Wednesday, June 21, 2023

December - Control of the tongue becomes feeling for truth.

November 21 to December 21




This insightful patience controls the tongue.

For whoever speaks and judges hastily, harms or hinders the maturing process that harvests the truth of world phenomena in his judgment and lets his own actions emerge as ripened fruit from his interaction with world phenomena. Whoever speaks without waiting for this ripening merely voices subjective opinions concerning a world that, in essence, remains foreign to him. Such utterances may draw the applause of the like-minded and, by conforming with common usage, meet with outward success. They are not the truth patiently won and tried in practice with equanimity. Truth is rather the spirit of things opening its eyes in our pursuit of knowledge. Premature words uttered frightens it away. Control of the tongue enables the enchanted spirit, lying dumb and blind in things, to see and speak. Control of one’s tongue loosens the tongue of the creatures sighing for the spell to be broken. The spell is lifted from them when their being in our silence becomes an organ of perception, which interprets itself in the gaze upon its spell-bound state. In this way, the world and the self crossover and interchange, in contrast to the state of our normal consciousness in which they confront each other, disparate and fixed. The essence of things within the human being actively pursuing knowledge becomes an organ of perception; man experiences himself, in so far as he is engaged in creating knowledge, as a being spread out over de totality of the world phenomena. In control of the tongue, it is not the separation of world and self, but their crossing over and interchange that is sensed as the truth. The control of the tongue is the fruitfulness of human knowledge.

Thus this control becomes feeling for truth.

A meditation of such feeling for truth is:

When man gains knowledge of himself,
His self becomes for him the world;
When man gains knowledge of the world,
The world becomes for him his self.

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