Theos-Talk Archives (August 2007 Message tt00001)

 "Yoke " is the universal Self



















--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anton Rozman" <anton_rozman@...>
wrote:
>
> "What has sexual or breathing exercises to do with the spiritual 
> awakening? To me, it would be a universal joke if after all the soul 
> could be liberated in such an artificial way."
> 
> "When all the motions of the body have become perfectly rythmical the 
> body has, as it were, become a gigantic battery of will."
> 
> Those who practice prolonged aerobic activity know that during this 
> activity body automatically tends to acquire the most rational 
> consumption of energy and that this tendency expresses itself in the 
> attunement of all bodily functions with the rhythmical breathing. 
> This actually means that it tends to acquire its most natural way of 
> functioning which we have distorted or artificialized with our 
> unnatural way of living.
> 
> What is actually breathing? What are its higher aspects? What or who 
> controls it? 
> 
> The Secret Doctrine - "The Beginnings of Sentient Life" - says that 
> it is the breath of Lha (Spirit) which gives Life to the Seven - 
> Dragons of Wisdom. 
> 
> Therefore, in my view, breathing is expression of our inner 
> Intelligence in our sentient life.  We can attune ourselves (or 
> better our bodies) with this Intelligence if we acquire a natural, 
> rhythmic, circular way of breathing (without any special exercises), 
> when inhale and exhale become uniform movement. If we can achieve 
> this movement without interference (or with exclusion) of mind then 
> we can enter in the state of Ever-becoming - "eternal, ceaseless 
> Motion" - in which the creative powers of our Intelligence can 
> express themselves. With the will of our Intelligence we can for the 
> time being experience, for instance, respectfulness - not just 
> feeling it but actually becoming respectfulness. 
> 
> As regard to the sex, there are, in my opinion, no better words to 
> express the position of sentient experience in our life as those in 
> the M. Collins' book, Through the Gates of Gold:
> 
> "The man who chooses the way of effort, and refuses to allow the 
> sleep of indolence to dull his soul, finds in his pleasures a new and 
> finer joy each time he tastes them, - a something subtle and remote 
> which removes them more and more from the state in which mere 
> sensuousness is all; this subtle essence is that elixir of life which 
> makes man immortal. He who tastes it and who will not drink unless it 
> is in the cup finds life enlarge and the world grow great before his 
> eager eyes. He recognizes the soul within the woman he loves, and 
> passion becomes peace; he sees within his thought the finer qualities 
> of spiritual truth, which is beyond the action of our mental 
> machinery, and then instead of entering on the treadmill of 
> intellectualisms he rests on the broad back of the eagle of intuition 
> and soars into the fine air where the great poets found their 
> insight; he sees within his own power of sensation, of pleasure in 
> fresh air and sunshine, in food and wine, in motion and rest, the 
> possibilities of the subtle man, the thing which dies not either with 
> the body or the brain. The pleasures of art, of music, of light and 
> loveliness, - within these forms, which men repeat till they find 
> only the forms, he sees the glory of the Gates of Gold, and passes 
> through to find the new life beyond which intoxicates and 
> strengthens, as the keen mountain air intoxicates and strengthens, by 
> its very vigor. But if he has been pouring, drop by drop, more and 
> more of the elixir of life into his cup, he is strong enough to 
> breathe this intense air and to live upon it. Then if he die or if he 
> live in physical form, alike he goes on and finds new and finer joys, 
> more perfect and satisfying experiences, with every breath he draws 
> in and gives out."
> 
> Warmest regards,
> Anton
>