Truth in the Daily Life

The following remarks were broadcast in the Triangles Webinar on November 13, 2017:

The theme of the upcoming World Goodwill seminar is “From the Unreal to the Real: Discernment -- Cutting through the Glamour of the Times.” Together we will discuss how through the use of discrimination and discernment, we can move towards a greater understanding and realization of truth in our daily lives.  The use of the word glamour as defined by the Ageless Wisdom refers to a distorted condition within consciousness, a type of fog, that results in an inability to see life and surrounding conditions as they truly are.  Instead all things are seen distorted and misshapen.  In such a state it is easy to be deceived by appearances, and to forget that which the appearance veils. And then, as Foster Bailey used to say, we all see each other through the back half of our own aura.  Occasional progress in freeing oneself from this condition can be made, but it is easy to slip back into the old patterns. Today the situation is compounded by the fact that these individual glamours are being intensified by the overall potency of the collective glamour surrounding humanity as a whole at this time of the ending of the age.

But it is also true that truth itself is a progressive unfoldment.  That which we understand as truth today will surely, if we are progressing, move into a deepened understanding next year and the year after that. Each step towards freedom from the separating veils results in an enhanced ability to see life and its events more clearly.  It’s interesting, therefore, to note that under the influence of Scorpio, a sign of the depths, things are being revealed and brought into the light of day.  This is resulting in a changing atmosphere wherein attitudes which were long tolerated and entrenched will no longer be so. This is a huge step forward towards moving from the unreal to the Real.

One of the most effective means of bringing ourselves under the influence of the soul, is to ponder truth lived and to make the attempt to relate to others from that perspective.  And to do this we have to be truthful with ourselves and see things as they really are, not as we imagine them to be.  We have to make the constant effort to free ourselves from the prevailing glamours such as fear, self-aggrandizement, busyness and materialism-- to name a few conditions that distort our perceptions.

The Tibetan gives us a phrase which he suggests we use in our daily life to bring ourselves under the clarifying influence of truth. It runs as follows:

“Let reality govern my every thought and truth be the master of my life.”   

We can ask ourselves if what we are experiencing at any given time constitutes the reality of the situation or if it is rather a figment of our own imaginings. Through this means, this attempt to free ourselves from our own misconceptions, we gradually come to step back and detach from the forefront of our own lives and, as a consequence, come to view situations from an enhanced perspective, a perspective that is more likely to be aligned with the overriding truth.  And as we reorient our own consciousness we come to develop greater compassion for others because we recognize that they too are laboring under the weight of their own distorted reality and limited worldview and consequently are only seeing part of the equation.

Spiritual teachings give us certain fundamental tools and suggestions with which to live more truthfully in our daily lives and these are outlined here:

Practice harmlessness in speech, thought and consequently in action.  This refers to a positive harmlessness which is defined as “a constant activity and watchfulness and not a negative and fluidic tolerance.” Truth in the daily life involves the ability to concretize abstractions and theories and to move beyond good intentions and into the ability to take those practical actions and steps in the daily life that will bring about an increased effectiveness.

We’re asked to guard the doors of thought and to not allow the old and conditioning thoughtforms to enter in. Instead we can work to  build in their opposite, replacing certain lines of thinking with new, creative imaginings.  Through this means new horizons, new vistas of thought begin to open up because we have created more space within consciousness for them to appear and germinate.  But to establish these new rhythms and to create that space takes watchfulness, patience, and the ability to detach from surrounding conditions.  But with persistence and patience eventually the old thoughtforms will diminish and eventually die of attrition,

The only truths that we can accept and know are those that we wrestle and work out within ourselves through our own inner process of inquiry and experiment.  Working in Triangles we daily place ourselves within a stream of living truth.  We know that one of the tasks in which Triangles partners can play a role is to stand with the members of the spiritual Hierarchy and together strike a blow to world glamour through a collective release of light.  These blows, which have happened a few times before in planetary history, are likened to a powerful beam of light, a searchlight, pouring out from the spiritual planes and released onto the astral plane, irradiating the darkness.  When this outpouring is coordinated within the daily and monthly cycles, we support the efforts of the Group of World Servers everywhere and strengthen their hands.

Kathy Newburn

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