Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Random Building Thoughts - 2022-01-08

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FILED UNDER:

One of Many Master's Wages...

You may never know the details of a man's past,
but as a Master Mason,
you have done the Work
that empowers you to discern a man's true Character.

That is True Recognition.

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Of all the Things I Myth...
... I Myth my Mind the Most.

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"Just try this some time. Take into your mind an image––somebody that you care for, some image that you would care to contemplate––and try to hold this image still in your mind. You will find that you are immediately thinking of other images, associated with the first; for the mind continues spontaneously to move. Yoga is the intentional stopping of this spontaneous activity of the 'mind-stuff.' It is an intentional bringing to rest of this continuous action.

"But why should one wish to do this?

"A favorite simile used in Indian discussions of this subject is that of the surface of a pond with its waves in action––a wind blowing over the pond and the waves moving. If you look at the surface of the pond moving in this way you will see the many reflections––many broken forms; nothing will be perfect, nothing complete; you will have only broken images before you. But if the wind dies down and the waters become perfectly still and clear, suddenly the whole perspective shifts and you are not seeing a lot of broken images, reflecting things round about. You are looking down through the clear water to the lovely sandy bottom, and perhaps you will see fish in the water. The whole perspective changes and you behold, not a multitude of broken images, but a single, still, unmoving image.

"This is the idea of yoga. The notion is that what we see when we look around, like this, are the broken images of a perfect form. And what is the form? It is the form of a divine reality, which appears to us only in broken images when our mind-stuff is in action. Or, to state the case another way: we are all, as we sit here and stand here, the broken images, the broken reflections, of a single divine perfection; but all that we ever see when we look around with our mind-stuff in its usual state of spontaneous activity, is the broken rainbow-reflection of this perfect image of divine light."

-- Joseph Campbell, Baksheesh and Brahman

(courtesy of the Joseph Campbell Foundation)

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Theology:
the study of God
and of God's relation to the world.
Does this sound familiar?

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Applying Quick Fixes
only Delays the Work Necessary
to Resolve Long Standing Issues.
Fix Things
so the next Generation
Doesn't have to Clean Up
Your Messes.

(or any other messes
created by the quick fixes
of previous generations.)

-------------- FORTITUDE --------------

"The person with fortitude
is one who perseveres in doing

what his conscience tells him he ought to.

He does not measure

the value of a task exclusively

by the benefit he derives from it,

but rather by the service he renders to others."

- Saint Josemaria Escriva

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An Inoperative Speculation
is A Pregnant Pause
Whose Significance
Invariably Diminishes
with Time.

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FYI - Just in case you didn't know...

The Building Better Builders Series of Uncommon Masonic Education Books
and Videos can be found here:
http://www.coach.net/BuildingBuilders.htm

I need to add to the picture "A Brother Asks!" and "The Craft Perfected!"

-------------- THE MORE YOU KNOW --------------

Under the Heading:
THE MORE YOU KNOW

Ancient Anglo-Saxons noticed
that mistletoe often grows
where birds leave droppings,
which is how mistletoe got its name:
In Anglo-Saxon, “mistel”
means “dung” and “tan” means “twig,”
hence, “dung-on-a-twig”
or more specifically "dung twig".

You're welcome.

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