Knowledge and Knowing

Erosion of our most precious treasure – Our Essence

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Soul erosion is a gradual process—a slow, creeping, chipping away of our inner being, resulting in the inevitable death of all we know to be our truest selves. It’s a disease that begins in childhood and spreads contagiously, especially in women. Its symptoms include loss of power, authenticity, voice, and vision. Soul erosion is essentially an obliteration of our inner knowing. Each incident in which we suppress our inner truth, we engage in the erosion of our most precious treasure—our essence.

A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

By Dr. Shefali Tsabary

When we start to walk, on the way, the way appears – Rumi

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How will we know?

– When we question all that we are – our ideas, our habits , how we judge others

– When we begin to separate the behaviours and opinions of others from their essential values

– When we begin to listen to others without criticizing, or judging; ignoring our usual filters

– When we experience a decrease in our emotions such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

– When we no longer blame others for what happens to us

– When we start to love our enemies

– When we see a little less evil, hear a little less evil, when we speak a little less evil everyday

– When we understand what we ‘are’ is more important than how we ‘appear’ to others

– When we start to perceive the beauties of existence and the good in everyone

– When self awareness and only intent , begin to reveal the ones of everything , the fleeting nature of every element of the universe and the eternity of the absolute

If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?

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Vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its message, that if you cannot worship your brother man, the manifested God, how can you worship a God who is unmanifested?

Do you not remember what the Bible says, “If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?” If you cannot see God in the human face, how can you see him in the clouds, or in images made of dull, dead matter, or in mere fictitious stories of our brain? I shall call you religious from the day you begin to see God in men and women, and then you will understand what is meant by turning the left cheek to the man who strikes you on the right. When you see man as God, everything, even the tiger, will be welcome. Whatever comes to you is but the Lord, the Eternal, the Blessed One, appearing to us in various forms, as our father, and mother, and friend, and child — they are our own soul playing with us.

Swami Vivekananda from Practical Vedanta

The World We Have

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The American dream has been a nightmare.

“The American dream is not possible for the Chinese, nor the Indians or the Vietnamese. The American dream is no longer possible for the Americans. We cannot continue to live like this. It is not a sustainable economy.”

“We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth.

In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over some seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will be killed.”

Thich Nhat Hanh.

“There are among us men and women who are awakened, but it’s not enough; the masses are still sleeping. They cannot hear the ringing of the bells. We have built a system we cannot control. This system imposes itself on us, and we have become its slaves and victims. Most of us, in order to have a house, a car, a refrigerator, a TV, and so on, must sacrifice our time and our lives in exchange.”

Quotes from an article by Thich Nhat Hanh: The World We Have.

Thought of the Week – 29th May 2023

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Jesus speaks of the innermost I Am, the essence identity of every man and woman, every life-form, in fact. He speaks of the life that you are. Some Christian mystics have called it the Christ within; Buddhists call it your Buddha nature; for Hindus, it is Atman, the indwelling God. When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself—and being in touch with it is your natural state, not some miraculous achievement—all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love.

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Lifes Purpose