To Kris again (and all)

[Guest guest]

Hi!

 

I hope you'll pardon me if this post doesn't appear to be directly about

Kundalini Yoga -- but it has to do with CONTENTMENT, which is one of the

Niyamas of Patanjali (santosha).

 

This is something I received from another list which seems to be

appropriate in many ways to the question Kris/watersister raised.

 

"Paradoxical as it seemed, the Master always insisted that the true

reformer

was one who was able to see that everything is perfect as it is -- and able

to leave it alone.

 

"Then why would he wish to reform anything?" protested his disciples.

 

"Well, there are reformers and reformers: One type lets action flow through

them while they themselves do nothing; these are like people who change the

shape and flow of a river. The others generate their own activity; they are

like people who exert themselves to make the river wetter.

 

 

Anthony de Mello, SJ

 

 

MORSEL: Be still like a mountain and flow like a river. --Lao-Tze"

 

Kathy Saraswati

 

 

 

 

 

 

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> Kathleen Saraswati Powers <kathleenpc

> Kundaliniyoga

> Digest Number 44

> Saturday, March 20, 1999 8:35 AM

>

> "Kathleen Saraswati Powers" <kathleenpc

>

> Hi Kris/watersister, and welcome to the list!

>

> I'm glad you wrote here!

>

> A thought on perfection:

> Perfection, in a sense, is what we already are, even while our

> consciousness evolves. Our actions aren't yet perfect, nor are our

> thoughts, but in the deepest part of our beings we are already perfect as

> we move into what we already are.

>

> Welcome again!

>

> Kathy Saraswati

>

>

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