Theos-Talk Archives (March 2003 Message tt00224)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas TenBroeck [mailto:dalval14@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:56 AM
To: BN--Study
Subject: War and theosophists


-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:10 PM
To:
Subject: War and theosophists

Sunday, March 09, 2003

Re War and theosophists


Dear friends:


Is there not a way to resolve this?

Lets ask ourselves ( not one another) :


Does the HIGHER SELF support war and killing ?

Have we the right to destroy for whatever reason the "form" that
another brother, and Eternal Pilgrim, a fellow Monad is using?

How will this look on our record when we become Buddhas in the long
future ahead, and are able to look back at our deeds. ( Remember the
H P B article: KARMIC VISIONS ?) and the vision of the HIGHER SELF
there ?

Each has to answer this for themselves.

Seems to me that the more we try to justify, or argue in favor of such
horrors as torture, maiming, asphyxiation and fast or slow
death-dealing -- to OURSELVES, only --- we cannot be on a
"superior," or the virtuous "Middle Path" -- as recommended by the
Buddha.

Let's turn it around. Are we ready to be killed by others rightly or
wrongly ? If we are and do not resent the injustice and the enormity
of such a calamity, then we may have a point.

It again, and always will be the continual conflict between WISDOM (
Buddhi), and IGNORANCE, SELFISHNESS AND FOLLY ( Kama) .

But perhaps I could be wrong there, too ? What do you think?

Dallas

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