Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00551)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Meredith" <bilmer@surfsouth.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Email - DESIGNERS and their friends...


> Hi Morten,
> I am learning to read your posts with more appreciation for the language
> differences. If I simply forgive that which comes across as condescending,
> I find your posts laced with excellent observations.
> 
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morten Sufilight" <teosophy@mail1.stofanet.dk>
> To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 3:56 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Email - DESIGNERS and their friends...
> 
> 
> > Hi all of you,
> >
> > I am back from a family weekend.
> >
> > A comment and some views:
> >
> > I think that people - which are not developed fully, - from time to time -
> make what we ordinarily call a mistake or some mistakes.
> >
> > Some of them will not admit they make mistakes - and/or are afraid of
> losing 'face' so to speak.
> >
> > Others - really regret their mistake or mistakes, and 'get face' by doing
> that - or very often they at least get respect.
> >
> > Some people are from time to time (whether they know it or not) using up
> their - valuable spiritual time to quarrel about issues, not concerning
> the - real teaching of wisdom, - rather about who is going to lose 'face'-
> this time or the next. Let us just call it a view.
> >
> > Those who consider - wisdom teaching - to be - merely - intellectual
> maneuvers on wisdom or theosophy etc. will be surprised to learn that they
> are deeply mistaken - in their view. Intellectual academic research is and
> will always be well - below - the research done with real true wisdom.
> > And therefore it should NOT be the major part of theosophical teaching.
> >
> > If one really do care about - our valuable life, and its possible
> meaning, - then one ought to do more reasearch on the words of wisdom -
> rather than the words of the intellect, although both are important.
> >
> > To me emails on wisdom are kind of DESIGNS. As designs they make the
> readers (receivers) of them - react. If the reader is an ernest - studentof
> the wisdom teaching of all ages or theosophy - then an honest initiated of a
> proper level will measure - this reaction, and a new design will come in to
> place when - the time and place etc. is right for it.
> > The new design will not necessarily be an email - it could be something
> completly different.
> >
> > In the question of bad - "designers" or people. They can never really harm
> anyone - except themselves, and that is bad enough. Only each individuals
> Karma can be hurting. Only justice can happen. God - ParaBrahman is not
> allowing unjust events in the universe of life. Only - unclever - ignorance
> makes people think, that God is stupid making all these - sufferings occur
> on this Planet - at our present hours.
> >
> > Let us not be like the pharisees in The New Testament, (the academic
> scholars on religion), who thought - 'we are not blind - we can see' (i.e.
> 'we are not ignorant'). And yet they didn't understand - the teaching of
> Jesus on wisdom, - continued to be ignorant - i.e. BLIND. They ignored his
> allegorical teachings of wisdom ! (Even - Christ used "the 7 keys" - which
> the theosophist Blavatsky mentions in the book The Secret Doctrine).
> >
> > To ignore wisdom - doesn't make it fly away and disappear.
> >
> > And really: As a theosophist or follower of the teachings of wisdom of all
> ages - I can NOT and will NOT agree with those who think, that being a
> theosophical personality, or author, or being a academic Ph.d., or another
> kind of (WESTERN) academic scholar counts MORE - than NOT having an academic
> Ph.d., or being an author, or having a (WESTERN) academic education, or
> being just an ordinary person, or the like.
> >
> > How do we get beyond - debates on the level of 'emotional thea and talk'.
> >
> > As for 'Proof' - the five letter word TRUTH is still around. And one can't
> get rid of it.
> > 'There is no religion higher than the truth'.
> > There are different levels of truth - no doubt there.
> >
> > All is maya, but the truth is shown there. This entire universe can't
> exists without truth. As a definition ParaBrahman - God is TRUTH.
> > I like positive remarks.
> > To say there is not 'proof' - is to me to say, there is no 'truth', andto
> say there is no 'ParaBrahman' - no 'Neti, Neti' (i.e. no 'not this, not
> that'). I think that is (for instance ) - a - buddhist view.
> >
> > (Who I am: I have been studying theosophy for more than 20 years now. This
> email is the - present result of that. I am living physically in Denmark.)
> >
> > These were just some views.
> > Feel free to do your best.
> >
> > from
> > Sufilight with some Middle Eastern Rugrats and their...showers of sweet
> love and best whishes...
> >
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