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Recieved: 1999/01/01 09:39
Subject: [K-list] Cutting down on behaviour patterns
From: Wim Borsboom
On 1999/01/01 09:39, Wim Borsboom posted thus to the K-list:
> Dear So & So
>
> That's good, your spontaneous-coffee-quitting experience! That kind of
> symptom is most often a sign that whatever catharsis K. brings about, is
> going to stay and expand. The staying power depends on the following:
>
> be gentle on yourself
> no reproof
> no feeling of inadequacy
> if you just felt some inadequacy here
> be gentle with yourself
> love yourself
>
> Behaviour, habits, idiosyncrasies, etc. are conditions and conditioned
> responses.
> Even catharsis is a conditional process.
> By themselves, internal or external behavioural changes are not
> necessarily a sign of Kundalini's cathartic process, one cannot hold on to
> them.
> If one does, catharsis will undergo a temporary step-back. (Just a
> step-back, nothing much lost, remember being gentle?)
>
> Equanimity (equal heartedness) WITHIN the human condition, is a sure sign
> of K.'s cathartic process.
> Equilibrium, balance, harmony, equivalent equality and such are part of
> that sign.
> Notice that these terms allow a range of behaviour patterns, swinging like
> a pendulum.
> So, more or less drinking (or whatever) of coffee (or whatever) is not
> what counts. Happy equanimity in the observation of such, is what
> signifies authentic K. catharsis.
>
> The range of FEELINGS (to do with Love) starting from niceness to
> sweetness, then happiness, bliss, glory, divine/humane power (dynamis)
> indicates one's gradual recognition and recovery of Eternal Life (Reality
> and Truth).
> This is called Reclamation of Sat Chit Ananda (commonly translated as
> Existence, Knowledge, Bliss)
> ...Reality....Truth....Love....
>
> It is this equanimity, in a form of detached-but-loving-interest that is
> to be (disinterestedly again) observed.
>
> Idiosyncrasies and personal behaviour patterns, etc. will be shedded
> spontaneously (often unnoticed).
> One cannot train oneself to become a purer person. That kind of training
> and self application only seems to work. This kind of "willed" purifying
> is a conditioned response.
> Interest in the fruit of action is the problem in this case, that's what
> Krishna covers somewhere in the Bhagavad Gita.
>
> If one cannot really will or want purification, What then?
> Intent, aspiration, hope and loving disinterested expectation is what
> drives Katharsis (with a K for Kundalini energy).
> Not that one wastes time "being good and kind and loving, etc", but only
> if one keeps that equanimity in sight, mind and feeling. That's what
> Loving Kindness means, equanimity IS assumed, it may not be clearly
> indicated.
>
> The "good works of loving kindness" is the work of religions. One gains
> merit. The fruit of action appears to be more important than the action
> itself. This is not right action. This is actually useless. Oops, am I
> saying too much? Of course not. I just want to make the distinction very
> clear.
>
> Loving-kindness-with-equanimity is the mutual (not only interpersonal)
> discovery of eternal life.
> That's the concern of the human, discovering and realizing divinity and...
> the concern of the divine, recovering a realized humanity.
>
> I'm answering the amrita/nectar topic to someone else at the moment, you
> will recognize it. The person I send the amrita answer to is not with the
> list at the moment, but I will post it to the list.
> People who want to stay anonymous, and who don't mind some of their e-mail
> to be public I will address as So & So.
>
> You don't mind if I do that with this post as well? I'll edit you name
> out.
>
> Wim
> Maitreya
> Your Ultimate Friend
> Is NowHere
>
>
> << Nothing wrong with coffee, (or tea for that matter).
> I cut down though, happened spontaneously >>
>
> This happened to me a few months ago. I used to drink about 6-8
> cups of
> coffee a day, and then one day it didn't taste good anymore so I
> quit drinking
> it. Very peculiar that I didn't have any caffiene withdrawls as one
> would
> expect! BTW, what is amrita?
>
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