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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis]
    #28402632 - 07/21/23 08:07 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Alan Watts - Intelligent Mindlessness;
"Now, what is the real world? Some people have the theory that the real world is material or physical. They say it’s made of a kind of stuff. Other people have the theory that the real world is spiritual or mental. But I want you to point out that both those theories of the world are concepts. They are constructions of words. And the real world is not an idea, it is not words. Reality is: [GONG] You’ll find, therefore, that if you get with reality, all sorts of illusions disappear."


Sant Dnyaneshwar;
"If it is said that I am concealed by the existence of the world, then who is it that blossoms in the form of the world? Can a red jewel be concealed by its own luster? Does a chip of gold lose its goldness if turned into an ornament? Does a lotus lose itself when it blossoms into so many petals? When a seed of grain is sown and grows into an ear of corn, is it destroyed or does it appear in its enhanced glory? So there is no need to draw the curtain of the world away in order to have my vision, because I am the whole panorama."


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    #28402633 - 07/21/23 08:07 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

The Zohar;
"At that time. He will first open for them a tiny aperture of light, then another somewhat larger, and so on until He will throw open for them the supernal gates which face on all the four quarters of the world . . . For we know that when a man has been long shut up in darkness it is necessary, on bringing him into the light, first to make for him an opening as small as the eye of a needle, and then one a little larger, and so on gradually, until he can endure the full light . . . So, too, a sick man who is recovering cannot be given a full diet all at once, but only gradually."


Seen in a draper's shop in India;
"Life is a challenge • Meet it
Life is a gift • Accept it
Life is an adventure • Dare it
Life is a sorrow • Overcome it
Life is a tragedy • Face it
Life is a duty • Perform it
Life is a game • Play it
Life is a Mystery • Unfold it
Life is a song • Sing it
Life is an opportunity • Take it
Life is a journey • Complete it
Life is a promise • Fulfil it
Life is a love • Embrace it
Life is a beauty • Praise it
Life is a spirit • Realise it
Life is a struggle • Fight it
Life is a puzzle • Solve it
Life is a goal • Achieve it"


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    #28402634 - 07/21/23 08:07 AM (6 months, 4 days ago)

Garma C.C. Chang - The Practice of Zen - I. The Nature of Zen - Zen Style and Zen Art;
"The Sixth Patriarch asked Huai Jang, “From whence do you come?”
Huai Jang replied, “I come from Mount Su.”
The Patriarch then asked, “What is it and how does it come?”
And Huai Jang answered, “Anything I say would miss the point.“"


The Black Book of Carmarthan;
"I am the wind that breathes upon the sea,
I am the wave on the ocean,
I am the murmur of leaves rustling.
I am the rays of the sun,
I am the beam of the moon and stars,
I am the power of trees growing,
I am the bud breaking into blossom,
I am the movement of the salmon swimming,
I am the courage of the wild boar fighting,
I am the speed of the stag running.
I am the strength of the ox pulling the plough,
I am the size of the mighty oak.
And I am the thoughts of all people.
Who praise my beauty and grace."


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    #28410316 - 07/27/23 12:16 PM (5 months, 29 days ago)

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

Proverbs 15:1-2


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    #28411412 - 07/28/23 09:01 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)



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    #28411433 - 07/28/23 09:22 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Swami Jagadananda; Sankara - A Thousand Teachings: The Upadesasahasri of Sankara - CHAPTER-XV - IMPOSSIBILITY OF ONE BEING ANOTHER - 40-43;
"Independent of every other knowledge, of the nature of the light of Pure Consciousness and not distanced by anything, Brahman, my own nature, is always known by me.
The sun does not require any other light in order to illumine itself; so, Knowledge does not require any other knowledge except which is its own nature in order to be known.
Just as one light does not depend on another in order to be revealed, so, what is one's own nature does not depend on anything else (i.e. being of the nature of Knowledge). The Self does not require another knowledge in order to be known.
A thing naturally lacking luminosity gets revealed (i.e. has only its surrounding darkness removed) when in contact with something which by nature is luminous. The saying, therefore, that luminosity is an effect produced on other things by the sun is false."


Shams Tabrizi - 40 Rules of Love - Rule 40;
"A life without Love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water."


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    #28411434 - 07/28/23 09:22 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Jeff Brown - Soulshaping - Chapter 4 - The Spiritual Bypass;
"Signing up for Saybrook was my first experience with what is often called the spiritual bypass. The bypass is the tendency to jump to spirit prematurely, usually in an effort to avoid various aspects of earthly reality. Those realities can include any form of discomfort, economic pressure, or emotional distress. Anything we want to trip out of.

