To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/08/31 10:30
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: Smoking (or any other vice)
From: cmystic

An anology would be the purification of impure gold. It is put into a
caldron, the impurities float to the top and are skimmed off. What remains
is pure gold.

This process is anything but pleasant, it involves tremendous suffering, but
eventually this transformation results in peace, righteousness and holiness.

Rob> I have my favorites.
>
> Amy said:
> > >...... but I have no plans to quit in the near future ...... I
certainly
> don't want
> to do anything to interfere with the process......Not trying to start
> another war, just got bored with the aspartame thing.......
>
> I'm not a bible thumper... I very seldom quote a verse... and I realize
that
> there are many here who have other beliefs and other cannon.. but I'll
try
> to demonstrate the relevance here.
>
> ( i didn't even bother to look this up and see if its quoted correctly..
> cuz it doesn't matter) but there is a verse that goes something like this:
>
> And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned
> against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have
> sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
> Jeremiah 33:8
>
> I'm not harping on anyone's "sin" ... please don't anyone take this
> personal. But the simplest definition of "sin" is to turn away from
> knowing... no mentor, teacher, guru, shaman, prophet, God or Goddess..
will
> tolerate that for very long.. they will simply let you go your merry way
> until the day of reckoning.
>
> The point is this.. Kundalini is a cleansing process... if I understand
it
> correctly. Forgiveness and restitution are not the same thing. Just
> because someone forgives a bad debt... does not mean the account is
> re-opened for further abuse.
>
> This "cleanse" can be a very rigorous and painful ordeal sometimes...
> You take a dirty white garment.. immerse it in washing machine... dump
some
> pretty caustic stuff on it.... thrash it vigorously..
> move to an extremely hot environment... and tumble it around for another
> while... (or expose it to the elements and let it flap in the breeze )
and
> then you take it out.. and walaa... its cleansed.. magically. And
> now it is finally ready to be "re used."
>
> Sometimes it can happen more gently.. but that's not the point.
>
> This process of justification lets no one off easy... and pain has
purpose..
> imo. No need to be masochistic about it though.. it happens well enough
> naturally.. but i think we should understand that paying the price should
> be seen as a privilege.. not as a burden.
>
> "Insanity is loving sin"
>
> Go with the flow.. :-)
> ~~jlb

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