Theos-Talk Archives (August 2010 Message tt00067)

They were not the first, but perhaps the most wellknown in the western countries today. But people in theosophical circles like to think that they were the first.
Try to get hold on whom the Buddhists and Adwaitists who visited USA in the early 20th century were.
Then I think you parhaps will agree with me.



M. Sufilight


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cass Silva 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 1:39 AM
  Subject: Re: theos-talk Elijah Crow â The Silence of the Mind


    


  Yes of course these teachings were available, but were inaccessible to most 
  people in the west.  As far as I know it was only Gurdgieff and Krishnamurti 
  that brought them to the west.  Both of which were laughed at as metaphysical 
  try-hards.
  >
  >Cass 
  >
  >From: "Augoeides-222@J2ID6XiAAQ7bB2JeVnthWigbgMQDAWNSXyVC680X404yoAoFgbdkT47kv96zOZkYf0wWs94XQFaAY8fsafPplXQbZQ.yahoo.invalid" <Augoeides-222@J2ID6XiAAQ7bB2JeVnthWigbgMQDAWNSXyVC680X404yoAoFgbdkT47kv96zOZkYf0wWs94XQFaAY8fsafPplXQbZQ.yahoo.invalid>
  >To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
  >Sent: Fri, 6 August, 2010 3:22:45 AM
  >Subject: Re: theos-talk Elijah Crow â The Silence of the Mind
  >
  >  
  >Hmmm, 
  >After reading Blavatsky and all, how can Theosophists be ignorant of the Void? 
  >The Tibetans Kunje Nonparshespa original primordial clear void/empty 
  >Mind/Consciousness. And almost all the Tibetan Sects teach the void. The 
  >Mahayana Void or Empty mind. The Vedanta Adwaita. The Krama Kashmiri Advaita. 
  >The Tao Te Ching - Way of the Dao, The Korean and Japanese Zen all have the 
  >Void. The Heart Sutra has the Void. And Krishnamurti also spoke of the Non-dual 
  >Paradigm in his orations even if he would not name historical Parents of it. The 
  >Yoga Sutra teaches arrival to Queisence of Mind which reveals the Void of 
  >Primordial Self-nature.The Sufi also taught of the original Void, It is the 
  >Primary Metaphysical Cognition and is sometimes called Home. Find out "Who" you 
  >really are. Find out "Where" you really are. Lila is the illusion of the filling 
  >of the Void of original Self Beingness. This Doctrine of the Void is Primordial 
  >because it is the projection of Truth from Truth to Truth when Truth is cloaked 
  >during the Projection's of Lila. 
  >
  >
  >Just my personal view. 
  >
  >John 
  >----- Original Message ----- 
  >From: "M. Sufilight" <global-theosophy@XnhDguavtugY6mzo5TXgucOILaD4Q9SlK-eMGbgUWDASEtRv8A3GDAxJt5Cn8w6gXrWP4AFBDh_btVLcFOLr8w_U0tqMKw.yahoo.invalid> 
  >To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  >Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2010 10:06:55 AM 
  >Subject: Re: theos-talk Elijah Crow â The Silence of the Mind 
  >
  >It looks a bit like Eckhat Tolle's: "The Power of Now". 
  >
  >----- Original Message ----- 
  >From: MKR 
  >To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  >Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:28 PM 
  >Subject: Re: theos-talk Elijah Crow â The Silence of the Mind 
  >
  >I found the following quote from Krishnamurti. Yet to locate where it was 
  >made. 
  >
  >"Reality is the interval between two thoughts" 
  >
  >Looks like two people coming up with the same statement, independently. 
  >
  >MKR 
  >
  >On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:10 PM, MKR < mkr777@sFWFJaRdAqsnBFJ6AMJChnAXizaiRIhxL4kYbfotArtTXHGKITo1Fx0B7CVe5tp7OWg_CGpY.yahoo.invalid > wrote: 
  >
  >> The 'void' he is talking about seems to be same as what Jiddu Krishnamurti 
  >> has been discussing. May be some others would jump in and share their 
  >> observations. 
  >> 
  >> By the way, in what language did Crow write his book? 
  >> 
  >> MKR 
  >> 
  >> 
  >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Witnessing Presence < 
  >> witnessing_presence@0pfLiesEkED-42318bNjQRiJosytZ7aQAss2S8kK4CfUuUvMnm8UyLe0DR7s8aza44wQmCs_Qn759RVm7dd1usxfujCxnlUc.yahoo.invalid > wrote: 
  >> 
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >>> I would like to share an unknown enlightened mystic - Elijah Crow â The 
  >>> Silence of The Mind, have just finished translating his book 
  >>> 
  >>> Elijah Crow does not belong to any nonduality lineage or tradition, his is 
  >>> a personal expression and experience of nonduality. 
  >>> 
  >>> Read the whole book here 
  >>> 
  >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/34607176/Elijah-Crow-The-Silence-of-the-Mind 
  >>> 
  >>> The Power of Emptiness 
  >>> 
  >>> The "void" or " psychological emptiness" is a strange 
  >>> phenomenon, 
  >>> It appears spontaneously, in the pause between two 
  >>> thoughts, 
  >>> As the old thought ends its course and disappears, 
  >>> Its end is the gate, natural silence ensues. 
  >>> 
  >>> Insist in being with it, as much as you can, 
  >>> The mind is completely silent, we are attentive â a clear 
  >>> consciousness, 
  >>> All meanings, boundaries disappear â us and the Infinite 
  >>> are "One"; 
  >>> Practically, we have a new mind â always fresh. 
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >>> Being in the pause â I become infinite! 
  >>> It separates two worlds. I leave the limited world 
  >>> And enter Boundlessness, through total melting; 
  >>> The whole being is calm â a constant sparkle. 
  >>> 
  >>> There is no time, no space â just everlasting Eternity; 
  >>> I move in direct contact with life, in a permanent present. 
  >>> I am Pure Energy, without motivations, 
  >>> The simplicity of existence integrates us completely. 
  >>> 
  >>> We really encounter Life only through this "now", 
  >>> Free from the old, we are able to embrace the new. 
  >>> All this beauty vanishes, when another thought appears, 
  >>> It comes from the knowing mind â an old recording. 
  >>> 
  >>> Let it play its game, do not oppose any resistance, 
  >>> Encounter it as it is, without any purpose, 
  >>> It will certainly disappear, and "emptiness" ensues again, 
  >>> Another opportunity to encounter it practically. 
  >>> 
  >>> We find the real meaning of Life through this "void", 
  >>> It is a boundary line between the two worlds: 
  >>> On the one side the limited, where the "ego" is the 
  >>> master. 
  >>> On the other, the Infinite, where Love is the master. 
  >>> 
  >>> Emptiness also separates Light from the darkness, 
  >>> The permanent chaos through struggle, contradictions and 
  >>> conflicts, 
  >>> From the harmonious being, equilibrium and joy; 
  >>> The whole egocentrism perishes, by encountering the 
  >>> void. 
  >>> 
  >>> Peace, divine order becomes our nature 
  >>> It changes our way of being, without effort or will, 
  >>> Only through this psychological void, we become honest 
  >>> and humane, 
  >>> The Purity of the Energy â makes titans out of pigmies . 
  >>> 
  >>> Let this "psychological emptiness" be your guide, 
  >>> In everything you encounter on your spiritual path. 
  >>> If it is not the starting point, we easily get deceived, 
  >>> Only through emptiness â we become Love! 
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >> 
  >> 
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