In a world of pain, the spiritual bypass is an ongoing temptation. It gives us something to believe in and a vision of what we are missing in our localized reality. Without it, many of us would have to suffer unbearable situations. At the same time, it can be a detour on the path to genuine spirituality. In our efforts to leapfrog to something better, we often avoid something crucial. Spirit becomes the crutch rather than an expression of a natural unfolding.

“Spirituality” is just another word for reality. The most spiritual person lives in all aspects of reality simultaneously—the emotional, the material, and the subtle realms.

Although appearing spiritual, bypassers are actually cut off from various aspects of reality. By turning away from old pain, they shackle themselves with their unresolveds. With their head in the clouds, they cannot see where they are walking. This may be a temporary tool for survival, but real growth demands that we come back down to earth and face our demons. We have to grow down to grow up.

I had one friend who bypassed by studying heady spiritual texts. He talked a good spirit game, but when you looked into his eyes there was no one home.

I dated a woman who wore high heels at all times. I asked why and she replied, “When I get close to the ground, I feel all my suffering. This way I am a little bit closer to God and free of pain.” Whenever she said, “It’s all good,” I could see in her eyes that it was actually all bad.

Of course, it is not easy to identify a bypass from the act itself. What you do to bypass reality, someone else will do to confront it. It’s all a matter of intention, and only you can know your intention. In this case, I was bypassing in an effort to avoid doing more painstaking work around my basic needs. I wanted the relief of my highest callings before I had built the foundation to support them."


Diamond Sutra - Chapter 27 - Avoid Nihilistic Views;
"However, Subhuti, if you think that the Buddha realizes the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind and does not need to have all the marks, you are mistaken. Subhuti, do not think in that way. Do not think that when one gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind, one needs to see all objects of mind as nonexistent, cut off from life. Please do not think in that way. One who gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind does not contend that all objects of mind are nonexistent and cut off from life. That is not what I say."


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    #28411435 - 07/28/23 09:22 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Rinzai [Lin-chi I-hsuan] (?-866);
"Fellow learners! To achieve Buddhahood there is no need for cultivation. Just carry on an ordinary task without any attachments. Release your bowels and water, wear your clothes, eat your meals. When you are tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you, but the wise man will understand."


The Upanishads;
"Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal,
live in the same tree. The first one pecks at the fruit,
sweet or bitter; the second looks on without eating.
Thus the personal self pecks at the fruit of this world,
bewildered by suffering, always hungry for more.
But when he meets the True Self, the resplendent God,
the source of creation, all his cravings are stilled.
Perceiving Self in all creatures, he forgets himself
in the service of all; good and evil both vanish;
delighting in Self, playing like a child with Self,
he does whatever is called for, whatever the result.
Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, yet nearer than breath, than heartbeat.
Eye cannot see it, ear cannot hear it nor tongue
utter it; only in deep absorption can the mind,
grown pure and silent, merge with the formless truth.
He who finds it is free; he has found himself;
he has solved the great riddle; his heart forever is at peace.
Whole, he enters the Whole. His personal self
returns to its radiant, intimate, deathless source.
As rivers lose name and form when they disappear
into the sea, the sage leaves behind all traces
when he disappears into the light. Perceiving the truth, he becomes the truth;
he passes beyond all suffering,
beyond death; all the knots of his heart are loosed."


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    #28411437 - 07/28/23 09:23 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Psalm 1;
"Blessed are the man and the woman
who have grown beyond their greed
and have put an end to their hatred
and no longer nourish illusions.
But they delight in the way things are
and keep their hearts open, day and night.
They are like trees planted near flowing rivers,
which bear fruit when they are ready.
Their leaves will not fall or wither.
Everything they do will succeed."


Gerry Shishin Wick; Hongzhi Zhengjue, Wansong Xingxiu - The Book of Equanimity - CASE 8 - Hyakujo’s Fox;
"PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY

If you put this One in mind, you’ll enter hell like a flying arrow. If you swallow a drop of wild fox’s drool, you can’t vomit it for thirty years. It is not that the decree of the Western Heaven is strict, just that rascals’ karma is heavy. Are there any such offenders here?

