I am going to tell you a story. ...I heard it from Alexandra David-Neel who, as you probably know, is a well-known Buddhist, especially as she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa.
At the Feet of The Mother
Stories Told by the Mother
These stories are revelations of living truths conveyed to us by the Mother. Most of stories have been culled from her “Questions and Answers”. Available as e-books for reading offline. Some of them were also recorded on audio by Jhumur di.
In occultism there is the “rebound”. You send out a bad thought, it returns to you as an attack. That is exactly one of the reasons why you must have a complete control over your feelings, sensations, thoughts ...
To give you a flower is of course very nice, but that’s not anything much... each one who comes appears with all his formations, and then I do just... I do just this... (gesture). The flower is an excuse, through the flower I give something.
Text in English
The art of Japan is a kind of directly mental expression in physical life. ... Their art is extremely mentalised; their life is extremely mentalised.
The discipline of Art has at its centre the same principle as the discipline of Yoga. In both the aim is to become more and more conscious.
If you have a headache or a congestion, if you have caught a touch of the sun, for instance, if you know how to bring down the force here, like this, here (showing the centre of the chest), or even lower down (showing the stomach), well, it will disappear.
In Tokyo I had a garden and in this garden I was growing vegetables myself. I had a fairly big garden and many vegetables.
It seems in Europe one knows how to use only three hundred and fifty varieties of vegetables from the vegetable kingdom, whilst in Japan they use six hundred of them and more.