Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00282)

Hi all of you,

The following are just views. 

Here is a little something...


To some readers the studying of Theosophy makes them uncertain
to whether they should study at all. They sometimes find the 
psychological and spiritual studies confusing. They find that confusion
makes it difficult for them to approach certain subjects, and once in
them the confusion and dissatisfaction continues or gets worse.
So you could ask, what to do ?
An option is that one could try to learn that 'information comes before
illumination'. You certainly do need information in such a situation. Our
information and experiences is that people uncertain, feel dissatisfaction
and suffer from confusion when, 
and only when, they really do not want to learn. The part of
them which is resisting the learning provides the confusion, etc.
The secondary self which people interpose between
themselves and knowledge, the bundle of subjective and conditioned
responses, resists truth. This is similar to the reaction of,
for instance, addicts or obsessionals when they feel that they want to
do something but cannot.
So, in answer to 'what to do?', you should get used to
this idea. It is not the materials, the school, the individuals, or
anything else, which are confusing, making dissatisfied, or causing
uncertainty, but the clash between materials etc. and the 
personality which feels itself threathened.
If you learn this, the difficulties disappear. This is because
the secondary peronsality learns that it is no longer in danger of being
punished or extinguished. The 'need to oppose' which so many
people have but which they always call something else (like 'a
desire to understand' or 'difficulty in understanding' or 'I know better')
has to be
put in its place. Nobody can do this for you: there are some
things after all, which you must do for yourself. But the question
'what to do' is important.
Remember: 'If you yourself do not cause difficulties, difficulties
will not be caused for you.'
Of course, if you decide that you cannot avoid these reactions
you talk about, then there is nothing you can do until you have
tackled this problem. That is the price of admission, as it were.


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Just some explaining words and views:

I am not claiming that all my texts are made to the Theosophical
beginner-audience. Some of them are not.

The text in the above and other of my emailed texts and stories
here at Theos-Talk - they can imply more than one thing.
They can be interpreted using more than one mode and ray of reading -
(for instance using the 7 keys) depending on who reads them. They 
can not only be interpreted, but also assumed about, made claims 
about etc. in a lose emotional manner OR a manner which creates a 
teaching situation.

Words used in this text and other of my texts can have more than 
one definition attached to them.
It is more important what we can learn from the texts - than it
is important whether they can be twisted into an interpretation
which suits a few (for instance culturally) biased readers. These are 
my views, which I offer to you.

I will be reffering to this text in later emails. It will if needed
be changed or modified.
If some readers want to throw me out from Theos-Talk
they could suggest the moderator(s) to do so.
The text and stories I am presenting here at Theos-Talk
are written with the intention, that Theosophy as such in the best
manner possible will flourish.
The use of rude "Dirt-throwing" as answers to my emails will be 
considered as irrelevant - and rejected. 

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Feel free to comment or do your best...
Go on continue to be happy...

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...and a happy smile...

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