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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28062899 - 11/21/22 08:24 AM (1 year, 2 months ago)

Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
“Often the hardest person to forgive is yourself”


Zen proverb;
"Knowledge is learning something everyday. Wisdom is letting go of something everyday."


Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You?;
"As in Hindu philosophy, the highest state of consciousness in samādhi is called nirvikalpa samādhi, which means, literally, “non-conceptual.” Vikalpa means “a concept.” Nir is a negation. So, the non-conceptual knowledge.

Now, people have greatly misunderstood this. They have imagined that unknowing, the state of the highest contemplation, was the apposition of a blank mind from which you first discarded thought, you went on to discard perception, you went on to discard any kind of sensory content in awareness until you were, so far as anyone could say, aware of nothing. And they supposed that this kind of catatonic state was mystical consciousness. This is often believed in India. If you go to the Vedanta society and ask, “What do you mean by nirvikalpa samādhi?” they will tell you that one in that state has no consciousness whatsoever of the sensory world, that he is completely absorbed—as you sometimes see Hindu holy men sitting in a state where they are blind and deaf to everything going on around them.

The founder of Chinese Zen, known as Huìnéng, described people like that as no better than pieces of rock and lumps of wood. He said it’s a very serious mistake indeed to confuse śūnyatā—the Sanskrit word for the great void which is both the ultimate reality and the consciousness thereof—said it’s a great mistake to confuse it with nothingness. It is rather to be thought of as space, or like space. Because space is not empty, it contains the whole universe. And so in the same way, the state of mind of a person who’s truly enlightened is not empty. It contains everything. But like space, it is not stained by what it contains."


Chogyam Trungpa;
"Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“Sometimes I think you believe in me more than I do,” said the boy
“you’ll catch up,” said the horse"


Alan Watts - Essential Lectures - Program 12: Conversation With Myself;
"You know, wherever human beings have been around and done their thing, you find rectangles. We live in boxes. Our streets—especially across states like Kansas and Nebraska—are laid out in a grid pattern. Why, they even dropped a grid pattern on top of San Francisco—with all those hills, so that cars run away—because it seems that the human being really has a very simple kind of mind, and all this wiggliness is too complicated. I don’t think it really is complicated because, after all, it’s very simple to move—say, to raise something, or to open and close your hand. It’s perfectly easy because we don’t have to think about it. Things become complicated only when we think about them, and that’s because we are trying to translate them into a form of life which is very much simpler and cruder than the forms of life we’re talking about. A triangle is very much simpler and cruder than a mountain, even though you may represent a mountain with a triangle.

Human beings are just as wiggly as nature. And our brains are an incredible mess of wiggles, and that’s the part of ourselves that we understand least of all. I’m afraid the problem is partly due to Mr. Euclid, who invented geometry, because he didn’t really measure the Earth. He measured and gave us ideas about the very simple forms in his own mind. And perhaps we should come to the conclusion that he really had rather a weak intellect. Because sometimes, when I’m in the middle of all of this, I feel as if I were in the middle of an amazing brain. In other words, the brain is a network of interconnected neurons, and each one of those neurons is a fairly simple affair, because it either fires or it doesn’t fire. It gives you the message on or off, or yes or no. But what we call things—the plants, birds, trees—are far more complicated than a neuron, and there are billions of them. And they are all living together in a network. Just as there is an interdependence of flowers and bees: where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees there are no flowers. They’re really one organism. And so, in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else. So it’s interconnected. And so the many, many patterns of interconnections lock it all together into a unity which is, however, much too complicated for us to think about except in very, very simple, crude ways.

But I am part of all this. I am, as it were, one of the cells in this tremendous brain, which I can’t understand, because the part cannot comprehend the whole. And yet, at the same time, I don’t feel—like so many people seem to feel—that I am a foreigner, or a stranger, in this world. Its aesthetic forms somehow appeal to me more than most of the aesthetic forms which men produce. I feel in it as if… in the same way when you see a flower in a field, it’s really the whole field that is flowering because the flower couldn’t exist in that particular place without the special surroundings of the field that it has. You only find flowers in surroundings which will support them. So, in the same way, you only find human beings on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind, with temperature of this kind, supplied by a convenient neighboring star. And so, just as the flower is a flowering of the field, I feel myself as a person-ing, a man-ing, a peopleing of the whole universe. In other words, I seem, like everything else, to be a centre—a sort of vortex—at which the whole energy of the universe realizes itself; comes alive. A sort of aperture through which the whole universe is conscious of itself. In other words, I go with it, as a centre to a circumference.

You know, the astrologers—in theory, at least—may not have been so far wrong when, in trying to draw a picture of a human mind or soul, they drew a very crude map of the whole universe centred on the time and place of the birth of that particular person. It’s not a bad idea, but I don’t think the astrologers know how to read their maps, because the maps are too crude. But the essential point is, obviously, that each one of us—not only human beings, but every leaf, every weed—exists in the way it does only because everything else around it does. In other words, there’s a relationship between the centre and the circumference which is rather like the relationship between the poles of a magnet. Without the centre, no circumference; without the circumference, no centre. And although we say of poles that they are the poles apart—that is to say, extremely different—there’s something between them. Just as the north and south poles of a magnet are united by the magnet, so the individual and the universe are inseparable. But the curious thing is that while that’s rather easy to see in theory, very few people are aware of it—in an important, strong way, like one is aware of blue in blue sky or of the heat in fire. It’s more of an idea than it is of a realization. And so, it strikes me more and more that our failure to feel at home in this astonishing brain in which we live is the result of a basic, initial mistake in our thinking about the world and is, in turn, the cause of what is beginning to look like the failure of our technology; of the fact that everything we are doing to try to improve the world was a success in the short run, made amazing initial improvements, but in the long run we seem to be destroying the planet by our very efforts to control it and to improve it. And it strikes me that that is because we are really too simpleminded to understand what we are doing when we interfere with the natural world strongly and on a vast scale. We don’t really interfere with it because that would suggest that we are something different from it; something outside. But I think what we are doing is: we are understanding it in terms of languages, numbers, in terms of a logic which is too simple for the job; too crude for the job.

To begin with, we understand everything in terms of words or numbers, and they’re stretched out in rows and lines. And our eyes have to scan those lines in order to understand them. But when I scan this view I don’t do it line by line by line, I see the whole thing at once. I take it in with, as it were, a wide angle lens. But when I try to understand the world through literature and through mathematics, I have to scan lines. You know, that’s why it takes us so long to get educated in school: because our eyes have to scan and organize miles and miles of print, and that takes us twenty years or more to get through it. But life happens—changes go on too rapidly for that. Because, you see, in the world everything is happening altogether, everywhere at once. And meanwhile, we—with our myopic little minds—are working it out step by step. Of course, we are greatly assisted by the rapidity of the computer. But even so, the computer is still looking at things in rows as the magnetic tape goes through and is scanned by the computer. It’s still all going along in a single track. And I suppose, then, there are difficulties that we have lamentably one-track minds in an infinitely many-tracked universe. And we may have to come to the alarming conclusion that the universe is smarter than we are."

