Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01125)

Apl 18 2005

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Re Search for the MASTER

The following is recommended:


"There is but one road to the Path; at its very end alone the "Voice of the
Silence" can be heard. The ladder by which the candidate ascends is formed
of rungs of suffering and pain; these can be silenced only by the voice of
virtue. Woe, then, to thee, Disciple, if there is one single vice thou hast
not left behind. For then the ladder will give way and overthrow thee; its
foot rests in the deep mire of thy sins and failings, and ere thou canst
attempt to cross this wide abyss of matter thou hast to lave thy feet in
Waters of Renunciation. Beware lest thou should'st set a foot still soiled
upon the ladder's lowest rung. Woe unto him who dares pollute one rung with
miry feet. The foul and viscous mud will dry, become tenacious, then glue
his feet unto the spot, and like a bird caught in the wily fowler's lime, he
will be stayed from further progress. His vices will take shape and drag him
down. His sins will raise their voices like as the jackal's laugh and sob
after the sun goes down; his thoughts become an army, and bear him off a
captive slave.

Kill thy desires, Lanoo, make thy vices impotent, ere the first step is
taken on the solemn journey.

Strangle thy sins, and make them dumb for ever, before thou dost lift one
foot to mount the ladder.

Silence thy thoughts and fix thy whole attention on thy Master whom yet thou
dost not see, but whom thou feelest.

Merge into one sense thy senses, if thou would'st be secure against the foe.
'Tis by that sense alone which lies concealed within the hollow of thy
brain, that the steep path which leadeth to thy Master may be disclosed
before thy Soul's dim eyes.

Long and weary is the way before thee, O Disciple. One single thought about
the past that thou hast left behind, will drag thee down and thou wilt have
to start the climb anew.

Kill in thyself all memory of past experiences. Look not behind or thou art
lost.

Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satiated,
for this is an abomination inspired by Mara. It is by feeding vice that it
expands and waxes strong, like to the worm that fattens on the blossom's
heart.

The rose must re-become the bud born of its parent stem, before the parasite
has eaten through its heart and drunk its life-sap.

The golden tree puts forth its jewel-buds before its trunk is withered by
the storm.

The pupil must regain the child-state he has lost ere the first sound can
fall upon his ear.

The light from the ONE MASTER, the one unfading golden light of Spirit,
shoots its effulgent beams on the disciple from the very first. Its rays
thread through the thick dark clouds of matter.

Now here, now there, these rays illumine it, like sun-sparks light the earth
through the thick foliage of the jungle growth. But, O Disciple, unless the
flesh is passive, head cool, the soul as firm and pure as flaming diamond,
the radiance will not reach the chamber, its sunlight will not warm the
heart, nor will the mystic sounds of the Akasic heights (1) reach the ear,
however eager, at the initial stage.

Unless thou hear'st, thou canst not see.

Unless thou seest thou canst not hear. To hear and see this is the second
stage.

Voice 16 -20
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"Be, O Lanoo, like them. Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrim, and
seek out him who knows still less than thou; who in his wretched desolation
sits starving for the bread of Wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow,
without a Teacher, hope or consolation, and-let him hear the Law.

Tell him, O Candidate, that he who makes of pride and self-regard
bond-maidens to devotion; that he, who cleaving to existence, still lays his
patience and submission to the Law, as a sweet flower at the feet of
Shakya-Thub-pa, (1) becomes a Srotapatti (2) in this birth. The Siddhis of
perfection may loom far, far away; but the first step is taken, the stream
is entered, and he may gain the eye-sight of the mountain eagle, the hearing
of the timid doe. 

Tell him, O Aspirant, that true devotion may bring him back the knowledge,
that knowledge which was his in former births. The deva-sight and
deva-hearing are not obtained in one short birth. 

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom.

Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

Be like the Ocean which receives all streams and rivers. The Ocean's mighty
calm remains unmoved; it feels them not.

Restrain by thy Divine thy lower Self.

