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The Salmon Side and Man Side
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Below are Essentialism Teachings. They stem from a book.
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throughout:Introduction
Very many common people of this world are deluded, but correct reason, adjustments, and methods can lead to the Path.To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction. Without moving, without effort, they enter, we say, by reason.
To enter by adjustments can refer to suffering injustice, though having done no wrong. The verses indicate, "When you meet with adversity don't be upset," at any rate.
Not all methods are worth it. They need to be good and benevolent. Good also means effective and hardly irksome. To remain free from the impurity of practice - also while practicing the fifteen virtues to eliminate delusion according to this or that leader or source - is hardly for all. Yet some of the really wise also wake up to realize: "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing can be turned into bliss". It's done through the right Way.
1 - Intro - the salmon side and man's side
I DESIRE, at the very outset, to clear away one misunderstanding which often hinders a clear apprehension in these waters. The first followers often showed Jesus as a fish and referred to him likewise. He says you are sons of the Heavenly Father too, so your inner sides are now portrayed as fishes as well. Try and see if the cap fits before you wear it.There are many fishes in the sea. The salmon is one of them, and serves his purpose. The trout is another shining one, and they are interrelated. Mackerel is the third that you get presented.
There are good reasons to start guessing what they could mean - but remember to train yourself in thinking "well-well" as you read along. It is very much taught here.
There is no reason to get one-eyed and blind when it comes to theology. Truths may swim by that way. Be reminded, Jesus said he always taught the crowd in allegorical ways. See Matthew 13. And that was because he found it patent. But he was also called a blasphemer.
Next, certain things that are hard to detect are hard to describe too. However, subtleties can be nicely hinted at through figurative ways of speaking and writing. That's what we're up to. As a result of making good and salient points inside another Christian classic more figurative, insights are possible, even essential ones. Happy hunts.
I refer to the salmon's side and man's side. These are very distinct and even contrastive, but are not contradictory; though, to a cursory observer, they sometimes look so.
This was very strikingly illustrated not long ago. Two teachers found were each teaching different sides of the same truth; and this also was understood by a large proportion of their hearers. But one lady said,
"I cannot understand it at all. Here are two preachers undertaking to teach just the same truth, and yet to me they seem flatly to contradict one another."
By the use of figurative speech, that sort of perplexity can be avoided and lessened - and others may open up! At the same time the Child heart can be well entertained. That's what we're up to.
Look at your life as a building: Solid character may be slowly gained, "brick by brick". Careful adjustments are often needed, and so on.
There is a certain work to be accomplished. Besetting sins are to be conquered. Evil habits are to be overcome. Evil-doers should be put to shame first, and then - I let it rest here.
Wrong dispositions and feelings are to be uprooted. Somebody must do this. The fish inside may not be up to it at all times. If so, what is the part of the foggy, foggy believer, and what is the part of the trout?
You may ponder on that one and suddenly you see - something perfectly simple and harmonious. It could happen. And the cry "heureka" goes out.
On the other hand, the preacher who seeks to serve salmon and conform to salmon very much, day by day and hour by hour, may not be considered to really dwell on the practical side of affairs, and may also be upbraided for setting before the eaters of life an impossible and hopeless task.
And thus, let there be room for a gradual process with the old Baker's (life-giver's) hands on it. This is what our Dough Douglas must do; but what must the baker do? Give Dough hard treatment - knead it"
"Now we come to the important part: The well baked crumb is eatable and palatable, not too hard, and not much softer than the inside either.
Do we necessarily have to trust in the golden baker together? Does he lay egg or get them from elsewhere?
Here we have come to the salmon side of being alive. The lump of dough would hardly grow into a nice bread or cake if it remained in the oven for thousands of years. But once put into the hands of a skilful baker, and, under his fashioning, it grows rapidly into a cake to his honour. This is what is meant by growing "brick by brick" in another metaphor. I hope you see it. In Jeremiah the figures of speech are much similar. God is a potter, man is clay in his hands -
I knew a lady who had entered into this life of faith with a great outpouring of the Giant inside. Another lady, who had entered this life of faith under similar circumstances - another lump of dough. When it comes under the transforming hand of the handy baker, who labours and kneads her well, he pleases her trout, to say the least.
Can you understand it? If not, try to let it rest a while, and feel into the possible meanings here. That could help. And then the major symbols have been explained here: [Check]
A perfected apple gives a good pleasure. Then we think "it is a work of his hands.".
