courtesy of Maitreya Samgha

226. The failure of one community must be grounds for new communal structures. Be able to discover potential amid imperfection! 227. Aspiration must come from within, not by external causes. A smile is like a wing of Aum. 228. One should sense cultural steps but disregard the zigzags of effeminateness. We must examine how the victory of community has grown in the kindling fires of knowledge and beauty. 229. In building community only unceasing awareness assists, only saturated labor prevents from returning into dark corners. We await those who strive to abandon the old life. There is nothing worse than to bring along dried up crumbs, taking away joy. How acutely necessary it is to purify one's concepts not in thought alone but in action. 231-3. Evidence is a hen's reality; only thru intensified perfectionment can one approach the real. Each one approaching Our Community becomes an activist; work for actuality. In actions and results is cognized the right direction. 232. Exert yourselves to accept the full chalice. Learn to be where there are heroes. The world will be shaken by heroic reality. The valiant call of life is irreplaceable. That this be generated without delay, safeguard those few who can sound forth that call. 235. One must understand that true affirmations are not in self-contained isolation but in true continuity. Any dismemberment is an axe upon a living organism. 236. We may cite a case when one of Our co-workers permitted treason. The sentinel on guard said to him: "Be your own judge." Fear of death is the weightiest self-judgment. Is not the prison brother to the cemetery? Labor opens the prisons; fire purifies the cemeteries; labor and fire, cause and effect of energy. 237. The smallest hint of sectarianism or bigotry contradicts the sunlike evolution of community. The sectarian dreams of seizing power for the subjection of everything to his own inflexible dreams. The superstitious most of all is afraid lest he call up by accident any alien sign, and he thinks of himself much. The community is the depository of all potential and containment, the chalice of sunlike joy. 238. Let us dispel any timid halfwayness, otherwise it takes possession and delivers us to shameful execution by beating us with accounting books. When conflagrations roar, think monolithically. 239. We do not approve of the principle "to fight and perish." It is more courageous not to lose one's forces and to conquer. For this is needed full realization of sound direction and invincible tension. The essence of the plan is important. The new life is still badly shaped; the essence of evolution is still not expressed. 240. Pay no attention to arguments of the ignorant. Only one thing is important: to consider general cooperation as an absolute evolutionary necessity. It is necessary to turn each hour of life into vital progressive movement. 241. When arriving, embrace all because you have renounced all. When departing, leave all because all has been assimilated. 242. What are the signs of the era of Shambhala? Truth and cooperation. 244. The flame of aspiration depends not upon the body. The magnet of the primary force is manifested independently of events taking place. For distant indications magnetic waves serve as an exceptional conductor. Magnets can be tuned like instruments. 245. Adaptability is the best means for conserving forces. Sluggish adaptability produces a series of false concepts, making one timid and awkward. 246. The man not free, thinking and acting only for self, is plunged into an ocean of false currents. Learning, one may solve the difficult problem of possessions in enlightenment. The man who has cognized the essence of all things is not in need of them. Take realistically everything within life's boundaries. 247. The ashes of contentment's dross is the cradle of the blade. We prefer to test you in flight. 248. Only the judicious mind of a realist places unfolding potential into scientifically conceived order. The banner of potentiality is being raised. Only knowledge can assist in absorbing apparent contradictions. The laws of Aum are identical in all conditions. Know, know, know, otherwise the little house of decrepid prejudices will not crumble away. 249. Be not late in the study and application of finer energy. Fearlessly and without self-pity must one take up vigilance's burden. Compare your situation with that in Holland where sealevel is often higher than the land. Accept the flow of finer energy as a bountiful wave. The loss of these possibilities represents irreparable harm to the communities. You young, strong and unprejudiced, investigate by all means and accept the gift lying at your gates. Observe with an eagle eye and leap lionishly to take possession of the ordained power. Delay not! 250. It is impossible to guess how outworn thinking will turn about in order not to disturb its own little house of cards. Do not struggle against the slowness of ascent of certain characters--there are afraid they will appear ridiculous. Awaken quests for awareness; let them manifest conjectures. We prefer the alertness of experience to the tear of faith. 252. Be able to look courageously into a shallow well--how quickly the surface grows scummy and there is a thorny growth above the stagnant water. 253. It can be that a wave of finer energy restores vitality and bestows a new joy of being. For this it is needful to be conscious of finer energy, to enter into the rhythm of evolution. Instead, the sick are stuffed with mixtures and potions. When We summon to the realization of finer energy, We are not thinking of turning people into magicians, We are only indicating the next step in evolution and urging in the name of Community not to let the date slip by. Hasten to supply yourselves with strength and thus assist the proximate evolution. Why be crushed when a song of joy has been ordained! 254. When you encounter a valuable man covered with mire, interrupt your pace and endeavor to cleanse him. The community cannot deliberate as to whether he is ours or not. The community says that either he is valuable for evolution or not. The most crucial choice is according to essence. Lose no time in defending true values. Each hour counts. Reject expressions of uncertainty. Each value to you is as the sail to the ship. It is necessary to preserve confidence in the Watch of the Community, otherwise it is the end! 255. Teach young friends to keep silent when there is no bridge to someone's consciousness. Teach them to brandish the sword once only if an arrow of insult is loosed. 257. Only the application of finer energy shields the better people. Otherwise like sponges they absorb the excess ills of mankind. 258. The mirage of dark clouds screens the horizon of reality, but Maitreya's white elephant of reality marches on. The New Age arrives amid storm and lightning. If maya does not furnish the negative evidence, how then flashes forth the swordblade of positive reality? Let us turn no more to the mirage of maya nor dream of quenching thirst from its visionary lakes.


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