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- From: silatman@hls.com
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- Subject: The Spirit of an Encounter
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.122933.737@hls.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:29:33 GMT
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- The Spirit of the Encounter:
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- I consider all real education to find its way into the internal.
- In fact, the realization of the internal which is the Spiritual Heart,
- or the Essence of a human being, and the removal of any blemishes
- that may be existing on this Spritual Heart, is a real challenge,
- and it is all within the person.
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- I see martial artists obssessed with external tools. Those tools
- are good as far as bringing information into the internal is
- concerned. But, if a martial artist does not recognize his or her
- internal self, and his or her motivations, the hidden reasons why
- he or she wants to do anything, or reacts in the manner that
- he or she does to certain situations, than all external training
- is wasted.
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- A human being has a dual reality, with dual identities:
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- 1. The Soul [spiritual].
- 2. The Body [material].
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- The soul was created before, and now is existing in
- the material body on this earth, in order to undergo a test.
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- The body is, while in the "conscious" mode, under control
- of the brain. The brain recognizes and understands this world
- only, most of the time. The connection with the soul takes
- effort to establish, unless you are gifted from God.
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- The brain is affected by schemes of ambition for status
- in this world, and by thoughts of fears of different kinds.
- Unless these thoughts are brought within control,
- these same thoughts may result in actions which will
- leave blemishes on the soul. The soul is a house of knowledge
- and it receives its information from the experiences of
- the body. The hands, the feet, the brain, the eyes, etc. are all
- tools for inputting this information. When these external tools
- are allowed to engage in bad acts, the soul receives
- blackness onto it. That same blackness may reflect back
- to the physical of the person, to one who has the seeing.
- This blackness can be cleansed thru recognition of it
- and repenting from bad acts, but if left for a long time,
- it may become permanent or require a lot of effort for
- its cleansing.
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- Thus, the soul is a mirror. Turn this mirror towards badness
- and the 'bad' will be reflected in it. Turn this mirror towards
- goodness and the 'good' will be reflected in it.
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- The curse of modern education is that it divides ultimate
- truth into bits and pieces, so that every person perceives only
- the immediate truth close to him/herself, on a very low level
- of truths. In order for all the souls to vibrate with one
- single vibration, a recognition must be brought about for
- a single truth.
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- In the existing system of rule in the world, the ruling
- class encourages a doctrine which cuts up truth into
- bits and pieces so that a ruling system can be established.
- All modern education is not education in a real sense,
- but an endoctrination.
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- The truth of any physical act is the spiritual driving
- force behind it. Thus, a man may show a punching move so
- that he can show you a mechanical truth, but if his spirit
- is that of personal ambition or personal fear, then he
- actually wants to impress you with his own superiority,
- his own Ego, and the subject at hand is himself rather
- than the correct method of punching.
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- When you spar with anybody, try to recognize this spirit.
- Between any two persons there is always a spirit that
- exists during their meeting, and that spirit can be recognized
- as a blessing or a curse, dependent upon if you have
- the seeing. This seeing is not physical seeing from the eyes,
- this seeing is from your own Essence. In order to develop
- this seeing, one must cleanse one's own Essence first.
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- salam alaikum!
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- Khalid Khan
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