Life 30 (Jun 18 - Oct 18)

Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Aug 27, 2018 7:58 am

What is the significance of the various forms of worship? How should we perceive them?

Devotion helps you attain the bliss of merging with the Divine most easily, by channelising towards Him the mental agitations, the sensory and emotional urges.

The various modes of worshipping the Divine in temples depict this concept. You will find various ceremonies, from ‘awakening of the Divine’ in the early dawn to ‘putting the Divine in bed’ late at night.

These ceremonies are intended to heighten and promote the devotional trends of the wavering mind.

Each incident helps sublimation of the approprie emotion, in a peculiarly charming manner. In the sublimity of that experience, the agitation of lower emotions decline and disappear.

The mundane and vulgar feelings of ordinary life become elevated to the status of worship and dedication to the Almighty Presence.

The Lord evokes in you, the emotion you associate with Him. When the Divine is conceived as the "Most Loved One", He manifests Himself as the nearest and the dearest and showers bliss!

- Dharma Vahini, Ch 10, The House of God.

The basic quality of devotion is the yearning to realize oneness with the Divine.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Tue Aug 28, 2018 6:31 am

Forgiveness is not true compassion

What is it to be compassionate? Please find out for yourself, feel it out, whether a mind that is hurt, that can be hurt, can ever forgive.

Can a mind that is capable of being hurt, ever forgive? And can such a mind which is capable of being hurt, which is cultivating virtue, which is conscious of generosity, can such a mind be compassionate?

Compassion, as love, is something which is not of the mind. The mind is not conscious of itself as being compassionate, as loving. But the moment you forgive consciously, the mind is strengthening its own center in its own hurt. So the mind which consciously forgives can never forgive; it does not know forgiveness; it forgives in order not to be further hurt.

So it is very important to find out why the mind actually remembers, stores away. Because the mind is everlastingly seeking to aggrandize itself, to become big, to be something When the mind is willing not to be anything, to be nothing, completely nothing, then in that state there is compassion.

In that state there is neither forgiveness nor the state of hurt; but to understand that, one has to understand the conscious development of the “me”...

So, as long as there is the conscious cultivation of any particular influence, any particular virtue, there can be no love, there can be no compassion, because love and compassion are not the result of conscious effort.

The Book of Life, July 20, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:57 am

What is the purpose of going to a place of worship? Why should we go regularly?

Think deeply over the functions of a place of worship, say, the temple.

Temples are centres of discipline, where the aspirant is guided step by step to attain a vision of the Truth.

They are schools for the training of the spirit, academies for the promotion of scriptural studies, institutes of super-science, and laboratories for the testing of the values of life.

They are hospitals for the treatment and cure not only of the ‘birth-death disease’, which has persisted in the individual for ages, but even the much more potent mental disorders that trouble those who do not know the secret of acquiring peace.

Temples are gymnasia where people are reconditioned and their hesitant faith, waning conviction, and upsurging egotism are all cured.

Temples are mirrors that reflect aesthetic standards and achievements. The purpose of the temple is to awaken the divinity in humanity, and to induce people to believe that the physical frames in which they live are themselves houses of the Divine.

- Dharma Vahini, Ch 10, The House of God.

Worship of the Divine in temples and shrines has its place in sanctifying time and sublimating the instincts and impulses.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:59 am

The major cause of violence

The major cause of violence, I think, is that each one of us is inwardly, psychologically, seeking security.

In each one of us the urge for psychological security—that inward sense of being safe—projects the demand, the outward demand, for security.

Inwardly, each one of us wants to be secure, sure, certain. That is why we have all these marriage laws; in order that we may possess a woman, or a man, and so be secure in our relationship.

If that relationship is attacked we become violent, which is the psychological demand, the inward demand, to be certain of our relationship to everything.

But there is no such thing as certainty, security, in any relationship. Inwardly, psychologically, we should like to be secure, but there is no such thing as permanent security...

So all these are the contributory causes of the violence that is prevalent, rampaging, throughout the world.

I think anybody who has observed, even if only a little, what is going on in the world, and especially in this unfortunate country, can also, without a great deal of intellectual study, observe and find out in himself those things which, projected outwardly, are the causes of this extraordinary brutality, callousness, indifference, violence.

The Book of Life, June 27, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:59 am

The major cause of violence

The major cause of violence, I think, is that each one of us is inwardly, psychologically, seeking security.

In each one of us the urge for psychological security—that inward sense of being safe—projects the demand, the outward demand, for security.

Inwardly, each one of us wants to be secure, sure, certain. That is why we have all these marriage laws; in order that we may possess a woman, or a man, and so be secure in our relationship.

If that relationship is attacked we become violent, which is the psychological demand, the inward demand, to be certain of our relationship to everything.

