there's no way to get a degree or put up a shingle,"
- ambition complains. Only a gambler would bet his life on three platitudes. Only
- a donkey smuggler would exhort others to try it also. Only a fool would continue
- on.
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- "Ignore the opinions of others. Let the rumors of your foolishness spread far
- and wide. None of it matters in the least. Busy yourself with the burning of
- all of the furniture in the house of the mind. When the job is finished,
- dynamite the foundations and bulldoze the lot." --author unknown
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- "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds
- make great sky-circles of their freedom. How did they learn it? They fall, and
- falling, they're given wings." --Jelaluddin Rumi
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- If you realize that you are living from the Oneness, you are letting the
- absolute, the Reality, live through you. In other words, GOD SEND ME, I'M READY!
- Try it sometime. It'll scare the hello out of you.
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- There is "an easy way" means to dispense with "rigorous disciplines" and realize
- the Self. How? By quieting the mind and opening the heart!
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- Frank (Tanzen)
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