Nomad
02-08-2008, 09:36 AM
this is my last of excerpts from beyond himalayas and yoga of christ --- You will still beat and abuse animals You will still torture and abuse little girls, young ladies, women, and torture men too because of some sick beliefs You are so enslaved by those beliefs and will never be free and truly Be Who and What you are meant to Be unless you take a few hours to free yourself by reading those 2 books--they give you the perspective and know-how to be free. --too bad, you won't read it, and if you do, you will fight it and not let it transform you... and you will keep on keeping on just to prove how wrong it is and how right you are
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I took pity on the leper and handed him a rupee, when an Indian policeman came along and hit him with his cane. I remonstrated with him and said, "You are hitting yourself, do you know that?"
With an amazed look on his face, I left him wondering, and walked off, letting him think it out for himself.
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"I tell you truly 'In as much as you did it to one of these my brethren even to the least of them, you did it to me.' It is recorded that Jesus said these words and I want you to observe their true meaning in your daily living, for in this observation there is true happiness.
"This great truth is not realised because the mind of man is caught up in separation, in ideals, in beliefs, that separate man from man.
"Anyone who lives in separation is a stranger, is he not? But the Christ of God is the Livingness within every soul. When this is known it is possible to go in and out - meaning that when the Truth is revealed you can go out into the relative world and partake even there of all the good things that God has prepared for those who love Him, while still holding on to the Tree of Life which is man's salvation.
"The idea that God, man and the Universe are one does not reveal the Truth. In fact it is merely a mental image you have acquired into which you want to escape, and this blinds you to the Real. But if you discern that this is merely an idea you can go beyond and experience the Truth of It.
"If you look carefully you will see that your thought is the expression of your particular conditioning and there would be no thought if there were no conditioning. According to what you are, so is your thought. If you are a Socialist you think that way; if you are a Capitalist you think that way. If you are a Protestant, a Hindu or a Catholic, your thinking will be according to your belief. All your accumulated knowledge or learning becomes memory and this conditions you, and through this conditioning your thoughts are formed.
"Now without understanding this conditioning which is you, whatever you think and act will be according to that background. You see that clearly, don't you? You have only to listen to others and you will become aware of their conditioning; thus you can see yourself. To bring about a radical change in oneself there must obviously be an understanding of how this conditioning has come about. When this is understood, then there is an understanding of the self and how the self has become involved. When this is seen impersonally without distortion, there is freedom and in that freedom is the Real which is not a condition of any kind.
"Life is free from conditioning therefore Life is Creative. To be creative then you must understand the self which prevents Life's expression. Right thinking comes when we know ourselves, and to know ourselves we must be aware of our thought-feeling-reaction, which is but a response of our accumulated past and when you understand how this accumulation has come about there is freedom."
"The mystery of the power of Jesus or of any other master is understood when the Life Jesus called the Father is realised. This could not be the product of the mind - a mere idea - but a living Consciousness in Life Itself.
"When Jesus saw the imperfection in man he knew that man himself was the cause. Therefore without an understanding of what our background is, what we think and feel is merely a projection of that background. Without this self-knowledge, enlightenment is impossible.
"Unless the mind is freed from the ideas of what God is, there can be no realisation of the Real, there will merely be an idea of what Reality is and this is not the Truth, for when one idea is worn out a new one is created. The Real is beyond ideas, beyond the mind, and comes into being from within, not from without. It is only realised when all the illusions of the mind are dissolved through understanding how they have come about."
The Real is beyond ideas, beyond the mind, and comes into being from within, not from without. It is only realised when all the illusions of the mind are dissolved through understanding how they have come about."
"I see," I said, "that the Yoga of the Christ is freedom from the self. When the self dies then God performs His own deeds and being the Creator of all things, having Intelligence beyond the mind of man, this Intelligence comes into operation when the mind ceases to formulate its own conclusions."
He replied: "Yes, my son, but this is merely an idea still. What you have said may be a truth but it is not the Truth. Truth can be experienced only when the mind is still, and I want you to experience that, for it is of great importance. An intellectual knowing is still mental, not spiritual. The Spiritual can come only through true meditation."
