The Seventh CD
Part One
With the absolute power of God, we start the meeting.
Hello, friends, I am Hossein, a traveler.
Hello, Hossein.
Please, for our liberation from our most powerful enemy, which is our own ignorance and unawareness, let's observe a 14-second silence and seek refuge in the Almighty.
Thank you.
I kindly request the honorable secretary, Ms. Neda to read the summary of the previous session and announce the agenda for today's session.
Hello friends, I am Neda, a traveler.
Hello, Neda.
In the name of God, the seventh session of the 20th round of Congress 60’s meetings is held with the agenda “the Seventh Valley and its effect on me”, under the supervision of Mr. Hossein Dezhakam and, Ms. Neda as the secretary, on November, 13th, 2012. The session commenced at 9 a.m. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello, friends, I am Hossein, a traveler."
Nowadays, sometimes you want to go to a very near place, but you don't walk; you try to go by taxi. Sometimes, your house is in an alley where you have to walk 100 meters, but you take a taxi to avoid walking. You take a taxi to your exact address, if it was possible, you would ask the taxi to transport you to your apartment on the third or fourth floor, or if it was possible you would drive the car up to the fourth floor to drop off at the apartment. I once said it, it is exactly like those villagers who ride donkeys to the end of the stable. When they got to the stable, they did not even bother getting off the donkey. They just lowered their heads, because the stable doors were so low in height that they had to duck or lower down their head to pass through them and the donkey walked all the way to the end of the stable. Then they got off and came back (Mr. Dezkhakam laughs) because the stable doors were so low. They ride the donkey right into the house, through the yard, and all the way to the stable. Well, we had these things in the past, and now we have people like the villagers. No one walks, people have no movement. Every human being should walk 4000 meter, who does this? Who walks? Humans should walk 4000 or 5000 meter a day. You have to do walking every day to keep your heart ready (active), [to help] the blood flow, to control fat (cholesterol) and urea.
Which of you does walking everyday? From your bedroom, you go to the kitchen, you go from the kitchen to the bathroom, then you say oh, my back hurts (laughs), my legs hurt, my legs are tired, and tired, or you wash the dishes, for half an hour, a quarter of an hour you wash the dishes standing, and then you say oh, my back hurts, my legs are painful, this is because you don't walk, because they want to solve their own problems as quickly as possible.
As you see, all the written sentences in here are in first person singular to emphasize that each of us, ourselves, may have the same thinking style.
Or we naively think that we have to find someone to give us a pill or a magic word or a cosmic energy or a treasure map, to solve our problem or our illness or our heartbreak, and we don't consider that if he were a healer, he would have found a way to improve his own situation.
For example, we ask a treasure map from a broke person [fortuneteller], who has not even bread to eat, and I really saw a lot. I have seen urban people, engineers for example, doctors, (I'm an engineer myself), they go to a village to visit a broken person that lives in a stable-like house (very dirty and old), and has nothing to eat, they go to this person giving him some money for a treasure map. If he had a treasure map, he would take it and get rich, he wouldn't have lived in this misfortune.
And if you ask him “well, why don’t you use the map for yourself?” He responds, “No, I can't use it. Even if I use it, the genies won't give me the map”. The stupid people believe it and say he's right. Sometimes, they have a problem, they go to an opium addict or an opium-extract addict, a poor and broken guy, and ask him to solve your problem, he himself has many children, and you ask him to solve your problem! Well, he will tell you that because there's someone who has done black magic for you, controlled your fate, that is why your husband’ or wife’ or your friend’s affection has been taken from you. You say, well, it is normal for everyone to experience these things. You say, you're right, you're right, now what should I do? He says, you need to spread a genie's table. You ask, what's a genie's table? He says, you need to give money for a sheep or such and such, and also give 100,000 Tomans so we can sacrifice a sheep, cook food, and provide food for the genies to come and eat. As they come and eat the food, they will solve your problem. Surely, you will give him money to set a genie's table. However, if he could provide food for them, he was able to provide food for himself to avoid hunger and misfortune! He takes the money and provides a sheep for himself and barbecue and eats it or he takes the money and enjoys it.