MAIN CASE

Attention! Every time Hyakujo ascended the high seat, an old man was present, listening to the Dharma. He would leave with the monks, and one day he didn’t leave, and Hyakujo asked, “Who’s this standing there?” The old man replied, “Once in the time of Kashyapa Buddha, I lived on this mountain. There is a student who asked me, ‘Does a person who has accomplished his practice fall into cause and effect?’ I replied to him, ‘He does not fall into cause and effect.’ Thereupon, I fell into having a wild fox’s body for five hundred lives. I beg you Osho, give me a turning word now.” Hyakujo said, “He does not evade cause and effect.” At these words, the old man attained great enlightenment.

APPRECIATORY VERSE

A foot of water, a fathom of wave—
for five hundred lives he couldn’t do a thing.
“Not falling, not evading” was their exchange;
as before they’re bound in a tangle.
Ah, ha, ha! Understand?
If as to this you’re unattached
my baby-talk won’t disturb you.
Shrine-songs and dance of themselves harmonize—
hands clap the intervals and melodies are hummed.

selections from the commentary

One ancient master wrote, “When fish swim, the water becomes cloudy. When birds fly, they lose their feathers. For nothing can escape from the perfect mirror of causality, which is as vast and universal as the sky. For five hundred lives, the monk became a wild fox, because he failed to understand Buddhist causality, which is as strong as a bolt of lightning or a raging typhoon, as unchangeable as gold which has been purified many times over.”
The Bible (Hosea 8:7) says, “Whosoever sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.” If we commit bad actions, we reap the results of them, and if we sow good actions, we reap those rewards. But how can we know what will be “good” and what will be “bad”?
It’s said that doing zazen wholeheartedly purifies years of bad karma. Yet so does suffering. When we feel pain and experience suffering and we stay with it rather than attaching to our stories about it or pushing it away, that purifies karma as well. Our faith, our prayers, our offerings, can also purify bad karma, as can repentance and atonement.
Commenting on this koan, Master Mumon said, “Not falling into causation, he was turned into a fox. The first mistake. Not ignoring causation, he was released from a fox body. The second mistake.”
When falling and ignoring, and not falling and not ignoring, are transcended and wiped away, then you will see yourself as Hyakujo and as the fox, and you will experience directly the truth of this koan. If you are born as a fox, be a fox. Then it is not a matter of heavy karma or liberating karma.
We’re all subject to karma, to cause and effect, birth and decay. But how can we be peaceful no matter what conditions our karma brings? That’s the challenge of our practice. To liberate ourselves from our karma we must become karma itself."


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    #28411439 - 07/28/23 09:24 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Hui Hai (8th century) - A Speech to the Assembly;
"Friends and brothers, it is all right for you to be monks, but it is much better to be men unattached to all things. Why should you run around making karma that will hem you in like a criminal’s chains? Trying to empty your minds, straining to attain enlightenment, blabbering about your understanding of the Buddha-Dharma--all this is a waste of energy. Once, the great Ma-tzu said to me, “Your own treasure house already contains everything you need. Why don’t you use it freely, instead of chasing after something outside yourself?” From that day on, I stopped looking elsewhere. Just make use of your own treasure house according to your needs, and you will be happy men. There isn’t a single thing that can be grasped or rejected. When you stop thinking that things have a past or future, and that they come or go, then in the whole universe there won’t be a single atom that is not your own treasure. All you have to do is look into your own mind; then the marvelous reality will manifest itself at all times. Don’t search for the truth with your intellect. Don’t search at all. The nature of the mind is intrinsically pure. Thus the Flower Garland Sutra says: “All things have neither a beginning nor an end.” For those who are able to interpret these words correctly, the Buddhas are always present. Furthermore, the Vimalakirti Sutra says: “Reality is perceived through your own body.” If you don’t run after sounds and sights, or let appearances give rise to conceptual thinking, you will become men unattached to all things. That’s enough for now. Take good care of yourselves."


Lama Thubten Yeshe - Introduction to Tantra - 2 DESIRE AND HAPPINESS;
"Finally, it is very important to be able to differentiate clearly between the essence of tantra and the cultural forms in which it is currently wrapped. What I mean by this is that there is no benefit in a Westerner’s pretending to look or act like a Tibetan, or any other Asian for that matter. Learning to say prayers in a foreign language, for instance, is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do."


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    #28411440 - 07/28/23 09:25 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Isaac of Nineveh (6th century);
"Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God."


Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.E.);
Chu Ch’ueh-tzu said to Chang Wu-tzu, “I have heard Confucius say that the sage does not work at anything, does not pursue profit, does not dodge harm, does not enjoy being sought after, does not follow the Way, says nothing yet says something, says something yet says nothing, and wanders beyond the dust and grime. Confucius himself regarded these as wild and flippant words, though I believe they describe the working of the mysterious Way. What do you think of them?”
Chang Wu-tzu said, “Even the Yellow Emperor would be confused if he heard such words, so how could you expect Confucius to understand them? What’s more, you’re too hasty in your own appraisal. You see an egg and demand a crowing cock, see a crossbow and demand a roast dove. I’m going to try speaking some reckless words and I want you to listen to them recklessly. How will that be? The sage leans on the sun and moon, tucks the universe under his arm, merges himself with things, leaves the confusion and muddle as it is, and looks on slaves as exalted. Ordinary men strain and struggle; the sage is stupid and blockish. He takes part in ten thousand ages and achieves simplicity in oneness. For him, all the ten thousand things are what they are, and thus they enfold each other.
“How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?
“Lady Li was the daughter of the border guard of Ai. When she was first taken captive and brought to the state of Chin, she wept until her tears drenched the collar of her robe. But later, when she went to live in the palace of the ruler, shared his couch with him, and ate the delicious meats of his table, she wondered why she had ever wept. How do I know that the dead do not wonder why they ever longed for life?
“He who dreams of drinking wine may weep when morning comes; he who dreams of weeping may in the morning go off to hunt. While he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream, and in his dream he may even try to interpret a dream. Only after he wakes does he know it was a dream. And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman--how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.”


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    #28411442 - 07/28/23 09:25 AM (5 months, 28 days ago)

Hermes Trismegistus - Corpus Hermeticum;
"If you don’t make yourself equal to God, you can’t perceive God; for like is known by like. Leap free of everything that is physical, and grow as vast as that immeasurable vastness; step beyond all time and become eternal; then you will perceive God. Realize that nothing is impossible for you; recognize that you too are immortal and that you can embrace all things in your mind; find your home in the heart of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring all opposites inside yourself and reconcile them; understand that you are everywhere, on the land, in the sea, in the sky; realize that you haven’t yet been begotten, that you are still in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you are dead, that you are in the world beyond the grave; hold all this in your mind, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes; then you can perceive God.
Wanting to know God is the road that leads to God, and it is an easy road to travel. God will come to meet you everywhere, he will appear to you everywhere, at times and places when you don’t expect it, while you are awake and while you are asleep, while you are traveling and while you are at home, while you are speaking and while you are silent; for there is nothing in which God does not exist. And don’t think that God is invisible. Who is more evident than God? That is why he made all things, so that through all things you can see him."


Wei Wu Wei - Open Secret - Preface;
"As long as subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound.
As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification.
Abandonment of a phenomenal centre constitutes the only “practice,” and such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject, but a non-action (wu wei) leaving the noumenal centre in control of phenomenal activity, and free from fictitious interference by an imaginary “self.”
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Could any statement be more classic?
Could any statement be more obvious?
Could any statement be more vital?

Yet—East and West—how many observe it?
So Could any statement be more needed?

Note: Wu Wei merely implies absence of volitional interference.
Whom do I mean by “you”? I mean “I.” I am always I, whoever says it, man or monkey, noumenally or phenomenally, identified or free—and there is no such entity.
P.S. If you have understood the above it is quite unnecessary for you to read any more of this book.
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    #28420171 - 08/04/23 07:57 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

