• Some Thinking
• A Success Recipe ☥

Some Thinking

Blessed momentums over and over yield rich harvests in time. Good fortune changes with the times, but one direction is still the same: getting deep within toward the heart's foundation. That is where blessed successes start.

Thinking means among other things: to use one's mind to produce thoughts; to weigh in the mind; consider especially quietly, soberly, and deeply; examine attentively or deliberately; focusing on something so as to understand it deeply; to reason; to consider suitability, and so on.

It is generally fit to survey and perhaps mount evidence and matters as they comes up. And to apply thought well, study this model and remember to get guarded: [Link]

Jane Dillon's Doctoral Dissertation

Jane E. Robinson Dillon's doctoral dissertation in sociology from the University of California, San Diego, has been published: "The Social Significance of a Western Belief in Reincarnation: A Qualitative Study of the Self-Realization Fellowship."

Dr. Dillon's work was rooted in ten years of field research. "The central thesis is that the SRF way of life, and the attendand beliefs in reincarnation and karma, have the possibility for broad acceptance in the United States and the western world as sources of meaning and philosophies for explaining the human condition." [Abstract]

Dillon used "ethnographic field methods and a documentary method of cultural analysis . . . within a perspectivalist constitutive theoretical model" and "bases of knowledged and belief." She went on to ask, "Why is 23% of the American population now claiming a belief in reincarnation (according to a 1981 Gallup Poll)? [p. 5]

She hoped to gather answers to her questions from kriyaban members of SRF, and tried to "analyse the doctrine, practices, and philosophies of the group" [p. 6].

She found that SRF has emerged as a somewhat conservative, traditional American church, one that drew western members primarily from Judeo/Christian religious backgrounds, and was experiencing growth too. Exact figures and indications were not given by Dillon, though. [p. 10]

Three years or so after her dissertation was made public, about one third of the SRF monastics left SRF premises - left SRF - in dismay and anguish. Some of them arranged a discussion board where there are over 28,000 postings by now.

Dillon's dissertation may not have captured the censorship, anguish, fear of conformising superiors and "stool pidgeons" - it remains to be checked. Someone who involuntarity did so, is a Canadian Geoffrey D. Falk. He spent some time in one of the SRF ashrams in California, and writes from his time there that "some Clint Eastwood "spaghetti western" movies are pre-approved for Hidden Valley ashram viewing by monks and residents on their monthly movie nights. The Sound of Music, in contrast, is banned. The reason? In the latter, Julie Andrews' character is contemplating life as a monastic, but then finds "the man of her dreams" and "lives happily ever after." [Falk]

Just Happy

The universal content

Long ago all living things were lost in one dreadful ocean that looked like a large egg. All creatures stem from it. Brahma was lying within this egg, and he went to sleep. After a thousand ages he woke up, broke open the golden egg, and after intricate opening-ups, an embryo shaped as a bubble, became solid. It's known as "that which supports" - another name for terra firma - the hard earth - the sustainer of beautiful creatures.

Brahma is called the grandfather of the world because of what he did deep inside the dreadful night. Lying inside the egg he can be aroused. [Clh 32, 36].

❖ "Is the egg of the universe duck-made or dinosaur-made, then?" one may ask, and add, "Where salient, pertinent humour is absent, things may get more dreary."

❖ One should not look down on a savoury beginner, Brahma included.

Further teachings

Atman is the individualised godhead, godhood, godness.

Maya encompasses the power to understand. Heinrich Zimmer devotes much space to explain from Indian traditions on Maya. They differ.

It is not wise to fear a half-crocodile monster you have only read of in the Bhagavad Gita or elsewhere. But levitation is possible, and documented.

Do not let a tough "them" complicate the sources of your good living.

Make significant and essentially proper choices.

One hour a day

Stalking Wolf said,

"There is . . . possible futures. The 'now' is like the palm of a hand, with each finger being the possible future, and . . . one of the futures is [presumably] the most powerful, the way that the main course of events will . . . take us . . ."

He always left a choice.

"It is not enough that man be just happy in the flesh . . . The end result is always . . . forgotten graves and forgotten dreams of forgotten people . . . It is not enough just to seek the things of the Spirit on a personal level . . . Spiritual man must then work for a principle."

[Extracted from Nexus Magazine (Mapleton, Australia), Volume 7, Number 1. The original article was copyrighted by Tom Brown, Jr, 1991.]

In Egypt

In ancient Egypt they said such things as "The sun-god Re uses a boat on his way. The sun-god uses a boat over dark, dim waters." It is depicted in many ancient Egyptian paintings. The picture can be taken to indicate that your sense of independence and self-assertion needs help in dim waters too.

If is best not be a Christian and rot inside. [Mark 2:17; Matthew 15:24]. Go for something better, improving yourself. TM is documented to be great help, regardless of religious affiliatons. Buddhist self-help can be excellent for it. You do not have to be a Buddhist to derive benefits from the good teachings of Buddha.

A Success Recipe

The following contains tips to the sincere.

Being alive and well and regularly on some even keel herds somehow

It helps to act legitimately and proficiently a long time before the contemplation of suicide. Also, appropriate delight in living should be fostered. Indeed, sound forethought and great planning shouldn't hurt us.

Besides, a spirit that knows how to be so cunning that it's hardly ever found out how much it delights, has got to have inner stamina, for one thing.

To some, inner stamina is the great result of living - such staunchness may be dearly won. Further, a rich harvest may rise above wasting much time otherwise as well.

It should help to find a fit direction, and also to tend regularly to good fortune. There may be steps involved.

Getting on on an even keel may be dearly won and worked for over and over for centuries in a family or clan.

It helps getting on an even keel of fair play, and good sincerity and a kind heart should not be forsaken.

It helps getting sincere, and deep relaxation is the means to it in psychoanalysis and otherwise. Tend to the time for deep relaxation. Through TM one relaxed deeply. There are other methods too.

The sincere seldom imitate good.

It is feasible to imitate good, but for the sake of sanity and artfulness, the time spent on imitating others should be minimal. ◊

Those who do not rise about imitating what is thought to be good, are of herds somehow.

Love is strong and fit in herding others.

Having ample space or room works towards duping others almost naturally.

What really matters to us we tend to be deeply fond of

Marriage matters deeply.

Cooperating partners need to be fond of fair play among themselves

Marriage matters both to fools and others. ◊

The Jester or Fool is really fond of harmony with others.

Some jesters have helped blessed changes in the cultural history of Europe, as documented [Chh].

The source of a royal wedding is being in a flow of great success

One can try to profit from bulwarking more and better

The best source of a thing is a heart's foundation.

Commit yourself to momentum, and keep the momentum too, over and over.

To get a royal wedding follows the truly good fortune, at least in fairy tales, and perhaps before paparazzi pictures and a scandal-hungry press took over the flow of information to common people in general. ◊

Those who commit themselves to soar above competition and fights should benefit from deep relaxation, including TM. ◊◊

Gist

1. Being alive and well and regularly on some even keel herds somehow.
2. What really matters to us we tend to be deeply fond of.
3. The source of a royal wedding is being in a flow of great success.

Keeping alive and well deeply matters for a flow of success. And seek to be as classy as you can. You can try to work yourself justly and well up into higher classes. Some have made it.

These are some of the things that good thinking can influence and possibly help.