Guest guest Posted May 18, 2001 Report Share Posted May 18, 2001 >Please allow me to share this story with you: >I was in Yellowstone this summer, and at one night I >watched a huge fire nearby our camper. A ranger >joined me, and he told me that there are two types of >cones: the ordinary which under normal circumstance >take care of the propagation, and a special type, which >will release the seeds only at high temperature. So, >these rare cones just lay there, sometimes waiting >decades for the right circumstances.... > >Everything has its own rhythm, and if the onion is >peeled, the pure teaching will be there, exactly in time, >in the applicable form. Hence, all things always go right. >We will recognise the special cone only when the time >is right, and at that very moment there is nothing else >to do then just embrace the uncertainty, to surrender in >atonement with nature. >The work I am experiencing is to put my own forest on >Fire, and there are several, delicate ways to accomplish >that. But it all comes down to the point where I have to >open the door myself, knowing that what is inside me, >is also outside me. > > >This is what the Upanishads call Paratparam: >Beyond the Beyond. The threshold moves forward, like >the horizon. The further you advance the further it >recedes, you never reach it. Only when the spiritual >ego surrenders, the door destroys itself. Then there is >no more manifest or non-manifest or God and me, >and all is One. > >Love, >Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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