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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388354 - 07/07/23 12:18 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye - The Treasury of Knowledge, Book 6, Part 4: Systems of Buddhist Tantra - THE ROOT TEXT SYSTEMS OF BUDDHIST TANTRA - 8. THE NATURE OF MIND;
"The omniscient Longchenpa makes the following statement in his Commentary on the Wish-Fulfilling Treasury:

That which is primordially uncompounded, the pristine awareness that is one’s intrinsic self-awareness [i.e., awareness that cognizes its own nature], ineffable emptiness and clarity: this is the essence of enlightenment. The Jewel Affinity says:

As it was, so it shall be:
It is the unchanging nature of reality.

. . .
Mind’s nature, which is undifferentiable from the sixty-four qualities of enlightenment, is intrinsically pure, in itself luminous clarity, the emptiness of the ultimate dimension of phenomena. This nature of mind, referred to as the “naturally present affinity,” is the ground of everything in both cyclic life and perfect peace. It is described as having three distinguishing features: its arisal in a continuous stream from time without beginning; its presence due to the very nature of reality; and its resemblance to the six superior sense fields.
The first feature indicates that since this affinity has arisen continuously since beginningless time, it is not one that is acquired anew. The second feature indicates that the affinity is present, with no distinctions, in every sentient being, as the very nature of reality. The third feature indicates that the affinity bears seeds that are virtually identical, and equal in fortune, to the six immaculate sense fields [of a buddha] inherent in the six sense fields of a sentient being.
. . .
The essence of enlightenment itself, in being the nature of the ultimate dimension of reality, never changes.

It exists from time without beginning as the source of all phenomena,
But is difficult to fathom, entwined by four paradoxes.


The [Mahayana] Phenomenology Scripture states:

The dimension with no beginning in time
Is the abode of all phenomena.
Owing to its being, cyclic life
And perfect peace are experienced.

. . .
The Jewel Affinity states the four paradoxes in the following way:

Because it is pure, yet possessed of emotional afflictions,
Because it is without thorough affliction, yet [regains] purity,
Because it has no disparity, yet [attains] qualities,
Because it is spontaneous, yet without concepts.
"


Jeff Brown;
"There’s a significant difference between a heart-to-heart conversation, and a projection-to-projection conversation. When we speak to and from the heart, we stand a real chance of making relational progress. Our vulnerabilities are exposed and embraced, and our true feelings rise into view. When we speak from our projections- of self, of other- we are more likely to make things worse. Because projected dynamics are rooted in assumption and misinterpretation. And when we speak from that place, new projections are birthed. Projection begets projection. Vulnerability begets vulnerability. So, if you are planning to have a meaningful conversation with a significant other, spend some time beforehand doing all that you can to see through the veils to what is real. The real you, the real them, the real issues between you. And then connect from that place. Speak from your heart, hear with your heart, inquire from your heart. It may feel scary, but miracles happen when two souls meet on a bridge between their hearts."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388356 - 07/07/23 12:19 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Rinzai [Lin-chi I-hsuan] (?-866);
"Followers of the Way, the Dharma of the Mind has no form and pervades the Ten Directions. In the eye, it is called seeing; in the ear, hearing; in the nose, smelling; in the feet, walking. Fundamentally it is one light; differentiated it becomes the six senses. When one's whole mind comes to a full stop, one is delivered where one stands. Why do I speak thus? It is only because I see you, followers of the Way, all running about with an agitated mind, quite unable to stop, fretting yourselves over the playthings of the old masters. A moment of doubt in your mind is Mara. But if you can grasp that the ten thousand things are unborn and that the heart is like an illusive fantasy, then no thing even the size of a speck of dust exists - everywhere is purity - this is Buddha. If you want to get free from birth and death, from coming and going, from taking and putting on, know and take hold of him who is now listening to the Dharma. He has neither form nor shape, neither root nor trunk; nor does he have a dwelling place; he is as lively as fish jumping in water, and performs his function in response to all situations. Only, the place of his functioning is not a locality. Therefore, if you search for him, he eludes you. The more you seek for him, the farther away he is. That is why he is called "mysterious". I have no Dharma to give to men. I only cure diseases and undo knots. Followers of the Way who come from everywhere, try not to depend on anything. I only want to ponder this matter with you. Far better it is to have nothing further to seek, to be simple and plain. Then even the Bodhisattvas who have completed the ten stages are seeking the traces of you, followers of the Way, and cannot find them. ...And how does this come to be so? Because the man of the Way who is now listening to the Dharma leaves no trace of his activities. When the mind is stilled, the manifold things cease. And when the mind does not rise, the ten thousand things are without blame. In the world and beyond the world, neither Buddha nor Dharma manifest themselves, nor do they disappear. Though things exist, they are only as names and words."


Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of - Hope is the thing with feathers;
"“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388361 - 07/07/23 12:20 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Muju - Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand) - 9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen;
"Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal.

Ryokan returned and caught him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift."

The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.

Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.""


Hazrat Inayat Khan;
"I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong;
I have judged and been judged;
I have passed through birth and death,
Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell;
And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388365 - 07/07/23 12:21 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Blue Cliff Record (Hekigan Roku, 7) - pointer by [Hsueh Tou Ch'ung Hsien] (980-1052);
"The thousand sages have not transmitted the single word before sound; if you have never seen it personally, it's as if it were worlds away. Even if you discern it before sound and cut off the tongues of everyone in the world, you're still not a sharp fellow. Therefore it is said, "The sky can't cover it; the earth can't support it; empty space can't contain it; sun and moon can't illumine it." Where there is no Buddha and you alone are called the Honored One, for the first time you've amounted to something. Otherwise, if you are not yet this way, penetrate through on the tip of a hair and release the great shining illumination; then in all directions you will be independent and free in the midst of phenomena; whatever you pick up, there is nothing that's not it. But tell me, what is attained that is so extraordinary?"


George Santayana;
"With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another, if I would, I could not find,
And I am grown much older in a day.
But yet I treasure in my memory
Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be,--
What I keep of you, or you rob from me."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388366 - 07/07/23 12:21 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Buddhaghosa - Path of Purification - Visuddhimagga - XVI. 90;
"Mere suffering exists, no sufferer is found;
The deeds are, but no doer of the deeds is there;
Nibbāna is, but not the man that enters it;
The path is, but no traveler on it is seen."


Bianca Sparacino - A Gentle Reminder;
"Maybe right now, your journey isn’t about love.

Maybe right now, your journey is about being alone. Maybe this is the season you are being challenged — to learn how to wake up in the middle of the bed, to finally find hope in the vacancy, hope in the quiet, hope in the way you stretch into your life and give yourself permission to take up space within it. Maybe right now, you are being shown — that you can take care of yourself, that you can depend on the person you have become, that you can be your own home no matter what comes your way.

Maybe right now, your journey is about redemption. Maybe this is the season you are being challenged to make amends with your heart, to stand up for the vast ways in which it loves, and cares, and believes in the goodness of vulnerability, and expression, and being the person who softens even when the world is not gentle. Maybe right now you are getting a second chance — to trust in it, and to forgive yourself for giving it away to those who could not value it; but most importantly, maybe right now you are being called to protect it, to find your way back into your tenderness, to find your way back into your soul.

No, maybe right now your journey isn’t about love. Maybe, right now, your journey is about hope. Maybe this is the season you are being challenged to remind yourself of the beauty life has to offer you. Maybe right now, you are being given the space to discover the kinds of places that leave your bones dripping with feeling, the kinds of songs that are yours and yours alone, the kinds of people who love you in a way that does not seek to change you. Maybe right now, you are being given a chance to reclaim your joy, to make it the most natural extension of who you are, to let it spill out of your words, and your laughter, and your tears — to let it be something you believe you are worthy of, to let it be something you believe you deserve.

See maybe right now your journey isn’t about love. Maybe right now your journey is about you. Maybe this is the season you are being challenged to be your own savior, to be your own safe place. Maybe right now you are being reminded — that the people who walked away were only ever leading you back to yourself, were only ever leading you here. And here, you are okay on your own. Here, you are rebuilding. Here, you are adapting, and mending, and reclaiming all of the pieces you let them walk away with. Here, you are being kinder your soul, you are giving yourself the same kind of love you have always given to others. Here, you are not rushing your heart, you are not depending on another human being to fix it. Instead, here, you are doing that on your own. Here, you are healing."


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    #28388369 - 07/07/23 12:23 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Ven. Yuttadhammo;
"In Theravada Buddhism we recognize two levels of truth; conventional truth (sammuti-sacca) and ultimate truth (paramattha-sacca). Conventional truth relies on a spatio-temporal paradigm, in which there exist people, places, and things. It is the level on which "you" and "I" exist, and it is the level on which a "person" becomes "enlightened". None of this has anything to do with the characteristic of non-self, which works on the level of ultimate truth. Ultimate truth relies on an experiential paradigm, in which there exists only the momentary experience of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, or thinking."


Abū al-Hasan al-Shushtarī - Dîwãn - 89-90;
"My dearest one visited me,
in spite of the watchman.
(How sweet were those moments!
Generous, he forgave all of my lapses.)

