Practices Discussions - Theosophy.Net2024-03-29T08:52:41Zhttps://theosophy.net/group/practices/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow to Stop Worrying About What Everyone Thinks of Youtag:theosophy.net,2015-04-28:3055387:Topic:1428002015-04-28T07:08:33.733ZSeijhttps://theosophy.net/profile/sophiaSiddha
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Here is an article that I ran into that has a great message. . . But in terms of a sine wave, is there an escape from fear if there is no awareness of strangeness? Fear and anxiety controls masses at large. Perhaps <em>suggestion</em> and <em>gesture of</em></span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 12pt;"> the two vices could possibly be the pulsation life which…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Here is an article that I ran into that has a great message. . . But in terms of a sine wave, is there an escape from fear if there is no awareness of strangeness? Fear and anxiety controls masses at large. Perhaps <em>suggestion</em> and <em>gesture of</em></span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 12pt;"> the two vices could possibly be the pulsation life which subjugates collective consciousness thus setting lower vibes. What messages is that frequency sending to the subconscious? Is there fear in giving up fear?</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thehealersjournal.com/2015/04/27/how-to-stop-worrying-about-what-everyone-thinks-of-you/" target="_blank">When you stop fearing the world and move into a space of peace with who you are in this moment</a>, you are free to be yourself in boundless joy and love. And when you do that, the world heals. The world expands and rejoices. So learn to shift from an external focus, to an internal perspective of love.- Truth</p>
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<p></p> The word practice vs live.tag:theosophy.net,2013-06-29:3055387:Topic:1274532013-06-29T13:58:03.405ZPaul lee Jameshttps://theosophy.net/profile/PaulleeJames
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde; color: #000000;">It is said "live your philosophy". I wonder if the same word philosophy could also be embedded within the word "theosophy"? What's in a word? Philosophy means "the love of wisdom". Theosophy means "my definition", the study of God and his divine nature spiritually. It would seem man kinds nature today is secular. It has been proven man can overcome his secular nature for a divine nature within. Therefore live your theosophy.…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde; color: #000000;">It is said "live your philosophy". I wonder if the same word philosophy could also be embedded within the word "theosophy"? What's in a word? Philosophy means "the love of wisdom". Theosophy means "my definition", the study of God and his divine nature spiritually. It would seem man kinds nature today is secular. It has been proven man can overcome his secular nature for a divine nature within. Therefore live your theosophy. Paul</span></p> The Pain of Practicetag:theosophy.net,2013-06-18:3055387:Topic:1269842013-06-18T10:45:05.558ZCapt. Anand Kumarhttps://theosophy.net/profile/CaptAnandKumar
<p>This is entirely personal. I hope readers not familiar with India will be patient.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the year 2000, one member of parliament (MP) Ram Jeevan Singh narrated an anecdote and asked me a question which has left a deep impression on me.</p>
<p>In 1930 the British govt. in India imposed a tax on salt. Gandhi, in spite of the reservations of his other colleagues in Indian National Congress party decided to protest and began his famous…</p>
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<p>This is entirely personal. I hope readers not familiar with India will be patient.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the year 2000, one member of parliament (MP) Ram Jeevan Singh narrated an anecdote and asked me a question which has left a deep impression on me.</p>
<p>In 1930 the British govt. in India imposed a tax on salt. Gandhi, in spite of the reservations of his other colleagues in Indian National Congress party decided to protest and began his famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March" target="_blank">Salt March.</a> The protests took the form of local people gathering and making salt themselves to deny the tax to the British Govt. The British govt. declared this act illegal.</p>
<p>Our MP, then 8 year old, accompanied his grandfather who was a police inspector, to one such protest gathering. The protesters had informed the local administration of the date and venue where salt would be made locally and following that 10 people will court arrest. The British Superintendent of Police himself arrived at the scene to ensure that no law and order problem arose. However, he found that there were approximately 5,000 people present.</p>
<p>The police inspector sought permission from his superior officer repeatedly to use force to disperse the crowd. But the British Supdt. of Police every time asked him to be patient saying, 'they are followers of Gandhi. <strong>They will not lie</strong>."</p>
<p>The salt was made, the protest registered and 10 people came forward to court arrest for breaking the law. The incident passed off peacefully.</p>
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<p>After narrating the story, the MP paused, looked me into the eyes and said, "there was a time when even your enemy trusted you. Can you say the same of your friends today? <em><strong>Where did we go wrong?</strong></em> Think about it."</p>
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<p>At 5:12 PM on 30th January 1948, a young man approached Gandhi just as he emerged to conduct a prayer meeting. The man bent down to touch the feet of Gandhi. A gesture indicating highest respect for the individual whose feet is being touched in Hindu culture. As he rose after touching the feet, he fired three bullets from his semi-automatic into the thigh, stomach and chest of Gandhi. Gandhi fell and passed away shortly afterwards. But in an unparalleled act in the history, in the moments before he breathed his last, <em><strong>he forgave his assassin</strong></em>.</p>
