true and the false, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday

The True and the False

True earth arrests true lead;True lead controls true mercury.Lead and mercury return to true earth;Body and mind are tranquil and still.— Zhang Boduan, Four-Hundred Words on the Golden Elixir This little verse contains everything one needs to know to awaken. However, understanding the meaning is not an easy task and requires a conscious teacher. And […]

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Mara attacking Buddha: the unreal and the real

Your own search may lead you to ask the question: what is our existence? You will have to find  the answer yourself, feeling it by your own true sense within. Obstacles to understanding the meaning of life are many, and exist both in the external world and in our relationships to things. Further, our own identifications […]

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I and not I, David Tuttle, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton

‘I’ and not ‘I’

Who is this ‘I’ one calls oneself? My teacher recently said to us, “Remember, anything that says ‘I’ is not you.” When first reading about the division into ‘I’ and ‘David’, I did not understand it exactly. Fortunately, it was clear what we were to avoid. When we begin the work, the tendency is to […]

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freedom of the real, Leonardo, Portrait of a Girl, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday

The Freedom of the Real

When we talk about freedom, we’re speaking about the work an individual does to become free of unnecessary laws. Man as a Microcosmos of the Universe In order to understand this, it is first necessary to see man as a microcosmos. Man is a microcosmos because, like the universe, he has within him layers of […]

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