20th Century Psalms: Reflections On This Life (May 2011)

(Excerpts From “The Impersonal”)

By Justin Stone

We cannot picture a beginning or an ending to this inscrutable energy – the Chi (Prana). There is no sense of individuality to it. Perhaps it is only the sense of individuality, that which separates, that dies.

Does anyone own the smell of flowers? How many “hear” the falling snow?

To live each day as the last on earth is to appreciate life. Only when we can do without can we possess.

If man should go the way of the dinosaur, the Life Force would not disappear – it would continue to manifest in millions of ways on countless planes of existence. There is only transformation – no creation or destruction. Nothing comes into being; it is simply a transformation. People think the Life Force manifests only in the forms with which they are familiar! What conceit!

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Is there an Unchanging behind the ever-changing swirl of phenomena? The Indians call it “Turiya,” the 4th and underlying state of consciousness.

Could anything as complex and ingenious as the human body happen by accident?

Behind the tears and regrets, all are singing the Glory of Creation.

I was struck by the assertion of a profound teacher in India that great Yogis often come back as trees to watch the “Leela” (“Play of the Lord”). When I meditate under Redwood trees, the oldest living creatures, I do not find this hard to believe.

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Humility that is the result of conscious effort is egotism. Constant concern with self and failure to accept impermanence are the causes of suffering.

Truth does not come from outside and it does not come from words. Please read this sentence carefully.

Ambition and competition, so revered, are responsible for much of the misery of the world. Envy is a natural concomitant.

The one who is not ready never knows he is not ready. We can see below but we can never see above (higher vibration).