03-23-2018, 12:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2018, 12:43 PM by rva_jeremy.)
Hatonn, March 22, 1981
Hatonn Wrote:My friends, we have spoken to you often of love. We know that those to whom we speak are seeking that ineffable power and substance that is the creative force of all that there is, the simple, single substance of creation. And yet how hard it is, my friends, to constantly remember that we are seekers and that what we are seeking is love, for do we not seek other things, my friends, during each day? How many other things has each of you sought during this day? Many, many times my friends, it may seem to you that you are on a runaway freight train, as this instrument would put it, that you have begun a sequence of events, gotten on a track from which there is no removing yourself. My friends, this is not so and is a condition of the illusion which is reinforced only by your belief in it. There is no track that cannot be replaced with one which you more truly seek. The secret lies not in catching the right train but in knowing yourself; knowing enough about yourself to seek your deepest desires.
It has often been said that there are many things that simply cannot be expected to work out well, that this understanding is a part of becoming more mature. You have often heard from many sources a great variety of things that should be, ought to be, must be, and need to be the models on which to build your expectations of yourself and of others. And we come to you and suggest a substitute for all of these things, the substitute being love. There is a passage in one of your holy works where it states clearly: “Love is not puffed up.” This is to be remembered, my friends, for part of the track of that freight train that you may sometimes feel yourself to be upon, part of what makes it complete in your existence, is your belief in a puffed up, proud sense of the rightness of certain ways of being.
If there is something within your existence that is not pleasing to you, reexamine those concepts of which you are proud of and evaluate them in the simple, single, all-encompassing light, love. Wash yourself clean in that love and, so purified, reexamine your concepts. You will find that the path you are on is not what is making you less than comfortable but rather your expectations, your preconceptions, and your feelings about how things should be. This, my friends, is why meditation is so centrally important to the seeker, for while you are bathed in this illusion you are susceptible to many, many influences and if the balance wheel of your central self has not been nourished in the silence of love and praise and thanksgiving, you will continually be generating freight trains and places you didn’t want to go.