Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00191)

Hallo Pedro and all,

My views are in the below using ***.

M. Sufilight

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From: "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 12:34 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: How to develop Love and Compassion


> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Morten N. Olesen" <global-
> theosophy@a...> wrote:
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> > The following was taken from the book
> > "The Initiate in the New World" written 1927 by Cyril Scott
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> > The text quoted is an excerpt of a lecture given by the so-called
> Initiate named JMH - Jerome Moreward Haig. The subject of the lecture
> was something like "Love and its relation to maya. And how to
> strenghten you capacity for love through meditation and other means".
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> >exercise the will to love, and you develop the capacity to love, so
> that your whole love - nature becomes strong and enduring;
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> >For observe; love requires to be nourished from within and not from
> without.
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> > "And so I say to you who are striving for Love - consciousness, use
> every means in your power to attain it.
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>
> Hello Morten,
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> I have read the post you had mentioned and have reproduced above
> passages I would like to comment on.
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> As I understand it, any form of intentionality in trying to express
> love or compassion is a denial of it.
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The word "intentionality" can be understood in the proper manner. Would you
not say, that it is allright to seek to express love?
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The different spiritual
> traditions have placed great emphasis on purification as the first
> stage on the spiritual path, which is not necessarily purity
> according to a certain externally sanctioned code but, in essence,
> freedom from self-interest.
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But the "Purification" happens when you seek to express love. Not when you
do not.
Do you not agree?
This was what the Initiate JMH was talking about.
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> Shantideva, the author of "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life",
> presents this idea with great directness:
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> "Thus whoever wishes to quickly afford protection
> To both himself and other beings
> Should practice that holy secret:
> The exchanging of self for others."
>
> Perhaps this exchange is love. In our everyday lives we seem to
> negotiate easily with self-interest and are not really aware of how
> dangerous it is, how destructive.
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Exactly. And I agree.
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> We want our self-interest to prevail, no matter what.
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> Although the "daily conquest of self" is perhaps the most difficult
> undertaking before a human being it can be done, in the words of Sri
> Krishna, by constant practice and detachment for in this life we
> don't really possess anything, nothing is ultimately ours.
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That is the point JMH was talking about.
"Detachment" through seeking to express love.

It is also a synthesis of Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga (esoterical and
compassionate, ie. Brahman is omnipresent), and Jnana Yoga. In fact Annie
Besant wrote about this.


M. Sufilight
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