On 'Food Parcels' & Fresh Springs of Inspiration

We offer what we can from our table. Those who share their plate get pudding for dessert. Those who don't won't, and they'll complain forever and a day after that they never ever feel satisfied!

On the Gentle Path & of Quiet Moments - Tracing

Tracing will relax a man. The best example of this was with Japanese script and brush. Using a rice paper imposed upon it, the brush would be trailed along the path of the character beneath it. In this the will of the fellow did relax, and in place of what would have been effort he was given to concede into the message that he deliberately followed.

The script of many monks was traced for this purpose; and their learning of the Gospels, in the hand-printing was greatly accentuated.

You may try this for yourself: in taking a favorite contemplation that you wish to absorb - one that is healthy we warn. Ask another (preferably someone who holds good picture comprehensions of this thought) to write or brush it out quite largely onto paper. Then, as you copy over with an intent to follow only the lines over and over and into a monotony, there is a switch that ensues that we may experience the words to which we work upon and their full meaning.

It is very nearly impossible for a man to exert himself with a thought (by speaking out loud for example) and directly experience that which he is expressing at the same time. He may, if well practiced, synchronize his expression and pause that he may do both one after another, but not in concurrence. This is because the act of will which cooperates with the speaking or the conveying (the writing perhaps) takes the consciousness along its own path, and so the actual essence of the thought is temporarily pushed out.

With tracing we are excusing ourselves from the same distractions of practice, and if our first writer holds a wonderful comprehension, then also their nature in this matter may be adopted.

One warning though: do not scribe another's signature.

On the Economics of Sadness & the Spiral Nature of Love

In the ever widening advancing up-reaching spiral, there is always a short decline preceding the larger incline, returning down to the level of the highest point of the incline before it, then yet to rise higher again and exceed that point twice equal.

This, with regarding sadness in a spiral upwards, is the leverage and also the grain for the pleasures forthcoming. All life expressions have this spiral in one form or another; that we are counter-balanced upon necessity to return to the previous plane, which in the light of the most recent elevation, is as a comparable low - particularly when known from the opposite vantage.

This swinging around and up to back and down, gives us our comprehension of full value. Love itself raises us higher, whilst at the same time we may also come to the further elevations of love and loving as our being unfolds and works its investments. It inspires the greatest reasons and perturbations, and is circular in nature, thus compelling all spirals, not only its own.

When it recedes down the spiral it may move only so far, and is guaranteed to then return, because the sadness is impetus for further advance, and such love will move rapidly out from that position returned to.

Everything has its night and day, no less with love. If we encounter sadness within our personal or outer lives we can believe in the compensatory force which will also accelerate the same soul experiencing such into bliss. 

This is why people grow to expect a pending disappointment or gloom when they are sensitive to forecast what they know will usually follow. But dark thoughts bring on their own measure of sorrow, and if indulged in, the individual becomes quite frozen to all experience, neither moving up nor slightly down, or advancing on, but instead is held back with this fear of ever falling. 

The meditation of the spiral will help answer this, as it is proven as reality within the inner constitution, and once recognized we may understand the subtle balances and expansive rise we are brought to upon each plane we come to, time and time again.

On Acts of Commitment to the Higher Path

When a truth is adopted into practice and the serious student-teacher has developed their choices accordingly, there are both tests and strengths which will come in outstanding proportion.

If he is to be beset by demonic challengers, who with chaotic and indiscriminate intent seize upon his equilibrium - often there are contests that only he can manage for himself – his friends, his teachers, his muses and spiritual colleagues may or may not understand the full weight of the contest ongoing or about this man. Furthermore, the closer he may be to becoming equipped and enabled, the more he may find that he is dissuaded from his original intention by the mischievous interruption that ensues.

Yet above all of this, he shall find his way through, neither corrupted nor dissuaded from the higher path he strives for, regardless of such distractions. It is good to go to the quiet meditations during this time, in faith that the outward storms will resolve and desist their botheration, tiring themselves eventually.

He is as the knight valiant, flanked both by fire and water besides; each which becomes holy to him. The very fire that would scald him and deter him from his going forward, inspirits his passion for all he holds important enough to protect and to fight for. The waters that would rise up upon him recede at the feet, bringing honor to his soul; and herein all Heaven shall be reflected in their stillness for his viewing.

He is good, strong and capable. When it comes that he is moved to act upon a truth put before him and he does well, then further strength will come to him as never before.