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Bowl of Saki for December 6, 2006
Bowl of Saki for December 6
TO DENY THE CHANGEABLENESS OF LIFE IS LIKE FANCYING A MOTIONLESS SEA, WHICH CAN ONLY EXIST IN ONE'S IMAGINATION.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Even the conception of Nirvana is not stillness. It is a ceaseless, rhythmical activity. Life is motion, love is motion, and light is motion. Stillness represents the condition of the cipher, Nirvana that of infinity. There can be no stillness because even conceiving stillness is an activity of mind. The control of mind activity
through spiritual contemplation is an activity of heart and soul. The paralysis of mind through drugs or hypnotism is a chemical activity in the first place (dispossessing mind-activity) and the activity of another's mind in the second event. When the chemical
forces abate or when the mind of another loses control, mind again functions.
The saying, "Nature abhors a vacuum," extends beyond the physical. It means, that whenever there is a withdrawal there is a compensation elsewhere, and it is only by force that force can be withdrawn. So even cessation of movement is dependent upon movement.
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TO DENY THE CHANGEABLENESS OF LIFE IS LIKE FANCYING A MOTIONLESS SEA, WHICH CAN ONLY EXIST IN ONE'S IMAGINATION.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Even the conception of Nirvana is not stillness. It is a ceaseless, rhythmical activity. Life is motion, love is motion, and light is motion. Stillness represents the condition of the cipher, Nirvana that of infinity. There can be no stillness because even conceiving stillness is an activity of mind. The control of mind activity
through spiritual contemplation is an activity of heart and soul. The paralysis of mind through drugs or hypnotism is a chemical activity in the first place (dispossessing mind-activity) and the activity of another's mind in the second event. When the chemical
forces abate or when the mind of another loses control, mind again functions.
The saying, "Nature abhors a vacuum," extends beyond the physical. It means, that whenever there is a withdrawal there is a compensation elsewhere, and it is only by force that force can be withdrawn. So even cessation of movement is dependent upon movement.
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