Friday, July 3, 2009

Ahimsa Revisited- Part Two...of Herons and Hunter/Gatherers...

EXCERPTS FROM PART TWO appearing on DIRECT LINES Teaching Blog Subscription Format...



"It is truly impossible for an embodied being to abandon actions completely, but he who relinquishes the fruit of action is called a renunciant.

The triune fruit of action - good, harmful, and mixed - springs up in nonrenunciants after their demise, but in renunciants never."

- Verses 11 &12, Chapter XVII Bhagavad Gita


... We all come from a Hunter/Gatherer Tribe; it's vital to reVisit that ancient skillset. We may be surprised at how much 'gunk' comes up emotionally from deeeeeep within our lower chakral fields when we pursue hunting or fishing as a spiritual assignment. The spiritual advantages of inflicting pain and death upon the Animal Realm are not to be politely shielded from your supposedly more 'harmonious' endeavors along the Way toward Enlightenment. Really, why do you TAF that India's most Beloved and Powerful Scripture - The Bhagavad Gita - takes place in the middle of an intense civil war?! C'mon; if ilg has taught you ANYTHING about the spiritual journey it's that, "it ain't spiritual if it's comfortable to your ego."


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