Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00016)

Dallas wrote:

>Why worry about "modern saints?"  Each one of us is potentially a
>"saint."  There is a clue to this in our "Seven-fold Nature -- the
>7-Principles"  We are a part of the ONE SPIRIT in our highest nature,
>and also being immortals we carry with us all the time in the
>principle named Buddhi a memory of all our honorable past.

If we are the "modern saints" Dallas, our work is before us... not in our
"honorable past." If we are not the "modern saints" it would behoove us to
see those saints available today as a model to strive for. Vinoba Bhave
comes to mind...there are countless others who from their humility and mode
of life are to remain unknown to us, but many I would suspect can be found
in various traditions such as the Jaina Dharma.

>Take HPB or the Masters -- ask yourself simply:  Are they alive and
>present now?  If Immortality and reincarnation are facts then They
>Are.

Taking the Masters... they are but pale reflections and echoes of the
Ancient Wisdom we all seek. I will take a Jeddu Krishnamurti anyday over a
Koothumi, or a Sri Aurobindo over a Dhwal Khul, or a Swendenborg over a
Saint Germaine... Name them all my friend... they will not measure up in
thought, depth or spiritual power. When the Gita can be apprehended in its
original language (as English can only approximate) it is far more powerful
and penetrating than a few crumbs of Morya!


>Thanks -- enjoyed reading the discussion.  I have no idea what a
>"Terma Tradition" is, perhaps you can tell me.


I think this was previously mentioned but the Terma tradition is found
mostly in the Nying-Ma school of Buddhism and essentially is that
Padmasambhava intentionally hid various artifacts ... scriptures...
talismans ... signs about Tibet to be discovered in later ages when the
need arose to save Budddism and revive its progress. To me the tradition
can be extended to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library and other
essential teachings in the past fifty years... The MAnichaean Scriptures
found in central asia, The Kharoshti scrolls found in Afganistan... there
will no doubt be more...

Your Brother, Art Gregory


lgregory@discover.net




















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