2 - The scripturalness of this life
AS WE explore this and that together, you should realise: "These are poetic teachings."A
THROUGHOUT all ages such imagery has been put to use to hint and suggest in favourable ways. It should be time to refresh things from that long tradition, and make hey when the sun shines.They say the true salmon-lover life is hid with the trout in the salmon. Now think of that. A picture may show it to you in a good way, as 'a fit picture tells as much as a thousand words' and hopefully in a shorter time.
The old man is crucified with cares. And what is called sin is some scandal which appears to
disdain you and perhaps something else. Parts may be over your head. To accomplish mistakes
and whatever, the golden baker's own form was reduplicated as men and women, two of them,
revealing himself continually in his beauty and the beauty of things one beholds - sort of.
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Be not adverse to handy teachings, but learn to give glory to the salmon inside you.
For he was also able to perform, and greatly. Don't forget that as the child of the Pa of
Jesus.
YOU COULD be astonished to find how well fed salmon-eaters are, eventually. And also those who
have mastered the long art of feasting of salmons of others. €
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THE GOLDEN (handy) baker has entered so deeply into the root of the nature of man that when our friends are in captivity we willingly pay lots of ransom money, hoping things to go well. It may not always happen.Yet salmon - ah, this subject is so glorious, and human words seem so powerless! One should try to enter into possession of this glorious life for himself.
What appears to work contrary to the salmon and his ways, may have to go. Now, who can believe
that Old Nick must always stand and prevail? €
LEARN TO compete with the weapons you have. Some weapons are the future's weapons. Ray guns
are coming.
The salmon forbids that his darling falls victim to dark plots. There is no need for a
redeemer in such cases - things work well as if by themselves. That could very well be the
greatest help you can get - no offence intended. Opposed to that canon are some who just learn
to look away utterly from their own weaknesses or imbecility.
Therefore, be of good cheer if you're having another nice day! €
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REMAIN sane: live to righteousness; by whose lordly stripes you may be healed in time. Just get rid of the false - what is false.The false redeemer, the strict and severe law, may or may not be much fulfilled by us - the rather depleted men and women in general at the beginning the third millennium.
'You are a slave'; that's in part what not dying fair and square and in the natural way and ways seem to bring. Better be forewarned.
Let this word of warning go out to future generations. A long life tends to come with a price.
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IF YOU hear that living on, far and wide, is good, you had better say, "No, no, a thousand times no!" For just as "everybody want's to live long; no one wants to get old", the latter part may be fixed through modern technology.The one who fails to die and then again and again, hardly learns to repent. Is this all? Hardly: The gist is that such as new global conditions favour new laws, given a little time. New conditions for mankind give reasons for new moral sets too, and dilemmas between shifting sets. We have seen it happen and more is probably to come. The essence of these teachings is hard.
Now, unless you live and in good health, maybe your other victories are found to be but few
and fleeting. Stay awake. Don't believe everything you come across - €
Zacharias got "filled with MacErel" at the birth of his son, and prophesied - he went
on to declare, that a certain trout gave himself for Jews that he might redeem these folks
from iniquity. But what happened? The Jews didn't welcome him, and there was a change of
plans. The nets were cast over neighbours instead, contrary to first dictums in the
matter.
Some salvation bandits never learn to present these facts too well.
3 - The life
JUST AS worried and unhappy as ever we are continually tempted to think the salmon gives. How much must the water-fond heart of the salmon endure to "give" himself as he does, if the salmon gives. Unless you are converted to become like little children, you could hardly bear so much sorrow.Wherever one happens to be, one should try to be without effort, or strain, even thought of one's personal part.
Be at rest through that. Leave your reputation, your salmon-lover work, your houses, your children as you strain yourself to be around with as little strain as possible. This is in part how deep-boring salmon-lovers live. They have given themselves into the care and keeping of a trout -
The salmon-lover does not necessarily spin; yet he should be fed, to go on singing,
"I fly through the thickest forest,
I see your temperament, your frames and feelings.
Is your body having less faith that anybody's body?
The body too lives in the present moment,
and receives its life from on high.
For a while 'Cod' made sense."
THE SALMON-LOVER, some cannot think of asking him to carry their dim burdens.
His sovereign secret is no ordinary key.
Watch that 'child' running in and out with the trout in the salmon;
is very far beyond the ordinary line of rustic experience perhaps.
Can you ever tell -?
FIND MEANS to rest well in the salmon through boring into the trout.
Have ease and lie down on his tender fish meat -
A result is that, although the circumstances may remain much unchanged, your diva
flame may be kept in great gladness. Belonging comes after that, not a few steps down the
ladder.
The fish-eater, all his life is planned out for him, and what next? "I don't bear it,"
may be one emphatic reply.
Bislow made someone of low degree.
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