Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00075)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "Majorinc, Kazimir" <kmajor@p...> wrote:
... how much doctrines you accepted influenced your life: more 
detailed, do you think that theosophy give you answer how to act in 
everyday dilemmas?

Speaking only for myself, not as a theosophist, but as one being to 
another, adopting the ethical precepts as taught by HPB and others 
has made a huge difference in my view. The discipline of practicing 
the ethical intent of the precepts causes an invisible form to 
result. It is similar to the invisible form that is the result of 
taking a vow. This resulting form is like a parametric structure in 
space/time or some might say by imprinting the ether or by 
magnetizing akasa. However you chose to view it, it is there when one 
encounters an event where a decision needs to be made. Simply said, 
the feedback from this form is similar to information that two paths 
have opened up before you and one is presented with the wisdom that 
one path leads away from the parameter of the precept and the other 
within it. Or if you care to look at it with goal oriented thinking, 
you could say that the feedback indicates that a course correction is 
necessary in order to continue toward the goal.

The result of the action based on this the ethical intent is in 
embedded in the trailing stream of consciousness. Pure and simple it 
is the resulting karma. Look in the mirror, what you see is the 
result of previous causes, wholesome or un-wholesome, noble or 
ignoble, skillful or un-skillful, virtuous or un-virtuous. We are the 
ripening of our karma.

There are many rewards in small ways and great ways along the path of 
holding to these ethical precepts as well as many trials. The only 
way to experience the truth of this is to test for yourself. First by 
a keen examination of the teachings and then through practice which 
will in turn yield experience that will complete the truth with 
wisdom.

The teachings are a formula for the antidote of the poisons of the 
sufferings and emotional afflications that besiege this world, but it 
is up to you to administer it to yourself. No one can do that for 
you. The precepts are a support, a basis on which to guide one's 
conduct in life. Choosing this for your self is the small way, 
choosing this path for the benefit of others, yourself included, is 
the great way.

Be encouraged. You will not be alone.