Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00172)

How about the idea that

     "you"

     are a "lattice-work"
     of limiting personal energy,


     superimposed upon
     the "Nothing that is Everything?"


     - or is that too obtuse?


Tao Tai Chi Tao,
The Wine Drunk Taoist.

;) (S)

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Naturally,
the elephant wanders ...
first this way,
then that.

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     "John Algeo
     is only a Maya,

     or ...

     do we forget this?"

          -- Aum Tao Tai Chi Tao Aum

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Bodhicitta smacks you upside the head!
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(HOLY SHIT!,
 The Sacred Fart!)

Keyword: Response - ability!

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     Sorry John,

     If you can laugh with me,
     then we are brothers.

     If you can't ...
     then go back to square one.

     (Either way, write a poem ... )

          -- Aum Tao Tai Chi Tao AUM
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Irreverently quoting (Sorry, Dallas,  ;-(  ):


Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
>
> As I understand it, for an Adept to contact his "Divine Inner
> Self"  [ HIGHER SELF ] he has to so purify his personal [ Lower ]
> Self that it can become transparent to the "divine" and the
> "spiritual."  Hence, the study of and practice of morals on the
> thesis that we are at root immortals and that Karma operates
> incessantly and our 'motives' make or break or progress to that
> point of divine or spiritual contact.
>
> To me it seems that the personal mind (my self here, awake in
> this body, now) has to make itself as pure as possible so that it
> can unerringly contact by will-power, its own
> HIGHER SELF.  I found some very suggestive notes on this in HPB's
> SD.
> [ see SD II 79-80, 109-110, 318fn, I 260 bottom, ]


"Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttt!"



> It thus seems to me that the inclination of the/my embodied,
> personal mind/self is towards a selfishness that desires to
> "protect" the status quo to which it is accustomed.
>
> Whereas, the impersonal mind/Self is actively encouraging that
> same lower self (its mirror in matter) to transcend the limited
> personal for the boundless spheres of knowledge and life which is
> represented to us as the divine and "spiritual."
>
> I don't think I am adding much more to what you said, but perhaps
> I am wrong in understanding you.


Acknowledging that the posture of dependance
... unnecessarily shackles one,

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