My heart's desire visited me, darkness fell away,
in that union, he was generous.
My presence was present, the wine glass went round,
and, my hopes attained,
in good cheer we drank
of the wine that is not forbidden.

Fill up my glass, for in it is my glory.
Let's drink, dear one.
My beloved is my lamp and my companion
present, close to me.
What drink! What wine! What a vintner!
What music! What song!
In a garden blooming with flowers
that blossom for us
and the birds speak to us
from their pulpits in the trees.

My bottles are full,
yet there is no grape or raisin in my cup.
Oh you who listen, understand my allusions.
Truly my time is wondrous!
How fine is that wine!
How excellent that drink in a place of joy!
Let me drink and love my beloved
each new day.
Foolish is the one who bids me repent,
for I am wisely guided,
And should the naysayer come, I will say to him:
Truly my time is wondrous!
I know what is past and what is to come.
My illness is also my cure.
In that passion, I am the master of my time,
the lover of my beloved,
and in the love of the beautiful one
my life and my art are extinguished.
In the gloom of night, my moon came to me,
unseen by the eyes.
He illuminated my abode, my space;
I almost lost my mind.

He is always there, present in my stillness and my motion.
My practice brings me closer
to the one in whom I experience rapture.
My presence is present, my intimacy? is present,
and my time is illuminated through him.
And I say, when I encounter him,
Oh moon! Oh sun!
My dearest one visited me
(How sweet were those moments!-he was generous with me
and forgave all of my lapses)
in spite of the watchman."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28388371 - 07/07/23 12:24 PM (6 months, 18 days ago)

Diamond Sutra - Chapter 32 - All Phenomena Are Illusions - 3 different translations;
"A shooting star, a clouding of the sight, a lamp, An illusion, a drop of dew, a bubble, A dream, a lightning’s flash, a thunder cloud—This is the way one should see the conditioned."

"So I say to you — This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. "So is all conditioned existence to be seen."

"How to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: All conditioned phenomena Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, or shadows; Like drops of dew, or flashes of lightning. Thusly should they be contemplated."


Barry Long - The Way In: A Book of self-discovery - THE SPIRIT IN YOU;
"I help people like you to find the truth of yourself.

WHAT IS THE truth of yourself?
It is freedom and fulfilment: what every man and woman on earth is looking for. Most people are looking for it in the world. And there’s nothing wrong with that; provided you realise you can’t have freedom or fulfilment in the world until you've found it in yourself. Otherwise you’ve got to have the aggravation and obstruction in the world that everyone complains of and regards as unavoidable.
Whatever you acquire or achieve, something is still missing. That’s why no one in the world, even among the rich and famous, is ever free for long from their troubles and frustrations. The truth of yourself is the spirit in you."


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    #28393044 - 07/12/23 12:24 AM (6 months, 14 days ago)

f you can keep your head when all about you 
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too; 
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; 
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; 
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same; 
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone, 
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, 
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, 
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

-Rudyard Kipling


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lucis]
    #28395273 - 07/14/23 11:08 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Erik Pema Kunsang & Marcia Binder Schmidt; Padmasambhava - Treasures from Juniper Ridge: The Profound Instructions of Padmasambhava to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal - Self-Liberated Wakefulness;
"First, for the Mahamudra of the view, a tantra says:

The Mahamudra of the view is the basic nature of the mind,
With nothing to prove or dispel.


In this way, Mahamudra has no support, no reference point, is by nature unborn, and does not perish through circumstances. Its play is unconfined and is the natural state, the basic nature of all that can be known.
Moreover, its virtues need not be produced nor are there flaws to be eliminated, like the analogy of believing a rope to be a snake. It is the notion of the snake that is mistaken and not the rope; though upon first glance it appeared to be a snake, you realize that it was just a rope. Neither does the rope need to be proved nor the snake need to be dispelled, not even in the slightest. In the same way, the basic nature of all things that can be known is itself the nature of Mahamudra. So neither is there a need to produce thought-free wakefulness nor does thinking need to be eliminated. Thought-free wakefulness is directly present while thinking, and so-belonging to no category such as permanence or nothingness, the two types of identity, or to the perceiver or the perceived-it is known as original and perfect purity.

Second, about the Mahamudra of the meditation, a tantra says:

Let your basic nature settle without clinging;
That is the Mahamudra of the meditation state.


