Peace Resolution

[Audrey Coward]

What are tantric scriptures ? I would like to read more based on you e-mail.
Thanks
Audrey Coward

Heidi and Dan Chay wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >From seers, dream interpreters, magicians, mystery cults, and oracle
> priestesses, we learn that the Vision is incapable of being set forth by
> "tongue of flesh" since it transcends consciousness.
>
> Yet we find ourselves drawn to the ecstatic utterances of ancient and
> modern prophets as if the harmony of the spheres pervaded their being,
> making their whole nature vibrate in a higher octave with new
> interpretation and intensity.
>
> Harmony of the spheres: the capacity of nature to recover its balance
> after another act of human aggression?  As I understood Julie, it is
> akin to "the irresistible hum of love, hope, and kindness." Eh?
>
> A Zen saying reminds me of the metaphor, "Harrison is a tuning fork,"
> holding space:
>
> "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by
> itself."
>
> Julie wrote:
>
> "Little by little, the collective hum reaches a higher state of
> consciousness and harmony than it had before it was tuned with the
> tuning fork (aka Harrison Owen). And then, you let go and let the
> musicians co-create the music they came to play. The music is better
> than usual because the musicians begin more closely attuned than usual.
> The attunement is to our natural state, to peace.. and OST is thus a
> practice of peace."
>
> Einstein increasingly appears to me like another ancient God.  I find it
> more and more difficult to distinguish with confidence what he may
> "really" have said, and what simply is attributed to him.
>
> At any rate, I read that these were "Einstein's three rules of work:
> 'Out of clutter, find simplicity; from discord, find harmony; and, in
> the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.'"
>
> "From discord, find harmony."  Among ancient Greeks, Discord was another
> goddess along with Fate and Wisdom.  Was Peace a goddess, as well?
>
> It is a curious phenomenon, the unity of a God, and the unity of
> metaphor. Some will recognize John 10:9 from the New Testament where
> Jesus is quoted to have said, "I am the door."
>
> The literary scholar, Northrop Frye wrote with metaphor partly in mind,
> "Accuracy of description in language is not possible beyond a certain
> point...[it means] literally just what it says, but it can mean it only
> without primary reference to a correspondence of what it says to
> something outside what it says."
>
> We can read about Peace in the Holy Qur'an (Surah 16:30):
>
> 30. To the righteous
> (When) it is said, "What
> Is it that your Lord
> Has revealed?" they say,
> "All that is good, there is good
> In this world, and the Home
> Of the Hereafter is even better
> And excellent indeed is the Home
> Of the righteous--
>
> 31.  Gardens of Eternity which they
> Will enter: beneath them
> Flow (pleasant) rivers: they
> Will have therein all
> That they wish: thus doth
> Allah reward the righteous--
>
> 32. (Namely) those whose lives
> The angels take in a state
> Of purity, saying (to them),
> "Peace be on you; enter ye
> The Garden, because of (the good)
> Which ye did (in the world)."
>
> What is this peace?  An afterlife reward for a good life? Our "natural
> state?"  Tuned "Harmony of the Spheres?"
>
> Frye also has written, "Once a verbal structure is read, and reread
> often enough to be possessed, it "freezes."  It turns into a unity in
> which all parts exist at once...without regard to the specific movement
> of the narrative. We may compare it to the study of a musical score..."
>
> Isn't this one intent also of millions of Muslims and Christians
> memorizing by rote their holy scriptures? Achieving a higher order of
> crystallized understanding much as ice exists at a higher order of
> organization than gas?
>
> On this list, Bernhard Weber has commented, "Our social/human potential
> seems to freeze during all the organizational/societal attempts to make
> it manageable. Ice is more solid than water than gas, but ... Anyway:
> for me it is 'unfreezing our self-organization-potential', what OST
> helps to do."
>
> Glory Resslar wrote, "Un-freezing (I think of it as exciting the energy
> or 'un-blocking') is the key, I think."
>
> How do we come to associate Peace with the order and equilibrium
> implicit in "Harmony of the Spheres"?
>
> >From the writings of Aristotle:
>
> "It seems to some [ie: Pythagoreans] that bodies so great [as the
> planets] must inevitably produce a sound by their movement: even bodies
> on earth do so, although they are neither so great in bulk nor moving at
> so high a speed, and as for the sun and moon, and the stars, it is
> incredible that they should fail to produce a noise of surpassing
> loudness. Taking this as their hypothesis, and also that the speeds of
> the stars, judged by their distances, are in the ratio of the musical
> consonances, they affirm that the sound of the stars as they revolve is
> concordant.
>
> To meet this difficulty that none of us is aware of this sound, they
> account for it by saying that the sound is with us right from birth and
