New Spiritualibus Blog Posts – Excerpts

Why hostile
Not friendly
When is clear
Not strongest
But together
We prevail
Here now
And always
No matter
Where when
We light up
A corner
In sounds
Of silence
And love
Harmony
Of all life
And spirit
The divine
And God
All free
Choose
Friendly
Beyond
Hostile
So clear

“Louder Call for Peace” — again

Imagination as obstacle or detriment

One can come “to the conclusion that imagination is a negative […] faculty which he cannot control, and it always carries him away from his more conscious decisions in a direction in which he had no intention of going. Imagination, in this sense, is almost as bad as lying, for he starts to imagine something in order to please himself and, very soon, he begins to believe what he imagines, or at least some of it.”

— The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, p. 305

Once a lake, now a meandering river — nothing hostile

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

I hold my promise
Thanks for inviting
But my freedom is
Outside of temples
Especially of dogma
That’s limiting clearly
While claiming much
Including liberation
But more enslaves
In subtle business
Most in want-to-be
More and yet more
Instead of just be
What we all are
Soul, sparks o’God
As everyone teaches
In the core of heart
Before imperialism
And absolutism
Poisons a well
If leaders let it
Or try to oppose
Under the banner
Of keeping it pure
What one wrote
A long time ago
Whether to help
Oneself or others
That tells it all…

“Back in open time and space” — at long last

Know one thing — I hold my promise

“No problem is given man which is greater than himself. Each being is tested according to his capacity; none are tested beyond it. Each problem which man encounters has a spiritual solution, and each person has his troubles at the point where he is most negative and vulnerable.
“Whosoever knows one thing therefore knows fully all things, for truth in one spiritual thing is inseparable from the truth of all things.”
— The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Books One & Two, Paul Twitchell, p. 209

Coleoptera — option to co-operate with a lion

“Blue glacial melt water” — soundscape

Kesamutti / Kālāma Sutta — Buddha’s “charter of free inquiry”

“Don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought ‘This contemplative is our teacher’.

“When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted and carried out, lead to welfare and to happiness’ — then you should enter and remain in them.”

— Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas, translated from Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Ruminating peacefully — Schtilli zum Gniesse / Silence to be relished