it. Then, the external words can be used. If you can chant it or listen to it in Aramiac, even better. How to use it during activity? Make affirmations, prayers, positive thinking, giving encouragement to others a way of life. I actually use this prayer - in my own way. Using the Petition/Affirmations after meditation addresses God, oneself, community and all humanity simultaneously. The inner life is an organic, ongoing process and the results are out of our hands, therefore it's best to keep one's intimate world private. ~ The ESSENES
Force in the morning, the Light in the evening and the Sound Stream at noon. (The Noon one might have been modified since we no longer rest at noon.) Below is an excerpt:
of God beat in your ears until you are one with the Holy Stream of Sound And you shall bathe in the Stream of Sound ... and the mighty roaring of the Stream of Sound will fill your whole body, and you will tremble before its might ... Then breathe deeply of the angel of air, and become the sound itself, that the Holy Stream of Sound may carry you to the endless kingdom of the Heavenly Father, there where the rhythm of the world rises and falls." * from the "Essene Gospel of Peace, Book Four"
This is a basic principal of transcendental meditation that justifies speaking of a "Yoga of Yeshua": That the mind has a natural tendency to be attracted to a field of greater happiness. And that the inner Reality is absolute-bliss-consciousness -- peace and love in the vernacular. Put these two truths together and you see why meditation can be natural and spontaneous. “The thirsty man is moaning, "O delicious water!" The water is calling, "Where is the one who will drink me?" This thirst in our souls IS the magnetism of the Water: We are Its, and It is ours.” Rumi, in Jewels of Remembrance
and my mastership is gentle -- and you shall find repose for yourselves." Gospel of Phillip *YOKE really translates as "spiritual discipline" or YOGA.
the Church precisely because it exposes Yeshua as a mystic and YOGI. Most of these quotes are from there.
A yogi teaches Self realization -- "I AM is the way, the truth and the life. No man or woman comes to the Father/Mother but through the Self." (rephrased) A yogi teaches mindfulness and vigilance -- "What I say to you I say to everyone, "Watch!" A yogi teaches the basic realization of the higher self as -- Jesus said, "He who believes to know the All, but not himself, falls completely short." A yogi has "divya drishti", divine vision -- "When your eye be single, your whole body is filled with light." A yogi is humble about his personal self -- Jesus said, "Why have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind?" A yogi doesn't make a show of it -- "When you pray go in your room and close the door!" A yogi is solitary, at least inwardly -- Jesus said, "Wretched is the body that is dependant upon a body, and wretched is the soul that is dependent on these two." A yogi is an ascetic, at least in spirit -- Jesus said, "If you do not fast as regards the world, you will not find the kingdom." A yogi is a transcendentalist -- Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind." A yogi brings the inner Reality into the outer life -- Jesus said, "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves." A yogi lives to give -- Jesus said, "If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back." A yogi has a jolly sense of humor -- They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray today and let us fast." Jesus said, "What is the sin that I have committed, or wherein have I been defeated? But when the bridegroom leaves the bridal chamber, then let them fast and pray." A yogi has mystic fire (tapas) -- Jesus said, "He who is near me is near the fire." One yogi ignites the fire if supreme love in many -- Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." A yogi is one with the supreme -- Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all." For a yogi childlike simplicity is the way -- Yeshua said "Whichever one of you comes to be a child will be acquainted with the kingdom and will become superior to John." A yogi is detached from the world -- Jesus said, "Become passers-by." A yogi is not vain like a peacock -- Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from evening until morning about what you will wear." A yogi is very careful what he or she says -- Jesus said "What goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth -- it is that which will defile you." A yogi is not a master but a fountain -- Upon being called master, Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out."
