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(4137) Sat 5 Aug 95 10:59
By: Frank Gaude
To: All
Re: Okay, okay...
St:
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@MSGID: 1:203/8888@fidonet.org 828d6486
Hello, everybody!
Okay, I give in. I will do it one more time! Post the unpostable:
A Simple Trinity (Sat-Chit-Ananda)(Being-Consciousness-Bliss) (Father-Son-Holy
Ghost)(Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!)
"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.
"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
"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
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.
There is "an easy way" means to dispense with "rigorous disciplines" and realize
the Self. How? By quieting the mind and opening the heart!
Frank (Tanzen)
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