For some time we sat meditating, not on an idea or an image but seeing all that was not the Truth, seeing all the false, seeing the mind at work, knowing its movements, its cherished hopes and ideals. All these things were now dissolving away as I saw that they were merely a projection of the self and "BEING" was being realised more and more.
All Power, all Intelligence, all Love was there waiting to operate at the moment the self died, for only the self stood in the way.
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I took pity on the leper and handed him a rupee, when an Indian policeman came along and hit him with his cane. I remonstrated with him and said, "You are hitting yourself, do you know that?"
With an amazed look on his face, I left him wondering, and walked off, letting him think it out for himself.
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"I tell you truly 'In as much as you did it to one of these my brethren even to the least of them, you did it to me.' It is recorded that Jesus said these words and I want you to observe their true meaning in your daily living, for in this observation there is true happiness.
"This great truth is not realised because the mind of man is caught up in separation, in ideals, in beliefs, that separate man from man.
"Anyone who lives in separation is a stranger, is he not? But the Christ of God is the Livingness within every soul. When this is known it is possible to go in and out - meaning that when the Truth is revealed you can go out into the relative world and partake even there of all the good things that God has prepared for those who love Him, while still holding on to the Tree of Life which is man's salvation.
"The idea that God, man and the Universe are one does not reveal the Truth. In fact it is merely a mental image you have acquired into which you want to escape, and this blinds you to the Real. But if you discern that this is merely an idea you can go beyond and experience the Truth of It.
"If you look carefully you will see that your thought is the expression of your particular conditioning and there would be no thought if there were no conditioning. According to what you are, so is your thought. If you are a Socialist you think that way; if you are a Capitalist you think that way. If you are a Protestant, a Hindu or a Catholic, your thinking will be according to your belief. All your accumulated knowledge or learning becomes memory and this conditions you, and through this conditioning your thoughts are formed.
"Now without understanding this conditioning which is you, whatever you think and act will be according to that background. You see that clearly, don't you? You have only to listen to others and you will become aware of their conditioning; thus you can see yourself. To bring about a radical change in oneself there must obviously be an understanding of how this conditioning has come about. When this is understood, then there is an understanding of the self and how the self has become involved. When this is seen impersonally without distortion, there is freedom and in that freedom is the Real which is not a condition of any kind.
"Life is free from conditioning therefore Life is Creative. To be creative then you must understand the self which prevents Life's expression. Right thinking comes when we know ourselves, and to know ourselves we must be aware of our thought-feeling-reaction, which is but a response of our accumulated past and when you understand how this accumulation has come about there is freedom."
"The mystery of the power of Jesus or of any other master is understood when the Life Jesus called the Father is realised. This could not be the product of the mind - a mere idea - but a living Consciousness in Life Itself.
"When Jesus saw the imperfection in man he knew that man himself was the cause. Therefore without an understanding of what our background is, what we think and feel is merely a projection of that background. Without this self-knowledge, enlightenment is impossible.
"Unless the mind is freed from the ideas of what God is, there can be no realisation of the Real, there will merely be an idea of what Reality is and this is not the Truth, for when one idea is worn out a new one is created. The Real is beyond ideas, beyond the mind, and comes into being from within, not from without. It is only realised when all the illusions of the mind are dissolved through understanding how they have come about."
The Real is beyond ideas, beyond the mind, and comes into being from within, not from without. It is only realised when all the illusions of the mind are dissolved through understanding how they have come about."
"I see," I said, "that the Yoga of the Christ is freedom from the self. When the self dies then God performs His own deeds and being the Creator of all things, having Intelligence beyond the mind of man, this Intelligence comes into operation when the mind ceases to formulate its own conclusions."
He replied: "Yes, my son, but this is merely an idea still. What you have said may be a truth but it is not the Truth. Truth can be experienced only when the mind is still, and I want you to experience that, for it is of great importance. An intellectual knowing is still mental, not spiritual. The Spiritual can come only through true meditation."
For some time we sat meditating, not on an idea or an image but seeing all that was not the Truth, seeing all the false, seeing the mind at work, knowing its movements, its cherished hopes and ideals. All these things were now dissolving away as I saw that they were merely a projection of the self and "BEING" was being realised more and more.
All Power, all Intelligence, all Love was there waiting to operate at the moment the self died, for only the self stood in the way.