Longchenpa;
"The actual essence, pristine gnosis,
cannot be improved upon, so virtue is profitless,
and it cannot be impaired, so vice is harmless;
absent of karma there is no ripening of pleasure or pain
absent of judgement, no preference for samsara or nirvana"


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“What do you think success is?” asked the boy
“To love,” said the mole"


Alan Watts - Q and A With God;
"God:
And everybody who tries to know it—and that’s the whole endeavour of… you see, trying to be God… you don’t need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don’t know you are, and therefore you try to know and dominate the future. And you believe prophets, and things like that. Well, prophecy is simply contaminating the future with the past; projecting what we know upon the unknown. And that’s why, really, things like astrology—although interesting—are rather ridiculous. Because if you know the future, there’s no surprise for you. A completely known future is past; you’ve had it!

Audience:
Quick question.

God:
Yes?

Audience:
Where the future and the past come together, it seems to be there isn’t anything there. There is no now, really. It may seem very philosophical, but it seems like we don’t exist—you know, how could we exist if there’s no now to exist in? The past and the future come right together. Where is that place in between? How long is it?

God:
Ha-ha! There are two answers to that question. This is a real fun question; I love it. The question is about now. He’s saying: really, there is no now. The future and the past come together, and the future turns into the past. They go BLWP, and it’s gone, like that. So, you know, in no time at all, the future has become past. And so we get this frantic feeling: where did you go?

Well, let’s take the small view, first of all. The now is infinitely short, and yet it’s the only thing that is. In that case, this whole world is an illusion. It doesn’t really exist. So when the king—the emperor Akbar—once was feeling a little sorry for himself and asked his jeweler, he said, “Make me a ring that will restrain me in prosperity and support me in adversity.” And so the jeweler made him a ring, and gave it to the emperor, and he saw written on it: “It Will Pass.”

Now, the other side of the matter is this: that this short now is an illusion of the clock. We make our second-marks on clocks as thin as is consistent with visibility. And therefore, we always think of the present as crossing the hairline. TICK. That’s too long, see? How short can you get? FWWWP, you see? But really, the present isn’t like that at all! Everything’d go BWWWP, got it. There is nowhere else but now! Everything that happens is happening now. Well, it’s like your field of vision. Your field of vision isn’t just a point of light, your field of vision is an oval. And it isn’t fuzzy at the edges, it just ceases to be at the edges. But there’s plenty of room in it to see something move across. So, in your field of time—your now—there is enough now to include a phrase of music. If there weren’t, you wouldn’t be able to make out melodies because there’d just be instantaneous notes with no connection between them. You would never hear intervals. So, now is a big, slobby thing. But it comes out of nothing."


Swami Vivekananda;
“The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul. That is the one universal religion.”


Thich Nhat Hanh;
"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28062903 - 11/21/22 08:25 AM (1 year, 2 months ago)

Colossians 1:15-17
"He who is the image of The Unseen God and is The Firstborn of all creation. By him was everything created which is in Heaven and in The Earth: everything that is seen and everything that is unseen, whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Rulers; everything has been created by his hand and in him. And he is The One who is before all, and all things exist by him."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“What do you think is the biggest waste of time?”
“Comparing yourself to others,” said the mole."


Alan Watts - Q and A With God;
"Audience:
According to the Sufi doctrine, if you reach the third level you’re supposed to have the choice. You don’t have to be reincarnated. Do you feel that? Is that [???]?

God:
All wise action is never the result of choice.

Audience:
Say again

God:
Wise action is never the result of choice.

Audience:
Because it implies logic?

God:
Huh?

Audience:
Does choice imply logic?

God:
Choice implies ignorance, indecision. When you know what to do, you don’t choose—you do it.

Audience:
What question could we ask you about love?

God:
What question could you ask about love? What is love? Love is not a what. Love is the energy of the world, and nobody can say what that is. If anybody were to say what God is or what the energy of the world is, he would be talking nonsense. Now, there are times when it is important to talk nonsense because we can discover the energy of the universe through nonsense. When you, say, you take a sound that really doesn’t mean anything much, like Aaaauuuuummmmm, that’s the energy of the universe going. Dig it! See? As you listen to sound. That’s why music is a marvelous support for meditation. Digging sound. Listening, just listening, to that hum. There goes the energy of the universe, see? What is it? Aauuuuummmmm, that’s what it is. Auuummmmmmm, see?

Yeah?

Audience:
Would you say that we meditate for the sake of the meditation?

God:
Yes.

Audience:
In other words, not if I meditate at some future date, something may or may not happen?

God:
Yeah, that’s right. Then, if you do that, it isn’t meditation.

Audience:
Right.

God:
Meditation is centered in the here and now. Done for some other reason, it isn’t meditation. It stops dead right there.

Audience:
God, what is satori?

God:
What is satori? Satori is any kind of “A-ha!” “Eureka!” phenomenon, only specifically applied to discovering who and what you are.

Audience:
It’s the clear light.

God:
The clear light is that. You say, “I saw the light!” It doesn’t necessarily mean that there was the physical hallucination of a flash. It may mean suddenly everything becomes transparent. That may be a way of feeling it. It’s just that the problem vanishes and you stop asking the question.

Audience:
Would you risk being God outside of this human situation?

God:
I, uhm… what do you mean, risk it? The thing or the problem—there’s no risk being God, the risk is being human!"


Shams Tabrizi;
"The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don't forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“What is the bravest thing you’ve ever said?” asked the boy.
“Help,” said the horse."


Alan Watts - The Tao of Philosophy - Program 8: Limits of Language;
"Here we are all presumably assembled in a cultural milieu, spiritual milieu, psychotherapeutic milieu, where we are supposed to get better. And I tell you there’s nothing you can do about it. “Well, give us our money back. [We’ll] go to somebody else who’ll be more encouraging.”

But! But… what does it mean, that you can’t do anything about it? It’s singing loud in fear. The reason you can’t do anything about it is that you don’t exist. That is, as an ego, as a soul, as separate will—it just isn’t there! Well, when you understand that, you’re liberated. They say, in Zen,

You cannot take hold of it, nor can you get rid of it.
In not being able to get it, you get it.
When you are silent, it speaks.
When you speak, it is silent.

Now, don’t misunderstand me. This is not any kind of fatalism when I say “you”—as you conceive yourself to be, that is your ego, your image of yourself—isn’t there! That it doesn’t exist. It’s an abstraction. It’s like ‘three.’ Did you ever see three? Plain, ordinary three? No, nobody ever saw it. It’s a concept, it’s a vikalpa. So, in the same way, is one’s self. There is the happening, the suchness—yes, sure, you bet—but it’s not pushing you around, because there’s no you to be pushed around. In other words, there’s no billiard ball on the end of the cue. There’s the cue, you know? Like this. It goes this way and goes that way. You know, they call a Buddha a Tathāgata: ‘one who comes or goes thus.’ This way and that way, see? He went that-a-way! So this illusion of the persecuted ego who is pushed around by fate—it has altogether disappeared. And so in, likewise, the illusion of the ego who pushes fate around has also disappeared. There’s a happening.

So—in this, do you see what has happened? By dying to yourself, by having become completely incompetent and found that you don’t exist, you’re reborn. You become everything. In the words of Sir Edwin Arnold, “Foregoing self, the universe grows I.”"


John Lennon;
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“Is your glass half empty or half full?” asked the mole.
“I think I’m grateful to have a glass,” said the boy"


Alan Watts - Intellectual Yoga;
"And all these great mystical statements mean nothing whatsoever. They’re ultimate statements. Just as, you know, the trees and the clouds and the mountains and the stars have no meaning because they’re not words. Words have meaning because they’re symbols, because they point to something other than themselves. But the stars, like music—only bad music has any meaning—classical music never has a meaning, and to understand it you must simply listen to it and observe its beautiful patterns, go into its complexity.