In this way, the Mahamudra of the meditation is to allow your original nature to let be without holding anything whatsoever in mind. So, it is not the result of thought, not indicated, not something that is or is not; it is without conflict and mental doing, and does not exclude anything whatsoever.
Moreover, by letting be in naturalness, there is no need to modify with a remedy, just like the ocean and the waves. When a wave moves on the great ocean, it rises from and subsides back into the ocean. The wave is no other than the ocean, and the ocean is no other than the wave. Like the wave in the ocean, remain serenely as equal taste. Like this analogy, within the Mahamudra of your mind-essence, the original nature free of thought, let be completely in naturalness. Do not hold anything in mind. Whatever thought may arise is, at the very moment of arising, not separate from thought-free and unmistaken wakefulness. Thought arises from you, appears to you, and dissolves into you. At that moment, the natural state is not a thing you can think of, nor is it possible to indicate it through words.
Being devoid of the duality of perceiver and perceived, it is not something that is. Since this nondual wakefulness experiences in every possible way, it is not something that is not. And since these two levels of reality are indivisible, it is without conflict.
Since all the mistaken phenomena are stamped with its seal, it is not excluding anything. And thus, being originally free, it is known as the original state of self-liberation.

Third, for the Mahamudra of the fruition, a tantra says:

The ground itself matured into the fruit,
That is the Mahamudra of the fruition.


In this way, the Mahamudra of the fruition is when the basic nature, the natural state of all knowable things, has matured into realization. In other words, its essence, dharmakaya, is concurrent with emptiness; its nature, sambhogakaya, is endowed with the skillful means of lucid wakefulness; and its capacity, nirmanakaya, is its unconfined, natural expression.
To use an analogy, when a seed has matured into an ear of grain, it is only the seed that developed into the ear of grain. There is no ear of grain apart from the seed, and besides the ear of grain, there is nothing into which the seed can ripen. Just like that analogy, fruition is your original mind, the naturally pure, basic state-after its myriad types of temporary modulations have subsided into itself. It is simply the natural state as it is.
It is your mind's empty essence, an unconfined state of wakefulness, that is dharmakaya. It is your mind's lucid nature, experience impossible for words to describe, that is sambhogakaya. It is your mind's expressive capacity, the self-liberation of every moment of experience, that is nirmanakaya."


Wu Hsin - The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non-Duality in Five Volumes;
"My method has
No method.
You need only to stop.
Stop clinging,
Stop scheming,
Stop praying,
Stop seeking,
Stop analyzing,
Stop all your strategies and lastly,
Stop giving your thoughts
The authority to define
Who you are.
Simply allow what remains to
Reveal Itself."


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    #28395275 - 07/14/23 11:09 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way - 2. Time and Space - I;
"Revaluation of Values, 1

That part of the universe which our senses allow us to perceive is the tridimensional part, and is seen in slices.
The illusory character of Time appears to have been evident to the Greek philosophers, in particular to Heraclitus. However, such a concept proved too radical for Science and Religion, though it remained implicit in philosophy and metaphysics and became explicit once more in the words of Kant: “We create Time ourselves, as a function of our receptive apparatus.” The evidence of philosophy is insufficient for Science, but in recent years Relativity has established it in the formulae “Time is the fourth dimension of Space,” and “The universe is a Space-Time continuum.” The ground was thereby cut from under the feet of positivist scientists, though only the great men realised it at once, or have yet realised it.
Nevertheless Time (and Space) are so fundamental to our outlook that most of our conceptions remain based upon a proven illusion.
How, for instance, can we “survive” death if death implies the disintegration of the “receptive apparatus” which fabricates Time? Any concept, survival, reincarnation, or other, that implies the notion that Time is something outside ourselves, something that goes on whether we are here or not, is evidently absurd.
Should not all our ideas be subjected immediately to this test and discarded if our notion of Time is found to be implicit in them? Is not this the initial revaluation to which all our values should be submitted?

It seems clear that the invisible aspects of ourselves must lie in a further dimension, and the next higher dimension to the three that we know is the Fourth.

Reincarnation and Recurrence, 1

The only form of Reincarnation that seems to be compatible with what we are able to understand of the universe is better termed Recurrence.
It could, in fact, be supposed that our lives recur eternally, and it might be that such was the sense in which what became the popular doctrine of Reincarnation was understood and admitted by the Masters and by the Lord Buddha himself. (If the popular doctrine antedates the Masters, as is probable, then in appearing to endorse it they intended the sense of Recurrence to be understood by those few who might be capable of grasping such an esoteric concept. Evidence, real or imaginary, for this interpretation, can be found in the sutras.)
But Recurrence involves a time-factor, a repetition of the film which constitutes our life, a reliving of each one of the innumerable “stills” or slices (segments) which make up our totality (in so far as we know it), the re-experiencing of that totality serially or as one-damn-thing-after-another, and for that a receptive-apparatus (as Kant described us) with sense perceptions to recreate time would be necessary. In fact such a receptive-apparatus, i.e. every human being, having materialised tridimensionally, must exist eternally in the dimension at right-angles in every moment of its materialisation. (The intersection of Time and of Eternity being the Moment, that of the Moment and of Eternity must be Time, and that of Time and the Moment must be Eternity.)
The receptive-apparatus, therefore, exists in Eternity and so operates therein, so that the illusion of a consecutive “life” should be eternal also.
The concept of Time as a curvature—and how could it be otherwise?—makes each “life” a complete circle, self-created as an inherent characteristic of Time, and necessarily such. A circle, having neither beginning nor end, extended in two dimensions, must continue indefinitely, repeating itself as an aspect of eternity. But if it be extended in three dimensions it becomes automatically capable of infinite variations.
In both concepts, which are different aspects of the same relative truth, eternal Recurrence appears to be not merely possible but quite inevitable."


