A New Adventure

I have decided to venture with a friend of mine to Tibet for the next seven years. I cannot divulge my friends identity, but he may have robbed a gas station, a couple convenience stores, liquor stores... 

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the experiences this climbing expedition will offer. Did I mention we'll be mountain climbing? My skills are rusty, but I think I can keep up. Which reminds me of a few things I mustn't forget to pack.

This is a last minute sort of thing so I need to focus on preparing. I look forwarding to blogging about my experiences seven years from now. Until then, I leave you all with this:

Never lick a stiff horse in the mouth.

One More for a Good Friend

A good friend of mine and a contributor to my studies sent me this quote and I was so touched that I must share it.

And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses
-1 Kings- 20:21

Sasquatch: The Modern Day Horse

This may sound strange, but men have been disguising themselves as horses since before we even knew what horses looked like. The horse was once the Sasquatch of civilization. (Of course once we proved the horse to be real and decided to ride him and let him teach us everything we now know, we in fact did move on to Big Foot.)

We were obsessed with this beast and today some of us are insatiable for the horse's pseudo-divine insights.

Beware of your own desires. They're probably your inner self attempting once again to become a horse.

Three Quotes More

As you can see I've been spending some time in my Bible lately. I will conclude this jaunt with the following just to set the record straight:

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding
-Psalm 32:9

With you I break in pieces the horse
-Jeremiah 51:21

And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him: he hamstrung the horses
-Joshua 11:9

Psalm 20:7

The idea of trusting in an automobile more than in the creator of the universe seems laughable at first consideration. But consider again. We trust in the things of Brahma more than in Brahma himself. We seek teachers of worldly wisdom without seeking God. We have use for houses and cars and chariots and whatever else we may poses normally, but we need Svayambhu—that is The Self-Born.

Some trust in Gurus, Masters, Teachers, Rabbis, Imams, Preachers, and more. And these are very helpful people who have dedicated their lives to a higher purpose, but we should follow their lead, not them. They help us, but we need Assamad—that is The Eternal Self-Sufficient.

I repeat this because it is very easily overlooked and more easily pseudo-comprehended. "Sure, sure, of course," we all say. "It's common sense."

It is not common sense or we would honor Jehovah—that is The Self-Existent Eternal, whom we need—more than the houses and cars and jewelry and chariots, and more than teachers and masters and preachers and, yes, horses ("enlightened" or otherwise).

If this were common sense we would think on and strive for the one who truly provides for us—that is provides our breath, and even our bones, our mind, and our soul, our very Aatman; Our spirit. Without which cars and chariots and houses and teachers and gurus and horses do not even come into consideration for their lack of value and worth.

I leave you with this from the psalms of David, son of Jesse.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Jehovah our God.
-Psalm 20:7

Isa Masiha and the Pavitr Aatma

I will tell you a case of a man back home in Payvihir, forty-five years old – a pagan, Hmong immigrant, illiterate, who knew nothing about Masiha.

Then he was brought by grace, through the preaching of the Christians, into the presence of Isa and Him crucified; and that man was so changed that within a month, when impure thoughts came into his heart he literally went outside from a meeting and vomited.

What a standard, what sensitivity!

A man steeped in paganism, with no book training, no background. And now in the light of Isa Masiha, in that smashing, invading love, this man is taken, re-created, renewed, his conscience is so clean that when impure thoughts came he even went and physically vomited. A sensitivity had been created. The Holy Aatma had renewed the personality.

Is this your case?

I find after I have gone on with the Lord, sometimes I grow insensitive. But the impact of the Holy Aatma, the impact of the renewal, is that you begin to move with that sensitive tact in the heart.

If it is jealousy, don’t you think the time has come when you can say, ‘My heart has been renewed, and I am going to write a letter to that person and ask for forgiveness’? Yes, the posts of New York, and Las Angeles, and Miami may be very busy when God begins to work. And the homes of your country may experience men renewed, coming to put a few things right.

That’s when Isa comes alive: not when we enjoy lovely teaching, but when the teaching becomes so embarrassing that you walk away and do something about it.