The GOSPELS OF THOMAS, PHILLIP, MARY and others. They were popular with Yeshua's first people. Someastute persons saw what was going to happen and sealed the texts in large urns and hid them in caves. There they remained secure through long centuries of Christian book burnings, witch hunts and mind-contol. Finally they were rediscovered in the 20th Century. Most are found in the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea Scrolls.
threat to the Church's efforts to create a sort of sacrificial idol out of Yeshua - with them, the Christian Patriarchy, as the sole mediator to God. Christianity then became a perfect weapon of the European rulers to in turn & cruzify Africa, the Americas and their own populace. A cruzifying religion! The gospels that they selected and translated and edited we know as the bible.
put forth under his name, agree not with his faith. Especially since - as already it has been often proved - these things were written not by Christ, nor by his apostles, but a long while after ... who made up their tale out of reports and opinions merely, and yet, fathering the whole upon the names of the apostles ... they maliciously pretended that they had written their lies and conceits according to them. St. Faustus, a 5th century bishop. The Nazarene Way Humanity is moving into an age of the direct search for truth - no longer blockaded by any dogma or church. How fitting that these - and other ancient teachings from around the world too - were destined to be rediscovered in modern times.
Aramiac was the common language of the Middle East and extended over a vast area. It is related to Hebrew and Arabic. Aramaic is more holistic than what we know as language -- there is not so much distinction between inner and outer, ends and means. Words can be interpreted in more than one way, or with a multi-dimensionality of meanings. Language itself gets stretched when describing transcendent realities. Then, the cultural context of his time has to be considered. Yeshuas speech was often more exclamatory than rational. And I know from experience that the Presence of a divine master is such that language is really at a loss. ~ The "Queendom of Heaven" - MALKUTHA
a Queendom. But that was intolerable I guess. Below is a quote from Peter, the founder of the Catholic Church, bastion of the patriarchy. They should have left him as Jesus' bodyguard - Christian history would have been less bloody.
preference to us, and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen to her? Did he prefer her to us?" from The Gospel of Mary, another supressed text. What if they discovered that Yeshua were really a woman? Not "TheLord" - like some medieval nobleman - in front of whom all the people had t bow and scrape. Praise the Lord! would have had to be changed to PRAISE THE DUCHESS! Try that one out at church!
The greater breath of life is reached by going beyond or dying to our individuality. During meditation practices, the breathing diminishes twice the extent as in sleep, as measured by the rate of oxygen consumption. Even you see a beautiful sunset and it takes your breath away. This is the real meaning of PRANA-AYAMA, "expansion of the vital force or breath".
ABBA or BABA is used from Africa all across to India. It addresses a father or a respected elder or holy man. It comes from the root AB, meaning BIRTHER. Interestingly, BA is one of the first sounds a baby can utter. It has a loving conotation. With ABBA Yeshua brought the Supreme Reality down to an intimate, loving presence. One wonders why he did not use MOTHER too? The Semitic culture was extremely patriarchal. I think he would have been killed even sooner! AL or EL: is the Semitic root for God. From that came the Hebrew Elohim, the Aramaic Elaha and Alleluia, the Arabic Allah. AMEN: is another universal power word. In Yoruba AMEN means the unseen principles of God. In Egypt, AMEN RA was the name of the one Supreme and was associated with the Sun and the Breath. In India, the famous mantra RAM NAM has a similar sound and meaning! See the universality of it all! ~ " ~ "Our Daily Bread" This verse is about sharing living simply. We have a enough on the planet to feed everyone supply basic needs. We only have to consume less, become vegetarian, etc. The same land that feeds one person with meat can feed 20 with grains. Eat beef and you support corporations like Mc Donalds who take control of the land of poor people in places like Guatemala to raise cattle instead of local food. The Essenes, of who Yeshua was one, followed a higher principle:
Which saith that none shall have wealth, And none shall be poor, And all work togetherin the garden of the Brotherhood. Yet each shall follow his own path, And each shall commune with his own heart... There shall be no peace among peoples Til there be one garden of the brotherhood over the earth. For how can there be peace When each man pursueth his own gain And doth sell his soul into slavery? Essene Gospel of Peace ~ Originality of the ABWOON Now that we think it's so great I just say this: The Abwoon is NOT original. It is borrowed from the Jewish Talmud. Only the our daily bread part was added in by Yeshua. This is not to discredit it - all the masters were trying to connect us to the same thing. Plus he thot of what we need to eat! ~ For some good sources on the Aramaic Abwoon, click on: |
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Said a traveler to one of the disciples, ~I have traveled a great distance to listen to the Master, but I find his words quite ordinary. ~Don't listen to his words. Listen to his message. ~How does one do that? ~Take hold of a sentence that he says. Shake it well till all the words drop off. What is left will set your heart on fire.
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