John Myrdhin Reynolds; Padmasambhava - Self-Liberation: Through Seeing with Naked Awareness - 27;
"Because of the unobstructed nature of the mind, there is a continuous arising of appearances.
Like the waves and the waters of the ocean, which are not two (different things),
Whatever arises is liberated into the natural state of the mind.
However many different names are applied to it in this unceasing process of naming things,
With respect to its real meaning, the mind (of the individual) does not exist other than as one.
And, moreover, this singularity is without any foundation and devoid of any root.
But, even though it is one, you cannot look for it in any particular direction.
It cannot be seen as an entity located somewhere, because it is not created or made by anything.
Nor can it be seen as just being empty, because there exists the transparent radiance of its own luminous clarity and awareness.
Nor can it be seen as diversified, because emptiness and clarity are inseparable.
Immediate self-awareness is clear and present.
Even though activities exist, there is no awareness of an agent who is the actor.
Even though they are without any inherent nature, experiences are actually experienced.
If you practice in this way, then everything will be liberated.
With respect to your own sense faculties, everything will be understood immediately without any intervening operations of the intellect.
Just as is the case with the sesame seed being the cause of the oil and the milk being the cause of butter,
But where the oil is not obtained without pressing and the butter is not obtained without churning,
So all sentient beings, even though they possess the actual essence of Buddhahood,
Will not realize Buddhahood without engaging in practice.
If he practices, then even a cowherd can realize liberation.
Even though he does not know the explanation, he can systematically establish himself in the experience of it.
(For example) when one has had the experience of actually tasting sugar in one’s own mouth,
One does not need to have that taste explained by someone else.
Not understanding this (intrinsic awareness) even Panditas can fall into error.
Even though they are exceedingly learned and knowledgeable in explaining the nine vehicles,
It will only be like spreading rumors of places which they have not seen personally.
And with respect to Buddhahood, they will not even approach it for a moment.
If you understand (intrinsic awareness), all of your merits and sins will be liberated into their own condition.
But if you do not understand it, any virtuous or vicious deeds that you commit
Will accumulate as karma leading to transmigration in heavenly rebirth or to rebirth in the evil destinies respectively.
But if you understand this empty primal awareness which is your own mind,
The consequences of merit and of sin will never come to be realized,
Just as a spring cannot originate in the empty sky.
In the state of emptiness itself, the object of merit or of sin is not even created.
Therefore, your own manifest self-awareness comes to see everything nakedly.
This self-liberation through seeing with naked awareness is of such great profundity,
And, this being so, you should become intimately acquainted with self-awareness.
Profoundly sealed!

Commentary to the Translation - 27:

When our own intrinsic awareness becomes manifest (rang rig mngon-sum), everything is seen nakedly (gter mthong), unencumbered and undistorted by conceptual constructions and the workings of the mind. In the state of contemplation, the state of total awareness and presence, whatever thoughts and appearances arise are allowed to remain in their own condition without any attempts by the mind to modify or correct them, and in this way they self-liberate. To be precise, their very arising is simultaneously their self-liberation. There is no duality between arising and liberating, no interval between these events, no intervention by the mind or thought process. This self-liberation through seeing nakedly is clearly a teaching of the greatest profundity, and we are fortunate to have the rare opportunity to become acquainted with it."


H.P. Blavatsky - Collected Writings XIII, p. 219;
"There is a road, steep and thorny, beset with perils of every kind,
but yet a road, and it leads to the very heart of the Universe:
I can tell you how to find those who will show you the secret gateway
that opens inward only,
and closes fast behind the neophyte for evermore.
There is no danger that dauntless courage cannot conquer;
there is no trial that spotless purity cannot pass through;
there is no difficulty that strong intellect cannot surmount.
For those who win onwards there is a reward past all telling
- the power to bless and save humanity;
for those who fail, there are other lives in which success may come."


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    #28420173 - 08/04/23 07:58 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman - The Dude and the Zen Master - 2. IT’S DOWN THERE SOMEWHERE, LET ME TAKE ANOTHER LOOK;
"BERNIE: But most of us aren’t just being, we’re rowing to get someplace, to some other shore, to a goal or some ideal place we want to reach. So where are we headed? What’s the other shore?
In Zen we say that the other shore is right here under our feet. What we’re looking for—the meaning of life, happiness, peace—is right here. So the question is no longer, how do I get from here to there? The question is: How do I get from here to here? How do I experience the fact that, instead of having to get there for something, it’s right here and now? This is it; this is the other shore. In Buddhism we sometimes call it the Pure Land.
In practice, it’s hard to grasp that right here, where you’re standing, is it. You can hear it over and over, but there’s a piece of you that doesn’t believe it. Instead, we work to get over there. And once we get over there, we reconsider: Oh no, this isn’t it, so now I have to get over there. Off we go again, trying to get to the next other shore. And once we get there, the whole thing starts again. At first I think, Oh, finally I got somewhere; now I’m happy. But after a while I say, No, this isn’t it, I’ve got to get over there.

