Heck, don't the Veda's go back 5 or 6 thousand years?
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:44 AM, SURESH JAGADEESAN <[email protected]>wrote: > THE URGENCY OF TRANSFORMATION - ECKHART TOLLE > > When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the > world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t > work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable > problems, an individual lifeform– or a species – will either die or become > extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an > evolutionary > leap. > > It is believed that the lifeforms on this planet first evolved in the sea. > When there were no animals yet to be found on land, the sea was already > teeming with life. > > Then at some point, one of the sea creatures must have started to > venture onto dry land. It would perhaps crawl a few inches at > first,then exhausted by the enormous gravitational pull of the planet, > it would return to the water, where gravity is almost nonexistent and > where it could live with much greater ease. > > And then it tried again and again and again, and much later would > adapt to life on land, grow feet instead of fins, develop lungs > instead of gills. It seems unlikely that a species would venture into > such an alien environment and undergo an evolutionary transformation > unless it was compelled to do so by some crisis situation. > > There may have been a large sea area that got cut off from the main > ocean where the water gradually receded over thousands of years, > forcing fish to leave their habitatand evolve. > > Responding to a radical crisis that threatens our very survival – this is > humanity’s challenge now. > > The dysfunction of the egoic human mind, recognized already more than > 2,500 years ago by the ancient wisdom teachers and now magnified > through science and technology, is for the first time threatening the > survival of the planet. > > Until very recently, the transformation of human consciousness – also > pointed to by the ancient teachers – was no more than a possibility, > realized by a few rare individuals here and there, irrespective of > cultural or religious background. > > A widespread flowering of human consciousness did not happen because it was > not yet imperative. > > A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if > they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark > choice: > Evolve or die. > > A still relatively small but rapidly growing percentage of humanity > is already experiencing within themselves the breakup of the old egoic > mind patterns and the emergence of a new dimension of consciousness. > > What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion, > spiritual ideology, or mythology. > > We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of > ideologies and belief systems. > > The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your > thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness is the > transcendence of thought, the > newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension > within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. > > You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, > from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness > you take to be yourself. > > What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I > am. Who am I > then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the > space in which the thought – or the emotion or sense perception – happens > > -- > Thanks and best regards > J.Suresh > New No.3, Old No.7, > Chamiers road - 1st Lane, > Alwarpet, > Chennai - 600018 > Ph: 044 42030947 > Mobile: 91 9884071738 > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- *Larry Maher*
