Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00078)

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> Suffering inherent in the phenomenal world is a
> fact, cessation of this 
> suffering is another fact. The first is transient
> and due to our ignorantly 
> seeking security and happiness in the impermanent
> and acting as if we had 
> already found it.
> 
> The goal is to realize the Truth for the benefit of
> humanity. When we 
> succeed in identifying our consciousness with higher
> Self, permanent love 
> consciousness and knowledge of things mundane and
> supra-mundane will be 
> natural accompaniments.
>
How realistic is this state of being for me, though?  After all, I was
probably some great fiend in my last life, and I hardly understand
these greater truths.
I must ask you, Have You Reached this State of Consciousness?  Or are
you speaking from something you've read and believe in?
 
> The Adept is indeed dead to the world; he is
> oblivious of its pleasures, 
> careless of its miseries, in so far as
> sentimentalism goes, for the stern 
> sense of Duty never leaves him blind to its very
> existence. In words of one 
> of HPB's teachers: "It is . . . the business of
> 'magic' to humanise our 
> natures with compassion for the whole mankind as all
> living beings, instead 
> of concentrating and limiting our affections to one
> predilected 
> race.....human and purely individual personal
> feelings -- blood-ties and 
> friendship, patriotism and race predilection -- all
> will give away, to 
> become blended into one universal feeling, the only
> true and holy, the only 
> unselfish and Eternal one -- Love, an Immense Love
> for humanity -- as a 
> Whole"
> 
> >This seems not only unrealistic for me, but completely out of my
league.  For that matter, though I agree with the Theosophical ideals
I've learned so far, I am not nearly a success at living them.  And I
dont really know where Theosophy stands on the different lives we are
meant to live.  I feel like a child talking to you all about this
stuff.  If you have actually attained these things, that is.  If not,
then what are we really talking about, or what should we really talk
about?
> 
> Your concern of what appears to you as unreasonable
> suffering of others is 
> noble and there is nothing wrong with inquiring of
> its cause provided you do 
> not allow it to corrupt you with negative emotion or
> cause you to be 
> entrapped in discursive thought. Cheerfulness is one
> of the indispensable 
> qualifications for those who desire to be able to
> help others. What is the 
> use of a doctor if he fainted or wept at the sight
> of an accident?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> I enjoyed your message, thanks!


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