Subj : The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 06/07, 2001 & Daily Wisdom//Commen
To   : All
From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Sat Jun 09 2001 11:07 pm

              The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 06, 2001
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           A simple criterion should be remembered: whatever feels 
        good for you - blissful, peaceful, spontaneous, happening on 
        its own accord - that is your path.
   
                                                      Osho
   

 Robin:     Ultimately, we are our own gurus. Nothing said by another
        can guide us, until we learn from his or her guidance to 
        trust the innate wisdom we possess. 
            We could be dogmatists, following the rules and scriptures 
        we have been given. I think we are better off as heretics.
             Heresy means to choose, and that is all. It is not evil,
        nor is it rebellion. It is simply choice. Dogma vs. heresy, 
        these are the two paths. 
 
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           Whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to 
        know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for 
        it.  

                                                - Patrick Henry
  

  Robin: Talk about heresy! Here was a man who proclaimed "Give me 
        liberty or give me death!" He was so strong an individualist,
        he made such statements. He might be a good man to read up 
        on, mightn't he?
 
            To know the truth....I suspect most of us fear it. We
        think it will harm us to know the truth. But why? Are we 
        cowards? Or would we embrace the reality as it is, and having 
        done so be armed against deception? Finally, we deceive but 
        ourselves. We need to come to understand faith, but. apart 
        from love, how many words have been so misunderstood?
 


                 The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 07, 2001
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         A very important moment in the work on oneself is when a man
        begins to distinguish his personality and his essence. A 
        man's real I, his individuality, can grow only from his 
        essence. 
         It can be said that a man's individuality is his essence, 
        grown up, mature. But in order to enable essence to grow up, 
        it is first of all necessary to weaken the constant pressure 
        of personality upon it, because the obstacles to the growth 
        of essence are contained in personality.
 
                                                G.I. Gurdjieff

 
 Robin: Personality is from persona, the Greek word for 'mask.' It 
        was the mask the actors on a stage wore to represent the 
        gods. It somehow became associated with the 'real self.' It 
        might be said then, the real self is just a 'real mask.'
 
            I once was asked at a gathering of diverse religions, 
        what to you is God? My answer was 'Essence.'
 
            We worship an idea in our minds of what God is. We thus 
        bow down before a thought in our own minds.
 
            If we worship only a thought, then we worship our minds. 
        We then are our gods and our goddesses. This may trivialize 
        deity, or it might point to ourselves as That, as deity 
        itself. Which is the truth? Investigate to know.
    
            Gurdjieff was in interesting character. He was the archetype 
        of the cunning saint, the rascal sage.
 
            Most who know of him learned from his disciple, Ouspensky, 
        who happened to die before Gurdjieff, which was very annoying 
        to his teacher. 
 
            They were very different personalities. One was filled with 
        mischief, and the other was a mathemetician, filled with logic.
 
            This was wonderfully entertaining. 
 

--- Msged/2 4.00
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