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Humans, Animals and Onward Moves
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A calm centre helps calm observation. That's what scientists try for as they seek to ascertain true and significant details of this and that, think into serious challenges and try to avoid dangers.
A calm centre. it is a boon to have. It is like a kite sailing high in the clear sky - above the immediate surroundings, above the present situation, just like wit in some cases
By observing significant details, studying or checking situations and being careful and meticulous, the scientists learns to handle concepts and ways of doing things (better and better). Eventually he takes stock of phenomena and may learn to use basic facets of them to further his or her own good.
Be conscientious of detail after learning to handle things like that, and your situations may improve. You may need feedback and revisions towards it - Thus humans have moved beyond exposure to many a danger." [MORE]
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Mending the Pen
WHEN KING Bushid came to the throne, his interests were swayed from favouring the country. Often he idled away his time with his concubines and favoured whoever pandered to his base passions and desires, no matter whether such a person was a traitor or not. But as to those who saw they had to admonish him for his wayward life, he shooed or even punished them. As a result the state declined rapidly.An old loyal minister warned the king frankly of the coming danger, "The country is getting weaker and weaker. If you don't mend your ways right away, I am afraid you will lose the country to the neighbouring king, who wants it."
The king became red with anger and shouted, "What a stupid man we have got here, cursing his own motherland with such evil words! Away with you while you while you are still safe and sound!"
The minister saw that he could not turn the tide, so he withdrew and went to a third country, where he lived much by himself in a cottage.
Five months later a neighbouring king invaded the country of king Bushid and took the capital. The defeated king had to flee for life. Sad in mind he realized his mistakes and recalled what his minister had said, and sent for him
"You cannot imagine how I repent what I did," he said, "Only it's too late for that now."
The old minister looked at the king, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Would you mind listening to a story? Here it is:
A shepherd got up one morning to find one of his sheep lost. He examined the pen and saw a hole in it. A wolf had got in there and robbed him of one of his sheep. His neighbours advised him to mend it at once, but he answered, "What is the use of doing it now, after the sheep is gone already?'
Next morning another sheep was gone through the same hole. Now the shepherd did not hesitate to mend his sheepfold. Well, king Bushid, do you think it was too late?"
The king nodded and realized he should get ready for the battles that were needed to take back his capital, or go to heaven while striving.
Can Animals Move Upwards Unaided?
Few Wild Animals Make It - Karmic Teachings Found Out
Often Indians state and affirm that plenty of good and noble conduct from animals that pave the way to higher life forms, including man's. But think of it: After all, a lion is a cat and lives by ambush and murder. That is being good as a cat. A man that murders is hardly different in gross outline if he has no other choice than butcher in order to survive. If he has other choices, he could be said to be far more inconsiderate than wild animals.As most often happens, no or very few wild animals may swerve very much from the over-all plan for his species without much trouble travail and being looked on as oddballs somehow.
Some Indian masters say man degenerates by living as a lion, while the lion goes up again from living like able lions to. Is the found moral one of "up and down you go, lad, but mainly downwards these days - for you cannot go up unless you swerve much. Every individual has that knack - and should love it."?
Thus, swerving could bring progress, boons, blessings. But animals hardly have much leeway today unless they are well fed - the same goes for humans too, perhaps.
Study who gets rich on teachings on karma and reincarnation before you just believe the dogma bringing guys. Expert propaganda could serve their getting richer and richer on top a hoodwinked following. Suspect as early and well (discreetly) as you can to stay on the safe side. Do not let others do your thinking for you.
Individuals that favour science with some of their output, may be loosely defined as good and skilful sceptics. They may turn into such as the greatest men of science - or into full-fledged sceptics and maybe even educable sceptics [cf. Autobiography of a Yogi [Ha 332-3].
- You may have to swerve from the conform setting to make it - taming man to be his crew was not what God intended.
Dogmatising?
Do not get too sure
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"Our best friends are those who criticise us the most . . . who never condone our faults.—Rebuke me a million times - do scold med now." [In part Pa 432].
He does not seem to say, "Our best friends are those who live to cite us the most." Nor does he say the sagacious words, "A fooling cult should be undermined." Now, below could be a handy attitude fit for harsh conditions, perhaps; through words from Zen annals:
From Zen annals
Do not abuse others with harsh words or glare at them with angry eyes.
