Theos-Talk Archives (August 2000 Message tt00036)

Aug 31st 2000

Dallas offers:

In the DHAMMAPADA, the Buddha offers a general statement of the
attitude of the wise:

"Cease from evil.  Do good.  This is the way."

We find another telling statement:  "The Masters people their
current in space with thoughts powerful for good."

This ought to give us pause for deep thought:  What is our
current of thought?  Are we impersonally trying to do good for
all?  Do we not have to become WISE first?  And then, we will
know how to "people our current in space" with good powers and
thoughts.

We cannot merely aspire to do good.  We have to DO GOOD.  And
that demands a lifetime of application, search, study,
verification and a constant attempt to do the best we can when
KARMA offers us opportunity.

I would suggest that it is not "the Masters" who "disappear,"
but, rather, that we do not apply those powers that ore ours to
reach to Them.  Of what possible use is it to us to seek
objective example of Master's influence or presence?  If we do
not yet know well and apply as best we can the basic teachings of
Theosophy, how can we possibly hope for their "appearance" to us.

Do we rate ourselves so highly?  Could we actually recognize a
Master if he came to our home, or met us on the street?  Would we
believe anyone who came to us, an said:  "I am a Master!"

Look back over the records and history of the past 125 years
since Theosophy was introduced as a system of research and
practice -- how many time have seen evidence of Masters' presence
made clear?  How many so directly approached actually benefited
from the contact?

One thing that can be gleaned from the study of Theosophy is that
it is self-purifying.  For those who are sincere and diligent it
acts as a self-purificatory in their own personal lives, because
it is precisely the personality that it purifies.  Our own
personality, not that of others over whom we have neither
responsibility nor control, nor are we asked to exercise any
supervisory powers.  Our duty is to refine ourselves, our
Lower-Selves (Kama-Manas) and transmute it into BUDDHI-MANAS.

That is as I see it.

Best wishes,


D. T. B.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Kier [mailto:dennw3k@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:49 PM
To: basic@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-basic] Re: bn-basic digest: August 25, 2000


> >  [Broadly speaking, Mike's original question might be stated,
"how
can we
> > help others who either don't want to be helped, or cannot
seem to
be able
> to
> > help themselves?" K's response above, and Brenda's on Monday,
contain some
> > good practical advice. Can anyone add anything else from a
theosophical
> > perspective?
>
> Yes something could be said about the "disappearance" of the
masters
of
> wisdom  some 2000 years ago and the ensuing dark age and one
might,
without
> knowledge of the eternal verities, wonder why didn't they stay
to
"help" get
> us out of that situation.

+++DK+ I am somewhat behind on this, but both of these questions
do
seem to have a Theosophical basis. Do we have the RIGHT to
interfere
with someone who does not want to be helped?

I seem to recall somewhere in the Mahatma Letters, one of the
Masters
expressing himself about what he was permitted to do, and how
they
reguarded the Karma of it. He was saying something about that if
he
asked one of his pupils to do something, and whether that course
of
action produced a good or bad result, the Karma accrued to him,
and
not the pupil. If the pupil saw what needed to be done, and did
it
without being told, then the Karma accrued to the pupil.

As to the Dissapearing Masters, they were still there to take
care of
their business, and help promising students. They didn't go
anywhere.
The Christian religion teaches Vicarious Attonement, but it is
not the
Master's Way. The Karma was ours to work through, and the Masters
of
Wisdom had no right to interfere, just as it is today.

They worked their way to where they are today, and we must do the
same. If they took care of everything, then the students would
not get
to grow up. It might be a world much like H.G.Wells' Time
Machine,
where the living creatures were like passive children, being
taken
care of, and not allowed to grow mentally.

Karma is like, everything is in balance when you come onto the
scene,
and if you do something that throws it out of balance, it is up
to you
to put it back into balance before you can advance to the next
lesson.
IMO.

Dennis

>


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