For example, a person who doesn't have bread to eat, we ask him for a treasure map, or we ask someone whose head to toe is filled with various illnesses, to cure our illness with his energy!
Just consider a sick person who is in need of a doctor or a medical practitioner, but instead of visiting a doctor, they visit an energy-healing practitioner to put his hand on their head [to inject energy] to heal them. Or energy-healing practitioners say we are going to call you to at 11 p.m. to send you some energy to get fine. Some people have got used to sponging. They want to solve any problems very cheaply. For instance, the municipality of a town requires a person to pay 100 million toman for municipal charges, but the person makes a [religious] vow to give sheep meat [to poor people] to get the license from the municipality! They want to solve such a big problem with giving a very little money. A sick person needs a doctor, you have to find the best way. You want an energy-giving practitioner to put his hand on your head to get better?! What a nonsense it is?! There is lots of energy in the universe, but who can use it? Everything has its own rules and keeps its counts. There are lots of Dollars and gold, in a rich man’s house, there are lots of dollars and gold in banks in the United States, which are transported with forklifts and cranes, well, what does that have to do with me? There's lots of energy in the universe, so what? In Kerman, they have a saying, which reads “our neighbor has got Komaj in their house, so what does it have to do with me?!” Komaj is a type of sweet Kermani confection which is delicious. These are things that have nothing to do with us. They say, knowing our neighbor has komaj in their house, has nothing to do with me, because they will not give us their komaj. The same holds true for people seeking treatment from an energy-healing practitioner who himself is very needy! For example, we ask a person who doesn't have bread to eat, to give us the treasure map, or we want a person who has got all kinds of illnesses [from his head to toe] to give us energy to cure our illnesses. Really, why is it so? Because we don't know the seventh valley, because before finding the path, we move and that is why we go astray.
When we move before finding the way and determining the path, we mostly end up in confusion. Because before finding the way, before thinking, before pondering, we rush into action. We may intend to head towards Bandar Abbas, but end up setting off towards Tabriz, towards the north, towards the west, towards the east [but not the south of Iran]. We say let's hit the road and see what happens next. And since we move before finding the way and determining the path, we end up in confusion.
That's why there's a saying, in Iran for making clothes; “Don't cut the fabric before measuring it” or “Measure twice, cut once.” It's important to check all the details before diving in. Planning ahead is crucial at every stage of life. When trying out a recipe like Ash, (an Iranian noodle soup), it's wise to gather advice from 10 different people. Similarly, when choosing a lawyer it's prudent to conduct research before making a decision. Although we consider all lawyers good, it is wise to ensure that your chosen lawyer is trustworthy. You give him 5 million Toman, you give him 20 million Toman, and from the other side, he takes 100 million Toman, working against your interests. There might be some people like this out there, lots of them may be found. If a doctor says he'll cut your intestines short and make you lose weight, you have to consult with four other specialized doctors. If a doctor says he'll perform surgery to increase your height, talk to ten others [to make sure if he is right or wrong].
They consider illness as an unimportant thing, illness is no joke, it's something serious, and it’s caused by some factors. We cannot make joke of illness, with disease. A person [in Iran] has claimed that when you're sick, I cure your illness with energy therapy. He claims that I have cured someone in the U.S., some years ago, and their disease has improved, he has also written a book. Well, they got better by chance or something else. Just consider addiction, one thousand or ten thousand people take addiction withdrawal capsules, out of these ten thousand people, maybe five get better. This [very limited] number of the cured has nothing to do with the capsule [the capsule has not cured the disease]. If it had anything to do with the capsule, at least from ten thousands of people taking the capsule, at least four, five or two or three thousands would get better. These five who got better would have improved without the capsule. Generally, few people can get better on their own. If we want to show the effect of our method [the capsule in here], we have to statistically calculate and report the result. We have to see out of one hundred ill people, how many got better, out of a few thousands of people, how many got better. I [as a surgeon] did ten surgeries, I shall see how many of the ill got better. Did nine of them die or eight of them get better? If eight of them got better, this is a winning job. If six got better, this is a winning job. Well, definitely always, there are some casualties, or problems. So, we need to investigate everything. For any task, we must investigate, research, and examine. We want to make a deal, we want to perform surgery, we want to lose weight, we want to gain weight, we want to study, we want to do something, always we have to make investigation first.