So when your mind—that is to say, your verbal systems—get to the end of their tether—that is to say, when they arrive at the meaningless statement—here is the critical point. And the method of dhyāna yoga is to exercise one’s intellect to its limits so that you get to the point where you have no further questions to ask. You can do this in philosophy study if you’ve got the right kind of teacher who shows you that all philosophical opinions whatsoever are false—or at least, if not false, extremely partial. And so you feel a kind of intellectual vertigo, which is called in a Zen Buddhist poem:

Above not a tile to cover the head,
Below not an inch of ground to stand on.

Well, where are you then? Of course, you’re where you always were. You’ve discovered you’re it, and that’s very uncomfortable because you can’t grab it. See, here I’ve discovered whatever it is that I am—and that’s not something inside my head, it is just as much out there as it is in here—but whatever it is, I cannot get hold of it. Well, that gives you the heebie-jeebies. You get butterflies in the stomach, anxiety, traumas, and all kinds of things. But this was all explained by Shankara, the great Hindu commentator on the Upanishads, the great master of the non-dualistic doctrine of the universe, when he said, “That which knows, which is in all beings the knower, is never an object of its own knowledge.”"


Carl Sagan;
"Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."


Zen master Suzuki;
“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people. There is only enlightened activity.”


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28062908 - 11/21/22 08:26 AM (1 year, 2 months ago)

Lakota medicine and holy man Black Elk;
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers. And when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Great Spirit and that this Center is really everywhere. It is within each of us."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
“I wonder if there is a school of unlearning”


Alan Watts - The Veil of Thoughts;
"So then, what we are looking at, then, is a state of consciousness which is like that—which is one with the whole thing going on. And this is saying the same thing as Krishnamurti says when he tries to explain that there really is no feeler separate from our feelings and no thinker separate from our thoughts. There is simply a process going on. And so, in the same way, Huìnéng—the Sixth Patriarch—prefers not to use the image of the mirror for the mind, but he prefers the image of space. That’s why, when his rival for the patriarchy made up the poem which explained that “the mind is a mirror and we must wipe it to keep off the dust,” Huìnéng countered this by saying “there isn’t any mirror, and so whereon can the dust fall?” See? So this is saying that you will never, never be able to discover a thinker other than thoughts, a feeler other than feelings, a sensor other than sensations."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“When have you been at your strongest?” asked the boy.
“When I have dared to show my weakness.”"


Adyashanti;
"Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control."


Alan Watts - Not What Should Be, But What Is;
"It should be obvious that the human being “goeswith” the rest of the universe, even though we say in popular speech, “I came into this world.” Now, it is not true that you came into this world, you came out of it in the same way as a flower comes out of a plant or fruit comes out of a tree. And as an apple tree apples, the solar system in which we live—and therefore the galaxy in which we live, and therefore the system of galaxies in which we live—that system peoples. And therefore, people are an expression of its energy and of its nature. If people are intelligent (and I suppose we have to grant that “if”), then the energy which people express must also be intelligent. Because one does not gather figs from thistles and grapes from thorns. But it does not occur, you see, to the ordinary civilized person to regard himself or herself as an expression of the whole universe. It should be obvious that we cannot exist except in an environment of earth, air, water, and solar temperature; that all these things “gowith” us and are as important to us (albeit outside our skins) as our internal organs—heart, stomach, brain, and so forth."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“What’s your best discovery?” asked the mole.
“That I’m enough as I am,” said the boy."


Alan Watts;
"Gurdjieff used to set his students the exercise he called; 'self-remembering'. That is constantly, all day long, be completely aware of what you're doing, have your mind always on the immediate moment. Oh and it's though, though, though, though to do that. You get distracted, 'till one fine day you realize to your astonishment, there is no way at all of having your mind anywhere else but in the present moment. Because even when you think about the past or the future, you're doing it now, aren't you? And that results in a very curious transformation of consciousness. You feel that you, that the present moment, is flowing along and carrying you with it. All the time. Just like the flow of of the Tao. The flow of the Tao is as what we would call the flow of the present."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“Do you have any other advice?” asked the boy
“Don’t measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated,” said the horse"


Mooji;
"Sometimes, Grace throws you and your ‘world’ into the washing machine, full spin, so that the fearful and controlling tendency is compelled to offer itself to the Totality—to the will and dance of the Cosmos."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28062913 - 11/21/22 08:28 AM (1 year, 2 months ago)

Dogen;
"Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly."


John Lennon;
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."


Song of Solomon 5:2;
"I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
“Imagine how we would be if we were less afraid.”


Alan Watts;
So underneath the whole philosophy of China, there lies this recognition, that the opposites go together, or as Lao Tzu puts it:

'When all the world understands beauty to be beautiful, there is already ugliness. When all the world understands goodness to be good, there is already evil. For to be, and not to be arise mutually. Neither one is before the, or after the other. They come into being together.'"


Albert Einstein;
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”


The Gospel of Thomas - 113;
"(1) His disciples said to him: "The kingdom, on what day will it come?"

(2) "It will not come by watching (and waiting for) it.

(3) They will not say: 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!'

(4) Rather, the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.""


Dogen;
"Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things."


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
"“Sometimes I worry you’ll all realise I’m ordinary,” said the boy.
“love doesn’t need you to be extraordinary.” said the mole."


Alan Watts;
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”


Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse;
“Sometimes all you hear about is the hate, but there is more love in this world than you could possibly imagine.”


Erich Fromm - The Art of Being;
"I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me."


Shunryu Suzuki;
"Don't move.
Just die over and over.
Don't anticipate.

Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move."


Alan Watts;
"When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication."


Albert Einstein;
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."


Kabir;
"Music without words means leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source.
And the source of all is sound."


Chogyal Namkhai Norbu;
"When the Buddhagupta perfectly understood the meaning of the primordial state and expressed his realization thus:

I am Buddhagupta.
From the beginning, one’s own mind is total bliss:
Hidden from those who do not know it, it is the great secret!
Understanding the state of enlightenment beyond effort is the best meditation;
Enlightenment transcends meditating and not meditating!"


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    #28069662 - 11/26/22 01:22 AM (1 year, 2 months ago)

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche


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    #28097079 - 12/14/22 10:10 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." Alan Watts


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    #28098421 - 12/15/22 08:56 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)



"You should understand that no thing ever falls short of its own
completeness. Wherever it stands, it never fails to cover the ground."


- Zen Master Dogen (13th Century)


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    #28100716 - 12/16/22 03:54 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Deuteronomy 33:27;
"The eternal God is your refuge and dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms"


Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - Program 3: The Web Of Life (Part 1);
"Take it politically, for example: let’s take the situation of Russia versus the United States. Explicitly, in public, this has to be a big fight. These two ways of life, these two ideologies, are opposed. They say, “Brrrrrraaaagh,” you know? But behind the scenes it’s all been carefully worked out. You bet it has. That this opposition has to happen because our economy depends on it, and their economy depends on it, and everybody knows this who’s got a little smart. But there are a lot of people who get taken in by the propaganda, and they should be taken in, because that makes the thing work. It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 3;
"You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue, or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for him: in the heart of a true lover."


