Friday, June 13, 2014

Separation from one's vices does not mean to create cleavages

There are teachers who use a technique to create separation in order to purify certain pseudo forms of togetherness. For example, if a person is identified with his vices and crimes, you must separate that person from his crimes, from his vices. The more you help a person to detach himself from his vices, glamors, maya, and illusions, the more you bring that man together.

This is what most oriental teachers do. They sometimes devastate your false togetherness to bring all those parts closer that can create real togetherness. Unless the false parts fall, the real parts cannot come together.

We must understand that taking the decayed parts out of our unit is not similar to creating cleavages. Cleavages come into being when parts of our mind, emotions, and body begin to lose their vision, their integrity, and act against each other.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Consciousness vol.3, p.74

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