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Pierre Wouters replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 4 hours, 22 minutes ago
I can live with that response đ Thanks.
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Dhyana Marga in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 13 hours ago
July 22, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Dhyana Marga
Let those who have by now set their lives in order be received
into the sanctuary. â PICO della MIRANDOLA
A man comes into possession of creative power by uniting his
own mind with the Universal Mind. â JACOB BĂEHME
Laura replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 8 hours ago
The question is truly great. It gives a depth of opportunity to understand the inner life. The answer well put.
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 8 hours ago
July 21, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom
âGreat Sifterâ is the name of the âHeart Doctrineâ,
O Disciple. â THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
Logic is a matter of mere intelligence, which cannot apprehend
things that are clear as crystal to the heart. â M. K. GANDHI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 8 hours ago
July 20, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. â PETRARCH
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of wisdom to learn. â OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Sr.
Shen Rampersaud replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 13 hours ago
The response to feeling woe and grief is one of either non-attachment or clinging. Clinging is a result of identifying with the many reactions to feelings. And this obscures truth.
Being touched by pain is not a sign of attachment. The deterrent to non-attachment is the spiral of thoughts, emotions, fruitless meaning, reactive actions, etc. that…[Read more]
Pierre Wouters replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 4 hours ago
Shen, you said: “To assist another with empathy and effectiveness requires feeling the right amount of woe and grief”.
How would you relate that “right amount of woe and grief” in turn to the idea of non-attachment as – for instance – explained in the Bhagavad Gita?
In the Voice of the Silence, the Viraga Paramita speaks of “indifference to…[Read more]
Shen Rampersaud replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 5 hours ago
This is a good point, Pavel.
Detachment without indifference is a delicate skill, but an essential one in being engaged and responsive. With upekkha, one is not swayed by the daily current of stimuli.
Upekkha demands some of the qualities of nekkhamma (renunciation), as one of the perfections. Arguably, equanimity lies on this foundation.
Mark Casady replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 6 hours ago
Reminds me of a verse from another poet, the Sufi Saadi: âHuman beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.â (Gulistan 1, 10)
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 14 hours ago
July 19, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom
Knowledge is proud that he knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
â WILLIAM COWPER
Learn to unlearn. â BENJAMIN DISRAELI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 14 hours ago
July 18, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom
Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God. â JESUS
âTis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. â THOMAS FULLER
Fundamental theorem of the calculus (Leibniz) 1677
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 14 hours ago
July 17, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul-Wisdom
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one
faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
â FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also. â ROBERT BROWNING
First photograph of a star 185…[Read more]
Pavel Axentiev replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 5 days, 8 hours ago
Interestingly, in Buddhism, as far as I understand it, the compassion (karuna), empathetic joy (mudita) and loving-kindness (metta) have to be balanced with equanimity (upekkha). These four comprise the brahmaviharas (“the four immeasurables”), while the latter two (metta and upekkha) are also included in the paramitas (“perfections”).
Peter replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 5 days, 12 hours ago
Gerry â yes, it makes sense to look at other ways of expressing the dichotomy of good and evil.
Perhaps part of the problem here is that terms like Good and Evil tend to reflect moral judgements with regards to the actions or motives of sentient beings, whereas terms such as Spirit and Matter, Form and Formless etc are descriptions of the c…[Read more]
Peter replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 5 days, 12 hours ago
Gerry – yes, it makes sense to look at other ways of expressing the dichotomy of good and evil.
Perhaps part of the problem here is that terms like Good and Evil tend to reflect moral judgements with regards to the actions or motives of sentient beings, whereas terms such as Spirit and Matter, Form and Formless etc are descriptions of the…[Read more]
Shen Rampersaud replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 4 hours ago
A tough dilemma.
To assist another with empathy and effectiveness requires feeling the right amount of woe and grief. Too little leads to apathetic inaction and too much incapacitates both parties all the same. A balance is necessary, and the barometer for balance can only be felt.
Bearing personal sorrow without drowning is a requisite. This…[Read more]
Pavel Axentiev replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 6 days, 5 hours ago
Agreed.
No doubt, the system of Zarathustra is the same as that of the Wisdom-Religion. I do find that some of the analogies Gerry provided in his comment below are somewhat better constructed and do not invite the unnecessary idea of strife into people’s minds. It is a subtle point, and it may have been hard to predict how it would be…[Read more]
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 6 days, 11 hours ago
My suspicions are that the good and evil dichotomy is better expressed as Spirit and Matter, Formelessness and Form, Thought and Vehicle. Christianity (Churchanity), which made hay with a Bogeyman of Evil, saw advantages in creating an immortal source of Evil. To be saved you needed the church’s help. Krishna says that Light and Darkness are…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
July 16, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul-Wisdom
To cling to the Void and neglect compassion
Is to fall short of the highest path.
â DOHAKOSA
The acquisition of Brahma Vidya is entirely dependent upon the development
of a feeling of universal love. â D. K. MAVALANKAR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
July 15, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul Wisdom
Can I see anotherâs woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see anotherâs grief,
And not seek for kind relief?
â WILLIAM BLAKE
Rembrandt van Rijn 1606
Thomas Bulfinch 1796
Inquisition ended (Spain) 1834
Kristan Stratos replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
Notice how the Moon is divided twice, both into “Light” and “Dark”- notice the associated names, Spenta and Angra mainyu. They are not independent from each other anymore than the light and dark sides of the moon are independent.
Let us consider the text we are studying to draw our conclusions.
Kristan Stratos replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
Pavel, with all due respect, if you are looking at resources that come from a far later date than the Gathas, you will come up with some serious degradations of the original philosophy of Zarathustra. We must consider the Gathas to be the original representation of Zoroastrian philosophy to establish some fundamental basis of its teachings, hence…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
July 14, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara
They who are intelligent and free from sorrow are enabled to ascend above the
paradise of the Gods; and when they there have seen the subjection of man to birth
and death and the sorrows by which he is afflicted, they open the doors of the
immortal. â TCHED-DU BRJOD-PAI TSOMS
Pavel Axentiev replied to the topic The Holy Gâthâs of Zaraθuťtra Spitâma in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
Gerry,
A few links appearing on the first Google search page for “zoroastrianism” and “evil” will likely provide at least some corroborating information. I am not posting the links here, as in my experience a post gets blocked if there are links to other sites present.
The concept of evil in Zoroastrianism is personified by Angra Mainyu (the…[Read more]
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
Is gratitude born from a growing sense of Oneness? Is it a reaching out of the child to the parent, the lower to the higher?
Š 2017 Universal Theosophy