Paramhansa Yogananda - Samadhi;
"Vanished the veils of light and shade,
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,
Gone the dim sensory mirage.
Love, hate, health, disease, life, death,
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.
Waves of laughter, scyllas of sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,
Melting in the vast sea of bliss.
The storm of maya stilled
By magic wand of intuition deep.
The universe, forgotten dream, subconsciously lurks,
Ready to invade my newly wakened memory divine.
I live without the cosmic shadow,
But it is not, bereft of me;
As the sea exists without the waves,
But they breathe not without the sea.
Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya,sleep;
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere.
Planets, stars, stardust, earth,
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,
Creation’s molding furnace,
Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods,
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,
Each particle of universal dust,
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,
I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being!
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation,
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace!
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!
Not a mental chloroform
Or unconscious state without wilful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond the limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in me.
The sparrow, each grain of sand, fall not without my sight.
All space like an iceberg floats within my mental sea.
Colossal Container, I, of all things made.
By deeper, longer, thirsty, guru-given meditation
Comes this celestial samadhi.
Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid!
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
Aum blows upon the vapors, opening wondrously their veils,
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,
Till, at last sound of the cosmic drum,
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays
Of all-pervading bliss.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Ocean of mind, I drink all Creation’s waves.
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.
Myself, in everything, enters the Great Myself.
Gone forever, fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory.
Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high above.
Eternity and I, one united ray.
A tiny bubble of laughter, I
Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself."


Jiddu Krishnamurti - As One Is: To Free the Mind from All Conditioning;
“When the mind is free from all conditioning, then you will find that there comes the creativity of reality, of God, or what you will, and it is only such a mind, a mind which is constantly experiencing this creativity, that can bring about a different outlook, different values, a different world.”


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 19;
"Fret not where the road will take you. Instead, concentrate on the first step. That is the hardest part, and that is what you are responsible for. Once you take that step, let everything do what it naturally does, and the rest will follow. Don’t go with the flow. Be the flow."


Tokusan;
"However deep your knowledge of the scriptures,
It is no more than a strand of hair in the vastness of space;
However important appears your worldly experience,
It is but a drop of water in a deep ravine."


Osho;
"Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself."


Laozi;
"Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are."


Hakuin (1685-1768);
"All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
It is like water and ice:
Apart from water, no ice,
Outside living beings, no Buddhas."


Krishna Das - Chants of a Lifetime - The Gates of Sweet Nectar;
"Calling out to hungry hearts
Everywhere through endless time
You who wander, you who thirst
I offer you this Bodhi mind
Calling all you hungry spirits
Everywhere through endless time
Calling out to hungry hearts
All the lost and left behind
Gather round and share this meal
Your joy and your sorrow
I make it mine."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 12;
"There are more fake gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe. Don’t confuse power-driven, self-centered people with true mentors. A genuine spiritual master will not direct your attention to himself or herself. He will not expect absolute obedience or utter admiration from you, but instead will help you to appreciate and admire your inner self. True mentors are as transparent as glass. They let the light of God pass through them."


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    #28100717 - 12/16/22 03:55 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Palms 90:2;
"Before the mountains would have been brought forth, or ever you would have brought forth the world, or the world had ever been acquired, from eternity unto eternity you are God."


Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - Program 7: The World As Just So (Part 1);
"But a person who thinks that, in order to be awakened, you have to be heartless—to have no emotions, no feelings, that you couldn’t possibly lose your temper, or get angry, or feel annoyed, or depressed—those people haven’t got the right idea at all. “If that’s your ideal,” said Enō, “you might just as well be a block of wood or a piece of stone.” What he wanted you to understand is that your real mind—while all those emotions are going on—is imperturbable. Just like when you move your hand through the sky you don’t leave a track. The birds don’t stain the blue when they pass by. And when the water reflects the image of the geese, the reflection doesn’t stick there.

So, to be pure-minded, in the Zen way—or clear-minded is a better way of translating it—is not to have no thoughts; it’s not a question of not thinking about dirty things. One great master of the Tang dynasty, when asked, “What is Buddha?” believe it or not, answered, “A dried turd.”"


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 4;
"Intellect and Love are made of different materials. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but Love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advice, ‘Beware too much ecstasy,’ whereas Love says, ‘Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!’ Intelligence does not easily break down, whereas Love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden among ruins. A broken heart hides treasures."


Chandogya Upanisad 3.13.7;
"Now, far above here the light that shines from heaven on the backs of everything, on the backs of all things, in the very highest of the high worlds—it is clearly this very same light here within a man."


Jiddu Krishnamurti - As One Is: To Free the Mind from All Conditioning;
"To stand alone is to be uncorrupted, innocent, free of all tradition, of dogma, of opinion, of what another says, and so on. Such a mind does not seek because there is nothing to seek; being free, such a mind is completely still without a want, without movement. But this state is not to be achieved; it isn’t a thing that you buy through discipline; it doesn’t come into being by giving up sex, or practicing a certain yoga. It comes into being only when there is understanding of the ways of the self, the ‘me’, which shows itself through the conscious mind in everyday activity, and also in the unconscious. What matters is to understand for oneself, not through the direction of others, the total content of consciousness, which is conditioned, which is the result of society, of religion, of various impacts, impressions, memories--to understand all that conditioning and be free of it. But there is no “how” to be free. If you ask how to be free, you are not listening."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 20;
"We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same, He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is an amount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme."


The Upanishads;
"Even as fire finds peace in its resting place without fuel, when thoughts become silent, the soul finds peace in its own source. When the mind is silent, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind."


Atisha;
"The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances."


Siddhar Thirumoolar;
"God is One Formless Being

They think not of Being One,
They think not of the Jiva,
They think not of Karmas two (Good and Bad),
They think not of Mayas two (Pure and Impure);
The One Being within
Stands as Sentience and fosters;
Formless is He,
He supports all."


Laozi;
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."


Niek Stolk - Meeting;
"Meeting
Is more than encountering someone or being with each other.

You don't meet that many people.
Meeting has something of amazement and recognition.
The other is an answer to the question of something in you.
A real encounter moves you.

It demands openness from you.
Not that you have to tell everything to the other,
but that the other person may say or ask you anything.

To meet is to let the other into the house of yourself
at the risk of being discovered
that not everything is real in your house,
that sometimes you pretend to be different,
that you are vulnerable and sometimes just copy others.

To meet someone is to let someone into
the inner circle of your life.
He will ask about your experiences,
habits, feelings and views.

Only when you let the other come in so deeply
can you talk of a meeting

A real meeting leaves traces."


Allama Iqbal (Urdu poet);
"Knowledge said to me, Love is madness;
Love said to me, Knowledge is a calculation
O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm!
Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 14;
"God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexorably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art, both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is the fine art of skilled penmanship, where every single dot is equally essential for the entire picture."


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    #28100720 - 12/16/22 03:57 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Revelation 21:3;
"Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God"


Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - Program 7: The World As Just So (Part 1);
So Zen is Mahāyāna—Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism—translated into Chinese, and therefore deeply influenced by Taoism and Confucianism. Zen monks brought Confucian ideas to Japan. And the origins of Zen lie actually around the year 414 A.D., at which time a great Hindu scholar by the name of Kumārajīva was translating—with a group of assistants—the Buddha sūtras into Chinese. One of his students taught that all beings whatsoever have the capacity to become Buddha, to become enlightened—even rocks and stones—and that even heretics and evil-doers have the Buddha-nature, or Buddha potentiality, in them. And everybody said he was a dreadful heretic. But then a text called the Nirvāṇa Sūtra came from India, which said precisely that. So everybody had to admit that this man was right. He also began to teach that awakening must be instantaneous; it's a kind of all-or-nothing state. I don't mean that there aren't degrees of its intensity—but once you see the pinciple, you see the whole thing. As they say: when the bottom falls out of the bucket, all the water goes together."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 5;
"Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of Love, language, as we know, it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence."


Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 9 - The Secret Of Life - 9.4-8;
"I permeate all the universe
in my unmanifest form.
All beings exist within me,
yet I am so inconceivably

vast, so beyond existence,
that though they are brought forth
and sustained by my limitless power,
I am not confined within them.

Just as the all-moving wind,
wherever it goes, always
remains in the vastness of space,
all beings remain within me.

They are gathered back into my womb
at the end of the cosmic cycle—
a hundred fifty thousand
billion of your earthly years—

and as a new cycle begins
I send them forth once again,
pouring from my abundance
the myriad forms of life."


Jiddu Krishnamurti - This Light in Oneself: True Meditation;
"A new consciousness and a totally new morality are necessary to bring about a radical change in the present culture and social structure. This is obvious, yet the Left and the Right and the revolutionary seem to disregard it. Any dogma, any formula, any ideology is part of the old consciousness; they are the fabrications of thought whose activity is fragmentation--the Left, the Right, the center. This activity will inevitably lead to bloodshed of the Right or of the Left or to totalitarianism. This is what is going on around us. One sees the necessity of social, economic, and moral change but the response is from the old consciousness, thought being the principal actor. The mess, the confusion, and the misery that human beings have got into are within the area of the old consciousness, and without changing that profoundly, every human activity--political, economic or religious--will only bring us to the destruction of each other and of the earth. This is so obvious to the sane."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 23;
"The human being has a unique place among God’s creation. “I breathed into him of My Spirit,” God says. Each one of us without exception is designed to be God’s delegate on earth. Ask yourself, just how often do you behave like a delegate, if you ever do so? Remember, it falls upon each of us to discover the divine spirit inside and live by it."


Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi Saint);
"When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart."


Kabir;
"Having crossed the river,
where will you go, O friend ?

There's no road to tread,
No traveler ahead,
Neither a beginning, nor an end.

There's no water, no boat, no boatman, no cord;
No earth is there, no sky, no time, no bank, no food.

You have forgotten the Self within,
Your search in the void will be in vain;
In a moment the life will end
And in this body you won't remain.

Be ever conscious of this, O friend,
You've to immerse within your Self;

Kabir says, salvation you won't then need,
For what you are, you would be indeed."


Bodhidharma;
"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.... The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 35;
"In this World, it is not similarities or regularities that take us a step forward, but blunt opposites. And all the opposites in the universe are present within each and every one of us. Therefore the believer needs to meet the unbeliever residing within. And the nonbeliever should get to know the silent faithful in him. Until the day one reaches the stage of Insane-I Kamil, the perfect human being, faith is a gradual process and one that necessitates its seeming opposite: disbelief."


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - 'I am That' p.239;
"It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it."


Charles Kingsley - The Invitation. 1857.;
"Do the work that's nearest,
Though it's dull at whiles,
Helping, when you meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles;
See in every hedgerow
Marks of angels' feet,
Epics in each pebble
Underneath our feet."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 17;
"The whole universe is contained within a single human being you. Everything that you see around, including the things that you might not be fond of and even the people you despise or abhor, is present within you in varying degrees. Therefore, do not look for Sheitan outside yourself either. The devil is not an extraordinary force that attacks from without. It is an ordinary voice within if you set to know yourself fully, facing with honesty and hardness."


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    #28104543 - 12/19/22 08:25 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

With malice toward none, with charity for all . . .

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    #28109108 - 12/22/22 06:49 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

"He who lives within man and he who lives within the Sun are one and the same." - Taittiriya Upanishad


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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    #28109378 - 12/22/22 11:28 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Quote:

spinvis said:
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 9 - The Secret Of Life - 9.4-8;
"I permeate all the universe
in my unmanifest form.
All beings exist within me,
yet I am so inconceivably

vast, so beyond existence,
that though they are brought forth
and sustained by my limitless power,
I am not confined within them.

Just as the all-moving wind,
wherever it goes, always
remains in the vastness of space,
all beings remain within me.

They are gathered back into my womb
at the end of the cosmic cycle—
a hundred fifty thousand
billion of your earthly years—

and as a new cycle begins
I send them forth once again,
pouring from my abundance
the myriad forms of life."




https://www.deviantart.com/jojoesart/art/The-Circle-of-Life-329975650


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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    #28109384 - 12/22/22 11:41 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Quote:

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Tokusan;
"However deep your knowledge of the scriptures,
It is no more than a strand of hair in the vastness of space;
However important appears your worldly experience,
It is but a drop of water in a deep ravine."




"Upon The Sand" taken from "The Wanderer" by Kahlil Gibran:

Said one man to another, "At the high tide of the sea, long ago, I wrote a line upon the sand with the tip of my staff; and people still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase it."
And the other man said, "I too wrote a line upon the sand; but it was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away. But tell me: what did you write?"
And the first man answered, "I wrote this: 'I am he who is.' But what did you write?"
And the other man said, "This I wrote: 'I am but a drop in this great ocean.' "

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean." - Isaac Newton



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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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    #28115320 - 12/28/22 04:19 PM (1 year, 30 days ago)

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The Song of Mahamudra
by Tilopa

    Mahamudra is beyond all words and symbols,
    But for you, Naropa, earnest and loyal, must this be said.

    The Void needs no reliance; Mahamudra rests on naught.

    Without making an effort, but remaining natural,
    One can break the yoke thus gaining liberation.

    If one looks for naught when staring into space;
    If with the mind one then observes the mind;
    One destroys distinctions and reaches Buddhahood.

    The clouds that wander through the sky have no roots, no home,
    Nor do the distinctive thoughts floating through the mind.
    Once the Self-mind is seen, Discrimination stops.

    In space, shapes and colors form
    But neither by black nor white is space tinged.
    From the Self-mind all things emerge;
    The Mind by virtues and by vices is not stained.

    The darkness of ages cannot shroud the glowing sun;
    The long eons of Samsara ne'er can hide the Mind's brilliant light.

    Though words are spoken to explain the Void, the Void as such can never be
    expressed. Though we say "the Mind is a bright light," it is beyond all words and
    symbols. Although the Mind is void in essence, all things it embraces and contains.

    Do naught with the body but relax;
    Shut firm the mouth and silent remain;
    Empty your mind and think of naught.
    Like a hollow bamboo rest at ease your body.
    Giving not nor taking, put your mind at rest.
    Mahamudra is like a mind that clings to naught.
    Thus practicing, in time you will reach Buddhahood.

    The practice of Mantra and Perfections, instructions in the Sutras and
    Precepts, and teaching from the Schools and Scriptures will not bring
    realization of the Innate Truth.
    For if the mind when filled with some desire should seek a goal,
    it only hides the Light.

    One who keeps the Tantric Precepts yet discriminates, betrays the vows of
    Awakening,

    Cease all activity; abandon all desire; let thoughts rise and fall as they
    will like the ocean waves.
    One who never harms the Non-abiding nor the Principles of non-distinction,
    upholds the Tantric Precepts.

