The Nature of

Promises Made in Past Lives

Mars at 9° Libra

Three “Old Masters” hanging on the wall

of an art gallery’s special room

  The need to return to source during any confused search in a chaotic society, regrounding ourselves in great achievements of the past, returning to source to reindentify ourselves with these achievements as inspirations for new beginnings.

  The seeds of tomorrow salute the seeds of yesteryear.

  Mars cycles – doing, causes we make—acts, for which we are personally responsible, gaining new perspectives, transforming the way we think and act.

  A few words about recent posts, “Promises Made in Past Lives” – have nothing to do with me personally. They prove not a jot about “who I am.” As the Buddha advised Ananda, “Make yourself the light.” These are perceptions, discoveries that came to that guy called Dana years ago when his in-depth study of Dane Rudhyar’s Humanistic-Transpersonal Astrology found remarkable resonance with an in-depth study and practice of the teachings of the Buddha. It has taken this individual many, many years to realize how much these discoveries have become part of his heart, mind, and soul. Recent Full Moon at 3°37’  Gemini, and today’s Mars transit, were startling reminders, instilled within the very fabric of what I desire my life, thinking, “doing” to be, and to become.

  “The Bodhisattva practice is  not to cut off binding and driving, nor to abide in the ocean of driving. In meditating on one’s mind, there is no mind one can seize, except the mind that comes for one’s distorted thought attached to appearances. The “mind” presenting such a form rises from one’s false imagination like the wind in the sky that has no foothold. Such a form of the law neither appears nor disappears.

  “What is sin? What is blessedness? As one’s own mind is void of itself, sin and blessedness have no existence. In like manner all the laws are neither fixed nor going toward destruction. The Law also does not dwell  in the Law. [it dwells in life itself]

  “All the laws are emancipation, the truth of extinction, and quiescence. Such an aspect is called the great repentance, the greatly adorned repentance, the repentance of the non-sin aspect, and the destruction of discrimination.

  “Those who practice this repentance have the purity of body and mind not fixed in the law, but free as flowing water.”

  It is time for all of us to celebrate civilization’s great achievements, past and present, a need to return to source during a confused search in a chaotic society.

  As Jim Morrison hoped (and sadly never found) – to “break on through to the other side.”