| Traced......................8 | |
| a distortion in the soul that can be traced to the present life. Such a symptom cannot | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| what is happening in your life can be traced to some outer or inner action of yours | 18 FREE WILL |
| rebellion will be open, and therefore more easily traced. In the other case, the rebellion is just | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of your everyday reactions and problems can be traced back to these basic issues. Therefore these basic | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of course, psychological deviations that can always be traced to parental influences and early experiences. It is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you. Every effect in your life can be traced to your inner causes, but the human being | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| result of an overall idea that can be traced and unearthed by you. You may simply try | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| subtly turns into a lie without being easily traced as such because it is presented under the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Tracks......................3 | |
| decide to take it, you simply shift the tracks of your life, if I may say so | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| although of a different kind, running on different tracks, so to speak. But you need activity and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| about yourself that needs clarification, so that switching tracks will become easier. You can make a new | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Tradition...................63 | |
| you to be happy. It is a long tradition of misunderstanding, often unpronounced, that to be godly | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| God wants you happy. It is a long tradition of misunderstanding, an often unpronounced conception that to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Him. Make it a reality. Be blessed. 246. TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS My beloved friends | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| topic of this lecture is the meaning of tradition. Let us first examine what tradition means in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| meaning of tradition. Let us first examine what tradition means in its best sense, and then what | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| distorted. Many human beings have distinct images about tradition. These images trigger off conditioned reflex reactions as | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| mentioned or when human conditions reflect adherence to tradition either in its real or in its distorted | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| in its real or in its distorted sense. Tradition in its real sense means the continuation of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| A ritual can be an empty gesture. True tradition is therefore a continuous re-experiencing of the original | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| dynamic aliveness, no matter how long ago the tradition may have been formed. Tradition, in its best | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| long ago the tradition may have been formed. Tradition, in its best sense, means adherence to eternal | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| aspects of these values, depending on which particular tradition we have in mind. Tradition in its distorted | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| on which particular tradition we have in mind. Tradition in its distorted sense means a dead weight | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| This does not necessarily mean that a specific tradition did not contain eternal values and truths at | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| involved may be mechanically repeated and thus the tradition has been deadened; its reality has become flattened | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| reality has become flattened or even totally obliterated. Tradition in its distorted sense might involve a meaningful | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| circumstances, under conditions where the meaning of this tradition has been lost is therefore a process of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| death, rather than of life. Carrying over a tradition in an unthinking attitude, adhering to a blind | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| or attitudes the divine truth contained in the tradition in question, signifies death. Aliveness always means a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| not blind repetition. So you see, my friends, tradition can be an intensely meaningful reality, or it | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| any application in the now. Human responses to tradition are deeply embedded in the personality. All aspects | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| society are influenced by each individual's attitude to tradition; whether a person is aware of a tradition's | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and also reflect a specific society's attitude to tradition. There are those who put so much value | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| are those who put so much value on tradition that all common sense goes overboard when a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| that all common sense goes overboard when a tradition is at stake. They believe that only what | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| stake. They believe that only what conforms to tradition, to the past, is of any value. They | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| course a most foolish attitude, because the very tradition they adhere to now came into being at | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| change, alive unchanging verities cannot be lived. True tradition must therefore always be coupled with change. The | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the earth can be attained and maintained when tradition and change interphase in a harmonious dance. Those | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| interphase in a harmonious dance. Those who follow tradition blindly and meaninglessly create extreme orthodoxies in religion | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| There are also those who rebel against all tradition; they rebel against its meaningless, dead manifestation, just | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| fulfilled. The new-age person will neither blindly worship tradition, nor blindly rebel against it. He or she | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| it. He or she will take every specific tradition, as it becomes an issue in his life | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a personal stake in maintaining this or that tradition? Does living this tradition make sense in your | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| maintaining this or that tradition? Does living this tradition make sense in your life now? What does | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| attitude, you will never rebel when an old tradition is discontinued, or when it is replaced by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| rituals and celebrations. Ask yourself if the old tradition has been superseded by truths and values that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and laws. To return to the concept of tradition: Tradition in our world describes merely an aspect | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| laws. To return to the concept of tradition: Tradition in our world describes merely an aspect of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| presents you with what seems to break the tradition you have become accustomed to. Tradition is created | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| break the tradition you have become accustomed to. Tradition is created wherever human life takes form. It | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| until two years ago, had established a certain tradition with which you had begun to feel somewhat | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you had begun to feel somewhat comfortable. This tradition had to be broken -- renewed -- by | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| total work, the path. So a temporary new tradition came into being until the next breath of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the old and the new. It must retain tradition and renew and enliven it. These are eternal | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| either being calcified by the distorted concept of tradition, or totally disrupted by the distortion of seeking | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| this path on course in this respect, combining tradition and change in their best sense, thus keeping | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| spirit pure. Opposition to both these aspects -- tradition and change -- has existed, exists now and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| on a deeply felt level; this means preserving tradition. Then the old truths will live in a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| consciousness of the person; this means enlivened, renewed tradition. Other old beliefs will be discarded because they | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| political system, for you learn to combine both tradition and change in a very new way. It | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| unity -- just as I do now with tradition and change. I have then entered into a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| but then denied, is solely based on false tradition, which is nothing but fear of change. Thus | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| cycles that permeate the universe. You thereby create tradition in the best sense and change in the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| were not allowed. The healthy body lives positive tradition and positive change in its marvelous apparatus of | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Christians need to do. They must question the tradition as handed to them, whereas the rebels need | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| rebels need to accept the truth in the tradition. All children need parents who are strong and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| deny the truths that are also in the tradition. In the consciousness of such people there exists | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| true and what is false in the parental tradition, the stronger is the fear of finding out | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| reacting lies a whole world of history, of tradition, both in its true and in its distorted | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a vicious circle: Believing totally in the old tradition of Judaism, an eye for an eye and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| issue. In the last lecture I spoke about tradition in its positive and negative connotations. I also | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| If I am progressive, I cannot be for tradition. All these dualities are false choices that separate | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Traditional.................9 | |
| you will see that all religions, including the traditional ones, contained the life-spark of truth. But as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| who do this work have experienced it, and traditional psychoanalysis in any form knows it too. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| expression quite often. It is used even in traditional human psychology without any awareness of its spiritual | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| form a lecture in itself. QUESTION: In the traditional Scriptures of Judaism and Islam, the texts are | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| your life, and upon those around you. What traditional psychiatry or psychology today terms neurosis or a | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| parents. This phenomenon is completely natural, and only traditional misconceptions stamp it as wrong. Generation upon generation | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| touched upon only indirectly: the concept of evil. Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate force | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| this case they will grow up accepting the traditional concept of what it is to be a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| state of mind. Now what about salvation? The traditional interpretation of this word leaves a lot to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |