Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as

the House of 1000 Mirrors.



A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to

visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the

doorway of the house.

He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail

wagging as fast as it could.

To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy

little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his.



He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles

just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to

himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it

often."



In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy

as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the

stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw

the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at

them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him.

As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I

will never go back there again." --Japanese Folktale



  "...............you construct your physical universe and your

private environment in line with your inner expectations,

for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner

reality."  Seth - session 253 - 'The Early Sessions Book 6



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IF ONLY I COULD BE LIKE MY CELLS

Deepak Chopra, MD



What does it mean to live a spiritual life? Who can teach me the

core principles of spirituality? Strangely enough my own body can

teach me everything I need to know. The cells of my body are already

doing what I want to learn. My body does everything better, with

more passion and commitment than me. The cells in my body have no

problem fully participating in life. A hundred thousand billion of

them signed on to the same silent agreement, which can be described

through qualities that the most spiritual person would envy-but the

most practical person would envy them at the same time. These shared

qualities speak eloquently for what a cell agrees not to do as much

as for what it does.



Higher Purpose: A cell agrees to work for the welfare of the whole

body first and its individual welfare second. If necessary it will

die to protect the body-the lifetime of any given cell is a fraction

of our own lifetime. Skin cells perish by the thousands every hour,

as do immune cells fighting off invading microbes. Selfishness is

not an option, even when it comes down to a cell's survival.



Communion: A cell keeps in touch with every other cell. Messenger

molecules race everywhere to notify the farthest outposts of any

desire or intention, however slight. Withdrawing or refusing to

communicate is not an option.



Awareness: Cells adapt from moment to moment. They remain flexible

in order to respond to immediate situations. Getting caught up in

rigid habits is not an option.



Acceptance: Cells recognize each other as equally important. Every

function in the body is interdependent with every other. Going it

alone is not an option.



Creativity: Although every cell has a set of unique functions (liver

cells, for example, can perform fifty separate functions), these

combine in creative ways. A person can digest food never eaten

before, think thoughts never thought before, dance in a way never

seen before. Clinging to old behavior is not an option.



Being: Cells obey the universal cycle of rest and activity. Although

this cycle expresses itself in many ways such as fluctuating hormone

levels, blood pressures, and digestive rhythms, the most obvious

expression is sleep. Why we need to sleep remains a medical mystery,

yet complete dysfunction develops if we don't. In the silence of

inactivity the future of the body is incubating. Being obsessively

active is not an option.



Efficiency: Cells function with the least expenditure of energy.

Typically a cell only stores three seconds of food and oxygen inside

the cell wall. It trusts totally on being provided for. Excessive

consumption of food, air, or water is not an option, and neither is

hoarding.



Bonding: Due to their common genetic inheritance, cells know that

they are fundamentally the same. The fact that liver cells are

different from heart cells, and muscle cells different from brain

cells does not negate their common identity, which is unchanging. In

the laboratory a muscle cell can be genetically transformed into a

heart cell by going back to their common source. Cells remain tied

to their source no matter how many times they divide. Being an

outcast is not an option.



Giving: The primary activity of cells is giving, which, maintains

the integrity of all other cells. Total commitment to giving makes

receiving automatic-it is the other half of a natural cycle.

Hoarding is not an option.



Immortality: Cells reproduce in order to pass on their knowledge,

experience, and talents, withholding nothing from their offspring.

This is a kind of practical immortality, submitting to death on the

physical plane but defeating it on the non-physical. The generation

gap is not an option.



When I look at what my cells have agreed to, isn't it a spiritual

pact in every sense of the word? Other labels work just as well for

any of these qualities. The first, higher purpose, could be changed

to surrender or selflessness. Awareness includes both alertness and

adaptability. But my body is unconcerned with labels. To it, these

qualities are woven into everyday existence. They are the result of

life's inner intelligence evolving over billions of years as

biology. If you examine the structure of a single cell, nothing like

surrender, awareness, or communion would be evident. These qualities

aren't present in single-celled organisms like bacteria, yeasts, and

amoebas. The mystery of life was patient and careful in allowing its

full potential to emerge. Single-celled creatures continue to thrive-

thousands live in your intestines, which could not digest food

without them. Evolution moves forward, but it remembers where it has

been, and nothing is lost.



Even now the silent agreement that holds my body together feels like

a secret, because to all appearances it doesn't exist. More than two

hundred and fifty types of cells go about their daily business-the

fifty functions that a liver cell performs are totally unique, not

overlapping with the tasks of muscle, kidney, heart, or brain cells-

yet it would be catastrophic if even one function were compromised.

As it divides into billions of progeny, the first fertilized cell in

my mother's womb kept its link to the source. At the level of

memory, I still am that first cell. If I possess a soul, anything I

could possibly know about it was told to my body first.



The mystery of life has found a way to express itself through me. In

fact that's my purpose for being here. Am I fulfilling that purpose?

If you read over the list again and take note of everything

marked "not an option," you confront a stark fact: The very behavior

that would kill our bodies in a day hasn't been renounced by us as

people. We are selfish and greedy. We refuse to cooperate; we behave

as though there is no higher purpose more important than the demands

of I, me, and mine. In our fragmentation and confusion, we've been

ignoring the very model of a perfect spiritual life inside

ourselves.



