N was often travelling into work on the very crowded Northern Line, where he would sometimes be pushed around.
This was a good opportunity to observe his feelings. There was a part of him which would have more liked to be somewhere else, but then if he calmed, and accepted the fact that it was just for a short duration, then he somehow came to terms with it, and it was not so unpleasant, and he was not trying to escape.
Further contributions and responses to these contributions were made, but nothing more pertained to contributions relevant to the challenge. The reading continued from Chapter 26 of Beelzebub's Tales.
... all these tablets were also destroyed by these strange beings themselves, and only one of them, namely, that one now with these brethren, somehow survived, as I have already told you, and is now the property of this Brotherhood.
“On this still surviving marble were inscriptions concerning the sacred being-impulses called Faith, Love, and Hope, ....
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
From the movie Serendipity, 2001, directed by Peter Chelsom
T said that she always had a problem with the word faith. She also had a problem with the word belief, and the word she had come up with which felt more accurate was truth. Faith seemed such a blur, and such an amorphous entity. She felt similarly about the word hope, and could not connect with it. J said that these verses were like a song. L thought it would be useful to lay them out as a table.
D said that Consciousness was the key, and RM agreed.
... owing to this maleficent disease ‘tomorrow’ they never succeed in making these required efforts.
And this is just the maleficent part of all that great terrifying evil, which, owing to various causes great and small, is concentrated in the process of the ordinary being-existence of these pitiable three-brained beings; and by putting off from ‘tomorrow’ till ‘tomorrow,’ those unfortunate beings there who do by chance learn all about what I have mentioned are also deprived of the possibility of ever attaining anything real.
L said this could be discussed further next time.
| When you find yourself in a crowded tube carriage, observe how you are feeling, and if your feelings are automatic, try first to be free of them, and then to replace them with better feelings. |
A busy time on the Sri Lanka railway.
... all these tablets were also destroyed by these strange beings themselves, and only one of them, namely, that one now with these brethren, somehow survived, as I have already told you, and is now the property of this Brotherhood.
“On this still surviving marble were inscriptions concerning the sacred being-impulses called Faith, Love, and Hope, ....
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
From the movie Serendipity, 2001, directed by Peter Chelsom
Source: YouTube
Consciousness
|
Feeling
|
Body
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith | Freedom | Weakness | Stupidity |
| Love | Evokes the same in response | Evokes the opposite | Depends only on type and polarity |
| Hope | Strength | Slavery | Disease |
D said that Consciousness was the key, and RM agreed.
... owing to this maleficent disease ‘tomorrow’ they never succeed in making these required efforts.
And this is just the maleficent part of all that great terrifying evil, which, owing to various causes great and small, is concentrated in the process of the ordinary being-existence of these pitiable three-brained beings; and by putting off from ‘tomorrow’ till ‘tomorrow,’ those unfortunate beings there who do by chance learn all about what I have mentioned are also deprived of the possibility of ever attaining anything real.
L said this could be discussed further next time.