JEFF: People often ask me about my other shore, like what other shore do I want to reach. What do I want to be? What do I want to do? Do I want to be a star?
For me, the other shore hasn’t really changed. I was kind of thrown into my career at six months old. My father was visiting his friend John Cromwell. At the time, John was directing The Company She Keeps and he needed a baby, so my father said, “Here, take Jeff.” I never really wanted to be an actor. As a matter of fact, I resisted it because it felt like nepotism to me, that I had the door opened for me by my father. I wanted to be appreciated for my own talents and not because of who my father was. I wanted to do my own thing, and I didn’t know what that was because I was interested in so many different things. You can say that I rebelled against the way the river was flowing for me.
At the same time, I would say that the other shore for me was then, and still remains, happiness. And I came to the realization that happiness is right here, available right under my feet. Robert Johnson wrote that the word happiness comes from to happen. Our happiness is what happens. That’s different from the Declaration of Independence, which states that each person has the right to pursue happiness, meaning that if we don’t have it we have a right to go after it. But Johnson says that as soon as we pursue it, we lose it. What do you think, Bern?

BERNIE: It’s a hard one. Everybody wants to be happy. They want to get to someplace where they’re happy, where they’re enlightened, where they’re content. That’s what most people think of when they hear the words other shore. They search through books and go to lectures or to gurus, figuring there’s got to be somebody to help them get to that other shore, that other space. It’s like Dorothy trying to get home in The Wizard of Oz. People think of home as the place where they’re comfortable and everything’s okay. She goes through this whole journey, finds the wizard, and discovers that home is back in Kansas.

JEFF: What does she say in the end? Something about never looking for your heart’s desire any further than your own backyard. And the wizard turns out to be a sham, right?

BERNIE: A sham, but also a lure, because the idea that pulled Dorothy all over the Land of Oz is the same idea that pulls us in all directions, too. We think that what we’re looking for is somewhere over the rainbow, till we finally realize that it’s all just this.

JEFF: We may think that this other shore is something we have to achieve, like fame, success, or enlightenment. But that prevents us from seeing that we’re already there. I think the Dude is an example of someone who doesn’t feel that he needs to achieve something. He likes lying in the bathtub drinking his White Russians with the whale music on. He’s just taking it easy, taking it the way it is. There’s a lot of generosity in that, you know? People talk about being seekers, searching for meaning, happiness, whatever. I think of myself as a finder, because I find all these things right around me."


Byron Katie;
"I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always."


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    #28420174 - 08/04/23 07:59 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

1 Corinthians 12:4-11;
"But there are diversities of gifts, however The Spirit is One. And there are diversities of ministries, however, THE LORD JEHOVAH is One. And there is a diversity of miracles, but God is One who works all in every person. But the revelation of The Spirit is given to each man as He helps him. There is given to him by The Spirit a word of wisdom, but to another the word of knowledge by The Spirit; To another faith by The Spirit; to another the gift of healing by The Spirit; But to another, miracles and to another, prophecy; to another discernment of spirits; to another, kinds of languages; to another, translation of languages; But all these things, that One Spirit does and distributes to every person as he pleases."


John Butler - Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment - 1. How it all Began;
"I worked as a farmer. I loved nature, loved the land and animals, but when they’d asked me at the School what I really wanted in life, I answered, “God.” I never doubted that. I’d been schooled in the Christian faith but I was not now, at this time, attracted to the Church. Thinking I should, I’d tried to find God with philosophy, but got fed up with it. In South America I’d learnt that “good works” didn’t work either, so I came back to myself. My longing for the infinite beyond was pure and simple; my heart reached naturally for the stars.

Meditation was always a love process for me. Some people meditate for knowledge or for some sort of practical result, but I wanted love, infinite love - to love and be loved. I didn't really want to be tied. My favourite picture at school had been of a cowboy riding up to the crest of a hill, over the caption, "Don't fence me in." And I remember saying that what I wanted most from girls was the inspiration to write poetry. I felt no problems with God. As I saw it, my problems were people and civilisation. Meditation was a wonderful answer to that - in meditation, love took wings and soared. But, as I was to discover, one doesn't so easily shake off human bondage.

This is emphatically not a guide book. No doubt there are as many valid ways to God as paths up a mountain but, as far as I understand, the principle in all of them is to find oneself - the One "I am", the Christ or Universal Self - which may also be described as Union, or pure Spirit, Consciousness, or Being. In the many and varied notes I have kept, which form the basis of this book, I use all these words, and do not worry too much about any difference between them. I have some experience of, and feel open to, different ways and am grateful for what they've taught me but, since the time when Jesus appeared to me as personal Saviour, I continually learn to trust in Him.

