Shifting of our center of consciousness.

The world is approaching the time when it realizes that the only way in which we can save ourselves is  by just being conscious every day in every way, and not by preaching --- whether it be preaching politics or philosophy or religion.  Politics, at lest such as we understand it today, will vanish away as an illusion, and the great secret mysteries that lie there: love and brotherhood and sisterhood, compassion and peace;  these are the great things that should come to the world, for the world's benefit.  After all is examined, it is ideas that rule the world; it is precisely because people misthink and wrongly suppose that money or property is a thing in itself of absolute value, and that politics is a thing in and of its self of absolute value, and that these feeble instruments and products of human endeavor have their grip on humans and wield their sway over human hearts. Let us then change our ideas, and follow ideas which are composite of good ideas, based on universal brotherhood ideas and sisterhood ideas of intrinsic moral beauty of spiritual and intellectual grandeur, ideas which in time will bring about a confraternity not only of the peoples of the earth, but of all the smaller social units that go to make up a nation.  Then, with these ideas permeating our consciousness, we shall not need to bother about politics and the rights or nonrights of private property.  The world of humans will then run as easily and smoothly as a well-ordered mechanism; and we shall have happiness and peace all over our globe. 

This is not the pipe dream of a vaguely visioning and idealistic dreamer.  It is an actuality which can be put into practical operation simply by a reorienting of our thinking and of our feeling of new standards of human conduct; and in such a new world men and woman will be judged not only by what they do or produce, but by what they think, because thoughts of brotherly and human benevolence will be carried into constructive action.  They will then not be judged by what they have or own.  Property will not be the standard of righteousness nor of the proprieties.  

We must shift our moral center of gravity to ethics where it rightly and truly belongs, and away from property where it has been falsely placed during the last few thousand years because of unfortunate  contributing historical causes.  It is easier far to make such shift of values to their natural, proper, and therefor legitimate sphere, than continue being involved through centuries of the future in struggles of an international or internecine character with their bitter animosities and unforgetting hatreds, their dislocations of social and political life and the consequent misery weighing so heavily upon us all.  There is not a single logical or reasonable argument to be urged against this shifting of our center of consciousness---except in the lose of ignorance, prejudice, and dense human stupidity, due to the  inertia brought about by this sleepiness and our empty disbelief in our own powers to carve our own destiny.  

It would seem to be undoubtedly true that unless there comes upon the world a new outlook and a change of our habit, mental and psychical, of envisaging events through the distorted lenses of our present-day sense of values, our already badly shaken civilization runs a danger of sliding down into a welter of confusion, despair, and human misery, such as the annals of known history have not yet chronicled. 

It is not the crises, when things crash or seem to crash; it is not the horrific noise of the thunder or the crash of its bolt, which govern the great functions of life, human and cosmic; but those slow, to us, always quiet unending silent processes which build all the time; and even in the human race carry it through folly after folly after folly after folly into the future.  

There is the ground of our hope; and it seems that all good men and women should rally to the defense of these primal, simple verities which every human heart, adult or child, can understand.  It is about time that men and women should began to look on the bright side of things, to see hope around us, to forget themselves and their petty worries, and to live in the Infinite and Eternal.  It is easy, infinitely easier than making ourselves continuously sick with frets and worries.  Within each one of us there is something divine to which we can cling, and which will carry us through. 

                             Thanks' G. D. P.  One truth, many paths.  Be good, Do good.

                                                             Louis DiVirgilio        

The living mind of the cosmos.

It is the deepest level of mind.  It is awareness, aliveness, a profound intelligence that lies beyond intellect, beyond memory, beyond judgment, beyond karma, beyond all divisions.  It is intelligence of existence itself.  In the yogic tradition, its said that once you distance yourself from the compulsions of your karmic software, as well as the identification of your intellect, you will be in touch with this existential consciousness. In the source of creation is pure intelligence that creates memory out of itself; the rest of creation projects memory as intelligence.  

I know that the information above may bend your credence, and awaken your memory with visions of Star Track, but our terraforma is in-coupled with the entire universe without any breaks. We and the universe are one.  It would be foolish to deny that within the whole Solar system of any other reasonable and intellectual beings on our human plane, that we would be the only beings capable of survival on our planet;  it would be the greatest display of conceit for us to make such a claim.  All that science has right to affirm, is that there are no invisible intelligences living under the same conditions as we do.  It cannot deny point-blank the possibility of there being worlds within worlds, under totally different conditions to those that constitute the nature of our world; nor can they deny that there may be a certain limited communication between some of those worlds and our own. 