String of Pearls Tantra;
"I am the teacher, the retinue, and the teaching.
I am the retinue that I gather. I am the collator."


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    #28395277 - 07/14/23 11:09 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Shankara - The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom;
"The nature of the one Reality must be known by one's own clear spiritual perception; it cannot be known through a learned man. Similarly, the form of the moon can only be known through one's own eyes. How can it be known through others?"


Milarepa - A Song of Dharma's Definitive Meaning Sung to a Female Spirit - Twenty Seven Cases of Dissolution;
"Master and hidden buddha in human form
You with the name not spoken lightly, lotsawa
Father who've been so kind, at your feet I bow

I am no singer of Vedic song
You spirit said, "Sing a song, sing me a song"
In answer, here's a melody that sings of basic being

Thunder and lightning and floating clouds
Whenever these appear, from the sky they appear
And when they dissolve, into the sky they dissolve

Rainbows and fog banks and sleet, these three
Whenever these appear, from the blue they appear
And when they dissolve, into the blue they dissolve

Pollen and harvest and fruit, these three
Whenever these appear, from the earth they appear
And when they dissolve, into the earth they dissolve

Forests and flowers and foliage, these three
Whenever these appear, from the mountain they appear
And when they dissolve, into the mountain they dissolve

Rivers, foaming waters and waves, these three
Whenever these appear, from the ocean they appear
And when they dissolve, into the ocean they dissolve

Attachment as patterns, perceptions, holding on
Whenever these appear, from the all-base they appear
And when they dissolve, into the all-base they dissolve

Self-aware, self-luminous, self-liberated too
Whenever these appear, from the mind itself appear
And when they dissolve, into the mind itself dissolve

The unborn and unceasing and inexpressible
Whenever these appear, from pure being they appear
And when they dissolve, into pure being they dissolve

What appears as, is perceived as, and is thought of as a ghost
Whenever these appear, from the yogi they appear
And when they dissolve, into the yogi they dissolve

The blocking spirits, magical creations of the mind
Your own projections empty, with this not realized
The yogi takes these ghosts as real, into delusion falls

The root of delusion grows out of the mind
By gaining realization of the essence of the mind
Clear light is seen to be quite free of coming, going too

Objects seeming outside, a delusion of your mind
And through examination of appearances' traits
Appearance and its emptiness you realize are not two

When you think, "It's meditation," meditation is a thought
"I'll do non-meditation" is another thought again
Meditation and non-meditation, not two different things

A view involving dualism forms delusion's base
There is no view or theory in reality itself
And all of these examples show the character of mind

Consider well examples illustrating space's traits
Their point will be quite clear to you, pure being's reality
Then view for you is look into what's real, past thinking mind

In the depths of meditation, without wandering, just rest
Keep a flow of natural conduct flowing, don't let it get lost
For fruition toss all terms away, along with hope and fear

Spirit, claim this Dharma inheritance that's yours
I have no time to while away in endless empty songs
Don't think or question more just now, but teach your tongue to rest

A spirit said to sing a song and so I've done just that
And now the words that came of this, the words of a crazy man
Are for you to put to practice, spirit, if you can

For food you then will feed on the food of great bliss
For drink you'll quench your thirst on a nectar undefiled
For work you'll spend your energy tending yogis' needs"


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    #28395278 - 07/14/23 11:10 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth;
"The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."


Osho - Om Mani Padme Hum – The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus - Chapter #17. Ordinariness Is Perfectly Good;
"Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
I HEARD YOU SAYING THAT WE ARE ALL ENLIGHTENED. IF SO, WHY AM I WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN? IS IT AN OLD HABIT?


