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“POWER OF PEACE”
FROM
“UNION OF INTRINSIC AWARENESS & ULTIMATE SPHERE”*
“SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY”**
<
ALL IS
A GENTLE DÉJÀ VU
ew
3:49 AM-8/8/17
*http://samwebstermage.com/2014/07/23/904/
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficient_unto_the_day_is_the_evil_thereof
**https://books.google.bs/books?id=uus4QutGSIwC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=UNION+OF+INTRINSIC+AWARENESS+%26+ULTIMATE+SPHERE&source=bl&ots=HHOnB7O4Bf&sig=1J_Tq4tNA3T3ui9daVzNRNV9k20&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=UNION%20OF%20INTRINSIC%20AWARENESS%20%26%20ULTIMATE%20SPHERE&f=false
∞
FROM
“UNION OF INTRINSIC AWARENESS & ULTIMATE SPHERE”*
“SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY”**
<
ALL IS
A GENTLE DÉJÀ VU
ew
3:49 AM-8/8/17
*http://samwebstermage.com/2014/07/23/904/
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficient_unto_the_day_is_the_evil_thereof
**https://books.google.bs/books?id=uus4QutGSIwC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=UNION+OF+INTRINSIC+AWARENESS+%26+ULTIMATE+SPHERE&source=bl&ots=HHOnB7O4Bf&sig=1J_Tq4tNA3T3ui9daVzNRNV9k20&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=UNION%20OF%20INTRINSIC%20AWARENESS%20%26%20ULTIMATE%20SPHERE&f=false
∞
As dying exists nowhere, it is absolutely unreal.
Tulku Thondup
Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook
Tulku Thondup
Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook
Things go on in our psyches when we let creativity through that challenges our everyday control of things
or that challenge our culture's definitions
of what appropriate behavior might be.
Part of standing up to fear of death, fear of guilt,
fear of aloneness, fear of joy, and fear of life
is standing up to take in the wild.
Whatever the cost.
I can also resist the temptation to domesticate.
When we domesticate self, God, or other beings,
we are defanging them, emasculating them,
removing the wild from them.
This is not a good spiritual practice.
There must be some wildness left in our lives.
Foolishness and wisdom go together, after all,
and folly is a certain response to wildness.
To follow one's imagination is often an act of folly,
a wild act deserving of Spirit's presence.
For Spirit itself is wild, very, very wild.
We are transmitters of Spirit.
Spirit and we create together.
We must trust Spirit.
We must trust the wild again.
~Matthew Fox
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2017/08/06/24573/
or that challenge our culture's definitions
of what appropriate behavior might be.
Part of standing up to fear of death, fear of guilt,
fear of aloneness, fear of joy, and fear of life
is standing up to take in the wild.
Whatever the cost.
I can also resist the temptation to domesticate.
When we domesticate self, God, or other beings,
we are defanging them, emasculating them,
removing the wild from them.
This is not a good spiritual practice.
There must be some wildness left in our lives.
Foolishness and wisdom go together, after all,
and folly is a certain response to wildness.
To follow one's imagination is often an act of folly,
a wild act deserving of Spirit's presence.
For Spirit itself is wild, very, very wild.
We are transmitters of Spirit.
Spirit and we create together.
We must trust Spirit.
We must trust the wild again.
~Matthew Fox
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2017/08/06/24573/
We must become ignorant
Of all we've been taught,
And be, instead, bewildered.
Run from what's profitable and comfortable
If you drink those liqueurs, you'll spill
The spring water of your real life.
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
I have tried prudent planning
Long enough, from now
On, I'll live mad.
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2017/08/06/24573/
Of all we've been taught,
And be, instead, bewildered.
Run from what's profitable and comfortable
If you drink those liqueurs, you'll spill
The spring water of your real life.
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
I have tried prudent planning
Long enough, from now
On, I'll live mad.
~Rumi
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2017/08/06/24573/
For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face
and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun,
and I wanted my masks no more.
And as if in a trance I cried,
“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”
Thus I became a madman.
K. Gibran
The Madman
See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun,
and I wanted my masks no more.
And as if in a trance I cried,
“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”
Thus I became a madman.
K. Gibran
The Madman
See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety
from being understood,
for those who understand us
enslave something in us.
K. Gibran
The Madman
See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/06/kahlil-gibran-madman-masks/
from being understood,
for those who understand us
enslave something in us.
K. Gibran
The Madman
See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/06/kahlil-gibran-madman-masks/
Remaining still, we learn to respond
even before we are called.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 73
Bill Martin
(See More in Read More at end of Afternoon Photos)
even before we are called.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 73
Bill Martin
(See More in Read More at end of Afternoon Photos)
AFTERNOON.....................
