Title: FW: [globalnews] Meditation of the Peaceful Warrior on Day of Massive Antiwar Protests
This is the year of tribulations around the world. This is the year when we are called upon to stand up and speak out for peace.
In the face of the great war machines that support the repressive regimes, terrorists and global corporations that threaten our precious planet’s environment and trample upon human rights and dignity, we must take the way of the peaceful warrior, confronting power with truth and in peace. For only through truth and peace can we prevail. Courage, faith and inner spiritual guidance are the prerequisites for this confrontation. We all have access to a source of wisdom within us so deep and so high that it transcends our commonsense, everyday thoughts, fears, weaknesses and failings, providing us with unerring guidance, enlightenment and, yes, unfailing love for all beings, including the great powers that threaten humanity today. By connecting with that inner source, listening to the small still voice within, and acting upon its promptings, we peaceful warriors will find our dark ways illuminated, our fears banished, our failings overcome. Turn within, seek this limitless source of strength and wisdom and love, and then act in the world accordingly. The results will astonish you, and together, we will astonish the whole world.
Curtis
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THE SONG OF LIFE
Out of the silence that is peace a resonant voice shall arise. And
this voice will say, It is not well; thou hast reaped, now thou must
sow. And knowing this voice to be the silence itself thou wilt obey.
Thou who art now a disciple, able to stand, able to hear, able to
see, able to speak, who hast conquered desire and attained to
self-knowledge, who hast seen thy soul in its bloom and recognized
it, and heard the voice of the silence, go thou to the Hall of
Learning and read what is written there for thee.
1. Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be
not thou the warrior.
2. Look for the warrior and let him fight in thee.
3. Take his orders for battle and obey them.
4. Obey him not as though he were a general, but as though he
were thyself, and his spoken words were the utterance of thy secret
desires; for he is thyself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than
thyself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight thou
mayest pass him; and he will not know thee unless thou knowest him.
If thy cry meet his listening ear, then will he fight in thee and
fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then canst thou go
through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him
battle for thee. Then it will be impossible for thee to strike one
blow amiss. But if thou look not for him, if thou pass him by, then
there is no safeguard for thee. Thy brain will reel, thy heart grow
uncertain, and in the dust of the battle-field thy sight and senses
will fail, and thou wilt not know thy friends from thy enemies.
He is thyself, yet thou art but finite and liable to error. He is
eternal and is sure. He is eternal truth. When once he has entered
thee and become thy warrior, he will never utterly desert thee, and
at the day of the great peace he will become one with thee.
5. Listen to the song of life.
6. Store in your memory the melody you hear.
7. Learn from it the lesson of harmony.
8. You can stand upright now, firm as a rock amid the turmoil,
obeying the warrior who is thyself and thy king. Unconcerned in the
battle save to do his bidding, having no longer any care as to the
result of the battle, for one thing only is important, that the
warrior shall win, and you know he is incapable of defeat - standing
thus, cool and awakened, use the hearing you have acquired by pain
and by the destruction of pain. Only fragments of the great song come
to your ears while yet you are but man. But if you listen to it,
remember it faithfully, so that none which has reached you is lost,
and endeavour to learn from it the meaning of the mystery which
surrounds you. In time you will need no teacher. For as the
individual has voice, so has that in which the individual exists.
Life itself has speech and is never silent. And its utterance is not,
as you that are deaf may suppose, a cry: it is a song. Learn from it
that you are a part of the harmony; learn from it to obey the laws of
the harmony.
Light on the Path
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THE INMOST SELF
All this, verily, is the Eternal. It should be reverently
approached, in silence, as breathing and living in him.
Verily man is formed of Will; according as man's will is, in this
world, according to that is his being on going forth hence. Let him
perform his will.
Of the form of mind, with a body of vital breath, of the nature
of light, moving towards the real, of the being of the shining ether,
doing all things, desiring all things, smelling all things, tasting
all things, embracing all that is, silent, untroubled: - this is my
Self in the inmost heart; smaller than a grain of rice, or a grain of
barley, or a grain of mustard-seed, or a grain of millet, or the
kernel of a grain of millet; this is my Self in the inmost heart;
older than the earth, older than the mid-world, greater than heaven,
greater than all these worlds.
Doing all things, desiring all things, smelling all things,
tasting all things, embracing all that is, silent, untroubled. This is
my Self in the inmost heart, this is the Eternal. Going forth hence,
I shall enter into its being. He who has possessed this, doubts no
more.
Chandogya Upanishad
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"We must stand together, the four sacred colors of humanity, as the one family that we are, in the interest of peace. We must unite the religions of the world as a spiritual force strong enough to prevail in peace. We human beings are a spiritual energy that is thousands of times stronger than nuclear energy. Our energy is the combined will of all the people with the spirit of the natural world, to be of one body, one heart, and one mind for peace."
--Leon Shenandoah, Tadadaho for the Haudenausenee (Iroquois Six Nations):