One of the greatest philosophers of European birth, Immanuel Kant, assures us that such a communication is in no way improbable.  "I confess I am much disposed to assert the existence of Immaterial natures in the world, and to place my own soul in the class of these beings.  It will here after, I know not where, or when, yet be proved that the human soul stands even in this life in indissoluble  connection with all immaterial natures in the spirit-world, that it reciprocally acts upon these and receives impressions from them."

                               Thank's H. P. B.  One truth, many paths.  Be good do good. 
                                                               Louis DiVirgilio

The problem of modern life is that most people's physical and emotional energy does not find full expression in their lifetime.

People in our civilized society carry an enormous amount of unexpressed emotions.  If we never let those emotions find their full expression, then their stagnate energy can be deeply damaging to one's health and well-being.  This accounts for the huge upswings of depression and well being across the world.  It is acknowledged that one out every five Americans suffer a mental ailment at some point in their lives. The problem is that civilized society regards the uninhibited expression of emotion as a sign of weakness or a lack of sophistication.  This kind of emotional suppression can and will create havoc within the human system, and humans the world over will never find full expression for their emotions.  Most people have fears about their love, their joy, their grief, just about everything.  For example, to laugh loudly is a problem, it is seen as inappropriate.  We have set up a deeply restrictive culture for ourselves. 

The level of activity in modern life has decreased drastically because people do not use their body the way they used to.  If this unused energy is made to remain stagnant within our bodies, it could become a causative factor of disease.  It seems our modern mind is going through a unique kind of neurosis.  Now that we have become so inactive, we are suffering the effects of such inactivity; by becoming anxious and uneasy.  This is mainly because of trapped physical energy. In comparison, you will find that those people who are committed to some form of intense physical exercise are at a different level of balance and peace and are much less entangled in physical drives.  This is because at least one aspect of the person has found full expression. 

Trapped energy, can also cause restlessness and agitation, which accounts for the chronic unease and disquiet that plagues the modern world.  You may have noticed that the very way people sit and stand reveals an absence of ease.  They may have brought a practiced gracefulness to there movements, but their unease remains.  If you take away the unease in your movement, it shifts inward to another dimension, where it is easy for it to find a new expression.  In other words, it will billed back into your energy.  In time, this disquiet on the level of energy manifests as disease.

An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like a highly complex problems.  The reason the simple things----like being peaceful, joyful, loving----become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. The level of inhibition that, people live with is truly amazing.  It is responsible for several diseases---both physical and psychological, that we see around us.  An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like highly complex problems.  Right now being peaceful and joyful is made out to be the most significant problem in human existence.  In pursuit of human happiness, we are ripping the planet apart.  The reason the simple things--like being peaceful, joyful, loving---have become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying attention to the life process. When most people say "life," they mean the accessories of life--their work, their family, their relationships, the homes they live in, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, or the gods they pray to.  The moment you make this fundamental mistake of identifying something that is not you as yourself, life becomes an unnecessary struggle.  The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the the inner nature of your being. 

Your are capable of experiencing only that which is within the boundaries of your sensation.  But if you throw the boundary of your sensation out in an expanded form, you can sit here and experience everyone as yourself.  You can stretch it further and experience the very cosmos as you experience your own body.  The trick is to work on being conscience, every day, in every way.

                                 Thank you Sadhguru.  Be good, do good. 

                                                        Louis DiVirgilio              

        

The lost cord of modern civilization is forgetfulness of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.

The secret of conflict is in the existing degrees of ignorance, selfishness, and lack of altruism----the noblest emotion that can possibly enter the heart.   It is only in altruism, in thinking of others, in putting others before ourselves, that we forget ourselves, and in the forgetting lost the pains and sorrows and the little happiness that we cling on to and call ourselves.  

