The Secret of Secrets Vol 1 ~ 03
event type | discourse |
date & time | 13 Aug 1978 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 52min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | SOS103 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Master Lu-tsu said: Only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.
- The primal spirit is beyond the polar differences. Here is the place whence heaven and earth derive their being. When students understand how to grasp the primal spirit they overcome the polar opposites of light and darkness and tarry no longer in the three worlds but only he who has envisioned human nature's original face is able to do this.
- When men are set free from the womb the primal spirit dwells in the square inch but the conscious spirit dwells below in the heart. This heart is dependent on the outside world. If a man does not eat for one day even it feels extremely uncomfortable. If it hears something terrifying it throbs; if it hears something enraging it stops; if it is faced with death it becomes sad; if it sees something beautiful it is dazzled. But the heavenly heart in the head, when would it have moved in the least? Dost thou ask: Can the heavenly heart not move? Then I answer: How could the true thought in the square move!
- The lower heart moves like a strong, powerful commander who despises the heavenly ruler because of his weakness, and has usurped the leadership in affairs of state. But when the primal castle can be fortified and defended, then it is as if a strong and wise ruler sat upon the throne. The eyes start the light circulating like two ministers at the right and left who support the ruler with all their might. When rule in the centre is thus in order, all those rebellious heroes will present themselves with lances reversed ready to take orders.
- The way to the elixir of life knows as supreme magic seed-water, spirit-fire, and thought-earth: these three. What is seed-water? It is the true, one energy: (eros). Spirit-fire is the light: (logos). Thought-earth is intuition.
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