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March 12, 2016
This will give one a sense of the teachings
of Peter Deunov/ Beinsa Douno
From: PROPHET FOR OUR TIMES
edited by David Lorimer
The Foreword
by Dr. Wayne Dyer |
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You are holding in your hands a book that I love, written by a Master whom
I revere. I am honoured to say a few words in this collection of sayings
and writings by the esteemed Peter Deunov in the English language.
To me, Peter Deunov, also known by his spiritual name Beinsa Douno, ranks as
one of the greatest and most influential spiritual teachers of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. I remember reading a quote by the eminent
scientist Albert Einstein that prompted me to look into the life and teachings
of this man, of whom I'd had no previous knowledge or awareness:
"The whole world bows down before me; I bow down before the Master
Peter Deunov."
As I began to investigate the teachings of this man, I was exposed to a
new way of looking at life, one in which the highest principle was something
that Deunov called Divine Love. The more I studied the life of this man
and his lifetime commitment to creating a world that lived by spiritual precepts
and laws, the more I began to realize that this great man, who died when I was
only four years of age, and who was born in 1864 while the American civil war
raged on, was having a huge impact on my own life and teachings. I found
his teaching slipping into my writing, my lectures all over the world and
particularly in my own personal life as well.
Peter Deunov explained to me via his translated lectures that there are
three kinds of love.
The first he called Human Love, that is, a love that changes and varies:
"I love you when you please me, and I hate you when you disappoint me."
"My love for you is strong and unquestioned this morning, but it fades
as the day progresses depending on how I feel and the circumstances surrounding
us."
The second kind of love that Deunov spoke of he called Spiritual Love, that
is, a love that varies, but never changes. This is the kind of love often
reserved for our immediate family members, especially our children and parents:
"It doesn't matter how much you disappoint me, my love for you is eternal
and changeless."
"My love for you, eternal though it may be, can be hot and cold, again
oftentimes dependent upon how you are behaving today, or how I am feeling."
But the essence of the teachings of Peter Deunov are in his third category of
love, that he called Divine Love. This is a love that never changes and
never varies.
This is the kind of love that our source of being has for us. This is the
kind of love I am committed to cultivating within myself and all of my teachings
as well.
For many years I have given the example of the Orange - asking my audiences to
imagine what happens when you squeeze an orange as hard as possible, and enquiring
what will come out. The answer of course is that the only thing that can
come out of an orange is orange juice, because that's what's inside. It
doesn't matter who does the squeezing, what the circumstances might be or anything
else; when you squeeze an orange you get what's inside.
Then, I would ask my audience to see the metaphor here and become the
orange. If someone squeezes you, that is, puts pressure on you, or behaves
rudely to you or is outright angry towards you, what is it that comes out?
It doesn't matter who does the squeezing or what the circumstances might be, you
get what's inside. If there is anger, resentment, fear, hatred, stress or
anything else inside, that is what will come out, and it has nothing to do with
who does the squeezing, just like with the orange.
Peter Deunov suggests that when we get to the stage of Divine Love, and that is
all that we have inside of us, that is what will be on display. This is the
kind of Love that great spiritual masters not only speak about, but that they live
at all times - a love that never varies and never changes. It was in the
reading of this man's lifetime of spiritual instruction that I began to live each
day from the perspective of the orange, that is, to be free of blame, judgment,
criticism and condemnation towards any of God's children.
Deunov spoke passionately about the need to create a new man for a world
desperately in need of transformation. This is how he described this
phenomenon: "The new man who is now being created I call the man of
light. Wherever he goes he illuminates things with the light he radiates
. . . The new man is sustained only by positive thoughts and feelings. He
lives in joy . . . He is the man of Truth and Freedom who has found himself . . .
His consciousness transcends the limits of the family, of the nation, even of
humanity. He considers himself a citizen of the boundless Universe. The
new man and the new world are being born. Tomorrow belongs to them."
I pride myself in my efforts to live and teach as this new man. When I was
just a child living in foster homes in America, Peter Deunov put his own unique
spiritual understandings to work in a very practical way by playing a very critical
role in saving the Bulgarian Jews from deportation by using his spiritual intuition,
as David Lorimer explains in his Editor's Note (see page xvii- xviii).
The teachings of Peter Deunov are based on three main principles. Divine
Wisdom, Divine Truth and especially Divine Love. He felt that the the True
Master, the Messenger of God, is sent to Earth with a special mission. He is
to reveal the Truth to humanity. Only he who has no violence in him can be a
true Master in the world. He is strong but he never preaches violence.
I am so blessed that I have come to be familiar with the life and teachings of this
Master who was so influential in teaching the world about a spiritual Renaissance,
about a grand idea whose time is coming and cannot be stopped. I have heard
many great teachers speak to the idea that the only thing that is real, is that which
never changes. These bodies we occupy and the entire physical universe is in a
perpetual state of change, yet there is something within each of us that is
infinite. Robert Frost put it this way:
"We dance round in a ring and suppose . . . But the Secret sits in the middle
and knows."
The secret that sits in the centre is our infinite awareness, and it was to this that
the great Peter Deunov dedicated his entire life, never wavering, even in the face of
seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the two great wars of the twentieth century that
impacted his country and our world in such a devastating manner. This was his
message, to use his own words:
"Only God is unchangeable, everything else in the world changes. This is
the great truth! Man's salvation is not his main purpose in life. His main
purpose is his perfection."
This volume is a treasure house of Wisdom, Truth and Divine Love. I urge you
to read and contemplate these simple yet profound principles. I feel a deep almost
celestial bond with this great man who so impacted our world. I feel his guidance,
I experience his presence, even as I sit here writing this brief foreword to this amazing
collection of transformative vignettes offered to us by one of the truly great Masters to
ever walk among us. He has been instrumental in helping me to understand my own
teachings over the last four decades, and in assisting me to become that New Man he
envisioned throughout his entire lifetime. I am deeply honoured to put my name
on the foreword to this book, and to have been a student of this Master.
In love and gratitude,
I AM, Wayne Dyer
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