You should clearly see that the only pathway to wisdom and universal peace is putting the whole before the insignificant, the many before yourself;  and therefore living in the universal life instead of living only within your own small shadow.  There we have the secret of living a universal life, and it is precisely this secret that the modern world has forgotten.  It has forgotten that in self-forgetfulness is greatness, peace and happiness; that our lack of peace and our unhappiness come from our little pettiness's and worries close to us; for these are anxieties and hatreds gnawing at the very fiber of our inner being, and then we suffer, we are hurt, and we raise our eyes to heaven or to the gods, and exclaim; "Why has this happened to me, to us?  What have I done ?  What have we done?"  Yet to obey the merest cognizance of spiritual and natural law should tell us that everything that happens in the great and in the small happens according to divine law; and that misery and unhappiness and conflict and wretchedness and poverty and all the array of accompanying ills, arise out of negligence to obey the cosmic law. 

Nature is fundamentally spiritual, and therefore is ruled by law, and therefore has compensation for meritorious conduct and retribution for the unmeritorious; and that these two, the compensation and retribution, are as infallible as is that comic law itself, for they are but the expression of it.  When a man or woman allows these wondrous and yet so simple thoughts to sink into there consciousness so that they become a part of the very fiber of there being, no longer will they willfully injure another.  It is no longer within his or her's character to do so. They have drawn himself out of the mud, and seen the golden sunshine.  They recognizes that fundamentally all is one, all beings are one , and that the unit is as important as the whole, and that the whole is as important as the unit; and that the unit within the whole is infinitely more important than the unit, single and alone.  By the units themselves thinking in this way, the cosmic rule of harmony is preserved unto infinity. 

That is what we have lost; the conviction that we shall meet compensation or retribution for our thoughts and for our feeling; that good will infallibly come to us if we sow good and think and feel right, and sow the seeds of justice and honor and probity and decency in our conduct towards all men and women; all others, not just "my" friends---all.  For the cosmos is a unity and knows no divisions or human separations.  This is what we have lost.  This is where we fail.  This is the secret of all human conflict.  Because of the very complex character of modern civilization, any man or women with a heart in the right place, can solve such complex questions because they are illuminated by the divine within them, if they allow their heart to speak. Then their judgment is virtually infallible.  The fact is, we of European  and American decent have been cowards entirely too long, always wanting to put the fault on someone else. so we have erected a pure figment of our imagination, and we speak of it as Christ Jesus, and on his shoulders lay all our sins; and at the end we shall be washed white in the blood of the lamb, if only we believe. How about those who have suffered under our evil doing?  Because I am saved, does that help them?  How about those whom I in my stupid, ignorant and evil past perhaps have given a shove downwards instead of helping to lift upwards.  Can't you see that it is wrong?  Don't you see that those ideas are a complete reversal of a cosmic philosophy?  That it is not so important what happens to the unit; the greater is what happens to the endless, toiling, hoping, working suffering multitudes.

We must retrain ourselves with the priority of universal brotherhood and sisterhood, and march to the beat of altruistic, cosmic principles. As Spock would say, sacrifice the needs of the one for the many.     

                      Thank you G. D. P.  One truth many paths.  Be good, do good.  

                                                       Louis DiVirgilio            

The human problem right now is freedom.

This freedom presents itself to us as a paradox; an inconsistency, an illogical truth.  We are free, now to make ourselves miserable.  We are free to make ourselves joyous.  We are free to live like a god.  We are free to live like a demon.  Nature has given us our freedom because we are now evolved enough to make a mature choice.  In short, Nature trusted our intelligence.  But unfortunately, we humans take our own time to make use of that intelligence, we rather frolic within the touch and feel of all the material  aspects of life, while unconsciously trapping ourselves within the frame work of the paradox.  We believe that we are self entitled to do whatever we want, whenever we want.  We feed our egos with a positive view of our entitlement, as if we were at the pinochle of what a human life is suppose to be. In truth, we are a long way from being at the peak of our potential.  Our altruistic mind set has not yet reached its full capacity.  We still long to leave our deepest foot print as a acknowledgment of "my magnanimous life;" yet the shekels are never released.  

Some were along our life line we must sit face to face to acknowledge what and were our truth lays.  Whether we are solid enough to advance our truth, and expand our capacity to engage it within multiple levels of access and with out compromise.  There is an old proverb which goes;  "Error runs down an inclined plane, while Truth has to laboriously clime its way up hill."  Truth can never be killed; hence the failure to sweep away entirely from the face of the earth every vestige of that ancient Wisdom, and to shackle and gag every witness who testified to it, is not possible. 

