Life 31 (Oct 18 - Jan 19)

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Postby winston » Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:52 am

Self-knowledge

Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge what you think is not true.

You and the world are not two different entities with separate problems; you and the world are one. Your problem is the world’s problem.

You may be the result of certain tendencies, of environmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from another. Inwardly we are very much alike; we are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition, and so on.

Our beliefs, hopes, aspirations have a common basis. We are one; we are one humanity, though the artificial frontiers of economics and politics and prejudice divide us.

If you kill another, you are destroying yourself. You are the center of the whole, and without understanding yourself you cannot understand reality.

We have an intellectual knowledge of this unity but we keep knowledge and feeling in different compartments and hence we never experience the extraordinary unity of man.

The Book of Life, January 30, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:58 am

Why should we firmly believe and practice seeing the Divine, within us and in everyone around us all the time?

You will have to follow the path of Seekers. You must feel an inseparable affinity with the Divine, as inseparable as the wave and the sea.

You are really of the same essence, the same taste, the same quality as the sea, though you have the name and form of the wave.

The Divine is the form with attributes aspect of the Supreme Being, that is the Universe.

Butter, when in the milk, is immanent in it, and has no separate name and form; but, when you convert milk to curd and take it out, it has a name and form which makes it distinct from milk.

Ghee (clarified butter) too when liquid has no particular form, but when it solidifies, it gets a form. So too, the Divine essence when it assumes a form, is Human form.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

The basic quality of devotion is the yearning for realising oneness with the Divine.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:59 am

Listening without effort

You are now listening to me; you are not making an effort to pay attention, you are just listening; and if there is truth in what you hear, you will find a remarkable change taking place in you—a change that is not premeditated or wished for, a transformation, a complete revolution in which the truth alone is master and not the creations of your mind.

And if I may suggest it, you should listen in that way to everything—not only to what I am saying, but also to what other people are saying, to the birds, to the whistle of a locomotive, to the noise of the bus going by.

You will find that the more you listen to everything, the greater is the silence, and that silence is then not broken by noise.

It is only when you are resisting something, when you are putting up a barrier between yourself and that to which you do not want to listen—it is only then that there is a struggle.

The Book of Life, January 6, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:26 am

Do we really love the Divine? What must we do to ensure the Divine enthrones Himself in our hearts?

The Divine's love is totally selfless. It is absolutely pure, eternal and flawless.

Human love is self-centred and tainted. Such a love cannot merge with the Divine's love. It is only when you are free from egoism, pride, hatred and envy that the Divine will abide in you.

Without renunciation, if a person is immersed in worldly pleasures and leads a mundane life, all his devotion is only artificial and a kind of self-deception. Such devotion will not lead one to Him.

Today, the world is full of such persons. People claim that they are loving the Divine. But everyone loves Him for one’s own sake and not for the sake of Him. This is pure selfishness.

You seek all things in the world for your own sake. Even the Divine is sought for such a reason. He cannot be got so easily. The heart has only a single seat. There is room in it for only one person.

If you install worldly desires on that chair, how can you expect the Divine to sit on it? He will enter that seat only if you empty it of all other things.

- Divine Discourse, Aug 12, 1992.

To proceed from being human to Divine, pure Love is the only means. All other means are of no avail.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:10 am

What is the root cause of all suffering and pain?

The eagle is pestered by crows so long as it has a fish in its beak. They swish past that to steal the fish out of its mouth. They pursue the bird wherever it sits for a little rest. At last, it gives up the attachment to the fish and drops it from its beak; the crows fly behind it and leave the eagle free.

So, leave off sense pleasures and the crows of pride, envy, malice and hatred will fly away, for they want only carrion.

Practise renunciation from now on, so that you may set out on the journey when the call comes, and you never know when that will happen.

Else at that moment, you will be in tears, when you think of the house you have built, the property you have accumulated, the fame you have amassed, and the trifles you have won.

