Remembering Mandela    (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/06-0)

 

Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday the 5 of December 2013 at age 95, was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa from 1994-1999.
During the 1950's, while working as an anti-apartheid lawyer, Mandela was repeatedly arrested for 'seditious activities' and 'treason.' In 1963 he was convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela served 27 years in prison before an international lobbying campaign finally won his release in 1990.
In 1994, Mandela was elected President and formed a Government of National Unity in an attempt to defuse ethnic tensions. As President, he established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses and to uncover the truth about crimes of the South African government, using amnesty as a mechanism.
Nelson Mandela was a powerful and inspirational leader who eloquently and forcefully spoke truth to power. As tributes are published over the coming days, the corporate media will paint a sanitized portrait of Mandela that leaves out much of who he was. We expect to see 'safe' Mandela quotes such as "education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" or "after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
We wanted to share some Nelson Mandela quotes which we don't expect to read in the corporate media's obituaries:

1. "A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favor. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens."
    
2. "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."
    
3. "The current world financial crisis also starkly reminds us that many of the concepts that guided our sense of how the world and its affairs are best ordered, have suddenly been shown to be wanting.”
    
4. "Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry."
    
5. "There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like."
    
6. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
    
7. “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
    
8. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
    
9. “No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.”
    
10. "If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
     
11. “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
     
12. On Gandhi: "From his understanding of wealth and poverty came his understanding of labor and capital, which led him to the solution of trusteeship based on the belief that there is no private ownership of capital; it is given in trust for redistribution and equalization. Similarly, while recognizing differential aptitudes and talents, he holds that these are gifts from God to be used for the collective good."

        

 
                                                   A beast of burden I am not!
                               To carry others' stuff.
                     Share yes, help yes, but to shoulder it all - NO.
So says the burro to the sparrow
            Who for a lark sends out a spark
                           of pure delight to the encumbered ass.
Be like me, fly and be free
             No cares, no wares, no swears!
                          
                                                                 

It would seem that Earth is the Noah's Ark of this Universe, 
 at least our local universe.
Each universal being is represented here it would seem.
We have cats and there are said to be cat like intelligent alien 
 beings.
We have dogs and there are said to be dog like alien beings 
 walking upright.
So too there are mantids which are insectoid
And raptors and reptoid beings like reptiles here.
And descending in density to the third dimension here these 
 beings somehow diminished in their capabilities as we human 
 beings diminished from souls to limited human beings.
Which is why Earth is such a popular planet right now.
All want to be here. All want control of some kind.
All claim ownership of the planet and its human entities and all
 entities.
The human being is unique. He is a product of twelve hierarchies.
As such he is a prized possession and many are fighting for 
 ownership of him. 
But he does not belong to any one of the many. He is a being in 
 his own right. 
The human being holds the solution to many of these beings'
 problems. He is the synthesis of these many beings. Hence he
 demonstrates the unity of all in One. 
Earth is a one-stop centre of unity in diversity, a priceless gem.

Throw away holiness and wisdom,
people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves.
If these three aren’t enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course                               
                                        -  Lao Tzu

Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially 
nameless and formless, realize that every mode of 
perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, 
touched or smelled, felt or thought,expected or 
imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you 
will experience peace and freedom from fear.
                   -   Nisargadatta Maharaj 

  

“Life is what you make it,” this is very true.
Find beauty and magic in all things,
and the Love that sees you through.
When you look at the world where you live,
seek not your gain, but what you can give.
When a man is poor, and hungers, and thirsts,
serve not yourself til you serve this man first.
When a man is down and seeks shelter from cold, 
 give him shelter.
You’ll receive blessings untold.
Live by the Golden Rule:
Do unto others as you’d have done unto you.
And always remember:
When you destroy, you destroy a part of you, too.
Life is what you make of it!  
                                                                    - Unknown

I am at that point in my life:
 having pursued a spiritual path and left it
 having dealt with an emotional issue at home
 having read much, listened much and do not
  feel the need to follow or do anything 
  about anything anymore

I am standing at that point in time when:
 conspiracy theories abound
 end world scenarios get bounced around
 yet care not that I make it or not
 as this debate of those who choose to will make it
  is bandied around by new agers
 while teachers say those who have progressed will
  make it but many won't
 which in my mind has caused a cleavage that
  should not be in spiritual eyes

I no longer care it would seem but really now?
It would be more accurate to say I no longer fear
 though fear is a natural human emotion
I have stringed along with Teachers and Gurus
In books or in form, eager and willing to change,
 to transmute, transform ... 
I have not moved from ground zero!

I let go of all these. I take my stand
I face ALL as I AM; it does not matter one way
 or another. 
I don't have to perform for God or the Universe. 

TAKE ME AS I AM !!!!!!!

Ground zero hhm?
Outward movement is not how Spirit Speaks
There is nowhere to go, nothing to achieve.
All change is inner change
Of My attitude to the outer me - detachment!
Am I cleaving to the i and its conundrums
It seems so; this tirade is a symptom
Not liberated from the outer 
It would seem more attached to it rather
What a pity; the very idea of spiritual growth
is aborted when the outer is confused with the Inner. 
So learn to let go and not look to outward manifestations
But onward go - discriminate, waste not time in goings on
in the world which is plenty and never ending
but seek to end your own attachment to the outer self and world.
So let go let go let go.
Of things, of opinions, of judgements, 
Of bonds, of fruits of labours done, 
Of spiritual growth and rewards.
The result is "I" unencumbered by life. 

 

Mastery

Mastery of Emotions is needed to make it through 
the second initiation. 
Use the mind to master the emotions. 
Experientially I know emotions don't change anything.

Mastery of Mind is needed to make it through 
the third inititation.
Have no opinions of anything or anyone and the mind 
will be still.
Let go of mental meanderings and focus on one 
subject, study, talent, pastime.

There is a war they say for the minds of men. 
The mind uses its side-kick, the emotions to ensnare one 
in its complicities
Together the duo can also be referred to as the desire mind 
or kama manas.
Entangled one tangoes to the beat of the opinionated mind 
coupled with seething emotions creating the downward drag 
that pulls one deeper into the tentacles of matter.

Let the initiate beware !!

BE - then ACT

You have to be the conduit for Light, Love and
the Will to good to descend before it can radiate
out - in life, in service.

You have to be the pillar of light descending
before it can radiate out through your triangles
work.

So BE first then Act

You will be aware of this poem on your planet ...

There was a young lady called Bright
Who set out at the speed of Light
She set out one day in a relative Way
And arrived the previous Night

 - that is how flexible your reality is.
   Let go of your constructs
   Let go of the idea that things have to be done a certain way
   Let go of the old idea of who you think you need to be.
   Let go of the old ideas of beliefs that do not work for you.
   Let go of the things that are not yours; you do not need to
    carry them around
   Let go let go let go ...
                                              chanelling - Bashar

29 July 2013   STAR OF DAVID CONFIGURATION
Isn't it beautiful ...

How one lives the first two thirds of one's life will determine 
the quality of the last one third of one's life.

Triangles Work of Lucis Trust

The Triangle work embodies two phases of their work, i.e., the forming of the network of light as the channel of communication between the Hierarchy and Humanity, and the forming simultaneously of the network of goodwill, which is the objective expression of the subjective influence of light.  Ponder on this statement.
                                      [THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS, p253]

fr: http://thundering-heard.com/

devastating floods in North India -

A stance people might wish to take during these times:

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