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Mar 07, 2001 02:56 AM
by dalval14
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Wednesday, March 07, 2001 Dear
M----: If you
have studied the KEY TO THEOSOPHY so as to learn what THEOSOPHY has to say
about the principles of Man, then you will be able to answer the question for
yourself. OUR PSYCHOLOGY Examine
your own psychology.. Can you be detached? Can you try to look into your innate potentials? Can you see the difference between
selfishness and unselfishness? Can
we determine clearly in our own understanding the difference between selfish
VICES and generous, unselfish and universal VIRTUES? Thisis
the basic problem with us all. OUR
CONSCIOUSNESS and INTELLIGENCE First we
need to know what is CONSCIOUSNESS
( to see/understand along with )
What sees along with WHAT ?
Is it the brain-mind that tries to see along with the SPIRITUAL IDEALS
that are UNIVERSAL and IMPERSONAL ?
And, remember that the bran-mind (Lower Manas) is only a reflection of
the lesser capacities and qualities of the HIGHER MIND -- the Buddhi-Manas or
the VIRTUOUS MIND, wise with the experience of its ages of existence and
evolution -- for this is an immortal and the seat of our existence (our
outside-living). EGOIC
IDENTITY --- MIND -- SOUL -
SPIRIT Are they real ? Thatwhich
gives us pour special identity is WHAT?
What are we going to call it?
What qualities will it represent?
Will it be a universal criterion -- applicable reasonably to all
persons, or will it be something personal and entirely selfish to us which
ISOLATES us from the rest of the world? COOPERATIVES
and WHOLENESS If the
Cosmos and our World is a CO-OPERATIVE, then, how do we determine our placein
it? Or, do we believe that the
whole Universe exists only to provide us with our own pleasures and pastimes? Do we think that we can carve a small
isolated portion of it and call it our territory, and then exercise proprietary
rights over it? And in that case I
ask you: How long would you be
able to live in such an ISOLATION
without fresh air, water, food, earth, etc., etc… [ I am deliberately
stretching the analogy and only allowing in your “territory” that which you
have isolated at this moment and forever after. In other words you will receive from nature and man no
further assistance. What then? ] These are the
basic ideas we have been reviewing not once but many times so far, and where is
there any progress? SELF-STUDY -- some suggestions So why not
start making notes for yourself about
-- you will have to do the work and all that anyone can say or do for
you is to point to the tools and methods that they have found useful. You cannot get very far, or resolve
doubts, if you are going to try to get something g for nothing, which happens
to fit your notions, and does not relate to THINGS AS THEY ARE. [ I mean things viewed impersonally.
Impartially, and as a cooperative where all units fit into an interacting and
mutually life-giving whole? ] So: 1. What
are the qualities of the UNIVERSE ?
How are they to be defined?
What are they named? 2. What
are the equivalent characteristics of HUMAN BEINGS? Define. Name. 3. What
is the INTER-RELATION of these ? Letssee
what you are able to come up with.
What are the dead ends you can identify? What kind of bridges of understanding and logic would you recommend
be installed to make the whole coherent and reasonable? Best
wishes, Dallas ============================== -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:53 AM Subject: The Quest of Life ===============cut In other words (?), that "simple and the most difficult"
aspect of devotion toward "REAL PROGRESS" would seem to be, among
other things, "simplexic" (if I can be permitted to use that wordin
the sense of "simple and most difficult" or "simple and complex"?). DTB REAL PROGRESS of
WHAT towards WHERE? Define? =========================== For example, if one were to believe in one's devotion to an
ongoing search for more and more Essential meaning in everything for the
sake of Essential meaning---as less-Essential forms of meaning are beginning to
have less Essential Relevance, for one, comparatively speaking---then would
that kind of search qualify as contributing to "REAL PROGRESS"? DTB What are those
ESSENTIALS? DEFINE. You cannot
be devoted without an object can you? ===================================== If the relevant factors would so qualify that kind of devoted
search: one's thoughts about Essential meaning, one's attempts to
understand thought itself, would seem to be, at a certain point in one's
evolution, fostered by aspects of devotion, in a sense: It's as if a
certain kind of "spiritual devotion" arises out of one's Karma,
prompting one to, in a sense, Believe in that devotion, leading one to search
for more and more Meaning (beyond the appearances) in everything.
That devoted search for Meaning would seem to have unifying force, or
effect: One could honestly say "I BELIEVE" (as opposed to
"tentatively believe", for example) in one's own form of devoted
SEARCH for more and more meaning, or Meaning, in everything: Such devoted
search-beliefs in turn leading toward, for example, theosophic studies,
"centralising intelligence," "brotherhood" concepts,
etc. DTB Mere BELIEF
without logic or proof sends you, me and everyone else back to the CHURCH where
the sole tenet is “THEPRIEST
KNOWS. You BELIEVE BLINDLY.” Who
profits from that? Only those who
are lazy and will not do the searching for themselves. ===================================== My contention here being that theosophic self/Self studies that
don't have a Meaningful-enough "SEARCH" component, (in
Basic/Essential-theosophic terms), can be (for some?) missing a
necessary-essential link to considerations such as "mental abnegation [
giving up any personal interest in the benefits of ]", in that a certain
kind of devoted SEARCH for Meaning would seem (as I see it) to offer a
"real-enough" (and often a "necessary"?) bridging or
metempsychosic effect toward elements of Essential Meaning/Relevance or
Buddhi-Manas. DTB A
“search-component” is not an insensitive mechanical device. Everything in Nature is ALIVE andhas
its own PURPOSE. Our mechanistic,
materialistic civilizations stops at forms. IT DOES NOT ASK
“HOW WAS THE FORM MADE /”
What INTELLIGENCE IS TO BE SEEN IN IT? WHAT IS ITS REAL PURPOSE? HOW DOE IT RELATE ME TO OTHERS? Theosophically
THE “SEARCH COMPONENT” -- AS YOU MUST ALREADY KNOW INTUITIVELY AND LOGICALLY --
is the FREE-WILL. It is inherent
in all humans and is the result of their being now aware that the ETERNAL MONAD
within has reached the stage of being a mind being. It is now an EGO -- a MIND -- a SOUL. There is an innate urge in each of us
to KNOW OURSELVES. Some dislike
this and then the smother it or do nothing or actively seek to obliterate it in
others? What is your
position? =================================== The less simplexic explanation of the above might be: Much
questioning of one's motives, values, etc., can lead to more and more relevant
considerations, and those in turn possibly leading one toward aspectsof
Relevance (or Buddhi-Manic insights). DTB GOOD Now why don’t you list themfor us to
look over. Best
wishes, Dal ------------------------------------------ M |