False dignity is pride
True dignity is humble integrity
True Integrity is alignment with the True Self
True Humility is rooted in abstraction… which lies beyond rules, codes, laws…
yet proper use of rules, codes, and laws can help light the way to True Integrity and True Humility.
Improper use of rules, codes, and laws clouds, inhibits, or even attacks The Way.
False integrity is alignment with dogma.
When the Master speaks, it immediately ceases to be what the Master said and, in time, becomes what dogma dictates.
Jesus was judged harshly by the ‘spiritual elders’ of His time.
Today is no different than then.
Reflect, learn and become great.
Truth lies within you as You.
Do not rely upon smallness. Who you are is great, grand, beyond smallness, beyond dogma, beyond simplistic… yet it is very simple.
This is an amazing message and the inspirational energy jumps right out of the screen. I share my awareness of you with so many simply because of my love for the people in my life. I have only hope that everyone I meet from here forward has at least one opportunity to read or hear the gift in knowledge that you offer. I know better than to create expectations around the results of that opportunity so my ambition will not suffer.
Thank you for your gift
I agree with Michael Brandon… the Knowledge is like sweet, life-nourishing nectar. Yet, most people reject it. Their karma is contrary to the Teachings and they go another way. As I’ve heard Brahmarshi say, “If the fruit is ripe, then it will fall from the tree.” The blogs are continual reminders and guides to help keep me on the path.
It is so unfortunate that the purest of knowledge is lost to dogma. I often have thought, What would Jesus say or think about the Religion of Christianity today? And really the answer is already there because he teaches us by his reactions to the Pharisees and Saducees of his time. I have been deeply contemplating my relationship to the Christian tradition, and while I am really enjoying and benefiting from my classes, I just can’t help but feel the ridgidness to the rules, laws, and dogma that surround the great spiritual teachings. On one side you have profound insite and understanding of the Saints like Aquinas, Agustine, or Francis, which for me have enriched my understanding, but on the other side you have the strong dogmatic opinions toward various ways of life or ridgid holding to a particular interpretation of scripture. I am very glad I took the leep and pursued a more academic exploration of the Christian faith, but the reality is that I have changed and am changing. My heart feels rooted in something deeper and a degree in Theology would only seem to be knowledge of the shell not the seed. As I new it would be, Brahmarshi, your teachings and wisdom are a warm gentle home that is there for me. Thank you again.
Beautiful and brilliantly written…you surround the deeper point while navigating around the trappings of old conditioned thought patterns… A transcendental arrow…released with precision. Thank you
Erik,
truth does not exist is books. It only exists in the embodied Master, When the Master speaks, it immediately ceases to be what the Master said and becomes what the listener heard. Reading their words is no different. To be in the presence of a true teacher is necessary. That is how the understanding of what they are saying is refined and refined. In the Vedic tradition it is about Neti, Neti, Neti… not that, not that, not that… until in time “That” is awoken to. A Ph.d. in strawberries who had never tasted one, would, with their first bite of one, be certain what they just tasted was not a strawberry.