But there is no such thing as certainty, security, in any relationship. Inwardly, psychologically, we should like to be secure, but there is no such thing as permanent security...

So all these are the contributory causes of the violence that is prevalent, rampaging, throughout the world.

I think anybody who has observed, even if only a little, what is going on in the world, and especially in this unfortunate country, can also, without a great deal of intellectual study, observe and find out in himself those things which, projected outwardly, are the causes of this extraordinary brutality, callousness, indifference, violence.

The Book of Life, June 27, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:24 am

How To Know If You're A Highly Evolved Being

By Neale Donald Walsch

1. You Understand There's More To Life Than What You Can See
“There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.”

2. You Bring Out The Best In Others By Being Your Best
“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer your best.“

3. You Don't Experience Stress Or Fear
“Fear is an acronym in the English language for False Evidence Appearing Real.”

4. You're The Divine Creator Of Your Existence
“Life is a creation not a discovery.”

5. You Seek Opportunities To Learn And Fail
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

6. You Are Deeply Grateful
“There is no such thing as ‘getting to heaven.’ There is only a knowing that you are already there. The irony is that most people think they have to leave where they are to get to where they want to be.”

7. You Value How You Do Things More Than What You Do
“Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living and when you life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.”


Source: Awaken the Species

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:34 am

Often we find scholarship, fame, fortune and ingratitude in and around us. What lesson can we learn from the tree and the sea, to live in love and peace?

Every bird, animal, tree, mountain and star, each tiny worm, has a lesson for you, if you have but the will and the thirst to learn.

These make the world a veritable University for you; it is a school/hostel where you are a pupil from birth to death.

For example, the tree can teach you, forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, gender, religion, nationality or economic status. It helps with fruit and shade to even the foe who lays his axe on its trunk!

The sea rolls and surges in great joy on a full moon; it only knows the fullness of happy contentment.

The Sun may lift clouds of vapour from it; the Sea does not whimper. Rain may fill its coffers with the rich riverine tribute; it does not exult. It teaches you equanimity.

Watch the waves rolling one behind the other towards the shore bringing bits of flotsam and jetsam, bottles and twigs, to be deposited on land. There is a constant struggle, a laudable spiritual practice, to maintain itself clean - which you can well adopt.

- Divine Discourse, Jul 26, 1972.

Without the Divine, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:00 pm

Listening without thought

I do not know whether you have listened to a bird. To listen to something demands that your mind be quiet—not a mystical quietness, but just quietness.

I am telling you something, and to listen to me you have to be quiet, not have all kinds of ideas buzzing in your mind.

When you look at a flower, you look at it, not naming it, not classifying it, not saying that it belongs to a certain species—when you do these, you cease to look at it.

Therefore, I am saying that it is one of the most difficult things to listen—to listen to the communist, to the socialist, to the congressman, to the capitalist, to anybody, to your wife, to your children, to your neighbor, to the bus conductor, to the bird—just to listen.

It is only when you listen without the idea, without thought, that you are directly in contact; and being in contact, you will understand whether what he is saying is true or false; you do not have to discuss.

The Book of Life, January 4, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:50 am

What role has emotion in life?

"How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being through stimuli, through the nerves.

You put a pin into me, I jump; you flatter me and I am delighted; you insult me and I don’t like it. Through our senses emotions come into being.

And most of us function through our emotion of pleasure; obviously, sir. You like to be recognized as a Hindu. Then you belong to a group, to a community, to a tradition, however old; and you like that, with the Gita, the Upanishads and the old traditions, mountain high.

And the Muslim likes his and so on. Our emotions have come into being through stimuli, through environment, and so on. It is fairly obvious.

What role has emotion in life? Is emotion life? You understand? Is pleasure love? Is desire love? If emotion is love, there is something that changes all the time. Right? Don’t you know all that?

... So one has to realize that emotions, sentiment, enthusiasm, the feeling of being good, and all that have nothing whatsoever to do with real affection, compassion.

All sentiment, emotions have to do with thought and therefore lead to pleasure and pain. Love has no pain, no sorrow, because it is not the outcome of pleasure or desire."

– J. Krishnamurti

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:07 am

What should we seek from the Divine and place before Him?

The Lord who is "Divine Love personified" will grant you all that you need despite your not asking for anything.

He knows; He is the Mother who does not wait to hear the moan of the child to feed it. His love is so vast and deep; He anticipates every need and rushes to help you.

You are always praying anxiously and placing before the Divine, the long lists of wishes you have. These wishes go on multiplying endlessly. The fulfilment of one leads to a new series.

Strive to arrive at the stage when His wish alone will count and you are an instrument in His Hands.

When you fill yourselves with love for the Divine, you achieve "likeness of form and absorption into the Divine".

Strive for that consummation, not for lesser victories.

- Divine Discourse, Jul 13, 1965.

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