It is one thing to hear; it is another thing to understand. You certainly heard me saying that we are all enlightened, but you did not trust it -- at least you excluded yourself. "Perhaps everybody else is, but I am enlightened?" This was too much for you to accept; hence the question.
Your question shows your innermost turmoil. You are saying, "If so..." I had not said that your enlightenment is some probability -- perhaps you are enlightened, perhaps you are not. There were no ifs and no buts; it was a simple statement. I repeat again:
You are enlightened and you cannot be anything else.
But I can understand your difficulty. You have been told you are ignorant and you have accepted it. You have been told you are unworthy and you have accepted it. You have been told you are not beautiful and you have accepted it.
Just look at how many things you have accepted without creating ifs and buts, without even asking a question.

[...] The problem arises out of comparison. You started thinking that "If I am enlightened, then why am I not a Gautam Buddha or a Jesus Christ or a Bodhidharma? I am just me. Nobody worships me. I go around, nobody even takes any note of me. What kind of enlightenment is this? Certainly I have yet to achieve it. Certainly it has not happened yet, it has to happen."
The idea has been propagated with such consistency, for so many thousands of years, that enlightenment is an achievement. I say unto you, enlightenment is not an achievement, it is your very nature. If you are missing it, the reason is not that you have not achieved it, the reason is that you are looking for it all around in every place excluding yourself.
Going to every temple, reading every holy scripture, visiting all kinds of stupid people who are pretending to be masters.
I want you to declare this very moment that you are enlightened. It does not matter, it is not needed that everybody should worship you. Why should anybody worship you? You are making unnecessary conditions for enlightenment.

[...] Let me say it in a different way. The moment you respect yourself as enlightened, you cannot do anything other than respect everybody as enlightened, as they are. There is no need for everybody to fit into a certain category. Enlightenment is not a category such that you have to eat the same kind of food. If there was a certain rule like this, rather than eating spaghetti I would have renounced enlightenment. It is good that no holy scripture says that spaghetti is absolutely the characteristic of an enlightened man.
If you understand me, what I am saying, I am saying that in your very ordinariness you are perfectly good. Nothing needs to be added to you. And if you can relax in this ordinariness, this very ordinariness, because of your relaxation, will become radiant, will start blossoming. Your acceptance, your self respect will be a nourishment, will bring the spring to your being, and the flowers will start opening their petals.

[...] If you can become enlightened then there is every possibility you can also become again unenlightened. If there are methods to become enlightened there can be methods to make you unenlightened. This is a simple thing. If you can become sick, you can become healthy, and you can also become sick again.
Enlightenment is not something that you have to attain, because that which is attained can be stolen. That which is attained can be robbed. That which is attained can be lost.
I say unto you, you are enlightenment itself.
I don't want you to attain enlightenment, I want you to live it. From this very moment, whatever you do, do it in the way enlightenment is bound to do it.
I love one statement of one of the most important people of the West, Alan Watts. He was a drunkard, but he was the man who introduced to the West the most essential parts of Zen and enlightenment. He wrote not as a scholar, but as a master. Before he was dying, he was still drinking and a disciple asked him, "Have you ever thought... if Buddha had seen you drinking alcohol, what do you think he would have thought about it?"
Alan Watts said, "There is no problem. I always drink in an enlightened way."
The question is not what you do, the question is how you do it. Yes, I accept Alan Watts' statement. There is a possibility of a man to drink alcohol in an enlightened way.
Enlightenment should not have any limits. And it should not have a particular formula, a particular pattern that you have to follow.
Enlightenment should be an individual experience -- the most individual experience, incomparable and unique to everybody. Once this is understood, all the clouds that surround you with darkness start dispersing.
I will go on repeating again and again, until it sinks into you, that you are enlightened. And you are not to do anything special for it; you have just to be as you are, totally relaxed, at ease with existence. Not going anywhere, no achievement, no goal.
All goal-orientation is what is making people miserable."


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    #28395280 - 07/14/23 11:11 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Longchenpa - The Seven Treasuries - Volume 5 - The Precious Treasury of The Way of Abiding - 6 Conclusion;
"Within timelessly empty basic space is a supremely expansive state devoid of ordinary consciousness.
Based upon the blissful ground of being, the conscious mind is uninterruptedly content.

Within the basic space in which phenomena are resolved, the falling away of ordinary consciousness is joyous. Immersion in genuine being, the entire vast range of space—how marvelous!

The natural place of rest, dharmakaya, is nonconceptual and spacious like the sky.
Natural meditative stability is uninterrupted like the flow of a river.
With a single realization, all levels and paths without exception are traversed.
Ultimate and wholly positive enlightened intent—how marvelous!

In the pure sky of naturally occurring timeless awareness soars the great garuda of realization, of immersion in genuine being free of anything needing to be done.
Ineffability, openness, spontaneous presence, and oneness—the uncontrived ultimate heart essence—how marvelous!

