Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session Five Part Two
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Avatar Meher Baba Center Southern California
in Concert with
The Oral History Archive Project
Ward Parks
October 31 November 1
November 7 November 8
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Although it deals with many different topics, repeatedly Baba Discourses returns to the theme of truth in values. Indeed, recognition of truth in values provides the foundation for spiritual understanding in any subject area; and acting on basis of these perceived truths defines the life of the karma yogi. Truth in values brings spirituality into the practical domain; it establishes the link between high realities and the empirical sphere that we all live in. In this seminar we will explore this question both in its relation to higher realities and in its application to certain basic questions of life.
Since the Discourses, more than any other book of Meher Baba's, addresses itself
to spirituality as life practice, we will begin, in the first session, with a review of the textual history of this remarkable collection. The second session explores the problem of Maya, which is the source of false valuation; truth in values can be discovered only when falseness is exposed for what it in. The remaining sessions will explore truth in values in four aspects or domains: the ethical; relations between heart and mind; community; and the problem of war and violence.
November 7 2015 Afternoon Session
"Heart and Mind." In His various discourses and messages, Meher Baba repeatedly returns to the theme of heart and mind; yet rarely does He clearly define exactly what the "heart" is. In one discourse He appears to correlated body-heart-mind with gross-subtle-mental. Elsewhere He seems to associate “mind" with the thinking part of mind on the fifth plane and "heart" with the feeling aspect on the sixth plane. Another significant correlation is between heart mind and the celebrated dichotomy of matter and spirit. How to reconcile these diverse formulations? Main topics: (i) Problems of definition: what are the "head" and the "heart"? (ii) Baba's standard account on head-heart relations. (iii) The spirit matter dichotomy in its relation to head and heart. (iv) A close study of the discourse "The Avenues to Understanding."
Ward Parks - Meher Baba's Discourses Session Five Part Two
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Avatar Meher Baba Center Southern California
in Concert with
The Oral History Archive Project
Ward Parks
October 31 November 1
November 7 November 8
"Truth in Values: Excursions into the Practical Teachings of the Avatar of the Age in His Discourses"
Although it deals with many different topics, repeatedly Baba Discourses returns to the theme of truth in values. Indeed, recognition of truth in values provides the foundation for spiritual understanding in any subject area; and acting on basis of these perceived truths defines the life of the karma yogi. Truth in values brings spirituality into the practical domain; it establishes the link between high realities and the empirical sphere that we all live in. In this seminar we will explore this question both in its relation to higher realities and in its application to certain basic questions of life.
Since the Discourses, more than any other book of Meher Baba's, addresses itself
to spirituality as life practice, we will begin, in the first session, with a review of the textual history of this remarkable collection. The second session explores the problem of Maya, which is the source of false valuation; truth in values can be discovered only when falseness is exposed for what it in. The remaining sessions will explore truth in values in four aspects or domains: the ethical; relations between heart and mind; community; and the problem of war and violence.
November 7 2015 Afternoon Session
"Heart and Mind." In His various discourses and messages, Meher Baba repeatedly returns to the theme of heart and mind; yet rarely does He clearly define exactly what the "heart" is. In one discourse He appears to correlated body-heart-mind with gross-subtle-mental. Elsewhere He seems to associate “mind" with the thinking part of mind on the fifth plane and "heart" with the feeling aspect on the sixth plane. Another significant correlation is between heart mind and the celebrated dichotomy of matter and spirit. How to reconcile these diverse formulations? Main topics: (i) Problems of definition: what are the "head" and the "heart"? (ii) Baba's standard account on head-heart relations. (iii) The spirit matter dichotomy in its relation to head and heart. (iv) A close study of the discourse "The Avenues to Understanding."