> has thus no contrasting silence to show it up; for voice and silence are
> perceived by contrast to each other, and so all mankind is undergoing an
> experience like that of a coppersmith, who becomes by long habit
> indifferent to the din around him."
>
> Heraclitus seems to allude (typologically thinking) to our "natural
> state":
> "The cosmic system (works) by the law of music, the law of harmony; and
> whenever that harmony in the cosmic system is lacking in any way, then
> in proportion disaster comes to the world, and its influence is seen in
> the many destructive forces which are manifest there."
>
> Here is an explanation of Tantric scriptures that seems "in tune" with
> harmony of the spheres:
>
> "Unlike the sounds we can hear with our ears, the cosmic sound is
> uncaused. It is an infinite vibration (spanda) that is coextensive with
> the universe itself and is realizable only in deep meditation when the
> senses and the mind have been deactivated. The primordial sound is
> symbolically represented by the sacred syllable om. Although not
> mentioned directly in the Rig-Veda, the om-sound —- also called pranava
> and udgîtha -— is hinted at in various hymns. It is first mentioned by
> name in the Shukla-Yajur-Veda (1.1).
>
> What the various models describing the evolution of sound or vibration
> have in common is the idea that there are at least three levels at which
> sound exists. The Tantric scriptures distinguish between:
>
> 1. madhyamâ-vâc ("intermediate speech")—sound at the subtle level of
> existence, which is the voice of thought;
>
> 2. vaikharî-vâc ("manifest speech")—audible sound transmitted through
> vibration of the air;
>
> 3. pashyantî-vâc ("visible speech")—the most subtle form of sound
> visible only to intuition;
>
> Beyond these three is the transcendental level called parâ-vâc or
> "supreme speech," which is Shakti in perfect union with Shiva. It is
> soundless sound, hinted at in the Rig-Veda (10.129) in the phrase "the
> One breathed breathlessly."
>
> >From Plato:
>
> "The virtue of temperance (sophrosyne) is said to be the virtue of the
> soul as a whole, the result of the smooth working of its parts together
> ... the man who possesses it is "well tuned" (the Greek translation has
> nothing to do with the state of his health), and this is achieved by
> bringing three parts into accord, just like the fixed three intervals in
> the scale - highest, lowest and middle - that is, a musical harmony is
> achieved. In the case of the soul, the three parts that have to be
> brought into accord are of course reason, passion and desire."
>
> Heraclitus linked harmony with god Logos in the "order of all things":
> "Listening not to me but Logos, it is wise to agree that all things are
> one."
>
> The Three Basic Statements of the Logos:
>
> {1} Harmony is always a product of opposites.
> (a) Everything is made of opposites and therefore subject to internal
> tension.
> (b) Opposites are identical .... polarity - Qualities are conceived with
> their contraries.
> (c) War is the ruling and creative force and a right and proper state of
> affairs.
>
> "War is father of all and king of all, and some he reveals as gods,
> others as men, some he makes slaves, others free."
>
> Nearly 2000 years after the early Greek philosophers, the Ptolemaic
> earth-centered model of the universe was becoming increasingly
> cumbersome, offending Kepler's Pythagorean sense of harmony and
> proportion. He could get no peace, thank goodness. Too many epicycles
> grafted on circles to reconcile observational discrepancies.  He
> recognized that a Copernican sun-centered planetary model gave better
> predictions of the celestial dance and that this dance could be
> expressed through more elegant geometry -- to the greater glory of God
> the Creator.
>
> Still, the necessity of rejecting circular orbits came as something of a
> shock. The circle is an archetypal symbol of harmony and perfection. Yet
> the elliptical orbits that he began drawing while charting Mars
> eventually revealed a scheme of celestial harmony more subtle and
> profound than any that had gone before.
>
> Nearly 2500 years after Pythagoras, Harrison has written:
>
> "If conflict is a loaded word, even more so is peace.  It seems that
> many people understand peace mostly in terms of absence of its
> opposites. Such things as conflict, confusion, and chaos.  Yet in my
> experience each of these "unholy trinity" have essential contributions
> to make to the process of living."
>
> >From what I understand of complexity theory, our modern-day
> philosopher-gods are pointing with finer-grained resolution to an even
> more subtle and profound scheme of celestial harmony and "peace."  Like
> a paradoxical intervention, at first it seems counter-intuitive.
>
> In Gestalt and biology, we could say that perfect peace = death.  What
> could this mean for our thinking?
>
> Today I have gotten a chuckle from this apparent cacophony of paradigms,
> peace resolution, and the idea of becoming a constructive conflict-maker
> as a good thing to do.
>
> Grins,
>
> Dan
>
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