Imagine you have two bottles filled with perfume: as receptacles they are separate, but the fragrances that escape from them rise up do not remain separate for very long and they mix. What is the purpose of this imagery? Well, human beings can be compared to bottles of perfume, in that their bodies are separate but with their thoughts and feelings they are able to meet with other human beings and even with entities from the invisible world. Only, we do not meet with anyone we want; we can only reach the souls and spirits in the visible and invisible worlds that correspond to what we ourselves are, because it is just a phenomenon of resonance that is at work here. The purpose, therefore, of prayer, meditation and all spiritual exercises is that they help us elevate our inner self and as we do so, by the power of affinity, we meet with ever purer and ever more luminous spirits.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/spiritual-exercises-enable-us-to-resonate-with-spirits-of-light_2017-08-08
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/spiritual-exercises-enable-us-to-resonate-with-spirits-of-light_2017-08-08
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Imagine you have two bottles filled with perfume: as receptacles they are separate, but the fragrances that escape from them rise up do not remain separate for very long and they mix. What is the purpose of this imagery? Well, human beings can be compared to bottles of perfume, in that their bodies are separate but with their thoughts and feelings they are able to meet with other human beings and even with entities from the invisible world. Only, we do not meet with anyone we want; we can only reach the souls and spirits in the visible and invisible worlds that correspond to what we ourselves are, because it is just a phenomenon of resonance that is at work here. The purpose, therefore, of prayer, meditation and all spiritual exercises is that they help us elevate our inner self and as we do so, by the power of affinity, we meet with ever purer and ever more luminous spirits.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/spiritual-exercises-enable-us-to-resonate-with-spirits-of-light_2017-08-08
Imagine you have two bottles filled with perfume: as receptacles they are separate, but the fragrances that escape from them rise up do not remain separate for very long and they mix. What is the purpose of this imagery? Well, human beings can be compared to bottles of perfume, in that their bodies are separate but with their thoughts and feelings they are able to meet with other human beings and even with entities from the invisible world. Only, we do not meet with anyone we want; we can only reach the souls and spirits in the visible and invisible worlds that correspond to what we ourselves are, because it is just a phenomenon of resonance that is at work here. The purpose, therefore, of prayer, meditation and all spiritual exercises is that they help us elevate our inner self and as we do so, by the power of affinity, we meet with ever purer and ever more luminous spirits.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/spiritual-exercises-enable-us-to-resonate-with-spirits-of-light_2017-08-08
Found 7/6/17 8:00 PM
from Kahlil Gibran
You ask me how I became a madman.
It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born,
I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, — the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, — I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.”
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.
And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried,
“He is a madman.”
I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time.
For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face
and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun,
and I wanted my masks no more.
And as if in a trance I cried,
“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood,
for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety.
Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.
The Madman is a revelatory read in its totality
and the source of Gibran’s enduring wisdom on
the absurdity of our self-righteousness.
from
EXCELLENT ARTICLE HERE:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/06/kahlil-gibran-madman-masks/
from Kahlil Gibran
You ask me how I became a madman.
It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born,
I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, — the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, — I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.”
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.
And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried,
“He is a madman.”
I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time.
For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face
and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun,
and I wanted my masks no more.
And as if in a trance I cried,
“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood,
for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety.
Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.
The Madman is a revelatory read in its totality
and the source of Gibran’s enduring wisdom on
the absurdity of our self-righteousness.
from
EXCELLENT ARTICLE HERE:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/06/kahlil-gibran-madman-masks/
August 8
Remaining still, we learn to respond
even before we are called.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 73
--
Our knee-jerk responses
to aggravation and provocation
arise from our crowded noisy minds.
It is the stillness from which
authentic response emerges.
What occurs for me
is mostly reaction, not response.
My mind has a corral full of fears
that startle at every little noise
and my reaction is often
to kick out in whatever direction
the noise springs up.
When my mind sits quietly,
without the fearful crowd,
the silence gives birth
to a response, and my spirit is ready
before my mind is startled.
--
So much of action in the world is actually reaction. Everyone is reacting to everyone else. It is difficult to determine what little tweet or twitter of sound sets off the chain reaction. The forest is full of squawking and chattering, little creatures scampering around in circles, scolding and admonishing each other. No one is quiet enough to actually discern just what response is needed. A truly gifted martial artist can move aside from a blow before the opponent even thinks of throwing it. We all have that gift, but it is difficult to cultivate. A quiet mind, reposing in stillness, is necessary for differentiating between reaction and response.
Bill Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com
Remaining still, we learn to respond
even before we are called.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 73
--
Our knee-jerk responses
to aggravation and provocation
arise from our crowded noisy minds.
It is the stillness from which
authentic response emerges.
What occurs for me
is mostly reaction, not response.
My mind has a corral full of fears
that startle at every little noise
and my reaction is often
to kick out in whatever direction
the noise springs up.
When my mind sits quietly,
without the fearful crowd,
the silence gives birth
to a response, and my spirit is ready
before my mind is startled.
--
So much of action in the world is actually reaction. Everyone is reacting to everyone else. It is difficult to determine what little tweet or twitter of sound sets off the chain reaction. The forest is full of squawking and chattering, little creatures scampering around in circles, scolding and admonishing each other. No one is quiet enough to actually discern just what response is needed. A truly gifted martial artist can move aside from a blow before the opponent even thinks of throwing it. We all have that gift, but it is difficult to cultivate. A quiet mind, reposing in stillness, is necessary for differentiating between reaction and response.
Bill Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com
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