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 c0sm0nautt
 
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 Om Mani Padme Hum
#11108285 - 09/22/09 05:49 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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When times get darkest, look to the eternal light which shines within.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant, and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
  
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Ascending Lotus
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i heard this playing in a little shop downtown, i immediatlely purchased it simply because it made me feel absolutely wonderful. later i chuckled when i tried to actually discern the meaning of the mantra, and was pleased with the simple concept that "not one of the 84,000 teachings of buddha is not contained in this phrase." it's a funny thing that the bible lacks something of such similar power :p i guess in english it would be written LOVE hehehehe
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Rise from the murky water of negativity
Allow your petals to peel open and emit rays of love
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Saidin
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I had this phrase tattooed to my forearm in sanskrit earlier this year. I look at it multiple times per day and a great sense of peace always overcomes me.
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What, you ask, was the beginning of it all? And it is this...
Existence that multiplied itself
For sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
Find
Itself
Innumerably.
-Sri Aubobindo
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Nunbuh_Chrubble
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Saidin]
#11111347 - 09/23/09 07:23 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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LOL, is it just me or does the intro sound reminiscent of that old kids song, "The ants go marching one by one, hoorah! Hoorah! The ants go marching two by two, Hoorah! Hoorah!..." ?
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"This day is a lover..."
~Rumi
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fireworks_god
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Saidin]
#11111664 - 09/23/09 09:08 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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When I was being an au pair and hanging out with a little two-year old, I'd work on droning out that phrase and she started imitating me. 
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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
  
 
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c0sm0nautt
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Saidin]
#11111741 - 09/23/09 09:29 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Ascending Lotus said:
i heard this playing in a little shop downtown, i immediatlely purchased it simply because it made me feel absolutely wonderful. later i chuckled when i tried to actually discern the meaning of the mantra, and was pleased with the simple concept that "not one of the 84,000 teachings of buddha is not contained in this phrase." it's a funny thing that the bible lacks something of such similar power :p i guess in english it would be written LOVE hehehehe
Yea hehe.
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Saidin said:
I had this phrase tattooed to my forearm in sanskrit earlier this year. I look at it multiple times per day and a great sense of peace always overcomes me.
That's cool! I have the Sanskrit of it in my avatar, if its decipherable.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant, and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
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walkingeyeball
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I've recently discovered this mantra and it brings me a lot of peace...funny how the simplest things bring the greatest pleasure.
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"We come from the stars
We have no ships
We travel from mind to mind
As you open your heart
We enter your body
As you open your heart
We enter your imagination
As you open your heart
We enter your dreams "
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Kada
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I like the song thanks for sharing.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama
Live long and prosper.
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 The Chronic
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Kada]
#11117997 - 09/24/09 07:46 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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nice avatar!
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Kada
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Ty. I will have to admit, it is more impressive when i am a supporter and it's larger.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama
Live long and prosper.
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The Chronic
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Kada]
#11118499 - 09/24/09 10:02 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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can you hook me up with the original please?
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c0sm0nautt
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
can you hook me up with the original please?
What is the significance of the mudra in yours?
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant, and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
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The Chronic
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Jnana Mudra
Infinite Wisdom or the literal translation is Symbol of Knowledge
Its Jnana is the highest knowledge attainable through meditation, it is the final Yoga that all liberated beings must pass through, all devotion, surrender comes under understanding/wisdom/knowledge (Jnana)
I just found this, its nice:
Jnana Yoga
The word jnana means "knowledge", "insight", or "wisdom," and in spiritual contexts has the specific sense of what the ancient Greeks called gnosis, a special kind of liberating knowledge or intuition. In fact, the terms jnana and gnosis are etymologically related through the Indo-European root gno, meaning "to know." Jnaa-Yoga is virtually identical with the spiritual path of Vedanta, the Hindu tradition of nondualism.
Jnana-Yoga is the path of Self-realization through the exercise of gnostic understanding or, to be more precise the wisdom associated with discering the Real from the unreal or illusory.
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MarkostheGnostic
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γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Sauton - Know Thyself
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c0sm0nautt
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I'm already half way through  I think I'm going to have to read it about 10 times to take it all in though 
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant, and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
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MarkostheGnostic
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You're a brighter man than me. I wrote my 222 page dissertation based on the Vajrayana psychic centers pathways, correlating the centers' motivations with Western psychologists, both before and after an Enlightenment experience (symbolized by the movement of the Inner Fire). I have been reading that book since 1973, I have corresponded with Lama Govinda, and I still have not taken it all in!
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γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Sauton - Know Thyself
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Kickle
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Much appreciation for those texts that change with us, always revealing more. 
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The Chronic
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum [Re: Kickle]
#11135582 - 09/27/09 03:32 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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'Know Thyself, all else will be known'
If Gnostic understanding came through years of learning & understanding, then God would be insanely cruel.
The fact is God is the Self already, knowing the Self is to know God.
Like the saying goes...
Those seeking God, find the Self
Those seeking the Self, find God
The Universe is soooooo infinitely generous, you don't have to learn ANYTHING to be completely unified with Her, you only have to know your Self, for which no aid whatsoever is necessary
If there was a huge struggle to go through in order to realize the absolute, then the absolute is not worth realizing & it could not even be termed 'absolute', as for something to be absolute, it must be impossible to reach or attain through a strenuous mental process, it must be imminent within the creation itself
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Sleepwalker
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
for something to be absolute...it must be imminent within the creation itself
  
Pretty song, too.
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