<p>The assassin had still three bullets left. It was a prayer gathering where no one was carrying any arms. He could flee easily. But instead waited patiently for half hour before police could arrive and surrendered. Knowing fully well that he would be hanged. Which he was, two years later.</p>
<p>Gandhi lived his life with the motto to be the change that one wants to see. The assassin had the strength and courage to face the consequences of his action.</p>
<p>Do we need a practice to embody these principles in life? How meditation, prayer, yoga, floating, channeling, shamanism, voodoo, tarot, runes, wicca, magick and countless other devices can teach us these? Don't we know it already?</p>
<p>What knowledge can we derive from the amazing treasures contained in the writing of Vedas, Upanishads, Plato, Socrates, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Alchemy and the rest, if we do not live ethically.</p>
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<p>That is my pain of practice!</p>
<p></p> What is Practice?tag:theosophy.net,2013-06-18:3055387:Topic:1271392013-06-18T05:08:53.441ZPuzzleSolverhttps://theosophy.net/profile/PuzzleSolver
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867570981?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867570981?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="333"></img></a> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">A practice is anything you do regularly that nurtures you.</span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></font></font></font><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can…</span></span></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867570981?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="333" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867570981?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="333" class="align-left"/></a><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">A practice is anything you do regularly that nurtures you.</span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></font></font></font><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can probably think of a dozen forms of formal practice </span><span style="font-size: medium;">off the top of your head: prayer or meditation, lighting </span><span style="font-size: medium;">candles or incense, ritual, chanting or singing, dancing.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3">All of these are ways that practice can happen. Creative work can be a practice: writing, painting, collaging, taking photographs. So can exercise or daily tasks, done with intention. You probably already have dozens of practices of varying levels of intention. Do you brush your teeth? Say “I love you” when getting off the phone with your mother or partner? Read for ten minutes before bed?</font></font></font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867571377?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="333" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2867571377?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="333" class="align-right"/></a>One of my simplest practices is saying a three-line prayer when I wake up in the morning. My alarm clock actually scrolls the first words across its face when I hit snooze, so my early-morning brain doesn’t have to work too hard, and yet I open my day with my focus on connection. At its core, though, practice is a way of carving a channel. Like water over rock, a little trickle wears a groove and then a ravine. Then when life comes in floods instead of trickles, our deep channels have room to hold all of that intensity.</font></font></font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3">Intention is the key that lets us carve the channel in the direction that we desire. Here’s another truth about practice: for most of us imperfect humans, we won’t always love our practice. It will not be fireworks over the altar every time. Sometimes it will feel great, and other times it will feel bad, and often enough, it will feel boring. This is okay. The word “practice” means “to do over and over again,” which means we get a lot of chances to have the practice we want to have.<br/></font></font></font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="3">excerpt from Sarah Twichell @ <a href="http://patheos.com" target="_blank">Patheos</a></font></font></font></span></p> "Law Of ONE"tag:theosophy.net,2013-06-18:3055387:Topic:1273112013-06-18T01:23:50.837ZJessica R. Huffmeyerhttps://theosophy.net/profile/JesicaRHuffmeyer
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<p style="text-align: center;">1.<strong>PRACTICE ONE: UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS</strong> - The Law of One is the comprehension that all things are made of intelligent energy and are a part of the All-One. The Law of One is a Sacred Science of the mechanics of consciousness and are the Natural Laws governing our Universal Creation. All-One is the recognition that Eternal Truth is Eternal Love and Eternal Love is the organic consciousness of Infinite Creator, or God. Eternal Love consciousness embodied in a form is Unity intelligence, and simultaneously recognized as, the Inner Light of Christos. Unity consciousness is at One with God and Unity consciousness ignites the Inner Light of Christos. The Inner Light of Christos when actualized in form, is the embodiment of an Eternal God Human. Practice Unity Consciousness and One is directly reflecting the image of God’s Love, and is eternally protected. Be At One with All, as One is All with God. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2. <strong>PRACTICE TWO: LOVE YOURSELF</strong> – Apply the practice of Unity with All-One as an extension towards loving, honoring and respecting yourself. Acknowledge the precious life force within by holding reverence and respect for yourself in all ways. Loving yourself is the action of Self Sovereignty, which is the natural state of embodying God’s Eternal Love. As a manifestation of God’s eternal spirit of Love, one has the ability to choose to create personal freedom without harming others. Have courage to remove the obstacles of pain and fear to become embodied Love, as God’s spirit is always found within. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3. <strong>PRACTICE THREE: LOVE OTHERS</strong> – As you learn to love yourself, love others. Acknowledge the precious life force in others by holding love, reverence and respect for others. Loving others as you love yourself, is the natural state of Self Sovereignty as you give others the same reverence for their life, as you give your own life. Through practicing self-love and loving others, no approval, worth or esteem issues come into question, as all is loved equally. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">4. <strong>PRACTICE FOUR: LOVE EARTH AND NATURE</strong> - Loving the Earth and all her creations, the kingdoms of nature, plants, animals and mineral, which are all alive, conscious and intelligent energy beings. Acknowledge the precious life force present in all of God’s creation, by holding reverence and respect for nature. Doing so restores balance and harmony to nature, and the intelligent energy of all of earth’s creations will respond to cooperate with humankind. Humans living in discord with nature create many events that are considered to be “at the mercy of” the untamed forces. As humans learn to live in harmony with earth and the nature kingdom, the natural creatures will align to be in harmony and cooperation with all inhabitants. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">5. <strong>PRACTICE FIVE: SERVICE TO OTHERS</strong> – Upon firmly loving yourself and honoring your path, find methods to be of service to others that do not overstep personal boundaries of discernment. Being of service to others does not include consumptive modeling, such as victim-victimizer, parasitism or emotional vampirism. Being of service does not hold an ego perspective of entitlement, expectation or attachment. Practice being of service with unconditional love, and naturally flowing in the moment. The energy exchange made between participants being of service to others, amplifies and expands consciousness growth like no other method. The more you amplify the energetic field of being in service to others, the more joy, harmony and gifts will be brought into your life. The more service you dedicate to Gods plan, the Law of One, the more spiritual support and spiritual presence one can exchange with God Force. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">6. <strong>PRACTICE SIX: CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION</strong> – Learn to develop inner clarity and spiritual integrity by intending to develop personal consciousness and/or spiritual identity. To embody one’s spiritual identity, one’s mind must be initiated and disciplined. If the ego is in authority of the body it will repel the spiritual identity from embodiment. If the mental body creates obstacles to the spiritual identity, the spiritual identity, therefore the consciousness, will not be experienced. The first step to consciousness expansion is becoming aware of mind control and the quality content of thoughts and belief systems. The second step is to cooperate with the process of mental and physical discomfort by having patience and waiting in the void of silence. Learn to quiet the mind, sublimate the ego and be still. Once stillness, mental discipline and ego sublimation has been achieved, listen to your inner spirit to receive guidance. Inner Guidance will always lead to the process of re-education to experience continual consciousness expansion free of fear and dogma. The Inner Christos always guides one towards choosing more love and peace via consciousness expansion of the spiritual identity. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">7. <strong>PRACTICE SEVEN: RESPONSIBLE CO-CREATION </strong>– As one becomes more infused with the eternal love of the spiritual identity, the intelligent blueprint activates the divine purpose of being as a co-creator with God. The spiritual identity and the intelligent blueprint of divine purpose are one and the same. Clarity of purpose and direction becomes clearer and clearer as one commits to live in service to the principles of All-ONE or Christ spirit. Knowing and Living our purpose brings joy, peace and fulfillment, even when facing adversity or challenges. Once we achieve “knowing”, we are responsible for that knowing, and practice responsible co-creation with the All-One. A responsible co-creator knows all manifestations are in partnership with the All-One. We do not possess or control anything, so needs, desires and superimposing will, should be avoided. We are stewards of God Spirit to Serve Others in responsible co-creation with All-One. From this knowing, and living this principle, we are eternally free of karmic exchanges.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em> "Purity of heart and listening to your inner God Spirit is All there Is. All paths ultimately lead to One. For One and For All : I am God! I am Sovereign! I am Free!"</em><img src="http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/images/stories/articlethumbs/GSFthumb.png" border="0" width="24" height="40" align="left"/></p>
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<p>Do you think practice / service is important? Why or why not?</p>
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<p>There is a great diversity amongst us all here and this should be viewed as a blessing. We all have some experiences in some area of practice and some may have none. </p>
<p>Cultural differences have caused "road blocks" limiting the ability to communicate with "Divine Nature" creating a sense of guiltiness due to their dogmatic teachings for whatever reasons they may be. </p>
<p>Understanding practice is key! We all learn through first hand experiences and second hand shared experiences.…</p>