    He who abandons craving and clings not to this or that,
    Perceives the real meaning given in the Scriptures.

    In Mahamudra all one's sins are burned; in Mahamudra one is released from
    the prison of this world. This is the Dharma's supreme torch. Those who
    disbelieve it are fools who ever wallow in misery and sorrow.

    To strive for liberation one should rely on a Guru. When your mind receives
    the Guru's blessing emancipation is at hand.
    Alas, all things in this world are meaningless; they are but sorrow's seeds.
    Small teachings lead to acts. One should only follow teachings that are great.

    To transcend duality is the Kingly View; to conquer distractions is the
    Royal Practice; the Path of No-practice is the Way of the Buddhas. 0ne who
    treads that Path reaches Buddhahood.

    Transient is this world; like phantoms and dreams,
    Substance it has none. Grasp not the world nor your kin;
    Cut the strings of lust and hatred; meditate in woods and mountains.
    If without effort you remain loosely in the "natural state," soon Mahamudra
    you will win and attain the Non-attainment.

    Cut the root of the tree and the leaves will wither;
    cut the root of your mind and Samsara falls.

    The light of any lamp dispels in a moment the darkness of long eons;
    The strong light of the mind in but a flash will burn the veil of ignorance.

    Whoever clings to mind sees not the truth of what's beyond the mind.
    Whoever strives to practice Dharma finds not the truth of Beyond-practice.
    One should cut cleanly through the root of the mind and stare naked.
    One should thus break away from all distinctions and remain at ease.

    One should not give and take but remain natural, for Mahamudra is beyond all
    acceptance and rejection.
    Since the consciousness is not born, no one can obstruct it or soil it;
    Staying in the "Unborn" realm all appearances will dissolve into the
    ultimate Dharma.
    All self-will and pride will vanish into naught.
    The supreme Understanding transcends all this and that.
    The supreme Action embraces great resourcefulness without attachment.
    The supreme Accomplishment is to realize immanence without hope.

    At first a yogi feels his mind is tumbling like a waterfall;
    In mid-course, like the Ganges, it flows on slow and gentle;
    In the end, it is a great vast ocean,
    Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one.




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    #28131905 - 01/09/23 09:07 AM (1 year, 18 days ago)

Psalm 128:1;
"Blessed is everyone who is in awe of LORD JEHOVAH and walks in his steps!"


Ibn 'Arabi;
"Receptive, my heart became, to every form
A meadow for gazelles, and a cloister for the monks
A house for the idols, and the pilgrim’s Ka’aba
The tablets of the Torah, pages of the Qur’an
My religion is love’s own and wheresoever turn
Her caravan, that love is my religion and my faith
We have an example in Bishr, lover of Hind and her sister,
And Qays and Layla, and Mayya and Ghaylan"


Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - Program 10: The World As Self (Part 2);
"There is a famous Zen story told of a monk who was sitting in meditation, and the master came along and said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I’m meditating to become a Buddha.” Whereupon the master picked up a brick that was lying nearby and started polishing it, rubbing it. And the monk said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I am rubbing this brick to make it a mirror.” He said, “By no amount of rubbing could you ever make a brick into a mirror.” The master replied, “By no amount of zazen could you become a Buddha.” Zazen means sitting meditation. They react very badly to this story in modern-day Japan."


Zhuangzi - Basic Writings;
"Cook Ding was cutting up an ox for Lord Wenhui. As every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee — zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along with a zing, and all was in perfect rhythm, as though he were performing the dance of the Mulberry Grove or keeping time to the Jingshou music.

“Ah, this is marvelous!” said Lord Wenhui. “Imagine skill reaching such heights!”

Cook Ding laid down his knife and replied, “What I care about is the Way, which goes beyond skill. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years I no longer saw the whole ox. And now — now I go at it by spirit and don’t look with my eyes. Perception and understanding have come to a stop and spirit moves where it wants. I go along with the natural makeup, strike in the big hollows, guide the knife through the big openings, and following things as they are. So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon, much less a main joint.

“A good cook changes his knife once a year — because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month — because he hacks. I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there’s plenty of room — more than enough for the blade to play about it. That’s why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone.

“However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I’m doing, work very slowly, and move the knife with the greatest subtlety, until — flop! the whole thing comes apart like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground. I stand there holding the knife and look all around me, completely satisfied and reluctant to move on, and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.”

“Excellent!” said Lord Wenhui. “I have heard the words of Cook Ding and learned how to care for life!”"


Muso Soseki - Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea and Japan;
"Green mountains
have turned yellow
so many times

The troubles and worries
of the world of things
no longer bother me

One grain of dust in the eye
will render the Three Worlds
too small to see

When the mind is still
the floor where I sit
is endless space"


Eihei Dogen - Death Poem;
"Four and fifty years
I’ve hung the sky with stars.
Now I leap through-
What shattering!"


Li Bai - Crossing the Yellow River - Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain;
"The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."


Dongshan Liangjie;
"Do not seek from another,
Or you will be estranged from self.
I now go on alone,
Finding I meet It everywhere.
It now is me,
I now am not It.
One should understand in this way
To merge with suchness as is."


Gautama Buddha;
"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."


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    #28131909 - 01/09/23 09:09 AM (1 year, 18 days ago)

Matthew 5:3-12;
"“Blessed [spiritually prosperous, happy, to be admired] are the poor in spirit [those devoid of spiritual arrogance, those who regard themselves as insignificant], for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever].

“Blessed [forgiven, refreshed by God’s grace] are those who mourn [over their sins and repent], for they will be comforted [when the burden of sin is lifted].

“Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect] are the gentle [the kind-hearted, the sweet-spirited, the self-controlled], for they will inherit the earth.

“Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [those who actively seek right standing with God], for they will be [completely] satisfied.

“Blessed [content, sheltered by God’s promises] are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

“Blessed [anticipating God’s presence, spiritually mature] are the pure in heart [those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character], for they will see God.

“Blessed [spiritually calm with life-joy in God’s favor] are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they will [express His character and] be called the sons of God.

“Blessed [comforted by inner peace and God’s love] are those who are persecuted for [c]doing that which is morally right, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever].

“Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me. Be glad and exceedingly joyful, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."


Hakuin Ekaku - Song of Zazen;
"All beings by nature are Buddha,
as ice by nature is water;
apart from water there is no ice,
apart from beings no Buddha.

How sad that people ignore the near
and search for truth afar,
like someone in the midst of water
crying out in thirst,
like a child of a wealthy home
wandering among the poor.

Lost on dark paths of ignorance
we wander through the six worlds,
from dark path to dark path we wander,
when shall we be freed from birth and death?

For this the zazen of the Mahayana
deserves the highest praise:
offerings, precepts, paramitas,
Nembutsu, atonement, practice—
the many other virtues—
all rise within zazen.

Those who try zazen even once
wipe away immeasurable crimes—
where are all the dark paths then?
The Pure Land itself is near.

Those who hear this truth even once
and listen with a grateful heart,
treasuring it, revering it,
gain blessings without end.

Much more, if you turn yourself about
and confirm your own self-nature—
that self-nature is no nature—
you are far beyond mere argument.

The oneness of cause and effect
is clear,
not two, not three, the path is put right;
with form that is no form
going and coming never astray,
with thought that is no thought
singing and dancing are the voice
of the Law.

