Saturday 4 March 2017

What is Discrimination

Discrimination is a mental sense. In the light of discrimination, you know that:
1.This is better than that.
2. This is useful, and that is useless.
3.This is real, and that is false.
4.This is good for the future, and that is harmful for the future.
5.This is healthy, and that is unhealthy.
6.This leads in the right direction, and that misleads.
7.This is ego,vanity,glamor,illusion,showing off, and claim; that is an expression of the Pure Self and of pure attainment.
8.This is artificial, and that is original; this is a lie and that is truth.
9.This is cosmetic, and that is natural.
10. This pleasure leads to pain , and that pleasure leads to joy.
11. This action leads to darkness, and that action leads to light.
12. This action leads to future unfoldment, and that action brings disintegration and death.
13. This action is selfish, and that action is for all.
14.This emotion hurts my body, and that emotion heals my body.
15.This emotion repels and causes disintegration, pain, and suffering; that emotion brings people together and creates cooperaiton.
16.This emotion disturbs my mental peace and kills my control upon myself, and that that emotion gives me joy and increases control upon myself.
17. This thought is like a poison, and that thought is like a healing balsam.
18.This thought leads me and other people towards the Earth only,and that thought opens the sky of spiritual reality and builds a bridge between the Earth and Heaven.
19.This thought serves the past, and that thought builds the future.
20.This thoughts used by the forces of darkness, and that thought is used by the forces of beauty,goodness, truth,joy and freedom.
21.This motive is selfish, and that motive is for sacrificial service.
22.This motive is for exploitation, and that motive is for sacrificial service.
23. This motive is a servant of my glamors, illusions, vanity, and ego; that motive reflects mt true Self.
24.This will is against my good, or my will is for the good.
25.My good interests for myself, my family, or my nation are contradictory to the good of humanity or the principles of the Teaching, and so my personal interests prevent me from meeting my group responsibilities.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Challenge for Discipleship



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