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 bodhicitta
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 Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
#12555005 - 05/13/10 11:03 AM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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"Monks, this concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, is both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen. Just as when, in the last month of the hot season, a great rain-cloud out of season immediately disperses & allays the dust & dirt that have been stirred up, in the same way this concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, is both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen.
"And how is concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing developed & pursued so as to be both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen?
"There is the case where a monk, having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building, sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect, and setting mindfulness to the fore. Always mindful, he breathes in; mindful he breathes out.
"[1] Breathing in long, he discerns, 'I am breathing in long'; or breathing out long, he discerns, 'I am breathing out long.' [2] Or breathing in short, he discerns, 'I am breathing in short'; or breathing out short, he discerns, 'I am breathing out short.' [3] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to the entire body.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to the entire body.' [4] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in calming bodily fabrication [in-&-out breathing].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out calming the bodily fabrication.'
"[5] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to rapture.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to rapture.' [6] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to pleasure.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to pleasure.' [7] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to mental fabrication [feeling & perception].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to mental fabrication.' [8] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in calming mental fabrication.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out calming mental fabrication.'
"[9] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to the mind.' [10] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in gladdening the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out gladdening the mind.' [11] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in steadying the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out steadying the mind. [12] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in releasing the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out releasing the mind.'
"[13] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on inconstancy.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on inconstancy.' [14] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on dispassion [literally, fading].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on dispassion.' [15] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on cessation.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on cessation.' [16] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on relinquishment.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on relinquishment.'
"This is how concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing is developed & pursued so as to be both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen."
Vesali Sutta: At Vesali (SN 54.9)
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if everything is nowhere, where is what?
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bodhicitta
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bodhicitta]
#12555933 - 05/13/10 02:11 PM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.
Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.
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Why am I part of this disaster, this
mud hole for donkeys? Is this the place
where Jesus spoke? Surely not. A table
has been set, but we have not been served
sweet spring water yet. Evidently we came
here to be bound hand and foot. I ask
a flower, "How is it you are so wise so
young?" "With the first morning wind and
the first dew, I lost my innocence." I
follow the one who showed me the way. I
extend one hand up, and with the other I
touch the ground. A great branch leans
down from the sky. How long will I keep
talking of up and down? This is not my
home: silence, annihilation, absence!
I go back where everything is nothing.
Rumi
Edited by bodhicitta (05/13/10 02:49 PM)
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Mycomyth
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12608577 - 05/22/10 07:30 AM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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I ran across this artist after October 11 2008, the Saturday night that I reached this point myself.
This is the point from which I can never return,
And if I back down now then forever I burn.
This is the point from which I could never retreat,
Cause If I turn back now there can never be peace.
This is the point from which I will die or succeed,
Livin's a struggle, I know I'm alive when I bleed.
From now on it can never be the same as before,
Cause the man that I was doesn't exist anymore.
- Immortal Technique
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Wave after wave of demented avengers marched cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
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 The Chronic
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mycomyth]
#12608585 - 05/22/10 07:31 AM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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I haven't heard any immortal technique for years!
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soldatheero
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12616386 - 05/23/10 08:00 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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God is love
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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BlueCoyote
Beyond
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12618543 - 05/24/10 05:48 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Edited by BlueCoyote (05/24/10 05:51 AM)
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NastyDHL
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12618829 - 05/24/10 07:49 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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"When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
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The Chronic
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12619602 - 05/24/10 10:36 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
BlueCoyote said:
Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Bullshit
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Icelander
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12620045 - 05/24/10 12:07 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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True, nobody knows what we can know.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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bodhicitta
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NastyDHL]
#12620281 - 05/24/10 12:56 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
NastyDHL said:
"When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
great quote 
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if everything is nowhere, where is what?
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12633313 - 05/26/10 04:22 PM (2 years, 4 days ago) |
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
Quote:
BlueCoyote said:
Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Bullshit
Everybody knows what he wants to know...
Like chicken who feel themselves so full of knowledge about the outer space.
And if they can't get it, even some just make 'nothing' out of it 
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Mr. Middle
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12639423 - 05/27/10 02:21 PM (2 years, 3 days ago) |
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Words are a shortcut to thinking. "Understand the universe" is meaningless. Recognizing one's identity with it and representing perceptions of it's functions are different stories.
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12654940 - 05/30/10 09:18 AM (2 years, 7 hours ago) |
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I wont discuss about citations here. They are not mine and they stand as they are 
It only says: We in trying to understand the universie are like chicken trying to understand rocket science.
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PantheistSite.com
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12715145 - 06/09/10 12:47 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Thomas Pain sayed "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"
I love this quote because it shows a non nationalistic person who is atheist, whos morals are based on what is good, and not what is in the bible. I try and live my life by this quote.
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HappyTrippin
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Realize that there comes a time in the life of every individual when he or she knows for a fact that it is not possible to continue with his or her existing life as it is. In that moment the individual knows that if peace and happiness is to be found, then a most drastic change is called for. This event is known as the Knock of the Spirit. When it comes, the Spirit of man metaphorically knocks upon the individual's door, and the message given is brief, but overwhelming in its implications: "Follow me now without question, or remain where you are. I offer you freedom, but know that if I leave without you, I will not be returning." Such is the Spirit's message, and the decision of the man or woman to go with the Spirit must be instantaneous if he or she is not to miss this fleeting moment of chance." -Theun Mares, Toltec
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I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love. of truth. of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me. We are one.
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Mr. Middle
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“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
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deCypher
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787901 - 06/22/10 09:48 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I contemplate in my heart the nonfearful divinity of shining darkness.
-Shivatoshini 1.1.14
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  
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circastes
i did it for tha bliss
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787964 - 06/22/10 10:06 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said:
“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
Superb
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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 Freedom
Will swim for food
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787973 - 06/22/10 10:08 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said:
“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
nice quote. Sounds like Kafka knew how to read. I bet I could read the same books he read and hardly be moved
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circastes
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12788155 - 06/22/10 10:46 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I think he described the feeling well. I get it real bad reading Carl Jung. I think the intellectual exhaustion 'upgrades' you.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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