How does one read the Dawn Horse Testament (with its grammatical style)?

[Max Gilderbloom]

I chucked out the hundred bucks for the Dawn Horse Testament and while I have panned alot of value from it, especially from looking in the index for specific topics, but in general, the writing style is quite confusing for me, just reading it from page 1-1000+ straight through seems quite daunting...

Any advice?

[Max Gilderbloom]

Imagine this... if you truly felt your Oneness with everything, you felt you were the pure transcendental spirit, and you asked others to worship you, would you be asking them to worship your body or the spirit that is?

Hmmm

[JiminyCrieckey]

Hi Max,

Well, when I did feel that the last thing I would have done would be ask others to worship me. How could I when I was so in awe of everything else, finally being free of self-reflection? The self-reflecting conceptual ego can be very sneaky and claim those states of consiousness for it's own. Then you get gurus that want you to worship them as if they are the first, last and only. And that is the common trap of inflation my friend.

[Izzy]

MG: would you be asking them to worship your body

Only if I'm wearing Prada!

Da has been trying to make his way into my third eye a few times, but I swiftly kick him in the ass while wearing Roberto Cavalli and Manolo Blahnik stappy sandals.

Look, I know you are trying to present a serious discussion here, but I find something various humorus in Da's tired old self.

Gotta go for now...

Izzy

[Max Gilderbloom]

Cool. Valid points.

[henri]

Some quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

If God Brings you to it, He will bring you through it. Happy moments, praise God; Difficult moments, seek God; Quiet moments, worship God; Painful moments, trust God; Every moment, thank God.

Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the problems in the world would be over.

The direction of life is towards one thing: that is love. You be prosperous and have no love, that prosperity has no value. You are on spiritual path but you don't experience, feel the Love, then that spiritual path is no path, it is very dry: it's all up here -- intellectual exercises

Offer desire to the Divine. Challenge the Divine: "Why did you give this desire to me in the first place! Better if you take care of it." At that very moment that pain, or restlessness, or desire, transforms into an infinite state of clear awareness, or Love. An immense Love wells forth in you. This is called "surrender.
The taste of that surrender will make your life worth living. Without that, you may be a king, you may be a president, you may be a millionaire, you may have all the pleasures in the world-still, you are poor; still, your life is not worth breathing.

Behind every misery, there is a hope. The fuel for miserable people is hope. Foreseeing happiness sometime in the future, makes one miserable right now. Having desire for some pleasure in the future, either in the world or in heaven, one misses the boat.

It's not necessary that one has to go through all the suffering. That is why there is a Guru. Yes, one has gone through some suffering -- that is enough. There is no need to be repeating it over again and again.

It's not worth living in this planet -- walking, talking, eating, drinking, doing anything -- if the heart is not opened. And 95% of the population, I could even say 99% of the population, dies without the heart being opened.

The seed of all knowledge is present in the consciousness, no doubt about it. There is no doubt -- the Sadguru will know something which you have never revealed to anybody. [To] the innermost secret , [he] has an access, because there is no difference. At the same time, he has no interest in poking into anybody's mind, or reading anybody's thoughts, or reading anybody's opinions. He allows the "I don't know" state to remain.

Servant is the real master. Who becomes a master, is one who serves. God has been serving you day and night. He takes care of every thing for you.

A guru is there so that you can experience your love fully and then experience that love for yourself and for the whole creation. And if some mistakes are there or even if some scandals are there, why should we hang onto it? We see there are many other good points. We just take those things and use them.

There is no way---not by any action or by words---that you can ever convince anybody that you really love them. The more we try to do it, the more we are doing the contrary.

Don't think, "It's my duty to raise my children." No -- take it as a service; service is different from duty. You have been a door for these little kids to come into this world. They are not yours; they belong to the Divine. You have just been a door.

Surrender is respect plus love. If you love someone, respect them, respect the Divinity in them. You will see that the relationship is never strained; it continues, continues, continues. This is the greatest secret about relationships.

Your forgiveness should be such that the person who is being forgiven does not even know that you are forgiving them. They don't even feel guilty of a mistake. That is the right type of forgiveness.

When something bothers you too much in the mind, you want to talk. This is in between. I tell you, when something bothers you in the mind, get into action - work. You will see that gives a bigger relief.

This is a very great unwritten truth: mistakes are nobody's, neither mine nor yours.
When you recognize a mistake as mistake, but not as "my" mistake, your guilt will not be there. You see "Oh, this is a mistake... whether it is by me or someone else... this is a mistake that needs rectification." Your mind is lighter, it is not stiff. It is not loaded with tension.

If some sadness arises, "Oh, I feel a little sad", go deep into the sadness, and you will see that very sadness is nothing but longing. And that very longing, the tears of longing, is nothing but love. And love is nothing but gratefulness. And gratefulness is nothing but your very Being.

Poor people fight for food. Rich people share their food. Richer are those who share power. Richer still are those who share fame. Richest of all are those who share themselves. A person's wealth is measured by his ability to share and not by what he hoards.

Existing as though you are not, living as though you are not there at all: hollow and empty - pure, empty space - that is when one says, "Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done." That is true unity between the little small mind and the infinite mind, the cosmic mind, the universal mind.

Do not see intention behind somebody else's mistakes.
When you look at someone else's mistake, you should laugh at it and feel compassionate towards it; then you are able to save your mind.

Anger is meaningless, because it is always about something that has already passed.

For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering.

Do sadhana and involve people for service service & celebration. To sustain service you need celebration and in order to authentically celebrate you need service. Few years on the planet, do something good and go with a smile!

Jai Guru Dev

[David Patton List]

Sell it to a used bookstore.David