Boundless and free is the sky of samadhi!
Bright the full moon of wisdom!
Truly is anything missing now?
Nirvana is here, before your eyes,
this very place is the Lotus Land,
this very body the Buddha."


Adi Shankaracharya - Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda - p. 97;
"Utterly destroy the ego. Control the many waves of distraction which it raises in the mind.
Discern the Reality and realize "I Am THAT":
You are pure consciousness,
the witness of all experiences.
Your real nature is JOY."


Deborah Eden Tull - Luminous Darkness;
“In the dark, the activity of the conscious mind was composted and what remained was a vast empty expanse for integration, regeneration, serenity, and other forms of knowing.”


Ch’eng Hao - Poems of the Masters;
"When I’m at peace, I let everything go
I wake by the east window after sunrise
viewed without passion everything is fine
seasonal glories hold true for man
the Tao fills the world the formed and the formless
our thoughts are in the ever-changing wind and clouds
not troubled by wealth content in poverty
the person who reaches this is truly noble"


Ch’i-chi - The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poets Monks of China - Little Pines;
"Poking up from the ground barely above my knees
already there’s holiness in their coiled roots.
Though harsh frost has whitened the hundred grasses,
deep in the courtyard, one grove of green!
In the late night long-legged spiders stir;
crickets are calling from the empty stairs.
A thousand years from now who will stroll among these trees,
fashioning poems on their ancient dragon shapes?"


E.E. Cummings - 100 Selected Poems - Let It Go;
"let it go – the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise – let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go – the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers – you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go – the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things – let all go
dear

so comes love"


Sri Ramana Maharshi;
"Keep your mind still. That is enough. You will get spiritual help sitting in this hall if you keep yourself still.
The aim of all practices is to give up all practices. When the mind becomes still, the power of the Self will be experienced. The waves of the Self are pervading everywhere. If the mind is in peace, one begins to experience them."


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    #28131910 - 01/09/23 09:11 AM (1 year, 18 days ago)

Proverbs 1:20-22;
"Listen! Wisdom is calling out in the streets and marketplaces, calling loudly at the city gates and wherever people come together:

“Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?"


Yunus Emre - The Watermill;
"Why do you groan, O Watermill; For I’ve troubles, I groan
I fell in love with the Lord; For It do I groan
They found me on a mountain; My arms and wings they plucked
Saw me fit for a watermill; For I’ve troubles, I groan
From the mountain they cut my wood; My disparate order they ruined
But an unwearied poet I am; For I’ve troubles, I groan
I am The Troubled Watermill; My water flows, roaring and rumbling
Thus has God commanded; For I’ve troubles, I groan
I am but a mountain’s tree; Neither am I bitter, nor sweet
I am but a pleader to the Lord; For I’ve troubles, I groan
Yunus, whoever comes here will find no joy, will not reach his desire
Nobody stays in this fleeting abode; For I’ve troubles, I groan"


Alan Watts - Talking Zen: Reflections on Mind, Myth and the Magic of Life;
"Both in the Advaita system of the Hindus and in Taoism, there is really only one important doctrine, namely that every possible form of existence is produced by and is itself brahman or the Tao. Advaita means literally “not-two,” which means to say that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe, and as there is only one, nothing can be set in opposition to it. For opposition can arise only when there is duality, and though this one reality expresses itself in innumerable pairs of opposites, there is nothing whatever that can be opposed to the reality itself. So, also, we may say of the Tao that though it is expressed in two opposed (or, from another point of view, complementary) elements positive and negative, living and dying there is nothing whatsoever outside the Tao itself.

You may think I am talking in the unverifiable abstractions of metaphysics, but that is only because I have used the unfamiliar words brahman and Tao. In fact you need no metaphysical knowledge to verify these statements. We often use phrases such as, “Life is like that,” or as the French exclaim when things go wrong, C’est la vie! If you substitute the word “life” in this wide and all-inclusive sense for brahman and Tao, you will begin to understand what these Asian systems mean. The Greeks had a word for it: To’ov, that which is, Being; or, to use Jung’s phrase that I have already quoted, it is “what is happening.” Life, in this sense, includes all opposites, being a vast conglomeration of people, things, forces, ideas, planets, stars, trees, and houses to the totality of which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away.

When Jung was lecturing in London some time ago, he told a story of someone who had asked a Chinese scholar what he meant by Tao. The scholar asked him to look out of the window and tell him what he saw. “I see houses and streets,” he answered. “What else?” “People are walking about and there are clouds overhead.” “What else?” “The wind is blowing.” The scholar opened his arms as if to include the whole thing and replied, “That is Tao.” And to see it, you do not even have to look out of the window. “Without going out of my house,” said Lao-tzu, “I can know the whole universe.” For you can find it just by looking into your own mind and watching the inside universe of thoughts and feelings.

But please do not make the mistake of imagining that it needs some special mystical insight to perceive the Tao in and around you. I have said that nothing exists beside or apart from it, and we should not make any opposition between ordinary life (or the world of opposites) and the Tao, as if the Tao were some mysterious essence that lived in the heart of atoms. Chinese philosophers even go so far as to say that when you assert, “Life is Tao,” you have made a mistake by trying to join two different concepts that were never in need of joining. Thus, when they are asked about the Tao, they may point at a tree, lift a stick, or smack your face in order to show you, but they do not say that the tree, the stick, or the smack is the Tao, for that would instantly imply a mental division between the two."


Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching;
"Acceptance is the very essence of Tao."


Chuang Tzu - The Way of Chuang Tzu;
"The non-action of the wise man is not inaction.
It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything.
The sage is quiet because he is not moved,
Not because he wills to be quiet.
Still water is like glass.
You can look in it and see the bristles on your chin.
It is a perfect level;
A carpenter could use it.
If water is so clear, so level,
How much more the spirit of man?
The heart of the wise man is tranquil.
It is the mirror of heaven and earth
The glass of everything.
Emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence, non-action: this is the level of heaven and earth.
This is perfect Tao. Wise men find here
Their resting place.
Resting, they are empty.

From emptiness comes the unconditioned.
From this, the conditioned, the individual things.
So from the sage’s emptiness, stillness arises:
From stillness, action. From action, attainment.
From their stillness comes their non-action, which is also action
And is, therefore, their attainment.
For stillness is joy. Joy is free from care
Fruitful in long years.
Joy does all things without concern:
For emptiness, stillness, tranquillity, tastelessness,
Silence, and non-action
Are the root of all things."


Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist;
"People live to save themselves. You will understand that at the moment of your own death."


Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of - #721;
"Behind Me – dips Eternity –
Before Me – Immortality –
Myself – the Term between –
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin –

‘Tis Kingdoms – afterward – they say –
In perfect – pauseless Monarchy –
Whose Prince – is Son of None –
Himself – His Dateless Dynasty –
Himself – Himself diversify –
In Duplicate divine –

‘Tis Miracle before Me – then –
‘Tis Miracle behind – between –
A Crescent in the Sea –
With Midnight to the North of Her –
And Midnight to the South of Her –
And Maelstrom – in the Sky –"


Confucius;
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."


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    #28131913 - 01/09/23 09:12 AM (1 year, 18 days ago)

Proverbs 16:19;
"It is better to be humble and stay poor than to be one of the arrogant and get a share of their loot."