Know that all this is for the fleeting moment: develop attachment for the Divine, who will be with you wherever you go.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

A true human being is one who has the noble qualities of adherence to truth, duty, devotion and discipline.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:10 am

What is the root cause of all suffering and pain?

The eagle is pestered by crows so long as it has a fish in its beak. They swish past that to steal the fish out of its mouth. They pursue the bird wherever it sits for a little rest. At last, it gives up the attachment to the fish and drops it from its beak; the crows fly behind it and leave the eagle free.

So, leave off sense pleasures and the crows of pride, envy, malice and hatred will fly away, for they want only carrion.

Practise renunciation from now on, so that you may set out on the journey when the call comes, and you never know when that will happen.

Else at that moment, you will be in tears, when you think of the house you have built, the property you have accumulated, the fame you have amassed, and the trifles you have won.

Know that all this is for the fleeting moment: develop attachment for the Divine, who will be with you wherever you go.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

A true human being is one who has the noble qualities of adherence to truth, duty, devotion and discipline.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:17 am

Why is one thoughtless?

The thinker thinks his thoughts through habit, through repetition, through copying, which brings ignorance and sorrow.

Is not habit thoughtlessness? Awareness creates order, but it never creates habit. Settled tendencies only bring about thoughtlessness.

Why is one thoughtless? Because to think is painful, it creates disturbances, it brings opposition, it may cause one’s actions to go contrary to the established pattern.

To think-feel extensionally, to become choicelessly aware may lead to unknown depths, and the mind rebels against the unknown; so it moves from the known to the known, from habit to habit, from pattern to pattern.

Such a mind never abandons the known to discover the unknown. Realizing the pain of thought, the thinker becomes thoughtless through copying, through habit; being afraid to think, he creates patterns of thoughtlessness.

As the thinker is afraid, his actions are born of fear, and then he regards his actions and tries to change them. The thinker is afraid of his own creations; but the deed is the doer, so the thinker is afraid of himself.

The thinker is fear itself; the thinker is the cause of ignorance, of sorrow. The thinker may divide himself into many categories of thought, but the thought is still the thinker. The thinker and his efforts to be, to become, are the very cause of conflict and confusion.

The Book of Life, September 10, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:56 am

Why is this a very critical opportunity and how must it be used?

Cultivate nearness to the Divine in your heart and you will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of the Supreme Love.

Do not lose the contact and the company; for, it is only when the coal is in contact with the live embers that it can also become a live ember.

You are truly fortunate, blessed with a great chance. This chance will not come your way again, beware of that. If you cannot and do not cross the sea of grief now, when again can you get such a chance?

Engage yourself in spiritual discipline, spiritual thoughts, and spiritual company. Let the past go its way.

At least from now on, seek to save yourself. Never yield to doubt or unsteadiness.

Do not get shaken in mind; do not allow faith to decline. That will only add to the grief you already suffer from. Hold fast - that must be your vow.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:11 am

Generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation

We are going to talk about something which needs a mind that can penetrate very profoundly.

We must begin very near because we cannot go very far if we do not know how to begin very close, if we do not know how to take the first step.

The flowering of meditation is goodness, and the generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation.

We have talked about many things concerning life, authority, ambition, fear, greed, envy, death, time; we have talked about many things.

If you observe, if you have gone into it, if you have listened rightly, those are all the foundation for a mind that is capable of meditating. You cannot meditate if you are ambitious—you may play with the idea of meditation.

If your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty. ... It is the pursuit of its own fulfilment through time that prevents generosity.

And you need a generous mind—not only a wide mind, a mind that is full of space, but also a heart that gives without thought, without a motive, and that does not seek any reward in return.

But to give whatever little one has or however much one has—that quality of spontaneity of outgoing, without any restriction, without any withholding, is necessary.

There can be no meditation without generosity, without goodness—which is to be free from pride, never to climb the ladder of success, never to know what it is to be famous; which is to die to whatever has been achieved, every minute of the day.

It is only in such fertile ground that goodness can grow, can flower. And meditation is the flowering of goodness.

The Book of Life, December 30, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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