Restrain by the Eternal the Divine.

Aye, great is he, who is the slayer of desire.

Still greater he, in whom the Self Divine has slain the very knowledge of
desire.

Guard thou the Lower lest it soil the Higher.

The way to final freedom is within thy SELF.

That way begins and ends outside of Self. 

Voice 40 - 1

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"No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first the Soul
begins to long for final liberation. Yet, O thou anxious one, no warrior
volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead (1),
not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that
leads toward the field of Battle.

For, either he shall win, or he shall fall. 

Yea, if he conquers, Nirvana shall be his. Before he casts his shadow off
his mortal coil, that pregnant cause of anguish and illimitable pain-in him
will men a great and holy Buddha honour. 

And if he falls, e'en then he does not fall in vain; the enemies he slew in
the last battle will not return to life in the next birth that will be his.

But if thou would'st Nirvana reach, or cast the prize away, (1) let not the
fruit of action and inaction be thy motive, thou of dauntless heart.

Know that the Bodhisattva who liberation changes for Renunciation to don the
miseries of "Secret Life," (2) is called, "thrice Honoured," O thou
candidate for woe throughout the cycles. 

The PATH is one, Disciple, yet in the end, twofold. Marked are its stages by
four and seven Portals. At one end-bliss immediate, and at the other-bliss
deferred. Both are of merit the reward: the choice is thine. 

The One becomes the two, the Open and the Secret. (3) The first one leadeth
to the goal, the second, to Self-Immolation. 

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the
drop returneth whence it came. The Open PATH leads to the changeless
change-Nirvana, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human
thought.

Thus, the first Path is LIBERATION.

But Path the Second is-RENUNCIATION, and therefore called the "Path of Woe."

That Secret Path leads the Arhan to mental woe unspeakable; woe for the
living Dead, (3) and helpless pity for the men of karmic sorrow, the fruit
of Karma Sages dare not still.

For it is written: "teach to eschew all causes; the ripple of effect, as the
great tidal wave, thou shalt let run its course."

The "Open Way," no sooner hast thou reached its goal, will lead thee to
reject the Bodhisattvic body and make thee enter the thrice glorious state
of Dharmakaya(2) which is oblivion of the World and men for ever.

The "Secret Way" leads also to Paranirvanic bliss-but at the close of Kalpas
without number; Nirvanas gained and lost from boundless pity and compassion
for the world of deluded mortals.

But it is said "The last shall be the greatest," Samyak Sambuddha, the
Teacher of Perfection, gave up his SELF for the salvation of the World, by
stopping at the threshold of Nirvana-the pure state.

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Thou hast the knowledge now concerning the two Ways. Thy time will come for
choice, O thou of eager Soul, when thou hast reached the end and passed the
seven Portals. Thy mind is clear. No more art thou entangled in delusive
thoughts, for thou hast learned all. Unveiled stands truth and looks thee
sternly in the face. She says:

"Sweet are the fruits of Rest and Liberation for the sake of Self; but
sweeter still the fruits of long and bitter duty. Aye, Renunciation for the
sake of others, of suffering fellow men."

Voice 43 -46

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"For, O Disciple! Before thou wert made fit to meet thy Teacher face to
face, thy MASTER light to light, what wert thou told?

Before thou canst approach the foremost gate thou hast to learn to part thy
body from thy mind, to dissipate the shadow, and to live in the eternal. For
this, thou hast to live and breathe in all, as all that thou perceivest
breathes in thee; to feel thyself abiding in all things, all things in SELF.


Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind.

Thou shalt not separate thy being from BEING, and the rest, but merge the
Ocean in the drop, the drop within the Ocean.

So shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as
though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one Teacher, the sons of
one sweet mother. 

Of teachers there are many; the MASTER-SOUL is one (1) Alaya, the Universal
Soul. Live in that MASTER as ITS ray in thee. Live in thy fellows as they
live in IT.

