BS

March 29

A Lifeline for Reclaiming Parts of this Soul that May Have Been Lost

Over 51/52 & Beyond B.S.

Beyond Belief System Territories

Focus Levels 24 to 26 — explored extensively during the Lifeline program — are referred to as the Belief System Territories 

"With a Little Help from my Friends" 

Ich Ego & egō 2

or "I Me Mine"

अन्तःकरण-antaḥkaraṇa

According to वेदान्त Vedānta, the term अन्तःकरण antaḥkaraṇa refers to the four-tiered inner instrument of consciousness, which we call “mind.” It consists of बुद्धि buddhi or intellect, मनस् manas the vacillating arbiter of the mind, अहंकार ahaṃkāra self-awareness or “I-ness” and चित्त citta, the storehouse of mental moods and memories. While the concept and the meaning of the first three terms are not ambiguous, the term चित्त citta appears to be loosey-goosey in its definition.

易 Changes in the Universe 經

Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. Buddhism perceives the beauty of change, for life is like music in this: if any note or phrase is held for longer than its appointed time, the melody is lost. Thus Buddhism may be summed up in two phrases: “Let go!” and “Walk on!” Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life.

— Alan W. Watts

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

— William James

Any energy that you deny becomes a demon for you. It becomes your inner tormenter. And you don't get rid of your demons. You embrace them. Not indulge them, but embrace them. And if you embrace them in a way I am talking about, they no longer feel like demons. They are just energies that are available to you. They are just part of this whole spectrum of what it is to be conscious and alive and present. And everything becomes joined together back again. A mature emotional life is when all the different parts of yourself emotionally are joined back together. Nothing is put outside, nothing is denied, nothing is hidden. Nothing is unacknowledged. All brought together so that it can all come together.

— आद्य शान्तिः meaning "primordial peace" Stephen Gray, Ādya Śānti

Gunilla Norris