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Meditation

Tim Boyd –India, USA

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Meditation is a foundational element of esoteric teachings for anyone consciously engaged in the spiritual life. I feel fortunate to have stumbled into it untrained. Fortunate because I was not carrying the baggage of ideas of others to shape my experience. My introduction to meditation took place over an extended experience of weeks. Only later did I come to know it as meditation. Much like some of the great teachers have tried to communicate, the actual state of meditation is not dependent on posture, whether the body is moving or still, the place, or the level of activity. Certainly at an early stage all of these conditions have their effect, but they seem to be unrelated to the actual experience. If Krishna’s advice to Arjuna is true, then even in the midst of a war, while fighting for one’s life, the meditative state is possible.

What is the TS view on Homosexuality

John Vorstermans – New Zealand

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[Note from the editor: John Vorstermans, now former National President of the Theosophical Society in New Zealand, looks at questions from a theosophical point of view in today’s world. Published in TheoSopia, September 2015.]

The Theosophical Society, as far as I am aware, has no view on this subject, however it is one worth exploring and I present some ideas below in this direction.

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Musings along the Path

Boris de Zirkoff – USA

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As we ponder over the prevailing circumstances of life, and the difficult conditions in which many students of the Ancient Wisdom live at the present time, certain definite ideas suggest themselves for consideration, in an attempt to help ourselves - all of us in whatever land - to gain a greater perspective, a stronger sense of peace, and a wider vision.

Unity in Times of Conflict

Douglas Keene – USA Theosophy DK April 2

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As most would agree, the world seems to be in a state of upheaval.

Violence, and nearly as upsetting, the threat of violence, seems to be everywhere. The Middle East is on the verge of a regional war, the conflict in Ukraine is unrelenting, the major powers creep toward confrontation.

Spirituality and the Practical World — II

Tim Boyd – India, USA

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Lily and Tim Boyd while visiting the house of Ulysses Riedel in Brasilia some years ago

There are a couple of questions we need to ask ourselves: if spirit is an omnipresent reality; and if our deepest nature is like a fragment of spirit, then why are we so resistant to truth? Why is it that even though throughout human history great people have come, lived their lives trying to communicate to us about what is truth and how we can experience it; why is it that as a human family we can remain unmoved by their message? In one of his poems the Nobel laureate poet, T. S. Eliot makes the point that we are “distracted from distraction by distraction”. We cannot hear the “still small voice” of the inner self because of the powerful voices of our many outer selves. The body is hot, cold, hungry. The job needs our time, effort, thought. The family needs emotional and financial support, quality time, food, shelter, and so on. Our hobbies, the church, temple, nation, are also shouting their demands.