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... jealousy. They teach their children to become somebody in the world, to leave a name behind themselves. That makes life a struggle, not a rejoicing but a continuous fight -- so destructive that it takes away all your joy, all your juice, all your flowers. It leaves behind only skeletons fighting for power, for money , for position. Life becomes a warfield. The whole blame goes to the parents. They have...
... you any honor. The only honor should be in where you are going - to create a better future, to create a better humanity, to create a nobility, to create a godliness, a perfume that surrounds the whole existence. And it is within your power. But you have been suffocated by the past and its madness. You have not been allowed to grow your own flowers and release your own fragrance. YOUR WILL AND YOUR...
... cannot be greedy, you cannot have a lust for power. Once you know your own center, you reach to heights from where even the clouds are far below. You have touched the blueness of empty space. This traveler is called by Kassan and Jozan 'the Buddha'. KASSAN SAID, "IF THE BUDDHA WERE WITHIN LIFE-AND-DEATH, THERE WOULD BE NO DELUSION WITH REGARD TO LIFE-AND-DEATH." Right, but not perfect. There...
...;THE CHIEF MONK LOST." The cook had said everything about the pitcher without uttering a single word. And he did not even wait to see whether he was chosen or not. Such unconcern for position, for power! Only such a man could be chosen to be the chief of a monastery where people are going to meditate. THE COOK MONK WAS MADE HEAD OF THE MONASTERY AND LIVED THERE MANY YEARS TEACHING MORE THAN ONE...
... its power. On his enlightenment, Bunan wrote: THE MOON IS THE SAME OLD MOON, THE FLOWERS, EXACTLY AS THEY WERE, YET I HAVE BECOME THE THINGNESS OF ALL THE THINGS I SEE! THE MOON IS THE SAME OLD MOON - nothing has changed in the moon. THE FLOWERS, EXACTLY AS THEY WERE - they are still the same. YET I HAVE BECOME THE THINGNESS OF ALL THE THINGS I SEE! When a man of enlightenment looks at a roseflower...
... auroral streamers — about four hundred miles. (666.4) 58:2.7 Auroral phenomena are directly related to sunspots, those solar cyclones which whirl in opposite directions above and below the solar equator, even as do the terrestrial tropical hurricanes. Such atmospheric disturbances whirl in opposite directions when occurring above or below the equator. (666.5) 58:2.8 The power of sunspots to alter light...
... conjunction with the Thought Adjusters, both working heroically for the salvage of the individual; but no comprehensive plan for far-reaching world welfare was promulgated to the mortals of earth until the arrival of Machiventa Melchizedek, in the times of Abraham, who, with the power, patience, and authority of a Son of God, did lay the foundations for the further uplift and spiritual rehabilitation of...
... environment. (955.7) 86:6.2 Very early in the history of mankind the realities of the imaginary world of ghosts and spirits became universally believed, and this newly imagined spirit world became a power in primitive society. The mental and moral life of all mankind was modified for all time by the appearance of this new factor in human thinking and acting. (955.8) 86:6.3 Into this major premise of...
... first place? Who has made them poor? On the one hand you go on serving the poor and converting them into Catholics. The service is not in the service of the poor, the service is to increase the power of the Catholic church. You go on finding orphans and converting them. How have Catholics increased to six hundred million? -- by serving the poor. The service is motivated. If you are really interested...
... greatest religion. Christians have the most people, and the second most are Mohammedans. Christianity persuades people with a little sophistication. Mohammedans were absolutely in a hurry. Christians take time: they adopt orphans, they find leftover children in Calcutta. They bring them up, they give them education -- but all for the purpose of increasing the power of Christianity. The whole earth has to...
... TO GO ASTRAY. Then that becomes the problem. If you become too attached, that, "I have to attain enlightenment," then this will become your problem. Enlightenment is never attained, it happens. It is not an attainment. And the achieving mind never attains it. You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain...
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