Within this vast expanse of awareness that is naturally manifest and spontaneously present, regardless of what manifests, it is the unceasing dynamic energy of that awareness, clearly apparent yet ineffable, simply the illusory display. Supreme emptiness endowed with all qualities—how marvelous!

In this unwavering intent of victorious ones, just as it is, the realm of evenness—natural arising, natural freedom, natural abiding—is blissful, lucid, nonconceptual, spacious without limit or center, Enlightened intent that transcends breaches in meditation—how marvelous!

Awareness, empty yet lucid, is unchanging dharmakaya.
Samsara and nirvana are timelessly pure within the enlightened expanse of self-knowing awareness.
Dualistic perception, naturally manifest yet groundless, is the dynamic energy of dharmakaya.
Realization beyond characterization or description—how marvelous!

If samsara is realized to be without basis, this is nirvana.
If nirvana is realized to be merely a label, this is primordial basic space.
If there is freedom from anything to be done—transcendence of conceptual mind—this is dharmakaya.
If one rests just so, without thinking, thought and description are transcended.
If there is no fixation on constructs, this is the way of abiding.
If there is resolution of phenomena—transcendence of ordinary consciousness—this is the consummation of what is ultimately meaningful.
If there is transcendence of the extremes of “is” and “is not,” this is freedom from limitations.
If the root of hope and fear is cut through, enlightenment is discovered.
This is the consummate and definitive heart essence.
In advising those of good fortune in future generations, ensure that all those fortunate ones who follow you and others gain ongoing authentic being on the level of resolution.

Natural great perfection is vajra basic space.
Whoever encounters this receives the most excellent and definitive transmission.
Effortless and totally free, the nature of phenomena is a spacious expanse.
This is truly the precious samaya that brings conditioned existence to an end.

Therefore, fortunate people who have embarked on this approach, rejoice and rest in the uncontrived, genuine nature.
Renounce worldly confusion and the phenomena that result from conceptual elaboration.
In a solitary place, look to the heart essence, in which nothing need be done.
This is, in truth, my profound and heartfelt advice.

Be scrupulous in your examination, and realization will awaken in your mind.
Maintain no fixation, and the confusion that reifies things will be destroyed.

Act without a specific point of reference, and the lack of true existence will become apparent as a matter of course.
Whatever manifests as objects, whatever arises in the mind, the key point of these phenomena is the state of evenness—utter relaxation, with neither suppression nor indulgence.
Abandon yourself in imperturbable rest, for this is the very consummation of enlightened intent.
The arising of the naturally pristine state in which no traces are left leads one to the point of resolution.
Thus, the quintessential meaning that underlies all phenomena without exception is explained in this commentary on The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding.
May the teachings of victorious ones spread and flourish, and may there be auspiciousness, bliss, and excellence in all directions and times!"


Michael Grimwood – God Ecology;
"The names of God are like the fauna,
Of the secret realms of luminescence.
Where light-trees and soul-flowers,
Flourish in their sacral essence.

There are angels that grow here,
Below each blossom’s blessing.
magnolias of holy presence,
That compel the eye to sing.

Stamen’s hold their evanescence,
Each chimerical, filigreed thing.
Mandalas of season-less years,
Gyre the heart of new Eden’s king.

No prince nor princess of trauma,
No ancient apple will coalesce,
Here all lay forfeit their powers,
Eternal and undressed."


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    #28395281 - 07/14/23 11:11 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

The Teaching of Silvanus;
"Knock on yourself as upon a door
and walk upon yourself as on a straight road.
For if you walk on the road,
It is impossible for you to go astray.
And if you knock with Wisdom,
You knock on hidden treasures . . .
Wisdom is a holy kingdom and a shining robe."


Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki - Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection Of Zen And Pre-Zen Writings - What Is Zen?;
"Try if you wish. But Zen comes of itself. True Zen shows in everyday living, consciousness in action. More than any limited awareness, it opens every inner door to our infinite nature.
Instantly mind frees. How it frees! False Zen wracks brains as a fiction concocted by priests and salesmen to peddle their own wares.
Look at it this way, inside out and outside in: consciousness everywhere, inclusive, through you. Then you can’t help living humbly, in wonder.

“What is Zen?”

One answer: Inayat Khan tells a Hindu story of a fish who went to a queen fish and asked: I have always heard about the sea, but what is this sea? Where is it?”
The queen fish explained: “You live, move, and have your being in the sea. The sea is within you and without you, and you are made of sea, and you will end in sea. The sea surrounds you as your own being.”