Ẕahīn Shāh Tājī’s (d. 1978) Signs of Beauty (Āyāt-i Jamāl) - Journal of Sufi Studies 10, no. 1-2 (2021): 215-233 - This is It!;
"(Jō jalwa gāh-i yār hay wōh dil yahī tō hay)
The heart where the friend is manifest, this is it;
The place at which we are, the destination of beauty, this is it.

To not see oneself is the condition for seeing you;
The veil that is the barrier between us, this is it.

Every particle heart-ravishing, each manifestation soul-soothing;
At every step, the thought: “The destination, this is it.”

The one carried away by the slightest of smiles,
That heart, that ocean without a shore, this is it.

Now every gesture of beauty makes me imagine
That the one who stole my heart away, this is it.

My heart speaks to me of what is in your heart,
A mirror face-to-face with a mirror, this is it.

To forget, in your love, both of the worlds,
If there’s a thing worth remembering, this is it.

I do recognize, O friends, the attribute of Zaheen:
The one apart yet mingled with everyone, this is it."


Alan Watts - Out Of Your Mind - Program 7: The World As Just So (Part 1);
"So, in Zen, a duality between higher self and lower self is not made. Because if you believe in the higher self, this is a simple trick of the lower self. If you believe that there is no really lower self—that there is only the higher self, but that somehow or other the higher self has to shine through—the very fact that you think that it has to try to shine through still gives validity to the existence of a lower self. If you think you have a lower self—or an ego—to get rid of, and then you fight against it, nothing strengthens the delusion that it exists more than that.

So this tremendous schizophrenia in human beings—of thinking that they are rider and horse, soul in command of body, or will in command of passions, wrestling with them—all that kind of split thinking simply aggravates the problem, and we get more and more split. And so we have all sorts of people engaged in an interior conflict, which they will never, never resolve. Because the true self—either you know it or you don’t. If you do know it, then you know it’s the only one; and the other, so-called lower self, just ceases to be a problem. It becomes something like a mirage. And you don’t go around hitting at mirages with a stick, or trying to put reigns on them. You just know that they are mirages and walk straight through them.

But if you were brought up to believe yourself split—I remember my mother used to say to me, when I did naughty things, she said “Alan, that’s not like you.” So I had, you know, some conception of what was like me in my better moments—that is to say, in the moments when I remembered what my mother would like me to do. And so that split is implanted in us all. And because of our being split-minded we are always dithering. “Is the choice that I’m about to make of the higher self or of the lower self? Is it of the spirit, or is it of the flesh? Is the word that I received of the Lord, or is it of the Devil?” And nobody can decide. Because if you knew how to choose, you wouldn’t have to."


Deborah Eden Tull - Luminous Darkness;
“Because day is the domain of activity, productivity, and the conscious mind, it is generally considered to be more relevant than the night.”


Han Shan - Taste of Han Shan (Cold Mountain);
"Man’s life, in this flourish of illusive dust,
Is exactly like a bug crawling in a bowl.
All day long it runs round and round,
Never getting out of the brim.
Sainthood of immortals he can’t obtain,
But troubles he counts endlessly.
Years and months flow by like a stream—
Another little while and he’ll be an old man."


Fu Ta-shih;
"The handless hold the hoe.
A pedestrian walks, riding on a water buffalo.
A man passes over the bridge.
The bridge not the water flows"


Du Fu - Selected Poems of Du Fu - Dreaming of Li Bai;
"Parting from the dead, I’ve stifled my sobs,
but this parting from the living brings constant pain.
South of the Yangze, land of pain and fever—
no word comes from the exile.
Yet my old friend entered my dreams,
proof of how long I’ve pined for him.
He didn’t look the way he used to,
road so far, further than I can guess.
His spirit came from where maple groves are green,
then went back, left me in borderland darkness.
Now you’re caught in the meshes of the law;
how could you have wings to fly with?
The sinking moon floods the rafters of my room
and still I seem to see it lighting your face.
Where you go, waters are deep, waves so wide,
don’t let the dragons, the horned dragons harm you!"


Sai Baba;
"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."


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    #28131914 - 01/09/23 09:13 AM (1 year, 18 days ago)

1 Peter 3:4;
"Instead, your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of the greatest value in God's sight."


Hafiz - The Garden of Heaven: Poems of Hafiz;
"What is wrought in the forge of the living and life—
All things are nought! Ho! fill me the bowl,
For nought is the gear of the world and the strife!
One passion has quickened the heart and the soul,
The Beloved’s presence alone they have sought—
Love at least exists; yet if Love were not,
Heart and soul would sink to the common lot—

All things are nought!

Like an empty cup is the fate of each,
That each must fill from Life’s mighty flood;
Nought thy toil, though to Paradise gate thou reach,
If Another has filled up thy cup with blood;
Neither shade from the sweet-fruited trees could be bought

By thy praying—oh Cypress of Truth, dost not see
That Sidreh and Tuba were nought, and to thee

All then were nought!

The span of thy life is as five little days,
Brief hours and swift in this halting-place;
Rest softly, ah rest! while the Shadow delays,
For Time’s self is nought and the dial’s face.
On the lip of Oblivion we linger, and short
Is the way from the Lip to the Mouth where we pass—

While the moment is thine, fill, oh Saki, the glass

Ere all is nought!

Consider the rose that breaks into flower,
Neither repines though she fade and die—
The powers of the world endure for an hour,
But nought shall remain of their majesty.
Be not too sure of your crown, you who thought
That virtue was easy and recompense yours;
From the monastery to the wine-tavern doors

The way is nought.

What though I, too, have tasted the salt of my tears,
Though I, too, have burnt in the fires of grief,
Shall I cry aloud to unheeding ears?
Mourn and be silent! nought brings relief.
Thou, Hafiz, art praised for the songs thou hast wrought,

But bearing a stained or an honoured name,
The lovers of wine shall make light of thy fame—

All things are nought!"


Nadir Feroz – Doused;
"On this wet winter evening,
I sit by the Nile,
soaking in the last few rays
as erstwhile sounds fill the air— oud and tambour
notes plucked and cast onto the waves.

I notice the many faces of man spread out before me—
tall to the verge of elongated,
somber to the threshold of shadowy,
expectant faces, uncertain if the second coming will mark an end
to this majestic flow, still lapping the same course
that delivered Moses in his basket to the Pharaoh’s castle.

These men perhaps know that they can be but silent spectators
as one by one the music and the magic may cease.

My soul is starved, as much for release as my body is from hunger.
There is thought for food,
but I seek emptiness, to simplify and single out
anticipation, passion, satisfaction; none sustains
the intensity to lock horns with the harbingers of another day
the way light continues where it left off –

the notion of eternity is euphoric much as it is daunting:
an evidence of the beauty in what laid around me
and a rude reminder of what lay beyond."


Deborah Eden Tull - Luminous Darkness;
“I became aware of the many assumptions and systemic biases lodged in my psyche about all of life. This included assumption that day was more valuable than night.”


Han Shan - The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain - #94;
"A wise man isn’t greedy
a fool loves a furnace
his fields encroach on those of others
the bamboo grove is his
he strains his arms gathering riches
grits his teeth and goads his nag
he should look beyond the town gate
at all the mounds below the pines"


Kabir - Songs of;
"The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.

So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.

The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass."


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj;
"Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.
Direct experience is the only valid confirmation."


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