When we want to talk, we have to first think about what I want to say now; we should consider if I say this word, it might upset this person or not. Sometimes, when you get into a taxi, you have not even reached your short destination yet (e.g. from Seydkhandan, or from Pich-e Shemron, you have not reached Qolhak yet), but you tell your whole life story to the person sitting next to you, you would tell them who I am, [you would say everything in detail], I have four children from my first husband, then, I got divorced, my second husband was bad, this one is good, my niece is like this, one of my sisters-in-law is very jealous, but the other one is good, and so on, they tell (a stranger) everything up from their personal life.
"Until a man or a woman has spoken, his faults and skills are hidden [a Persian proverb]. Whatever you want to do, whatever you want to say; think first, then speak. Why are you always saying “sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry”? [why are you doing wrong consistently so that you have to apologize consistently?]. Meanwhile, if you are a wise person, you apologize. Some people are so ignorant and unlearned that their pride does not allow them to apologize [when they do wrong], yet those who apologize are the ones who are savvy.
So, it is enough for now. I hope you can use this story and this matter, and God willing, that is why they say “look before you leap”, [in Persian we say, do not cut the cloth without measuring it first].
The second group are the wise. Thank you so much for listening to my words.
Part Two
Thank you, friends. I ask our esteemed secretary, Ms. Neda, to read the summary of the previous session and announce today's agenda, which is the seventh valley.
Hello friends, I am Neda, a traveler.
Hello Neda
The previous meeting, the sixth session of the twentieth term, was held on November, 6th, 2012 with the agenda “the second part of the sixth valley and its effect on me”, under the supervision of Mr. Hossein Dezhakam and, Ms. Neda as the secretary, on November, 6th, 2012. The session commenced at 9 a.m.
The summary of the master's words:
In this valley, we likened the human body to a city, and this city must be managed and have laws. In this city, the chief of the tribe is Wisdom and a council from the inhabitants of a city. If there are too many negative elements (inhabitants) in our system, everything goes towards ruin and corruption and it shows itself. If they move in the right path, the overall Wisdom and overall sagacity rule the entire system. If an irrelevant element is found, this system be ruined completely. The mind does not accept unreasonable desires because the mind always wants good. The Blaming Self and the Commanding Self are ourselves (in Islamic mysticism, three Selves are considered for a human being: the Commanding Self, which invites us to the wrong path; the Blaming Self, which blames us in case of doing wrong and the Assured Self which is Self-at- peace; gradually, with doing right, the commanding-self changes to the Assured Self). When the Commanding Self becomes the ruler of the city, it accompanies us towards anti-values and decisions are made by unreasonable desires, and the person gets involved in negative desires and corruption. However, when we reach awareness, we must follow and act upon other orders. At this point, the Blaming Self, which is the conscience, comes into play, and a person realizes their mistakes and sometimes they err and sometimes they don’t. This matter continues until we enter the Assured Self, where everything it says is assured and reasonable. When a person moves from one process to another, negative inspirations and negative thoughts intensify and do not allow us to approach positive forces. The only way to get rid of them is to get closer to the command of Wisdom. In the end, Master Dezhakam said that if we do not obey the Wisdom’s command well, we cannot become a worthy commander. To purify and cleanse, we must start with small tasks so that we carry out big commands, and we must know that the distance to the command of Wisdom [to reach Wisdom’s command” is just short physically, but takes thousands of years in time.
And today, the seventh session of the 20th round of Congress 60’s meetings is held with the agenda “the Seventh Valley and its effect on me”, under the supervision of Mr. Hossein Dezhakam and, Ms. Neda as the secretary, on November, 13, 2012. The session commenced at 9 a.m. Thank you.
To be Continued .....
Translated by: Elahe