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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Imagination and Fantasy in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 6 hours, 24 minutes ago
December 8, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Imagination and Fantasy
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves when their time comes. — JOHN RUSKIN
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Imagination and Fantasy in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 hours, 40 minutes ago
December 7, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Imagination and Fantasy
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it:
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
— ROBERT BROWNING
The moment of choice exists all the time for
every individual. — ROBERT CROSBIE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Involution and Evolution in the forum 
Key Concepts Study Group 1 day, 3 hours ago
From the writings of H. P. Blavatsky
Definitions from the Theosophical Glossary
Emanation, the Doctrine of. In its metaphysical meaning, it is opposed to Evolution, yet one with it. Science teaches that evolution is physiologically a mode of generation in which the germ that develops the foetus pre-exists already in the parent, the development and…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic The Gupta Vidya 2019 in the forum 
Secret Doctrine Study Group 1 day, 4 hours ago
It is written in an old book on the Occult Sciences: “Gupta Vidya (Secret Science) is an attractive sea, but stormy and full of rocks. The navigator who risks himself thereon, if he be not wise and full of experience, (1) will be swallowed up, wrecked upon one of the thousand submerged reefs. Great billows, in color like sapphires, rubies and…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Secret Doctrine Study Aids 2019 in the forum Secret Doctrine Study Group 1 day, 4 hours ago
The ancient occult axiom, “Man, know thyself,” is familiar to all; but very few have apprehended the real meaning of the Delphic Oracle. We think we know our earthly pedigree when we have looked at the genealogical family-tree; science thinks it knows the physical pedigree of man and humanity, having traced his form from the protoplasm, and its…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 8 hours ago
Friday
December 6, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
If want, sorrow or pain come to one, why resist or cry out? In the resistance or war against them we create greater evils. Coming to one’s self, they should have little weight, while at the same time they carry invaluable lessons in their hands.
— W.Q. JUDGE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 9 hours ago
December 4, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson. — Aquarian Axiom
The test of a jnani is whether his d…[Read more]
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 3 days, 9 hours ago
Thanks Gerry – it was quite an educational odyssey, most def – stay tuned for fragment 2, which I’ll be starting in a week or two – although with the the holiday season just around the corner, it probably won’t really take off until the new year…
James replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days ago
Hi Ram, Thanks for your reply Some consider HPB is talking about two different entities or states here.
“The star under which a human entity is born, says the Occult teaching, will remain for ever its star,…[Read more]
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 4 days, 9 hours ago
Remarkable, Mark!
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 9 hours ago
December 4, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
— HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in
us long before it happens. — RAINER MARIA RILKE
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 4 days, 11 hours ago
Below is a final list of references, mainly general western sources.
Additional Sources
Anon, Mara. New World Encyclopedia, 2008 web
Attar. Conference of the Birds. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis transl. Penguin Classics 1984
Buswell Jr.; Robert E., Donald S. Lopez Jr. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press,…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 5 days, 7 hours ago
December 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
Does the road wind uphill all the way?
Yes to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
— CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 8 hours ago
December 2, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain.
— ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 8 hours ago
December 1, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
Have perseverance as one who doth for evermore endure. Thy shadows live and vanish; that which in thee shall live for ever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life; it is the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 8 hours ago
November 30, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Suffering and Its Solvent
As the sun never shows darkness to view, so the good
man never exposes his shadow to sight. — VALMIKI
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — MARK TWAIN
barbara replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Prajna and Karuna in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
I was reading the three objects of the Theosophical Society and was surprised to see that in 1875, there was only one object when the society was formed, “The objects of the Society are to collect and diffuse a knowledge of the laws which govern the universe.” Since then, the objects have evolved several times and the last modification was made…[Read more]
Ramprakash ML replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
James,
I think your surmise that Gurudeva is a Solar Angel is correct. This is borne out by the teaching in the S.D. regarding the mystical ray which connects our Ego with the particular Hierarchy of which there are seven (six synthesised by the seventh) which form the manifested Logos – the Blazing Dragon of Wisdom (Verse 7, Stanza III of S.D.…[Read more]
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
Below is a list of Eastern (Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese) texts cited in the commentary of Fragment I:
Amritananda Upanishad (Aiyar, Narayanasvami (1914). “Thirty minor Upanishads”. Madras)
Bhagavad Gita. Pondicherry. All India Books. 1986. Aurobindo, transl.
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad. The Upanishads. Valerie J. Roebuck, transl. Penguin, 2003.…[Read more]
James replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
Hi Peter and Ram, thanks for your comments, realised I should have asked how the Gurudeva might relate/contribute to our own personal human life and growth.
Looking from this angle, I would suggest that Gurudeva is our Solar Angel, the ones who endowed man with his conscious, immortal EGO by incarnating in animal man as described by HPB SD2 88.…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
November 28, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart
When insight is attained, the root of Pure Mind and the activity of the
phenomenal world are manifest without obstacle, spontaneously showing forth the capability of all things pure and impure. — HUI-SSU
Energy is eternal delight. — WILLIAM BLAKE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
November 27, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart
Just as fire without fuel abides in its place,
So the actionless mind abides in its source.
Manas abides in its place when desire is true.
— MAITRAYANA UPANISHAD
In the mint of Truth, a man may coin the Word. — GURU NANAK
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
November 26, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart
Mind thus poised and repeatedly searching,
One gains a diamond-hard understanding,
A weapon of one hundred unbreakable spikes,
Which undoubtedly will destroy the mountain of ego.
— LOSANG KALSANG GYATSO, VII DALAI LAMA
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
November 25, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckart
A thought went up my mind today
That I have had before,
But did not finish, –some way back,
I could not fix the year.
— EMILY DICKINSON
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
November 24, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Meister Eckhart
Voidness is free of assertions and negations. — TSONG KHA-PA
We feel and know that we are eternal. — BENEDICT SPINOZA
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