<p>There is a great diversity amongst us all here and this should be viewed as a blessing. We all have some experiences in some area of practice and some may have none. </p>
<p>Cultural differences have caused "road blocks" limiting the ability to communicate with "Divine Nature" creating a sense of guiltiness due to their dogmatic teachings for whatever reasons they may be. </p>
<p>Understanding practice is key! We all learn through first hand experiences and second hand shared experiences. <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The aim here is to communicate and educate each other to build better relationships with ourselves in nature for the sake of all walks of life. </span></em></p>
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<p><u>The Characteristics of Esotericism:</u></p>
<p>1 Correspondence: Everything in Nature is a sign. The signs of Nature can be read. The microcosm and macrocosm interplay. Synchronicity exists, and can be found as signs from Nature and may lead to the understanding of the divine.</p>
<p>2 Nature is Alive: It is not just correlations between pieces of matter. It is a living entity that will, and does, surge and evolves through its…</p>
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<p><u>The Characteristics of Esotericism:</u></p>
<p>1 Correspondence: Everything in Nature is a sign. The signs of Nature can be read. The microcosm and macrocosm interplay. Synchronicity exists, and can be found as signs from Nature and may lead to the understanding of the divine.</p>
<p>2 Nature is Alive: It is not just correlations between pieces of matter. It is a living entity that will, and does, surge and evolves through its expanding self, replete with dynamic flows of energy and light.</p>
<p>3 <i> Imagination and mediations:</i> Complimentary correspondences of <i>Imagination as mediator</i> between the perceptible and the invisible datum.</p>
<p>4 Experience of Transmutation: The Gnosis and illumination of self and mind performing a transmutation of consciousness. The birth of awareness, a second new life is born.</p>
<p><em>In addition there are two characteristics that may be present, but not absolutely essential:</em></p>
<p>5 Practice of Concordance: Primordial Tradition. Studying traditions, religions etc. seeking the common single Root from which all esoteric knowledge grows.</p>
<p>6 Transmission: Master-Disciple, Master-Initiate, initiation into the Occult.</p>
<p> Note: The fundamental concept in Esotericism is that it requires all items 1 though 4, with items 5 and/or 6 as only sometimes present, but never necessary.</p>
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<p><u>The Three Characteristics of Theosophy:</u></p>
<p>1) Divine/Human/Nature Triangle: The inspired analysis which circles through these three angles. The intradivine within; the origin, death and placement of the human relating to Divinity and Nature; Nature as alive, the external, intellectual and material. All three complex correlations synthesize via the intellect and <i>imaginative processes of Mind.</i></p>
<p>2) Primacy of the Mythic: The <i>creative imagination</i>, an external world of symbols, glyphs, myths, synchronicities and the myriad, along with <i>image</i>, all as a universal reality for the interplay conjoined by creative mind.</p>
<p>3) Access to Supreme Worlds: The awakening within, inherently possessing the faculty to directly connect to the Divine world(s). The existence of a special human ability to create this connection. The ability to connect and explore all levels of reality; co-penetrate the human with the divine; to bond to all reality and experience a unique inner awakening.</p>
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<p>Note: For the Theosophist, the image signifies accomplishment. However the Mystic would abolish the image. The Mystic finds the divine, and chooses to remain. The Theosophist finds the higher, the lower, connections, synchronicities, metaphor, natural phenomena and all hieroglyphs within the triangle of existence (i.e. Nature/Man/Divine). The Theosophist continues to explore and live within the world which brings an added dimension and purpose into esotericism. </p>
<p><i><u>What is "Imagination"</u></i> ?</p>
<p>In defining Esotericism and the three characteristics of Theosophy, we see the usage of "<i>imaginative processes of mind</i>", "<i>creative imagination</i>", "<i>special human ability to create</i>" and in the definition of esotericism we also see "<i>Imagination and mediations</i>" connecting the realms of higher and lower existence. The usage of this term "<i>Imagination</i>" threads throughout the concepts and is critical to understanding the meanings. The term defined (here) to include the range of ideas that are connected as in Imagination <=> Imaginal <=> Image <=> Mage <=> Magical <=> Maginal/Imaginal <=> Magination <=> Imagination.</p>
<p>Theosophy, having Greek etymology, is a term from the Western world. The practice of Theosophy is found in all cultures. The term “Imagination” is not necessarily a Western-only concept. However, the term “Creative/Active Imagination”, along with its variations of expression, is primarily of a Western origin. In essence, Theosophy is inclusive of the various types of experience expressed within various cultures, people and religions throughout history. Also, it is useful to consider the mind as a mirror, reflecting an image as well as interacting with the object it reflects. Some basic examples are:</p>
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<li>Mediating: as a diviner (interpretation of Tarot, Astrology etc.)</li>
<li>Buddhism: Performing Deity Yoga</li>
<li>Judaism and Christianity: Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah</li>
<li>Hinduism: Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, contemplation.</li>
<li>Sufism: Worshipful Contemplation</li>
<li>Western: Meditating on a specific image</li>
<li>Taoism: Contemplation of cycles within mind, nature, existence</li>
<li>Zen: Experiential wisdom, reflecting on self-realization</li>
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