As they evolved, cells learned what really works for survival. Your

body can't afford to pay lip service to leading a spiritual life

unless it wants to throw away eons of wisdom. Yet the vast majority

of suffering in our personal lives comes about because we

consciously choose to behave contrary to the soul bargain that keeps

our bodies alive.



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Though I am not particularly religious, I've always enjoyed this quote:



"....nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to

be unclean, to him it is unclean." [Romans 14:14.]



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Also, this one from Hamlet:



"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". -

(Hamlet, Act II, Scene II).



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6:40 PM

Truth Relative or Absolute?

by Eckhart Tolle



"Beyond the realm of simple and verifiable facts, the certainty

that "I am right and you are wrong" is a dangerous thing in personal

relationships as well as in interactions between nations, tribes,

religions, and so on.



But if the belief "I am right, you are wrong" is one of the ways in

which the ego strengthens itself, if making yourself right and

others wrong is a mental dysfunction that perpetuates separation and

conflict between human beings, does that mean there is no such thing

as right or wrong behavior, action, or belief? And wouldn't that be

the moral relativism that some contemporary Christian teachings see

as the great evil of our times?



The history of Christianity is, of course, a prime example of how

the belief that you are in sole possession of the truth, that is to

say, right, can corrupt your actions and behavior to the point of

insanity. For centuries, torturing and burning people alive if their

opinion diverged even in the slightest from Church doctrine or

narrow interpretations of scripture (the "Truth") was considered

right because the victims were "wrong." The Truth was considered

more important than human life. And what was the Truth? A story you

had to believe in; which means, a bundle of thoughts.



The one million people that mad dictator Pol Pot of Cambodia ordered

killed included everybody who wore glasses. Why? To him, the Marxist

interpretation of history was the absolute truth, and according to

his version of it, those who wore glasses belonged to the educated

class, the bourgeoisie, the exploiters of the peasants. They needed

to be eliminated to make room for a new social order. His truth also

was a bundle of thoughts.



The Catholic and other churches are actually correct when they

identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to

guide human behavior, as one of the evils of our times; but you

won't find absolute truth if you look for it when it cannot be found

in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules, or stories. What do all of

these have in common? They are made up of thought. Thought can at

best point to the truth, but it never 'is' the truth. That's why

Buddhists say "The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon." All

religions are equally false and equally true, depending on how you

use them. You can use them in the service of the ego, or you can use

them in the service of the Truth. If you believe only your religion

is the Truth, you are using it in the service of the ego. Used in

such a way, religion becomes ideology and creates an illusory sense

of superiority as well as division and conflict between people. In

the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or

maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual

awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with

form.



There is only one absolute Truth, and all other truths emanate from

it. When you find that Truth, your actions will be in alignment with

it. Human action can reflect the Truth, or it can reflect illusion.

Can the Truth be put into words? Yes, but the words are, of course,

not it. They only point to it.



The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you 'are' the Truth.

If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The

very Being that you are is Truth. Jesus tried to convey that when he

said, "I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6) These

words uttered by Jesus are one of the most powerful and direct

pointers to the Truth, if understood correctly. If misinterpreted,

however, they become a great obstacle. Jesus speaks of the innermost

I Am, the essence identity of every man and woman, every life-form,

in fact. He speaks of the life that you are. Some Christian mystics

have called it the Christ within; Buddhists call it your Buddha

nature; for Hindus, it is Atman, the indwelling God. When you are in

touch with that dimension within yourself--and being in touch with

it is your natural state, not some miraculous achievement--all your

actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life

that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules,

and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who

they are, the Truth wihin. They prevent the worst excesses of the

ego, and often they don't even do that. "Love and do what you will."

said St. Augustine. Words cannot get much closer to the Truth than

that."



Excerpt

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

by Eckhart Tolle

Copyright © 2005

eckharttolle.com/eckhart_tolle

"Our greatest programming from the moment that

we are born on this planet revolves around behavior.



Our guilt exists because authority figures told us our

behavior had harmed other people. We had our hands

slapped when we did something wrong. When we were

old enough to understand language, the first word

we learned was "no."



"Don't do this, don't do that - - don't, don't,

don't!" and yet no master teacher has ever said

that our behavior made a bit of difference. They

comprehended that doing is not the creative force on this planet.



Even after we know about using consciousness to

create our realities, we occasionally get desperate

because we cannot see how our thoughts are

outpicturing, how they are bringing about the

changes we desire. So out of frustration we fall

back into doing.



That way of creating has always failed to create

permanent happiness and it will always fail.



We have been trained that the five senses give us

the only true picture of reality so it is easy for

us to see a building under construction and

believe that "creation" is under way. If that

were true, Jesus would have had to "construct"

the water as solid before he walked on it.



Consciousness is the reality on this plane. Doing

is the natural result that follows."



-- from "No Time For Karma", by Paxton Robey



We all know this. I just like the way he put it. :-)

Peace. -- Thomas



Warmly,

Dolores

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