Let me offer a very brief explanation of meditation as I practice it, which is also sometimes called "inner, contemplative prayer" or "prayer of the heart". We cannot comprehend Spirit with the mind. Spirit is immortal, but mind, as we commonly understand it, occupied with the "changes and chances of this fleeting world" - the domain of "me" - is mortal (Ps.146,4). Only like can understand like. However, beyond our active, discursive mind, lies another faculty - quiet and reflective; and beyond that again, an indefinable but recognisable heart, or soul. This is the innermost essence of what we really are, and can be compared to a drop from the ocean of Spirit. A quiet mind can reflect aspects of eternity - it may for example become aware of stillness amidst movement, but for fuller access to Spirit it is necessary to discover and work with the heart.

Prayer usually starts with words, which may be accompanied by more or less heart - heartfelt prayer. It is an ever deepening process which, with practice, may pass beyond surface expressions of the active mind, through deepening levels of quietness and surrender, to the heart. By then it has usually lost most of its words, and may be completely silent, though possibly still retaining some dual sense of God and "me". There it may rest and wait (Ps.62,1). Finally, imperceptibly, the heart melts. The drop becomes one with the ocean.

We cannot know Spirit mentally - we can only "be" it. Hence it is also known as pure Being. Pure or impure means the addition or not of something extra which, as far as prayer is concerned, are usually ideas associated with "me". In order to purify oneself, these need to be let go, left behind - which is called "repentance". This is the most important process in the liberation of the individual from the bonds of his separate and mortal existence - "me", which deny him access to eternal life and unity in the "Kingdom of Heaven". All intermediate experience in prayer should be taken as "intermediate" - if encouraging, as encouraging; if not, then to be ignored and passed by. Final union is beyond description. It can only be known by its subsequent effects. It is simple to explain, but the actual process may take many years of practice. Fortunately, God helps those who help themselves. Much depends on our motivation - how contented or discontented we are in this world, and how determined to be free."


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    #28420175 - 08/04/23 08:00 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

Tejobindu Upanishad - 3.1-3.12 (Abridged);
"The realization of Atman.

(...) I am of the nature of consciousness.
I am made of consciousness and bliss.
I am nondual, pure in form, absolute knowledge, absolute love.
I am changeless, devoid of desire or anger, I am detached.
I am One Essence, unlimitedness, utter consciousness.
I am boundless Bliss, existence and transcendent Bliss.
I am the Atman, that revels in itself.
I am the Sacchidananda that is eternal, enlightened and pure."


Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu; Honghzhi Zhengue - Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi - PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONS - Performing the Buddha Work;
"[The empty field] cannot be cultivated or proven. From the beginning it is altogether complete, undefiled and clear down to the bottom. Where everything is correct and totally sufficient, attain the pure eye that illuminates thoroughly, fulfilling liberation. Enlightenment involves enacting this; stability develops from practicing it. Birth and death originally have no root or stem, appearing and disappearing originally have no defining signs or traces. The primal light, empty and effective, illumines the head top. The primal wisdom, silent but also glorious, responds to conditions. When you reach the truth with out middle or edge, cutting off before and after, then you realize one wholeness. Everywhere sense faculties and objects both just happen. The one who sticks out his broad long tongue transmits the inexhaustible lamp, radiates the great light, and performs the great buddha work, from the first not borrowing from others one atom from outside the dharma. Clearly this affair occurs within your own house."


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    #28420177 - 08/04/23 08:00 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

Linda Pastan (1932-2023) - Why Are Your Poems So Dark?;
"Isn’t the moon dark too,
most of the time?

And doesn’t the white page
seem unfinished

without the dark stain
of alphabets?

When God demanded light,
he didn’t banish darkness.

Instead he invented
ebony and crows

and that small mole
on your left cheekbone.

Or did you mean to ask
“Why are you sad so often?”

Ask the moon.
Ask what it has witnessed."


William Butler Yeats;
"Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The [mind] recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will."


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    #28420179 - 08/04/23 08:01 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

Daniel Liebert; Jelaluddin Rumi - Rumi: Fragments, Ecstasies - THREE;
"we came whirling
out of nothingness
scattering stars
like dust

the stars made a circle
and in the middle
we dance

the wheel of heaven
circles God
like a mill

if you grab a spoke
it will tear your hand off

turning and turning
it sunders
all attachment

were that wheel not in love
it would cry
"enough! how long this turning?"

every atom
turns bewildered

beggars circle tables
dogs circle carrion
the lover circles
his own heart

ashamed,
I circle shame

a ruined water wheel
whichever way I turn
is the river

if that rusty old sky
creaks to a stop
still, still I turn

and it is only God
circling Himself"


Baruch Spinoza;
"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."