Another answer:


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    #28395283 - 07/14/23 11:12 AM (6 months, 11 days ago)

Malcolm Smith; Vimalamitra - Buddhahood in This Life: The Great Commentary by Vimalamitra - SECTION ONE: The Explanation for Those Inclined toward the Elaborate;
"The perfect teacher in such a place as that is Samantabhadra, self-originated as the king, one’s knowing consciousness. Pervading all, he is the teacher present as the nature of the pristine consciousness that knows all phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. Since he is the teacher, knowing consciousness arises as a diversity without ceasing. Since there is liberation on the basis of that diversity, there is liberation from objects and cognitions of consciousness. Since such a teacher is self-arisen in oneself, it is a critical point of the Great Perfection that is beyond activities and effort."


Melissa Noel Renzi - Spiritual Bypass: 5 Common Examples, Why It Happens, and What to Do;
"The wisdom teaching of reality is frequently misconstrued and misguided. We confuse absolute reality with relative reality. Allow me to explain the basics according to some non-dual Vedic and Buddhist traditions, which may overlap with other traditions as well.

Absolute reality is that which is changeless, eternal, and transcendent. It is the absolute truth of oneness of all and the nature of how things really are in the universe.

Relative reality is that which is subject to change, timebound, and dependent. It is the observable phenomena of worldly existence–your environment, circumstances, resources, relationships, identities, and feelings you experience.

Many spiritual seekers come to contemplative practices seeking transcendence. Experiencing a glimpse of the absolute or deeper consciousness in a meditation practice can make it tantalizing to root yourself in the notion of absolute reality while denigrating the relative as simply an illusion.

The absolute is not superior over the relative. Both realities are true."


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    #28402507 - 07/21/23 05:29 AM (6 months, 5 days ago)

"Simply watching your reaction makes anything a teaching."

Baba Ram Dass.


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    #28402627 - 07/21/23 08:05 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Kahlil Gibran - On Children;
"And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."


African Bushman;
"There is a Dream dreaming us."


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    #28402628 - 07/21/23 08:06 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Kai-Lilly Karpman - On Want;
"Yes, at my most suicidal I heard God
talk, his assertions mumbled
from deep in his irrelevant places.
I asked him to untouch me, to remove

the boys’ hands when I woke
to find them scattered over my body.
God offered me cocaine,
and, later, bright yellow flowers.

There are ways to endure this
is what he meant. He meant you will make
something of You as I have. Then, He gave
me poems and he gave me a mean streak.

I renegotiated with God. I asked only
for some relief. For just one second.
He told me to go to the sea and look out.
He demanded that I sit on wooden benches and wait.

There, I yearned for something I didn’t know,
I witnessed something I still can’t describe. But,
He finally spoke up, clear in his advice:
The punishment for Wanting was itself."


The Virgin to Rosa Quatrini, San Damiano, 1968;
"You must work in the world. God did not create wars. God did not create weapons.
I will give you all my help, but your responsibility and duty are to work for a better world."


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    #28402629 - 07/21/23 08:06 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Temple of Apollo;
"Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton)


Sheikh Muzaffer;
"A man was passing a mental hospital. He called out to one of the patients peering through the windows, “How many madmen are there in the hospital?” Looking the questioner up and down, the inmate replied, “Why don’t you leave us alone? But tell me, how many sane people are there out there?” The precondition is to know yourself. He who does not know cannot find, and he who does not find cannot be."


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    #28402631 - 07/21/23 08:06 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Airman's Odyssey;
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."


Walter Russell - THE SECRET OF LIGHT - THE DIVINE ILIAD - selections from;
“Again I say that all things extend to all things, from all things, and through all things. For, to thee I again say, all things are Light, and Light separates not; nor has it bounds; nor is it here and not there.

“Man may weave the pattern of his Self in Light of Me, and of his image in divided Lights of Me, e’en as the sun sets up its bow of many hues from divided Light of Me, but man cannot be apart from Me, as the spectrum cannot be apart from Light of Me.

“And as the rainbow is a light within the light, inseparable, so is Man’s Self within Me, inseparable; and so is his image My image.

“Verily I say, every wave encompasseth every other wave unto the One; and the many axe within the One, e’en down to the least of waves of Me.

“And I say further that every thing is repeated within every other thing, unto the One.

“And furthermore I say, that every element which man thinketh of as of itself alone is within every other element, e’en to the atom’s veriest unit.

“When man queries thee in this wise: ‘Sayest thou that in this iron there is gold and all things else?’ thou may’st answer: ‘ Within the sphere, and encompassing it, is the cube, and every other form that is; and within the cube, and encompassing it, is the sphere, and every other form that is.”


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