Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00196)

Nov 11th 1997

Dear Brenda:

The whole world would be the better without any negatives, etc...

HPB said that 2/3rd of the world's evils would vanish into thin air if all
humanity refused to do ill to any neighbour. The designation of
"astranger" ought to vanish from the theosophist's vocabulary.

If we are all immortals we cannot escape each other. If there is ONE LIFE,
then we are all rays of IT. But sometimes the personality becomes
obstreporous and obnoxious. Have we not in times past been the same ? How
did we change ? Did other people not have great patience with us when we
were "naughty" children ?

I would say, leave that kind of negative person alone to stew in their own
juice -- no one is going to have his opinions changed unless he does the
work himself. So, while we can offer a helping hand in the nature of such
"truths" as we do have, we cannot force others to accept and use them.
Don't we have a case before us of this, if we use what we know of Jesus as
an example ? Look what he taught in "The Sermon on the Mount." Why do not
"christians" practice that ?

 Gossip is meddling in other people's lives -- we don't know if what is
repeated is true or false. If we listen, we abet the gossiper. It is
better to demand proof of any assertion. If it does not come forth it is
probably a fabrication. Lies die of themselves if no one pays attention to
them. The listener is equally guilty inder Karma. The karma of the liar
is worse, as he becomes responsibile for a widening trail of persons whom
he has misled and to whom he will have to make ventual reparation.

I think the view of ever-present Karma is important. We hare everything:
air, water, food, living, feeling, thinking, etc... and if we did not
cooperate more than we fight, we could not be alive as we are.

Hope some of these ideas tally with yours. DTB

> Date Wednesday, November 12, 1997 4:14 AM
> From Brenda S. Tucker <brenda@theosophy.com>
> Subject: me next?