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    #28420183 - 08/04/23 08:03 AM (5 months, 22 days ago)

Wei Wu Wei - Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen-Advaita-Tantra - THE EGO - 6. Policemen Disguising Themselves as Thieves in Order to Catch Themselves;
"Of the many earnest, and how earnest, people we may observe reading, attending lectures, studying and practising disciplines, devoting their energies to the attainment of a liberation which is by definition unattainable, how many are not striving via the ego-concept which is itself the only barrier between what they think they are and that which they wish to become but always have been and always will be?
Were we to read less and understand more might we not remember that the T’ang Masters repeatedly told us that mind cannot be reached through mind, and that there is only one mind? Perhaps less earnest people pay more attention to what they were told by those who KNEW?

Armchair Travelling

Knowing that no such thing as an “ego” can exist, but continuing to talk and think about “the” ego, i.e. as something still believed in, is like someone who decides to go for a journey, packs his luggage—and then never leaves home!

7. Le Fantoche

If one seeks to rid oneself of, or even to transcend, a false self, ego, or personality, one thereby accepts as a fact the existence of such entity and so-doing affirms its stranglehold (a constraint can be real or imaginary—such as that of the chicken’s beak held by a chalk-line).
That of which we need to rid ourselves, to transcend, is the false concept whereby we assume that entity’s existence. We have only to look with penetration in order to perceive that there is in fact nothing in us which corresponds to the concept of an entity, in our ever-changing kaleidoscope of electronic impulses interpreted in the false perspective of a time-sequence. A pulsating force-field is not an entity to be transcended, any more than is vapour issuing from the spout of a kettle, or the apparently living being resulting from the rapid and consecutive projection of isolated and motionless “stills” (or quanta) on to a cinematograph screen.
There is not, there could not be, any entity; the Buddha based his doctrine upon that realisation; there can be nothing of which to rid ourselves, or to transcend, except an erroneous concept. . . .

8. Free-will Versus Determinism

Discussions concerning the predominance of the will over destiny, or vice versa, can only take place among those who lack knowledge of the root of both. Those who have knowledge of the Self, sole root of the will and of destiny, are free from the one and the other.
After that how can they take part in such discussions? 
Ramana Maharshi Ulladu Narpadu 
Forty Verses on the Knowledge of Being, 19


An essential difference between a Jivan Mukta and an ordinary unenlightened man is that the former has transcended the duality inherent in that apparent contradiction of between Free-will and Determinism.
The Jivan Mukta, having abandoned the concept of an ego, subject to which the ordinary man lives, his will no longer has any alternative to complete harmony with that of the cosmic order, so that he “wills” what must be, without any kind of resistance (there being in him no longer any psychic mechanism capable of resistance), whereas the ordinary man, subject to his ego-concept, is unable to perceive what must be, and seeks to substitute the desires aggregated to his artificial “ego,” which he imagines he is free to fulfill if he can.
Neither is “free” in the sense thought of by the ordinary man, but the one experiences no lack of “freedom” or any constraint, whereas the other spends his life in an imaginary conflict, a tilting against wind-mills, trying to assert a “freedom” he could not possibly enjoy.
That is why the Jivan Mukta lives his life without conflict, and usually devotes himself to helping the unenlightened to rid themselves of their errors by transcending the ego concept, for on that plane, the plane of understanding, real understanding being in a further dimension that is not subject to the Space-Time mechanism, even the ordinary man is “free” (of the aforesaid mechanicity) to rid himself of his ignorance."


Jiddu Krishnamurti;
"A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind."


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Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat. He seized the cat and told the monks: "If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat."

No one answered. So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pieces.

That evening Joshu returned and Nansen told him about this. Joshu removed his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked out.

Nansen said: "If you had been there, you could have saved the cat."

Mumon’s comment: Why did Joshu put his sandals on his head? If anyone answers this question, he will understand exactly how Nansen enforced the edict. If not, he should watch his own head.
Had Joshu been there,
He would have enforced the edict oppositely.
Joshu snatches the sword
And Nansen begs for his life.





From the Wikisource The Gateless Gate


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54. The true nature of things is to be known personally , through the eyes of clear illumination and not through a sage : what the moon exactly is , is to be known with one's own eyes ; can another make him know it?


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