Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00472)

> From: Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Evolution and the Nature of Atman and Buddhi
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
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> Only when the mind is free of desire to achieve
> something to get a result, consequently free of fear
> can reach a complete state of quietness and silence.
> Only them it’s possible to access what Plato says as
> the eternal and abstract ideals. But for the mind to
> be free of desire has to be identified with it’s
> higher principles.
>
> “Thus assuredly Sense-Perception,
> Discursive-Reasoning; and all our ordinary mentation
> are foreign to the Soul: for sensation is a receiving-
> whether of an Ideal-Form or of an impassive body- and
> reasoning and all ordinary mental action deal with
> sensation.” Plotinus
>
> How to be unidentified with the senses of perception?
> Through meditation? If the process of meditation is
> moved by desire to achieve such stage, the very
> process is condemned before even to begin. So which
> inner movement would make possible the higher
> principles to be reflected through the lower?
>
> Plotinus mentions that the first virtue that one has
> to develop is purification. Purification in which
> level? Apparently in the discourse of Plotinus, the
> purification of the mind, that would be reflected into
> the emotions and consequently reflected as well in the
> physical body as a consequence of self control and
> self knowledge.
>
> There is an obvious blending between body, emotion and
> mind we could see it technically as separate elements.
> In this sense the body the emotions and the thoughts
> are no more than facets of the sense perceptions that
> one acquires into life.
>
> But if the higher principles are pure as Plato,
> Plotinus and Blavatsky mentioned, and within it
> contains all the wisdom and it’s united with the
> eternal what is the purpose of the manifestation of
> life in the physical plane?
heh heh heh.

> That question may constitute one of the human
> tragedies because there is no answer.
You speak for whom beside yourself?

> What is the purpose of the manifestation of life in
> the world of form? Some theosophists are going easy to
> give an answer, EVOLUTION!
>
> So what would be the nature of Atma and Buddhi?
>
> Erica Letzerich
People can presume to give you answers to that to feed your intellect all 
day long. At the end of the day, has anything changed for you? It is each 
seeker's quest and mission and responsibility to answer that for themselves. 
If you want the serious answers to life and death, is it as serious as life 
and death to you?
For me, the nature of Atma is freedom indescribable, and that of Buddhi is 
the key (given by Atma) to the lock that keeps us chained here in the lower 
forms. Hope you find it.

regards-

Ali

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