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[chicagognosis]

Those who wish to keep the trainings

Must with perfect self-possession guard their minds.

Without this guard upon the mind,

The trainings cannot be preserved.

Wandering where it will, the elephant of mind,

Will bring us down to torment in the hell of Unrelenting Pain.

No worldly beast, however wild and crazed,

Could bring upon us such calamities.

If, with mindfulness’ rope,

The elephant of mind is tethered all around,

Our fears will come to nothing,

Every virtue drop into our hands.

Tigers, lions, elephants, and bears,

Snakes and every hostile foe,

Those who guard the prisoners in hell,

Ghosts and ghouls and every evil wraith,

By simple binding of this mind alone,

All these things are likewise bound.

By simple taming of this mind alone,

All these things are likewise tamed.

For all anxiety and fear,

And pain in boundless quantity,

Their source and wellspring is the mind itself,

As He who spoke the truth declared.

The hellish instruments to torture living beings—

Who invented them for such intent?

Who has forged this burning iron ground;

Whence have all these demon-women sprung?

All are but the offspring of the sinful mind,

This the mighty Sage has said.

Throughout the triple world therefore

There is no greater bane than mind itself.

—Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva: "Vigilant Introspection,” 1-8

1. The mind lives reacting against the impacts that come from the exterior world. One must control these reactions of the mind by means of willpower.

2. If one throws a rock into a lake, then one will see crystalline waves extending from the center to the periphery. The waves become the reaction of the water against the rock.

3. If someone insults us, then we feel anger. This anger is a reaction to the words of the insulter.

4. A pornographic image offends our external senses. The mind then reacts as the lake in the given example, with waves of animal passion that extend from the center to the periphery.

5. We must subdue the senses and command the mind with the mighty whip of willpower.

6. Our mind lives reacting against the impacts of the exterior world.

7. The incessant reactions of the mind deliver pleasure and pain to us.

8. Likes and dislikes are nothing more than the result of the reactions of the subjective mind.

9. It is necessary to control these reactions of the subjective mind in order to pass beyond pleasure and pain.

10. We must become serene and indifferent before praise and slander and before triumph and failure.

11. All the tempests of our existence are nothing more than the result of the reactions of the subjective mind before the impacts that come from the exterior world.

12. A clairvoyant examination permits us to comprehend that the reactions of the mind come from a nuclear center.

13. This nuclear center of the subjective mind is the Guardian of the Threshold of the mind.

14. The Guardian of the Threshold of the mind is similar to the smoke of the flame.

15. The Guardian of the Threshold of the mind is a terrible demonic creature. It lives by reacting against the exterior world with waves of pleasure and pain, with waves of likes and dislikes, and with waves of hatred, envy, greed, slander, selfishness, etc.

16. We have created this guardian on our own, with all the evil of our subjective mind.

17. There is the need to carefully separate the smoke from the flames.

18. It is urgent to deprive ourselves of the Guardian of the Threshold of the mind in order to become liberated from our animal past.

—Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

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“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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✨I am enough✨

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What will be today's objective goal?

Stretch out of your tension.

Repeat: "I have the space I need to create the reality I want."

What will be today's social goal?

Balance your posture.

Repeat: "I am my profound harmony."

What will be today's active goal?

Ground yourself in action.

Repeat: "It exists when I empower it."

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Daily Meditations

by Rev. George Bowen

Devotional for August 18th

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. - Psalm 37:5

We shall find it impossible to commit our way unto the Lord, unless it be a way that he approves. For it is only by faith that a man can commit his way unto the Lord; and if there be the least suspicion in the heart, that the way be not a good one, faith will refuse to have anything to do with it. As well might you expect Achan to bring his wedge of gold and Babylonish garment to Joshua and ask him to take care of them; or a deserter to inquire of his general the way to the enemy’s camp.

Having found reason to believe that your chosen way is approved of heaven, let heaven have the entire direction of whatever relates to it. Having resolved to go to Rome to preach the gospel there, be content that God should bring you there in chains, as a culprit, and keep you there as a prisoner.

And this committing must be a continuous, not a single act. You are to trust ever in His wisdom, goodness, and power - not only in generals but in particulars. And however extraordinary may seem to be his guidance, however near to the precipice he may take you, you are not to snatch the reins out of his hand. ’ Whatever is, is best," to him who, with an enlightened and genuine faith, has committed his way unto the Lord, and to him alone.

Are we really willing to have all our ways submitted to God for him to pronounce upon them? Are there not some of our ways which have become to us through long habit like a second nature, concerning which we have never really taken counsel of God? There is nothing about which a man needs to be more scrutinizing than about his oldest ways, his most confirmed habits and views. He is too apt to take for granted the divine approbation of them.

Why are some Christians so anxious and fearful, in view of some anticipated contingency? Evidently because they have not left the matter with him. They have taken it to him and brought it away with them.

It may seem a prodigious faith to regard God on his throne as studious of all that concerns us; but such faith is really no bolder than is the faith that God spared not his only begotten Son.

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

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The Beauty

Doing what you love makes you and your soul beautiful. Doing what we love heals us and our souls. It allows us to focus on ourselves and who we are. There may be times when we don't look like the way we feel or feel like the way we look like. This is normal. It shouldn't even be a problem because we are so much more than our looks and how we feel in the moment. We are much more valuable. Focusing on the things you love is focusing on yourself. To see the love within yourself. Beauty is a feeling and a thought. Loving yourself isn't just about loving the body we see in the mirror. This is also our feelings, our soul, our environment, our hobbies, art, and everything you own except your body. Meditate, think positive. There's nothing wrong with thinking positive. It has nothing to give you but peace and happiness. Trust me. Happiness is a choice. Univers/God doesn't show us what we don't think. Focus on the thing beautiful around you. They don't have any? Create you own beauty around you. You will start to see other beauties in your enviroment. I promise. Write down your toughts. Answer self reflection questions. Know yourself. Create yourself. Love youself because you have no one to love that much and honest in your life. You are you, you are the one. The only thing what can control your mind is you It's your mind again. Keep it in love and beautiful. It will be your life. Maybe it is already just like that. You just need to realize.

Thanks for Karrissa Love to inspired me to write this.💓

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