That's good Tony. I think that inner strength, in my case, has proven to be a necessary prerequisite as well as understanding the nature of the path itself, knowing exactly what needs to be done and how to acquire it.

I guess one could argue there are many paths and that is true; However, they ultimately all take on one of two directions: A linear, straight-forward approach to the Absolute in the here and now, or a spiral/circular direction of natural entropy towards crossing the abyss after an eternity of being a gear in natural mechanism.

The 2 directions reflect the ultimate nature of the divine to me, one is masculine, linear, and direct while the other is circular, feminine, natural devolving through eternity.

Tony, I don't have many thoughts on that passage. Other than its sweet precious food for the consciousness!
Superbly succinct. It puts into words the stuggle of awareness
we find in our lives daily, and how we need to approach.
The two simultaneous ways being the 5 ext. senses and the 5 internal centres. I find trying to keep these ten things under supervision is like walking a razor's edge. And in this fine balance is where we can achieve communication with the Being.

I gotta grab that book

Thanks for it Tony!

Hi Tony,

I think it really emphasizes the need to find who we really are in this physical body and then learn to keep that state active.

When we simply try to be attentive of all we can perceive, letting light of awareness to spread as far as it can and more, our attention gets directed to all what happens inside our body and outside, which are two different worlds and are the same world in the same time. Then mind gives up...

If we do it, we know and can feel that we are not this body we wear and like Masters teach us, can start living a different life, but similarly like archer needs to apply strength to hold the bow ready, awareness requires internal efforts, inner strength.

These are just my thoughts after reading it again, if we look into it deeper there are so many useful tips there, and I wonder what we will find when we'll be more advanced in internal work.

All the best,

I love all of the replies , very insightful ...All good points - Moreover, direct experience with a thing leads to the real . A lot of times easier said than done...

Peace and Love....

To me this phrase is a paradox.. a serpent that to the logical mind crawls on the earth and only has scales now has feathers and ascends in flight.. I believe it is a true representation of the path.. that we are like the lowely earth snake crawling through the mud but we must find a way to develop ourselves our faculties ie to grow our feathers and use these to fly or ascend... That this can not be understood by the logical mind, that the truth comes across to the mind as a paradox as most ultimate truths come across to the human mind, that logic cannot explain it

 I am only a few pages into the book and the subject of the title of the book has not been explained nor have I researched it much but when I first saw that phrase the above is what I felt it meant

~In beautiful ways we are the blossom of the evolved and the experience of evolving~

..Oh and at the same time it is also symbolic to me of the ascent of the kundulini..

~In beautiful ways we are the blossom of the evolved and the experience of evolving~

Very good point Lumin Air...

peace and love