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March 9, 2001

In a message dated 3/9/01 8:37:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, JB789

writes:

<< do you know whether there is such a thing as 'transmission'

from a teacher thru mere words, in a book ?

jb.

>>

As Linda has aptly noted, there are countless instances where this has

taken place. ln his spiritual autobiography the contemporary Sufi teacher

Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee relates that when he was a youth of 16, riding on the

subway in London, a chum handed him a book he was reading about Zen. He

happened to read a poem and his entire life immediately underwent a complete

change -- his energy system, mind, emotions, everything -- putting him on the

spiritual path at that young age.

Master Charles in his

spiritual autobiography describes a similar experience. A friend showed him a

photo of Muktananda, having just returned from his ashram in lndia, and

Charles immediately went into orbit. lt was to be the first of an

extraordinary chain of events which led him to Muktananda.

lt happens with dead masters as well as living ones and with photos as

well as other things. An internet k friend recently referred me to the

website of a deceased lndian master -- one who'd died at only 21 years of age

-- which had a beautiful photo of the shining face of the master. l noticed,

as my friend had said, that the photo emanated shakti. My friend then emailed

me 2 days later in a state of crisis. He liked the photo so much he printed a

copy of it to carry around with him. After doing so for a couple of days his

k was so energized he couldn't sleep or focus himself! He got rid of the

photo and was soon ok.

l don't

know what to conclude from events such as these, except that it appears that

photos and other objects can definitely carry shakti. l'm just not sure about

the relationship between the shakti and wherever the teacher is when the

third person experiences it.

jerrysan rinpoche

March 9, 2001

Hi

Last night before going to bed, in spite of being so tired that I

could hardly see, I picked up a book to read a few lines. It happened

to be one by Ramesh Balsekar(..I think called 'the final truth', but

I am not studying his teaching in particular/exclusively).

My eyes fell on some text on the ego as being, like everyhting else,

also part of the what-is which can be witnessed... and a few other

pointers which I cannot remember.

Lying down in bed, a state of wholeness and stable energy, as if at

the center of the psych, settled in the being. It seemed to be

untouchable. It was still there this morning and now as well.. a sort

of background/center to everything happening, in which the being is

somehow rooted... in spite of my going around doing the same things,

my work, dinking tea and smoking my pipe.

'It' has been perceived before, but it was again 'covered' by

the 'involvement' in the 'horizontal' movement of thought.

I am not trying to hold onto it..

(even though thoughts do wonder about when/if it's going to

disappear,.. as all other states i've been in _did_ end).

I was just wondering whether it has any genuine significance, and

what it is..

...perhaps, just the full moon energy doing its passing thing.

Also, do you know whether there is such a thing as 'transmission'

from a teacher thru mere words, in a book ?

jb.

March 9, 2001

..>Also, do you know whether there is such a thing as 'transmission'

>from a teacher thru mere words, in a book ?>jb.

Hello jb:

I can't imagine any reason why words from a book could not reasonate

in such a way that the soul's response is a transmission of

consciousness. Grace is always there waiting for another veil to

slip away...enjoy.

Linda

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somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions,

and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back

into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It

is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the

Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of

Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self.

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