Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00034)

Feb. 9 2004


Dear friend T.

RE: SILENCE... IS NOT MEDITATION


I do not think that HPB or THEOSOPHY would agree with De Mello.


Meditation is the most profound activity on the mental plane.  

Silence on the physical plane is helpful. But even the will to exclude
all distractions can evoke the robe of selfishness, and this is
isolation from the TRUE.   

The TRUE is everywhere -- BEWARE limited thinking.


Silence excludes.  

It is isolation and therefore selfishness.  

COMPASSION includes ALL beings and conditions. It is the one quality of
true spirituality.

We may be in a crowd, but not "of the crowd." 

When the mind-self excludes the phenomenal world of whirling illusions
and distractions, it seeks inwardly for the TRUE, the BEAUTIFUL, and the
UNIVERSAL GOOD of all creatures.

Yes the body is silent, but the REAL MAN, the THINKER, is NOT silent. 

The mind ever utters its cry for enlightenment. "Why? How? When?
Where? Who?" -- the FIVE QUESTIONS.  

And it remembers: --

"Look inward, Thou art BUDDHA."  

[The VOICE OF THE SILENCE ]

The spiritual being inside of each of us, the imperishable MONAD 
repeats daily on awakening this affirmation, this Pledge, attributed to
the Bodhisattva KWAN-YIN:


"Never will I seek nor receive personal private salvation.

Never will I enter into final peace alone.

But forever and everywhere will I live and strive

For the redemption of every creature throughout the World. "

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Best wishes,


Dallas



I think we need to continually apply these aphorisms:


1.	We have to remebr the 7-fold nature of man.

2.	The Immortality of the ETERNAL PILGRIM.

3.	Reincarnation is cyclic and eternal.   

4.	God canot be "named." IT is the UNIVERSE and is everywhere.

5.	We are an indestructiblee part of that ONE DEITY.




-----Original Message-----
From: THom
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:43 AM
To: 
Subject: SILENCE...

RELIGION

A provincial governor on his travels stepped in to pay homage to the
Master.


"Affairs of state leave me no time for lengthy dissertations," he said.

"Could you put the essence of religion into a paragraph or two for a
busy
man like me?"

"I shall put it into a single word for the benefit of your highness."

"Incredible! What is this most unusual word?"

"Silence."

"And what is the way to silence?"

"Meditation."

"And what, may I ask, is meditation?"

"Silence."


"Silence is the great revelation."

Lao Tzu