Existentially life is moving toward its ultimate nature, of its own accord, and you also put your energies into it by moving faster.  That is, you are turning consciously spiritual with your own momentum, collaborating with Nature's plan, and that is all that is necessary for you to do.  

                       

                              Thank you H.B.P.  One truth, many paths.  Be good, do good.

                                                               Louis DiVirgilio

Beyond all the divisions of mind.

I do believe that our world is now in a over anxious state, becoming over whelmed and thus, not being enabled, in anyway, to clarify the distortions.  However, I believe it unwise, spiritually and psychologically unwholesome to emphasize this, for it raises none to higher things, but depresses courage,  the courage to meet life and carry on in a higher nobler way.  This manner of thinking goes      beyond all the divisions of mind, for it is to see beauty in and behind things, see beauty in all human beings no matter their race; see likewise the ignorance and the ugliness in life, though do not let these latter depress you or discourage you.  There is no reason to lose our calm, or our inner peace, in order to become like those who are passion driven, and governed by prejudice.  Such an attitude will not help us or those who suffer.  We have it within ourselves to send into the world, thoughts of courage and hope and an optimistic looking into the future: that no matter what happens, our folly or infamy or infidelity to his or her's inner god, to his or her's spiritual essence, that there is always right and justice which will ultimately triumph over all.  The only thing that is sure, is to be that we are on the side of right and justice---- and let us not forget, that we cannot always judge by appearances.  

Those who do not like this optimistic outlook and conviction and who are trying to get down into the arena of hysteria and discouragement, mock at it; yet every sane human who keeps there mind cool and clear and can think for there selves realizes full well that the mightiest forces in this world are cosmic right and cosmic justice, and they in the long run will always prevail. There is no need, to be discouraged.  Avoid hysterias; on the other hand, avoid running at one and the same with the hares and chasing with the hounds, which is what we all do more or less.  Have your own convictions and some times hide them if it is not wise to shout them from the house tops; but keep your own heart upright, in love with love, hating hate, always standing up for justice and innate right. Only be sure that when you stand up you are not standing up for the propaganda atmosphere around you, but for something that you in your heart know to be true.

It would be a sorrowful thing if there were nothing to our world but what we see around us today, or have seen at particular intervals during the past; but every time and always the conscience and the sense of justice of mankind have proved supreme over all and risen above human feelings and follies, and marched onward and upwards toward balance and harmony.  Don't be down hearted or discouraged or think the world is going to the devil because you don't like what is going on.  You have the right to like or dislike it.  But be sure that you, as an individual, on your part do not add to the hatred in the world, and add to its discouragement and unhappiness.   

                            Thank you, G. D. P.  One truth many paths.  Be Good, do good.

                                                              Louis DiVirgilio

The Force be With You.

Most people would recognize where that title originated from.   It originated, from the movie, "Star Wars."  In the Star Wars vernacular, the force is used as the equivalent usage of the words, "divine-destiny," and has a spiritual connotation of an enlighten, "spirit-soul."  The force can only be evoked, by those who have been initiated into a "Jet I,".   However, there are numerous path ways to spiritual initiation; as Patanjali, who wrote the "Yoga Sutras", explains thus, "One truth, many paths;" with the key ingredients being spiritual integrity and divine manifestation of a spiritual nature.  What this means is that all human beings are, spiritually evolving into their spiritual heritage.  "Know ye not that ye are gods and the spirit of the eternal liveth with you?"

Gautama the Buddha, speaking to his disciples, reinforces and conforms our heritage, "Never let discouragement enter into your soul, see you suffering in the world, see your unhappiness and pain and ignorance, misery and distress which wring the heart; the stones, the plants, the beasts, all the component atoms of these, each and every one, aye, and sun and moon and stars and planets----all in evolutionary future ages will become Buddha.  Each one will become Buddha." 

What a wonderful picture of our spiritual heritage the Buddha has set before us.  How it quiets the heart and stills the mind; for if one atom, one man, becomes a Buddha, everything will, in this universe be rooted in that One; in it we will live, move and have our being.  Some day, somewhere in the incalculable aeons of what we call the future, all now in the multitudes of suns, and stars, planets, comets, gods, men and women, animals, plants, stones, atoms, elements, worlds, everything, each as individual, is destined for Buddhahood.

Thank you G. de. Purucker---   "One truth, many paths." Be good, do Good"

                                                           Louis DiVirgilio