Before thou standest on the threshold of the Path; before thou crossest the
foremost Gate, thou hast to merge the two into the One and

=================================
Footnote

(1) The "MASTER-SOUL" is Alaya, the Universal Soul or Atman, each man having
a ray of it in him and being supposed to be able to identify himself with
and to merge himself into it
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sacrifice the personal to SELF impersonal, and thus destroy the "path"
between the two-Antaskarana. (1)

Thou hast to be prepared to answer Dharma, the stern law, whose voice will
ask thee at thy first, at thy initial step:

"Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes?"

"Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all
mankind? For as the sacred River's roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds
are echoed back, (2) so must the 

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Footnotes

(1) Antaskarana is the lower Manas, the Path of communication or communion
between the personality and the higher Manas or human Soul. At death it is
destroyed as a Path or medium of communication, and its remains survive in a
form as the Kamarupa-the "shell."

(2) The Northern Buddhists, and all Chinamen, in fact, find in the deep roar
of some of the great and sacred rivers the key-note of Nature. Hence the
simile. It is a well-known fact in Physical Science, as well as in
Occultism, that the aggregate sound of Nature-such as heard in the roar of
great rivers, the noise produced by the waving tops of trees in large
forests, or that of a city heard at a distance-is a definite single tone of
quite an appreciable pitch. This is shown by physicists and musicians. Thus
Prof. Rice (Chinese Music) shows that the Chinese recognized the fact
thousands of years ago by saying that "the waters of the Hoang-ho rushing
by, intoned the kung" called "the great tone" in Chinese music; and he shows
this tone corresponding with the F, "considered by modern physicists to be
the actual tonic of Nature." Professor B. Silliman mentions it, too, in his
Principles of Physics, saying that "this tone is held to be the middle F of
the piano; which may, therefore, be considered the key-note of Nature."
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heart of him 'who in the stream would enter,' thrill in response to every
sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes."

Disciples may be likened to the strings of the soul-echoing Vina; mankind,
unto its sounding board; the hand that sweeps it to the tuneful breath of
the GREAT WORLD-SOUL. The string that fails to answer 'neath the Master's
touch in dulcet harmony with all the others, breaks-and is cast away. So the
collective minds of Lanoo-Shravakas. They have to be attuned to the
Upadyaya's mind-one with the Over-Soul-or, break away.


Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity's great pain, O candidate for light?

Thou hast? . . . Thou mayest enter. Yet, ere thou settest foot upon the
dreary Path of sorrow, 'tis well thou should'st first learn the pitfalls on
thy way.

Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure
before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the PATH.


*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*

For, O Disciple! Before thou wert made fit to meet thy Teacher face to face,
thy MASTER light to light, what wert thou told?

Before thou canst approach the foremost gate thou hast to learn to part thy
body from thy mind, to dissipate the shadow, and to live in the

===================================
Footnote

(1) A saint, an adept.
---------------------------------------------------------

54

eternal. For this, thou hast to live and breathe in all, as all that thou
perceivest breathes in thee; to feel thyself abiding in all things, all
things in SELF. 

Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind.

Thou shalt not separate thy being from BEING, and the rest, but merge the
Ocean in the drop, the drop within the Ocean.

So shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as
though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one Teacher, the sons of
one sweet mother. 

Of teachers there are many; the MASTER-SOUL is one (1) Alaya, the Universal
Soul. Live in that MASTER as ITS ray in thee. Live in thy fellows as they
live in IT.

Before thou standest on the threshold of the Path; before thou crossest the
foremost Gate, thou hast to merge the two into the One and

=================================
Footnote

(1) The "MASTER-SOUL" is Alaya, the Universal Soul or Atman, each man having
a ray of it in him and being supposed to be able to identify himself with
and to merge himself into it
------------------------------------------------------
55

sacrifice the personal to SELF impersonal, and thus destroy the "path"
between the two-Antaskarana. (1)

Thou hast to be prepared to answer Dharma, the stern law, whose voice will
ask thee at thy first, at thy initial step:

"Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes?"

"Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all
mankind? For as the sacred River's roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds
are echoed back, (2) so must the 

==============================
Footnotes

(1) Antaskarana is the lower Manas, the Path of communication or communion
between the personality and the higher Manas or human Soul. At death it is
destroyed as a Path or medium of communication, and its remains survive in a
form as the Kamarupa-the "shell."

(2) The Northern Buddhists, and all Chinamen, in fact, find in the deep roar
of some of the great and sacred rivers the key-note of Nature. Hence the
simile. It is a well-known fact in Physical Science, as well as in
Occultism, that the aggregate sound of Nature-such as heard in the roar of
great rivers, the noise produced by the waving tops of trees in large
forests, or that of a city heard at a distance-is a definite single tone of
quite an appreciable pitch. This is shown by physicists and musicians. Thus
Prof. Rice (Chinese Music) shows that the Chinese recognized the fact
thousands of years ago by saying that "the waters of the Hoang-ho rushing
by, intoned the kung" called "the great tone" in Chinese music; and he shows
this tone corresponding with the F, "considered by modern physicists to be
the actual tonic of Nature." Professor B. Silliman mentions it, too, in his
Principles of Physics, saying that "this tone is held to be the middle F of
the piano; which may, therefore, be considered the key-note of Nature."
--------------------------------------
56

heart of him 'who in the stream would enter,' thrill in response to every
sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes."

Disciples may be likened to the strings of the soul-echoing Vina; mankind,
unto its sounding board; the hand that sweeps it to the tuneful breath of
the GREAT WORLD-SOUL. The string that fails to answer 'neath the Master's
touch in dulcet harmony with all the others, breaks-and is cast away. So the
collective minds of Lanoo-Shravakas. They have to be attuned to the
Upadyaya's mind-one with the Over-Soul-or, break away.

Thus do the "Brothers of the Shadow"-the murderers of their Souls, the dread
Dad-Dugpa clan. (1)

====================================
Footnote

(1) The Bhons or Dugpas, the sect of the "Red Caps," are regarded as the
most versed in sorcery. They inhabit Western and little Tibet and Bhutan.
They are all Tantrikas. It is quite ridiculous to find Orientalists who have
visited the borderlands of Tibet, such as Schlagintweit and others,
confusing the rites and disgusting practices of these with the religious
beliefs of the Eastern Lamas, the "Yellow Caps," and their Narjols or holy
men. As an instance see page 59, footnote No. 1.
----------------------------------------------------------
57

Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity's great pain, O candidate for light?

Thou hast? . . . Thou mayest enter. Yet, ere thou settest foot upon the
dreary Path of sorrow, 'tis well thou should'st first learn the pitfalls on
thy way.

Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure
before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the PATH.


*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
*
For, O Disciple! Before thou wert made fit to meet thy Teacher face to face,
thy MASTER light to light, what wert thou told?

Before thou canst approach the foremost gate thou hast to learn to part thy
body from thy mind, to dissipate the shadow, and to live in the

===================================
Footnote

(1) A saint, an adept.
---------------------------------------------------------

54

eternal. For this, thou hast to live and breathe in all, as all that thou
perceivest breathes in thee; to feel thyself abiding in all things, all
things in SELF. 

Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind.

Thou shalt not separate thy being from BEING, and the rest, but merge the
Ocean in the drop, the drop within the Ocean.

So shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as
though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one Teacher, the sons of
one sweet mother. 

Of teachers there are many; the MASTER-SOUL is one (1) Alaya, the Universal
Soul. Live in that MASTER as ITS ray in thee. Live in thy fellows as they
live in IT.

