The School of Two Worlds

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It isn't always that you have a teacher who you can ask about the human world, spiritual world, and how they fit together in the bigger picture of cosmic involution and evolution--and that you can trust that the ego isn't getting in the way of the suggested ideas.  Such a privilege!  I am still trying to stick to the original agreement of learning from within.  As I read and contemplate, these concepts come bubbling up.  So far the thoughts haven't been too far afield against the Master Checker.  Looking at the evolution of man within the evolution of all, how man's mind and body work as a team in their own evolution, and the rational comfort of unity.  The knowing is a type of freedom, but the knowing isn't separate now, it is anchored very deep within.  We talked about insanity and how that arises.  The School of Two Worlds!

When speech is controlled, the eyes speak; the glance says what words can never say.                         Bowl of Saki, November 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: All that the prophet comes to give is not given to the world in words, but all that cannot be given in words is given without words. It is given through the atmosphere; it is given by the presence; it is given by the great affection that gushes forth from his heart; it is given in his kind glance; and it is given in his benediction. Yet most is given in silence that no earthly sense can perceive.    ~~~ "Religious Gatheka #12, How the Wise Live in the World ", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished) Not very long ago in Hyderabad there was a mureed, rather an intellectual pupil, and he liked to talk. His teacher was interested in his intelligent inquiries, and so he encouraged him to talk, whereas it is the custom in the East for the pupil to remain silent before his teacher. One day the teacher was in a condition of exaltation and his pupil as usual wanted to discuss and argue, which was not agreeable to the teacher at that time. He said in Persian, 'Khamosh,' which means silence. And the pupil became silent; he went home and remained silent. And no one heard him speak after that, no one in the house nor outside; he never spoke anywhere. Years passed by and the man still kept silent. But there came a time when his silence began to speak aloud. His silent thought would manifest and his silent wish would become granted; his silent glance would heal, his silent look would inspire. His silence became living. It was the spoken words, which had kept him dead all this time. The moment the lips were closed the silence in him began to live. His presence was living.    from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IV/IV_36.htm What is silence? Silence is something which we consciously or unconsciously are seeking every moment of our life. We are seeking for silence and running away from it, both at the same time. Where is the word of God heard? In silence. The seers, the saints, the sages, the prophets and masters, they have heard that voice which comes from within by making themselves silent. I do not mean by this that because one will have a silence that he will be spoken to. I mean that he will hear the word which is constantly coming to him once he is silent. Once the mind has been made still, a person gets in communication with every person one meets. He does not need too many words, when the glance meets he understands. Two persons may talk and discuss their whole life and they will not understand one another; and two persons with still minds look at one another in one moment there is a communication. Where comes the difference between persons? It is by their activity. And when comes agreement? It comes by the stillness of mind.         ~~~ "Social Gatheka #38, The Power of Silence", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)