Once the priest Chen-ching K'o-wen told his assembly:"Some time ago Hsüeh-feng and I were studying together. We also made a pact of friendship. Then one day he was arguing about the teachings with another student in the monks' dormitory. They argued in loud voices and finaly began fighting, using terribly abusive language towards each other. When the argument was over, my friend took me to task: 'We are fellow students that made a firm pact with each others. Why did not you help me out when I was fighting?'
At that I bowed my head in sad regret.
Later he became a fine teacher.
When I think back on the incident now, his argument served no useful end whatever. It has always been a mistake to argue. I believed argument to be pointless and remained silent.
Lots of students should consider this thoroughly. Even if you think you know the teaching thoroughly and are far superior, unless you stop arguing you are likely to be at fault too - one way or another. [Retold; cf. Dog 82-3].
Conclude professionally the day you can
We should try to conclude well wherever we are, for sound and proficient conclusion work could bring insights and it tends to give help one way or another. We find that keynotes in study is like it. And maybe there are better things to do than being the silent teacher - we do not have a tradition for it in the West, and professionalism in it may be seriously misunderstood - you could get offended.As for other 'inevitables', they are not necessarily marital, they only look that way. There is also a good and sound reason to think that both pleasure and suffering are hallmarks of being alive, of living.
Born in the universe
Once a man that knew several songs of Bob Dylan and bathed naked on his own beach,
was sent to jail and a large stone placed on his chest to make happenings seem easy-going
and even all right. Yet he was born of the universe, into it, and that's not little in
itself.A different thing happens once the bandit is beheaded. His godly Mom is said to appear in front of him like Mother Mary to many a Roman Catholic, perhaps. But . . . after the family of Jesus had striven to have him thrown out of a high cliff, Jesus did not do his own biological mother much homage. You may think the Catholic Church has made up for that by millions of 'Hail Mary's, but is not there a far better wisdom in "Give me a flower while I live, and not after I'm gone"?
It depends, though. Jesus found it fit to dismiss his mother greatly: "Who is my mother?" he asked one day when she stood outside his door and wanted to meet him, and maybe he concluded she was not one of them.
Then again, she did not have to go to prison and get crucified upside down, like Peter. Hm.
- Able friends won't cheat.
Teachings on kriya yoga
Is Learning Babaji's Kriya Highly Important These Days?
Distinctions of "important" and "unimportant" are surely unknown to the Lord, lest, for want of a pin, the cosmos collapse. - Yogananda [Ha 82]
And thereby Yogananda seems to teach that kriya yoga is not important either - or just as
important as anything else - given this premise. And the reason? There is little to learn to
the one who loves to think the whole wide world and everything in it is illusionary.
Yogananda did. We don't. And some of his gurus sent him to the West to teach kriya - was
that without reason? Just a stray fancy of someone? You had better thing about it, and
find a good teacher. It is one who has anything to teach . . .The Grand Teachings On Kriya (Evasion)
Q: What is kriya yoga? I would like to learn it.A: What? You can read a big book of 1200 pages and still be without the needed keys to very successful practice.
Q: Now that you have appeared before the world, you should give it some elegant sayings also. Now the time is ripe. Please, open the treasure of such knowledge and give it away! I need a description of how kriya yoga should be done, perhaps also how it should be taught.
A: Disciples in search of masters ignore God inside - What I have written, is just finished. It will not be impossible for mankind to follow this superb yoga at present. So do not always worry. There is hardly an end to the universe - Maybe, one person only, and maybe five persons, or maybe a few more will understand these teachings on building Tao, all available to mankind, no longer a big secret.
Q: You are teaching practically. You do not want men to become like hardening stones at all. Have you got any particular message for practitioners of Kriya?
A: One finds that kriya yoga often is given out and next trampled on - thus a difficult subject to be taught and practice correctly.
Summing up
These things stand out:- Kriya yoga is taught by SRF, and by other masters and lineages.
- The way: Mantra-repetition may lead into quite unheard gasping and ecstazy.
- And such kriya yoga is so difficult that it is out of the reach of nearly everybody - but it should not remain a secret.
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Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
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