Before thou standest on the threshold of the Path; before thou crossest the
foremost Gate, thou hast to merge the two into the One and

=================================
Footnote

(1) The "MASTER-SOUL" is Alaya, the Universal Soul or Atman, each man having
a ray of it in him and being supposed to be able to identify himself with
and to merge himself into it
------------------------------------------------------
55

sacrifice the personal to SELF impersonal, and thus destroy the "path"
between the two-Antaskarana. (1)

Thou hast to be prepared to answer Dharma, the stern law, whose voice will
ask thee at thy first, at thy initial step:

"Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes?"

"Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all
mankind? For as the sacred River's roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds
are echoed back, (2) so must the 

==============================
Footnotes

(1) Antaskarana is the lower Manas, the Path of communication or communion
between the personality and the higher Manas or human Soul. At death it is
destroyed as a Path or medium of communication, and its remains survive in a
form as the Kamarupa-the "shell."

(2) The Northern Buddhists, and all Chinamen, in fact, find in the deep roar
of some of the great and sacred rivers the key-note of Nature. Hence the
simile. It is a well-known fact in Physical Science, as well as in
Occultism, that the aggregate sound of Nature-such as heard in the roar of
great rivers, the noise produced by the waving tops of trees in large
forests, or that of a city heard at a distance-is a definite single tone of
quite an appreciable pitch. This is shown by physicists and musicians. Thus
Prof. Rice (Chinese Music) shows that the Chinese recognized the fact
thousands of years ago by saying that "the waters of the Hoang-ho rushing
by, intoned the kung" called "the great tone" in Chinese music; and he shows
this tone corresponding with the F, "considered by modern physicists to be
the actual tonic of Nature." Professor B. Silliman mentions it, too, in his
Principles of Physics, saying that "this tone is held to be the middle F of
the piano; which may, therefore, be considered the key-note of Nature."
--------------------------------------
56

heart of him 'who in the stream would enter,' thrill in response to every
sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes."

Disciples may be likened to the strings of the soul-echoing Vina; mankind,
unto its sounding board; the hand that sweeps it to the tuneful breath of
the GREAT WORLD-SOUL. The string that fails to answer 'neath the Master's
touch in dulcet harmony with all the others, breaks-and is cast away. So the
collective minds of Lanoo-Shravakas. They have to be attuned to the
Upadyaya's mind-one with the Over-Soul-or, break away.

Thus do the "Brothers of the Shadow"-the murderers of their Souls, the dread
Dad-Dugpa clan. (1)

====================================
Footnote

(1) The Bhons or Dugpas, the sect of the "Red Caps," are regarded as the
most versed in sorcery. They inhabit Western and little Tibet and Bhutan.
They are all Tantrikas. It is quite ridiculous to find Orientalists who have
visited the borderlands of Tibet, such as Schlagintweit and others,
confusing the rites and disgusting practices of these with the religious
beliefs of the Eastern Lamas, the "Yellow Caps," and their Narjols or holy
men. As an instance see page 59, footnote No. 1.
----------------------------------------------------------
57

Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity's great pain, O candidate for light?

Thou hast? . . . Thou mayest enter. Yet, ere thou settest foot upon the
dreary Path of sorrow, 'tis well thou should'st first learn the pitfalls on
thy way.

Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure
before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the PATH.


*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
*
Voice pp 54 - 7
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These mystical injunctions direct our attention to the "Teacher" that is
within -- our HIGHER SELF == ATMA.

Rare is he who discovers this guide and father SELF."

Best wishes,

Dallas
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: M. Sufilight
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:25 AM
To: 
Subject: How to find a teacher


Hallo all,

My views are:

The following requires, that some of you uses their little gray non-physical
cells in the central part of the brain.



Finally here it is:

1.
How do I find a Teacher?:
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real Student.
If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.


2.
What is a teacher?

Any experience, that teaches you something is a Teacher.
If you fall down the stairs, and that expereince learns you something. Then
the stairs was your Teacher.
So actually the whole "organic" world is our Teacher, and not only a Mahatma
with a 19th century India-Himalaya beard.

3.
How to approach the situation?: